Lisa S. Ware has narrated 16 audiobooks on Listento.it by 9 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 7 ratings. The most-rated is City of Champions Online: Complete.
City of Champions Online: Complete
Summary
Having found the tragic truth that an art degree is worth less than the paper it is printed on, Jacquelyn Jones is frustrated with her dead end work as a graphic designer for a marketing firm, finding new ways to try and convince people that this week's 50 cent off sale is actually worth driving to the store. She's tried other VRMMORPGs, but they've all been fantasy-based, with a couple sci-fi games thrown in. But she wants something more, something Super.
Superhero VRMMOs have had a...subpar reception in the past, in part due to the fact that the nature of most MMOs makes for fairly unheroic tales. After the couple hundredth time blasting the same group of mooks from the same faction on the same street corner of the same city, using the same powerset as everyone else because you only have a few options, it is hard to think of yourself as a hero anymore.
But then she heard about City of Champions Online. For the first time, a developer partnered with a tabletop RPG maker to use their system to create a VRMMORPG, and it was one of the systems designed to be used with superhero games! And despite the name, there was no getting stuck in the same city as all the other players. The game world was a detailed replica of the real world, down to having some of the same shops and restaurants in town. She could be whoever she wanted, whatever she wanted.
Now, she just has to find a way to become the heroine she's always wanted to be.
The world of CoC is not a happy one, but it is not grimdark, either. It is like the world we live in, but with superheroes and game-like elements, where the ones regarded as heroes aren't always the most heroic amongst us. While the main characters in CoC are not as...extreme as those in my other stories, and at least try to be heroes, there is material some will find disturbing.
This is a compilation of Issues 1-5 of City of Champions Online.
©2019 Stuart Grosse (P)2019 Stuart Grosse
Enslaved by the Alien Dragon: A SciFi Alien Romance
Summary
Survivor. Slave. Worthless human jinx... After Yvette causes a fatal disaster at a slave auction, her Pax owners give her away to the nearest buyer just to get rid of her. Her dragon captor is huge and domineering, with just a hint of vulnerability that calls to her. Yvette shouldn’t want to bring any warmth to his life, but the longer she spends with him, the more she wonders what’s hiding under her warrior’s grumpy exterior. He’ll lead his people to glory... Ranel is no stranger to heartbreak. He’s closed himself off rather than once more risk suffering the shattering intimacy that love and loss bring. Who needs love when there’s a war against the Pax to be won? This gruff old dragon doesn’t have time for a weak lover or a soft heart, even if something inside of him yearns for the sweetness that his newest slave offers. Yvette’s strength is well hidden, tamped down by the Pax who once held her captive, but as it begins to peek through, Ranel knows that Yvette is the person who belongs by his side. Her body may belong to him, but he’s determined to claim her heart. The Pax will stop at nothing to see Ranel’s people destroyed and their hopes dashed. Ranel and Yvette will need to rely on one another if they are going to survive the war and find a love neither of them thought possible.
©2019 Special Fiction Books (P)2020 Special Fiction Books
Taken by the Alien Dragon: A SciFi Alien Romance
Summary
He betrayed his people for nothing.... Moddoc’s people can never know the reason for why he hesitated to sound the alarm during a devastating battle. When he falls into the clutches of human pirate Essie Black, he knows no one is coming to his rescue. Even though she’s his enemy, she lights a fire inside his cold dragon’s heart that he’ll have to ignore. And he’ll have to bide his time if he’s going to make it off her ship in one piece. Her laughter brings destruction.... There’s no honor in picking over a fleeing army for the best bits of loot. Who needs it when there are drakons to capture? With Moddoc at her mercy, Essie will gleefully bring the Hielsrane to their knees. But when the tables are turned and the slave collar is around her neck, she finds herself on the steamy end of a scorching draconic seduction. Moddoc has the kind of drive that Essie admires, and the drakon could learn a thing or two from Essie’s determined attitude. The longer they spend with one another, the more they realize their bond goes deeper than the tangled game of power and lust they meant to play. With Moddoc’s dark secret hanging over his head, the Pax might not be their biggest worry. If they are going to survive the anger of their allies and the ferocity of their enemies they will need to rely on each other and work together to carve out the shape of their own future.
