I Bring the Fire Series, Book 6 Ragnarok / C. Gockel / 697 pages

Loki vowed that Asgard would burn. Bohdi Patel, the latest incarnation of Chaos, wants nothing to do with Loki's psychotic oath. While he may be the next incarnation of Chaos, he is his own person.  In order to fix Steve so that he would no longer be paralyzed, and to give the Earth and humans on it a fighting chance against Odin and his forces taking over, Amy created a magical virus, she failed to inform people that it was contagious, now humans are developing magical abilities.  On a recon trip to Jotunheim to before a mission to trek through the Icy world and make allies with the ice giants, Amy Lewis, Steve Rogers, Bohdi Patel and an unlikely band of civilians, magical beings, and elite military, suddenly becomes stranded on the icy world. Now Bohdi just wants to keep himself and his friends alive-but when you're Chaos incarnate, even the simplest goals are complicated. If Jotunheim doesn't kill them, Odin will, and if Odin doesn't, the secrets they harbor might. In the final installment of the I Bring the Fire series, Bohdi, Amy, Steve, and their companions learn that Chaos cannot be contained, some secrets cannot be kept, and some vows cannot be broken. Narrated by Barrie Kreinik 21h 1min.

I Bring the Fire Series, Book 5 Warriors / C. Gockel / 380 pages

Bohdi Patel is keeping a huge secret that he learned while on a quest with Amy and Thor to the home of the Norns for some answers, for the Norns can answer any question for a price.  Bohdi Patel is Chaos, aka Loki incarnate,and he’s handling the revelation about that as well as one could expect. He's in a downward spiral losing his lease, totaling his car, and trying to keep everyone he cares about at arm's length to protect them. Veterinarian Amy Lewis is wondering what happened to the funny, flirty, curious Bohdi she knew in the land of the Norns, and had slowly been starting to fall for. He's become moody and sometimes cruel. She is definitely glad that she didn't become romantically entangled with him...  most of the time. When tragedy strikes Amy's beloved mutt Fenrir and Odin strikes Bohdi's best friend, Steve causing him to become paralyzed from the neck down, Amy and Bohdi have to work together again. Amy is angry with Steve after learning that he is the reason his organization took her daughter’s fetus after she miscarried and they are now experimenting on it to gain knowledge on magic and Loki. But she still plans to help Steve and maybe the research from those experiments could help create a cure to fix him. Amy's knowledge of science, Bohdi's talents for theft, and both of their survival skills are put to the test. But more than Steve and Fenrir's lives are at stake. Amy and Bohdi may unlock the key that saves mankind from the gods, Odin in particular or brings about the apocalypse. Narrated by Barrie Kreinik 10h 10min.

I Bring the Fire Series, Book 4 Fates / C. Gockel / 498 pages

Two years ago Loki, god of mischief and chaos, destroyed a large chunk of Chicago's financial district and then vanished into thin air, at least to most of the world that’s what he did.  But Amy knows that when Loki got a hold of the world seed Cera, she took control of Loki and tried to destroy the world, Loki sacrificed himself to stop her and disappeared. He still has not been found. Amy knows that whenever Loki dies he is reborn without any of his memories and that it’s only a matter of time before he comes back, and Amy has to protect what Loki gave her, all of his memories before he sacrificed himself, but she’s missing some of her own memories from the event.  Others are looking for Loki too, Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms, is desperate. To find Loki, he sends his son Thor on a dangerous quest to consult the all-seeing Norns. But Thor needs humanity's help, Loki's former lover, veterinarian Amy Lewis. Hoping to keep Loki from Odin's machinations, she agrees to help Thor on his journey. Bohdi Patel's memory was wiped by Loki's mischief. He thinks that Amy and Thor are both crazy to want anything to do with Loki. But he needs to find his parents, and he's been told that the Norns will answer any question-for a price. Narrated by Barrie Kreinik 14h 59min.

