Persephone Rose has narrated 14 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors. The most-rated is Highway Gods.
The Stone of Alexandria
Summary
The Stone of Alexandria is a complex, and multifaceted tale that deals with history, magic, metaphysics, folklore, reincarnation, and parallel realities. The story moves between ancient Alexandria and modern day New York City, with a brief excursion into the lost civilization of Atlantis. Michael Valens, is an intelligent, curious graduate student who stumbles into a global and inter-dimensional struggle over a magical stone of incomparable power. During his adventures, which lead him into past lives, he encounters a wise mentor, a sociopathic killer, a race of faerie beings, and a secret magical society with both light and dark members. All are fighting to control the elusive Stone, something so powerful, that the fate of the world depends on the outcome.
©2017 Larry Christopher (P)2017 Larry Christopher
The Final Vow
Summary
Christian romance Left on the steps of a church as an infant, Laura struggles with her decision to dedicate her life to God. On her way to a mission in Texas, a train robber snatches the novice nun and uses her as a hostage. Jesse Collins, her rescuer, not knowing what else to do with her, takes her home to his family. Never having experienced family life, Laura is touched by it and is confused by her building affection for Jesse. However, someone wants her gone and takes steps to make that happen.
©2015 Barbara Goss (P)2017 Barbara Goss
Wanted: A Trusting Heart
Summary
A series of disasters wipe out the men in the town of Silverpines, Oregon, leaving the women to take unconventional measures in order to save and grow their town. A Chinook Indian by heritage, Dawn was orphaned and given to a white family as a slave. They raised her like one of their own, alongside their daughter, Laura. Dawn soon finds herself falling for Jake, who recently moved to Silverpines, following his brother from Texas. Jake gets to know Dawn well and soon realizes he has fallen in love with her. The catch? Though society had come a long way, it still held prejudices against Native Americans and the whites who married them. Through prejudice and calamities, the two will have to fight for their love and trust in one another with all their hearts. Are Dawn and Jake willing to take the risk for love? Can they face the prejudices together? This is part of a series but is a stand-alone listen.
©2018 Barbara Goss (P)2018 Barbara Goss
Carrion Duty
Summary
Hostile salvage confirmed. Rhett Calibos is a bounty scrapper, his life as an indentured soldier a welcome alternative to imprisonment on a penal colony. A man haunted by his past, Rhett throws himself into the work, his only sanctuary. Sokol Targe is the leader of a mech warrior squad stationed aboard an ancient and deadly warship and conducts violent raids on behalf of a Red List commune. Cast away from corporate society, they have embraced the ravager way of life. As these troubled men endure furious combat across the ragged edges of civilization, neither of them realize they've become entangled in the deeper mysteries of necrospace. It's a hard universe, and nobody gets away clean.
©2017 Sean-Michael Argo (P)2018 Sean-Michael Argo
Ghost Faction
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During an apocalyptic battle against murderous machines and hardened soldiers, a lone salvage marine turns the tide with a devastating counterattack. Having revealed herself as a consummate warrior, Jada Sek is welcomed into the ranks of the Dire Swords, an elite fighting force loyal only to the contract. As the other marines return to their salvage duties, Jada and her new comrades, each as haunted by the ghosts of their past as she is, plunge yet further into necrospace. They are repeatedly deployed to disrupt and destroy the endeavors of corporate competitors and along the way discover that the enigma of the machine race is more sinister and complex than any imagined. Surrounded by the specters of an ancient holocaust and forced to face her inner conflict, Jada must make a choice. When the money ceases to matter, when surviving loses its significance, and the thrill of taking the fight right into the teeth of the enemy seems like the only truth left in this scrapyard of a universe, it is time to let the marine die so that the mercenary can be born.
©2016 Sean-Michael Argo (P)2017 Sean-Michael Argo
Defiance Pattern
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High-tech mercenaries find themselves pitted against free-running revolutionaries as global corporate warfare becomes centered around a struggling island nation and the freedom fighters defending their home. Hayden Cole is a slinger for the mega-corporation Union Americana, one of the hacker elite who wage info wars in the immersive virtual realm of MassNet. He has been assigned to a task force bound for the Philippines, where he is joined by an assortment of engineers, security operatives, and Laine 2.0, the Union's most deadly cyborg assassin. A new energy source which could yield a world changing new source of clean energy. Each of the primary corporate powers have sent task forces to the island, and economic competition turns violent as the opposing operatives race to find the source. Standing against all of them is a group of local resistance fighters with strange abilities and who may yet prove to be not quite human. As slingers jack into MassNet to battle with kill programs, soldiers and cyborgs clash in the streets with blades and bullets, all to the backdrop of a world left behind by the progress of a neon future in this action-packed cyberpunk thriller.
©2017 Sean-Michael Argo (P)2018 Sean-Michael Argo
Ricochet Romance: Twin Brothers Find Love
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Books in this series can be read in any order. Twin brothers: one is troubled and the other is trouble. What sort of a twin leaves his brother, a troubled man, to deal with the impending arrival of his mail order bride? Reece threatens to pay for her return to Pennsylvania, but his father falls ill, and he needs to hire her as his father’s companion. Reece’s past haunts him and he vows to stay clear of Maggie. Will he succeed? Rex aids a feverish woman who was put off a train in Hays. Her destination had been Colorado to meet her intended. When Rex finds a Colt .45 in her reticule, he wonders what this woman might be up to. Why would a woman riding with a mail order bride group carry a gun? Rex is repulsed when he discovers the reason.
