War of the Damned Series, Book 1 Resurrection Of The Damned / Michael Todd & Michael Anderle / 230 pages

Three months ago, there was a demon invasion. Due to that, old rules are thrown aside as the world figures out just who the enemy really is. A mercenary named Katie is trying to take a much-needed vacation in Los Angeles but  unfortunately, both friends and foes want her in the worst possible way. While trying to enjoy her vacation she is kidnapped, has to help deal with a demon incursion, and exorcises a ghost at the hotel she’s staying at. The government wants Katie either to experiment or dissect to figure out why she is stronger than all the other damned.  Damned are humans possessed by a demon, this gives them abilities to fight and send other demons back to hell. Then the leader of the demons that caused the demon invasion also wants Katie for what, Katie doesn’t know.. Katie's Killers a mercenary group of damned that fight the demons are facing a new reality, one where they are needed more than ever now that the world's eyes have been uncovered. Narrated by Emily Beresford 5h 41min. 

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.

Sensor Series, Book 5 Darkness Shatters / Susan Illene / 430 pages

Fifth book in the Sensor series, set in Fairbanks Alaska.  Melena has watched a lot of her friends die recently and she blames herself for not being able to act quick enough.  So when a deadly illness that only targets supernaturals mysteriously appears, she is determined to stop it and find a cure or vaccine for it, especially when people she knows and cares about, like her troll friend and her foster daughter’s boyfriend catch it.  But it appears it may be more complicated than she thought. Her father and his sensor group of terrorists may be responsible for creating this strain of the plague that has demon magic in it that weakens supernaturals causing them to contract the disease. If that’s not enough Melena has to watch her boyfriend, Lucas suffer as he searches endlessly for his missing brother, Micah when she has been sworn to silence by a vow not to talk about his location.  Micah’s helping the angel Ariel set up plans to break out the half Nephilim and half sensor supernaturals that were taken by the angels when they were born and placed in purgatory. Narrated by: Cris Dukehart 9h 29 min.

Sensor Series, Book 4 Darkness Clashes / Susan Illene / 400 pages

Melena is getting used to her new life living with supernaturals in Alaska, but tensions among supernatural factions in Fairbanks are growing it’s like a powder keg waiting to go off after the city's recent attacks. And soon she might have to pick a side with the tension between Nik the vampire leader or Derrick the werewolf that was Nik’s second growing but it’s not just the werewolves that are siding with Derrick it’s many others groups of supernaturals that have become unhappy with Nik’s rein. And while all this trouble is brewing Lucas, her Nephilim (half angel) lover needs her help to search for his missing brother, who isn’t actually missing and has made Melena swear a vow of silence so that he and some of the people he is working with can work on some big plan they have to help the half Nephilim  offspring that are held in purgatory by the angels get free. Then there are the agents from the Department of Homeland Security that are lurking about investigating the suspicious "earthquake" that hit their region four months ago with an old colleague from her army days sniffing around and supernaturals going missing. But troubles in Fairbanks aren't Melena's only problem. Nik needs to send someone from his group down to represent him in New Orleans because there is a greater supernatural plot developing, and only by attending an upcoming ball there can she discover more and Nik doesn’t know who else he can trust with the unrest that’s going on in Fairbanks but needs to look strong to other territories. It's definitely not the best time for Melena to be planning a trip out of town. Narrated by Cris Dukehart 9h 5min.

Sensor Series, Book 3.5 Playing With Darkness / Susan Illene / 58 pages

Melena has finally got her man back.  When there was an explosion at the Fae city awhile back it was a distraction to steal a Fae artifact that could create portals to purgatory (the place that Lucas was being held prisoner by angels for breaking the law to save her life ) and when Mel stole it from the original thieves to give it back to the Fae, she decided she might as well take a side trip to purgatory to get Lucas back before giving it to them.  Now it’s been awhile and Mel has been punished by the angels, she has to rehabilitate the Guardian Kerbasi that once ran one of the prisons in purgatory by teaching him humanity after the angels find out about his torturous methods of dealing with prisoners. Mel can’t be more than a half mile from the man which is causing Lucas to avoid her and he also has to look for his missing brother. When her shapeshifting Fae cat (a special type of cat that can change into any breed of cat, wild or domestic) gets sick she decides it’s the perfect time to go to the Fae city and give them back their artifact since she has to go there anyway to visit the vet to take care of her cat and she has to take the Guardian with her.

