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.

Shadows of Salem Series, Book 3 Shadow Hunted / Rebecca Hamilton & Jasmine Walt / 288 pages

Brooke Chandler has no memory of her history and her identity and is working as a slave servant girl scrubbing floors for the Morrigan after refusing to repay the favor owed to her (not that she remembers that). But with a little help from her Uncle Oscar she attempts to escape only to end up in the land of Faerie where nothing is as it seems as she ends up with her father - The Winter King. She then starts to rediscover her past life, having flashes of memories from her past life before she was reborn as Brooke, and about all the allies and enemies waiting for her to return. Now she has an impossible decision to make does she stay in Faerie with the enemies who want her dead because of her past life or does she return to earth and confront the enemies (her ex-partner Baxter, the police, and her mother’s old coven) who want her tried and jailed for the murder. Narrated by Angela Dawe 7h 26 min.

Shadows of Salem Series, Book 2 Shadow Marked / Rebecca Hamilton & Jasmine Walt / 221 pages

Shadow Marked is a continuation of The Shadows of Salem series. Detective Brooke Chandler was deliberately being shielded from the supernatural world growing up now  she is just starting to learn about the supernatural realm that no one knows exists right under their noses. As if vampires weren’t enough, now Brooke has to deal with the witch covens, ghost haunts, and Fae lords.  After the death of Father James and her fiance, Tom, Brooke Chandler becomes filled with guilt. Her partner, Detective Baxter, was supposedly the brother of Father James when actually it was a ruse, fictitious memories planted by Father James to aid his wrong doings as an evil warlock who was after her magical energy, and was kidnapping and siphoning the magic energy of dozens of other supernatural creatures. It doesn’t change the fact that she had to kill Father James in self-defense or how detective Baxter felt about his ‘brother’ not knowing the crimes he committed. But the hurt in his eyes alone, as he tries endlessly to find evidence that just isn’t there…it eats away at her conscience. With the help the Fae lord, Maddock, Brooke is beginning to understand her powers and use them, the training that has long since been denied to her by her Uncle Oscar as a way of protection after her parents were murdered. Maddock gives her little quests on occasion to find four powerful artifacts, but she doesn’t quite understand what his intentions are for them yet, and with the uninvited Unseelie Fae guest visiting her apartment, requesting that Brooke now repay her debt by providing the artifacts to her instead, Brooke doesn’t know what to do.  If that is not enough, the local coven, her mother had run from, has set to blackmailing her to join their coven under pretense of outing her deep dark secret to the world about what really happened to her fiance and Father James on the night of their death. Can she keep her secrets and appease all parties that want something from her, or will the end come quickly? Narrated by Angela Dawe 5h 40 min.

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.

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.

Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Series, Part 4 The Triumphant Daughter / Sarah Noffke & Michael Anderle / 312 pages

Liv Beaufont is a Warrior of the House of Seven ever since taking over the position after her parents and older siblings died 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 all species are missing memories of a war that happened a while ago.  But how is it possible that everybody's memories of that event are gone? On top of that Liv’s latest mission from the council is hunting demons and she is trying to help another Warrior who has been infected by a demon without the council finding out. If she doesn’t find the demon and get it’s blood to create a cure for the Warrior, he will become a demon.  Then there is the mission to the Giants’ Isle that she volunteered for to prevent another Warrior from going and finding out that the Giant Sword she stole from a museum, because it belonged to her friend Rory’s family, is there on the Isle. The mission happens once every 100 years, the council is obligated to send someone to offer the giants a place in the treaty they have with all other magical creatures besides demons, however the giants hate mages and normally kill those that go. As she digs deeper for the truth and takes on her missions, she must be extra careful. Narrated by Dara Rosenberg 6h 51min.

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. 

Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Series, Part 3 The Defiant Magician / Sarah Noffke & Michael Anderle / 322 pages

Liv Beaufont is a Warrior of the House of Seven, charged with bringing justice, set by magicians in the magical society and imposed upon on all magical creatures.  Where the other Warriors do as they are told by the Seven Councilors Liv is more set about doing what is right instead of what is easy. The Council used to send her on wild-goose chases for stupid cases just to keep her busy, but now they are sending her on more and more dangerous cases and she and her brother Clark, one of the Seven Councilors, think that someone on the Council is trying to get rid of her as she works with her brother secretly so they don’t target him too, to find out more about the mysterious deaths of their parents, brother, and sister.  Liv is determined to prove that she’s a capable and strong Warrior and try to decode the mysterious message left to her and Clark by their sister as well as the ancient language of the Founders and the mysterious hidden door in the Library of the House of Seven. Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg 6 h 55 min.

Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Series, Part 2 The Uncooperative Warrior / Sarah Noffke & Michael Anderle / 302 pages

Oliva "Liv" Beaufont has been getting used to her new position as Warrior of one of the Seven as well as having her magic unlocked.  The Council has been assigning her stupid cases to keep her busy and out of the way. However she’s been working her own cases trying to find out more about her parents, older brother, and sister’s deaths and the secrets that are going on inside the House of Seven.  Her friend, the giant who has been helping her train her magic, asks her for help recovering his grandfather’s sword which is in a public museum guarded by magic wards that make it so he can’t take it. She gets a lead on the magic container she found during a case and then someone stole from the House of Seven, and she thinks it was someone from the House. Liv makes friends with a bunch of Brownies that like to clean places, her boss human John at her electronic repair shop job is getting suspicious of her activities and Liv strikes up an unlikely partnership with an annoying Elf.  Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg 6 h 36 min.