Xi Force series, Book 4 Triptych / S. C. Mitchell / 262 pages

Fourth book in the Xi Force series.  Maggie O'Donnell dreamed of becoming an astronaut, and instead she ends up flying the Xi Force super jet shuttling their superheroes around when needed. But when her grandmother passes away and she inherits the powers of the Irish goddess Morrigan from her, she is able to split herself in three to become the three aspects of Morrigan, the healer, the warrior, and the sorceress.  But she also inherited her ancestor’s enemy. Whenever the power is passed on the prison holding The Fae Queen Genevieve weakens and she can escape to cause havoc. As Maggie steps into an even bigger role with the super team Xi Force she also has to deal with her family’s ancient enemy who's out to destroy her and anyone close to her. Paul Tompkins is leader of Pike's rangers, the Xi Force support team. He’s required to keep Maggie in the friend zone because of his job, but her new position in Xi Force suddenly changes everything now that she’s a civilian contract and not part of the rangers. If all that’s isn’t enough when an earthquake causes cracks and crevices in the Xi Force base’s foundation it reveals that there’s some weird spaceship with aliens inside under the base. Narrated by Larry Gorman 7h 20min.

Mercy Thompson Series, Book 12 Smoke Bitten / Patricia Briggs / 351 pages

Latest installment in the Mercy Thompson series.  Mercy Thompson is a coyote shapeshifter who chaos just seems to follow around (but she blames that her father Coyote the primordial being from Native american myth for that). Mercy’s Husband and mate Adam has been off ever since he had to kill an old friend who succumbed to dark magic and she can feel him pulling away from their bond and becoming distant.  Even the Pack has noticed he’s been off. Adam’s Ex is causing problems like she always does which is causing tension with the pack when Mercy’s step-daughter decides to go to college in the Tri-Cities area to be close to her dad and Mercy instead of her mother.  On top of that Underhill (a sentient being and avatar of the Fae realm), who is quite bloodthirsty, likes to play games (that often end with the other person dead) and likes to take on the form of a little girl decides to put a door to her realm in Mercy’s backyard and ‘accidentally’ let out one of the dangerous creatures that roams her realm into the Tri-Cities area.  When the creature bites someone he can control them and make them do what he wants, until he kills them and moves onto his next target. And if that’s not enough a rogue werewolf pack seems to be moving into Mercy and her husband’s pack territory with the intent to take over. Just another day in the life of mechanic Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman. Narrated by Lorelei King 10h 9min.

Hopeless Series, Book 1 Hopeless Magic / A. K. Koonce / 161 pages

Zakara is thief and on one job where she breaks into a tower she finds more than what she was looking for and  when a fight breaks out she gets hurt badly but ends up saving three men that were locked inside the tower. Her first instinct is to ditch them as soon as possible, after all to survive she needs to look out for number one, herself, but they have the one thing that intrigues her more than wealth, and that’s magic. After the decline of technology, Fae magic ruled the world, until the Fae withdrew and it disappeared without a trace. Now only myths of the magic wielders linger in their destroyed society. The three prisoners she saved claim to be Fae, but she doesn't trust them. She doesn't trust anyone. Can Prince Ryder convince the pretty thief to lead them to the Hopeless City where the Fae supposedly reside? Or will she kill or ditch him and his companions before they even arrive? Narrated by Dara Rosenberg 3h 5min.

Heroes of New Vegas Series, Book 6 Night Resurrected / Colleen Gleason / 389 pages

Five men emerge from a cave fifty years after an apocalyptic event.  Now with extraordinary new powers, they must learn how to survive in this new dark, ravaged world. They are determined to help the resistance that is fighting against the immortal Strangers that caused the destruction, and now repress the human race.  The Strangers, once human and the rich elite of society, part of the Cult of Atlantis, worked to cause the destruction of the world in exchange for crystals from Atlantis that give them immortality. The world they knew is in ashes, and what remains is in peril and these five extraordinary survivors are humankind's last, best hope. One of the men that emerges from the cave is Wyatt,  he lost his family forever during The Change, and has nothing left to lose. But just when he thought he'd never feel anything again, Remington Truth comes into his life. The beauty faces unimaginable dangers on her quest to safeguard the mysterious crystal in her possession as the Strangers hunt her, he joins her on her journey-never expecting her to find a way past the wall he's built. Remy's a woman with everything at stake. While protecting the powerful crystal that her grandfather and name’s sake gave her, she dares trust no one with her life and family secret. Yet once she recognizes the ravished heart beneath Wyatt's stony facade, she's willing to risk it all. Together they battle the force of darkness-their very survival at stake.  Narrated by Sebastian Fields 11h 46 min.