Sensor Series, Book 3 Darkness Divides / Susan Illene / 452 pages

Melena’s life seems to be one non-stop violent roller coaster since she came to Fairbanks, Alaska.  The supernaturals in town are finally starting to tolerate her and the angels are shielding her from enemies that want her dead as she transitions into becoming immortal after Lucas makes a deal with the angels to feed her more of his blood to make her immortal in return for a sixty year sentence in purgatory.  But Melena will find a way to get her man out of purgatory, and the angels be damned if the get in her way. Only before she can a magical explosion in the Fae city in Canada causes untold damage in Fairbanks as well as the surrounding areas. Mel’s teenage charge is hurt and recovering afterward and the Fae need Mel’s help to figure out who caused the explosion before anything else happens.  Mel and the supernatural’s know it had to be a Sensor but they couldn’t have gotten into the Fae city without supernatural help. Mel suspects that the first explosion is just the beginning. Narrated by: Cris Dukehart 11h 51min.

Sensor Series, Book 2.5 Chained By Darkness/ Susan Illene / 219 pages

Lucas, is an immortal Nephilim, half angel and half human, the longer a person lives the more their actions from the past can come back to haunt them in the future.  When Sensors and Angels instigated a war against supernaturals, Lucas killed hundreds and thousands of humans and Sensors to protect supernaturals and finally ended the war by killing the Sensor leader.  But in doing so he was punished by the Angels for his crimes, they would assign him as protection duty to young Sensors to keep them alive until their natural death, because supernaturals were still trying to hunt them down for the war.  He has done this for centuries avoiding close relationships that could make his life more difficult until he met Melena. He admired her for her survivor attitude and after watching over her for so long their relationship began to change but when she almost dies to heal her he breaks one of the greatest laws set by angels, to never give humans Nephilim blood.  Now the angels have taken him to purgatory to await trial for his punishment or execution, and meanwhile Mel’s has enemies that might try to come after her while he is gone and can’t protect. He'll do whatever he has to to protect her.Narrated by: Cris Dukehart 4h 33min.

Sensor Series, Book 2 Darkness Taunts / Susan Illene / 437 pages

Second book in the Sensor series.  Melena used to avoid supernaturals and hide who she was like the plague. Because if supernaturals found out that she was a Sensor, someone immune to magic and could sense the supernaturals around her they would kill her because of the war between her people with the angels help against supernaturals, that did not end well for Sensors.  But now her secret is out, she had gone to Alaska to save her friend and to do so ended up having to save Nicholas, a vampire under a sleep spell for 5 years and help him put down a rebellion that a witch had caused to take over his region. She hasn’t been allowed to leave Fairbanks since and is now living in one of the vampire, Nicholas's homes with her teenage charge that she took in when she found out the girl was a Sensor too. Now Lucas, the half angel Nephilim, and her nemesis has come to call in the favor she owes him. Lucas needs Mel’s help to take care of a demon possession outbreak in another town nearby.  In the past Mel always hated Lucas, for killing her guardian, he was always there threatening to kill her one moment and then saving her from life and death situations the next. But after learning he was protecting her from her guardian selling her to supernaturals the dynamics of their relationship begin to change. She always felt that there was some deep connection between them and working so close to Lucas on the Demon outbreak is causing her to feel things for him she would have never admitted to in the past. Narrated by: Cris Dukehart 9h 59min.

Sensor Series, Book 1 Darkness Haunts / Susan Illene / 387 pages

Melena Sanders is a Sensor, someone with the ability to sense supernaturals and who is immune to magic.  Sensors have all but been wiped out by supernaturals hunting them to almost extinction. Sensors used to hunt them down and kill supernaturals that preyed on normal humans until they were wiped out, and  just because she’s immune to magic doesn’t mean they can’t hurt her, in other more physical ways. Which is why After her parents and then guardian died she joined the U.S. army better to be on the move and the free self defense lessons weren’t bad either.  But when she was discharged, she settled down in the same city as her childhood friends. And things were good until one of her friends goes missing on her trip to Fairbanks, Alaska which is a supernatural haven. Melena is willing to go deep into supernatural territory and risk her secret getting out just to get her friend back.  Narrated by: Cris Dukehart 9h 2min.