Rachel Ford has 16 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is MarvelousCon & Tax Cons.
MarvelousCon & Tax Cons
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A routine tax audit. A panicked phone call. A senseless tragedy. He could have avoided it all. But Alfred Favero, Senior Analyst with the IRS, didn’t. To save the woman he loves, he must rewind time itself to learn the secrets that will claim her life. But fate isn’t done with him yet. To get to the truth, he must go undercover to a comic book convention. In costume, no less. The stakes couldn’t be higher. But Alfred is determined that his most challenging case yet will not be his last - because he’ll be darned if he’s going to die wearing pointy ears and face paint....
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2019 Rachel Ford
Lee Shores
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Sometimes still waters are the most dangerous. Murder turns a quiet month of shore leave into a nightmare for Chief Engineer Kay Ellis and Captain Magdalene Landon of the Black Flag. When a member of their crew is implicated in the killing of a young woman, the privateers find themselves pawns in an interplanetary diplomatic struggle that predates any of them. With little evidence to support their claims of innocence, an alien government eager to make examples of the human visitors, and the eyes of two superpowers watching their every move, every passing day brings them closer to ruin. If they don't find the real killer soon, they’ll swing for a crime they didn't commit. And the Union will be hung out to dry with them. Cover by May Dawney Designs.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2020 Rachel Ford
Time Slips & Tax Thieves
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A simple mistake. A slip through time and space. A strange new world. He should have been more careful. But Alfred Favero, Senior Analyst with the IRS, wasn’t. Now he’s stuck in a world of opposites, where everything he knows is called into question. To survive in Yngil-wode, the taxman must rely on a mysterious band of outlaws and tax thieves. But he risks getting drawn into a war with a tyrant. He risks sacrificing every principle he holds sacred. How far will a man of the law go to save his own neck? How far will he go to save the woman he loves? Alfred’s about to find out.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2019 Rachel Ford
Squire Derel
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In the fires of war and death, she'll make her own destiny. Ana Derel was never meant to be a knight protector. She was never meant to be a squire. She was supposed to marry well and raise sons who would become knight protectors. Ana had other plans. After years of hard work, Squire Ana Derel has earned the respect of her peers. She's a crack shot and lethal with a blade. She's weeks away from earning her own knighthood. Then a deadly ambush leaves her charred, defeated, and wanting justice. With the South readying for war and the North demanding answers, Squire Derel finds herself alone in the epicenter of the coming storm. Alone, until she meets the enigmatic Knight of the Shire. Will their unlikely friendship be enough to prevent a war? Or will war consume them, too?
©2020 Rachel Ford (P)2020 Rachel Ford
Absolution
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New wars and old conflicts. An empire reborn from blood and ash. Nikia Idan led an uprising that liberated the Tribari people. Brek Trigan saved his colony from starvation. Captain Drake Elgin protected the citizens of Central from loyalist forces. The worst was supposed to be behind them. When a loyalist fleet appears in Tribari airspace, the tenuous alliance between the military and parliament is strained to the point of breaking. Meanwhile, a rogue governor's quest for independence will put the empire's promise of freedom to the test. The decisions of these few will change the fate of many.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2019 Rachel Ford
Safe Passage
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Go big or go home. For privateer Captain Magdalene Landon, it's all about going big. For Kay Ellis, it's about getting home. Together, they're about to architect the most daring heist in the galaxy. Kay knows too much. She knows it’s a matter of time before a conglomerate hitman finds her. She’s desperate for safe passage back to Union space. Then Magdalene shows up, promising a way home in exchange for that information. It’s a risky bet, but Kay is out of options. So she strikes a deal: the heist of the century for her freedom. Kay is playing a dangerous game, and she knows it. She’s made herself enemy number one of the conglomerate. She’s relying on privateers for her safety. It’s a fool’s game. But the worst part is, her fool’s heart is starting to warm to the enigmatic captain. And that’s a risk for which she hadn’t planned.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2019 Rachel Ford
Crimson Yuletide
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"Autumn gone off to sleep And winter her secrets no more keep Rises he from the deep Flesh to flay and flesh to eat" Twelve days of Christmas. Twelve days of terror and death. An ancient evil prowls the quiet streets of Wixcombe. An old man is murdered in the town square. Children disappear in the night. Villagers report sightings of Krampus, the Christmas demon. For siblings Nan and William Fitzgerald, the season began with a promise of new loves and Christmas magic. But they find themselves in the eye of the storm when their godfather becomes the prime suspect in the killings. To protect both the women they love and their village, the siblings must discover Krampus’ true identity. But they might not like the answers they find...
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2020 Rachel Ford
UFOs & Unpaid Taxes
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A routine tax fraud investigation. A trip down the extraterrestrial highway. A chance encounter with a mysterious visitor from outer space. He should have left it there. But Alfred Favero, a senior analyst with the IRS, couldn’t. Now he’s suspended from work and on the run from shadowy government agents as he tries to protect an ambassador from another world. Meanwhile, an old friend is taking advantage of his absence to woo his sweetheart. Alfred’s life is falling apart. And things are only about to get stranger...
