Maria Marquis has narrated 19 audiobooks on Listento.it by 8 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 5 ratings. The most-rated is INTEL 1.
INTEL 1
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"Stebbins is the master of the thinking reader's techno-thriller." - Internet Review of Books. Four action packed political thrillers. Three Armageddon scenarios. Two unusual love stories. One secretive intelligence branch. The INTEL 1 global thrillers. "A monster new talent in the thriller genre." - Allan Leverone, author of Final Vector. The Ragnarök Conspiracy: "Fortify your shelf of Armageddon thrillers with this promising newcomer." - Library Journal. A Western terrorist organization targets Muslims around the world, and FBI agent John Savas must put aside the loss of his son and work with a man who symbolizes all he has come to hate. Both are drawn into a race against time to stop the plot of an American bin Laden and prevent a global catastrophe. "Outrageously entertaining: epic, explosive, subversive, engaged, and compassionate, like a Michael Bay movie written by Aaron Sorkin." - Chris Brookmyre, author of Where The Bodies Are Buried. Extraordinary Retribution: Murder, torture, and vengeance collide to threaten the highest echelons of power. "Startlingly dark" - San Francisco/Sacramento Book Reviews. "A labyrinth of highly charged action" - Tome Tender. "A plot that never stops" - ForeWord Reviews. Evil is not born of madness, but madness of evil. Follow a rogue CIA agent who uncovers a shocking conspiracy, deep in the intelligence community. But a shadow follows the investigation: a killer bent on a revenge so terrible, it is only matched by the crimes committed against him. In the end, no one escapes unscathed, no beliefs will go unchallenged, and no wrong will escape the terrible, final, and extraordinary retribution.
©2016 Erec Stebbins (P)2017 Erec Stebbins
Cat Magic
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Some people in Maywell, New Jersey, commute to New York. Some are working on a lab project that will change the world - if it is allowed to succeed. And some people are witches. Amanda Walker is not a witch - yet. She's an artist, looking for work - unaware that someone has a desperate need for her, a dark plan that may require Amanda to enter death itself. If she is allowed to live long enough to make the choice. Amanda's tale is far stranger than she knows. It is ancient beyond memory. In times of great change it must be relived, in all its fear and hope, its wisdom and its passion. One of those times is now.
©1986 Walker & Collier (P)2015 David N. Wilson
A Diamond in My Pocket
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After breaking the 100m world record, 16-year-old Calli is whisked away to a secret facility where she's placed with other teens who possess superhuman speed. She soon finds herself in a deadly situation involving other superpowers, a magical diamond, and a centuries-old clan vying for world domination. Calli will have to rely on her quick wit and gut instinct to navigate her new world, which includes secretly carrying a power-infusing diamond, all the while steering clear of the young man who mistakenly believes she's his soul mate. Book one of The Unaltered series introduces a secret universe existing within our own. In this world, cosmic energy grants superhuman abilities, and people of like ability band together in clans for both safety and community. Flesh-ripping demons prowl at night, drawn to the cosmic energy. Governments spy on clans, clans spy on governments, and trusting the wrong person may carry a terrible price.
©2011 Lorena Angell (P)2018 Lorena Angell
A Diamond in My Heart
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A Diamond in My Heart, audiobook two in the Unaltered series, follows teenaged Calli Courtnae as she learns how to control her new cosmic superpowers. She's afraid she's no match for some of the other people who are showing up with different paranormal powers, including a time-rewinding teen who apparently has some romantic fantasy about her going on in his head. She faces more challenges with him as he attempts to save the day. Maetha, her paranormal guide, assigns Calli to investigate the young man and teach him what a real superhero looks like. Before that can happen, she'll have to determine what his power actually is - and that takes her into an action-packed adventure in itself. All the while, someone is systematically kidnapping the clan leaders who wear the near-magical diamond amulets. Calli feels overwhelmed with trying to figure everything out and keep balance in the world. All her powers - the ability to read minds, view the future, heal people, and locate other Sanguine Diamond Bearers - should be a good thing. They turn sour, however, when she learns of traitors who've sided with the US government, threatening her new world and the lives of those she loves. Even with all her superpowers, she feels alone and up against insurmountable odds. She begins to question the loyalty and friendship of others. She has no one to turn to when, ultimately, she is faced with the inevitable - the reuniting of the diamond shards. Who can she trust, and who just wants her dead and has everything in place to make that happen?
