Ann-Katrin Byrde has 24 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 263 ratings. The most-rated is Conversations with Friends.
Conversations with Friends
Summary
A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances' friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile her inner life to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances' intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth and the messy edges of female friendship.
©2017 Sally Rooney (P)2017 Random House Audio
Love Bites
Summary
Other parents give their children toys and party games for their birthday. My dad gave me and my siblings wooden stakes and flash grenades. To protect us from vampires. From the moment he adopted us, he warned us about the dangers that lurk in the dark. Obviously, I thought he was crazy. Vampires aren’t real, and I was already enduring enough panic attacks without buying into dad’s insane ideas. But then I met Talon. Talon has fascinating scars and a mouth I want to kiss and a body I want to feel - and fangs. Vampire fangs. Suddenly, the weapons dad gave me start looking real useful. Only I don't want to fight Talon. I want to feel his teeth on my neck. I can't explain it. He makes my knees goes weak. I know it's wrong, but it feels right. It feels like destiny. When Talon bites me, I forget everything, even that he is a monster. Even that I shouldn't be falling for him. Even that his coven wants me dead.
©2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Love Bleeds
Summary
I used to think vampires were the stuff of fiction. Now my brother has a baby with fangs and there's bottles of blood in our fridge, so obviously, I was wrong about that. It's not the only thing I was wrong about, either. I'm a nerd, I'm supposed to be smart, but honestly? I'm starting to realize I can be pretty darn clueless. For one, I never realized that my best friend was in love with me. Not until after he died in a vampire attack. To protect me. His death shattered my whole world. Seeing him again is like a miracle. Even if he has fangs now. Even if he doesn't remember his own past - or me. His new name is Crimson, and he's not who he used to be. I know that, really, I do. But I have to believe that I can remind him of all the memories we shared, all the years we spent together, geeking out over our favorite games and TV-shows. Because when he kisses me, I feel whole again. I don't get it. I've been straight my entire life. But maybe that's just one more thing I was wrong about?
©2020 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2020 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Jake Plus Conner
Summary
Conner Jake was my best friend. My first crush. The love of my life. Until he screwed up. We both did, really. Now I tell everyone that I’m over him. I tell them that it doesn’t matter, because I’m an independent omega, out to change the world. The truth is that I miss him. The bigger truth is that I want to lose myself in him, but I’m afraid to lose myself in the process. Jake I’ve done a lot of stupid things in my life, but breaking up with Conner has got to top the list. I was mad and I was an idiot, and now I regret it all. Now I would give up anything to get him back. Even myself. Conner complains that I’m overprotective. Too alpha. Can’t he see that he’s my other half and if anything happened to him, how could I go on with only half a heart? How do I convince him to give me another chance? I’m a paramedic. Every day, I swoop in like a superhero to help mend broken arms, legs, bodies. Why can’t I mend this broken heart?
©2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Love Lives
Summary
I've never been in love. Never wanted to be, either. Love was always for other people. This vampire doesn't seem to get that, though. No surprise, he's only thinking with his little brain, after all. Again and again, he keeps trying to get into my pants. Again and again, I shoot him down. It's almost like a dance, like a game we play. Until he risks his life to save me and things become too damn real. Until I find myself craving his bite, the feeling of his teeth on my skin. I don't know what to do about these foreign feelings, but I can't ignore them. I don't want to ignore them. Problem is, I've seen him die in my dreams. Now I've got to find a way to change the future, because one thing's for sure: He may be a pain, but he's mine - and I'm not letting go.
©2020 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2020 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Love Heals
Summary
Do vampires deserve love? I should have died, the night I got stabbed. Instead, I was reborn as a vampire. New name, new identity - new master. My sire treated me like his pet. It was rough, at first, but I learned to adapt, learned to please him. Learned to follow every one of my sire's commands. Now he's gone, killed by a pack of mortals. Mortals who seem to think they've rescued me. One of them, Jared, claims that he knew me back when I was mortal too. I'm not the person I used to be, though. Truth be told, after three years with my sire, I'm barely a person at all. But Jared is stubborn. He doesn't seem to care how broken I am, and I can't resist him. He makes me feel things I didn't know I could feel anymore. He makes me want things I shouldn't want. He makes me feel like maybe I have something to live for after all. If only I could break my sire's hold on my mind.
