Guild Codex: Spellbound Series, Book 5 The Alchemist And An Amaretto / Annette Marie/ 296 pages

As a guild bartender, Tori can handle pretty much anything thrown her way, mages, sorcerers, druids, witches, the occasional demon. But anything family-related and she’d rather run for the hills. So why on earth did she agree to spend the holiday with her three best guy friends Aaron, Ezra, and Kai at Aaron family’s home, which is a giant castle that is also a school.  Meeting his famous parents is already terrifying enough, but there are bigger problems. Students of Aaron’s family's renowned mage academy are being attacked on the grounds and somehow no one has seen a single assailant. Unexplained tracks litter the nearby woods, rumors of forbidden alchemy are circulating the campus, Ezra has been acting strangely since they arrived, and Aaron is falling back into his old way surrounded by the upper class elite at the school.  Something deadly is brewing in the shadow of Sinclair Academy, and the longer Tori and her friends take to uncover it, the more dangerous it becomes. But no matter the risk, they’re determined to protect the students. And Aaron's parents too, If they have to. Narrated by Cris Dukehart 6h 55min.

Shadows of Salem Series, Book 1 Shadow Born / Rebecca Hamilton & Jasmine Walt / 248 pages

Brooke is no stranger to the supernatural. While she lived in Chicago she hunted vampires as they are just as prevalent as drug lords, and even more bloodthirsty. But when her partner/ fiance, Tom, dies in a mysterious fire while chasing down a lead to a case he was working in Salem, the town he was born, she suspects something dark and supernatural is at play. With her ability to see into the past by touching inanimate objects, Brooke transfers to the Salem PD, hoping that her talent will help her get to the bottom of things. But she is being stonewalled at every turn, and people’s memories, evidence, and articles about the events seem to be disappearing or being erased.  There are assassination attempts she keeps having to dodge and she finds out that there are more than just vampires in the world, which she always suspected and wonders why her Uncle never warned her and trained her for. She also meets a Fae club owner with his own secrets and seems to have a personal grudge against her. If she wants to play in the supernatural sandbox and figure out what happened to Tom, she's going to have to get down and dirty. Narrated by Angela Dawe 6h 50 min.

Marnie Baranuik Files Series, Book 1 Touched / A. J. Aalto / 582 pages

Marnie Baranuik is a rare dual-talented forensic psychic. She has the ability to feel the emotions of others, and read impressions left behind on objects.  She also has a doctorate in preternatural or supernatural biology, a working knowledge of the dark arts, and is considered without peer in the psychic community. But after her first big FBI case ended with a bullet in one shoulder and a chip on the other, a broken heart and a serial killer in the wind, she decides that working with the FBI just isn’t for her and retires. Then the FBI's preternatural crimes comes knocking on her door at her remote mountain lodge for her insight on a local case, goodbye quiet retirement.  She is promptly besieged by a stab-happy starlet, a rampaging ghoul, and a vampire-hunting jackass in tight Wranglers. Not to mention that vampire-hunter is one of the detectives and is the man who broke her heart. They’d had a brief affair while they worked the case that Marnie got shot on, he didn’t visit her in the hospital, and then she found out while in the hospital that he has a fiance.Narrated by Amy McFadden 18h 9 min.

Alison Brownstone Series, Book 1 Her Father's Daughter / Judith Berens & Martha Carr / 352 pages

Allison Brownstone is a Drow Princess, part Fae and part human, and having graduated from a mundane university she moves to Washington DC and starts her own recovery specialist business when she realizes she doesn’t want to go into the Brownstone family business as either a tomb raider like her mother or a bounty hunter like her father. Prologue starts out in a secret lab where someone is trying to create a virus that will only affect people with magic and the virus makes it more and more difficult to use magic until the carrier no longer has any.  We find out that Allison has somehow contracted the virus . As she deals with it and tries to find a cure she Rescues damsels in distress, finds and recovers artifacts and busts bad guy, frightens the government functionaries and blows up food courts. Then she moves to Seattle, WA and incorporates with a few friends to seriously set up her business! Narrated by Kate Rudd 7h 52min.

