Showing posts with label First in Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First in Series. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Accidental Traveler Series, Book 1 Accidental Thief / Jamie Davis / 310 pages

Hal Dix was stuck in an unlucky life. His wife is a successful executive while his IT help desk job leads nowhere. His supervisor is a rude bully and he has applied for management training 12 times already,  maybe this time will be lucky number 13. Even his daughter's daycare teacher thinks he's a loser. Hal can't catch a break. But when he checks out the flea market by his work for any new or interesting games he comes across a strange woman who sells Hal a bootleg release of a highly anticipated game. It is just what he wished for and he can't wait to play it during his long weekend home alone. Has his luck finally turned around? Hal should be careful what he wishes for, when instead of playing a relaxing game at his computer desk in the comfort of his own home, he gets sent to the the game world of Fantasma, is this real or just a dream?  Narrated by Roberto Scarlato 9h 9min.  

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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. 

Friday, January 24, 2020

I Bring the Fire Series, Part 1 Wolves / C. Gockel / 254 pages

Driving across america from California to Chicago, Amy Lewis is on her way to her grandma's house for her summer break from college and she's being chased by a very bad predator. Galaxies away Loki, is waking up in a prison cell, strangely without a hangover, and with no idea what he's done wrong-this time, anyway. Thor is hiding something, Odin is up to something wicked, and there seems to be something that he's forgotten.  It seems that Thor has broken his oath to Loki to protect his sons and Odin is determined to execute them for “treason” against the throne. In the process of breaking out of prison and trying to save his sons Loki falls through a portal to Earth and ends up saving Amy. Now Loki and Amy must join forces to outwit gods, elves, magic sniffing cats, nosy neighbors if Amy can convince him not to be too distracted by Earthly gadgets, Earthly pleasures, or three-day benders, they just might pull it off. Narrated by Barrie Kreinik 7h 25min.

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.

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Divine Dungeon Series, Book 1 Dungeon Born / Dakota Krout / pages

For eons, conquering dungeons has been the most efficient way to become a strong adventurer. Although, not everything is as straightforward as it seems. Several questions have always plagued the minds of those that enter these mythical places of power: Why are there so many monsters? Where do the amazing weaponry and heavy gold coins come from? Why does the very air fill with life-giving energies?! Cal has all of the answers to these age-old questions, for a very simple reason. He is a Dungeon Core, a human soul forced against his will into a magical stone after Necromancers sacrifice him.  After several lonely years, Cal was able to regain sentience, allowing him to form new memories while slowly growing a dungeon around himself. With help from a friend, Dani a willow-the-wisp Cal learns how to create monsters and traps, increasing his power and size quickly. But when a threat to his existence rears its head, Cal decides that he will do anything to stay alive and become stronger. Unfortunately for treasure-seekers and adventurers, the fastest way for Cal to achieve his goal . . . is to eat anyone that enters his depths. Dale was a sheepherder when he stumbled on the dungeon in the mountains, and he knows how valuable the land on which it sits will be.  Before anyone finds out about it he buys the land rights to the entire mountain and then submits the new dungeon location to the guild. His trials to becoming stronger and richer have only just begun if only he can survive the dungeon that seems to be trying to kill him. Narrated by Vikas Adam 12h 33min.

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Heroes of New Vegas Series, Book 1 Beyond the Night / Colleen Gleason / 324 pages


Everything they knew and loved was gone.  Five men emerge from a cave to find the world that they knew is gone, they have extraordinary new powers, and they must learn and survive in this new world.  When Dr. Elliot Drake and his friends went on an expedition in a system of caves, he and his companions did not expect to awake from a sleep and emerge fifty years later. Cities are now desolate - lacking technology and infrastructure, civilization is controlled by deadly immortals called the Strangers, and there are zombie like creatures that roam stealing blond people for the Strangers and tearing all others apart.  Elliott has an extraordinary new gift, he has the power to heal, but it comes with fatal consequences, although he can take the injury away from a patient by touching them if he doesn’t touch another person or animal and pass the injury onto them, then he takes on the injury himself, only more fatal.  Jade Kapiza was imprisoned by the immortals for years and escaped and has now been in hiding for years.  She is determined to help the human race fight back against her old captors but doesn’t trust anyone…. Until she meets Elliott.  Narrated by Sebastian Fields 10h 33min

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

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.

