Thomas Bestwick has narrated 11 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors. The most-rated is The Dragon Circle.
Cyborg
Summary
A military science fiction thriller portraying a dystopian future of corporation greed, exploitation, and deadly secrets. It started as just another assignment. Invited by big-hitting corporation ARTOK, combat journalist David Chambers is visiting the planet Parnassus to report on the “Human Enhancement Program” when he witnesses the unthinkable: the crash site of an alien ship. The huge structure contains alien bodies and, more importantly, alien technology. But before Chambers can digest the scene, a rival corporation invades, and Chambers barely escapes with his life. Chambers retreats to the safety of his habitat of Orchard accompanied by Richter and his team, but he’s unaware of the extent of the corporation’s reach. On their arrival, they’re arrested. Mysteriously, only Chambers is released, but not before he’s threatened into silence Richter, however, needs to be heard. His avatar reaches out to Chambers with harrowing tales of special forces, secret missions, violence, and trickery, resulting in the creation of half-humans, half-machines - cyborgs like himself. Richter recruits Chambers to tell his story and expose the terrifying truth of the corporations’ despicable plans for humanity. But with billions of dollars at stake, the two corporations can’t let the story break and will do everything in their power to keep their secrets safe.
©2017 Castrum Press (P)2019 Castrum Press
Red Horse Vale
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When novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness after a serious head injury, he discovers he’s affected by a rare condition: synaesthesia. This not only gives his brain heightened psychic powers, but also affects his behavior. Nationally prominent after discovering the tomb of King Aldfrith and writing a best seller, Jake is in a world of trouble. After his cross-wired brain responds to psychometry in his childhood home, he sees his mother who had died young and decides to go on holiday to the Cotswolds...to discover the curse of the Red Horse Vale.
©2019 John Broughton (P)2020 John Broughton
The Wards of Iasos: Book 1: The Leftovers
Summary
Some people are just weird. They don't fit in - not at school, not at home, not with other kids no matter how hard they try. In the age of dwarves and dragons, outcasts end up as slaves, thieves, or worse.
For the ones lucky enough to live in the land of Iasos, there is an alternative school - a last chance for the leftovers of society to find their path before it's assigned for them.
©2016 J. Christopher Wilson (P)2018 Goldminds Publishing, LLC
Wyrd of the Wolf
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Among the political and religious upheaval of seventh century England, nobody is safe. As the old gods are eroded by the new church and and ambitious men vie for power, blood is shed throughout the land. In the south, ealdorman Aelfhere believes that for his only daughter, 16-year-old Cynethryth, marriage to a Saxon king is the way to security. And so, against her own wishes, Cynethryth is betrothed. Yet as battle rages around her, Cynethryth too becomes a victim of war. Taken prisoner by the warrior invaders, she is forced into the presence of another Saxon king, who would also have her for his wife. A man she actually loves. Allying herself against her father and her own people in a grisly war, she becomes a key element of events that continue to influence England today.
©2020 John Broughton (P)2020 John Broughton
Memory of a Falcon
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Entangled between the gods of the old world and an extremist group in the new, retrocognitive Jake Conley seeks a way to stop the zealots - while struggling to survive. When a conversion attempt leads Jake’s partner Liffi to erect a heathen temple to the old goddess Freya, the fanatics of Woden’s Brethren are furious. As their retaliation sets a string of terrorist atrocities in motion, Jake and Liffi are saved by the old goddess, but their differing philosophies begin to drive them apart. Torn between ways old and new, the two must use their powers to bring down the enemy. But as their own relationship hangs in the balance, can they find a way to stop the subversive organization for good?
©2019 John Broughton (P)2020 John Broughton
The Drowned Throne
Summary
From the cesspool of Silas Island into the underworld of Two Town, the battle for Valaris continues. As epic storms batter the continent, men, women, and children succumb to soltakin touch and darkling blade. It is time to unveil the hidden half-race from under the sands of the Vall Peninsula; Valaris needs soldiers as much as she needs hope. It is time, also, to face Margus in his lair and throw down the gauntlet. Arrayed against his might is the small team of defenders, among them Taranis of the Guardians, Vannis of the Valleur, and Torrullin, a man with a dual nature, who as often fights the darkness rising within as he fights to save his world. Dreams and visions plague Torrullin; he battles to find himself when fate appears omnipotent, and love seems ever beyond his reach. The extinct Gosa volcano erupts as sacred sites implode to create earthquakes and tidal waves. A monster wave races to the site of an epic confrontation before an ancient and powerful golden seat. The Valleur Throne is about to assume ultimate status.
©2015 Elaina J. Davidson (P)2020 Elaina J. Davidson
Thousand Eyes
Summary
For at least 10,000 years, something has been destroying alien civilisations across the galaxy. And now it’s coming for us. In the 25th century, the two biggest corporations in history are racing outwards, far beyond the boundaries of human space, scattering settlements and habitats as they go. And they’re making a lot of money doing it. But an ARTOK company station has been destroyed and all its inhabitants slaughtered, and now the Anglo-Russian company has been drawn into interstellar war with its historic rival Nippon Deutsch. The greatest trading opportunity of all time is nearly within their grasp, and it offers unimaginable wealth and power to the winner. But as they chase the great prize, the companies discover an alien starship entombed in the ice of a remote mountaintop, and abandoned cities buried under ancient jungles. Star-travelling species are being blotted out. Journalist David Chambers is terrified. He’s been working on a story about the fate of the hated cyborg soldiers. They disappeared from human history decades ago, but now they’re back, fighting in out-of-the-way wars across the minor planets. What is the mysterious operation thousand eyes? He’s told the security police everything he knows, and they don’t seem to care. But he realizes that if he tells anyone else, he’ll be killed. Plenty of other journalists have died recently. If he can keep out of the reach of the police, avoid being killed in any of the several wars which surround him, escape the corporate hitmen, and manage not to outrage the holy mercenaries of a resurgent ancient religion, then all Chambers has to worry about is a pack of monstrous carnivores. And his beer cellar is trying to murder him. Thousand Eyes is the second volume of JCH Rigby’s epic series The Deep Wide Black.