I Bring the Fire Series, Book 3 Chaos / C. Gockel / 322 pages

Third book in the series, Things are heating up in Chicago for Amy Lewis in more ways than one.  More and more portals are opening up letting in all kinds of dangerous and deadly creatures from the nine realms into the city. Amy is still working for DUO the department of Anomalous Devices of Unknown Origin as a secretary for Steve Rogers and as a kind of liaison between them and Loki, acting as a contact person for them.  DUO needs Loki’s help with all the strange things happening but they definitely don’t trust him and some people higher up want to capture and question him despite all he’s done. The weird relationship Amy has with Loki is getting interesting as they become closer. But Loki is still determined to get the World Seed, Cera from underneath DUO’s headquarters and use it to gain power to destroy Asgard and kill Odin for causing the deaths of his two sons, wife and friend, no matter the cost to himself and others. Amy doesn’t trust Cera knowing she has her own vendetta and wants to control Loki.  Narrated by Barrie Kreinik 9h 8min

Heroes of New Vegas Series, Book 5 Night Forbidden / Colleen Gleason / 389 pages

Five men emerge from a cave fifty years after an apocalyptic event.  Now with extraordinary new powers, they must learn how to survive in this new dark, ravaged world. They are determined to help the resistance that is fighting against the immortal Strangers that caused the destruction, and now repress the human race.  The Strangers, once human and the rich elite of society, part of the Cult of Atlantis, worked to cause the destruction of the world in exchange for crystals from Atlantis that give them immortality. The world they knew is in ashes, and what remains is in peril and these five extraordinary survivors are humankind's last, best hope. Bruno "Fence" Washington survived the apocalypse - emerging from a Sedona cave into a strange and terrible new world... 50 years later. Now, scouring for answers about the malevolent Strangers, the former extreme sportsman encounters a woman who calls to his every desire he just has to work through some of the traumas from his past. While try as she might, Ana can't resist the man who tempts her in ways she never knew possible... if she could just trust him with some of the dark secrets from her own past.  But they must work together to face a new evil rising up from the rolling ocean. Narrated by Sebastian Fields 11h 8min.

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

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.

Love and War Series, Book 3 Antibody / R.A. Steffan / 246 pages

Vithii military cyborgs never go rogue, that's the official line that the Regime gives. How could they, when their emotion centers have been ripped out and replaced with tech? Cyborgs do 3 things: follow orders, destroy whatever target you point them at, and walk calmly into vaporization chambers when it's time to be decommissioned. PX-12 known to his friends as Pax, only performed 2 of those functions during his stint in the military. D-8, one of his unit-siblings, performed all 3. So when Pax receives D-8's distress beacon 7 years after Pax saw him destroyed, there is either something wrong with his systems or the Regime is recycling the minds of decommissioned cyborgs, turning them into weapons even more horrific than they were before. To stop it, Pax and the other members of Shadow Wing, the rogue group fighting against the Regime, will need the help of telepathic Vitharan ambassador and part time spy, Nahleene Veila'ana, the woman who once helped Ryder and Temple escape a Vithii Regime controlled prison and whose motivations are questionable. Narrated by Gwendolyn Druyor 7h 48min.

Love and War Series, Book 2 Antigen / R.A. Steffan / 239 pages

Ryder is a member of Hunter Tarthasian’s rogue group of alien Vithii, Shadow Wing,  that fight against the tyranny of the Vithii Regime, and was once a prestigious doctor until she performed an illegal experiment to try to save a patient’s life and had her credentials revoked.  When Skye escaped with the antidote to a deadly bio weapon that could only affect humans, her brother acted as a decoy to throw off the Regime and was captured and is now a political prisoner held by the Regime to try to use against Skye.  Once Ryder and Shadow Wing created the antidote they broke into the water supply plant to put it into the water so they could get it out to everyone on the planet before the Regime could use the Bio weapon. Now Shadow Wing are searching for Temple, Skye’s brother, to get some recon on the Vithii prison he is being held in they send Ryder in under a false identity as a doctor at the prison, but when someone from her past recognizes her, the plan to get Temple out goes up in flames.  Ryder is now also a prisoner along with Temple, and Shadow Wing have to save them both. Narrated by Gwendolyn Druyor 7h 19min

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.

Winter Bonus Points

Bonus points for December-February are:

• Oldies Books written more than 100 years ago
• Books featuring a Scientist Character
• Winter Setting
• Cookbooks