Dale Mayer has 102 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 21 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.9★ across 23 ratings. The most-rated is Arsenic in the Azaleas.
Brandon's Bliss (A SEALs of Honor World Novel)
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Brandon, the newest member of Levi’s team at Legendary Securities, heads to Africa. Bullard purchased a new holding there, but, shortly after arriving, went missing. Kasha has worked for Bullard for five years. She's familiar with most of those who work for Legendary as well. Brandon proves his worth almost immediately, planning her boss’s rescue and staying right by her side in the days that follow while they determine what imbroglio Bullard's stepped into. Accident or a deal gone horribly wrong, it seems Bullard was running guns and now his newest holding is under attack. Their emotions, heightened by danger, run hot as Brandon positions himself instinctively at Kasha’s side - which is exactly where he hopes to be permanently if they can just find a way out of this rapidly escalating mess.
©2018 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Dezi's Diamond (A SEALs of Honor World Novel)
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When opposites attract...anything can happen.... Dezi was a plain-and-simple type of guy. He loved working for Levi’s company and had enjoyed the jobs he’d been given so far. When a businesswoman contacted Ice over, well, ice...things got interesting. Diamond was an exclusive jewelry designer, born and raised in the industry, working within her father’s diamond company. When a custom-designed item was checked before shipment, she realized the piece wasn’t her workmanship. Somehow someone had forged her work and had slipped it in the shipment as a replacement. However, the theft and forgery quickly escalate to kidnapping and armed robbery. Dezi and Diamond need to figure this out fast, before something else gets added to the list: Murder.
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Tanner
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Tanner Kosta is the newest member of the team. Active in sports, particularly aerial types, he's training with a new military harness used in paragliding. The design was developed by Wynn Rider and her brother. As they run two SEAL teams through rigid training, Wynn’s glider fails mid-flight, sending her plummeting toward the ground. Only Tanner's quick thinking saves her life - though it doesn't save her from losing her job. Wynn used to compete professionally in the cutthroat paragliding industry before she walked away from it, but this accident is by far the worst she's ever had. Separating her gratitude from the growing attraction is nearly impossible. Tanner has heard the old adage that saving a life makes you responsible for it. Having admired Wynn's career when she was a professional paraglider, he's more than a little interested in keeping a close eye on the fascinating lovely who almost literally fell in his lap. When Wynn realizes her equipment had been sabotaged, she’s worried her past has come back to haunt her. Tanner may be the only one who can help her against someone who's determined to put her and her brother out of business...permanently.
©2018 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Killer in the Kiwis
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Riches to rags...Chaos again...Winning is important, at least for some! Doreen is overwhelmed with joy when she sees all the volunteers who show up to help get her deck addition built. Most of the men are cops, friends of Corporal Mack Moreau’s, and are happy to help Mack’s special friend and the lady who has helped solve so many crimes for them with a spot of home renovation. But before the deck improvement can be finished, duty calls, and the cops are called away on a case. Another gray-haired lady has dropped dead. Yet another heart attack victim is added to the long line of previous ones. And, of course, neither of these recently deceased women had a heart condition that would explain their sudden demise. With her animals at her side, Doreen is determined to figure out what the ladies had in common, plus why and how kiwis keep popping up in this case. As she digs into the ladies’ lives, the things Doreen discover are shocking, but not as shocking as the answer is to this riddle. Lovely Lethal Gardens Series Arsenic in the Azaleas Bones in the Begonias Corpse in the Carnations Daggers in the Dahlias Evidence in the Echinacea Footprints in the Ferns Gun in the Gardenias Handcuffs in the Heather Icepick in the Ivy Jewels in the Juniper Killer in the Kiwis