©2018 Castrum Press (P)2019 Castrum Press
The Kinfire Tree
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The war of eternal darkness is about to commence on Valaris. One battle is already behind the team, the disastrous events upon Ardosia, and now it is time to look ahead to the stability of Valaris, or the same fate awaits her. Hidden from humankind are 14 sacred Valleur sites, each built upon a node of power. Vannis of the Valleur advocates unveiling the sites to restore balance to the earth, balance he claims will aid them in the fight against Margus. The Darak Or has other ideas, and unleashes his soltakin.... In the north, Averroes discovers her true past, and she and Kylan run the gauntlet of the Maze. Nearby Kisha, Mordan, Cristi, and Samson prepare the clans of old for the darkness about to befall them. In the south, Vannis, Rayne, and Saska continue the unveiling process at the ruins of the White Palace, along with the charismatic little Falcon, Phet. Taranis and the Guardians delve arcane ritual in the Dome to find answers to the ending of soltakin, and wonder when the dara-witch Infinity will bring her Darkling Horde into the mix. McSee, unmasked as traitor, meets the crazy Lanto and they hatch a bold plan, one set into action during an epic summer storm, involving a pirate and ancient loot. Rayne begins the internal battle that will change all. It began for him on Ardosia when he touched Vannis only to release blue sparks between them. The ruling house is almost extinct. How, therefore, does a Valla recognize the blood for the future? By the blue flame of trebac. Kinfire. The legendary Vannis is kin to him, but there is more in store for Rayne. The kinfire tree is larger with branches hidden in its foliage, a condition Rayne suspects, a greater truth he must reveal. Will this truth aid against the approaching darkness?
©2016 Elaina J. Davidson (P)2019 Elaina J. Davidson
Beneath the Whispers
Summary
Genevieve Deboise is too good for Scott Dean. He’s always known that. It isn’t a shock to learn she is cheating on him. What is a surprise is bumping into his childhood sweetheart in the woods where he’d planned to take solace in his heartbreak and bruised ego. But running into Mary-Ann Jennings isn’t exactly the fairy tale it might seem. Instead, his first love needs his help finding a USB stick that has fallen into the wrong hands. Now in the cellar of Genevieve’s new lover, Scotty must confront his feelings for both women in order to retrieve the missing USB stick. On a quest to confront his past and locate Mary-Ann’s property, he journeys through the whispers that have always surrounded him. Love will make you do crazy things. But is it enough to get beneath the whispers?
©2018 Crazy Ink Publishing LLC (P)2018 Crazy Ink Publishing LLC, Jim Ody, Erin George
The Infinity Mantle
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There is a darkness coming ... Rayne of the Mantle searches for the magician Aven to confirm rumours of the dara-witch Infinity’s presence on Valaris. He isn’t prepared for what he actually finds. Changeling children bent on murder, a secret Society of Sorcerers, the mysterious waif Averroes, and the Maghdim Medaillon, a magical coin that creates a thread of light between two realms. Two worlds in two universes are on the brink of destruction. Both will burn. Connecting them and their shared fate is a linked past, a glowing thread, and a tear in the fabric of space. Separating them is a mighty Chaos barrier. Valaris is vulnerable to the Infinity and, beyond Ardosia, the Darak Or Margus watches for the perfect opportunity to annihilate a world and its people. Both will use Chaos as a weapon of ultimate manipulation. Taranis of the Guardians is summoned to witness what will happen to Valaris should Ardosia fail and is forced to endure the darkness blockade. In the aftermath, he understands the Guardians need a sorcerer of extraordinary power to step forth. Is there anyone out there able to prevent eternal night? Rayne meanwhile dreams of a little girl from another world desperate for help and cannot fathom how, until he meets the Guardians in the Great Forest of Valaris. When they reveal the presence of a tear in space, Rayne realises he is being gathered to fulfil his destiny... And on Ardosia a little girl awakes from a nightmare, screaming, “It will all burn, daddy!” Another awakens; a legendary figure from the forgotten past, creator of the Maghdim Medaillon, the true ruler of both Valaris and Ardosia. His time is now. There is a darkness coming.
©2013 Elaina J. Davidson (P)2018 Elaina J. Davidson
The Dragon Circle
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Valarians prepare for winter. Many died in summer, more will succumb to the cold. Only the heat of hope sustains them now. While waiting for the opportune time to strike, Margus secretly begins a different kind of campaign: soul-snatching. He rebuilds his army with the souls of Valaris. Waiting for Margus to reveal his game plan, Torrullin steps blindly into Vannis’ final prophecy. It brings him a great gift; it also leads to terrible betrayal. In the aftermath, there is a change in the Valla Dragon’s place of residence, and Saska abandons Torrullin, leaving him cold and in need of diversion. Belun of the Centuar is suspicious of the strange vanishings, and his suspicion drives Torrullin off world to find a ward against soul-snatching. He enters the forges of flame in search of the means to put an end to Margus’ reign of terror. The man who emerges is reformed of fire to unleash annihilating heat. Uninvited, Torrullin enters the Dome of his Guardian father Taranis, employing a darkened doorway most Guardians believed inoperative due to an ancient prophecy. The Dragon Circle completes the forging of Torrullin Valla. The ambivalent Rayne’s tale began in the shades and shadows of a prejudiced world and moved into flame and fire, and now, a new future unveils.
©2015 Elaina J. Davidson (P)2021 Elaina J. Davidson