Resultados para "1.000" en Cuentos de hadas

Thor, hijo de Odín, está llamado a ser el guerrero que lidere la lucha contra las fuerzas del caos. Sin embargo, Odín duda: su vástago peca de orgullo y su carácter es volcánico e incontrolable. Cuando Loki gasta una broma pesada a la bella Sif, la prometida de Thor, se desatan los acontecimientos. Odín envía a Loki al mundo de los enanos en busca de presentes para reparar la afrenta, de donde regresa con un arma singular: el martillo Mjölnir, capaz de dominar el rayo.

Perséfone es la diosa de la primavera, aunque solo de nombre porque la realidad es que, desde que puede recordar, las flores se marchitan bajo su toque. Ante la incapacidad de usar sus poderes de diosa, decide mudarse a Nueva Atenas disfrazada como una periodista mortal con la intención de llevar una vida sin complicaciones. Hades, dios de los muertos, posee un gran imperio del juego en el mundo de los mortales. Entre picas y corazones, los rumores se hacen oír y afirman que sus apuestas favoritas son aquellas imposibles de ganar.

Desde hace algún tiempo, Balder, hijo de Odín y de Frigg y el dios más bello y amado de todo Asgard, sufre horribles pesadillas en las que se ve a sí mismo en el mundo de los muertos. Temiendo que sean augurios, sus progenitores tratan por todos los medios de protegerle para lo cual cada uno de ellos emprende un viaje en el que descubrirán terribles secretos. Entre tanto, Loki, resentido por el feroz trato que los dioses han dado a su descendencia —la diosa de la muerte Hela, el lobo Fenrir y la gigantesca serpiente Jörmungand—, urde una venganza que tendrá terribles consecuencias.

La creación es el resultado de la lucha inmemorial entre el fuego y el hielo, de los que nace todo lo existente. Cuando Odín descubre los poderes que posee su linaje, el de los dioses, se pone al frente de él para luchar contra las atroces criaturas que mantienen la creación sumida en el caos. Combate a los colosos primordiales, como Ymir y sus descendientes, los gigantes de hielo, y a cada estirpe de seres le asigna un mundo para que lo habite. Pero no podrá conseguirlo sin hacer grandes sacrificios e iniciarse en un conocimiento terrible: la profecía acerca del destino de todo lo creado.

Odín, acompañado de los dioses Loki y Hoenir, viaja a Svartalfaheim, el mundo de los enanos, con el propósito de forjar alianzas para enfrentar el próximo Ragnarök. Ya en la corte del caudillo enano Hreidmar, un error fatal cometido por Loki desencadenará una serie de acontecimientos que lo llevará a hacerse con Andvarinaut, el mítico brazalete mágico que multiplica las riquezas de quien lo posee. Hreidmar y sus hijos, Regin y Fafnir, obnubilados por el poder de la maravillosa joya, serán las primeras víctimas de una maldición que cruzará el tiempo y alcanzará a Sigfrido y a los nibelungos.

Persephone is the Goddess of Spring by title only. The truth is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. After a chance encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead and the terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever.

El joven vikingo Arnulf es tan salvaje como el águila y el lobo que dan forma a su nombre. Ansía lanzarse a una vida de aventuras y acción, pero sus planes pronto se verán truncados cuando el barco de su hermano Helge regrese a casa hecho añicos. Ciego de dolor, Arnulf se embarca junto con un esclavo noruego en un viaje de venganza. Sin embargo, el viaje que le aguarda estará plagado de peligros y vicisitudes, desde una incursión a un encuentro real, pasando por multitud de batallas a cual más sangrienta hasta encontrar a los vikingos de Jomsborg.

Silla Nordvig is running for her life. The Queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where death awaits her. When her father is killed, his last words set Silla on a perilous quest: travel the treacherous Road of Bones—a thousand-mile stretch haunted by warbands, creatures of darkness, and a mysterious murderer—and go to Kopa, where a shield house awaits her. After barely surviving the first stretch of road, a desperate Silla sneaks into a supply wagon belonging to the notorious Bloodaxe Crew. To make it to Kopa, she must win over Axe Eyes, the brooding leader of the Crew.

