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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203337 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Change of Heart Series: #3 of Perfect, Indiana Author: Barbara Longley Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 31, 2013 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Emotionally shattered, a soldier slowly repairs her life in the picturesque town of Perfect, Indiana… Cory Marcel worked tirelessly over eight grueling years to develop a successful military career. After her commanding officer violently assaulted her, she lost everything—especially her trust in people. Despite the emotional damage threatening to sink her, Cory agrees to accept a new job at a furniture store in Perfect—a job that could offer the fragile brunette the chance to start over. Ted Lovejoy cofounded Langford & Lovejoy Heritage Furniture, but lately he feels like an outsider in his own business. When he meets Cory, Ted realizes his company can do more than just build furniture—it can also help rebuild lives. He longs to help Cory recover from her pain, yet every time he gets too close to her heart, she pushes him away. While Cory can’t resist her attraction to Ted, she fears the demons haunting her will drag down both of them. Could this kind, soft-spoken man help her finally bury the past…and unlock a future full of hope and happiness?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202675 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Country Roads Series: #2 of A Whisper Horse Novel Author: Nancy Herkness Narrator: Shannon McManus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 39 minutes Release date: December 10, 2013 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: National Excellence in Romance Fiction for Contemporary Single Title, First Coast Romance Writers RITA® Nominee for Contemporary Romance, Romance Writers of America Nancy Herkness welcomes readers back to Sanctuary, West Virginia, where family loyalty leads to sparkling love, with the help of a whisper horse. When sheltered artist Julia Castillo flees her hometown, she has just one goal: to prove to her overbearing family once and for all that she can make it on her own. After she moves to Sanctuary, West Virginia, her horse paintings take the art world by storm. Yet Julia finds her courage tested as never before—by her love for a handsome country lawyer, by her bond with a dangerous black stallion, and by the secret she is so desperate to keep… Paul Taggart abandoned his high-powered legal career to return to Sanctuary, giving up his own dreams to care for his troubled brother. But the day he rescues Julia Castillo from the side of the highway, his staid, responsible life changes forever. Irresistibly drawn to the fiery but unsophisticated beauty, Paul will do anything to protect her—even sacrifice his own happiness to guarantee hers. Dramatic and emotional, Country Roads is a heartwarming tale of two people trying to balance the bonds of family with a passionate love of their own. Maggie Award for Contemporary Single Title Romance, Georgia Romance Writers Desert Rose RWA® Golden Quill Award Winner, Contemporary Romance

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/203335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gabriel's Redemption Series: #3 of Gabriel's Inferno Author: Sylvain Reynard Narrator: John Michael Morgan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 8 minutes Release date: December 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 29 Ratings of Narrator: 4.62 of Total 13 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: From the author of the New York Times bestsellers Gabriel’s Rapture and Gabriel’s Inferno comes the epic conclusion to the captivating romantic trilogy. Professor Gabriel Emerson has left his position at the University of Toronto to embark on a new life with his beloved Julianne. Together, he’s confident that they can face any challenge. And he’s eager to become a father. But Julianne’s graduate program threatens Gabriel’s plans, as the pressures of being a student become all consuming. When she is given the honor of presenting an academic lecture at Oxford, Gabriel is forced to confront Julianne about the subject of her presentation—research that conflicts with his own. And in Oxford, several individuals from their past appear, including an old nemesis intent on humiliating Julia and exposing one of Gabriel’s darkest secrets. In an effort to confront his remaining demons, Gabriel begins a quest to discover more about his biological parents, beginning a chain of events that has startling repercussions for himself, Julianne, and his hope of having a family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember How I Told You I Loved You? Author: Gillian Linden Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 12 minutes Release date: December 3, 2013 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From a brilliant new literary voice, a collection of stories that follow a young woman from college into her early thirties—from delayed adolescence to (delayed) adulthood. Through college, careers, love affairs, and marriages, Linden’s characters try to sort out what separates the passing from the permanent, the actual from the possible, and exactly how involved you really have to be in the basic questions of your life. From familiar patterns like ambiguous friendships, uncertain love affairs, and unfulfilling jobs, Linden has created something new: a sharp and intimate take on romance and infidelity, trust and betrayal. A deadpan narrative, cool and precise, about hesitation and doubt and how to rid your apartment of mice, Remember How I Told You I Loved You? is by turns witty, moving, and darkly humorous.