Tarah Benner has 16 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators. The most-rated is Colony's End.
Desolation
Summary
How far would you go to avenge your mother’s death? Six months ago, Bernie was just an average college student. She spent her weekends staging campus protests and gorging on burritos at El Taco Loco. But when her mother died after a long battle with cancer, Bernie became convinced that the oil refinery near their home was responsible. The company is facing a major lawsuit, and at the epicenter of the scandal is Brian Bodetski - the wealthy, charismatic CEO. Bernie is determined to avenge her mother’s death, but that determination quickly morphs into an obsession with ruining Mr. Bodetski’s life. To make him pay, she’ll have to get close to his family, break the law, and cross lines she never even imagined.
©2017 Tarah Benner (P)2021 Podium Audio
Outbreak
Summary
Don't miss the third chapter of The Fringe - the heart-pounding series dystopian fans are raving about. When Harper and Celdon escaped to compound 119, they thought they had a chance to start a new life away from Constance. What they found instead was a desolate wasteland ravaged by death. Now they have no choice but to return to their home compound, where things have never been worse. The drifters are plotting a large-scale attack out on the Fringe, and Jayden is speeding up deployments to secure the perimeter. She's ordered Eli to kill the drifters' leaders - including his estranged older brother. Eli would do anything to protect Owen, but every choice has its consequences. Saving his brother means turning his back on Harper, and keeping the drifters' secret means putting thousands of lives at risk.
©2015 Tarah Benner (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Lifeless
Summary
The world as they know it is gone. Survival is the only law. When Lark and Soren escaped from San Judas, all they wanted was their freedom. Soren was desperate to rescue his younger brother from an abusive guardian, and Lark ached for a fresh start in life. What they found instead was a world destroyed - a country ravaged by drought, famine, and violent storms. Ghost towns line the highway, houses lay abandoned, and the few people who remain are struggling to survive. Lark is reeling from the loss of her best friend, and Soren will stop at nothing to find his brother. But when the gang is taken hostage by an ex-Marine and his family of misfits, they learn a disturbing truth about San Judas and the broken world that remains.
©2017 Tarah Benner (P)2017 Podium Publishing
Ruthless
Summary
When Lark, Soren, and Axel disappear from Kingsville, Bernie learns that her friends have been captured by Homeland Security. They're being detained at Cheyenne Mountain Complex, an impenetrable government fortress where prisoners have been known to disappear. Homeland Security wants information on GreenSeed, but Soren is still reeling from his discovery in Kingsville. He's combative and inconsolable, while Axel is determined to block the government at every turn. Lark is desperate to negotiate their freedom, but she doesn't know whom she can trust. When the agents come to Lark with an offer, she'll have to make a choice that carries monumental consequences: Risk her freedom in exchange for Soren's and Axel's, or sentence them all to a life behind bars.
©2018 Podium Publishing; 2017 Tarah Benner
Colony World
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Three years after a heartbreaking defeat, Maggie’s world is unrecognizable. She’s gone underground to hide from Mordecai. Her career as a journalist is over. She’s scrubbing toilets in a seedy hotel just to make ends meet. Mordecai’s vision for bot domination has brought the country to its knees. An attack on Congress and a humanoid army has shrouded Maggie’s city in fear. Tripp is a hostage on his own space station, forced to finance Mordecai’s campaign of terror. Maggie, Ping, and Alex are fighting from the shadows, but Maggie can’t escape the wounds of her past. When she receives a message from Tripp, she puts a dangerous plan into motion. The mission could thwart Mordecai’s global ambitions and stop the spread of bots. But when Maggie gets a visit from a mysterious stranger, her entire world is turned upside down. Overnight she becomes the most hunted woman alive and learns a shocking truth.
©2019, 2020 Tarah Benner (P)2021 Tarah Benner
Annihilation
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Eli and Harper have fled the compound - running from people who once fought by their side. Owen has been captured, Sawyer is infected, and Celdon is facing a crisis of conscience. When Eli gets wind of an attack that puts Owen's life in jeopardy, everything changes. Eli is determined to rescue his brother, but Harper will have to make a choice: follow Eli along on a suicide mission or push forward without him to find a cure. In the heart-pounding final chapter of The Fringe, relationships will be tested, friends will perish, and the war-torn desert will burn.