©2012 Lorena Angell (P)2018 Lorena Angell
Daughter of Time Trilogy: Reader, Writer, Maker
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Reader, Writer, and Maker: All three novels of the Daughter of Time series in one book. Speculative fiction with time travel, alien armageddon, metaphysical mysteries, action, adventure, cosmology, cybernetics, religion, and romance! Reader From the future, a final plea. Out of the past, a last hope. Ambra Dawn, a young girl born to die in freakish disregard. A doomed world, enslaved to forces unseen. A final hope beyond imagining. Become a Reader, because in the end, the most unbelievable step in the adventure - will be your own. Writer From hatred, Love. From many, One. A love story and sci-fi epic about the beautiful and terrible destiny of profoundly star-crossed lovers with a galaxy's fate in their hands. Maker Until all is lost, nothing is found. Conclude the epic story of Ambra Dawn in the final installment of the trilogy. A story in which the one that was lost will be found, where a thief will guide through chaos and time, and where all that was held dear will perish. And in that final and utter destruction, there will be a Creation.
©2015 Erec Stebbins (P)2015 Erec Stebbins
The Nash Criterion
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We believed our government was of the people, by the people, and for the people. We were wrong. A terrorist's last words lead a team of special agents to the discovery of an unimaginable global conspiracy. But time is running out. The numbers are converging. Can a group of fugitive FBI and CIA operatives prevent the coming catastrophe before the world crosses The Nash Criterion?
©2016 Erec Stebbins (P)2017 Erec Stebbins
Nemesis
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In the fourth volume of The Fourth Talisman series, Nazafareen risks everything on a desperate gamble to stop the Vatras, once and for all.... With Meb safely among her own people, Nazafareen has finally embraced her dangerous fire magic. She is the Fourth Talisman, destined to free the heirs from the wards binding their own extraordinary power. With Nocturne and Solis poised on the brink of war, the choices she makes will decide the fate of mortals and daevas alike. Determined to confront Culach and make amends, Nazafareen goes to Val Moraine, setting off a chain of events that ultimately leads her deep into the perilous wasteland called the Kiln and the faceless enemy waiting there. But the ancient hatred that shattered the world a millennium before is stronger and far more devious than she and her companions imagine. Is the Viper truly dead? And can Nazafareen triumph without facing the darkness that lurks within her own heart?
©2018 Katherine Stapp (P)2020 Katherine Stapp
Lost Girl
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An appalling act of violence and an unsolved double murder. Small-town investigative reporter Shelby Day is determined to hunt a killer. As her search draws closer to uncovering the twisted truth, she begins receiving ominous warnings to stay quiet and drop the story. The young journalist is in danger. Her cameraman and best friend, a person with his own secret past, says he wants to protect her. But Shelby is headstrong, dodging anything that could lead to love. She can't allow anyone to distract her as she fights for the two women who deserve justice. She never expects that, along the way, she'll have to stop and save herself. Tick tock. If Shelby doesn't solve the crime soon, she'll become the killer's next victim. Lost Girl is a compulsive thrill-ride that reads as if it's been pulled straight from the headlines. Kammier's journalism background brings undeniable authenticity to a novel that has it all - a love story, a murder mystery, and a real-life introduction into the distinctive world of television news." (Caroline Mitchell, The New York Times best-selling author. This book is for anyone who loves: young adult love stories, murder mystery, redemption, and journalism elements. It is intended for a mature YA audience. Fans of Veronica Mars, In the Woods, and One Of Us Is Lying, will love this novel.
