Kevin Candela has 10 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is The Bride.
The Bride
Summary
The moment Joanna told me she was engaged, I had this awful feeling that something was wrong. We used to speak on the phone every day. Growing up I spent more time at her house than I did at my own. I’d always imagined what it would be like to see her get married, and now I didn’t even know her fiancé’s name. She asked me to come and meet Mark and I intended to tell her to slow down. You can’t know someone for a month and be sure that you want to spend the rest of your lives together. When I got to Joanna’s front door, only Mark was there. He was charming and gorgeous and nothing but nice to me, and I started to understand. And then he told me that Joanna was missing. The Bride is a psychological thriller that will have you listening until late at night. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl and anything by Lisa Jewell.
©2020 Wendy Clarke (P)2020 Bookouture
Nakedman
Summary
Race Harleson is up against it big time: The world is stripping naked, and it seems to be some form of viral madness. He ends up shot into space with a couple of sharp veteran astronauts...and a new sidekick, Dark Matter. Physics super-prodigy Crayten "Cray-Cray" Hobbs has juiced himself up so much that he can alter the essence of matter to his rather freewheeling will, so Race is understandably both awed and annoyed by the hyper young man, and he's stuck keeping his fingers crossed that the people who sent them up there knew what they're doing. And when nothing goes as hoped, it soon becomes obvious that what's behind the bizarre and embarrassing global phenomenon isn't half as scary as plain old greedy rich people. Race ends up a high-speed serial kidnapper, abducting the world's wealthiest and carrying them off to a tropical island nowhere for a little barbecue, some spirits and what he hopes will be some desperately needed plain talk. But a party crasher trashes those plans, leaving Race to deal with potential disaster on all fronts. As long as he stays naked, he may have a chance.
©2019 Kevin Candela (P)2020 Kevin Candela
Trick or Treat Thrillers Best Paranormal 2019
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Gray, leaden clouds blot out the sky, a cold wind chills your bones, and a frantic whispering is heard among the trees. What is happening? There is no need to ask, for you already know the truth: The terror of Trick-or-Treat Thrillers Best Paranormal has returned for yet another year.... Whether it is a monster from your worst nightmares, an ancient evil that should not still live, a mysterious entity hiding near your home, or even your own demonic family members waiting to pounce, our authors know what frightens you. Darkness lurks here...dare not keep it waiting....
©2020 Roma Gray (P)2020 Roma Gray
Conspiracy Run
Summary
Just two utterly bizarre days ago, Hylas Bond wouldn't have believed the famous-infamous "Men in Black" even existed. Yet there he is, dodging killer drones on a ridiculously long shot cross-country scramble with a quite possibly crazed girl who's got two dead ones in the trunk of her car. Coby Forge is on a mission, not that she knows where she's going, and once Hylas rear-ends her car and pops that lid open in the middle of a slushy highway with morning traffic zipping past - well, she's got no choice, does she? Abducting him at gunpoint, she immerses the clueless Hylas in a reality he had no idea existed...one he quickly realizes he'd just as soon go on pretending didn't. Suddenly his concerns have gone far, far beyond getting to work on time and dealing with his grind of a job: In fact it may be all he can do to keep his sanity...especially when the MIB in the trunk don't turn out to be quite as dead as advertised...
©2020 Kevin Candela (P)2021 Kevin Candela
The Krakenstein Chronicles
Summary
Here, for the first time, is the complete saga of Krakenstein, the titanic mutant who's out to save the world, whether humanity likes it or not. Noble environmental scientist Dr. Max Shepperton's bizarre transformation from nerdy human being to a 300-foot-tall squid-headed monster seems a great tragedy, until the world realizes that his Godzilla-sized new form might be the one thing that can prevent the Earth's vengeance against greedy corporate profiteers from bringing about the extinction of Shepperton's former species - the human race. Heroic renegades Jeremiah Savage and Key Sharlayne find themselves along for the ride as Key's sister Deanna, determined to help Max, takes things to an even more cataclysmic level. Loaded with immense monsters bent on laying waste to everything they can't eat, this "destroy all humans" trilogy is packed with action (and over a dozen monsters), driven by sharp dialogue and characters and just the right medicine for our 21st century culture, whose scientists and altruists are up against dire capitalists like just like Argiss Valance and Errol Magnus, who callously ravage the world as the heroes fight for a future that won't leave them smashed flat in a bus-sized footprint. Topical, thrilling, and sharp-witted, the Krakenstein saga will take you to a future that looks all too possible, these days.
©2019 Kevin Candela (P)2020 Kevin Candela
Sinbad and the Argonauts
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Two legendary heroes, one incredible destiny. Lost and cursed by treasure, Sinbad is racing to save his mother's realm from an advancing army of monsters. Agonized by his mistakes, Jason has taken the Argonauts on a seemingly impossible quest to alter the past. Their fateful paths cross on an island guarded by monstrous titans and warriors of rock and magma, where they find the secrets of a great crystalline temple are barred to even the greatest of "mere mortals." Forced to seek help, they set off together to confront the demigod Jason left behind: the mighty Heracles. Together the three might have some fighting chance of surviving the dangers ahead; that is assuming they don't kill each other first. Dragon's Game Trilogy creator Kevin Candela blends two classic mythologies of literature and cinematic adventure into a single epic loaded with action, thrills, and laughs. Heavily inspired by the films of Ray Harryhausen, Sinbad and the Argonauts is laden from stem to stern with quirky characters, terrifying monstrosities, determined heroes and heroines, and the type of crazy interpersonal drama that could only come from the admittedly improbable meeting of bigger-than-life people with extraordinary talents. So grab a spot on the rail, feel the breeze, and smell the salt air. And enjoy the sun while you can, because that's a storm on the horizon.
