Cynthia Hickey has 59 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 26 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is They Call Her Mrs. Sheriff.
To Breathe Again
Summary
Girls are disappearing from Highland Springs without a trace. Sharlene Camenetti faces her biggest challenge yet as sheriff. There's a new church in town that believes the world is coming to end and they are looking for strong people like Sheriff Camenetti and Deputy Hayes to join them. Shar and Everis enter into a diabolical community and face a formidable foe who will do anything to see his vision fulfilled - absolutely anything.
©2018 Cynthia Hickey (P)2018 Cynthia Hickey
Death by Baking
Summary
When a dead body is found face-down in a vat of chocolate inside Stormi's mother's bakery, what's a nosy neighbor to do other than find a killer? Just when she was rethinking her new writing venture of hunting down crimes in order to write about them, Stormi is thrust into another mystery. Someone wants the shop owners of Oak Meadows, Arkansas, to sell out, and they will kill to make that happen. Stormi is determined to keep her idyllic town the quaint place it is. Her neighbors are not what they seem, evil encroaches ever closer, and the little old woman across the street wants nothing more than to chase Stormi out of town. Full of the same quirky characters that Cynthia Hickey's fans have come to expect, Death by Baking doesn't disappoint in either her humorous whodunit style or in the romance department.
©2015 Cynthia Hickey (P)2019 Cynthia Hickey
Poinsettia Madness
Summary
Right before Christmas, Shelby Hart is visited by the man who ditched her at the altar. It seems he wants the expensive gifts he'd given her to give to his new fiancé. Unfortunately for him, Shelby sold them. When the man shows up dead in a bed of poinsettias, Shelby is thrust reluctantly into a group of women who call themselves the Second Mistress Club. Convinced that one of them killed the philandering man, Shelby sets out to find a killer and gets a Christmas surprise.
©2016 Cynthia Hickey (P)2016 Cynthia Hickey
Chocolate-Covered Crime (Christian Cozy Mystery)
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Summer Meadows' chocolate candy business is booming. She's overwhelmed with her April Fool's Day wedding plans, and against her family's advice, hires her cousin to be her wedding planner. But then her cousin is found murdered and more mysteries keep occurring at family parties. Can Summer resist the urge to investigate when she and her dysfunctional relatives are dipped into a plot of unrequited love, internet scam, and jilted hearts? Could the murderer be related to her and have Summer targeted next? Will her fiance' support her sleuthing antics, or is he another suspect with something to hide?
©2013 Cynthia Hickey (P)2020 Cynthia Hickey
Wife for Hire
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Five friends from college start a private investigator business. What came next was totally unexpected. Saving Sarah Insanity is never far behind. So far, the private investigation business of Wife for Hire has done nothing more than check on cheating spouses and insurance fraud. But, when handsome author Eric Larson hires Sarah Matthews to pose as his fiancé in order to get rid of a stalker, things escalate to a whole new level. Wanting her business to be taken seriously becomes almost more than Sarah bargained for as a clever plan to catch a crazed woman takes a turn for the worse. Can Sarah and Eric stay far enough ahead of a demented stalker long enough to confess their love for each other, or will it be too late for either of them? Lesson for Lacey Wife for Hire Private Investigators is growing. Lacey Strange is more than willing to hire on as the pretend wife to Brad Jennings in order to get his ex-wife to stop trying to prove him an unfit father. Brad needs Lacey to help prove his ex-wife hid his daughter away from him in an attempt to prove negligence when the child disappeared from the park during a visitation with him. Both are determined to keep things strictly business, but when Brad finds out something terrifying about the mother of his children and danger escalates, he and Lacey realize that hearts can't be told to remain professional. Can these two get over past pains and learn the lesson of love while the threat of death hangs over their heads? Mission for Meghan When Meghan Miller finds an unconscious man in the alley, nothing is the same again. Especially when he wakes up with amnesia, and her business card is all he has. With no money and no name, John Davidson, known as John Doe from the moment he opened his eyes, he calls on the beautiful woman who saved