Showing results for "the selection" in Fantasy

I've been selected. One of forty Omegas from academies across the globe… a one in forty chance to be bonded into the royal pack. It has to be a mistake. The selection committee never would've chosen me. I don't even pay my own tuition. I'm a scholarship student from the bad side of town. I should know better than to hope, but after I meet the royal alphas, I can't help it. Kaz, Wolf, and Tai are everything I've ever wanted, and our bodies call to each other in ways we're powerless to control.

Dubbed "the American Tolkien" by Time magazine, number-one New York Times best-selling author George R. R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for listeners: a compendium of his shorter works, collected into two stunning volumes, that offers fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master.

They say monsters are made. I was born one. With an angelic face and a cursed talent, I eat magic and ask for seconds. When I pass through the land, flowers wither, earth scorches, and colors bleed out—all at the command of my father, the God of Ruin. I escaped his prison, only to stumble upon a dangerous school ruled by five heirs. Girls fight to fall into their laps, even though they’re all hot mess assholes.

Lovelorn kangaroo shifter Hamish Mulherne, drummer for the mega-hit rock band Hunter’s Moon, waited years for the band’s jaguar shifter bassist to notice him. Instead, she’s just gotten married and is in a thriving poly relationship. How is Hamish supposed to compete with that? But with everyone else in the band mated and revoltingly happy, he needs somebody. Since he can’t expect true love to strike twice, he signs up with Supernatural Selection. Because what the hell?

Does a bear shift in the woods? Well, partially. That was what got grizzly-shifter Ted Farnsworth into trouble. He wasn’t trying to break the Secrecy Pact. He just wants people to see the real him. So he signs up with the mate-matching service Supernatural Selection - which guarantees marriage to a perfect partner. Not only will Ted never be lonely again, but once his new beaver-shifter husband arrives, they’ll build Ted’s dream wilderness retreat together. Win-win.

Silent film actor Casimir Moreau had imagined that life as a vampire would be freewheeling and glamorous. Instead, he’s plunged into a restrictive society whose rules he runs afoul of at every turn. To “rehabilitate” him, the vampire council orders him mated to an incubus with impeccable breeding. As an inactive beaver shifter, construction engineer Rusty Johnson has fought - and overcome - bias and disrespect his entire life. Rusty can’t face returning to his clan, and Cas needs somebody on his arm to keep the council happy, so they agree to pretend to be married.

Adrift in a storm, Professor Max Quartermain thought he must have hallucinated the beautiful mermaid who came to his rescue. But Lilah was no mystical creature--she was a woman of flesh and blood, and undeniably attracted to the intense and mysterious stranger....

Отбор по приказу - фантастический роман Марины Андреевой, первая книга цикла "Раментайль", жанр романтическое фэнтези.

The Idaho Territory gold mines and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom come together for a wilderness-dwelling drifter in this tale of the Weird West.

Average, plain-bodied Amelia Hoffman has resigned herself to a life of mediocrity, unable to escape the shadows cast by her all-too-perfect siblings. Worse, her feelings for her brother's best friend are getting stronger. Everything changes after the brutal murder of her close friend. Suddenly, Amelia's life is transformed and she is thrust into a wondrous and frightening new world of myths and legends. As she explores this new world hidden within the layers of her own, secrets are revealed.

Еще вчера я была изгоем в своей академии из-за проклятого темного дара. А сегодня - одна из невест молодого короля, самого идеального мужчины, которого встречала в жизни. Скажете, повезло? Увы, вряд ли. Потому что я лишь приманка для убийц, которую наняли, чтобы сохранить жизнь настоящим претенденткам.

Это твой последний шанс начать все сначала, - сказала мне таинственная сущность, которая перенесла меня в другой мир. – Соблазнишь царя и станешь царицей – будешь жить. Если нет – для тебя все закончится навсегда». И вроде бы, повезло: я оказалась в теле юной красавицы – таким лицом только царей соблазнять! Но вот незадача: глядя на меня, царь видит не красавицу, а страхолюдину – самую настоящую кикимору. Что ж, если нельзя соблазнить лицом, настоящая женщина всегда найдет другие способы влюбить в себя мужчину!

"Это твой последний шанс начать все сначала, - сказала мне таинственная сущность, которая перенесла меня в другой мир. – Соблазнишь царя и станешь царицей – будешь жить. Если нет – для тебя все закончится навсегда». И вроде бы, повезло: я оказалась в теле юной красавицы – таким лицом только царей соблазнять! Но вот незадача: глядя на меня, царь видит не красавицу, а страхолюдину – самую настоящую кикимору. Что ж, если нельзя соблазнить лицом, настоящая женщина всегда найдет другие способы влюбить в себя мужчину!

Twice a year, the alien, Lord Toric demands a selection of human women between the ages of 18 and 20, to compete for a place in his harem. Maya must get through just one more selection, and then she can marry the man of her dreams. She should have been safe, but when a young woman who was supposed to compete dies the day of the selection, Maya is forced into the competition. Thrown into the fight of her life with no preparation, Maya must shed her innocence, and win Lord Toric's favor.

This epic young-adult science fiction adventure continues as the women of a mysterious mountain monastery rescue the group and allow them to witness their most sacred ritual. One student fails the ultimate test, and Ilika makes the biggest mistake of his life. Finally, the selection is made and the new crewmembers learn the basics on their ship, even as the priests stir up the people against them.

Твоя личная жизнь рассыпалась в одночасье? Самое время начать всё с чистого листа. Но...Тебя похищают в другой мир. Плен? Рабство? Нет - теперь ты участвуешь в отборе невесты для короля!  

фантастический роман Евы Никольской, жанр детективное фэнтези, любовное фэнтези. Он - охотник за головами, ведьмак с даром сирены и мерзавец, по вине которого мой отец попал за решетку. Я - королева маскарада: таинственная певица и эксцентричная блогерша в одном лице.

Наглая зверушка не только продуктовую авоську распотрошит, но и другими неприятностями наградит. Например, одной такой блондинистой неприятностью, которая вознамерилась испортить жизнь бедной девушке. И плевать, что он какой-то там маг непонятно какого королевства! Грабитель самый натуральный!

"Отбор без правил" - фантастический роман Оксаны Гринберга, жанр любовное фэнтези.

"Отбор с осложнениями" - фантастический роман Ники Ёрш и Ольги Ярошинской, жанр юмористическое фэнтези, приключенческое фэнтези.