TJ Clark has narrated 13 audiobooks on Listento.it by 12 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 12 ratings. The most-rated is Mind Games.
Mind Games
Summary
Eight internet friends have an "IRL" meeting in a mountain cabin. But instead of the long weekend get-together they planned, they're suddenly caught up in the end of the world as they knew it! They just met for the first time in real life last night, and today's group wake-up call is strange messages floating in the air telling them that something called a "System Start" has just happened. Now magic works and technology doesn't. Cell phones won't work, cars won't start, and it's 10 miles to the nearest town. Some of them have families to worry about. Some of them don't even believe this is real. And all of them have secrets they'll have to overcome if they're going to work together and make it back to town alive. On the way, they'll meet other survivors, also confused, scared, and questioning what's happening. Ten miles doesn't seem that far, but by the end of it, they'll have faced some of the worst that the System can throw at them. And then things really get interesting. The small Tennessee town they're trying to reach is isolated, cut off, and surrounded by a new and terrifying world. Outside the town, ordinary creatures are becoming things out of nightmare. And inside the town, legends are coming to life.... Mind Games is a new GameLit/LitRPG novel in the tradition of Tao Wong's "System Apocalypse". If you enjoy books by William Arand, Scottie Futch, and other contemporary LitRPG writers, you'll love Mind Games!
©2020 Marc Whipple (P)2020 Marc Whipple
To See the Sun
Summary
Survival is hard enough in the outer colonies - what chance does love have?
Life can be harsh and lonely in the outer colonies, but miner-turned-farmer Abraham Bauer is living his dream, cultivating crops that will one day turn the unforgiving world of Alkirak into paradise. He wants more, though. A companion - someone quiet like him. Someone to share his days, his bed, and his heart.
Gael Sonnen has never seen the sky, let alone the sun. He’s spent his whole life locked in the undercity beneath Zhemosen, running from one desperate situation to another. For a chance to get out, he’ll do just about anything - even travel to the far end of the galaxy as a mail-order husband. But no plan of Gael’s has ever gone smoothly, and his new start on Alkirak is no exception. Things go wrong from the moment he steps off the shuttle.
Although Gael arrives with unexpected complications, Abraham is prepared to make their relationship work - until Gael’s past catches up with them, threatening Abraham’s livelihood, the freedom Gael gave everything for, and the love neither man ever hoped to find.
©2018 Kelly Jensen (P)2019 Riptide Publishing
Surreal Estate
Summary
Sasha Michaels is a psychic with an affinity for houses. And he’s homeless. Go figure. After months of sleeping rough, he stumbles upon an abandoned house, and the lonely place beckons him inside. He’s finally safe...until someone comes blundering in to his hideaway. House flipper Nick Cooper lost everything in the recession. Desperate to revive his business, he turns to a loan shark to fund his comeback project: flipping an abandoned house full of potential. But it turns out the house has an unexpected occupant. Nick and Sasha make a deal: Sasha can stay, in exchange for helping with the renovation. To both of their surprise, the closer they get to the loan shark’s due date, the stronger grows their feelings for each other. Problem is, Nick isn’t the only one with feelings for Sasha, and now, the house doesn’t want to let Sasha go.
©2018 Jesi Lea Ryan (P)2020 Riptide Publishing
Beggar's Rebellion
Summary
The Councilate controls everything except the truth. With it, he shall destroy an empire. Tai Kulga lost the rebellion and his best friend on the same day, stripping him of everything even as a strange power flooded his bones. When the friend returns as a spirit guide, it feels like a second chance - but his friend is not who he was, and the Councilate is not done oppressing his people. Trouble with lawkeepers lands Tai’s surviving friends in a prison camp, and he goes underground seeking the last of the rebels to convince them to break his friends free. Along the way he meets Ellumia Aygla, runaway Councilate daughter posing as an accountant to escape her family and the avarice of the capital. Curious about the link between spirit guides and magic, her insights earn her a place among the rebels and along with Tai’s new power help turn the tide against the colonialists. But as the rebels begin to repeat the Councilate’s mistakes, Tai and Ellumia must confront their own pasts and prejudices, before the brewing war turns them into the monsters they fight. Experience the start of an epic-fantasy series filled with unexpected heroes, dark magic, intrigue, and nonstop adventure. Suitable for all ages, it's perfect for fans of D.K. Holmberg, Will Wight, and C.J. Aaron.