©2019 Holly Kammier Youmans (P)2019 Holly Kammier Youmans
The Anonymous Signal
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"Stebbins is the master of the thinking reader's techno thriller." -Internet Review of Books. No forgiveness. No forgetting. Expect it. The global financial system is in chaos. World leaders have been compromised. An unstoppable computer virus eats through the Internet. Join an elite team of FBI and CIA agents, and the shadowy figures they must work with, as they try to stop a global catastrophe and act of digital terrorism, unlike anything ever witnessed. Can they stop the virus from devouring the world's digital mind before it releases The Anonymous Signal? "Hang on tight for this one." -Tome Tender. "A thrilling and frightening story."-Portland Book Review. "Excellent, detailed plot, and clever storytelling."-San Francisco Book Review. Book three in the Intel 1 audiobooks, and the first in an Armageddon Duology, followed by The Nash Criterion in 2016.
©2015 Erec Stebbins (P)2017 Erec Stebbins
Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace
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We all know it. Demanding accountability in the workplace is the quickest way to get your employees to start fidgeting nervously and looking at the door. Traditional accountability methods leave leaders frustrated with limited, ineffective tools and leave employees feeling criticized, discouraged, and even disengaged. Using a foundation of neuroscience and human dynamics, Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace brings a much-needed modern approach to inspiring employee engagement, productivity, and results. Packed with a robust toolset, this definitive guide provides practical tools and brain-based strategies to improve leaders’ ease, ability, and effectiveness at cultivating the very best from their teams. “Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace will have you moving past problems to possibilities. The generous amount of concrete leadership tools available in this book will work for companies of every size, and you will find yourself returning to this resource often. This book will change the way you lead, change the way your employees think, and clear the pathway to getting better and better results.” (Rose Souders, CEO and Founder, Potluck Consulting)
©2019 Elaina Noell (P)2019 Elaina Noell
Nocturne
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Nocturne, a wilderness of eternal night. Solis, a wasteland of endless day. Nazafareen is a Breaker, a mortal who has the rare ability to shatter spell magic - although her power carries a high price. With the memories of her former self erased and nowhere else to turn, she comes to Nocturne hoping to start a new life under the triple moons of the darklands. But when an assassin forces Nazafareen to flee to the sunlit mortal city of Delphi, she finds herself embroiled in a deeper mystery whose origins lie far in the past. Why was the continent sundered into light and dark a thousand years before? And what really happened to the elegant but ruthless creatures who nearly reduced the world to ashes? The new Oracle might know, but she’s outlawed magic and executes anyone caught practicing it. Nazafareen must hide her powers and find a way out of the city - before it’s too late. As the net slowly tightens, something ancient and vengeful begins to stir in the arid death zone called the Kiln. A dashing daeva named Darius is pursuing Nazafareen, but so are a multitude of enemies. War is brewing again. Can she stay alive long enough to stop it?
©2017 Katherine Stapp (P)2020 Katherine Stapp
Inferno
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In the last volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the worlds of the living and the dead collide in a final confrontation that will leave Nocturne and Solis forever changed... Three talismans adrift. Two mad kings. One poisonous crown. As dark forces gather at the Rock of Ariamazes in Samarqand, Nazafareen discovers that there are worse places than the afterlife. The twisted creature pulling the Vatras’ strings is holed up in the deepest level of the Dominion - and only she has the power to follow him there, though at the potential cost of her own soul. Prophecy claims the three daeva clans must unite to face their greatest enemy again, but two of the talismans have vanished and the third is a child more used to skulking in the shadows than leading an army. Meb the Mouse might be their last hope - if anyone bothers to take her seriously. And within the confines of the Rock, a dying king makes a pact with the devil, setting in motion a chain of events that could spell doom for friends and foes alike.
