Lisa Ladew has 27 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.9★ across 288 ratings. The most-rated is How the Light Gets In.
How the Light Gets In
Summary
"There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in." (Leonard Cohen) Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it’s a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn’t spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Mystified by Myrna's reluctance to reveal her friend's name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo. As events come to a head, Gamache is drawn ever deeper into the world of Three Pines. Increasingly, he is not only investigating the disappearance of Myrna’s friend but also seeking a safe place for himself and his still-loyal colleagues. Is there peace to be found even in Three Pines? And at what cost to Gamache and the people he holds dear?
©2013 Three Pines Creations, Inc. (P)2013 Macmillan Audio
One True Mate Series Bundle
Summary
One True Mate series: An all wolf-shifter police force has been the only thing between humans and an unknown evil for centuries, but the pack is in danger of dying if they don't find their promised mates soon. This bundle contains four full novels: One True Mate, the first book Trevor has lived his entire life believing he was a fraud but angling for a chance to prove he’s not; itching for an actual fight against the demon he’s prophesied to defeat. Nightly, he dreams about the One True Mates. Do they exist? Do they not? He’s drawn to a female, but she doesn’t seem to fit the prophecy, until she leads him right into the home of the demon himself. One True Mate, the second book The dragon came to Serenity to fight the demon, and it’s the last thing he hopes to do in his too-long life, but then he meets her, the only woman in the world who may be able to handle his love. One True Mate, the third book Crew is a powerful, yet tortured, wolf shifter who is convinced he has to live out the visions he sees in his head: true love lost before it has a chance to begin. Crew is about to discover how powerful love really is. One True Mate, the fourth book Cerise is a mystery, and something about her scrambles Beckett’s brain cells. He must figure out who she is to him, and why he’s willing to drop everything to help her.
©2016, 2017, 2018 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2018 Heat Publishing, LLC
One True Mate 9: Shifter's Dream
Summary
Troy was a man trapped in a wolf’s body for three decades, until a nap changed his life forever. Now that he’s a wolf trapped in a man’s body, he’s not going back. Food? Good. Partying? Better. Women? Best. With one brother missing, one brother overwhelmed by parenting twin angels, and only distracted Mac to keep him straight, Troy is fulfilling his every desire, never sleeping, rarely working, refusing to reel it in. Until he sees her. Reed has many rules, but the biggest one might be never date a cop. There’s also never kiss on the first date. Never tell anyone your business. Never go in the forest. Never.... But then that cop walked into her bar. The one with the wild eyes and the chiseled jaw. The one who devoured her every time he stared at her. Don’t go in the forest, Reed. Never go in the forest. That’s where the wolves live.
©2018 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2018 Heat Publishing, LLC
One True Mate Series Bundle, Books 5-8
Summary
This bundle contains the following audiobooks: One True Mate Five: When it came to love, brash and blunt bad-boy Mac never had a chance. His brash and blunt true mate unlocked his heart and showed him all the errors of his ways. One True Mate Six: Bruin’s life as a bear is complicated: He idolizes wolves and is shunned by his own kind, but he takes it all in stride, never complaining, never returning the hate. When the sweetest true mate yet shows up, this sweetest bear around has to hide his growing attraction to her because she must belong to a wolf. She can't be his. No, never. One True Mate Seven: Harlan’s over it: life, the fight, the demon, KSRT, all of it. But life isn’t quite done with him. It wants to poke and prod at him just a bit more and remind him of everything he’s lost. In fact, his Eventine seems so close, so alive, he could almost believe she might come back to him.... One True Mate Eight: Jaggar had accepted his fate, a life without love, because his beast was too wild and untamed to be safe; but when a true mate shows up who seems destined for him, his best friend does the unthinkable and kisses her, sending Jaggar reeling, rampaging, and running...until something calls him back.
©2017, 2018 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2018 Heat Publishing, LLC
Edge of the Heat Box Set, Books 1-7
Summary
What if your ex-husband was an abusive, dirty cop, and he was convinced he would get you back someday? What if he was willing to do anything to make that happen? Do you think it would scare off your new boyfriend, a strong, hot firefighter? Not if he has secrets of his own.... Edge of the Heat follows four couples on their journey from disaster to happily ever after. Following a near death experience, firefighter paramedic Emma Hill's world is turned upside down. Haunted by a vision of the man who could very well be her soul mate, Emma is desperate to find him, but fear stands in her way. With a maniacal ex-husband determined to get her back, Emma struggles to stay clear of him or risk living a life riddled by quiet desperation and abuse. Fighting with a dirty cop is dangerous enough, but when that dirty cop is her ex-husband, the stakes are raised to disastrous levels. Craig Masterson, the firefighter who saved Emma's life, finds himself falling for her. When he learns who her ex-husband is, he realizes that this is a battle he may not win. Choosing to love her is a deadly game. If he can stay alive, their love may flourish, but only if he can defeat her ex.
