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.

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.

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.

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. 

Nora Jacobs Series, Part 3 Don’t Bait Me / Jackie May / 332 pages

When Nora was bitten by a werewolf instead of turning into one, the bite broke the glamour that was probably placed on her by her mother when she was young to protect her.  The glamour that made her look human, suppressed her abilities, and hid that she herself was an Underworlder. She wants to lay low figure out her heritage and if she wants to date any of the men in her life.  But hoping for some quiet time was too good to be true when Terence her troll roommate is almost killed when shot with a bunch of arrows outside a grocery store and he wasn’t the only fey attacked in this way. But because Terence and the others are fey and the fey aren’t part of treaty signed by all the other races that formed the Underworlder government, the supernatural government can’t investigate.  So when the Fey come to her because of her reputation for solving cases what choice does she have but to take the case after all she’s a fey too and her friend and the fey don’t have anyone else to go to. Narrated by: Hollie Jackson 7h 53min.

Nora Jacobs Series, Part 2 Don’t Cheat Me / Jackie May / 298 pages

A month after Nora’s dive into the supernatural world of Underworld she’s finally settling in with her roommate Terence , who is a troll (literally not figuratively). She wants to enjoy her new life (and friends) and not attract any more trouble.  But when Terence asks her to help man the bar at his club and garners a lot of interest from the supernatural patrons, Wolf the other bartender offers to train her in self defense so if she’s put in a position where her life is in danger again she can more readily defend herself.  But she’s still skittish of men because of her abilities they become obsessed with her. So instead of training her at his place alone, he offers do it at his brother’s werewolf pack’s gym so it’s in a public place. Somehow pawning the training off onto his brother and talking her into using her abilities to help the pack find out who is betraying the pack and stealing money from the pack’s funds.  While getting involved with werewolf trouble, she can’t shake her old vampire problems, Henry the local vampire leader is practically stalking her and Parker his second his breaking down the walls around her heart and Nora’s succubus friend Cecile is throwing her a coming out party. Narrated by: Hollie Jackson 7h 37 min.

Nora Jacobs Series, Part 1 Don’t Rush Me / Jackie May / 286 pages

Nora Jacobs has some unique psychic abilities she gets visions of the future, can see the past when she touches objects and can read people’s thoughts when they touch her,.  And she is cursed, at least she thinks so, men are charmed by her, to the point of obsession and it’s not something she can control. After her mother was murdered by vampires she knows that there are all kinds of monsters in the world both human and non-human, but she tries to steer clear of all men and the Underworld, she doesn’t date, ever.  Then one day her neighbor’s creepy nephew decides to take his stalking to the next level and to get away she willingly goes to the Underworld and now her powers are no longer a secret and the Underworlders know about her, talk about going out of the frying pan and into the fire. They need her help (willing or not) to find out who has been kidnapping Underworlders.  Narrated by Hollie Jackson 7h 17min.

Dragon Actually / G.A. Aiken / 352 pages

A funny paranormal romance set in a fantasy medieval time period.  Annwyl the bloody, a nickname she got beheading the soldiers of her cruel brother’s army fighting as the leader of the rebellion, though she hates the nickname, tends to cause men to either cower in fear or salute. While fighting alone she gets injured and then saved by the Dragon Fearghus.  He takes her back to his cave to heal and recuperate.  , Fearghus arranges to have a warrior sword train her, the warrior causes her to feel and think of things she has never thought of with a man before, while Fearghus make her feel safe for the first time in her life. She’s falling in love with both of them and Fearghus is keeping a secret; he and all other dragons have the ability to shapeshift into human form.  Narrated by: Hollie Jackson 10h 24m.

Touched by Magic: Dragon Series Part 4, Magic Unbound / Ashley Meira / 256 pages

Fourth book in the Touched by Magic: Dragon series.  Sophia’s greatest fear has come true, and she has been thrown into the Black Citadel, the supernatural prison, for the suspicion of being a Fireborn.   The problem is she’s no longer a Fireborn, she had sacrificed her powers to save Adam’s sister. The good news is now that she’s no longer Fireborn the Council can’t keep her here long they’ll have to release her soon since she has no magic. The bad news is that she needs her powers in order to defeat the evil Fireborn that kidnapped her and her sister when they were children, the one she and Fiona had escaped from eight years ago.  Luckily there might be a way to get her powers back ...hopefully. Narrated by: Beth Nicholls 7h 25m.

Touched by Magic: Dragon Series Part 3, Lost Magic / Ashley Meira / 264 pages

Third book in the Touched by Magic: Dragon series.  Sophia has been taking a lot of time off work lately so that her boyfriend Adam Pierce can train her to use and control her magic but now she has to get back to work because she can’t afford to take anymore days off and dodging the paparazzi, who are a little too interested in her and Adam’s relationship,  is getting annoying. The first client she gets, now back on the job, is for Liam Pierce, Adam’s father, who is an important member of the Council (the same Council that wants all Fireborn dead or in prison.) She wants to say no, working for him might draw too much attention to her and her status as a Fireborn, but she can’t seem to refuse when the pay is so good she wouldn’t have to work for the rest of her life and when it has to do with something from Adam’s past.   Narrated by: Beth Nicholls 7h 38m.