©2020 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2020 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Mating of Convenience
Summary
Money problems? Marry your best friend! Nathan and Raphael were friends first, then lovers, then...nothing when Raphael left to pursue his dreams of becoming a tattoo artist. But only one year after Raphael makes it out of his small-town home, bad news descends on him. His useless father has gotten their family into debt so deep , it would take 1,000 years to dig them out. With his siblings on the brink of becoming homeless, Raphael turns to his estranged but wealthy grandmother for help and receives a deal: If he settles down and marries, he'll free his siblings of the debt. When Raphael asks Nathan for a favor - to enter a marriage of convenience - Nathan agrees. After all, he's doing it so he can start his own pet shop, right? Wrong. Nathan just can't say no to the man who used to be his best friend - the man he's still secretly yearning for, even as he's doing his best to hide that fact. After all, he knows better now than to fall for Raphael again. Haunted by the loss of their past relationship, Raphael regrets breaking Nathan's heart. Scars from the past are never easy to heal, though, and the more time he spends with his new husband, the harder it gets for Raphael to deny the sparks that Nathan ignites in him. Except, this is just a pretend relationship, isn't it? While this audiobook is part of the Oceanport Universe, knowledge of that series is not required to enjoy this story.
©2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Oceanport Omegas
Summary
"The love stories are big in these small town romances." This non-shifter mpreg bundle includes all six books of the Oceanport Omegas series, as well as several bonus scenes to round out your experience of the story. Full of love, babies, puppies, and romance, these stories are guaranteed to leave you with a warm feeling this fall. The Omega's Secret Baby: Single dad Eli doesn't know what to do when his son's other father comes back into town, especially since Matt never knew their summer romance ended in pregnancy. A Baby for the Firefighter: People think there's something wrong with Griff because he's never been with an alpha, but all that might change when firefighter Dean, his best friend and secret childhood crush, returns home and melts his heart. The Omega's Surprise Baby: Widowed alpha and single dad Shane thinks he's had his chance at love - until fallen-from-grace popstar Kade Ashton makes his heart sing again. The Omega's Fake Mate: Nick needs no alpha in his life - except for his best friend, Zander. He needs Zander to fake a relationship with him to infiltrate the cult his twin brother married into and rescue him. Easy, right? The Wedding Planner's Manny: Rhys never thought the alpha he crushed on as a child still remembered him, but when he starts working as his manny, he's quickly proven wrong - and now he's falling for his boss. A Baby for Christmas: Abandoned by his mother at a young age, all omega Robin ever wanted was to have a family of his own - too bad his best friend and first love, Ben, is scared of having children. But when a heat-fueled night of passion leaves Robin pregnant, he might just get his Christmas wish anyway.
©2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Small-Town Secrets
Summary
Everyone has a secret. Laurence has two. The father of his twin boys isn't who everybody thinks it is, but after escaping his abusive ex-husband and spending months in therapy, Laurence is done putting his trust in alphas. He's going to build a new future for himself and his sons, and he's going to do it all by himself. Except that emergency substitute karate teacher instructing his twins? That's the alpha he spent a reckless night with in his youth. His best friend's big brother. His lifelong crush...and the twins' actual father. When Laurence returns to Oceanport visibly scarred, Aaron feels guilty. Maybe if he had admitted to his crush, Laurence wouldn’t have gotten together with the bastard who treated him so badly. But Aaron has always had the hardest time facing his feelings for the younger omega. After all, who sleeps with their baby brother’s best friend? Now that they’re both adults, Aaron wants nothing more than to take care of Laurence and give them another shot, but he can’t shake the feeling that there’s something the omega is hiding from him and the secrets Laurence is keeping might just be bigger than anything he ever imagined possible.
©2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde
A Baby for the Firefighter
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In Oceanport, New England's most gossipy small town, people wonder about Griff. Such a cute omega can't possibly be satisfied without a proper mate they say. Yet he'll be 30 soon and as far as they know he's never been with anyone! The truth is that Griff has given up on finding love...that is until his childhood best friend moves back to town and sets his heart on fire.