his life. When he finds out she's a private investigator, he asks her to help him discover who he is. As bits and pieces of his memory returns, John realizes things are far more dangerous than he could have imagined. The two are thrust into a circle of crime and trafficking. No one in their circle of friends is safe. John and Meghan must infiltrate the dangers of inner city crime at the risk of their lives. Long Way for Lainie The tables have turned. Rather than Lainie Marks accepting a job to hunt down a criminal she finds herself being the one protected from a past evil now wanting her dead. New police officer Seth Wyatt finds the frightened woman running for her life after a traffic accident and teams up with her to stop a madman. Only, Seth isn't sure Lainie can hold it together when she comes face-to-face with the man who wants her dead. Neither wants romance. Both want to focus on their careers. Can these two learn the valuable lesson that life isn't meant to be lived alone, even with the risks of falling in love? Aimed at Amy Amy Oaks is content to sit behind a desk at Wife for Hire and do her investigating on a computer. When a man pursues her for nefarious means, the cozy little world she's created for herself is turned into something unrecognizable - a world she never sought or wanted. Rookie police officer Mark Fields rescues a pretty woman from being hit by a bus. When she says she didn't fall but was pushed, he doesn't believe her, until he finds out she's been receiving threatening notes. Assigned as Amy's protection until the culprit is caught, fresh from Montana, Mark wants only to do a good job and escape the guilt of his past. Neither wants romance, both are looking for something right in front of them. Can Mark keep Amy safe and correct a wrong at the same time?
©2019 Cynthia Hickey (P)2020 Cynthia Hickey
Kodak Kill Shot
Summary
Why can’t she have a party that doesn’t result in a death? With their television crime drama up for an award, Kelly Canyon and her grandmother Ruthie are smack dab in the middle of Hollywood’s social scene. Things were going great until they found a body floating facedown in their pool. As Kelly sets out to solve the crime, and write another best-selling novel in the meantime, she finds herself running for her life one step ahead of the person responsible for her father’s murder when she was a child. She won’t stop now. Not when she was so close to finding the answers she sought. Come along as Kelly and her crazy, but loveable group of cohorts, once again immerse themselves into murder.
©2018 Cynthia Hickey (P)2020 Cynthia Hickey
A Lady Maid's Honor
Summary
Fans of Downtown Abbey will love the first book in this new series.
Siobhan Callahan takes the job as lady's maid to the spoiled Miss Lydia Worthington. Because of past horrors, Siobhan vows to never have a relationship with a man and is determined to focus on her career. Only, she hadn't planned on meeting the kind and handsome handyman, Michael Flanagan.
Michael Flanagan is smitten by the spirited, but wounded, Siobhan, and is determined to break through her wall of defense. They team up together to catch a thief and emotions are unveiled.
Can these two find a love richer than the wealth of their employers?
©2017 Cynthia Hickey (P)2019 Cynthia Hickey
Mountain Redemption: A Christian Historical Romance
Summary
Revenge is not always sweet. Can their love survive a feud between mountain people and the moonshiners who are determined to take away all they hold dear? Phoebe Lillie grows worried when her PA doesn't return after what she thought was a routine hunting trip. Then, the new handsome school teacher arrives in Pine Ridge and starts wanting to make changes with his city ways. She resents his attentions, wanting only to find her PA. When she and the teacher stumble across an illegal whiskey still, they are thrust into a feud that threatens to tear them and the Ozark mountain hollow apart. Then Phoebe is subjected to a horrible attack. Revenge fills her soul. Can God bring her out of her suffocating need for revenge before she loses Jacob's love? Jacob Wright takes the job of school teacher in Pine Ridge after his job in law enforcement results in an innocent woman's untimely death. He's sworn never to draw his gun on another living person. He doesn't expect his new job to put him in the middle of a feud straight out of the Wild West. Jacob must choose between his resolve and the life of the woman he loves. Set during the Depression in the Ozark mountains, this story is sure to please listeners of both historical and romantic suspense. Full of grace, forgiveness, and redemption, it still has plenty of danger for the most avid suspense fan.
