Shirl Rae has narrated 40 audiobooks on Listento.it by 19 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 129 ratings. The most-rated is Twist Me: The Complete Trilogy.
Twist Me: The Complete Trilogy
Summary
All three books in the New York Times best-selling trilogy available for the first time in one convenient bundle "Will you ever let me go?" "No, Nora," he replies, and I can feel his smile in the darkness. "Never." On the eve of her 18th birthday, Nora Leston meets Julian Esguerra, and her life changes forever. Stolen away to a private island, she finds herself at the mercy of a powerful, dangerous man whose touch makes her burn...a man whose obsession with her knows no bounds. Her enigmatic captor is as cruel as he is beautiful, yet it's his tenderness that devastates her most. Drawn into his violent world, Nora must find a way to adapt and survive - and find light within the darkness.
©2015 Anna Zaires (P)2015 Anna Zaires
Capture Me
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Forced to join a secret intelligence agency at a young age, Russian interpreter/spy Yulia Tzakova is no stranger to dangerous men. But she's never known one as ruthless and compelling as Lucas Kent. The hard-edged mercenary frightens her, yet she's drawn to him - a man she has no choice but to betray. Second-in-command to a powerful arms dealer, Lucas Kent has never met a woman he's wanted as much as Yulia. Obsessed with the beautiful blonde, he'll stop at nothing to capture her and make her pay for her betrayal. From the icy streets of Moscow to the steamy jungles of Colombia, their dark, all-consuming passion will either crush them or set them free.
©2016 Anna Zaires (P)2016 Anna Zaires
Darker Than Love
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An Enemies-to-Lovers Stand-Alone. Once upon a cold, dark night, a Russian killer stole me from an alley. I’m dangerous, but he is lethal. I escaped once. He won’t let me do it twice. The revenge is his. The betrayal is mine. But so are the lies to protect the ones I love. We’re cut from the same twisted cloth. Both merciless. Both damaged. In his embrace, I find hell and heaven, his cruelly tender touch destroying and uplifting me at once. They say a cat has nine lives, but an assassin has just one. And Yan Ivanov now owns mine.
©2020 Anna Zaires, Charmaine Pauls (P)2019 Anna Zaires, Charmaine Pauls
BLAIRE & BLAI2E: Box set: The Dark Romance Series
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For fans who love the darkness of FSOG, This Man, Twist Me, Captive in the Dark & Red Sparrow. BLAIRE: Part 1 in The Dark Romance Series - Bought. Conditioned. My name is Blaire. I'm head of security to a man who controls the Russian underworld in Europe. His name is Maksim and he's my master. He bought me 10 years ago and conditioned me with brutality to worship and protect him. And I have protected him. I've slain everyone who has tried to do him harm. Everyone but a man he loans me to; a man who threatens to break me and everything I believe in. You're going to need a strong stomach and a strong heart to follow my story, because take my word for it, it's no fairy tale. BLAI2E: Part 2 in The Dark Romance Series - Don’t take what isn’t yours. Unless you’re willing to fight for it. I survived my depraved master, Maksim. Now, I belong to Charlie Decena, by nature and by nurture. He broke everything I believed in. My life still lingers in the gray zone - dark and light, love and hate, betrayal and murder. I’m battling Maksim’s brutal conditioning to uncover who Blaire is, for Charlie. I adhere to his counsel, indulge in his debauched desires, and pacify his dominance - until he pushes me too far. I hope I didn’t completely shatter your heart in the beginning of my story because it’s just getting started. I’m being tested beyond my limit by a lurking threat who has taken something very dear to me. And if they don’t return what isn’t theirs, someone is going to die. There’s Something About BLAIRE - This is not a full length novel: 6,000 word count. This is a bonus scene from BLAIRE Part 1 in Charlie’s point of view. Enjoy listening to over 29 hours of contemporary dark Romance. This series box set comes with bonus scene material.
©2016 Anita Gray (P)2018 Anita Gray
BLAI2E: Blaire Part 2
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From top 100 and international Amazon best-selling author Anita Gray comes an emotionally addictive dark romance series of suspense, hope, and true love. "Captivating Dark Romance" (Anna Zaires, New York Times best-selling author) Bought. Conditioned. Sold to the enemy. My name is Blaire. I'm head of security to a man who controls the Russian underworld in Europe. His name is Maksim, and he's my master. He bought me 10 years ago and conditioned me with brutality to worship and protect him. And I have protected him. I've slain everyone who has tried to do him harm. Everyone but a man he loans me to; a man who hreatens to break me and everything in which I believe. You're going to need a strong stomach and a strong heart to follow my story, because take my word for it, it's no fairy tale. BLAIRE is part one in the Dark Romance series. BLAI2E, part two in the Dark Romance series, is available as an audiobook and eBook (enrolled in KU). BLAIR3, part three in the Dark Romance series, is coming soon. BL4IRE, part four in the Dark Romance series, is coming soon.
