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.

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.

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.

Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Series, Part 6 The Stubborn Advocate/ Michael Anderle & Sarah Noffke / 282 pages

Liv is a Warrior of the House of Seven after the mysterious deaths of her parents and older siblings and she is charged to uphold justice in the magical world by the Council of Seven. Things are not as they should be, Liv and her friend Rory the Giant have been looking into what is wrong in the magical world, they discovered everyone is missing memories of a war that happened between magicals and humans, and there is something making humans forget about magic when they were originally part of, the House of Seven that used to be the House of Fourteen. Without  humans in the House, the Council has been unbalanced without an outside perspective. But how is it possible that everyone's memories of that event are missing and how come humans can’t see magic, perhaps there are answers on the mountain where her parents died? Adler, a member of the Council who hates Liv and who Liv and her family think might be behind or helping the one responsible for the changes in the House, the one who caused humans to forget about magic, and perhaps even responsible for her parents and siblings deaths, brings back an ancient evil to distract Liv and prevent her from finding out the truth.  As she digs deeper and takes on her missions, Liv must be even more careful or else she might end up like her parents and siblings. Narrated by Dara Rosenberg 5h 33min. 

Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Series, Part 5 The Loyal Friend / Michael Anderle & Sarah Noffke / 314 pages

Book five in the Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Series.  Liv Beaufont is a Warrior of the House of Seven since taking over the position after her parents and older siblings mysterious deaths and she is charged to uphold justice in the supernatural world by the Council of Seven.  However things are not as they seem, the Council seem more concerned with their laws than doing what is right. She and her friend Rory the Giant have been looking into what is fundamentally wrong with the supernatural world and discovered that it seems that all species are missing memories of a war that happened  between magicals and humans and there is something making humans forget about magic when they were originally part of, not the House of Seven but the House of Fourteen. That is what’s wrong in the House, it is unbalanced since there are no longer any humans with an outside perspective to help keep the balance, it was never meant to be just magicians on the Council.  But how is it possible that everybody's memories of that event are gone? On Liv’s latest mission for the council she is sent to Romania to find out who all the members of a werewolf pack are and deal with them, since tourists in the area have been going missing and the Council suspects the wolves of eating humans. However since wolves can sense magic the Council decides to bind her magic so that they won’t be able to tell she is a magician and think her human.  Liv knows that certain members of the Council suggested this because they want her dead, after all she’ll be defenseless in the werewolf town without her magic. As she digs deeper for the truth and takes on her missions, she must be extra careful. Narrated by Dara Rosenberg 6h 44min. 

City of Magic Series, book 3 Furtive Dawn / Helen Harper / 267 pages

Book 3 in the City of magic series, It has been almost a year since the magical apocalyptic event that caused the government to quarantine Manchester from the rest of the world, and things have been going good for resident Enchantress Charley.  The vampires, werewolves, and humans within the city have come together as a community and overcome their differences, living in relative harmony. But supplies are starting to run low and a Billionaire from outside the city tries to make contact with the people within through messenger birds since technology doesn’t reliably work in the city. And then the government allows the Billionaire into the city in hazmat suits to conduct some research and see if the civilians in the city are still alive.  Charley doesn’t trust the man, what does he want out of helping them, but their community needs his help and as long she has her werewolf boyfriend Monroe by her side she knows things will turn out okay. Narrated by Ruth Urquhart 7h 47min.

City of Magic Series, book 2 Brittle Magic / Helen Harper / 275 pages

If you thought creating a new community after an apocalyptic event when the government cuts you off from the rest of the world by building walls around the city was easy then you don’t know the kind of pressure Charley is under.  Everyday it seems like people from her community need her for every little thing and the stress keeps piling on and she’s finding it difficult to cope. Things for Monroe the sexy werewolf and his supernatural community to the north aren’t much better what with him trying to cope with the grief of losing his werewolf pack during the apocalyptic event.  But when dead bodies start to appear Charley and Monroe are going to have to work together to prevent more killings and to find the murderer before the tension between werewolves, vampires and humans escalates and causes some kind of war. Narrated by Ruth Urquhart 7h 48min.

City of Magic Series, book 1 Shrill Dusk / Helen Harper / 268 pages

Charley works as a cleaner for the police department by day and then works as a professional gambler in her free time.  Due to the accident from her past which ended in the death of her brother, she blames herself and doesn’t think she is special.  That is until the magical apocalypse happens in Manchester. When everyone else is effected by the plague of rats, the firestorm falling from the sky, and the sudden growth of plant life, for Charley the rats avoid her, the firestorm doesn’t hit her house and the trees listen to her when tells them to stop growing.  Then her roommate suddenly turns into some kind of magical creature and the government seems like it’s going to quarantine Manchester because it's the only place affected by magic. There’s also a sexy werewolf on her porch that might be able to help her roommate. She just needs to figure out these abilities so she can bring some order to the new chaotic world of a Manchester. Narrated by Ruth Urquhart 7h 18min.