©2014 Cynthia Hickey (P)2015 Cynthia Hickey
Love over Par
Summary
Katherine O'Connor is in dire straits and the only thing she can think of to do is apply for a job as a caddy. The only problem is...women aren't yet allowed to play golf in America. She cuts her hair, dons boy clothing and gets the job. She didn't plan on falling for her handsome boss. Once her identity is revealed, complications of her deception seem overwhelming. Bradford Woodward knows something is suspicious about the frail young man in his employ, but since his brother hired the caddy, he'll honor the boy's employment and try to find something the boy knows how to do. When "Kevin" asks to play in a promotional golf tournament, Brad doesn't see the harm in it. What transpires next turns his world upside down and makes him question everything he thought to be real. Can these two repair a relationship formed under false pretenses?
©2017 Cynthia Hickey (P)2019 Cynthia Hickey
A Love for Delicious
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Married less than a week, Delicious (Delly) Williams, watches her new husband die, leaving her to raise his five children under the age of 13. He also left her a deed to property in Oregon. His dying wish: for Delly to get the deed and the children to his brother in order for them to be protected. Zeke Williams wants to marry Delly in order to keep her safe. Another marriage is the last thing Delly wants. Can these two come together and forge a love and a new life in an untamed land?
©2012 Cynthia Hickey (P)2017 Cynthia Hickey
The Portal
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Will Tarin choose comfort or true love? When Tarin Baker's beloved Nana dies, she is left with a letter and a plain wooden box. The letter instructs Tarin to open the box and find true love. Transported back to the year 1888, Tarin wants only to go home. How could her true love possibly be in the middle of nowhere, Texas? Travis Kilroy doesn’t know what to think when a strange woman with strange hair, wearing only a nightgown, shows up on his doorstep in the middle of the night. But when his reputation is threatened, he proposes an idea neither of them is ready for.
©2018 Cynthia Hickey (P)2018 Cynthia Hickey
Charity's Gold Rush
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Can a woman find her worth in something other than gold, and can a man learn that some things are out of his control? Charity O'Connell receives a minimum of five marriage proposals a day from dirty miners and old men. When her pa drowned after being pinned in the creek by a fallen tree, Charity took up laundering to make ends meet. Especially after her gambling father lost every cent he ever made. Then, she receives a marriage proposal from handsome Gabriel Williams after Charity saves his daughter from being trampled, and Charity believes he's the answer to her prayer. Now, she can cook and clean for one man and his two children. No more leering glances or ribald comments. Gabriel Williams admires her spirit and believes she's the answer to his prayer. Gabe and Charity agree to a marriage in name only, although Charity is upset that no man worth his salt wants her for anything more than a bedfellow and when she does find a man she could see herself making a life with, he isn't interested in anything more than someone to watch his children, and he's a gambler to boot. By the beginning of the following spring, if both parties are in agreement, they'll annul the marriage and part ways. Neither expects love to interfere with their plans or for God to intervene with a plan of his own.
©2012 Cynthia Hickey (P)2016 Cynthia Hickey
A Heart of Valor
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First assignment - embezzlement turns to attempted murder... Amber Murdoch's first assignment with Valor Investigations is to investigate the funds disappearing from do-gooder Logan MacKenzie. Things are not what they seem. The more she gets to know the man, the more she's convinced he's innocent. All she has to do now is prove it - a task made difficult by the fact that someone is trying to kill her. When Logan sees sweet, beautiful Amber dressed in leather and riding a Harley, he realizes his receptionist is not who she seems. When they're both targeted, he realizes he's nothing more than a job to her, and the two must work together to get to the bottom of why someone doesn't want him to build his home for the youth. Can these two come face-to-face with their worst fears and come out unscathed, or will greed and murder win?