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2019 Rachel Ford
Catalyst
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For a week, Brek Trigan has left behind the frigid nights and icy days of life on the mining colony he calls home. He's on holiday to his ancestral planet, and he finds a sparkling, welcoming world of riches and warmth. But the longer he remains, the more he begins to see cracks in the glistening façade. When civil unrest erupts, Brek's plans for a peaceful getaway are dashed. Suddenly he's drawn into a conflict that will change the fate of his people, whether he wants to be or not.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2019 Rachel Ford
T-Rexes and Tax Law
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A routine tax fraud investigation. A strange lab. A mysterious button. He shouldn’t have pushed the button. But Alfred Favero, senior analyst with the IRS, pushed the button. And now he’s 67 million years in the past, stranded out of time with a coworker who hates him and a bunch of tax cheats. Oh, and then there’s the other inhabitants of his prehistoric home: the dinosaurs that want to make a meal of him. Things couldn’t get worse. Until a mysterious visitor from an uncertain future shows up with murder on his mind.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2019 Rachel Ford
Uprising
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A daughter of Grand Contributors. The wife of a reformer. A woman caught between worlds. Nikia Idan was raised in the glimmering spheres of society’s elite, but she traded it all for the love of a man who wants to change the Tribari empire. Her new reality is harsher than she ever imagined it could be. When her husband’s push for reform is met with brutal violence, her worlds will collide with a force that will either break her or the system that brought her to the point of breaking.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2019 Rachel Ford
Prison Break
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Mercy is weakness. Forgiveness is blasphemy. Sin is crime. The unholy trinity - monotheists, polytheists, and technotheists - rule in unison. Justice is not blind, but soulless. In a city of stratified wealth and endemic poverty, Father Edlin tries to make a difference. His little church and free clinics provide a flicker of hope to the downtrodden populace. But not for long. The men with guns show up, and it's only a matter of time before a forced confession of heresy is extracted. Now Father Edlin sits in a cell, awaiting the fulfillment of his death sentence. But somewhere in the night, a friend lurks, waiting for the chance to pay off an old debt.... A short story by Rachel Ford
©2018 Rachel Ford (P)2018 Rachel Ford
Mob Bosses & Tax Losses
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A decades-old case. A charismatic gumshoe. A sinister don. Alfred Favero, senior analyst with the IRS, shouldn’t have muddled the timeline. But curiosity got the better of him. There was killing and a cat involved, too, but he’d rather not talk about that. Suffice it to say, a mafia prince is dead, and Alfred is on the run through time with a wrongly accused detective. To unmask the men framing his new friend, he’ll tangle with New York City’s most sinister criminals. It’ll take all of his knowledge and investigations across multiple timelines to get to the bottom of it, before he finds himself sleeping with the fishes. Note: No pets are harmed in this book. The cat definitely does not die.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2020 Rachel Ford
Liberation
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A mutineer fleet commander. An abandoned miner. A reformer’s widow. A convicted Protector. Four destinies. One empire. From the frozen prison planets to the glistening streets of Central, corruption and cruelty is tearing the Tribari Empire apart. Four unlikely heroes find themselves on a collision course as they work to save their worlds. If they can’t find a way to bridge their differences, there may be no empire left to protect.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2019 Rachel Ford
The Tribari Freedom Chronicles Boxset
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Four destinies. One empire. Nikia Idan, the daughter of Grand Contributors and wife of a reformer. She thought she lost everything to the Supreme Leader’s regime. But there’s always more to give - and more to lose. Captain Drake Elgin, who swore to protect the people of Central. But what happens when the threat to the people is the Supreme Leader? Tal Imari, a disgraced protector and prisoner on a frozen world. He sacrificed his career to uphold the law. Now, he’s learning that prison isn’t the worst that could happen. To save himself, he’ll have step outside the law, forever. Brek Trigan, the miner who never meant to get mixed up in revolution. When Central abandons his colony to starvation and death, will his leadership be enough to save his people? From the frozen prison planets to the glistening streets of Central, corruption and cruelty are tearing the Tribari Empire apart. Four unlikely heroes find themselves on a collision course as they work to save their worlds. If they can’t find a way to bridge their differences, there may be no empire left to protect. The decisions of these few will change the fate of many. Includes all four books in the Tribari Freedom Chronicles series: Catalyst Uprising Liberation Absolution
©2020 Rachel Ford (P)2020 Rachel Ford
Firebird's Lair
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A mysterious warlock. A ruthless band of wyvern poachers. A marriage neither of them wants. Tsar Kirill’s only daughter is ailing. Poachers and robbers plague his kingdom. He doesn’t want a wife. Especially not that one. Tsarevna Yuliana has a home, already. She doesn’t want to leave everything she’s known and the seaside that she grew up by to start a new life in a strange land. Especially not with him. But Tsar Fyodor, his ally and her father, has other plans. He wants to forge an empire. And empire building by marriage is so much less taxing than empire building by war. Or so he thinks. First at odds, Yuliana and Kirill unite to outwit Fyodor and save themselves from his machinations. But as a mysterious sorcerer and a dangerous band of wyvern poachers threaten the future of both kingdoms, the two must risk everything - including their hearts - to save the hard-won peace. A humorous fantasy novel, full of lovable characters, dangerous villains, and laugh-out-loud moments.
©2019 Rachel Ford (P)2020 Rachel Ford