©2019 Katherine Stapp (P)2021 Katherine Stapp
The Diamond of Freedom
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The Diamond of Freedom, book three in The Unaltered series, melds together history, geology, metaphysics, science, and fantasy in this non-stop nail biter. Calli and Chris race against the clock to identify the power-neutralizing stone that prevents Calli from healing her life-threatening injuries. She must also learn how to counter its effects before she can fight against the rogue Diamond Bearer named Freedom to save the boy she loves and the world of her friends. In the epic battle between extreme cosmic-power holders, weaknesses are exploited and lifetime relationships shattered to gain the upper-hand. Sometimes having no special abilities is what makes someone the most powerful. General Harding, Chris's father, has made it his life's mission to eradicate all people with powers. Believing the lies fed to him, and misusing his status with the US government, General Harding nears completion of a weapon designed to destroy cosmic-energy individuals. Calli meets Brand Safferson's half-sister, self-named Deus Ex, who is a proclaimed mercenary. Her repeating abilities are necessary to rescue Brand from General Harding's compound, but the risks of recruiting her to abandon Freedom's side and join Maetha's may be deadly. Maetha provides proof that she's figured out how to heal the DNA of an altered human, creating an Unaltered individual. A number-one best seller in 11 countries, with over 225,000 downloads, the Unaltered series' readers have shown their love with more than 1,200 5-star reviews. The tale woven is one that feels ensconced in today's world alongside a huge dose of superpowers. This audiobook is currently being optioned for film and television, so don't miss your chance to discover this exciting series before it hits the screen.
©2013 Lorena Angell (P)2018 Lorena Angell
The Diamond Bearers' Destiny
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The Diamond Bearers' Destiny is book four of The Unaltered. Calli learns about Chris's motives and tries to understand his dilemmas. Given no choice, the two of them travel with a mysterious companion back to General Harding's facility. They make an effort to dismantle the programs that are exterminating people with powers and wiping Diamond Bearers from the face of the Earth. General Harding figures out what lies at the heart of agent Alpha's research project. Harding is determined to complete the studies and become an all-powerful Diamond Bearer - once Chris deceives Calli and delivers her to him, so he can destroy her and take the diamond from her heart. What General Harding fails to understand is this: Calli's diamond will not make him the most powerful individual on the face of the Earth. Most powerful of all are the agents of nature who work for Crimson - the creator of the Sanguine Diamond. Upsetting the balance of nature is the last thing General Harding should do. Follow Calli, Chris, Brand, and Crimson as they battle Deus Ex, undead Healers, and the notorious General Harding, in an effort to balance nature and save lives.
©2013 Lorena Angell (P)2020 Lorena Angell
Solis
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In the second volume of the Fourth Talisman series, Nazafareen’s path takes a twist, setting her on a journey into the heart of the maelstrom… It’s been a thousand years since the Avas Vatras tried to burn the world to ashes. A thousand years since they were imprisoned in the brutal wasteland called the Kiln. But revenge is a dish best served cold - even, apparently, by the children of fire. In Delphi, Nazafareen joins forces with the followers of Dionysius to rescue her friends from the Oracle’s dungeons and seek out the three talismans whose extraordinary powers stopped the Vatras before. With her own breaking magic growing stronger by the day, she must walk a razor’s edge to control her volatile temper. And if the Vatras find the talismans first, their last hope will die. In the frozen wastes of the Valkirin range, Victor strikes an uneasy bargain to keep his tenuous grip on the Maiden Keep. The other holdfasts are coming for him. But it’s a traitor within Val Moraine’s walls that may prove to be his downfall. "Ross plots with Olympian vigor, packing her alternate version of Persia with complex characters and a multilayered mythos. This volume’s opening dilemma finds resolution, but there’s plenty still in flux to drive readers to an epic third installment. A complicated follow-up that pushes its cast to the physical and emotional brink." (Kirkus Reviews)
©2018 Kat Ross (P)2020 Kat Ross
The Ragnarok Conspiracy
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A Western terrorist organization targets Muslims around the world, and FBI agent John Savas must put aside the loss of his son and work with a man who symbolizes all he has come to hate. Both are drawn into a race against time to stop the plot of an American bin Laden and prevent a global catastrophe.
©2012, 2016 Erec Stebbins (P)2017 Erec Stebbins
Nether Light
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Take a journey through a world punished by an imprisoned magic. A world where children are given poison. A world where your talent is decided by the state. When refugee Guyen washes up in the land of his enemy, he knows he will fight, but soon finds himself falling down a well of wonder and improbability. Can he survive a system designed to oppress him? Can he tame his anger to unleash his potential? Can he see his enemy for what they truly are? Nether Light is a gritty, heart-wrenching tale of high magic and high stakes, loves lost and friendships gained, set in an oil-lit, 18th-century world. Epic fantasy filled with plotting, scheming, and racy, jaw-dropping, immersive adventure. For fans of Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, Neil Gaiman, Mark Lawrence, V.E. Schwab, Ed McDonald, Brian McClellan. Please note: This book contains mature themes.