Heroes of New Vegas Series, Book 5 Night Forbidden / Colleen Gleason / 389 pages

Five men emerge from a cave fifty years after an apocalyptic event.  Now with extraordinary new powers, they must learn how to survive in this new dark, ravaged world. They are determined to help the resistance that is fighting against the immortal Strangers that caused the destruction, and now repress the human race.  The Strangers, once human and the rich elite of society, part of the Cult of Atlantis, worked to cause the destruction of the world in exchange for crystals from Atlantis that give them immortality. The world they knew is in ashes, and what remains is in peril and these five extraordinary survivors are humankind's last, best hope. Bruno "Fence" Washington survived the apocalypse - emerging from a Sedona cave into a strange and terrible new world... 50 years later. Now, scouring for answers about the malevolent Strangers, the former extreme sportsman encounters a woman who calls to his every desire he just has to work through some of the traumas from his past. While try as she might, Ana can't resist the man who tempts her in ways she never knew possible... if she could just trust him with some of the dark secrets from her own past.  But they must work together to face a new evil rising up from the rolling ocean. Narrated by Sebastian Fields 11h 8min.

Heroes of New Vegas Series, Book 4 Night Beckons / Colleen Gleason / 357 pages

Five men emerge from a cave fifty years after an apocalyptic event.  Now with extraordinary new powers, they must learn how to survive in this new dark, ravaged world. They are determined to help the resistance that is fighting against the immortal Strangers that caused the destruction, and now repress the human race.  The Strangers, once human and the rich elite of society, part of the Cult of Atlantis, worked to cause the destruction of the world in exchange for crystals from Atlantis that give them immortality. The world they knew is in ashes, and what remains is in peril and these five extraordinary survivors are humankind's last, best hope. The Change that devastated the earth did not destroy Theo Waxnick, one of the founding members of the resistance.  However during the Change he was altered, made into something more than human he’s eternally young and beautiful, but not immortal. He dies on a mission against the Strangers, and is lost to the darkness, until a miracle lady brings him back. Born during the apocalyptic storms and earthquakes that left the world in ruins, Selena has dedicated her life to easing the pain of others. But Theo is the first in her care to survive. Responding to Selena's tender touch, Theo starts to live again, to feel and desire again. But they both have secrets they can’t share that make them targets for others.   Narrated by Sebastian Fields 12h 42min.

Heroes of New Vegas Series, Book 3 Abandon the Night/ Colleen Gleason / 382 pages

Five men emerge from a cave system fifty years after something destroys human life as they knew it.  Now with extraordinary new powers, they must learn how to survive in this new dark, ravaged world. They are determined to help the resistance movement fighting against the immortal Strangers that caused the destruction, and now repress the human race.  The Strangers, once human and the rich elite of society, part of the Cult of Atlantis, worked to cause the destruction of the world in exchange for crystals from Atlantis that give them immortality. Quent Fielding had it all money, power, women, good looks...until he and his friends were frozen in time for fifty years. Now he finds himself lost and alone in a new world of overgrown urban jungles, feeling useless and that he has nothing useful to offer the resistance besides his strange ability to touch objects and know their past.  However his ability comes as a double edged sword and he can sometimes fall into a deep black whole when he touches something and receives too much information. To feel useful he is determined to find and kill his father, one of the leaders of the Strangers and the Cult of Atlantis, he had a chance to do so when he was younger and his father was trying to beat him to death but didn’t take it and now feels slightly responsible for what his father has done. To find his father Quent’s going to need the help of Zoe Kapoor, the sharp-tongued zombie hunter to kill and avoid the zombies and wild animals, But she’s as sexy as she is elusive and has a dark past of her own, trying to hunt down and kill the man responsible for murdering her family and town. Narrated by Sebastian Fields 10h 30min.