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2020 Beverly Dale Mayer
Bones in the Begonias
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Riches to rags.... Chaos continues.... Murders abound.... Honestly? Doreen Montgomery’s new life in Kelowna was supposed to be a fresh start after a nasty split from her husband of 14 years, plus a chance to get her bearings and her life back on track. Instead her first week in her new hometown was spent digging up dead bodies, chasing clues, and getting in Corporal Mack Moreau’s way. But now that the old cold case has been solved, and the murderer brought to justice, Doreen believes things might go her way this week. When Mack hires her to whip his mother’s garden into shape, it seems like a second chance, both for Doreen’s new beginning in Kelowna and for her budding relationship with Mack. But, instead of digging up Mrs. Moreau’s struggling begonias and planting them in a better location, Doreen discovers another set of bones...and another mystery to solve. As the clues pile up, Mack makes it abundantly clear that he doesn’t want or need her help, but Doreen can’t resist the lure of another whodunit. As she and Mack butt heads and chase red herrings, Doreen’s grandmother, Nan, sets odds and places bets on who solves the crime first. All while a murderer is watching.... Lovely Lethal Gardens Series: Arsenic in the Azaleas Bones in the Begonias Corpse in the Carnations Daggers in the Dahlias Evidence in the Echinacea Footprints in the Ferns Gun in the Gardenias Handcuffs in the Heather
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Footprints in the Ferns
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A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomery - and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrot - as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna, British Columbia. Riches to rags...controlling to chaos...but murder...not this time! One night 10 years ago, eight-year-old Crystal, vanished from her bed in her parents’ house, the only clue a footprint in the flowerbed below the girl’s window. Now that footprint’s reappeared, this time at the scene of another crime, and Doreen is under strict orders not to stick her nose into Corporal Mack Moreau’s new investigation. But while Mack is busy with the new case, Doreen figures it can’t hurt if she just takes a quick look at the old one. Her house is empty, her antiques removed, and she has time on her hands. She’s finished working on Penny’s garden and needs a new project to keep her busy - and allow her to avoid the heavy work waiting in her own garden. And with the help of her assistants, Thaddeus the parrot, Goliath the Maine Coon, and Mugs the Basset, soon Doreen is busy navigating the world of pawn shops and blackmail as she looks for clues as to what happened to the girl stolen from her bedroom so many years ago. Surely, it’s not her fault when her case butts up against the new one - is it?
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Stone's Surrender
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Stone is finally living his life again after a long, slow recovery. Working at Levi's new company, Legendary Securities, he takes his first job, not expecting the fast-and-furious action to hit straight out of the gate in the rescue of a senator's daughter kidnapped in the Middle East. Lissa will do almost anything to thwart her father’s nefarious plans for her. The last thing she expected was to be kidnapped. She's rescued by Stone and their meeting throws her for another loop when she falls hard for him. Even when he returns her safely Stateside, it seems there's no respite from the nightmare that follows her home, catching her in the very worst of the situation. This battle will require everything Stone and Lissa have to give. Even as they work together to clear her name and keep her safe, the harbinger lurks just around the corner....