©2020 Cynthia Hickey (P)2020 Cynthia Hickey
The Rancher's Dilemma: A Story of the 1924 Kilauea Volcano
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On May 12, 1924, a park forest ranger notices rocks out of place near the mouth of the Kilauea Volcano. On Sunday, May 18, the ground splits open - rocks, fire, and ash fill the sky, and those who chose not to evacuate are in a fight for their lives. Lucy Dillow, daughter of the local pastor, enjoys her days of ministering to Hawaii's friendly people and teaching their young in a simple one-room schoolhouse. When the order arrives to evacuate because of the uncertainty of the volcano, she decides to stay behind with her family in case they are needed, and to keep a journal of the volcano's activity. She doesn't expect to butt heads with a handsome rancher over the danger involved. Jack Garrison is ranching land passed down from generation to generation. When the volcano threatens to blow, he refuses to leave his cattle to perish. Instead, he works to save them, herding them as far away from the volcano as possible. Once his livelihood is safe, he turns to helping those who need him; namely the beautiful daughter of a missionary who challenges everything he believes in. This unlikely couple join forces as part of a team to warn the villagers of impending danger and find themselves falling in love despite the odds against them. Can they survive nature's fury and each other's differences in order to forge a future together?
©2015 Cynthia Hickey (P)2015 Cynthia Hickey
The Librarian's Last Chapter
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Marsha Steele is at it again. When she volunteers to help the high school librarian with a book fair, Marsha stumbles across the woman's body and is roped into running the book fair alone. Marsha comes up with the great idea of doing the fair along with a harvest carnival. The main attraction is a haunted tunnel. Little does she know, but evil lurks inside the tunnel that has nothing to do with scary costumes. Join in as once again Marsha and a cast of zany characters try and catch a killer before they become the next victim.
©2015 Cynthia Hickey (P)2020 Cynthia Hickey
The Red Hat Club
Summary
Now in one volume, you can listen to the escapades of unsuspecting beauties as the ladies of the local Red Hat Club decide to wed them off! One by one, the club takes in a "pink" hat as their special project and finds just the right man, whether the lady realizes it or not.
©2016 Cynthia Hickey (P)2020 Cynthia Hickey
Shades of Crimson
Summary
When a serial killer stalks women who resemble each other, a small town detective must find him before he catches her.
After receiving a batch of photographs of missing women and discovering her face imposed on one of the victim's picture, Aislinn MacFarland realizes the serial killings taking place are personally directed toward her. When the FBI steps in, and Agent Andrew Wayne is assigned to protect her, Linn balks, determined to solve the crimes with the help of her partner. When a witness points a finger at Linn's partner as being the killer, Linn and Drew race against time to prove the other detective's innocence and catch the man known as The Photographer before more women are killed. Romance rages, bullets fly, and a madman moves closer to his idea of the perfect woman.
©2013 Cynthia Hickey (P)2018 Cynthia Hickey
Mistaken Assassin
Summary
Marilu wakes one morning to the realization that the man next to her is not her husband. That awareness is the beginning to 10 years of memories returning. One of which leads her to believe she is a paid assassin. As she struggles with the realization of who she is and what she was, she begins a search for her daughter. Things are complicated when she runs into Brad Morrison, the undercover agent who is the brother to the man Marilu had been hired to kill. Together, the two go on the run to prove that all is not as it seems and Marilu is nothing more than a mistaken assassin. Can she let go of her fear and uncertainty to let God's will prevail?
©2014 Cynthia Hickey (P)2015 Cynthia Hickey
Ruth's Redemption
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The Civil War took everything from Ruth Stallings except for her grandmother and sisters. Now without a home or funds, they take the White River as far as it will go and end up in Painted Bluff, Arkansas, a town populated mostly by men out looking for a wife. Sheriff John Powell wants nothing to do with the pretty women or the trouble they bring, especially when a gang of marauders show up looking for Ruth. Can Ruth and John overcome their differences and find love?
©2012 Cynthia Hickey (P)2016 Cynthia Hickey
To Snap a Killer
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Kelly Canyon’s grandmother is finally getting married and has one wish...that no one dies during the reception. Unfortunately, wishes don’t always come true and a top Hollywood agent is murdered. Kelly and her crew are thrust into the midst of a murder that ties very strongly into the death of Kelly’s father years before. From the glitz of Hollywood to the blitz of Las Vegas, Kelly is thrust into a dark danger that threatens to take away everything she holds dear. Will she ever get justice for her father and enjoy a future with Hollywood’s golden boy, Brock Hanson? Or will her thirst for vengeance be everyone’s downfall?
©2019 Cynthia Hickey (P)2020 Cynthia Hickey