Rio Youers has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Westlake Soul.
Westlake Soul
Summary
"All superheroes get their powers from somewhere. A radioactive spider bite. A science experiment gone awry. I got mine from a surfing accident in Tofino. The ultimate wipeout. I woke up with the most powerful mind on the planet, but a body like a wet paper bag...." Meet Westlake Soul, a 23-year-old former surfing champion. A loving son and brother. But if you think he’s just a regular dude, think again; Westlake is in a permanent vegetative state. He can’t move, has no response to stimuli, and can only communicate with Hub, the faithful family dog. And like all superheroes, Westlake has an archenemy: Dr. Quietusa, nightmarish embodiment of Death itself. Westlake dreams of a normal life of surfing and loving again. But time is running out; Dr. Quietus is getting closer, and stronger. Can Westlake use his superbrain to recover - to slip his enemy’s cold embrace before it’s too late?
©2012 Rio Youers (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
The Forgotten Girl
Summary
A dark mystery unfolds in Rio Youers's riveting thriller, The Forgotten Girl. Harvey Anderson is a twenty-six-year-old street performer from New Jersey. He enjoys his peaceful life, but everything turns upside down when he is abducted and beaten by a group of nondescript thugs. Working for a sinister man known as "the spider," these goons have spent nine years searching for Harvey's girlfriend, Sally Starling. Now they think they know where she lives. And whom she loves. There's only one problem: Sally is gone and Harvey has no memory of her. Which makes no sense to him, until the spider explains that Sally has the unique ability to selectively erase a person's memories - an ability she has used to delete herself from Harvey's mind. But emotion runs deeper than memory, and Harvey realizes he still feels something for Sally. And so - with the spider threatening - he goes looking for a girl he loves but can't remember...and encounters a danger that reaches beyond anything he could ever imagine. Political corruption and manipulation. A serial killer's dark secrets. An appetite for absolute, terrible power. For Harvey Anderson, finding the forgotten girl comes at quite a cost.
©2017 Rio Youers (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Published by arrangement with St. Martin's Press.
Lola on Fire
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Arthur Ellis Award finalist Rio Youers combines vengeance and deceit, love and bullets, secrets, and twists in this high-octane action thriller with a vibrant emotional core. Brody Ellis is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the medication his sister, Molly, needs. Desperate, he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings. It’s Blair Mayo - the woman he bumped into - and she’s got the missing billfold. Brody will get it back, but only if he does her a favor: steal her late mother’s diamonds from her wicked stepmom. But when he gets to the house, he finds a gruesome crime scene - and a security camera. Brody knows he’s been framed. Back home, the terrified young man gets another call. The police won’t get the incriminating video footage, Blair says. Instead, her daddy, the notorious mobster Jimmy Latzo, will exact his own kind of revenge. Brody and Molly realize that they’ve become pawns in a mysterious game - one that involves a notorious enforcer named Lola Bear who brutally crossed paths with Jimmy Latzo 26 years before...a ghost from the past who is intimately connected to their lives.
©2021 Rio Youers (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
Halcyon
Summary
From the author of Westlake Soul and The Forgotten Girl
Halcyon is the answer for all Americans who want to escape, but paradise isn't what it seems...
A beautiful island in the middle of Lake Ontario - a self-sustaining community made up of people who want to live without fear, crime, or greed. Halcyon is run by Valerie Kemp, aka Mother Moon, benevolent and altruistic on the outside, but hiding an unimaginable darkness inside. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of Glam Moon, a place of eternal beauty and healing. And she believes the pathway there can only be found at the end of pleasure.
On the heels of tragedy, Martin Lovegrove moves his family to Halcyon. A couple of months, he tells himself, to retreat from the chaos and grind. He soon begins to suspect there is something beneath Halcyon’s perfect veneer and sets out to discover the truth - however terrible it might be - behind the island and its mysterious founder, Mother Moon.
Halcyon is Rio Youers' page-turning race against the clock in a world that eschews the limits of time.
©2018 Rio Youers (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Published by arrangement with St. Martin’s Press.
End Times
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Here there are angels. Here this is sin. Take my hand, let me show you salvation. The girl in the woods is back. She is beauty. She is vengeance. She is end times. Recovering heroin addict Scott Hennessey finds her, beguiling and mystical, floating in the rain. He is drawn into her embrace, and her body becomes his new obsession. But he senses her danger and knows she is linked to a past he has tried to forget - a past she will awaken with fire and passion. The memories return and with them, the darkness. On the precipice of despair, Scott must confront the shadows he has left behind. His ruined soul leads him from the cold city streets to the wild prairies of South Dakota, and Mia Floats Softly, his beautiful addiction, is with him every step of the way, haunting his heart and his dreams.
©2010 Rio Youers (P)2012 Audible, Inc.