©2014 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2017 Heat Publishing, LLC
One True Mate 10: Shifter's Homecoming
Summary
Trent Burbank is a wolf shifter who has never shifted into a man. He’s on a mission - send the beast home. He’s given his word that the beast will be coming home, and Trent always keeps his word. After a devastating trauma, his plans are interrupted. Trent is yanked away from the life he knows and charged with a critical task that only he can complete. Now his vow has changed. But when he discovers keeping his word could mean losing his mate, Trent prepares to fight...
©2020 Lisa Ladew (P)2020 Lisa Ladew
One True Mate 8: Night of the Beast
Summary
Jaggar is a half-wolf, half-mountain lion shifter, but his halves don't make a whole. Instead, they form the beast, a misshapen killing machine that terrifies even the hard-charging wolf shifters of the KSRT, especially after the mauling. "Jaggar has tragic down," his friend says about him, which must be why his one true mate, Leilani, is also steeped in tragedy. She's a time-traveler. In fact, our boys in Serenity owe their very future to her. But what she has done for them has robbed her of her sight and her sanity. When Jaggar and Leilani meet in the forest, her eyes flashing silver, his beast in complete control, it seems only a miracle can keep them together.
©2018 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2018 Heat Publishing, LLC
One True Mate 7: Shifter's Paradox (Volume 7)
Summary
Harlan Mundelein, the Knotted Wolf, the soldier at heart who used to be the guy who got things done, is fading. It's been a long and pointless battle, and he can finally see the day coming that he'll be eternally reunited with his Eventine. He's ready and his mind is made up: he is not getting a One True Mate. His mate is gone. So why does Leilani, a female who has mysteriously appeared to him twice in his lifetime, stir his blood in a way that makes no sense at all...especially when he knows she is not his mate?
©2017 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2018 Heat Publishing, LLC
Bears Redemption
Summary
Bruin has never fit in with his kind because the bears hate him for something he can't control. The wolves like him OK, but now that his wolf BFF is mated, Bruin prepares for more lonely days and nights...until he meets a female so "purrfect", the sight of her breaks him. But is she already taken by another? Willow turned 25 this year and waits patiently for an angel to come and claim her, based on her mother's scattered recollection of the experience of Willow's conception. But when a sweet and massive man steals her heart instead, she decides she's not going to wait around for destiny any longer.
©2017 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2017 Heat Publishing ,LLC
Dragon's Heat
Summary
Dragon love burns bright - can she survive the flames? Graeme made his way to Serenity for one very specific, and hopefully deadly, reason, but a few friendly wolf shifters on the Serenity Police Department almost made him reconsider his centuries-old death wish. His body, however, remembers it well, acting upon it when he is unable. Heather Herrin has just received news that threatens to change everything for her, but when she sees a half-naked beast of a man in a hospital bed, he takes center stage in her thoughts, giving her some relief. Until he runs hot then cold so often she almost gives up on him, having no way of knowing he's someone that will make her entire life make sense. Are Graeme's reasons for turning down what he thought he'd never be blessed to have enough to keep them apart? Or will Heather manage to break through his walls in time to save them both?
©2016 Heat Publishing LLC (P)2016 Heat Publishing LLC
Edge of the Heat 8
Summary
Reliable, stable Hawk takes off, and Vivian is devastated ... Emma finally has her big family, and she and Craig are dealing with the complexities of being new parents, while Hawk and Vivian have become parents of twins, again. When Hawk's personality suddenly changes, Vivian has a mystery to unravel that she will need everyone's help with, or risk losing her husband and the father of her children forever. Dani and JT, thrilled to be entering a new phase of their life, struggle with something nobody should have to deal with, but that veterans often do, leaving them unable to help Vivian, while they try to claw their way back to health and happiness. The Heat gang needs more help than they've ever needed before, even as life appears perfect from the outside.