©2018 Anita Gray (P)2018 Anita Gray
Blaire
Summary
From top 100 and international Amazon best-selling author Anita Gray comes an emotionally addictive dark romance series of suspense, hope, and true love. “Captivating Dark Romance,” says Anna Zaires, New York Times best-selling author. Bought. Conditioned. Sold to the enemy. My name is Blaire. I'm head of security to a man who controls the Russian underworld in Europe. His name is Maksim, and he's my master. He bought me 10 years ago and conditioned me with brutality to worship and protect him. And I have protected him. I've slain everyone who has tried to do him harm. Everyone but a man he loans me to; a man who threatens to break me and everything in which I believe. You're going to need a strong stomach and a strong heart to follow my story, because take my word for it, it's no fairy tale. Blaire is part one in the Dark Romance series. BLAI2E, part two in the Dark Romance series, is out now on eBook (enrolled in KU), and it is available in paperback. Audiobook coming soon. BLAIR3, part three in the Dark Romance series, coming soon. BL4IRE, part four in the Dark Romance series, coming soon.
©2016 Anita Gray (P)2018 Anita Gray
Twist Me
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~USA TODAY BESTSELLER~ Kidnapped. Taken to a private island. I never thought this could happen to me. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely. Now I belong to him. To Julian. To a man who is as ruthless as he is beautiful—a man whose touch makes me burn. A man whose tenderness I find more devastating than his cruelty. My captor is an enigma. I don’t know who he is or why he took me. There is a darkness inside him-a darkness that scares me even as it draws me in. My name is Nora Leston, and this is my story.
©2014 Anna Zaires (P)2014 Anna Zaires
Keep Me
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~USA TODAY BESTSELLER~ Abducted at eighteen. Held captive for 15 months. It reads like one of those headlines. And yes, I did it. I stole her. Nora, with her long dark hair and silky skin. She’s my weakness, my obsession. I’m not a good man. I never pretended to be one. She can love me, but she can’t change me. I can, however, change her. My name is Julian Esguerra, and Nora is mine to keep. ***Keep Me is the sequel to Twist Me, told from Nora & Julian’s POV.***
©2014 Anna Zaires (P)2014 Anna Zaires
Sloth
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Dear A., I am writing to express my gratitude for your gift. There are no sufficient words, but please accept my sincerest thank you. Yours, R. She writes me back. I didn't expect that. She tells me she's a lover of chicken pizza and video games, a hot sorority girl with the nickname Sloth. She wants to know something about me in return. She says I owe her. This is how she saves my life. She doesn't even know it. The anonymity is good. She doesn't need to know me, but I need her kindness. We both live our lives: a letter here, a postcard there. For three years, I escape my demons. Then, one day, I'm pulled back in. I resign myself to what I know is coming, until the girl I'm spanking gives her safe word: sloth. And then the lie I'm living starts to unravel.
©2015 Ella James (P)2015 Tantor
The Game Maker
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I was too isolated. I was about to be evicted. I made a final desperate call to the man who ruined my life, but he didn't come for me. Someone else did. And then there was Seven. When I first woke in the cell, I thought he was my captor, but he is a pawn, like me. Seven is beautiful and kind. I want him so much I can barely breathe. He wants to protect me from our captor, but he can't. We are both locked inside a game neither of us can ever hope to win, and even though it's wrong, I'm starting to want both men, not just the good one...the monster as well. This is a stand-alone dark contemporary romance.
©2020 Kitty Thomas (P)2020 Kitty Thomas
When I'm with You
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Nate: It's nearly impossible to be surrounded by love but not understand it. My parents, my sister, and just about everyone around us has no trouble accepting that love. To give your trust to someone else and believe they would die before hurting you. I've witnessed it - I've seen the power of it - but I've also seen the pain. Because for me, I've only loved someone I could never have, and my biggest fear is that by giving her my love, all I would do is ruin her. I should have tried harder. But I'm not sure I can, because I only feel complete when I'm with her. Emberlyn: The only time I feel like I belong is when he's near. His infectious smile warms me straight to my bones. Any insecurities I have vanish with just a wink from him. A sliver of his attention makes me feel invincible. But all it took was one drunken night of truths for me to lose everything I had begun to crave. Now I'm not sure how to move on, because I only feel complete when I'm with him. He said I was too young. I said he was perfect. He said our families wouldn't understand. I said we could weather any storm. He said he would ruin me. And he was right.
©2016 E. S. Harper (P)2016 Tantor
Jaded Hearts
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Signing with Brighthouse Records was supposed to be everything we ever wanted - our better life. Our chance at everything we never had but always wanted. All our dreams would finally come true, and we were on top of the world. It was our chance at the happiness we never had in life. Our every desire was at our fingertips, and the power of that feeling was all-consuming. But then it took every dream we thought would come true, and it slapped us in the face with the cold, hard reality. Dreams were just that...something that floated on the cusp of untouchable, taunting you with every graze of your fingertips before slipping even further away. Happiness...that feeling is a joke. In the end it became painfully obvious that each of us would always have each other, but we would forever be alone. Contains mature themes.
