New western romance on Audible

My latest recording on Audible is a sweet mail-order bride western romance. It's called Learning to Trust Again by Susannah Calloway.

"Fearful and frightened, Lacey Harper must learn to save herself. When her father plans to marry her off to enrich himself, she answers an advert for a Mail Order Bride. She boards a train to Colorado Territory to marry a man named Neil Thompson.

But Neil doesn’t want or need a wife. He’d buried his beloved Maggie four years earlier and cannot move on from her death. His daughter, Darcy, now six, needs the mother Neil refuses to provide.

Lacey arrives in Miner’s Gulch, Colorado, and learns that Neil’s family had asked for a Mail Order Bride for him; Neil has no knowledge of the arrangement. Lacey agrees to stay on only until she finds a new husband. Except Lacey is attracted to Neil, and Neil to Lacey.

But Neil declares he’ll never marry again. Lacey writes the Mail Order Bride Agency to find a man who truly wants her, but Darcy’s sudden illness prevents Lacey from leaving.

Neil realizes he’s fallen for Lacey, but has he lost her? When Lacey’s father arrives to take her home to marry another, Neil fights for her. Then a mysterious event binds Lacey and Neil together for all time."

To listen to the sample and/or purchase the book, head to Audible here.
 

A Western Romance and a Children's Classic

Two new releases on Audible since I last posted!  First up is a sweet historical western romance by Davalynn Spencer called Snow Angel: A Romantic Christmas Novella.

"As a child, she lost something precious at Christmas. Twenty years later, she's about to lose her heart.

Lena Carver works as her physician brother’s medical assistant, housekeeper, and cook despite her disfigurement from a childhood accident. Each year, the Christmas holidays come with contradictions - cherished memories of a mysterious encounter and painful recollections of a great loss. Lena lives with the belief that she is beyond love’s reach, until a dark-eyed cowboy arrives broken, bruised, and bent on changing her mind.

Wil Bergman wakes in a stranger’s home with a busted leg, a bullet-creased scalp, and no horse. Trail-weary, robbed, and penniless, his dreams and plans for a future are suddenly unattainable. Forced to recuperate in the home of a country doctor, he finds himself at the mercy of a surgeon whose sister’s healing touch has power to stitch up his lonely heart and open his eyes to the impossible."

To listen to the sample and/or purchase this book, head to Audible here.

Next up is another full-cast production from The Online Stage.  This one is the children's classic Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.  I played two small roles in this one.  As always, these are a lot of fun.


"Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Translated from the Italian by Carol Della Chiesa
Presented by The Online Stage
Carlo Collodi's whimsical recasting of the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea was first published in 1883 and has since become an established classic of children's literature. Geppetto, a poor wood carver, receives a piece of wood from which he carves a marionette. Much to his surprise, the puppet springs to life and embarks on a wild series of adventures.
Cast
Narrator - Michelle Marie
Pinocchio - Becca Maggie
Geppetto - Denis Daly
The Fairy - Amanda Friday
Also featuring the voices of Andrew Coleman, Andy Harrington, Ben Lindsey-Clark, Ben Stevens, Chyanne Donnell, Craig Franklin, Elizabeth Chambers, Erin Grassie, Grace Garrett, Griffin Johnson, Isabelle Friday, Jeff Moon, John Burlinson, Joseph Tabler, Larry Wilson, Leanne Yau, Lee Ann Howlett, Marty Krz, Peter Tucker, Phil Benson, Rob Goll, Russell Gold, Sara Sheckells and Susan Iannucci."

To listen to the sample and/or purchase this book, head to the Audible link here.

Iambik keeps the science fiction coming...

Iambik Audiobooks just released books 1 and 2 of the Hexslinger series by Gemma Files.  This series is in the science fiction/fantasy genre.  Both books are narrated by the talented Gordon Mackenzie.  Book 1 is called A Book of Tongues and book 2 is entitled A Rope of Thorns.  If you like your sci/fi with a western twist, you're going to love this series.  Set just after the U.S. Civil War, these books are not for the squeamish. From Publisher's Weekly on book 1: "(A) boundary-busting horror-fantasy debut . . . Files smoothly weaves an unusual magic system, Aztec mythology, and a raunchily explicit gay love story into a classic western tale of outlaws and revenge . . . this promising debut fully delivers both sizzling passions and dark chills."

Book 2, A Rope of Thorns is the sequel to A Book of Tongues and begins in 1867 and continues the exploits of the same wild characters.  This from Library Journal regarding book 2: "This sequel to A Book of Tongues paints a stark, vivid, and gory picture of the 'wild west' in the years following the Civil War. . . . Filled with antiheroes, sacrificial victims, and supernatural beings, Files’s latest is not for the squeamish but should delight fans of gothic Western fantasy and Central American myths."


Narrator Gordon Mackenzie is already at work on Book 3 in the
Hexslinger series, A Tree of Bone, so if the first two books only whet your appetite -- don't worry, there's more to come.  Books 1 and 2 are available now at Iambik in mp3 and m4b formats.  At $6.99 each, you're in for a hell of a ride!