Gary Starta has 17 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 13 narrators. The most-rated is The Killing Collective: A Stanford Carter Murder Mystery Thriller.
I Bought the Sun for a Dollar
Summary
Can anyone actually buy peace or happiness? Perplexed by the loss of job and fiancé, Timothy Ray makes a symbolic purchase of the sun for a dollar to try to right things in his slightly off course career trajectory. When he stumbles upon a brilliant, cascading sunrise and then a chance meeting with a statuesque blonde he feels his life is about to change for the better but his new girlfriend is a spy, working for a contracted data mining firm. Undaunted and unaware that Lou Ann is actually Kate, Timothy continues to encourage people via social media to experience how energy is shared between us and the cosmos. Kate and her employer fear Timothy’s hope will threaten the leadership’s status quo. The firm incrementally steps up its spy game and seems to have no remorse about putting Timothy at risk of ridicule and perhaps worse. But Timothy’s biggest threat may come from the very source of his inspiration, the sun itself. Will he be able to save all from a cosmic catastrophe?
©2017 Gary Starta (P)2018 Gary Starta
Blood Web
Summary
FBI Special Agent Caitlin Diggs faces a paranormal killer when a crystal takes over a teen and leads her on a chase across the country. Empowering the teen with supernatural abilities, the crystal exacts revenge on descendants of soldiers responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre, but it also has a taste for neurotransmitter serotonin, which it needs from humans to continue its consciousness.
Agent Diggs is the only FBI agent in the bureau to consider extreme possibilities and surmises the teen has a means to track his victims' via DNA.
A heart-pounding cat-and-mouse game ensues as Diggs attempts to fool the teen into thinking she is his next victim, but as she plays with fire, a former military man begins to see the crystal as the perfect ingredient for a mind control weapon. Because the crystal possesses sentience, it can counter Diggs' plan for its demise and possibly exert mind control over her as well.
Can Diggs stop this biological internet from taking more victims, becoming a tool for mass mind control, and resist the lure of its blood web?
©2014 Gary Starta (P)2018 Gary Starta
Demon Inhibitions
Summary
Chasing a soul stealer in her reality, psychic investigator Caitlin Diggs inadvertently travels through a portal to another reality and witnesses her fugitive kill her alternate self in Demon Inhibitions. Assuming her alternate's life as an agent of the FBI’s Preternatural Crime Division, Diggs believes her position might help her capture the soul stealer until she finds he may be part of a sinister terrorist plot to keep humans and demons living in segregation. A girl, whose singing inhibits the evil urges of demons, is on the terrorist’s hit list and Diggs will ultimately learn her fugitive is neither supernatural nor demon, but a genetically engineered hit man incapable of being enthralled.
©2009 Gary Starta (P)2019 Gary Starta
The Alien Underneath
Summary
In the near future where printing a brain is only a click away, the city of Portland, Oregon thrives as the new metropolis of high tech. It also boasts the highest abduction rate in the world and a dark op agency suspects its Forest Park is the major scene of intergalactic crimes. But when those responsible fail to take credit for the missing, the covert agency calls upon the clone of legendary FBI Agent Caitlin Diggs to assist in hunting down the invisible enemy. Equipped with psi abilities, the dark agency hopes Diggs can stop the enemy without exposing an alien threat to the populace.
Just underneath the radar, aliens walk in Portland under the guise of humans thanks to a morphic shaping technology. An alien posing as Wondertech’s top acquisitions specialist, Krista Shay, is hoping to find a peaceful way to initiate a first contact. Yet those back on the Zyri home world seem to have a different agenda for the planet Earth and it has nothing to do with extending an olive branch. The real Krista Shay is trapped in an alien body on Zyri and learns the sinister plans of a man she calls the Interrogator will only thwart a peace initiative.
Can Agent Diggs and the peace loving alien posing as Krista Shay find a way to unravel the dark mystery of the forest and take down the invisible enemy before an interplanetary war erupts?
©2018 Gary Starta (P)2019 Gary Starta
Extreme Liquidation
Summary
Black magic threatens humanity with Extreme Liquidation. The only thing preventing occultist Aleister Crowley from ascension is reincarnation. Trapped in human form again, he's manipulating political events to bring about the End Times and achieve what he believes to be his true destiny. FBI Agent Caitlin Diggs has a secret gift that could stop him, but Crowley's no ordinary enemy. He knows something she doesn't, and tampers with her ability, twisting it to serve his own agenda. Will she uncover the truth in time to save all mankind?