©2019 Special Fiction Books (P)2020 Special Fiction Books
Saved by the Alien Dragon
Summary
She’s as disposable as the next slave... Inescapable violence and misery are part of life on the lousy rock that Pax slavers dumped her on. Natalie’s only hope for survival is to prove she’s irreplaceable to her owners. But when the planet comes under attack and her captors are killed, Natalie begins to dream of things she thought were impossible. Freedom. And the drakon commander who makes her burn. He’s ready to show his commanders what he’s made of... Dashel is the youngest co-commander in the Hielsrane fleet. He’s smart and ambitious, but struggling to shoulder the heavy expectations of his new position. When he finds Natalie, she burns with an inner strength as fiery as any drakon. Their bond is swift and hot, and with her at his side, he can find his footing and his voice. But his youth is working against him, with some in the fleet just waiting for him to make a mistake. And when everything comes to a head, his inexperience might lead his crew and his woman to ruin. Saved by the Alien Dragon is an alien science fiction romance featuring a dragon-shifting alien warrior and the human woman who tames him. This steamy listen is for adults only!
©2019 Special Fiction Books (P)2020 Special Fiction Books
Kidnapped by the Alien Dragon
Summary
The crazy-hot alien dragon says he just wants to help. Before the Pax kidnapped her to sell at auction, Lara was one of Hollywood’s most valuable starlets. But a flair for the dramatic won’t get her out of this mess. Lara’s on stage without a script - confused, lost, and relying on an alluring dragon-man who seems to like her spirit. An ambitious dragon built for conquest. Lehar is second-in-command of the Hielsrane fleet. And still, this dragon wants more. He’s built for looting, not love, and he’s ready to use his ruthless edge to catapult himself to the position of commander, even if he has to steal the spot. Yet, when a slave’s rebellion catches his eye, something ignites deep in his chest. Lust, he understands, but the human woman conjures something he hasn’t felt before, something he shouldn’t be capable of feeling. He’ll have to keep her close to make sense of it all, and her amusing antics and tempting body make that no hardship. But Lara is determined to get home, even if that means going through the captivating alien who just might be on her side. Is she merely his plaything? Or is there something more between them? If Lehar thinks he can keep her as a docile pet, he’ll soon learn that Lara is nobody’s fool. Kidnapped by the Alien Dragon is an alien science fiction romance featuring a dragon-shifting alien warrior and the human woman who tames him. This steamy listen is for adults only!
©2019 Special Fiction Books (P)2020 Special Fiction Books
Captured by the Alien Dragon
Summary
I met an alien. He is mindscorchingly hot. I actually think I am falling for him. There's only one problem. He is my alien slave master, and I am trying to escape. Carissa I’ve never known Earth. Or freedom. Both were taken from me when I was too young to remember. But I know exactly what the latest alien scumbags to buy me have in mind, the moment I hear the word “fertile". Desperation’s the mother of invention, and one easily seduced guard later, I’m escaping to finally live on my own terms. To find my mom - my one connection to a planet I’ll probably never see. The only person who’s ever given a damn about me. It’s all that keeps me going. The source of every last drop of energy I eke out of this miserable existence, when I have so many reasons to just give up and fade away. Like my crap luck. Reason infinity why I should just pop out the airlock of my stolen ship and say, “Sayonara, universe! PS: You suck.” My first escape attempt that’s ever resulted in an actual escape, and I run smack into one of the most infamous dragon shapeshifters in the galaxy. But I haven’t come this far just to give up. I escaped once, I can do it again. And no smug, self-impressed alien edgelord is going to stop me. Even if he is so mindscorchingly hot, it makes my brain bleed to think of choosing to deprive myself of the eye candy. The universe had years to try and keep me down. You think one little dragon’s gonna do any better Fine. One really big dragon. Whatever. Bring it. Tarion We dragons are a simple people with simple philosophies. Like, why ask for something you can simply take? The rest of the galaxy tends to be too busy fleeing from us in terror to answer that, so I assume they agree. Until Carissa Maeberry. The most baffling creature in existence, she doesn’t seem to get how this works. I have claws. Fire. A ruthless crew. She has an admittedly tragic backstory and a slave collar. The scales aren’t exactly balanced. And yet, to see her defiance, you’d think she held all the cards. It’s absurd and breath-taking all at once. Which is why when others try and take my rarest of treasures from me, I must protest. Vigorously. I did mention the claws and fire and ruthless crew, did I not? Please note: This sci-fi romance has all the action and adventure you could ask for, both in battle and in bed. Please be 18 and up if you're planning to listen to how this beauty tames her savage beast...or, is it the other way around?