The Others Series, Book 1 One Bite With A Stranger / Christine Warren / 352 pages

Regina and her friends have monthly girls nights, on one especially drunk night they come up with the idea of fantasy fix to help set each other up with different men that meet their fantasy needs.  Regina hasn’t ever participated, as she had a boyfriend, but when she finds her fiance doing his secretary she breaks off their engagement. To help her get over her cheating ex, her friends set up her fantasy fix.   Not really interested, she dreams up some kinky out of this world encounters they couldn’t possibly bring to life, after all vampires aren’t real, and the consequences for the rest of the group if they can’t find her fantasy fix is a month of celibacy, which Regina thinks they need. But the joke is on her when her friends drag her downtown for the annual Vampire Ball.  For Dmitri Vidâme, the Vampire Ball wouldn’t be his idea of a good time with all the mortals dressed up pretending to be vampires. As a member of the Council that governs the Others, he has to keep an eye on all the young vamps who prey on the pretenders. But after his dark eyes fall on the breathtaking Regina at the bar, he knows that he has to have her. Narrated by Kate Reading 8h.

Blood And Magick Series, Book 2 Demon's Kiss / Katerina Martinez / 275 pages

Now that Madison has settled into living in the New Orleans French Quarter she didn’t think she would be having so many problems but since exposing Remy, the now ex-coven leader of New Orleans of using some kind of dark magic to make himself stay young and for his part in the vampire purge 200 years ago, she and Nicole, her friend and neighbor have dissolved the old coven and have now created a new democratic kind of system made up of smaller covens.   But when things go wrong as they have been lately everybody keeps coming to her since she was the one who exposed Remy. She just wants to write her books not deal with Imps that have been stealing magic. On top of that Jean-Luc, the man of her dreams, took the vampires that were sleeping in her house and disappeared and she hasn’t seen him in three months. Nicole thinks she been cooped up in her house writing and wallowing for too long, and now Madison has to deal with something even worse than the imps, a blind date.  Narrated by Carly Robins 6h 9min.

Blood And Magick Series, Book 1 Magick Reborn / Katerina Martinez / 290 pages

When Madison bought the old Victorian house in the New Orleans French Quarter she was trying to get away from her toxic life in New York and her ex-boyfriend Dave. She thought it would be a fresh start and that the change of atmosphere was what she needed to be able to finally finish writing her book.  Madison may have practiced magic but since she was adopted, she didn’t really have much of a connection to other practitioners and didn’t really get involved with the covens back in New York. Now living in New Orleans the coven here is much more close-knit and the mysterious and sexy Remy has invited her to join his coven.  She was not expecting to be thrown into the middle of an ancient war between vampires and witches. But then she accidentally awakens two of the vampires that have been sleeping under her house for centuries, under magic protections. One is bent on revenge against the witches that hunted the vampires centuries ago, the other vampire, Jean-Luc, Madison has been dreaming about.  Narrated by Carly Robins 6h 16min. 

Harmony Ghost Hunter Series, book 7 Midnight Crystal / Jayne Castle / 417 pages

Seventh book in Jayne Castle’s  (Jayne Ann Krentz) Harmony series (Also the third book in her Dreamlight Trilogy ), set on the futuristic alien world of Harmony. Adam Winters is the new head of the local Ghost Hunter Guild and on top of having to clean house of all the corrupt people in his guild, he has to deal with his family’s curse.  Once every few generations someone in his family gets the curse and if they don’t find the midnight crystal lamp, a special artifact that his Arcane ancestor made, and find someone with the psychic abilities to use the lamp and then use it on them, they eventually go insane. His family had the lamp and then it was stolen now Adam needs to find it and someone who can use it before he goes insane.  But he also needs the lamp for other reasons. He made an extraordinary find in the alien catacombs, he found a maze that he thinks leads to the power source that lights not just the ruins above in the cities but also the catacombs below. Only something felt wrong with the source and before he could find out more he and his team had to evacuate and one of his team members, his sister, has fallen into a coma and hasn’t woken.  Adam thinks the key to the maze and waking his sister is the midnight crystal lamp. Marlowe Jones is a descendant of the Adam’s family’s rival Arcane family, she’s just what Adam needs: a psychic private investigator to help him find the lamp and she has the psychic abilities he needs to use the lamp, now he just needs to figure out if he can trust her.