©2012 Gary Starta (P)2018 Gary Starta
The Android Sisters
Summary
All androids are not alike. Especially if they're teenagers... By the 2070s, most humans have interacted with androids in either a servile or sexual relationship. Dr. Bryan Galloway wants to tip the scales. So, he’s engineered two sisters who not only share a synthetic form of DNA, but a sentience and individualism no android has enjoyed before. Like human teens, the android sisters develop not only by nature but by nurture. Nyx, the red-eyed robot, finds life to be a journey you experience a step at a time. For Dayna, the violet-orbed android, life is a game to be won through emulation and manipulation. But Nyx’s journey is a whole lot less passive than she imagined, especially when she suffers bouts of what humans call PTSD. As Nyx becomes convinced her programming is unable to separate past from present and reality from virtual experience, she begins to doubt her creator Bryan Galloway and his sudden disappearance from her life now that she faces school, boys, and the pressure of planning a future in a still dominated human population. Is Nyx defective or, maybe, is this what it's really like to grow up as a human female? Perhaps, there is a third alternative she and her sister know nothing about...
©2017 Gary Starta (P)2019 Gary Starta
9 Incarnate
Summary
Caitlin Diggs will have more to worry about than her on-again, off-again romance with her FBI superior when the goddess Isis appears in her mind. Is this a trick or perhaps an evil entity linked to her psychic gift offered by the crystal? The crystal has offered Caitlin psychic gifts but also a strange connection to the Star of the Sea, or Isis. Even her cat Bastet seems to share in this linkage. To make matters more complex, Diggs finds the Ennead has returned to Earth as promised. But are they here to share secrets of the pyramids or to take over? Murders and a mass demon disappearance coincide with their arrival to invite not only high strangeness but high suspicion. Now Diggs must question if she is under the influence of gods, aliens, or a criminal concoction of both. Because she can't fingerprint the "gods", Diggs’ search for the truth will take her to an unparalleled journey she could never imagine. Time traveling to ancient Egypt may very well reveal the truth of our origins and Caitlin's true destiny with the crystal entity - but at what ultimate price?
©2009 Gary Starta (P)2019 Gary Starta
Time Wanderer
Summary
The Camden sisters’ quest to explain the unexplained takes a paranormal turn when a time wandering woman crosses their path. Jumping time, performing superhuman feats and staying one step ahead of an unknown enemy leads Iris and DJ Camden to believe this woman without a home or name she can remember is involved with a nefarious shadow agency, one Iris’ own father works for in this stand-alone thriller. As each answer comes with a perilous price, Iris surmises "Sandra" is preventing an alien race from coming back into power. But when the time wanderer is compromised and kills one of her new friends, it is strongly suspected she has been turned and is aiding aliens hoping to unlock an ancient construct known as Coyote X. Just who is pulling Sandra’s strings and will it cost investigators their lives to find out? Can this woman with no recall of her childhood utilize her superpowers to stop the nefarious Grey aliens from taking the planet?
©2013 Gary Starta (P)2020 Gary Starta
The Android Sisters: Volume 2: Changing Faces
Summary
For a special pair of android sisters, Nyx and Dayna, it’s a sure bet they dream. But when Nyx, the red-eyed sister, finds herself expired, is she dreaming, experiencing a post death virus or perhaps something greater? Further blurring the lines, Dayna, the violet-eyed sister, finds herself paired hybrid style with the consciousness of a deceased financial baroness. Can these androids die and experience an afterlife? If so, what implications does it have for humans who experience the same out of body experiences? Is the afterlife limited to biological beings, or perhaps, as Simulation Theory suggests, are we are all binary codes playing out in pixelated formation? The Android Sisters, Changing Faces, explores death, the universe and just how an artificial being might classify itself as human by loose definition.
©2018 Gary Starta (P)2020 Gary Starta
Coalescence
Summary
Iris Camden thought she knew who her family was even if they weren’t always forthcoming. Her half-sister is a medium reeling from the loss of her biological mother. Her estranged father is an obsessed government worker who cannot reveal what he does. When an artifact appears in a ghost-hunting expedition, Iris is the last person who wants to believe in aliens.
©2015 Gary Starta (P)2018 Gary Starta
Myopic
Summary
When a myopic author suddenly sees microscopic alien entities before his challenged eyes he first believes it to be a sign of insanity. But when the aliens implore him we must go green and clean up our dirty planet - or else, he must test his faith by engaging his EPA scientist girlfriend to join his quest to save our Earth.
©2009 Gary Starta (P)2018 Gary Starta
What Are You Made Of?
Summary
Preparing a planet for colonization can be a deadly business. Scientists and engineers working on the Ceres project have all been poisoned from radiation. But there may still be a way to save the mission. Dr. Adrian McElroy has proposed a radical and illegal solution - the transfer of his colleagues’ intelligence into android bodies. The doctor is positive he can make his lifelong dream work. However, the scientists will soon find radiation is not the only thing threatening their lives. McElroy’s plan has raised the ire of engineer Mikola Petrovsky - a bitter opponent to artificial life. Mikola fought to come aboard the prestigious colonization mission to save face after losing his aeronautics job to robots. Now he must overcome his disgust and consent to become an android/human hybrid in order to settle his personal vendetta with artificial beings once and for all.