©2018 Barbara Goss (P)2018 Barbara Goss
Opposition Shift
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High-tech mercenaries find themselves pitted against free-running revolutionaries as global corporate warfare becomes centered around a struggling island nation and the freedom fighters defending their home. The corporate slinger Hayden Cole, who finds himself seeing a different side of the clandestine war over the mysterious island energy source, learns that the some of the warriors have a dark secret and are anything but human. The legendary slinger Lunatic 8 wages a one-woman cyberwar for the resistance, matching the hackers of her corporate rivals program-for-program in the virtual dreamworld of Massnet while Hirohito, the deadly cyborg, is unleashed. Hayden and his engineer partner Nibiru begin to question their loyalties as they witness the freedom fighters struggling to stay one step ahead of mercenary death squads. The streets of the city are full of gun smoke, and the wires of cyberspace hum with digital violence as opposing forces struggle over wealth, freedom, and the very soul of the islands in this grim futuristic thriller.
©2018 Sean-Michael Argo (P)2018 Sean-Michael Argo
Hard Cargo
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The most wanted salvage marine in the universe thought he was done fighting. He was wrong. For Samuel Hyst the nightmare was over, left behind upon dead worlds and within the derelict ships drifting through space, he and his family having fled to the edges of the frontier to begin a new life of peace. In the aftermath of a violent raid by slave traders, the long-suffering marine discovers that a relic of the ancient machine civilization has been left at the doorstep of his pristine forest homestead. He feels the menace radiating from it, and knows that the various powers and factions that rule necrospace will soon come for all of them. Samuel cuts a deal with Captain Dar of the freelance prospecting ship Rig Halo, who years ago saved Samuel's wife and son from the trade war. Tension is high aboard the ship, as the Hyst family adjusts to being in the rough company of the Halo and a life on the run. As it turns out, the rig is also a ship full of mercenaries, and once more Samuel finds himself with rifle in hand and squeezing the trigger just to stay alive. The hunt has already begun and Grotto predators are closing in.
©2018 Sean-Michael Argo (P)2018 Sean-Michael Argo
Chaos Magick
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How will you change the world? Warning: This is a heavy duty grimoire full of magick, abstract magical theory, paradigm modeling, and subversive ideas. A collection of occult texts including Blood Magick, Post-Modern Magick, and Tactical Magick, in addition to more spells, projects, history, and other writings.
©2013 Seth Cardorra (P)2017 Seth Cardorra
Babalon: Adventures in Sex Magick
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The scarlet woman. The red goddess. The girl next door. She is the female sexual impulse, the liberated woman, the one who is totally in charge. She's got some things to say, some sweet moves to teach, and some magick and enchantment to bestow. If you've got the fuel, then she's got the spark, so whether you strap on or strap in, it's time to get funky. In the crazy wisdom tradition of sassy seminal works like the Principia Discordia and the Illuminatus! Trilogy, we are treated to the haught and harrowing journey of Prophet Dick as he has a particularly raunchy and enlightening encounter with the ultimate sexual power. Herein you will find wisdom, spells, and a complete spiritual system that has been gently simmered in the sauce of destiny and presented to you in the most alluring and enticing form possible. Enjoy, achieve gnosis, find ultimate power, and when it's all over, don't forget to tip your server and wash your hands.
©2017 Seth Cardorra (P)2018 Seth Cardorra
Haunt
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The modern world is no place for a magician of true power. Andy has been a nomad ever since the strange abilities he was born with began to wreak havoc on his seemingly normal life. Following his instincts, he takes a bus to the end of the line and finds himself in a small town that has a massive carnival on the outskirts called the Haunt. He is welcomed into the odd community of folk that run the show, who tell him this is a place of gathering, and he begins to discover that this carnival holds more magic than cheap thrills. There is power here. Real magic. This is a place where the unseen stirs and ancient things dwell. A slender man is on a murder spree, sinister clowns speak in riddles, and a cult conspiracy most foul begins to unfold. Andy must fight through it all to become the master of his own fate. The spell is cast, the bones are thrown - time for a master to seize the throne.
©2016 Edward Teach (P)2019 Edward Teach
Significant Contact
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High-tech mercenaries find themselves pitted against freerunning revolutionaries as global corporate warfare becomes centered around a struggling island nation and the freedom fighters defending their home. Hayden Cole is now a slinger for the resistance, working side by side with the very freedom fighters and hackers who were once his sworn enemies. The Akiaten have managed, with the guidance of the mysterious shaman Kapre and under the digital protection of the slinger Lunatic 8, to make contact with the magical power that resides on the islands. With Cole's help, and that of the turncoat engineer Nibiru, the vampiric jungle warriors must race against time to finish building the machine that will harness the energy. Having discovered the location of the resistance base, the deadly Hirohito leads an army of corporate soldiers in an all out attack. In the shadows, Laine 2.0 waits for the perfect moment to go for the kill. The remote island paradise is turned into a war zone as the final showdown between resistance and corporation spills out of the battlefields of city street and neon grid to wash ashore in a tide of high velocity bullets and murderous software in the thrilling conclusion of this cyberpunk epic.
©2018 Sean-Michael Argo (P)2019 Sean-Michael Argo
Highway Gods
Summary
Drive to live, ride to die. On the dusty highways of the near future, Mark and Caitlin go on a camping trip with several other college kids, though what starts as a vacation swiftly becomes a nightmare, as they are assaulted by members of the Royal Barons, a violent road gang. The Barons are living out the Grail Quest of Arthurian legend across the backroads and lonely highways of this land, looting and murdering everyone who crosses their path. Caitlin is kidnapped and at the mercy of their depraved leader, while Mark, left for dead, finds himself in the company of a gunslinging stranger hellbent on getting revenge from behind the wheel of her muscle car. The hunt is on. A high-octane tale of violence and horror on the merciless highway.
©2017 Edward Teach (P)2017 Edward Teach