©2019 Special Fiction Books (P)2019 Special Fiction Books
Conquered by The Alien Dragon
Summary
She won’t be any alien’s tame plaything... The Pax barely have time to slap a slave collar around newly minted doctor Leticia Oslo’s throat before Illswing Nevrin-Hielsrane takes her for himself. He’s brash, arrogant, and not even human, but their battles go from hateful to heated quickly enough to leave scorch marks and Leti can’t help but want more. A nameless dragon on a mission...A smearling like Illion isn’t respected in Hielsrane society, as if it’s his fault he has no father. But when Illion is presented with the opportunity to prove himself and bring essential resources to his people, he knows he’s up to the task. And he’s not about to let a weak little human stop him, no matter how much he wants to bury himself in her heat. Chasing glory isn’t as easy as it seems, and there are enemies lurking around every corner, even in his crew. It’s only Leti’s quick thinking and medical know-how that save Illion from certain doom. And her knowledge and fervent kisses convince him that he needs her as his mate. Time is running short to find what they’re looking for, and Illion is at risk of failing before he’s begun. He won’t let anything stand in his way. Not when he has a brilliant woman at his side and the weight of his people’s expectations on his shoulders. He’s going to find water, claim the girl, and prove once and for all that he’s more than some nameless drakon screw-up.
©2019 Special Fiction Books (P)2020 Special Fiction Books
The Cosmos
Summary
The author places us in the middle of the cosmos right from the start. The story is futuristic but not necessarily true science fiction. It could be now! What dangers lurk in the cosmos? What dangers are from Earth? How mysterious is that unknown dark abyss of space? Look up. See yourself! Visualize your future; it could be sooner than you think. This story relates to you; your future. Feel yourself inside the character's magnetic space boots and experience the cosmos...but be careful of the symbol situation. "....This Captain, and gentlemen, is the nebula commonly referred to as the Medusa of the Universe. It has fingers and snake-looking things at the very top of it. Those squiggly things you can plainly see...are known as Vampire Stones. They group up. They swoop. They change directions on a whim. They are like locusts. They eat anything that gets in their way. They may include us in their diet...."
©2015 Jon Sniderman (P)2019 Jon Sniderman
Writing Ourselves Whole
Summary
Healing victims of sexual assault through transformative journaling: One in six women is the victim of sexual assault. Using her own hard-won wisdom, author Jen Cross shows how to heal through journaling and personal writing. Rape victims and victims of other sexual abuse: Writing Ourselves Whole is a collection of essays and creative writing encouragements for sexual trauma survivors who want to risk writing a different story. Each short chapter offers encouragement, experience, and exercises. How to change your life: When you can find language for the stories that are locked inside, you can change your life. Talk therapy can only go so far for the millions of Americans struggling in the aftermath of sexual abuse and sexual assault, as well as for their partners, families, and caregivers. Survivors of childhood sexual trauma are strong and vulnerable enough to bear witness to each other's truths, to share and learn new languages for our experiences, to throw over the simplistic “victim” and “survivor” narratives that permeate mainstream media in favor of narratives that are fragmented, complicated, messy, and ultimately more whole. What you'll learn inside Writing Ourselves Whole: How to reconnect with your creative instinct through freewriting How freewriting can help you reclaim the parts of yourself, and your history, that you were never supposed to be able to name How "restorying" the old myths about sexual trauma survivors can set you free How a consistent writing practice can help reconnect you with your creative genius How (and why) to make writing part of your regular self-care routine - and why, if you don’t have a self-care routine, it’s time to develop one Why writing about your desires is at least as important as writing about violence The profound joy and power of writing in community and solidarity with other survivors
©2017 Mango Publishing (P)2019 Mango Publishing
Galactic Alpha's Conquest
Summary
From Book 1: I met an alien. He is mind-scorchingly hot. I actually think I am falling for him. One problem…he is my alien slave master and I am trying to escape. Carissa I’ve never known Earth. Or freedom. Both were taken from me when I was too young to remember. But I know exactly what the latest alien scumbags to buy me have in mind, the moment I hear the word “fertile”. Desperation’s the mother of invention, and one easily seduced guard later, I’m escaping to finally live on my own terms. To find my mom, my one connection to a planet I’ll probably never see. The only person who’s ever given a damn about me. It’s all that keeps me going. The source of every last drop of energy I eke out of this miserable existence, when I have so many reasons to just give up and fade away. Like my crap luck. Reason infinity why I should just pop out the airlock of my stolen ship and say “Sayonara universe, PS you suck”. My first escape attempt that’s ever resulted in an actual escape, and I run smack into one of the most infamous dragon shapeshifters in the galaxy. But I haven’t come this far just to give up. I escaped once, I can do it again. And no smug, self-impressed alien edgelord is going to stop me. Even if he is so mind scorchingly hot it makes my brain bleed to think of choosing to deprive myself of the eye candy. The universe had years to try and keep me down. You think one little dragon’s gonna do any better? Fine. One really big dragon. Whatever. Bring it. Tarion We dragons are a simple people, with simple philosophies. Like why ask for something you can simply take? The rest of the galaxy tends to be too busy fleeing from us in terror to answer that, so I assume they agree. Until Carissa Maeberry. The most baffling creature in existence, she doesn’t seem to get how this works. I have claws. Fire. A ruthless crew. She has an admittedly tragic backstory and a slave collar. The scales aren’t exactly balanced. And yet to see her defiance, you’d think she held all the cards. It’s absurd and breath-taking all at once. Which is why when others try and take my rarest of treasures from me, I must protest. Vigorously. I did mention the claws and fire and ruthless crew, did I not?
