Showing results by narrator "Jenn Lee" in All Categories

For more than thirty years, Elizabeth Stone has been an irreplaceable fixture in homes around the world, a food and lifestyle icon with a brand as warm and inviting as New England brown bread. Until, after her sudden passing, she leaves her legacy and her multimillion-dollar empire to her daughter, Juliet, who is expected to step seamlessly into her shoes.

Heather is shocked to get the mansion so cheap. Now she's about to find out why. The noises, the smell, the rats - is it really rats or something more sinister? And why is Eric, her boyfriend, getting close to a breakdown? Heather doesn't believe in ghosts and tries to find a rational explanation for the unexplained noises, the terrifying visions, and all too real nightmares. But when she realizes that something is trying to end her life, she has to take quick action before she becomes another Christmas tragedy.

When Maine took on her father's mantle, her intention was to protect a single village. No one said anything about every living being on the planet. The Demon has built a mythical stronghold in Rainwater and is gunning for the Nexus—the center of all magic on Earth. He'll have to go through Maine and her celestial army first, but he wouldn't have it any other way. Facing insurmountable odds, Maine has gathered every last mythical creature willing to stop the Demons. She knows that it's not enough. Not even close.

When Maine took up her troll father's mantle, she thought he was dead. She was right. Sort of . . . Finding out that an aspect of him went to another world comes as a surprise. Maine has to get over her shock because he's been fighting a secret war for decades and he needs her help. Now she must traverse the fabric of reality and join her father's fight to stop the forces of Chaos before they destroy not only her world, but all known worlds.

Maine is in prison for a crime she didn't commit. For once, the prisoner's cry of "innocence" is true. She didn't do anything wrong. Being there of her own free will doesn't change the fact that she's locked up in a mythical prison, surrounded by the worst of the worst. Disguised as an oni demon, Maine hopes to find the key to Chaos's realm. That key could be Earth's last chance of survival, and it's being held by the creature who killed her father.

If Darrell Dean wants to inherit half of the Silver Queen mine, he needs to marry. Though he doesn't even like the girl, he agrees to marry the local saloon owner's daughter. He doesn't expect the surprise that he receives when a woman interrupts the wedding. If Willa VanDurring wants to escape the danger stalking her, she needs a new name and a place somewhere far away to go.

From witches, wendigos, and werecats to sirens, sadists, and serial killers, Rebecca Rowland serves listeners a twenty-tale meal of cosmic, creature, and quiet horror in platters heaping with unsettling trepidation. In Rowland's long-awaited follow-up to The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight, a lighted room provides no safe haven, and in the darkest corner of the basement waits a ravenous dread. The most sinister objects of fear are never truly discarded...just repurposed.

Successful essayist, columnist, writing instructor, and editor Estelle Erasmus will show you how to find your voice, write stellar pieces, and get published.

Defeating the world-ending demon was only the beginning. Now Maine must wrestle with the very fabric of reality. Maine defeated the Corrupter, saved the world, and is dating the man of her dreams. Things should be smooth sailing from now on. She deserves a boring, normal-ish life, doesn't she? Fate has other ideas in mind. The defeat of the Corrupter left a power void that needs to be filled. A strange mist surrounds Rainwater. Most dismiss it as a weird weather phenomenon, but creatures who enter the mists don't leave the same.

Two weeks ago, Christine Sinclaire's husband slipped off the roof while hanging Christmas lights and fell to his death on the front lawn. Desperate to escape her guilt and her grief, Christine packs up her fifteen-year-old son and the family cat and flees to the cabin they'd reserved deep in the remote Pennsylvania Wilds to wait out the holidays. It isn't long before Christine begins to hear strange noises coming from the forest

Three years have passed, and Three Willows is on the verge of becoming obsolete. The drought that took hold after the departure of the Founders was one thing, but now the new train line threatens to leave the town in the dust. Jessalyn and Sam are determined to keep that from happening, but they're short on ideas.

Samantha is mixing up traditional cocktails at the German Texan Lodge’s Fourth of July festival—a gig she was roped into by her mother—but amidst the bratwurst and brass bands, trouble is brewing. Lodge loyalties are divided over a proposal to build a private country-club-style tennis center on the lodge grounds. Her mom’s best friend, Patty Davis, is vehemently opposed to the plan. Society matron Angela Clawson is all for it. At the festival, they’re seen in a heated argument—and hours later, Angela is found dead.

Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western rodeo hero is often a stoic white man who embodies the toughness and independence of America’s frontier past. However, marginalized people have starred in rodeos since the very beginning. Cast out of popular western mythology and pushed to the fringes in everyday life, these cowboys and cowgirls found belonging and meaning at the rodeo, staking a claim to national inclusion.

Believing she is recruited for her marketing prowess, she is excited by the prospect of her new job in the intelligence sector; but all is not what it seems. Before long, Kathryn and her new team are thrown into a world of mystery, murder, and magic. As the team rushes around the world, untangling the web of lies, she finds that her past may be the key to protecting her, and the world's, future. Will she be able to confront her fuzzy past to unlock the secrets within herself?

The Ambrose curse has stopped Amelia from following her heart. She’s accepted her fate as part of the generations of Ambrose women who’ve lost their husbands too young. So Amelia is determined to never marry, to never allow herself to fall in love. Grigg Edison has been patient long enough. Two years, in fact. When Amelia confesses that she’s ready to test the power of the curse, all he wants is a chance. He’ll do anything, including risking his heart to uncover the origin of the ancient legend. But for Amelia, the risk may be too great, and the roots of family lore too deep.

Most people think the reason Prudy Millings married the best-looking preacher in the Carolinas—who inexplicably turned psychotic and mowed her down with the church van—is that she was raised all wrong. So not true. Prudy's reclamation of her life begins two years after the crime spree that nearly stopped her heart. She packs up her two precocious children and settles in her parents' South Carolina hometown where she deals with a delightful Proverbs-spewing mama who pretends her grown daughters are virgins.

For Maggie McKenzie, repairing a shattered life becomes more complicated when a stranger takes up residence in the ruins of an old Florida estate with a macabre history. This stranger brings with him a sinister magic and an obsession with the disturbed grave of a witch. Maggie’s troubled past becomes part of a larger, darker legacy of curses and bloody rituals, as well as a variety of beasts, both human and supernatural, that will prey upon her and those she loves.

Jessalyn Joy loves her husband, but she can’t help the feelings that arose when he volunteered for the Union army. When he comes back to her in a box instead of on his feet, those feelings complicate even more. Jessalyn’s mourning period is cut short when something begins to attack the livestock in their small town, and greater dangers begin to threaten their provincial life.

There are a few things Helena was sure she’d never do: Date again and trust her home digital assistant, Genie, for personal advice. Now her marriage was not going well. Every day, her husband and two kids would wake up late as usual, Helena would cook breakfast that would be gobbled down on the run. Then her husband would take the kids to school and come home from work late. She was not happy, but her kids were.

A couple found brutally murdered in the Coronado Cays pulls San Diego CSI Holly Jennings from a bliss-filled morning with her new baby and husband into a twisted maze of cheating spouses and Hollywood gore. As Holly and her team track the bloody trail left by the killer, the questions and the body count continue to rise like the damned who've been drowned. The killer fits the profile of a professional. But Holly can feel the rage and need for redemption behind these deaths that tells her that for the killer - or killers - this is all intimately personal.