Harmony Ghost Hunter Series, book 6 Obsidian Prey / Jayne Castle / 384 pages

Sixth book in Jayne Castle’s  (Jayne Ann Krentz) Harmony series, set on the futuristic alien world of Harmony.  Lyra Dore is an amber tuner, she tunes all kinds of amber and crystals for her customers to channel their psychic abilities though and she is also an independent prospector, that goes down into the alien catacombs beneath the surface to try to find new discoveries and her own cache of amber.  When she makes her own discovery it gets stolen from her by Amber Inc a big family owned corporation. Cruz Sweetwater CEO of Amer Inc, although when Lyra met him, he was going by a different name, seduced her, made her fall in love with him and when she trusted him with her discovery he stole it with his connections for his family’s company, then left her and broke her heart.  Now he’s back and needs her help. The gate to the cave of rare amethyst amber that she had found has closed, five members of the excavation team are trapped inside and only someone who can work with amethyst amber can open it and to date the only one who can is Lyra. But even more dangerous things are occurring, it looks like someone tried to deliberately close the gate and trap people inside, there is a missing artifact from the excavation and someone from Sweetwater’s team was murdered to steal it.

Sensor Series, Book 4.5 Facing the Darkness / Susan Illene / 99 pages

When Melena broke her boyfriend Lucas out of purgatory the Angels punished her by forcing her to teach Kerbasi, now an ex-Guardian of one of the prisons in purgatory, humanity after they found out how badly he would treat his prisoners.  Now it’s the holidays and Christmas is around the corner and Melena decides after trying different many things that she needs a new tactic, and in order for him to learn about kindness and other emotions that she will take him to keep a young boy who has terminal leukemia to keep him company during the holidays at times when his mother has to work.  Kerbasi doesn’t know what to do when he’s tasked with bringing comfort to a boy sick with cancer during the holiday season. The child, Edan might just break through the impervious walls he’s wrapped around his heart.

Sensor Series, Book 2.6 Tempting the Moon / Susan Illene / 50 pages

Part of Susan Illene’s Sensor series set between book 2.5 Chained By Darkness and book 3 Darkness Divides.  Melena’s foster daughter Emily is having trouble with one of the werewolf boys at her school, and after a difficult day at school after he embarrassed her, she decides to trick him into something by seducing him and luring him into the woods only for him to get caught in a bear trap.  Now he’s accidentally shifted into his werewolf form and needs help getting him out of the bear trap only she and Melena are having trouble getting a hold of any of the other werewolves in the pack with the full moon only night away and Nik’s new year’s eve party coming soon, Melena and Emily are going to have to do it themselves.

Sensor Series, Book 6 Darkness Wanes / Susan Illene / 534 pages

Sixth book in the Sensor series, by Susan Illene.  Melena Sanders has been sentenced to time in prison in purgatory for breaking a few of the Angel’s laws.  First she gave her foster daughter her blood to heal her when she contracted the plague and was dying. Second she knew about Ariel, Micah, and many other supernatural’s plan to “come out” about magic and supernaturals to the normal population.  Third she knew about, helped plan and participated in breaking into purgatory to free the half Nephilim/ half sensor supernaturals that had been imprisoned there since their birth. So the fact that the Angels only gave her a three month sentence along with the other Nephilim and supernaturals that participated was a light sentence.  Lucas is trying to hold things together while she is gone but he also has to deal with the sentence the angel’s pasted on him, he’s stuck in Alaska, not aloud to leave and has to teach the half Nephilim/ half sensor supernatural’s about earth, humans, and society. But as soon as Melena gets back suspicious fires are spreading in Alaska, supernaturals are being attacked and it seems that even though Melena and the supernaturals helped the Department of Homeland Security stop her father’s terrorist group of Sensors one of her brothers escaped capture. Her brother has now started a group that is recruiting normal humans to target supernaturals.  This is just the beginning and if Lucas and Melena want to survive they’re going to have to work together. Narrated by: Cris Dukehart 12h 45min.

Sensor Series, Book 5 Darkness Shatters / Susan Illene / 430 pages

Fifth book in the Sensor series, set in Fairbanks Alaska.  Melena has watched a lot of her friends die recently and she blames herself for not being able to act quick enough.  So when a deadly illness that only targets supernaturals mysteriously appears, she is determined to stop it and find a cure or vaccine for it, especially when people she knows and cares about, like her troll friend and her foster daughter’s boyfriend catch it.  But it appears it may be more complicated than she thought. Her father and his sensor group of terrorists may be responsible for creating this strain of the plague that has demon magic in it that weakens supernaturals causing them to contract the disease. If that’s not enough Melena has to watch her boyfriend, Lucas suffer as he searches endlessly for his missing brother, Micah when she has been sworn to silence by a vow not to talk about his location.  Micah’s helping the angel Ariel set up plans to break out the half Nephilim and half sensor supernaturals that were taken by the angels when they were born and placed in purgatory. Narrated by: Cris Dukehart 9h 29 min.