©2018, 2019, 2020 Aethon Books (P)2021 Aethon Audio
Alien's Primal Bond
Summary
The only way to save her is to claim her for himself. The Ulkar are the stuff of nightmares, and they want to do much worse to Ellie than kill her. They want to breed her. Kula is sent to save her. He’s an Aparan warrior, the only race in the galaxy strong enough to fight the Ulkar. He swears to die protecting her, but there’s only one way to save her: The Ulkar will not breed with a woman who has already been claimed, so Kula will have to do it first. Aparans cannot breed with an unwilling mate. It goes against every fiber of their being. Ellie is nervous, but she’s drawn to the powerful alien warrior. She tells herself she’s doing what she must to survive...even if she enjoys it. Ellie may have been willing to sleep with Kula just one time, but what she didn’t know is that Aparans mate for life. Now he’s abducted her, and he’s calling her his Muru. Will she convince him to let her go, or is being bonded to the dominant alien warrior exactly what she always needed? Alien's Primal Bond is a full-length, stand-alone alien sci-fi romance. It features a possessive alpha alien in intense, steamy scenes with his human mate. There are no cliff-hangers or cheating, and a happily ever after is guaranteed!
©2020 Darkstar Press (P)2020 Darkstar Press
The Buffalo Pilot
Summary
Lawrence A. Colby is back with his most riveting military thriller yet! For fans of Brad Taylor, Vince Flynn and Mark Greaney, hold on for the ride! Military flying - the riskiest career of them all. More military pilots die in training than at war. Air Force Reserve Major Ford Stevens is a veteran military pilot, upholding the prestigious family practice of service to the nation in the face of danger. His younger brother, Charlie, a fresh lieutenant out of pilot training, joins the family tradition seeking to prove himself. With the rivalry still strong, all he wanted to do was follow his big brother's footsteps. Now, Charlie joins his brother Ford in the same flying squadron, both men putting their lives on the line each time they strap in the jet, whether in peace or war. It will be an initiation by fire as they hunt a saboteur killing aircrew, uniting the competitive brothers in the ultimate test of life and death.
©2020 Lawrence A. Colby (P)2020 Lawrence A. Colby
Waking Up on the Appalachian Trail
Summary
Nate Hankes returned home from his tour in Iraq unable to answer one simple question: Had his mission overseas been honorable? Determined to find clarity and forge a new identity outside of the US Army, Nate, alongside his brother, Ben, a recent college grad delaying his entry into the Great Recession job market, set out to hike the entire length of the 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail. Unpredictable weather, brutal terrain, straining health, and a fractured mind stretched beyond comfort by a wise but imperfect hiking companion turn this walk in the woods into an adventure of body, mind, and spirit. And in a world gone mad, this coming-of-age story reminds us that true clarity and peace can only be found within. Advanced praise: “Like Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, Waking Up On the Appalachian Trail is a tale of transformation and emergence from trauma and confusion into something closer to insight and clarity. Hankes writes from the heart, and his story is both powerful and important. I hope this book finds the large, passionate audience it deserves.” (Chris Ryan, PhD, author of Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress and host of the Tangentially Speaking podcast) “There are two battlefields described in Waking Up On the Appalachian Trail - none in Iraq and the other within the human heart and mind. Nate Hankes’ memoir is the perfect metaphor for the path that leads each of us from ignorance, fear, and suffering to true freedom, reconciliation, and awakening. This book will change your life.” (Darren Main, author of Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic) “In his courageous exploration and dogged determination to make sense of his young life as an Iraq war combat veteran, Nathan Hankes offers us the raw, honest, and gritty perspective of one who is willing to question everything in the service of living a connected, empathic and meaningful life.” (Heidi Bourne, mindfulness educator and consultant, Pacific Mindfulness) “Tim O’Brien wrote in his novel about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, ‘A true war is never moral.’ Nathan Hankes reminds us of that, but shows us there is a way forward: By bravely seeking truth, one step at a time, to understanding and redemption.” (Kevin Sites, author of The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done, or Failed to Do in War) “Waking Up On the Appalachian Trail is a deeply personal and powerful tale of a young veteran’s journey to understand his role in America’s post-9/11 wars. This unique coming-of-age story is an incredible encapsulation of young peoples’ general disillusionment with American exceptionalism and the frustration that comes from questioning the status quo. I can’t wait to see where Nathan goes next.” (Allegra Harpootlian, ReThink Media)
©2020 Nathan Hankes (P)2020 Nathan Hankes
Sawbones
Summary
“I was to make myself a killer.”
In 1865, a man calling himself Septimus Whitehall slashed, shot, and burned his way from New York to California in a frenzy of violence. This is his own story, told in his own words.
Seven names were on the doctor’s list. Seven men and women scattered all over the United States and its western territories. Seven souls judged guilty by a mysterious man with no past apart from the loss for which his enemies are blamed. The War Between the States is over, but Septimus Whitehall intends to wage a bloody war of his own and he is willing to cut down almost anyone who stands in his way. From New York City and Boston on the cusp of the Gilded Age to the war-ravaged ruins of Alabama and Arkansas, through the mythic American West and beyond, Whitehall will practice his violent vocation until everyone on that list meets the Sawbones.