©2016 E. S. Harper (P)2017 Tantor
Hold Me
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Captor and captive. Lovers. Soul mates. We're all that and more. We thought we were past the worst of it. We thought we finally had a chance. We thought wrong. We're Nora and Julian, and this is our story. Hold Me is the conclusion of the Twist Me trilogy, told from Nora and Julian's point of view.
©2015 Anna Zaires (P)2015 Anna Zaires
The Paper Swan
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They say that it takes 21 days to form a habit. They lie. For 21 days, she held on. But on day 22, she would have given anything for the sweet slumber of death. Because on day 22, she realized that her only way out meant certain death for one of the two men she loved. A haunting tale of passion, loss, and redemption, The Paper Swan is a darkly intense yet heartwarming love story, textured with grit, intrigue, and suspense.
©2015 Leylah Attar (P)2015 Tantor
Bind Me
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He's determined to break her. For Lucas Kent, his new prisoner is a maddening contradiction: compliant yet defiant, fragile yet strong. He needs to uncover her secrets, but doing so may ruin everything. His obsession could destroy her. She's determined to escape. For Yulia Tzakova, her captor is the man of both her dreams and her nightmares: tender one moment, cruel the next. She can't let him crack her, but resisting him may leave her broken. A moment of weakness could cost her everything.
©2015 Anna Zaires (P)2016 Anna Zaires
Capture Me
Summary
A new dark romance series from the New York Times best-selling author of Twist Me She fears him from the first moment she sees him. Yulia Tzakova is no stranger to dangerous men. She grew up with them. She survived them. But when she meets Lucas Kent, she knows the hard ex-soldier may be the most dangerous of them all. One night - that's all it should be. A chance to make up for a failed assignment and get information on Kent's arms dealer boss. When his plane goes down, it should be the end. Instead, it's just the beginning. He wants her from the first moment he sees her. Lucas Kent has always liked leggy blondes, and Yulia Tzakova is as beautiful as they come. The Russian interpreter might've tried to seduce his boss, but she ends up in Lucas's bed - and he has every intention of seeing her there again. Then his plane goes down, and he learns the truth. She betrayed him. Now she will pay.
©2015 Anna Zaires (P)2015 Anna Zaires
Claim Me
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Book 3 in the dark romance Capture Me trilogy She's on the run. Yulia Tzakova's freedom comes at a heavy price. Her former captor dominates her dreams, and survival consumes her waking moments. She may have escaped, but she's far from safe. In the shadowy world of spies and betrayal, nothing is what it seems. He's obsessed with getting her back. Lucas Kent's rage knows no bounds. The danger of his job occupies his days, but hunting down Yulia is what he lives for. When he finds her, she'll never escape again. He'll do whatever it takes to keep her. Note: This is a long novel that concludes Lucas & Yulia's story.
©2016 Anna Zaires (P)2016 Anna Zaires
Baby Fever Secrets
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Bekah: He was just a hookup. I wasn't supposed to see him again. He wasn't supposed to be my boss. Or Dad's new business partner. We weren't supposed to keep doing this, night after sheet-clenching, heart-pounding, lip-biting night. Look, I'm not stupid. Grant Shaw doesn't settle his gorgeous, cocky, billionaire self down with anyone. Especially not with me, the intern who could cost him everything. But I haven't told him the big secret yet - or should I say, the little one? Grant: Until her, I never broke my cardinal rule: one and done. I was the man who left them aching for more. I was Wall Street incarnate, too busy to wife up any woman. I was in control. Now? I've met obsession, and her name is Bekah. Obviously, she's wrong for me. Don't make me list all 100 reasons why. Obviously, I don't give a damn. I need more. I can't let her turn to ice when we used to be fire. I'll have my way like always. Even if the price is torching every single rule in my book that says she's off-limits.... Contains mature themes.
©2017 Nicole Snow (P)2019 Tantor
More than Forever
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There is a love so fierce it cannot be measured. A heart so strong it will never slow. There is a promise so sure it can never lie. He promised me that love forever. Even when it wasn't enough. Forever. Everlasting. Eternal. There is no measure of time. No sounds of the ticking of a clock. Just the rising and falling of the sun and our own sense of forever. But our forever isn't always.
©2014 Jay McLean (P)2015 Tantor
Promise Me
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With her best friend happily married and now pregnant, Sam Matthews should be overjoyed. Instead, she can only see what is missing in her life. Pushing her emotions aside, she retreats to a piece of her past that she's kept hidden - something that even her best friend knows nothing about. Taking a step into her future, Sam moves to North Carolina, where she once again encounters Mark Robertson. He is persistent and hard to resist, and little by little, he uses his charms to break through Sam's walls. As Sam starts to open her heart to Mark, she convinces herself that the past should stay in the past. But when her past creeps into the present, Sam's secrets could cost her every hope and happiness in the future.
©2014 Kristin Mayer (P)2014 Tantor