M.C.A. Hogarth has 17 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is An Heir to Thorns and Steel.
An Heir to Thorns and Steel
Summary
Morgan Locke, university student, has been hiding his debilitating illness with fair enough success when two unlikely emissaries arrive bearing the news that he is prince to a nation of creatures out of folklore. Ridiculous! And yet, if magic exists...could it heal him? The ensuing journey will resurrect the forgotten griefs of history, and before it's over, all the world will be remade by thorns and steel.... The first book of the Blood Ladders trilogy, an epic fantasy with sociopathic elves, vampiric genets, and the philosophy students mixed up in the lot.
©2015 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2019 M.C.A. Hogarth
By Vow and Royal Bloodshed
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Restored to a working body, Morgan Locke has returned to Troth to seek the legendary athenaeum at Vigil in the hopes it will produce a solution to the enchantment binding the elves. But elves are not the only creatures now stepping out of folklore: the demons are coming, and they bring with them the armies of the dead. If they do not want to see their world consumed, Morgan and his companions will have to find the answers, whether they come from books...or bloodshed. Time is running out....
©2015 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2019 M.C.A. Hogarth
On Wings of Bone and Glass
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Evicted from vigil and faced with the impending descent of demons, Morgan Locke and his companions must unravel all the mysteries that are barring them from the salvation of their country and their world. Can they unbind the curse and free the magic to the hands of their allies before the dead rise again? And in the aftermath of that epic battle, what will become of the world they've always known? The adventure doesn't end when the last sword is swung. There is a great deal to be done. Join Morgan and his friends in this final book of the Blood Ladders trilogy and see how they conclude their epic journey out of folklore and back into ordinary time.
©2018 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2019 M.C.A. Hogarth
Season's Meaning
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Captain Alysha Forrest is taking advantage of leave to do a little holiday shopping at the largest mall in the Alliance's summer capital... when a little boy gets into a little trouble. A holiday feel-good story from the Pelted universe.
©2014 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2014 M.C.A. Hogarth
Kherishdar's Exception
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In all Kherishdar there is one man with no choices...and one woman with them all. When alien taint destroyed her former house, Haraa nai‘Qevellen-osulkedi was raised out of casteless despair to translate human languages for the god of civilization, the Ai-Naidari Emperor. At first her curiosity and intelligence serve her well, but the longer she spends among aliens, the more questions she has about her world. How did Kherishdar come about? Why is the Emperor singular, and the priest who serves Shame? Why does Kherishdar need an exception, and why is it always a woman, and why does she annoy Haraa so badly? Kherishdar’s Exception is a coming-of-age story set in a world where everyone has a place. But among the Ai-Naidar, you don’t get to choose that place. Unless... The fourth installment in the Books of Kherishdar returns us to the mannered world of the Ai-Naidar, and builds on everything we've learned in the first three. The author recommends listening in order for full immersion: The Aphorisms of Kherishdar The Admonishments of Kherishdar Black Blossom Kherishdar's Exception
©2019 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2019 M.C.A. Hogarth
The Godson's Triumph
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Mistress Commander Angharad Godkin hates politics, so of course, her ruler the Godson sent her to replace the Governor of barely tamed Shraeven province. She hates religion, so naturally, the native gods began to plague her the moment she arrived. And since she hates both, the gods started playing politics - and the politicians began playing at godhood. In Flight of the Godkin Griffin, Angharad, a creaky old veteran of the Godkindred Kingdom's many wars of conquest, was dragged out of retirement only to discover her newest assignment-to rule a province in peace - might finally be the death of her. She wasn't anticipating drawing the attention of her own monarch. And she certainly wasn't expecting to face off against him in a battle that will decide not just her own fate, and not just the fate of Shraeven Province... but of the world itself. The Godson's Triumph returns us to the world of Angharad Godkin and her comrades and concludes their epic journey. But who will be left standing when the fires burn out?
©2013 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2014 M.C.A. Hogarth
Dark Lighthouse
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After ferrying supplies to thirty-nine space stations, First Commander Taylitha Basil of the UAV Stardancer is ready to move on to something less dull... but it turns out the station commander at their final stop is a great sword-fighter, funny, handsome, interesting... ...and also human, one of the species that engineered her own race long ago. What do you feel about the people who played God?
©2010 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2014 M.C.A. Hogarth
Earthrise
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Reese Eddings has enough to do just keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to pay food for herself and her micro-crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to say "NO!" And then to remember that she sort of promised to repay the loan. But she doesn't remember signing up to tangle with pirates and slavers over a space elf prince…
©2013 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2013 M.C.A. Hogarth
Who Is Willing
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Alysha Forrest is looking forward to her assignment as the Songlance's newest lieutenant, particularly when it gets her placed as the liaison to the ship's water environment crewmembers. Interfacing with the mermaid-like Naysha and the alien Platies who serve as the ship's navigators is an exhilarating experience, and all the other officers on the crew are eager to welcome her into the fold...all of them, except one. Mike Beringwaite, the overbearing ensign who ruined their leadership retreat years earlier, has somehow made lieutenant, too. When a routine problem in the water environment throws them together, Alysha has to decide how willing she is to forgive him for what he did, whether she can work with him again, and most importantly, if she can trust him - with her life. The disaster at the leadership retreat is nothing to the one they have to handle now. If they can...