Heroes of New Vegas Series, Book 2 Embrace the Night / Colleen Gleason / 325 pages

Five men emerge from a cave system fifty years after something destroys human life as they knew it.  Now with extraordinary new powers, they must learn how to survive in this new dark, ravaged world. Simon Japp one of the five men has a violent past that will haunt him forever. But when he somehow travels through time to a dark future where civilization is all but destroyed, he sees it as an opportunity for redemption, a second chance. As he becomes familiar with this new, overgrown world of jungle-like cities and overgrown shopping malls, Simon is determined to help the Resistance movement against the immortal Strangers-the repressive, controlling race that has taken over civilization and the ones that caused the destruction. He can't afford to be distracted by the beautiful, soft-spoken woman who haunts his thoughts. Sage Corrigan is the product of a rigid cult that’s goal is to repopulate the world in order to rebuild civilization. She fled when she was a teen to avoid marriage to a man 30 years her senior, who already had several wives and children.  She's learned not to trust anyone, but there's something about Simon and his empty, haunted eyes that tug at her heart. Then there is her friend Theo who also has feelings for her, she not sure what to think. But then Simon and Sage are forced together when they have to pose as husband and wife to infiltrate the cult she once fled. Narrated by Sebastian Fields 10h 43min.

Heroes of New Vegas Series, Book 1 Beyond the Night / Colleen Gleason / 324 pages

Everything they knew and loved was gone.  Five men emerge from a cave to find the world that they knew is gone, they have extraordinary new powers, and they must learn and survive in this new world.  When Dr. Elliot Drake and his friends went on an expedition in a system of caves, he and his companions did not expect to awake from a sleep and emerge fifty years later. Cities are now desolate - lacking technology and infrastructure, civilization is controlled by deadly immortals called the Strangers, and there are zombie like creatures that roam stealing blond people for the Strangers and tearing all others apart.  Elliott has an extraordinary new gift, he has the power to heal, but it comes with fatal consequences, although he can take the injury away from a patient by touching them if he doesn’t touch another person or animal and pass the injury onto them, then he takes on the injury himself, only more fatal.  Jade Kapiza was imprisoned by the immortals for years and escaped and has now been in hiding for years.  She is determined to help the human race fight back against her old captors but doesn’t trust anyone…. Until she meets Elliott.  Narrated by Sebastian Fields 10h 33min

The Isle of Destiny Series, Book 3 Spear Song / Tricia O'Malley / 216 pages

Book three in the Isle of Destiny Series, Gwenith Donovan owns a hobby store called This and That, carries on one sided conversations with her chubby cat, and maintains a huge comic book collection to fuel her geeky obsession.  For all that she lived a normal routine life, everything changes when she discovers her own superpower, she can use magic.  Lochlain Laird is a high sorcerer of the light Fae and has broken one of the highest rules of the light Fae.  He broke into the Goddess Danu’s cave and stole a vial of her sacred blood in order to heal his dying mother, he returned it before anyone could figure out who he used it on knowing the Fae would also punish his mother if they knew, but to break into the cave or even touch the sacred vial is a death sentence.  However Danu punishes him by making him the next Seeker’s Protector.  Feeling that the task is beneath him and knowing that after this duty is accomplished he will still possibly face a death sentence, Loch remains withdrawn and surly during Gwenith’s quest to find the Spear and break a centuries old curse before the dark Fae can stop them.  Narrated by Amy Landon 5h 14min

The Isle of Destiny Series, Book 2 Sword Song / Tricia O'Malley / 253 pages

Book two in the Isle of Destiny Series, Sasha Flanagan has lived her life obsessed with swords, so much so that she became a collector and dealer of antique blades and an expert swordswoman.  But then she finds out that she is a Seeker for the next magical item in an ancient quest.  She has to find a mythological sword before a centuries old curse is complete and before the dark Fae can find it. She is accompanied by a rag-tag team and her Protector Declan who has grown up with her shadowed and silently watched over her since her childhood.  Narrated by Amy Landon 5h 31min.