©2005 Gary Starta (P)2018 Gary Starta
Obsolescence
Summary
Humankind has always thirsted for godhood. Some say we once had it and lost it. Now a twisted quest involving transgenic and transhuman experiments is taking people from their homes. One girl sees what others can’t, and it will be up to paranormal investigators Iris and DJ Camden to once again stop a global threat. But this time the enemy may be closer than they think, and if the game plan has changed, how will the team be able to stop what they really can’t see? As a high-tech game of smoke and mirrors begins to fool the population, Iris and DJ Camden must prove aliens are not behind the abductions, while another faction promises to do anything and everything to ascend to godhood. A teen girl may be the answer to stopping the threat, and before the investigation is through, Iris will risk all to keep humans "human". But how far will it take her? And what will the paranormal investigator learn ultimately about her "human" existence?
©2014, 2020 Gary Starta (P)2020 Gary Starta
Murder by Association
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As Boston's most lethal serial killer jeopardizes the city's anniversary celebration, CSI Detective Stanford Carter desperately fights for forensic clues to nail the perp. But the "Plunger", after stabbing his victims through the heart, leaves only tarot cards as evidence. The mayor, demanding an arrest, is also keeping a secret. Soon, something even more dangerous threatens the city. Carter must find out what it is before it steals his sanity and the life of the woman he loves.
©2005 Gary Starta (P)2018 Gary Starta
Kindred Killers: A Stanford Carter Murder Mystery
Summary
Homicide Detective Stanford Carter uses Zen meditation to deal with the gruesome crimes of humanity. But his composure is severely tested when an unfaithful husband and stripper are not only murdered but showcased for their immoral lives. To test his mettle further, department policy is jeopardizing his romance with his CSI colleague Jill Seacrest. Marrying colleagues is prohibited, and Carter must either end his romance or have Jill put in for transfer. The private detective hired by the family of the victims becomes the only suspect. Carter theorizes someone with knowledge in law enforcement is responsible for leaving clean but disturbing crime scenes. Further investigation leads him to believe a pair of killers might be working as serials. As Jill goes undercover to investigate the PI's social life, Carter fears he might not only fail to stop the vigilante killings but lose the love of his life.
©2014 Gary Starta (P)2018 Gary Starta
Chasing Reality
Summary
What if reality was only limited by your perceptions? When two android teenagers are chosen for the Mars colonization project, each sister believes they will carry out an agenda fated for them by their own distinct programming. Nyx, the younger teen, revels in art, expression, and a need to explore. Dayna, the older sister, believes ambition and career paths are more important than self-discoveries. Realizing they are part of a corporate vision to make Mars an exclusive breeding ground for eugenic superiority, Nyx can only find solace in mind journeys toward higher consciousness while Dayna unexpectedly discovers the value of love over career. As their dreams continue to conflict with a privatized agenda, the android sisters fear their new world, despite its progressive stance, will not only eradicate their dreams but maybe their very artificial lives. Yet that concern will soon pale in comparison to a new jeopardy which threatens to decimate any reality the androids can dare to chase.
©2019, 2020 Gary Starta (P)2020 Gary Starta
The Killing Collective: A Stanford Carter Murder Mystery Thriller
Summary
Longtime detective Stanford Carter and his wife, forensic scientist Jill Seacrest, have always felt one was the yin to the other's yang. Carter is formal, logical, detached, and incredibly reserved. As team leader, he displays an unflagging commitment to duty, a keen sense of logic and strategy, and the poker face of a true champion. Despite his ardent desire to learn the secrets of the universe and its plan for us all, the introspective student of Zen demonstrates an extraordinary inability to understand himself or anyone else. Seacrest, on the other hand, is a scientific steamroller, often intimidating even the most seasoned veteran agents. Possessing a strong and fiery personality, her determination to find the truth often clashes with a quick and sarcastic wit, a fiery personality, and the tendency to leap before she looks. Together, they've made the tough decision to leave their home town of Boston to move to the Big Apple, where they have accepted new positions with the FBI to help solve a string of murders. When Shania Deeprose joins the team, the overly enthusiastic, down-to-earth rookie from Alabama provides a spark that forges the immediate and unbreakable bonds of heart, mind, and courage. In this stand-alone mystery/thriller, the team must break the biggest case of their careers while confronting personal and social truths that change them forever. Will they be able to expose a secret so old and far reaching that it has already begun to impact the very fabric of society?
©2017 Gary Starta Robin Firestone (P)2020 Gary Starta