Alice Worth Series, Book 4 Heart of Stone / Lisa Edmonds / 426 pages

Five years ago, mage private investigator Alice Worth escaped her grandfather Moses Murphy's Cabal, an organized crime syndicate. Now, her grandfather's war with local boss Darius Bell has drawn her out of hiding and put her in the cross-hairs of not one but two merciless crime lords. Her decision to intervene in their war has endangered everyone Alice cares about and threatens to destroy the life she's built for herself, including her relationship with alpha werewolf Sean Maclin. Alice's newest case may be the most dangerous one of her career.  She is hired to find a missing child with a rare magical ability who is unregistered to the government, and if they or a Cabal where to find him he would become a weapon for them and he would disappear forever. Then as she and her ghost sidekick Malcolm look for clues on where he went they quickly become targets for the boy's ruthless kidnappers. To stay alive and free from both Bell and Moses, Alice must rely not only on her growing powers but also her alliances with Sean's pack and the Vampire Court. But when Alice's conflicts with pack members turn violent and the Court betrays her, the truth becomes clear: freeing the kidnapped boy and finding her place in the pack will cost Alice her secrets, her safety, and-if she isn't careful-her life. Narrated by Felicity Munroe 15h 45min.

Alice Worth Series, Book 3 Heart of Ice / Lisa Edmonds / 380 pages

After closing the huge missing persons case for the Vampire Court, mage and private investigator Alice Worth is glad to be back to work as usual with her ghost partner Malcolm and spending some time with her werewolf boyfriend Sean.  Her newest case is to find three missing magic artifacts that were burgled from her client’s home, a cup that when drunk from allows a vampire one hour in the sun, a mirror that when you look into it reminds you of forgotten memories, and a cuff that raises a person’s libido.  She also has to deal with the vampire hate group that was responsible for blowing up the vampire Charles’s bar while she was still inside, while she helped the Vampire Court apprehend the group one, an ex-marine, escaped and is now gunning for her, Charles, and Charles’ people. If that’s not enough her grandfather Moses Murphy and his Cabal are making moves to take over the Cabal in her city, run by Bell the man responsible for the death of her ghost friend Malcolm, which means the city will soon run with blood, of not just the two organizations but also all the innocents caught in the way and the massive collateral damage they both will cause.  Narrated by Felicity Munroe 13h 17min.

Alice Worth Series, Book 2 Heart of Fire / Lisa Edmonds / 364 pages

Ever since taking down the group responsible for stealing a dangerous magical artifact that could destroy whole cities, Alice hasn’t been sleeping well.  With nightmares of the recent incident and from her past hounding her, her relationship with werewolf Sean Maclin, who helped her on that case, is on the rocks, federal agent Lake knows there’s more to her then there seems to be and has been following her, and Charles the vampire she occasionally does some jobs for is getting too interested in her. Alice has been, understandably overwhelmed for the last month.  Just when her friend, and ghost, partner Malcolm seems like he’s going to stage an intervention, her old mentor Private Investigator Mark Dunlap asks for her help on a case. Mark has been hired by the Vampire Court to find out who has been kidnapping prostitutes off the streets and he needs her help, especially when the list of missing has grown past 25 people, the police are fixated on vampires as the suspects, and the public is growing restless and vampire hate groups are on the rise.  Then she also has to deal with the poltergeist and demon that have been trying to mess with her. It looks like Mark’s case is bigger than they thought when they find out that the women aren’t the only ones going missing and then someone close to Alice gets taken. Narrated by Felicity Munroe 12h 33min.

Alice Worth Series, Book 1 Heart of Malice / Lisa Edmonds / 340 pages

She used to be a prisoner of her grandfather, Moses Murphy’s Cabal ( a magic crime syndicate) for twenty years, since he murdered her parents when she was eight.  He did horrible and inhuman things to her to force her to use her magic to do his bidding on jobs and torture and kill his enemies, until she faked her death, permanently changed the way she looked and escaped becoming Alice Worth. Now she is a private investigator that specializes in cases involving the supernatural as she tries to atone for the things she was forced to do for her grandfather’s cabal all the while keeping her identity hidden.  But a simple job to recover some stolen books for a client turns dangerous when it’s discovered that a dangerous magical artifact also disappeared and that it could be used to destroy whole cities, and then her client gets kidnapped . Alice gets help from the ghost, Malcolm that is now haunting her but if others discover him they both could be in trouble. Alice can’t register Malcolm with the government agency in charge of supernatural concerns because she is hiding from them and her grandfather and Malcolm is hiding from the Cabal that murdered him and would find him and bind him, to use as a battery for his magic, if she did.  Narrated by Felicity Munroe 12h 9min.

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.

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.

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.

Sensor Series, Book 3 Darkness Divides / Susan Illene / 452 pages

Melena’s life seems to be one non-stop violent roller coaster since she came to Fairbanks, Alaska.  The supernaturals in town are finally starting to tolerate her and the angels are shielding her from enemies that want her dead as she transitions into becoming immortal after Lucas makes a deal with the angels to feed her more of his blood to make her immortal in return for a sixty year sentence in purgatory.  But Melena will find a way to get her man out of purgatory, and the angels be damned if the get in her way. Only before she can a magical explosion in the Fae city in Canada causes untold damage in Fairbanks as well as the surrounding areas. Mel’s teenage charge is hurt and recovering afterward and the Fae need Mel’s help to figure out who caused the explosion before anything else happens.  Mel and the supernatural’s know it had to be a Sensor but they couldn’t have gotten into the Fae city without supernatural help. Mel suspects that the first explosion is just the beginning. Narrated by: Cris Dukehart 11h 51min.