When Dean's firefighter career is sidetracked by a tragic accident, returning to his roots to mend seems like a good move. It gives him a chance to breathe, as well as a chance to reconnect with his oldest friend, the omega who stole his heart when they were young. For some reason though, Griff keeps shying away from him, and it takes Dean a lot of patience, and a ton of cupcakes, to lure the sugar-addict out of his shell - and into his arms.
But Dean's memories are still seared by the tragedy that sent him home and Griff is afraid of giving in to his omega instincts. Can they win through their personal walks of fire or is their flame bound to burn out?
©2017 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Mating the Omega
Summary
Omega wolf Jason and his family have been on the run for six years, to keep Jason from being forcefully mated to his pack's cruel Alpha. When a brutal attack leaves his father desperately injured, Jason comes to the conclusion that it's time to call it quits. Terrified as he is to deliver himself into an Alpha's power, he makes a deal to mate with the Alpha of the richest pack in the country, and discovers that he'd rather mate the Alpha's handsome Head of Security. When Mac captures the feral shifter that climbed the walls surrounding the Mercy Hills Pack enclave, he feels for the young shifter's fear, though he knows his Alpha isn't the sort of shifter Jason believes he is. He'd be happy to see the two mated, except that, as time goes by, it becomes more and more difficult to deny his own feelings for the young, damaged Omega. A sudden turn of events sees Mac and Jason mated and expecting, but Jason's old pack isn't done with them yet.
©2016 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2017 Ann-Katrin Byrde
The Wedding Planner's Manny
Summary
When Rhys returned to his hometown, he thought he’d escaped his abusive cultist husband, but shortly after settling back into Oceanport, he discovers he’s pregnant - from his ex. Determined to give his baby a good life and to do it without his ex’s knowledge, Rhys needs a job. Luckily,
his brother’s wedding planner needs a manny. Which sounds perfect, until Rhys shows up for the interview and he realizes his new boss used to be his secret childhood crush.
Ethan spends his life planning everyone else’s happy ever afters - too bad he can’t make that work for his own life. He certainly never planned for his wife to walk out on him, or to end up the single father of two boys, yet somehow that’s where he’s found himself. But if it’s hard on him, it’s worse for his sons. Emotionally wounded, 3-year-old Caleb’s struggled in every daycare Ethan’s tried, and 12-year-old Nathan’s chased off every nanny Ethan’s hired in between. Ethan needs someone special, who can bridge the growing gap between him and the boys and make them whole again.
In Rhys, Ethan finally finds that someone. But as he watches Rhys slowly knit his family back together, he finds himself falling for the courageous young omega. Only, Rhys is still healing himself from his last relationship, and so is Ethan. It looks hopeless. But Rhys is done running, and Ethan has a plan - can they create their own happy ending from the ashes of their past?
©2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde
A Baby for Christmas
Summary
The very best presents are nine months in the making.... When Robin was three, his mother took him to the mall and then disappeared into the crowd of Christmas shoppers, never to be seen again. Growing up in foster care was hard, but finding out that he was omega gave him hope. Someday, he’d have his own family, better than the one that abandoned him. Problem is, he needs a partner. A good one. When his latest boyfriend dumps him - on Christmas Eve! - he ends up at his best friend Ben’s house. Ben used to be a fantastic partner, but he’s got his own demons, so Robin tries to be happy with just his friendship these days. Ben’s always loved Robin, but as the fourth generation in a family that passes down abuse like it’s an heirloom, he’s decided to put an end to the pattern. He plans to never have children, for fear he’ll turn out just like his father, and so he keeps Robin at arm’s length. Until Robin goes into heat and all plans are turned upside down. Robin is pregnant, a Christmas miracle. The start of the family he’s always wanted. But is Ben strong enough to overcome his fear and his family history? And can Robin, abandoned by so many, find the courage to trust Ben to stay? While this audiobook can be listened to separately from the Oceanport series, it takes place in the same location and fans of the series might recognize one or two friendly faces around town.