©2016 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2017 Heat Publishing, LLC
Switch of Fate 3
Summary
Riot Cofield is a bad-boy mountain lion shifter who scales mountains like fences. He belongs IN the Natahala Forest but not TO it, and he resents “the Cause” because it turns normal, sweet women into conniving, savage witches - switches - who will do anything to kill a vampire. Riot tried out the Cause (after all, he is a shifter), but after getting used and discarded twice, he’s over it. Over and done with the Cause and everything in it, including Resperanza, the extraordinary, not-there-a-month-ago, magical house and command center. So he moved out, and oh yeah, he quit the Cause, too. Until he has no choice but to step into a fight for a flagging switch he’s never seen before, throwing her his knife that she can’t seem to let go of. But the real kicker comes when she knows his name. It’s his secret high school crush, the only woman ever special enough to make Riot want to straighten out his renegade ways. Gemma, the lost love of his life, is a switch? “Love of his life” enough to move back into Resperanza? Maybe, but enough to support the Cause with everything he has? No. Never. Then why is he delivering sweet, inquisitive, gorgeous, green-glowing Gemma to the one place he would never want her to belong? And why does he get the feeling she’s about to blow the doors off this whole operation?
©2018 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2018 Heat Publishing, LLC
Switch of Fate, Book 1
Summary
Shifters and switches are the perfect match; she hunts vampires, he keeps her from destroying entire populations in a fit of magical rage. These love connections, once common, have died out in modern times. A disaster for humanity. Until.... The first switch seen in 100 years flees a room full of shifters, leaving chaos in her wake. Jameson Montreat is a lonely wolf shifter who had one job that was essential to the protection of the human species. A job he was unable to do. Now, with more vampires throwing their hat into the political ring every day, he can't stop it. He can't kill vampires, none of the shifters can. Only a switch can kill a vampire, and they died out 100 years ago. But then an impossibly captivating switch walks right into the anti-vampire meeting, turning every shifter head in the place. She is not meant for him, as much as he might need her to be. Coralie Hamilton is a normal woman, living a normal life, waiting for something big. What that something is, she has no idea, but when some base part of her brain causes her to go temporarily insane and try to stab a politician in the throat with a fountain pen, her future suddenly becomes crystal clear. She's a natural born killer, and the only thing that can calm her killing instincts in the moment is the love of a shifter male who is strong enough to handle her. Yesterday, she didn't believe in shifters. Today, she's got to choose the one who will keep her sane.
©2017 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2018 Heat Publishing ,LLC
One True Mate 1
Summary
An all wolf-shifter police force has been the only thing between humans and an unknown evil for centuries, but the pack is in danger of dying if they don't find their promised mates soon. Trevor Burbank is a shifter cop in a world of humans who don't know the evil that wants them dead. If he does his job well, the humans will never need to know, but he feels like he's working against the clock because his pack is about to die. The females have all been killed, and the half-breeds they make when they mate with humans aren't usually skilled or strong enough to fight. Gabriela Carmi has lost almost everything that means anything to her way too fast and now she feels like she's losing her mind too. On a quest to find something that won't reveal itself to her, she feels as if she's pining for someone who may not exist. So when an evil presence begins to follow her, she isn't sure if her mind is slowly falling apart or if the impossible is actually coming true. And when an instant attraction sparks between her and the handsome police officer sent to help her, it makes matters worse and better at the same time. It's a race against time to find the angel/human hybrid "One True Mates" that the pack's spiritual leaders say truly exist. Saving the all the shifter clans is on everyone's mind, except for the chosen, the One True Mates, most of whom don't even know who or what they really are or why they seem to be slowly losing their minds. Steamy. Light swearing. High heat. You've never experienced a shifter romance like this before.
©2016 Heat Publishing LLC (P)2016 Heat Publishing LLC
Switch of Fate, Book 2
Summary
“All vampires must die.” Flint Gibson is ready to lay down his life for The Cause, just so long as doing so results in a ton of dead vampires. He’s been planning a kamikaze mission for decades, not-so-patiently waiting for news about the vampires who killed his family. Because all vampires must die. Especially those vampires. The organized resistance building in the forests of North Carolina is interesting, but he doesn’t have time to romance a switch. Until a glowing green woman slams into him, stealing his heart with a confused but passionate kiss. Goldie Peletier has always been a good girl, prim and proper. She counted on following the rules to keep her safe in life. But she has a secret, one she hides deep in the darkest corners of her soul and has never told anyone. So when a massive bear of a man draws out her passion, telling her things that threaten to bring her secret into the light, she prepares to cut and run. Again. If Flint and Goldie manage to join hearts, the strength they add to The Cause could make them an unstoppable team. But things have never worked out “just right” for our Goldie, and once vampires show up in her world, she only spins further out of control.