©2016 Tarah Benner (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Dauntless
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Lark is on the run again, pursued by the same agents who betrayed her. She broke the rules. She has blood on her hands. And she has something they want desperately. When the gang’s helicopter crashes while landing in the Rio Grande, all their troubles come to a head. Soren is haunted by his discovery at Cheyenne Mountain. His grief is making him bitter and distant, and Lark fears the chasm growing between them. Homeland Security is closing in, and they will stop at nothing to bring Lark into custody. She and her friends hold the key to ending the famine - a secret GreenSeed kept hidden from the world. But as their situation grows more precarious, Lark realizes she must choose: Turn her back on an unkind world, or expose herself to her enemies and risk a lifetime behind bars. Don’t miss the electrifying conclusion to the Lawless Saga!
©2017 Tarah Benner (P)2018 Podium Publishing
Exposure
Summary
Don't miss the much-anticipated sequel to Recon! When Harper discovered the truth about Bid Day, she inadvertently painted a target on her back. Now Constance, the infamous espionage unit, wants her and her friends kept quiet at all costs. She and Eli are being sent out into the Fringe, where they'll face damaging radiation and violent gangs of survivors and be forced to fulfill Recon's sinister duty. After her first deployment goes bad, Harper is racked with guilt and paralyzed by fear. Out there it's kill or be killed, but the real danger is inside the compound. Eli is determined to protect Harper, but that means tearing down the walls he's worked so hard to build. The only way to avoid a brutal death on the Fringe and escape Constance's control is to flee to a neighboring compound. Eli wants to risk it all for Harper, but to choose her, he'll also have to give up his only connection to his past.
©2015 Tarah Benner (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Aether Witch
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Premonitions of death. Murder in a small town. A killer is on the loose, and the coven fears it might be one of their own. The Grimes sisters aren’t normal — even by witches’ standards. For weeks, Fiona has been having chilling visions of death, and Eleanor sees restless spirits nearly everywhere she goes. It doesn’t help that Mountain Shadow is a strange place to begin with, where rumors of curses fly as fast as salt-water taffy on a warm summer day. When a string of gruesome murders rocks the small town, Fiona and the rest of her coven begin to worry that a fellow witch may be the killer. Even worse? A witch hunter has just moved in next door, and he suspects the coven. When it seems that Eleanor might be the next victim, it will take an unlikely alliance and all the witches’ combined powers to stop the killer before it’s too late. Aether Witch is Charmed meets Gilmore Girls. If you love a dark supernatural mystery with witty banter and unforgettable small-town characters, this book is for you!
©2020 Tarah Benner (P)2020 Tarah Benner
Colony One
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Maggie Barnes is at the end of her rope. She’s young and broke living in New York, and her newspaper job has been taken by robots. When she’s offered a job aboard the first civilian space colony, Maggie thinks it’s her lucky break. For Jonah Wyatt, the Space Force is his last shot at a military career. After years of tracking down the members of a deadly cyberterrorism ring, he was discharged from the army and stuck working one menial job after another. Now this disgraced combat specialist is headed to space. At first glance, Elderon seems to be a futuristic utopia: Bots do the laundry, meat comes from a lab, and the latest technology expands the scope of human capability. But as Maggie digs deeper, she realizes that Elderon is not at all what it seems. When she receives a tip from an unknown source, she’ll go undercover to learn the truth and place herself in the crosshairs of an all-out war.