©2017 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Talon
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Book 4 of SEALS of Steel Talon Lore, a former SEAL, has spent the last two years recovering from the damage done when his squad’s truck drove over an antitank landmine. Six other team-mates were also badly hurt, the seventh dead, in what their team leader Badger Horley realized later had to be a trap set to take them out. After his best friend is run down, Talon realizes his murder ties in with the original incident that drove him and his squad hell-bent for revenge. A year ago, Talon walked away from his girlfriend, Clary Witcher when she’d given him an ultimatum he couldn’t win. Clary is the sister of his best friend killed in the hit-and-run. Determined to tell Clary in person that her brother’s death was no accident and keep her safe from those now targeting her, Talon struggles with the haunting prospect of a reunion. Clary has never forgotten and never forgiven herself for chasing the man she loved and still loves away with her stupid, take-it-or-leave-it threat. Her brother’s death is a tragedy she’s barely dealt with when Talon shows up with answers that only beg more questions. He won’t leave her side, certain her brother wasn’t the only target. But Clary has learned one thing from her time away from him: Love - not trouble - needs to be Talon’s reason for staying with her...even if sending him away means jeopardizing her own life. Author note: For your listening pleasure, this series must be listened in order. SEALS of Steel reading order: Badger Erick Cade Talon Laszlo Geir Jager The Final Reveal
©2018 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Liam's Lily (A SEALs of Honor World Novel)
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When former Navy SEAL Liam O'Brian joins Legendary Securities, he looks forward to being shipped somewhere exciting for his first mission with Levi and his crew. Instead, he learns exotic and enormous aren't exactly synonymous when he stumbles upon the oversized pachyderms inhabiting his new backyard. Still, conflicts are universal and Liam's troubles are only just beginning once he finds himself falling for a woman deeply rooted in her family's livelihood and problems. Go-getter Lilianna Howell is a biologist who believes all problems can be reduced to minor ones if only they're nipped in the bud early enough. When her dad can no longer deal with the loss of his son and his detachment threatens the elephant reserve, Lilianna steps into a much larger role, handling the marketing and fundraising. Being close to her sister and her husband - once Lilianna's fiancé - forces her to struggle with distrust from that past experience and a growing attachment to a man who appears in her life like a dream come true. Mammoth issues escalate as Liam and Lilianna team up to save the gentle giants, their newfound love...and their own lives.
©2018 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
The Final Reveal
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This is a novella tying up the SEALs of Steel series.
A prosthetic design engineer, Kat Greenwald is in love with Badger Horley. The former SEALs team leader is the love of her life. But she's seen and heard firsthand of the fears and commitment issues Badger and his closest friends - once part of Navy special operations teams - struggle with on a daily basis. During their weekly get-togethers, the women in love with these former SEALs open up to each other about their longing to tie the knot and start families.
More than two years ago, Badger was badly injured after the truck his eight-man unit were in hit an antitank landmine. While he and his team have finally discovered the truth behind that devastating set-up, Badger sees the reality of his precarious future. His health could decline at any moment and he wants Kat to know exactly where the door to get out is if and when it does. The last thing he wants to do is invite pity, especially where the woman he loves is concerned. In a perfect world, he would have proposed to her the day they met. In the world he lives in, he can only conclude that harboring fears are always better than regrets.
But Kat isn't the type of woman to fear hard times and she's willing to take a leap of faith as far out into the unknown as she can get if it means her most fervent wish comes true.
©2018 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
SEALs of Honor: Easton
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Trips to Canada's wilderness for joint military training are something Easton always looks forward to. Meeting the lovely photographer contracted to capture the base and trainees for new marketing materials adds a whole new twist to a straight-forward routine...a twist with both a light and dark undertone. Summer tends to get lost in her art, so she's been called ditzy, absent-minded, and a host of less flattering names. She doesn't let any of it bother her. Her passionate nature has a rewarding creative outlet, and she adores traveling for her work. Unfortunately, her undistracted concentration means she isn't always taking care of herself the way she should. So, when she's attacked, Easton is the one who realizes she's unwittingly stumbled into a dangerous situation and she needs his help to stay safe. The escalation of violence has Easton holding Summer close enough to kiss, close enough to shatter her ability to focus on a single other thing....
©2017 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Griffin
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Helping Kerrick was one thing, getting tagged for a mission of his own quite another... Griffin's heart ached to hear a young girl had been kidnapped while at a hotel in Thailand waiting for her father to arrive. But nothing is ever as it seems, and this case isn’t even close to simple. Lorelai spent the last seven years enjoying the time with her young charge Amelia Rose. Tutoring the daughter of a wealthy business owner added perks to the job, like holidays around the world. In all these years, Lorelai had never once seen the downside to having big money, until the holiday in Thailand where Amelia Rose is targeted, and they were both kidnapped. Griffin managed to rescue the kidnapped victims, but tracing the kidnappers was a whole different story and brought the group a little too close to home...