Harmony Ghost Hunter Series, Book 5 Dark Light / Jayne Castle / 390 pages

Fifth book in Jayne Castle’s (Jayne Ann Krentz) Harmony series, set on the futuristic alien world of Harmony.Reporter Sierra McIntyre's has a reputation writing stories on the Crystal City's ghost hunters, and their mysterious guild, which have earned her tabloid some respect. Her amazing gut instincts have helped her, although she doesn’t have regular para psychic gifts her intuition is definitely not normal, when Sierra gets a feeling about something it’s rarely ever wrong. But when she gets an exclusive interview with the Ghost Hunter Guild Boss John Fontana to talk about the disappearances of retired, homeless hunters Sierra doesn’t know what to think.  She doesn’t want to trust the physically and psychically powerful man, but her senses and her pet dust bunny, Elvis are telling her to. Fontana knows that something dark is going on in his guild and to uncover the conspiracy within his own organisation and to protect Sierra because her life may be in danger after digging for info on this story, Fontana proposes a marriage between them.  While their marriage of convenience is purely a business arrangement there is nothing pure about the hot attraction that is blossoming between the two of them.

Dragon’s Breath Series, Book 2 Dancing With Flames / Susan Illene / 469 pages

Second book in the Dragon’s Breath series.  About a couple months ago dragons invaded Earth from another dimension and Bailey has been training to be a dragon slayer ever since she learned she was immune to fire.  There are two types of dragons, green ones that like to kill and eat humans and red ones that can shapeshift into humans. Aidan comes from a clan of dragons that can shapeshift into humans and he has been training her in secret (if his clan found out he could be executed or banished) and they have been allies since.  Bailey kills pure dragons that don’t have the ability to shapeshift however she has been having trouble controlling the urge to kill any dragon, even shapeshifter ones when they’re in dragon form since she fully became a dragon slayer after killing her first dragon. Aidan has been helping her with her training, control and on hunts but then there’s a pure dragon that has been targeting children that Bailey has to take care of and Aidan can’t help her like he normally does.  Aidan has his own troubles he has to deal with, his clan has been fighting with the pure dragons for territory, his father the leader of their clan is dying and the rivalry between his brothers and other competitors for his father’s position is heating up. Aidan’s father gives him and his siblings tasks to prove their worth. Aidan is sent on a diplomatic mission for his clan to make allies with a neighboring dragon shapeshifting clan and he mustn’t fail. Bailey and Aidan might be natural enemies but there is some kind of connection between them and they’re going to have to work together against the pure dragon threat.   Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin 10h 24min.

Dragon's Breath Series, Book 1, Stalked by Flames / Susan Illene / 485 pages

Bailey Monzac has just graduated from college and had every plan to move back to Texas to help her mother and step-father on their ranch and open a business in town, when a massive earthquake occurs and dragons appear in the sky and attack.  Now her plans are ruined and she’s trapped in Oklahoma because of a massive chasm that appeared between the two states. In the mayhem of the dragons attacking Bailey learns that she is immune to dragon fire and that there are two types of dragons the pure green ones that hate and eat humans and the red dragons that can shapeshift into humans.  She learns from Aidan, a red dragon, that saved her the first day of the apocalypse from a green dragon, that she is a dragon slayer and that the dragons are from a different dimension and that the earthquakes are caused by their two dimensions colliding and many more things from the other dimension will be coming over with the dragons. Aidan offers to train Bailey in return for her help. The natural disasters intensify as mountains and other land features appear and green dragons lay waste to the world as civilization and the government all but collapses with the loss of electricity and running water. Roving gangs prowl the debris-filled streets, and Bailey and her friends try to find refuge in the university library. Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin 10h 2min. 