©2018 Tarah Benner (P)2020 Tarah Benner
Colony War
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An army of bots is roaming the space station - hijacked by a terrorist inside BlumBot International. The bots share a hive mind that learns and adapts, making them the most deadly adversaries Jonah has ever faced. Jonah and Maggie are prepared to fight alongside the Space Force, but how can they defeat an army that never eats, never sleeps, and never grows tired? To protect the colony, they must join forces with Tripp Van de Graaf - the cocky young executive with dimples for days. Tripp makes no effort to hide his attraction toward Maggie, and Jonah hates him instantly. But Tripp’s company holds the key to defeating the bots: their human creator Ziva Blum. When Maggie, Tripp, and Jonah learn that more humanoids are hibernating on Earth, they must race to stop a madman bent on destruction and save the world from a robot apocalypse.
©2018 Tarah Benner (P)2020 Tarah Benner
Colony Assassin
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Maverick Enterprises has been reduced to rubble. Mordecai has fled from Earth. He's ensconced himself in a galactic fortress and surrounded himself with an army of bots. When Jonah is framed for the attack on Maverick, Maggie must go to Elderon alone. She is determined to clear Jonah's name and stop Mordecai's reign of tyranny, but a stowaway onboard the space station has her own ideas. Even worse, the US military is plotting an attack - one that could kill everyone on Elderon. To save the colony, Maggie and Tripp will forge a controversial alliance, and Jonah will make a choice that could have permanent consequences.
©2018 Tarah Benner (P)2020 Tarah Benner
Lockdown
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When two missing Recon operatives returned to the compound, speculations ran wild about where they had been. Harper is certain they're infected with a deadly virus, but she's locked away in the cages, facing 10 to 20 years behind bars. Blaze thinks Harper has a shot at being released, but nobody can save Eli from Constance. Jayden is torturing him for information on his brother's whereabouts, and as Constance's newest lackey, Celdon is caught in the middle. When an outside hacker breaches the compound's firewall, Celdon becomes an unwitting participant in the drifters' scheme to bring down Recon. In the explosive fourth chapter of The Fringe, bullets will fly, loyalties will be tested, and the compound will face a war on two fronts.
©2015 Tarah Benner (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Recon
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Eli knows corruption runs deep within the compound. It's a reality he's forced to confront every year on Bid Day. But when your job is to go out into the radiation-soaked Fringe so that others can live in peace, you don't ask too many questions. For Harper, the bid system works just fine. She's the best developer in her year, and she's confident she'll find a place among the wealthy, respected Systems workers. But when an upset in the bidding changes the course of Harper's future, she'll be forced to rely on an unlikely ally - dark, unreadable Eli Parker. In her search for answers, Harper will learn that in the compound, the truth doesn't set you free. It gets you killed.
©2014 Tarah Benner (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
Lawless
Summary
From the author of The Fringe comes an addictive new dystopian saga. When Lark was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, she thought San Judas was her lucky break. The primitive 16,000-acre community in rural New Mexico isn't like any other prison. There are no cells, there is no warden, and Mother Mercy is the law. She didn't realize she'd be fighting for survival on a daily basis - battling hunger, violent inmates, and Mother Mercy's iron fist. Lark's only friend is Bernie - an off-the-rails environmental activist doing time for arson - and a mysterious stranger who's been sending her illicit messages from the men's colony. Lark never thought escaping San Judas was possible until a message in a bottle changes everything: The guards outside the walls are disappearing, and the world as they know it is coming to an end.
©2016 Tarah Benner (P)2017 Podium Publishing
Colony's End
Summary
She made her choice. She took a stand. Now she must face the consequences. After a failed overthrow attempt on Elderon, Maggie is Mordecai’s prisoner. Her trust in Jonah has been shattered, and now she finds herself questioning everything. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Tripp’s troubles are far from over. He has a plan to throw Mordecai’s fortress into chaos, but he’s being hunted by deadly assassins. When their actions trigger a disaster on Elderon, Maggie, Jonah, and Tripp will have to work together to defeat Mordecai and his army of bots. To dismantle the machine, they’ll have to target the man. But can they save Elderon and save the world? In this thrilling conclusion to The Elderon Chronicles, friendships will be tested, love will flicker and burn, and mankind’s greatest achievement could be its undoing.
©2020 Tarah Benner (P)2021 Tarah Benner