©2020 Special Fiction Books (P)2021 Special Fiction Books
A Woman's Way Through the Twelve Steps
Summary
Women's recovery can differ from men's, and each person's recovery is in many ways unique. That's why Stephanie Covington has designed A Women's Way Through the Twelve Steps to help a woman find her own path - and find it in terms especially suited to the way women experience not just addiction and recovery but also relationships, self, sexuality, and everyday life. Unlike many ''rewritten'' Twelve Step interpretations for women, this guide works with the original step language, preserving its spirit and focusing attention on its healing message. This compilation of a diverse group of real women's voices and wisdom illuminates how women understand the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and offers inspiring stories of how they have traveled through the steps and discovered what works for them. The book can be used alone or as a companion to The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. By drawing attention to how recovery raises special issues for women - from questions about sexuality and relationships to essential topics such as powerlessness, spirituality, and trauma - A Woman's Way empowers women to take ownership of their recovery and to grow and flourish in sobriety.
©1994 Stephanie S. Covington (P)2019 Stephanie S. Covington
Legal Reserves
Summary
A significant trial looms. The two lawyers and the judge all have major reasons to worry: Jeri Richards, a newbie judge, is presiding over her first trial concerned she is too inexperienced to handle it. Mike Reigert, the plaintiff’s attorney, must try his biggest case because his client refuses the department store’s huge settlement offers - just to make sure that what they did to her won’t ever happen to anyone else.
The company’s attorney, Jack Rogers, is told that he must win this trial or face banishment from his law firm.If that weren’t enough, the three of them have been best friends since their first day of law school. Back then, they were the cream of their law school and thought their legal careers would involve nothing but success.
Now, they aren’t so sure. Jeri adored her two friends in law school. They helped her overcome the trauma of almost being raped. After graduating, she prosecuted the scum that preyed on the weak and became the youngest judge in her county. Mike was planning to work in Geneva stopping international terrorism, but his uncle convinced him to help in his small practice in a sleepy town outside of Pittsburgh. Mike itches for more responsibility and finally comes to represent a woman mercilessly chained to a table until she confessed to a crime.
Jack craves the big money he would make if he became a partner at his huge law firm, and is willing to do anything to make it happen. Now five years after graduating from law school they are thrown back together on opposite sides of a trial where Mike’s client seeks to regain her life while Jack will not stop to make sure the company prevails. Jeri watches as the battles between her two buddies escalate until she has to intervene to protect the life of one of her friends.
©2018 James Rosenberg (P)2019 James Rosenberg
Snatched by the Alien Dragon
Summary
She’ll make any deal for her freedom.... Abducted from her father’s mansion and detained with a slave collar, Talia Monroe won’t be held back for long. She has a long history of wheeling and dealing, and someone must be ready to bargain. But when a haughty drakon prince shows up and sweeps her into his fiery embrace, the rules of the game suddenly change, and she’ll have to come up with a new strategy. Talia knows Rethryn isn’t about to grant her freedom, so she’s not above manipulating him to escape. But the longer they’re together, the more their similarities shine. Their compatibility is combustible when their arguments take on a carnal edge. Rethryn has no use for a human lover, and Talia only wants to get home. But Rethryn can see the benefit of a claiming a cunning mate, and Talia is carving a place for herself in the drakon world that is more satisfying than she ever imagined on Earth. Betrayal lurks around the corner and threatens their bond. Can a drakon prince love a human slave? And can he trust her when his future and her freedom are on the line?