Touched by Magic: Dragon Series, Part 2 Smoke and Magic / Ashley Meira / 316 pages

Second book in the Touched By Magic: Dragon series.  Sophia is used to always hiding her magic but now she is practicing her abilities with Adam Pierce, the most dangerous person she could be involved with because of his family’s Council connections.  He doesn’t know that Sophia is a Fireborn and if he or anyone else found out Sophia would be executed. Adam has been training her to control her magic but now the monster who took her as a child is back and hiding who she is, is the least of her problems.  Two women connected to people who are important to Sophia are murdered and figuring out the murders and learning more about her and her sister’s past are more important than keeping everyone she cares about at a distance. Narrated by Beth Nicholls 8h 47m.

Touched by Magic: Dragon Series, Part 1 Hidden Magic / Ashley Meira / 316 pages

Sophia Sinclair wakes up hanging by her bound wrists and the first thing she notices, beside the prison cell she’s in, is the dark magic she can sense all around her and the brand on her leg. The next is that she has no memories of why she is here, how she got here and worst of all who she is besides her name.  As she escapes with one of the other prisoners who has the same brand, a fairy named Fiona (now her sister in all but blood) that has the same memory problems, they learn that Sophia is a Fireborn someone with the ability to steal others’ magic and use it for themselves. Fireborn are supposed to be power hungry abominations, they are supposed to be addicted to the euphoria and strength gained when other magical beings directed their magic at them, only to have it absorbed with no damage to the Fireborn and the Council of Magic and their Council Inquisitors hunt her kind.  She knows that she isn’t a monster like the Council of Magic would have people believe. Eight years later Sophia and Fiona are living in the magical city of Santa Fae now employees of the Mercenary Guild, they usually move around to keep from notice because of Sophia’s status as a Fireborn but they've become attached to the people and the place. Then Sophia’s boss gives her a job from the most powerfully equipped family representative from the Council, Adam Pierce, to recover a missing magical artifact and Pierce is determined to stick to her like glue as she works. Sophia has to keep him from finding out what she is when he can already sense what almost all other mages can’t, her magic. Narrated by Beth Nicholls 8h 25m.

Legacy of Flames Series, Book 1 Alight / Emma L. Adams / 326 pages

Ember and her sister are two of the last are dragon shifters living in London.  Two years ago the supernatural world kept to the shadows, afraid that normal people would discover them or worse that hunters would find them but then the faeries attacked the mortal realm and the supernaturals were all dragged into the open.  And while being supernatural isn’t a crime due to help they gave to stop the faeries from taking over, they are still hunted down by the supernatural-hunting Orion League. Ember and her band of rogue shifters take odd jobs hunting down criminal faeries while trying to keep a low profile.  But then her sister is taken by the Orion League and Ember is willing to do anything to get her back. Narrated by Henrietta Meire 6h 42m.

Winter Wayne Series, Book 3: Bone Magic / D.N. Hoxa / 303 pages

Third in the Winter Wayne installment.  Winter thought she would never see Julian Walker again after she helped him open a portal to get back home to the fairy world and she thought that people were finally able to look past her fairy features and begin to trust her after killing the Hedge witches that were wreaking havoc for decades among the covens, but she was wrong and she finds Julian half dead on her doorstep.  Julian needs Winters help, there’s a fairy who has destroyed the fairy realm and the fairy courts and his next target is Earth. Julian and Winter must now open a portal back to the fairy world and kill the fairy there before he comes to Earth and destroys it too. Narrated by Elise Arsenault, 9h 43m.

Winter Wayne Series, Book 2: Bone Coven / D.N. Hoxa / 276 pages

Second book in the Winter Wayne series.  Winter opens her own detective agency and has a difficult time coming to terms with being half witch and half fairy when no one in the supernatural community wants to do business with a fairy. But the Green coven is being attacked, children from its’ members are going missing, and the coven is on the brink of collapse. One of the leaders hires Winter to find the missing children and prevent his own daughter from becoming the next victim.  But Winter can’t help but think it's strange that the same thing happened to the bone coven a decade ago, which caused it's collapse, this couldn't be a coincidence. Narrated by Elise Arsenault 8h 55m.

Winter Wayne Series Book 1: Bone Witch / D.N. Hoxa / 258 pages

Winter Wayne is a bone witch with no magic and used to work for a fix-it company that does everything from bounties, deliveries, finding lost items, etc no job is too small, until a job gone wrong causes her boss to fire her.  With no prospects she takes a delivery job that was supposed to be easy and clean. Now there’s a bounty on her head and her old coworkers and other supernaturals are hunting her down and her fighting skills alone won’t get her through this alive. She needs to dig up her mother’s bones and complete the ritual...that she promised her mother she would never do but she prepared her for if worse would ever happen and she would need to, that would ignite her magic. Narrated by Elise Arsenault, 8h 39m.