©2018 Ed Kurtz (P)2018 David N. Wilson
Rage of the Dead
Summary
Rise of the Dead series - Book three Chase Graves didn't sign up to be a hero. He didn't care about serving his country. He joined up to do the one thing he knew best...he wanted to fight. After years of intense training to become a swift, silent, deadly recon Marine, he will finally get his chance. But it isn't at all what he expected. Now that the dead have returned to life and started attacking the living, Chase and his Marine brothers in Nightmare Platoon find themselves in a fierce battle for survival. Assigned with a desperate mission to stop the end of the world, the raucous and fiery bunch of devil dogs may be the only hope that mankind has left. The third book in the ROTD series brings another cast together with our series survivors for another hard-hitting, action-packed installment that takes us back to the early days of the outbreak. Prepare yourself for another dose of nail-biting zombie thrills.
©2018 Jeremy Dyson (P)2020 Jeremy Dyson
Alien's Feral Seed
Summary
Abducted. Taken to a hellish alien world. And it only gets worse. Horrifying creatures called the Vereni are out for my blood, but my abductor is an alien warrior who claims he's my protector. He says there's only one thing that will truly keep me safe. His seed. To protect me, he fights through the Vereni with a ferocity and possessiveness that no human man has ever shown me. When they try to claim me, he’s shouting at them that I am his. That I belong to him and only him. He even calls me his Muru...whatever that means. I’m terrified, but I start to feel I can trust my alien captor, because no matter what comes our way, he keeps me safe. His protection comes at a cost. He claims the Vereni will never stop coming for me so long as I have the thing they crave above all else: virgin blood. And guess who’s a virgin? He’s ferocious and possessive, but he won’t take my virginity unless I’m willing. Will I let him claim me just to survive, or is his alien seed the one thing I truly crave? Alien's Feral Seed is a full-length stand-alone alien sci-fi romance. It features a possessive alpha alien in intense, steamy scenes with his human mate. There are no cliff-hangers or cheating, and a happily ever after is guaranteed!
©2020 Darkstar Press LLC (P)2020 Darkstar Press LLC
A Furnace Sealed
Summary
Bram Gold is a Courser, a hunter-for-hire who deals with supernatural creatures, mystical happenings, and things that go booga-booga in the night. Under the supervision of the Wardein - his childhood friend Miriam Zerelli, who is in charge of all magical activity in the Bronx, New York - he's who you hire if you need a crazed unicorn wrangled, some werewolves guarded while they gallivant around under the full moon, or an ill-advised attempt to bind a god stopped.
The Bronx is the home to several immortals, who are notoriously hard to kill - so it comes as rather a surprise when one of them turns up murdered, seemingly by a vampire. In addition, binding spells all across town are either coming undone, failing to work, or are difficult to restore. As Bram investigates, more immortals turn up dead, and a strange woman keeps appearing long enough to give cryptic advice and then disappear. Soon, he uncovers a nasty sequence of events that could lead to the destruction of New York!
The first in a new series of urban fantasy thrillers taking place in the Boogie-Down Bronx from best-selling, award-winning author Keith R.A. DeCandido.
©2018 Keith R.A. DeCandido (P)2019 WordFire Press
Alien's Savage Claim (A Scifi Alien Romance)
Summary
Kalafa has three rules: Keep your woman leashed, satisfied, and disciplined. The alien warrior Soturi abducts Emma, taking his new prize to the desert planet Kalafa. They may enter the city walls under one condition: Emma must submit to Soturi...and wear a leash and collar. She feels degraded and dehumanized as the savage alien walks her through the city on a leash, but that’s not even the beginning of her problems. Every night at sunset, the temple’s bells chime, and the men all walk their women to the center of the city. The guards force Soturi and Emma into the square at gunpoint. Satisfy your woman, or someone else will. Soturi may have claimed Emma, but an Aparan cannot take an unwilling mate. As the men around Emma satisfy their women, Emma realizes she has only two choices. She can submit to the brutal Aparan warrior, or someone much worse will take claim of her leash. But when Emma finds herself craving the discipline of Soturi’s calloused hands, the line between pain and pleasure blurs together. Will she submit to his punishment, or will she beg for more? Publisher's Note: Alien's Savage Claim includes rough spankings and strong sexual content. Please do not listen to this book if you are offended by alpha aliens who know how to discipline their mates.
©2020 Darkstar Press LLC (P)2020 Darkstar Press LLC
Melody
Summary
A melody from the stars can save humanity, but only if Stephen can awaken the alien within.... Childhood therapy cured Stephen Fisher of disturbing visions and the delusion of having come from another world. But when his daughter obsesses over a star in the night sky, he fears that his genetic legacy may have burdened her with the same illness. His sanity is then shattered when he loses his child and the military abducts him claiming that she recorded a song broadcast from another world. A voice inside Stephen’s head convinces him that he can bring his daughter back to life. What he discovers instead is a stunning truth about himself, his child’s destiny, and fate of the entire human race.... Melody is a riveting and thought-provoking science fiction novel. If you like first contact scenarios and action-filled stories, then you’ll love David Hoffer’s otherworldly adventure.
©2019 David Stangland (P)2021 David Stangland