Donald Standeford has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Darling Dare Enduring.
Wake up Mama, You're Killing Me!
Summary
An attempt to voice the outcry of a fetus that has been aborted in the words it might say if it had the chance.
©2018 Donald Standeford (P)2019 Donald Standeford
Cycling Through Time
Summary
Cycling through Time is about second and third chances. Trevor Rogers is one of the few people in the world who has access to his own past. Trevor's wife, Susan Rogers, a physicist, works in a highly contained government facility. Trevor, married to Susan two years, had thought Susan's job to be battling climate change. That was a bit of a stretch. It was true that time travel could be used to control planetary weather. However, that was not the first use Trevor would have thought for it. Then again, Susan’s lips had been sealed. What could she have said about this top-secret project that sounded feasible? She had easy access to Top Secret materials. Trevor had no idea of Susan’s past when he married her. He was a simple person, he loved Susan, and that was all that mattered. She was not from Paradise - she was from all over the United States. She had always liked the hustle bustle of the city. She was always game for an adventure. Susan Rogers had not only fallen in love with Trevor, she had fallen in love with the small city of Paradise, Oregon. Susan could have excelled at any occupation. As a physicist, she was among the top minds of the world. Trevor had won her over with his childlike simplicity and dedication to her. The news of her pregnancy came the same week as news that Trevor had only a few months to live. The numbers all added up in her head. They did not look good. When their child reached a year, Trevor would be dead. Maybe two years earlier Susan would have accepted Trevor’s death and moved on. She had changed drastically in the wet but welcoming warmth of Paradise, Oregon. She cared more than she knew she could. It did not take long for Susan to make plans to smuggle Trevor into the Gate. Once she sent him to the past, they would both have to work smart and fast. When he returned from the past, they would hop into the gate together in their future.
©2019 Donald Standeford (P)2019 Donald Standeford
Darling Dare Enduring
Summary
Darling Dare, 33 years old, grew up an army brat. Upon the death of her mother, Darling refused to settle into her aunt’s house, aggressively determined to travel with her father. She got her way. Her father, Luke Jones, an Army Ranger and hand-to-hand combat instructor is haunted by the cold war in this tense world of the 1950s. Having access to training from her father, Luke Jones, Darling absorbed all she could of the martial arts and small arms. It is also rumored that Luke taught her all he knew, including training as a sniper. The book begins in 1961. Darling Dare’s life has been interrupted. For two-and-a-half years, her daughter Esther has been missing, abducted from her own house in the middle of the night. Darling is devastated, as she did not even have a chance to protect Esther that night. She feels guilty that the kidnapper snuck into her house and stole Esther right from her. A man named Sam Steele, a self-proclaimed serial killer, psychopath, and criminal genius takes responsibility for Esther’s abduction and claims she is dead. Soon Sam Steele is proclaimed the fabled "Jackknife" killer, also known as "Jack the Drifter". All cold case files make their way to his door. His confessions clear up all sorts of mysteries. The authorities, including the FBI, are applauded for the capture of this insane killer. Sam Steel is kept in isolation, away from the risks of the general population. They treat him like a king. Darling Dare visits Sam Steele each month for two years, each time demanding, "Where is my daughter?!" Unbeknownst to him, she uses subtle interrogative tactics to figure out Steele. After two years, she concludes that Sam Steele is not the man he pretends to be. Nobody else believes her, including her own husband. Darling Dare must use her hand-to-hand combat skills to stay alive against the onslaught of evil that comes upon her as she continues relentlessly to pursue more information about Sam Steele, and as she attempts to discern whom the Jackknife killer is.
©2019 Donald Standeford (P)2019 Donald Standeford