©2017 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2017 M.C.A. Hogarth
Either Side of the Strand
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When a routine mapping expedition uncovers what looks like ruins on the planet Theth-129, the crew of the Stardancer is thrilled to have something more exciting to do than catalog worlds only a terraformer could love. Their trip to the world’s surface confirms their wildest hopes: their ruins really were made by natives and abandoned long ago, a find of incredible significance. But there’s more to this world than an obelisk, a set of painted caves, and a mysterious shoreline. When the sea claims one of the 'Dancer’s senior officers, their investigation reveals that the lost civilization might not be quite so lost after all. Alysha Forrest and the crew of the Stardancer have no idea that their way of life is on trial. But before it’s over, they’ll be asked to prove themselves, and the fate of an entire world is resting on the outcome.... This first full-length novel in the Alysha Forrest series stands on its own, or can be enjoyed as part of the series (beginning with Alysha's Fall). It is part of the same universe (the Pelted) as Earthrise and Mindtouch.
©2010 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2018 M.C.A. Hogarth
A Rose Point Holiday
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With the Eldritch civil war over, a castle to renovate, and a wedding to prepare for, the last thing Reese is thinking about is taking a break. But the New Year is coming and the Eldritch take their holidays very seriously, so Reese decides it can't hurt to observe the local proprieties. Who knows? Maybe it'll make good practice for what Felith is calling the wedding of the century. Of course, that was before Reese realized it was going to involve gifts. And decorating. And a town full of recalcitrant Eldritch tenants who have no reason to trust her. A Rose Point Holiday is a short, pastoral novel set during the last days before Reese becomes Theresa Laisrathera Eddings, lady of Rose Point Castle and the surrounding lands of Firilith. The Eldritch have never seen a holiday quite like this one!
©2016 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2016 M.C.A. Hogarth
Rose Point
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Reese is only just getting used to running the Earthrise in the black-and with an Eldritch in her crew-when a trip to a colony world gives rise to a whole new problem: Hirianthial is showing powers that even the Eldritch rarely have, and that only in legend. He badly needs training, support and advice, and the only place he can find them is... at home. To see the world of the Eldritch is a once in a lifetime opportunity, a thing of fantasies and rumor. And to finally meet the Eldritch Queen, the author of so many of Reese's windfalls! You'd have to twist her arm to get her to admit it, but Reese can't wait to go. But a court out of fantasy and a breathtaking land aren't enough compensation when they come packaged with a rabidly xenophobic species whose world is falling apart. The last thing they want any part of is some mortal interloper. Is Reese ready for the Eldritch world? Better to ask: are they ready for her? Book 2 of the Her Instruments trilogy, which begins with Book 1, Earthrise.
©2013 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2014 M.C.A. Hogarth
Alysha's Fall
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What is the definition of strength? At what point is there nothing more to learn than the limits of endurance? When is darkness no longer a contrast to light but a suffocation, and how close to that line can a person walk before she risks her soul? Ten years after she graduated from the Fleet Academe at Terracentrus, Alysha Forrest was captain of the battlecruiser UAV Stardancer with more honor to her name than any other officer her age. But before that dawn there was a night, and it is in the darkness that souls are made...or broken.
©2000 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2015 M.C.A. Hogarth
Sword of the Alliance
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War is a serious violation of the Alliance’s colony charters, so when the Stardancer is sent to investigate rumors of a conflict on the distant colony of Gledig, they’re not expecting to be mired in a web of deceit, treachery, and tragedy...one involving not just the colony, but pirates and a missing Fleet officer. Even worse, the evidence suggests Fleet itself might have had a hand in creating the situation about to erupt on the ground. But while the conflict might have been decades in the making, time is running out for Gledig, and only Fleet can save the colony from the culmination of the forces working against it now. The fate of thousands hangs in the balance. Can the crew of the Stardancer redeem the honor of the Fleet...before it’s too late?
©2018 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2018 M.C.A. Hogarth
The Admonishments of Kherishdar
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In Kherishdar, when a person commits a crime, they become their sin.... Suicide. Rape. Child Abuse. Addiction. Twenty-five crimes. Twenty-five stories. Twenty-five narrators...and one minister over them all, to judge, convict, and correct the faulty: the priest who serves shame. This companion volume to The Aphorisms of Kherishdar explores the wayward and their journey back to society, offering another glimpse into the Ai-Naidari culture. A darker, more difficult glimpse... Without shame, there is no civilization. Note: contains content some may find disturbing.
©2012 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2012 M.C.A. Hogarth
Black Blossom
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The high priest of Shame in Kherishdar is shattering, and the only thing between him and his ruin is the gentle Calligrapher, Farren Nai'Sheviet-osulkedi. When they are dispatched by the god of Civilization to Qenain, the House of Flowers, they find it in disorder, having fallen prey to a mysterious influence...an alien influence...a human one. Can one man heal Shame in time to save him and Qenain both? Or will they both fail? And what will happen in - and to - the House of Flowers? Black Blossom is a genteel, conversational fantasy of society, culture...and the perversions that threaten them.
©2012 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2021 M.C.A. Hogarth
The Aphorisms of Kherishdar
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For the Ai-Naidar, a species of slim, gracile aliens, caste and tradition are not the shackles that imprison the spirit, but the silences that make sense of the music of their lives. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar collects 25 short tales about what it is to have an Ai-Naidari soul: to find comfort in tradition, law and structure; to revere interdependence over individualism; to know one's place...to always have one. Book one of the Books of Kherishdar invite you into a rich and mannered alien world. Listen in order for the deepest immersion. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar The Admonishments of Kherishdar Black Blossom Kherishdar's Exception
©2012 M.C.A. Hogarth (P)2012 M.C.A. Hogarth