The Isle of Destiny Series, Book 1 Stone Song / Tricia O'Malley / 296 pages

Clare MacBride has her life exactly in the order she wants it, in a year, she'll have finished her geology dissertation. But she is no closer to figuring out the answer to one question that plagues her and the reason why she went into geology, why can she feel stones pulse with energy? She’s never told anyone about her abilities, after all it sounds crazy in their science and technology driven age.  But one night when coming home from work she is attacked by a strange man with silver eyes who turns out to be a Fae only to be saved by another man who calls himself her Protector. She finds out about a centuries-old curse, a mysterious faction of protectors, and a mythological godstone, and that she is a Seeker which all sounds like old world fairy-tale nonsense to her. But she realizes that this is all real, her life plans are shattered and she is forced to throw everything she knows about the world out the window and go on a quest to find this godstone otherwise the dark Fae will be released and Ireland will be doomed. Narrated by Amy Landon 7h 2min.

Nightshade Paranormal Cozy Series, Book 1 Witch You Were Here / Lori Woods / 196 pages

Late one night Suzy Maycomber hears a strange noise in her house and goes to investigate it only to find a man trying to steal her grandmother’s old silver drinking cup, when she goes to hit him with an old broom the man disappears through the wall.  Thinking she imagined it or is going crazy she goes back to bed. The next day on a routine trip to the vet she hears a voice crying for help and Suzy Maycomber and her cat, Snowball, take a shortcut through the cemetery only to find themselves in the mystical land of Nightshade, where magic exists and cats talk, and her broom is magical.  Only the librarian, Rachel, the most powerful witch in Nightshade, can help Suzy get home, only problem, Rachel's just been murdered. Desperate to find her way home, Suzy reluctantly agrees to take Rachel's place as Nightshade's resident witch and librarian where she'll have access to the spell books that might hold the answers she needs. But her search for the truth draws Suzy ever deeper into danger. There is someone-or something-in Nightshade that doesn't want Suzy to get home. Rachel's murderer is prepared to kill again-and Suzy may be next. If Suzy wants to get home, she'll have to learn to be a witch first. Narrated by Rebecca Mitchell 5h 49min.

Ice Planet Barbarians Series, Book 2 Barbarian Alien / Ruby Dixon / 211 pages

Kidnapped from Earth by aliens Liz and a bunch twelve other women are kept prisoner on their ship to become sex slaves but when things go wrong for their captors the alien traffickers dump their ‘cargo,’ the women, on an ice planet until they can come back for them. When Georgie decides they can’t stay in the cargo container, she explores the ice planet looking for natives that might help her and the other women and finds a native. He and his people mate for life when they meet the ‘one,’ and because of the alien symbiote they have inside them that lets them survive the harsh conditions of the planet ‘choose’ their mate. Now the women also have to get symbiotes in order to survive on the planet and her symbiote chooses one of the natives Raahosh, but she doesn’t really like him. Two points of view in the book by Liz and by Raahosh. Narrated by Hollie Jackson & Mason Lloyd 6h 27min.

Love and War Series, Book 3 Antibody / R.A. Steffan / 246 pages

Vithii military cyborgs never go rogue, that's the official line that the Regime gives. How could they, when their emotion centers have been ripped out and replaced with tech? Cyborgs do 3 things: follow orders, destroy whatever target you point them at, and walk calmly into vaporization chambers when it's time to be decommissioned. PX-12 known to his friends as Pax, only performed 2 of those functions during his stint in the military. D-8, one of his unit-siblings, performed all 3. So when Pax receives D-8's distress beacon 7 years after Pax saw him destroyed, there is either something wrong with his systems or the Regime is recycling the minds of decommissioned cyborgs, turning them into weapons even more horrific than they were before. To stop it, Pax and the other members of Shadow Wing, the rogue group fighting against the Regime, will need the help of telepathic Vitharan ambassador and part time spy, Nahleene Veila'ana, the woman who once helped Ryder and Temple escape a Vithii Regime controlled prison and whose motivations are questionable. Narrated by Gwendolyn Druyor 7h 48min.

