Xi Force series, Book 4 Triptych / S. C. Mitchell / 262 pages

Fourth book in the Xi Force series.  Maggie O'Donnell dreamed of becoming an astronaut, and instead she ends up flying the Xi Force super jet shuttling their superheroes around when needed. But when her grandmother passes away and she inherits the powers of the Irish goddess Morrigan from her, she is able to split herself in three to become the three aspects of Morrigan, the healer, the warrior, and the sorceress.  But she also inherited her ancestor’s enemy. Whenever the power is passed on the prison holding The Fae Queen Genevieve weakens and she can escape to cause havoc. As Maggie steps into an even bigger role with the super team Xi Force she also has to deal with her family’s ancient enemy who's out to destroy her and anyone close to her. Paul Tompkins is leader of Pike's rangers, the Xi Force support team. He’s required to keep Maggie in the friend zone because of his job, but her new position in Xi Force suddenly changes everything now that she’s a civilian contract and not part of the rangers. If all that’s isn’t enough when an earthquake causes cracks and crevices in the Xi Force base’s foundation it reveals that there’s some weird spaceship with aliens inside under the base. Narrated by Larry Gorman 7h 20min.

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.

Guild Codex: Spellbound Series, Book 5 The Alchemist And An Amaretto / Annette Marie/ 296 pages

As a guild bartender, Tori can handle pretty much anything thrown her way, mages, sorcerers, druids, witches, the occasional demon. But anything family-related and she’d rather run for the hills. So why on earth did she agree to spend the holiday with her three best guy friends Aaron, Ezra, and Kai at Aaron family’s home, which is a giant castle that is also a school.  Meeting his famous parents is already terrifying enough, but there are bigger problems. Students of Aaron’s family's renowned mage academy are being attacked on the grounds and somehow no one has seen a single assailant. Unexplained tracks litter the nearby woods, rumors of forbidden alchemy are circulating the campus, Ezra has been acting strangely since they arrived, and Aaron is falling back into his old way surrounded by the upper class elite at the school.  Something deadly is brewing in the shadow of Sinclair Academy, and the longer Tori and her friends take to uncover it, the more dangerous it becomes. But no matter the risk, they’re determined to protect the students. And Aaron's parents too, If they have to. Narrated by Cris Dukehart 6h 55min.

Hopeless Series, Book 1 Hopeless Magic / A. K. Koonce / 161 pages

Zakara is thief and on one job where she breaks into a tower she finds more than what she was looking for and  when a fight breaks out she gets hurt badly but ends up saving three men that were locked inside the tower. Her first instinct is to ditch them as soon as possible, after all to survive she needs to look out for number one, herself, but they have the one thing that intrigues her more than wealth, and that’s magic. After the decline of technology, Fae magic ruled the world, until the Fae withdrew and it disappeared without a trace. Now only myths of the magic wielders linger in their destroyed society. The three prisoners she saved claim to be Fae, but she doesn't trust them. She doesn't trust anyone. Can Prince Ryder convince the pretty thief to lead them to the Hopeless City where the Fae supposedly reside? Or will she kill or ditch him and his companions before they even arrive? Narrated by Dara Rosenberg 3h 5min.

The Isle of Destiny Series, Book 3 Spear Song / Tricia O'Malley / 216 pages

Book three in the Isle of Destiny Series, Gwenith Donovan owns a hobby store called This and That, carries on one sided conversations with her chubby cat, and maintains a huge comic book collection to fuel her geeky obsession.  For all that she lived a normal routine life, everything changes when she discovers her own superpower, she can use magic.  Lochlain Laird is a high sorcerer of the light Fae and has broken one of the highest rules of the light Fae.  He broke into the Goddess Danu’s cave and stole a vial of her sacred blood in order to heal his dying mother, he returned it before anyone could figure out who he used it on knowing the Fae would also punish his mother if they knew, but to break into the cave or even touch the sacred vial is a death sentence.  However Danu punishes him by making him the next Seeker’s Protector.  Feeling that the task is beneath him and knowing that after this duty is accomplished he will still possibly face a death sentence, Loch remains withdrawn and surly during Gwenith’s quest to find the Spear and break a centuries old curse before the dark Fae can stop them.  Narrated by Amy Landon 5h 14min

The Isle of Destiny Series, Book 2 Sword Song / Tricia O'Malley / 253 pages

Book two in the Isle of Destiny Series, Sasha Flanagan has lived her life obsessed with swords, so much so that she became a collector and dealer of antique blades and an expert swordswoman.  But then she finds out that she is a Seeker for the next magical item in an ancient quest.  She has to find a mythological sword before a centuries old curse is complete and before the dark Fae can find it. She is accompanied by a rag-tag team and her Protector Declan who has grown up with her shadowed and silently watched over her since her childhood.  Narrated by Amy Landon 5h 31min.

The Isle of Destiny Series, Book 1 Stone Song / Tricia O'Malley / 296 pages

Clare MacBride has her life exactly in the order she wants it, in a year, she'll have finished her geology dissertation. But she is no closer to figuring out the answer to one question that plagues her and the reason why she went into geology, why can she feel stones pulse with energy? She’s never told anyone about her abilities, after all it sounds crazy in their science and technology driven age.  But one night when coming home from work she is attacked by a strange man with silver eyes who turns out to be a Fae only to be saved by another man who calls himself her Protector. She finds out about a centuries-old curse, a mysterious faction of protectors, and a mythological godstone, and that she is a Seeker which all sounds like old world fairy-tale nonsense to her. But she realizes that this is all real, her life plans are shattered and she is forced to throw everything she knows about the world out the window and go on a quest to find this godstone otherwise the dark Fae will be released and Ireland will be doomed. Narrated by Amy Landon 7h 2min.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Series, Part 3 The Defiant Magician / Sarah Noffke & Michael Anderle / 322 pages

Liv Beaufont is a Warrior of the House of Seven, charged with bringing justice, set by magicians in the magical society and imposed upon on all magical creatures.  Where the other Warriors do as they are told by the Seven Councilors Liv is more set about doing what is right instead of what is easy. The Council used to send her on wild-goose chases for stupid cases just to keep her busy, but now they are sending her on more and more dangerous cases and she and her brother Clark, one of the Seven Councilors, think that someone on the Council is trying to get rid of her as she works with her brother secretly so they don’t target him too, to find out more about the mysterious deaths of their parents, brother, and sister.  Liv is determined to prove that she’s a capable and strong Warrior and try to decode the mysterious message left to her and Clark by their sister as well as the ancient language of the Founders and the mysterious hidden door in the Library of the House of Seven. Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg 6 h 55 min.

Unstoppable Liv Beaufont Series, Part 2 The Uncooperative Warrior / Sarah Noffke & Michael Anderle / 302 pages

Oliva "Liv" Beaufont has been getting used to her new position as Warrior of one of the Seven as well as having her magic unlocked.  The Council has been assigning her stupid cases to keep her busy and out of the way. However she’s been working her own cases trying to find out more about her parents, older brother, and sister’s deaths and the secrets that are going on inside the House of Seven.  Her friend, the giant who has been helping her train her magic, asks her for help recovering his grandfather’s sword which is in a public museum guarded by magic wards that make it so he can’t take it. She gets a lead on the magic container she found during a case and then someone stole from the House of Seven, and she thinks it was someone from the House. Liv makes friends with a bunch of Brownies that like to clean places, her boss human John at her electronic repair shop job is getting suspicious of her activities and Liv strikes up an unlikely partnership with an annoying Elf.  Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg 6 h 36 min.