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2020 Beverly Dale Mayer
Levi's Legend
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The only constant in life is change...and it's not always for the better. After an operation gone wrong that laid him low, Levi's obsession to find the men who betrayed him has grown to the point where nothing else seems to matter to him anymore. Although he's physically recovered from his injuries and has started his own company, Legendary Securities, when he catches the scent of the last man on his most-wanted list, he becomes a missile locked on his target. The very man he's hunting is hunting him as well...and fully intends to finish the job he started by taking Levi out once and for all. For every step of Levi's journey toward rebuilding his life, Ice has been there for him. The places where she can't join him - where he won't allow her inside - are the hardest ones to reconcile because she knows their relationship has reached an impasse. One wrong word, one false step may mean the last kiss for them...and ultimately the end of the road for all her hopes and dreams. Just as Levi has been at a standstill, waiting to get his final revenge, Ice can't resolve the heart of her conflicts until the monster that nearly destroyed their world is brought down for good. But the killer isn't just targeting Levi anymore. If she and Levi don't move fast, their future - whether separate or together - will be forfeit.
©2017 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Ethan
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When one door closes...second chances open another.... Ethan was lost after a major accident abruptly shifted him from a military life to a civilian one, from working with dogs to odd jobs.... In that time, he’d spent months healing from his physical injuries. When he connects with Badger and the rest of his Titanium Corp. group of former SEALs, Badger offers Ethan an opportunity he can’t refuse. A chance to do the work he used to do...with a twist. Cinnamon works from home as a project manager plus is heavily involved in global dog rescues - dogs of all kinds. When Ethan walks into the next door’s vet’s office with an injured shepherd in his arms, she sees another lost soul - just like the canine ones she helps. Ethan knows he’s about to take a dangerous step, but he’s on the job, and no one - on the job or not - hurts animals while he’s around. This poor shepherd has taken enough abuse, and Ethan fears she is only the tip of a nightmare he’s determined to uncover. But he knows she’s going to lead him in the right direction. He has his sights set on saving one dog in particular, Sentry: K9 File 01.
©2018 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2020 Beverly Dale Mayer
Lennox
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Book 10: The Mavericks Planning to meet his sister in Germany, but, when she’s a no-show, Lennox has his first inkling that trouble has come home in a big way.… When his sister and her best friend go missing, Lennox is determined to find and to keep his only family member safe…and her best friend. They were both doctors, traveling the globe with the UN. Lennox was proud of his sister’s accomplishments. He’d never tried to hide their relationship, thinking no one from Lennox’s Navy SEALs past cared — or was still alive. Only now someone has decided to use Lennox’s only family as a way to exact revenge. Helena is caught up in a kidnapping of Lennox’s sister, all designed to get back at Lennox — the most infuriating man she’s ever met. And one she’s cared for since forever. Now to know she was used as a trap to kidnap his sister and to take him out was the worst kind of punishment. But she knew this man. Knew him intimately — if only once — but also knew he was coming to rescue them, even if it meant losing his own life. Lennox wasn’t letting the only two women in his world be taken out without a fight…especially one who didn’t even know how he felt.... The Mavericks: Kerrick Griffin Jax Beau Asher Ryker Miles Nico Keane Lennox Gavin
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2020 Beverly Dale Mayer
Johan's Joy (A SEALs of Honor World Novel)
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After helping out Vince, Johan hadn’t planned on staying at Levi and Ice’s compound for long. However, Johan realizes how much plans can change when Galen comes over from Africa to join Johan, and the two are sent into town on a job that’s close and up-front personal to another member of Legendary Security. Joyce, otherwise called Joy, sought a career position but accepted something out of her normal skill set in order to pay the rent. But when her inventory lists show missing drugs, she knows something ugly is going on. With no one at the company willing to listen, she turns to her old friend Kai for advice. Johan wasn’t the answer Joy was looking for, but, when she finds out the previous employee to hold her position is in the morgue, she’s damn happy to have him. Her job might be safe...but her life? Well, that’s on the line....