©2017 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde
The Omega's Surprise Baby
Summary
A haunted omega, a single dad, and the world's sweetest surprise...
Music has always been the first love of singer-songwriter Kade Ashton. And it was that love that gave him the strength to break free from his arranged marriage to make a life for himself amongst the spotlights. He's living his dream, until a media scandal derails his career and leaves him hiding from the very public he used to seek out.
But his dream is still alive, and to get his career back on track, he'll take any job that gets him in front of an audience and helps him pay his bills. Even if it means performing at a wedding in that worst of all terrible places - a small town.
After his husband's death, Shane is convinced he's had his one chance at love and that part of his life is over. He has his kids, and they're enough to keep a single dad on his toes - there's no time or room for dating. Until he's asked to host the singer for his cousin's wedding. First, the sexy omega's music draws him in, then he meets the omega himself. And he realizes that, maybe, love isn't just a one-time thing.
Still, their one night together was supposed to be just that, until a positive pregnancy test brings them back together. Can they find a harmonious middle ground between small-town father and big-city star, or are they doomed to lives that are out of tune with their hearts?
©2017 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde
The Omega's Fake Mate
Summary
He was my best friend, my first love, and now he's my fake boyfriend....
Nick knows omegas are supposed to be meek and obedient, but he must have been standing in the wrong line when those qualities were being handed out. After losing his job again for not keeping his mouth shut, he heads home to small town Maine to hang with family and stuff himself on Thanksgiving turkey.
Or that’s the plan until he wakes up one night, his heart racing with the certainty that his brother is in danger. Nick needs to protect Rhys, but his twin married into a cult that permits no unmated omegas to enter its gated communities. To get inside, Nick needs a mate - a fake one, because he has no interest in a real one. Unfortunately, the only alpha he’d trust with his brother’s safety is also the one he’d most like to avoid - his childhood sweetheart.
Zander’s life is full. By day, he runs his bookstore; by night, he writes steamy romance novels, and he’s happy that way. If only he could stop his parents’ matchmaking, his life would be perfect. Or so he thinks, until his first love approaches him with an impossible favor to ask. And maybe they could both win - Nick rescues his brother, and Zander gets his parents off his back for a while.
It’s supposed to be an easy mission, no feelings involved, but when the lines blur between what’s real and what’s pretend, things start to heat up - between the sheets and otherwise.
©2017 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde
The Omega's Secret Baby
Summary
Eight years ago, Eli gave up his future as a veterinarian because of a blue line on a pregnancy test. Now a single dad to the best little boy in the world, he's working at an animal shelter and trying his hardest to ignore the small town gossip that follows him and his son around. Contrary to popular belief, he does know who the other father is - the irresistible alpha from his youth. But Matt's upper class family doesn't think an omega is good enough for their son, and Eli's not going to expose his kid to that kind of prejudice. Besides, Matt ran off and married someone else, so he couldn't have felt that much for Eli, could he?
After years of trying to make his arranged marriage work, Matt's getting divorced - much to his high society family's dismay and fury. And his relief - something had to change. It does, when he runs into the omega he'd fallen for as a college senior and never quite managed to forget. The moment he lays eyes on Eli, he wants him back, and to hell with what his parents think.
And there's that little boy, Eli's son, who tugs on Matt's heart as hard as Eli does. Could it be...?
©2017 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Duke's Baby Deal
Summary
All his life, Bram’s been told what he would be and what he would do. No one ever gave a thought to what Bram might think he wanted. There was only one career option for an omega - a mating, pups, and looking after the household. But Bram wants more. He wants adventure, excitement, romance, and something different than looking after pups for the rest of his life. He flirts and teases with all the alphas, but the one he wants, he can’t figure out how to get. Until one of his more dangerous suitors goes too far and Bram finds himself in a situation that could ruin him for life. Duke steps in with an offer of a respectable mating, and everything Bram wanted is somehow now within reach. But all gifts come with trials, and both Duke and Bram have difficult paths to tread on the way to happiness. This audiobook can be listened to on its own, but it contains numerous references to characters and events in the first two audiobooks. It would be best listened to in order.