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Love and War Series, Book 1 Antidote / R.A. Steffan / 256 pages

Skye Chantrell has just escaped from a war zone and crash landed on a remote lunar outpost and her survival depends on a dangerous alien Vithii fugitive, Hunter Tarthasian.  Skye’s father was forced by the Regime to create a deadly bio weapon that targets humans but he also created an antidote to it, stole it, and died helping her escape. Now she has to get back to the capital before the bio weapon that targets humans is released and she has to figure out if she can trust Hunter and his rogue group of alien Vithii.   Narrated by Gwendolyn Druyor 7h 40min.

Ice Planet Barbarians Series, Book 1 Ice Planet Barbarians / Ruby Dixon / 188 pages

Kidnapped from Earth by aliens Georgie and a bunch of other women are kept prisoner on their ship to become sex slaves but when things go wrong for their captors the alien traffickers dump their ‘cargo,’ the women on an ice planet until they can come back for them. Georgie decides they can’t stay in the cargo container, the aliens only need the six women they have in cryo stasis to meet their deadlines and she and the rest of the women were just extras,  if they wait they’re likely to die from the aliens when they come back, the cold, or starvation. While the other women stay in the cargo hold, Georgie explores the ice planet looking for natives that might help her and the other women and finds Vektal an alien, he’s humanoid, blue, has horns, and his tribe is in desperate need of females. Vektal and his people mate for life when they meet the ‘one,’ and now Vektal has met his and she is strange and pale.  Two points of view in the book by Georgie and by Vektal. Narrated by Hollie Jackson & Mason Lloyd 5h 51min.

Lords of Kassis Series, Book 1 River's Run / S. E. Smith / 216 pages

River Knight works for a traveling circus and decides to take a much needed vacation to see her two best friends who are like her sisters.  But right when she’s getting there she sees her sisters being kidnapped by aliens, so she sneaks onto their spaceship and stows away until she can break her sister out and try to find away back home.  In the process she comes across another group of aliens also held captive. And she makes a deal with them if she and her sisters help them escape and take over the ship they will help her and her sister to get home.  But taking River home is the last thing on Torak Ja Kel Coradon, leader of the House of Kassis and the next ruler of the Kassis galaxy, mind. He believes that the three women are believed to be the prophesied warriors sent to join forces to bring peace to the House of Kassis, and he wants to keep River all to himself.  Narrated by Samantha Cook 47h 53min

Saturday, November 30, 2019

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.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Xi Force Series, Book 1 Z-Bot / S. C. Mitchell / 254 pages

Chris Johnson never really lived until he was dead. When he decided to get his turn around and stop being such a shut-in with his programmer job and playing video games, he also decides that when he dies he wants to donate his body to science, since he has no family, little money, and few friends. He meet’s Heather Logan signs up to donate his body to her scientific research in the event of his death, he didn’t think he would to murdered less than a week later, he had really want to go out on a date with Heather.  Heather Logan’s newest research is a project she created to use nanobots to reanimate a corpse. Half robot and half something raised from the dead. She had had every intention of calling Chris back and then she finds out that he’s dead and her project brings him back, he is her first successful resuscitation. It was only intended to reanimate and create a living robot with the nanobot controlling him, she had no idea that he would actually come back from the dead and remain the same Chris. Is he truly alive, a machine, or some kind of zombie-hybrid?  And then there are people who want to steal her secret process and take her out of the picture permanently. Chris, with his new superpowers, is the only thing standing between Heather and an assassin's bullet. Narrated by: Larry Gorman 7h 20min.

Thursday, November 21, 2019

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.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

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.