©2018 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2018 Heat Publishing, LLC
One True Mate 3
Summary
He's seen his fated mate die a thousand times...and yet, they've never met. Crew is a powerful, yet tortured, wolf shifter. With a weary heart, he seeks to avoid fulfilling a prophecy that foretells the death of his fated mate...true love lost before it has a chance to begin. Dahlia has seen her death at the hands of a demon many times, and the vision is starting to destroy her mind. Giving up on her sanity, her only hope is that death will come well and swift. But when she meets Crew, that all changes. For the first time in many years, she wants to see what happens after the blood spills from her fatal wound. Something in her heart says, with Crew, the last time will not be the end.... This book can be read as a standalone, no cliffie, but you will enjoy it more if you read books one and two first.
©2016 Heat Publishing LLC (P)2017 Heat Publishing LLC
Raptor's Peak
Summary
The Cause is recruiting. Shifters of all species are flowing into Nantahala Forest, meeting at the Bear Claw Diner, eager to lend a paw or talon in the fight against the vampires. The Cause has already filled one magical coven house with vampire-killing witches - switches - and their leader claims more are on the way. More shifters are needed to guard them, hunt with them, and satisfy their Prowl.... Aven Kittrell, an eagle shifter, is already dedicated to The Cause. Former military with plenty of secrets in his past, all he wants is to find the coven he’s bound to, bloodsuckers to Undo and, maybe, if he’s lucky, a mate to soothe his soul. But when an old friend calls asking for a favor, Aven puts his own desires to the side. Duty calls. However, when the favor comes in the irresistible package of Dakota Manteo, all he can think about is how they could burn the forest down with the heat blazing between them... Dakota is a woman on a mission with no time for games. She’s a half-breed jaguar shifter, but one who hasn’t shifted yet. Not a claw or whisker. Now that she’s found out about The Cause she knows if she can only get there, she can finally be her true self. Nothing will stop her from fulfilling her destiny, even if it means walking away from the sexiest man she’s ever met.
©2018 Lisa Ladew (P)2019 Lisa Ladew
Edge of the Heat 5
Summary
Jerry Mansko, a fun-loving Paramedic/Firefighter is in physical therapy for a major injury to his leg. His therapist, Sara Acosta, fascinates him from the first time he sees her. But there's something unavailable and even a little dark about Sara. When she walks out on a date with him he checks her apartment to ensure she's OK. But Sara's not there...and the words written on the walls in blood indicate a mystery far beyond his abilities to solve. Can Jerry find Sara and convince her to let him in to her life?
©2014 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2017 Heat Publishing, LLC
Edge of the Heat 6
Summary
When JT and Dani are both betrayed by the same man, they seem to have only a few hours left to live. Can true love born in a hostage encampment survive the harshness that lies beyond? Emma and Vivian finally find their brother, whom they were separated from at birth. But tragedy strikes the family once more as they discover he is a US Marine in the Middle East who has been taken hostage by terrorists. They beg Sara, a former killing machine for the secret DCIA, to help him and she agrees, but in the only way she knows how: she's going to do it all herself. But Sara's carefully laid plans are laid to waste as she finds it is impossible to carry out this mission by herself. Can Sara save the hostages and get them out of the desert, even though one of the hostages is keeping something from her? Can JT and Dani nurture their fledgling love long enough to find a life outside of the Sinai desert? And when the rescue helicopter goes down with Hawk on it, who will save him? Heat Level: Moderate. Suspense, thriller level: high. Some swearing. 18+
©2014 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2017 Heat Publishing, LLC
Shifter's Rogue
Summary
Mac knows Rogue is his from the moment she holds him hostage, but she'll never let him claim her.... If Mac ran the world, everything would be better. Everyone would say what they felt, mean what they said, and never, ever get offended. At least that's what he thought his own personal utopia would look like, until he met Rogue. Rogue's life was just fine, thank you very much. An expert in her chosen field of danger and lies, she was well on her way to retiring by 30, as long as she could keep her curious mental slide under control. Until that hot-as-sin cop showed up, turning her life upside down, bringing her everything she'd always - and never wanted.
©2017 Heat Publishing, LLC (P)2017 Heat Publishing, LLC