©2016 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Abel's Omega
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Bax is desperate. Recently widowed, he takes his pups and flees his pack to avoid a new mate who wants him - but not his babies. At Mercy Hills, he finds the help he'd hoped for, but also a man who both attracts and unnerves him. He doesn't want another alpha mate, or even any mate, though he knows an omega has to have one. But Abel is unlike any other alpha he's ever met, and the hope that had been crushed out of him begins to grow again in the warmth of Abel's kindness and strength. Bax is a dream come true for Abel - smart, loyal, strong, and loving. Everything Abe's ever looked for in a mate. Except the independent omega has no reason to trust an alpha, and Abel's going to have to work his way through layers of hurt if he wants to convince Bax he's safe opening his heart. But to keep him, he'll have to fight for him.
©2016 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2018 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Mercy Hills Pack - Bundle One
Summary
Come explore the world of Mercy Hills and the lives of the shifters who live among us. Watch as they struggle against oppression and prejudice, yet still find their way to love and happiness and strange new friendships within the walled enclaves that make up their home. This bundle contains the first three books of the epic urban fantasy series, and four never-before-seen bonus stories that explore life both inside and outside the enclaves. Mating the Omega: Jason's been in hiding for years from the rumors that he's a True Omega, until he just can't hide anymore. But in Mercy Hills, he finds an alpha from whom he never needs to hide again. Problem is, it's not the one he came to Mercy Hills to mate. Abel's Omega: Abel would like to find a mate, but a pack’s Alpha with a business on the side has no time for romance. Until a frantic omega with four young pups lands on the pack’s doorstep, desperate for help, and Abel suddenly discovers that he’d only been waiting for the right omega to come along. Duke's Baby Deal: Bram's got a crush on Duke, but none of his usual techniques to make an alpha jealous are working. Duke's got a crush on Bram, but thinks Bram wouldn't be interested in a quiet, boring alpha. Until one full moon when another suitor comes calling, and leaves Bram in a life-shattering mess. Duke steps in to salvage Bram's reputation and be a father to another alpha's pups, but what looks like a sacrifice to both of them in the beginning swiftly becomes a gift that neither could have anticipated. Over 300,000 words of drama, love, danger, and near misses, plus adorable pups and a culture that stretches back centuries. Indulge yourself in the political intrigue and complicated relationships between the different packs, and the dangerous ones with the humans, all in a dystopian urban fantasy setting.
©2017, 2018, 2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2020 Ann-Katrin Byrde
Mercy Hills Pack, Bundle Two
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Continue your epic journey with the shifters of the Mercy Hills Pack! Bundle Two contains books four and five of the series, a spin-off novel, and four never before heard bonus stories! Omega's Alpha: As the omega bond fades, Holland finds himself drawn to the new Alpha of Mercy Hills. Rejected by another alpha for his infertility, he knows he's not a fit mate for the new Alpha. If he could only get that through the thick lug's skull, they could just have a wild affair and enjoy each other. But Alpha Quin isn't so easily convinced to give up. Legally Mated: Shifters and humans don't date. When Garrick shuts down his romantic overtures, Laine comes up with an idea to win the shifter's heart - he's going to get Garrick admitted to the Bar against all prejudice and double-dealing. Except Garrick isn't keeping him at arm's length because Laine is a human but because Garrick isn't who he claims he is. And if that secret got out, his career would be finished. Sanctuary: Ori and Pat have been told all their lives that they can never mate - omegas are for alphas, not betas. The only option is to escape and to make their way across dangerous human territory for the uncertain safety of Mercy Hills. But with Ori pregnant, and their pack hunting them, what should have been a straightforward journey becomes anything but. Over 300,000 words of love, determination, and shifters fighting against a system that seems designed to keep them down. Immerse yourself in this dystopian epic urban fantasy world, as lovers struggle to build their lives together against insurmountable odds, and families come together to fight against prejudice and fear in the hopes of a better world in the future. Includes one bonus story for each of the books and a bonus novelette – the story of Harris the Marine, who finds in a Green Moon Granny the grandmother he’s lost, and in her granddaughter a love to last the ages.
©2018, 2019 Ann-Katrin Byrde (P)2020 Ann-Katrin Byrde