©2020 Shaun Paul Stevens (P)2021 Shaun Paul Stevens
Monstrum
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In the third volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the hunt is on for the three daevas whose powers saved the world once before. On the White Sea, realm of smashers and sea monsters, a ship is carrying Nazafareen and Darius to the Isles of the Marakai, where the wise woman Sakhet-ra-katme has guarded the secret of the talismans for centuries. But another is searching, too - a daeva born in the brutal prison of the Kiln, who plans to use the talismans to free the Vatras and their mad king. When their paths collide at the emperor’s lavish palace in Tjanjin, Nazafareen and Darius face their deadliest and most cunning foe yet. In the mountain fastness of Val Moraine, the Pythia’s minions are on the scent of another talisman, this one from the Danai clan. Trapped behind a thick wall of ice, everyone’s going slightly mad - the perfect cauldron of suspicion and betrayal for Thena, who sees a chance to redeem her failure and bring the talisman back to Delphi. Then, she’ll be free to indulge her twisted obsession with Darius and make him pay. And in Samarqand, Javid is drawn into the treacherous currents of a royal succession. When the old king dies and his son takes the throne, the depths of the prince’s depravity become clear. A journey north reveals the source of the spell dust he’s addicted to and leaves Javid with an impossible choice. Praise for Monstrum: "The plot is complex and rich, every turn is filled with either action, love, or lies. Kat Ross writes binge-worthy fantasy stories. Get Nocturne and Solis and Monstrum, lock yourself away somewhere with lots of snacks and read them!" (I Love a Good Book) “Ross keeps all of her narrative plates spinning at top speed. High fantasy marked by restraint, subtlety and deep character maneuvering.” (Kirkus Reviews) "A dark and potent fantasy...Monstrum is her best book yet! This story is rich and haunting, with a potent kind of magic that’s barely contained and an incredible cast of indomitable and morally complex characters." (FlyLef Reviews) "Monstrum was another dashing read, and I can’t wait to see what Kat Ross does next. There were both revelations and new questions raised in this novel, and I have no doubt the next one will be as thrilling and sure to both answer them as well as raise others." (The Rest Is Still Unwritten) "Monstrum is something truly special. Ross really upped the stakes this time and the characters are forced to make tons of difficult decisions. It was action-packed, fun to read, and all-consuming. My heart was beating nonstop the entire time!" (Rattle the Stars) "This is book 3 in an epic fantasy that has me utterly addicted. From the corrupted and twisted to the noble and lost, every person has their place and Kat Ross has you yearning for their stories." (Books2Blog) "I honestly don't know if I can find the words to really explain how awesome this book was. A whirlwind of a story [that] will leave you breathless and eager for more." (Jazzy Book Reviews)
©2018 Kat Ross (P)2020 Kat Ross
Deadly Recall
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A terrifying memory is locked deep inside her. A killer wants to keep it that way. As a nine-year-old child, Eden Moran witnessed the murder of her beloved teacher, Sister Beatrice. Her mind blocked the horrifying memory, and now, 17 years later, Eden still can't recall what she saw that fateful day at Albuquerque's St. Patrick's Church. The nun's remains have been unearthed at a local construction site, and Albuquerque police detective Kevin Dancer starts pressuring Eden to search the shadows of her terror for clues. Eden insists she didn't see the killer that day. She can't even remember knowing Sister Beatrice. Regardless, Detective Dancer refuses to give up on her. He's not only hell-bent on solving the crime, he's falling in love with her. If her memories resurface, she'll be in danger, and he wants to protect her. The killer seems determined that she'll take the memory to an early grave.
©2013 Donnell Ann Bell (P)2016 Bell Bridge Books