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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.