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

For years, Valera has worked weary hours as a seamstress just to keep food on the table. She would give her all to protect her little sister from the cruelties of the world, and the tantalizing lure of the fae forest. One day, she fears, the fae will spirit her sister away, and how can Valera hope to stop them? Then the fae come. Not for her sister...but for her. Trapped in a magnificent palace far from her own world, Valera finds herself the unwilling bride of an enigmatic fae lord.

When I had nothing left to lose, I traveled to the hut in the woods, where no one dared approach. The witch who lived there recognized the darkness in my soul and took me under her wing to witness her reign of terror firsthand, and eventually, to inherit her legacy as my own. Now, I’m the monster they fear, the one humans avoid at all costs. In this welcome isolation, I've attempted to forget my past and the future that was taken from me. Until three men appear, somehow able to break through my protective wards and see me in my true form.

When Pestilence comes for Sara Burn’s town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death. Unless, of course, the angelic-looking horseman is stopped, which is exactly what Sara has in mind when she shoots the unholy beast off his steed. Too bad no one told her Pestilence can’t be killed. Now the horseman, very much alive and very pissed off, has taken her prisoner, and he’s eager to make her suffer. Only, the longer she’s with him, the more uncertain she is about his true feelings towards her, and hers towards him. And now, well, Sara might still be able to save the world, but in order to do so, she'll have to sacrifice her heart in the process.

Estela isn't supposed to find love. As a slave to the Giant King, Estela's life is an endless torment. Her sole hope is to escape with her half-brother and find refuge among the elves. Teo, the Troll King, is desperate. His people are dying, and he's running out of options. When the giants come for diamonds, Teo's crystal sings. The slave is the king's mate, and with her comes a solution to save his people. Even after the king steals her from her masters, Estela's one desire is to flee.

A fierce and merciless demon has been unleashed on the world, spreading destruction and bloodshed in both the human and the elven realms. Northlander Jarl Mandred witnesses the ruthless attack on his men, and he seeks vengeance with the help of the elf queen, Emerelle.

Even as a girl Morgan has always been wild, like the seas which batter the cliffs beneath her home, Tintagel Castle. But she has always been safe, too. Then one day her father is called away to a war from which he does not return. In his place comes the High King, Uther Pendragon, with the sorcerer Merlin lurking in his wake. Uther claims Morgan’s mother, the Lady Igraine as his queen.

The ferocious Styx Syndicate enforcer and trainer known as the Wolf has always been the hunter, never the hunted. So when Lyssa sees the gorgeous Scarlett getting harassed by thugs in a dive bar she's visiting for intel, she jumps straight into protective mode. But Lyssa soon discovers that not every damsel needs saving. And sometimes, wolves wear sheep's clothing… Lyssa thought she'd buried her past, but now it's rushing back with a vengeance—literally. Scarlett has a score to settle, and she's not going to back off.

Born and raised in the forgotten and broken kingdom of Ashbury, Elora has spent years resenting the royals of Pumpkin Hollow, the kingdom that forced the fall of Ashbury and procured the town as its own. Separated by a mysterious glass bridge, Ashbury is treated as the orphan kingdom, left to squander and starve with only the promise of protection from King Jasper, preventing anyone outside their realm from searching for the magic that lay within the ashy valleys and red skies. Because twenty-five years ago, the Cinder Fae arrived.

Emma Wilkes is on the run from her ex-boyfriend - with a stolen laptop containing evidence of his crimes. When she meets a hot guy in a truck stop bar, she pretends to be his date, hoping to throw her ex's hit squad off her trail. Alpha wolf Jace Monroe has only weeks to find a true mate and bond with her, or he'll lose his pack and his territory. To him, the stranger coming on to him is just a delectably curvy distraction from his troubles. But to his wolf, she's the one.

Kirk Jensen is living the dream. He was offered his dream job, slapped handcuffs on his nemesis, and is going to get the murder charges hanging over June's head dismissed. Who knows, maybe there will be a wedding in the near future. Everyone who's tried to destabilize the peace on Kodiak Island is going behind bars for a very long time. Now, Kirk has a choice to make. Does he take the job he's always wanted since he was a kid, uproot his growing pack, and move across the country? Or, does he continue to be the best small-town cop Alaska has ever seen?

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