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.

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.