©2016 Kent Hill Productions/KHP (P)2018 Kevin Candela
Bride of Krakenstein
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In the thrilling conclusion of the Krakenstein Trilogy, it’s all-out giant monster mayhem featuring a total of no less than 10 - count ’em, 10 - titanic terrors. Merged with the mysterious subterranean facility whose origins predate even the dinosaurs, Dr. Deanna Sharlayne is determined to help her...well, he used to be a man, anyway...take on the fury of our world itself. A great sea lamprey circles the Earth, but not to destroy it - to protect it. The quarter-mile-long leviathan is merely waking the true defenders and calling them to action. These elemental super-monsters are truly fearsome as they unleash a coordinated attack on humanity that culminates in a focused assault on the fragile landscape of Yellowstone Park, where the great beasts are dead set on triggering the “supervolcano” and letting it do the work of wiping out humanity for them. Can Deanna and the former Dr. Max Shepperton, a.k.a. Krakenstein, stop them? Oh yes, and toss in a renegade general and his mighty robot titan for good measure, and what you’ve got is a seven monster/three sided daikaiju showdown supreme, with nothing less than our species’ existence hanging in the balance.
©2019 Kevin Candela (P)2020 Kevin Candela
Sinbad at the End of the Universe
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In his storied days, Sinbad travelled the world, charting its lands, experiencing the wonders, terrors, and treasures to be found across the Seven Seas. But there is an ocean that he has not yet touched, let alone explored: one so incredibly vast and daunting that to look upon its shores - as indeed he has done all his life - is to gaze into an infinity of possibility...and danger. In the wake of the cataclysmic Siege of Aderadad, having learned his father is alive “somewhere out there,” Sinbad is devoted to finding him - a compulsion that will lead him and a few of his closest allies to places beyond imagination. But another seeks Sinbad’s father as well: Belagorn, mage of great power and cleverness and even greater darkness, from whom Sinbad’s father has stolen the key to immortality. The race across the cosmos is on, its stakes no less than the impending rise of an evil god....
©2016 Kevin Candela (P)2019 Kevin Candela
Sinbad at the Dawn of Time
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Sin has risen, and only Sinbad and his friends stand in its way. The Sinbad Forever Trilogy concludes with an epic for the ages - and through them - as Sinbad and his unique band of adventurers find themselves struggling to survive against the teeth and talons of prehistoric creatures to whom they represent nothing more than annoyingly elusive meals. Cast many millions of years into Earth's past by Hades, the legendary hero and company must somehow make their way back to their own time to stop the most insidious and powerful of dark deities and his legions of winged demonic minions from storming Olympus...and beyond. Desperate to prevent that return, the would be world-destroyer has sent the venomous sorceress Circe to the Triassic Era in the form of a terrifying beast with an overriding objective: take Sinbad out permanently. Can the legendary hero and his determined allies - faithful first mate Rashid, Orpheus' brilliant but haunted brother Linus, the uncannily agile and commensurately fearless Kalyx of Marini, and the bizarre energy being they call Elek - survive Circe, then go on to defy the rules of time and space itself to prevail against mountainous odds? Probably not. At least not without some serious help. And odds are it'll be the kind of help that comes at a price; after all, it takes a very special something - abject and irrational denial, maybe? - to stand up against four vampire demigoddesses, an army of winged monsters...and the deity whose very name has become synonymous with Evil.
©2019 Kevin Candela (P)2019 Kevin Candela
Ghost Phone: Episode 1
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Time Weathers didn’t so much mind the car breakdown...just another hassle, albeit at an extremely inconvenient locale. But now reality itself is threatening to do the same, and she’s not quite as adaptable to that. Time was just minding her own business, ambling along on an old road under the blistering Nevada sun, hoping for the kind of road rescue help you aren’t typically going to find in the middle of the desert anyway, when the disconnected phone in the dusty booth outside the dilapidated gas station she was passing began to ring. Curiosity finally won out and she answered, expecting the whole thing to be a prank despite the remote location - after all, who ever went by the nowhere spot? The thing was, not only was someone at the other end of the line: It was someone famous...someone important...someone, above all else, who’d died in the 1950s. And now Time is running out - to save the world - and it’s all because she’s convinced that Albert Einstein is really trying to get her to stop a potentially disastrous experiment based on his work. First in a series of “calls from famous ghosts” by the mind behind the Piper Gods, Krakenstein and Bob the Interdimensional Trucker. Future installments will feature other hapless modern day folks answering more phone calls that shouldn’t even be happening - calls coming from other long gone names, both famous and infamous. That’s right: The messages won’t all be coming from noble scientists - just “ghosts” with the clout and drive to use the time-spanning, dimension-crossing “telephone line”.
©2020, 2021 Kevin Candela (P)2021 Kevin Candela