Arcane Society Series, Book 1 Second Sight / Amanda Quick / 390 pages

Also by the author Jayne Castle / Janye Ann Krentz. Venetia Milton is a photographer and her family is having financial problems ever since her father died and one of his retainers ran away with all his money.  Venetia’s of an age to be considered on her way to spinsterhood when she gets once and a lifetime job for the Arcane House, a secret society, in which she was hired to photograph some artifacts from an old alchemist’s collection.  Gabriel Jones, her employer has this strange mystery about him that draws Venetia to him, and although she might be destined for spinsterhood it doesn’t mean she can’t enjoy some time with Gabriel while in the remote Arcane House away from society, and so she sets up to seduce Gabriel for a night not to forget.  Only as the job is coming to a close the house is attacked and when Gabriel gets Venetia out safe she doesn’t know what’s happened to him. The paper announces his death and in honor of him she takes is last name when the money his job provided allows her family to move to London and open her own gallery. It’s safer and more respectable to be a widow photographer than a spinster.  Only Venetia’s fake husband has come back from the dead and is now affecting her life in London. Gabriel Jones had faked his death to draw out the attackers from that night at Arcane house and now the attackers might come after Venetia thinking she really is his wife.

Harmony Ghost Hunter Series, Book 4 Silver Master / Jayne Castle / 320 pages

Fourth book in Jayne Castle’s (Jayne Ann Krentz) Harmony series, set on the futuristic alien world of Harmony. Celinda Ingram is a psychically gifted woman who can read people’s auras which makes her abilities more rare than most on Harmony.  While she has kept her abilities secret they make her job as a matchmaker a lot easier. Her own personal love life she hasn’t been as successful until she meets Davis Oakes a PI and security expert with unusual talents of his own, the sparks between them fly.  When Celinda buys a stolen item as a toy for her dust bunny from an antique shop by accident she meets Davis the PI hired by the ghost hunter guild boss to get it back, and Celinda is willing to just give it to him, however her dust bunny has other ideas and hides it before the exchange can happen. Now they have to work together to get it back before the man who hired the thief (and then killed him) can get it and do something with the unusual alien artifact. Now if only Celinda could get Davis to trust her on a more personal level, but he’s been burned in the past and doesn’t trust matchmakers due to this.

Sensor Series, Book 4 Darkness Clashes / Susan Illene / 400 pages

Melena is getting used to her new life living with supernaturals in Alaska, but tensions among supernatural factions in Fairbanks are growing it’s like a powder keg waiting to go off after the city's recent attacks. And soon she might have to pick a side with the tension between Nik the vampire leader or Derrick the werewolf that was Nik’s second growing but it’s not just the werewolves that are siding with Derrick it’s many others groups of supernaturals that have become unhappy with Nik’s rein. And while all this trouble is brewing Lucas, her Nephilim (half angel) lover needs her help to search for his missing brother, who isn’t actually missing and has made Melena swear a vow of silence so that he and some of the people he is working with can work on some big plan they have to help the half Nephilim  offspring that are held in purgatory by the angels get free. Then there are the agents from the Department of Homeland Security that are lurking about investigating the suspicious "earthquake" that hit their region four months ago with an old colleague from her army days sniffing around and supernaturals going missing. But troubles in Fairbanks aren't Melena's only problem. Nik needs to send someone from his group down to represent him in New Orleans because there is a greater supernatural plot developing, and only by attending an upcoming ball there can she discover more and Nik doesn’t know who else he can trust with the unrest that’s going on in Fairbanks but needs to look strong to other territories. It's definitely not the best time for Melena to be planning a trip out of town. Narrated by Cris Dukehart 9h 5min.

Sensor Series, Book 3.5 Playing With Darkness / Susan Illene / 58 pages

Melena has finally got her man back.  When there was an explosion at the Fae city awhile back it was a distraction to steal a Fae artifact that could create portals to purgatory (the place that Lucas was being held prisoner by angels for breaking the law to save her life ) and when Mel stole it from the original thieves to give it back to the Fae, she decided she might as well take a side trip to purgatory to get Lucas back before giving it to them.  Now it’s been awhile and Mel has been punished by the angels, she has to rehabilitate the Guardian Kerbasi that once ran one of the prisons in purgatory by teaching him humanity after the angels find out about his torturous methods of dealing with prisoners. Mel can’t be more than a half mile from the man which is causing Lucas to avoid her and he also has to look for his missing brother. When her shapeshifting Fae cat (a special type of cat that can change into any breed of cat, wild or domestic) gets sick she decides it’s the perfect time to go to the Fae city and give them back their artifact since she has to go there anyway to visit the vet to take care of her cat and she has to take the Guardian with her.