©2019 Special Fiction Books (P)2020 Special Fiction Books
Primary Termination: The Tanya Teal Corporate War Chronicles
Summary
You can’t escape the corporation! In the year 2028, a massive online corporation called Everest.Com will control everything we buy, including books, food, medical care, police protection, religion, political affiliations...Everything! When Senior Acquisitions editor, Tanya Teal, is fired from the last remaining NYC publishing house due to overwhelming competition from Everest.com's Cradle Direct Publishing service, she finds herself having to move back in with her parents in Upstate New York. Since she'll be hard pressed to ever find another editing job again, they persuade her to join the Everest Primary Program, which guarantees a living wage so long as she purchases Everest products exclusively. But after rekindling her love affair with an old boyfriend, Tony Smart, who is a Cradle Direct Publishing best seller, they drink a few too many and decide to visit one of their old haunts, Gus's Hotdog Shack. They know it's illegal, since they are both Primary Members, but what can one hotdog hurt? That one simple decision leads to their Primary Termination and a horrific hunt on behalf of the Everest Police that begins inside Tanya's own Everest AI-monitored home and that leads up into the mountains and the home of the Everest Resistance. It also leads to a stunning revelation over the precise fate of terminated members - the prisons they are incarcerated in and the massive fulfillment centers where they are used as slave labor. Part cyberpunk thriller, part dystopian apocalyptic puse-resistant, part romantic suspense, part paranoid military adventure, and even part alternate reality, Primary Termination is a three novel series that’s a direct if not frightening reflection on the realities of present day and near future global commerce, not to mention all knowing AI development and personal date storage. Think the Matrix meets The Hunger Games or Logan’s Run meets The Man in the High Castle. From New York Times and USA Today best-selling thriller award winning author, Vincent Zandri, comes a new thriller that is a direct reflection of the digital, big brother/big sister times we are living in.
©2019 Vincent Zandri (P)2019 Vincent Zandri
Self Esteem for Women
Summary
Self-esteem is a complicated beast. After all, if you don’t have it then it can be difficult to build it up from scratch. Difficult doesn’t mean impossible, however, and if you are willing to put in the effort to improve your life then Self-Esteem for Women: Stop Hurting Yourself and Become the Real You! can give you the tools you need to change yourself for the better. Self-esteem is a multifaceted feeling which is why you will find in this book various different ways you can work to build your self-esteem to new heights, starting by learning to love yourself. Next you will learn about all the benefits that come along with a high level of emotional intelligence as well as several exercises to help you improve your own. With this done, it will time to tackle improving your mindset once and for all so that you don’t end up back in the same place again later down the line. When it comes to reasons that prevent women from having the level of self-esteem that they deserve, a surprisingly diverse number of them all have the same root cause. Specifically, the person in question doesn’t really love themselves and that fact is manifesting itself in a way (or numerous ways) that those around them are likely to pick up on even if they aren’t automatically aware of it. What this means, is the first thing you are going to need to do if you hope to improve your self-esteem is to take a long hard look at yourself for the purpose of cataloging your flaws. If there are some that you are comfortable keeping around, or otherwise can’t get rid of, then you need to learn to accept them, otherwise, it is time to clean house and start working on becoming the best version of yourself that you can be. Regardless of the reasons you may have lost your self-esteem, now is the time to put them in the past, and start living for the future. So, what are you waiting for? Start building your self-esteem right now, and buy this book today!
©2018 Heidi C. Weston (P)2018 Heidi C. Weston
Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South
Summary
White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order, especially the young members of the next generation. White children rested at the core of the system of segregation between 1890 and 1939 because their participation was crucial to ensuring the future of white supremacy. Their socialization in the segregated South offers an examination of white supremacy from the inside, showcasing the culture's efforts to preserve itself by teaching its beliefs to the next generation. In Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South, author Kristina DuRocher reveals how white adults in the late 19th and early 20th centuries continually reinforced race and gender roles to maintain white supremacy. DuRocher examines the practices, mores, and traditions that trained white children to fear, dehumanize, and disdain their black neighbors. The book combines an analysis of the remembered experiences of a racist society, how that society influenced children, and, most importantly, how racial violence and brutality shaped growing up in the early 20th century South. The book is published by The University Press of Kentucky. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. "Thoroughly exposes a crippled southern society in the wake of the Civil War." (Southern Historian) "DuRocher's study promises a great deal. Her thoughtful analysis frequently offers valuable observations about children's experiences." (Ohio Valley History) "Hard-hitting...reveals the multiple interlocking and mutually reinforcing methods white Southerners used to perpetuate white supremacy in the post-Reconstruction South." (Register of the Kentucky Historical Society)
©2011 The University Press of Kentucky (P)2019 Redwood Audiobooks