Love and War Series, Book 2 Antigen / R.A. Steffan / 239 pages

Ryder is a member of Hunter Tarthasian’s rogue group of alien Vithii, Shadow Wing,  that fight against the tyranny of the Vithii Regime, and was once a prestigious doctor until she performed an illegal experiment to try to save a patient’s life and had her credentials revoked.  When Skye escaped with the antidote to a deadly bio weapon that could only affect humans, her brother acted as a decoy to throw off the Regime and was captured and is now a political prisoner held by the Regime to try to use against Skye.  Once Ryder and Shadow Wing created the antidote they broke into the water supply plant to put it into the water so they could get it out to everyone on the planet before the Regime could use the Bio weapon. Now Shadow Wing are searching for Temple, Skye’s brother, to get some recon on the Vithii prison he is being held in they send Ryder in under a false identity as a doctor at the prison, but when someone from her past recognizes her, the plan to get Temple out goes up in flames.  Ryder is now also a prisoner along with Temple, and Shadow Wing have to save them both. Narrated by Gwendolyn Druyor 7h 19min

Love and War Series, Book 1 Antidote / R.A. Steffan / 256 pages

Skye Chantrell has just escaped from a war zone and crash landed on a remote lunar outpost and her survival depends on a dangerous alien Vithii fugitive, Hunter Tarthasian.  Skye’s father was forced by the Regime to create a deadly bio weapon that targets humans but he also created an antidote to it, stole it, and died helping her escape. Now she has to get back to the capital before the bio weapon that targets humans is released and she has to figure out if she can trust Hunter and his rogue group of alien Vithii.   Narrated by Gwendolyn Druyor 7h 40min.

Ice Planet Barbarians Series, Book 1 Ice Planet Barbarians / Ruby Dixon / 188 pages

Kidnapped from Earth by aliens Georgie and a bunch of other women are kept prisoner on their ship to become sex slaves but when things go wrong for their captors the alien traffickers dump their ‘cargo,’ the women on an ice planet until they can come back for them. Georgie decides they can’t stay in the cargo container, the aliens only need the six women they have in cryo stasis to meet their deadlines and she and the rest of the women were just extras,  if they wait they’re likely to die from the aliens when they come back, the cold, or starvation. While the other women stay in the cargo hold, Georgie explores the ice planet looking for natives that might help her and the other women and finds Vektal an alien, he’s humanoid, blue, has horns, and his tribe is in desperate need of females. Vektal and his people mate for life when they meet the ‘one,’ and now Vektal has met his and she is strange and pale.  Two points of view in the book by Georgie and by Vektal. Narrated by Hollie Jackson & Mason Lloyd 5h 51min.

Lords of Kassis Series, Book 4 Ristéard's Unwilling Empress/ S. E. Smith / 285 pages

Fourth book in the Lord of Kassis series, Ricki Bailey is a member Cirque de Magik and when they found out that three of their members were kidnapped by aliens and then later settled on the planet Kassis, the circus decided to go with and settle there too.  While Ricki herself doesn’t perform for the circus she does handle all the circus’s problems, paper work, and organization. Ristéard Roald is the powerful and deadly ruler of Elpidios, a planet that is slowly dying without the Blood Stones needed to absorb the radiation gradually destroying its stratosphere. He has sworn to do whatever it takes to protect his world and his people, but time is running out. When he comes across Ricki he recognizes her from a painting done about the Empress of Elpidios and the prophecy that says she will save it.  Desperate for his people and attracted to her like no other, Ristéard kidnaps her. Narrated by Samantha Cook 6h 55min.

Lords of Kassis Series, Book 3 Jo's Journey / S. E. Smith / 212 pages

Third book in the Lord of Kassis series, Jo Strauss is a circus performer when she and her sister are kidnapped by aliens and then saved by her best friend / sister  River they end up on the planet Kassis. There the brother of the leader of Kassis, Manota Ja Kel Coradon tries to claim her as his. The second son of the ruling House of Kassis Manota is known for his knowledge, skills, and development of weaponry and his legendary skill as a warrior.  Jo starts to fall in love with him but refuses to commit all the way until he takes her back to her planet to see her parents, since she and her sisters have been missing for a couple months, and the worry must be killing them. But once there it seems like the entire circus wants to come back with her and her parents to Kassis, and then on their return journey to Kassis their spaceship is attacked by pirates. Narrated by Samantha Cook 7h 2min.