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.

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.

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.

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.