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2020 Beverly Dale Mayer
Laszlo
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Minx Montgomery's only light in a terrible childhood was her neighbor and best friend, Mouse. When he left Texas at the age of 17, she never heard from him again, though she's never forgotten him either. She moved in with her uncle, went to college and became a counselor. Her supervisor at the clinic sexually harassed her. Reporting him backfired. Demoted, she's transferred to another branch in the city - to the same district she'd finally managed to escape. Laszlo Jensen, a former SEAL, has spent the last two years recovering from the damage done when his squad's truck drove over an antitank landmine. Six other team-mates were also badly hurt, the seventh - Mouse - dead, in what their team leader Badger Horley realized later had to be a trap set to take them out. He and his teammate Geir are trying to learn more about Mouse’s history. Was the whole squad targeted with that landmine, or just their youngest, newest member? The truth is more disturbing and senseless than they'd anticipated. Who was Mouse really? Minx may be the only person who knew the boy that later became a dangerous, hunted man… Author note: For your listening pleasure, this series must be heard in order. SEALs of Steel listening order: Badger Erick Cade Talon Laszlo Geir Jager
©2018 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Jace's Jewel: A SEALs of Honor Novel
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Welcome to Jace’s Jewel, the 11th book in Heroes for Hire series, reconnecting listeners with the unforgettable men from SEALs of Honor in a new series of action-packed, pause-resisting romantic suspense that fans have come to expect from USA TODAY best-selling author Dale Mayer. Please note that technically this book is number 12 in the series as Michael's Mercy is book 10 but can't be listed in two series at once, and it's already listed in the Sleeper SEAL series. When several members of a search-and-rescue team die in an accident, followed by several more team members who are murdered, Jace is ordered to sort it out. Working for a large insurance company had always been great for Emily, until she is handed several files all from the same family. Men she knew...intimately. Afraid that there is too much going on in the background, she contacts Legendary Securities for help. As the investigation develops, more bodies turn up, along with jealousy, greed, and insurance payouts that just maybe shouldn’t have been paid. She pairs up with the sexy Jace as they delve into the twisted and personal cases and race to stop another murder from taking place right in front of them.
©2017 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2019 Beverly Dale Mayer
Handcuffs in the Heather
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A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomery - and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrot - as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna, British Columbia. Riches to rags. Everything is under control, until it isn’t. And Doreen’s in the middle of it! The four boxes of files Doreen inherited from journalist Bridgeman Solomon have already helped her solve one crime, and Doreen hopes they’ll continue to assist her as she sticks her nose into future cases. But, when she stumbles over a pair of pink satin handcuffs in her standoffish neighbor Richard de Genaro’s heather patch, it’s hard to believe that those reporter’s files could have anything useful to offer regarding that. Doreen takes a look though, and soon she’s headed down a merry trail of prostitution, embezzlement, and, of course, murder. But the minute the files suggest a connection to Doreen’s specialty, a cold case, her beau and partner in crime, Corporal Mack Moreau, starts breathing down her neck. With her trusty animals leading the way, Doreen sets out to find the connection between the reputable banker who died in an unsolved hit-and-run and the prostitute who owned the pink satin handcuffs. As Doreen puts it all together, even she is surprised at the outcome of her latest investigation.
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2020 Beverly Dale Mayer
Nico
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With barely enough time to recover from helping out Miles in London, Nico is off to Australia...and a secret mission involving a US covert operative... When an American undercover operative’s sister goes missing in Australia, Nico has to find out if this is connected to the operative or to the sister’s own activist background. Apparently she made enemies easily. Charlotte hadn’t wanted to make this trip in the first place, preferring to communicate her polarizing messages through writing her books now. But, bowing under pressure, she finally arrives in Australia, only to be attacked within minutes of reaching her hotel room for the night. After her rescue, she’s forced to dig deep into her family and public life to find the mastermind kidnapper and to stay safe as the bodies pile up. Nothing makes sense in this twisted mission, but Nico is determined to keep Charlotte safe, even as things take a more personal turn...
©2019 Beverly Dale Mayer (P)2020 Beverly Dale Mayer