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. 

Xi Force Series, Book 3 Wylde / S. C. Mitchell / 250 pages

When Jonathan Wylde was a child his father experimented on him grafting wolf DNA into his own and treating him like an animal.  When he eventually escaped he made the wild forests his home and joined a wolf pack. Eventually he is captured again and most of his pack killed and Kayla Armstong’s stolen science for self repairing fabric is used on him. Now as the only survivor of that experiment he has super healing powers.  When Joel Weisberg tries to recruit him, he reluctantly becomes a member of the Xi Force super team and keeps to himself unless his talents are needed. Dove Locklear is a childhood friend of Jonathan’s and after being brought into Xi Force to act as a veterinarian to check over Jonathan’s pack, they reconnect.  But returning home from work one night Dove is kidnapped by an agent of Red Guard, the group Jonathan’s monster of a father is a part of, and is also responsible for his new healing powers, and she is whisked away to the secret Russian facility Jonathan was held for most of his formative years. They want her knowledge of her own father’s research as well as to help Mr. Wylde with his unethical research into splicing human and animal DNA.  If Wylde wants to save her he is going to have to go back to his worst nightmare and confront the father who experimented on him. Narrated by: Larry Gorman 7h 12min.

Xi Force Series, Book 2 Phaze / S. C. Mitchell / 254 pages

When Kayla Armstrong stayed late at the Xi Force lab one night working on herself repairing fabric project, she is attacked by an intruder intent on stealing her research to use it on humans.  In the commotion a cart of chemicals spills onto her and when the intruder points his gun at her intending to kill her she suddenly finds herself naked on Joel Weisberg’s bed. She phased through not just the floor of her lab but also her clothes.  Joel Weisberg is the leader of Xi Force a government funded organization created to keep up with advancing science and technology and especially when it has been used on humans to give them abilities. Joel likes to joke about creating his own group of superheroes and trying to find more for his team and he thinks that Kayla would be a perfect new member when she falls into his lap.  However an old enemy that killed Joel and got him brought back as a Z-bot, a human with tiny nanobot machines injected into the blood to heal and repair a person, bringing them back from the dead, affectionately called the zombie bot program until it was discontinued, comes back with new powers. She was suppose to be in prison until she escaped and the things she did to Joel and made Joel do under her control gives him nightmares, and then she kidnaps him and is holding him prisoner again and it’s up to Kayla to try to find and rescue him before he is murdered again.  Narrated by: Larry Gorman 7h 30min.

Xi Force Series, Book 1 Z-Bot / S. C. Mitchell / 254 pages

Chris Johnson never really lived until he was dead. When he decided to get his turn around and stop being such a shut-in with his programmer job and playing video games, he also decides that when he dies he wants to donate his body to science, since he has no family, little money, and few friends. He meet’s Heather Logan signs up to donate his body to her scientific research in the event of his death, he didn’t think he would to murdered less than a week later, he had really want to go out on a date with Heather.  Heather Logan’s newest research is a project she created to use nanobots to reanimate a corpse. Half robot and half something raised from the dead. She had had every intention of calling Chris back and then she finds out that he’s dead and her project brings him back, he is her first successful resuscitation. It was only intended to reanimate and create a living robot with the nanobot controlling him, she had no idea that he would actually come back from the dead and remain the same Chris. Is he truly alive, a machine, or some kind of zombie-hybrid?  And then there are people who want to steal her secret process and take her out of the picture permanently. Chris, with his new superpowers, is the only thing standing between Heather and an assassin's bullet. Narrated by: Larry Gorman 7h 20min.

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.

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.

Kings Series, Book 1 The Vampire King / Heather Killough-Walden / 210 pages

Roman has never lost control of his emotions once in three thousand years or his heart. Everything changes the moment he laid eyes on Evelynne Farrow, the woman who has been haunting his dreams. One of Roman’s enemies has set up their meeting and plans to use it to his advantage, so that he can destroy everything Roman loves and take away his position as Vampire King. Evie Farrow has always loved a good vampire romance. One of the reasons why she makes a living writing them. Evie supports her parents with her income and has to complete a new book soon in order to pay the bills.  But the main character she has been dreaming of for her newest book is being elusive when it usually comes to her so easily But while sitting in a coffee shop and working on her next mega-hot book, Evie is approached by a tall, dark, and handsome man who could have been pulled directly from one of her novels and is the man she has dreamed about. Unbeknownst to her, Roman D'Angelo is exactly what he appears to be-a vampire, and not just any vampire, but the king of vampires.Unfortunately, while Roman is both ancient and invulnerable, Evie is flesh and blood. Narrated by Antony Ferguson 7h 19min.

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. 

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.