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things We Set on Fire Author: Deborah Reed Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 1, 2013 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A series of tragedies brings Vivvie's young grandchildren into her custody, and her two estranged daughters back under one roof. Jackson, Vivvie’s husband, was shot and killed thirty years ago, and the ramifications have splintered the family into their own isolated remembrances and recriminations. Sisters Elin and Kate fought mercilessly in childhood and have avoided each other for years. Elin seems like the last person to watch her sister convalesce after an attempted suicide. But Elin has her own reasons for coming to Kate's side and will soon discover Kate’s own staggering needs. This deeply personal, hauntingly melancholy look at the damages families inflict on each other—and the healing that only they can provide—is filled with flinty, flawed, and complex people stumbling toward some kind of peace. Like Elizabeth Strout and Kazuo Ishiguro, Deborah Reed understands a story, and its inhabitants reveal themselves in the subtleties: the space between the thoughts, the sigh behind the smile, and the unreliable lies people tell themselves that ultimately reveal the deepest truths.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201141 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hard As It Gets: Hard Ink Series: #1 of Hard Ink Author: Laura Kaye Narrator: Seraphina Valentine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Five dishonored soldiers. Former Special Forces. One last mission. These are the men of Hard Ink. Trouble just walked into Nicholas Rixey's tattoo parlor. Becca Merritt is warm, sexy, wholesome—pure temptation to a very jaded Nick. He's left his military life behind to become co-owner of Hard Ink Tattoo, but Becca is his ex-commander's daughter. Loyalty won't let him turn her away. Lust has plenty to do with it too. With her brother presumed kidnapped, Becca needs Nick. She just wasn't expecting to want him so much. As their investigation turns into all-out war with an organized crime ring, only Nick can protect her. And only Becca can heal the scars no one else sees. Desire is the easy part. Love is as hard as it gets. Good thing Nick is always up for a challenge . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201143 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pirate Bride Series: #11 of Viking I Author: Sandra Hill Narrator: Heather Wilds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A Viking to bed, not to wed! Medana Elsadottir, known as the Sea Scourge, never planned to become a pirate, but there’s no denying her talent. Her female-only tribe has an island hideaway, food aplenty, goods to trade…everything except the means to breed. That’s where the strapping Norsemen tied up in her ship’s hold comes in handy. Eight godly specimen—and Thork Tykirrson is the most virile of them all. Once their, eh, work is done, they’ll be free to leave. Medana had naught to do with this gods-awful plan, but she wouldn’t mind reaping the benefits. Wed or bed . . . this Viking has plans of his own. Renowned as the wildest Viking of his time, Thork was returning home to regain his father’s favor. Mayhap even (shudder) marry. His brazen—and very beautiful—kidnapper has likely done him a favor in preventing such an irksome fate. That doesn’t mean he’ll let her off easy. No one takes anything from a Viking that he’s not willing to give...not even a violet-eyed vixen who sets off the wildest fantasies.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201145 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Switch Author: Lynsay Sands Narrator: Fiona Hardingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When they first met Lord Jeremy William Radcliffe, Charlie and her twin sister, Elizabeth were escaping from their uncle-taking turns acting the young gentleman to avoid detection. But Charlie couldn’t help falling head over heels-and out of a window-for the handsome lord. Of course, that was only the beginning; Lord Radcliffe insisted on showing “him” and her lovely sister to London. But how could he do that? With every touch, Radcliffe seemed unknowingly to incite indecent desires in Charlie, and his fraternal intent was certain to land her in a fine mess. Though it was a great game to play a boy, there was more fun in being female. And after one brush of his fiery lips when her guise was gone, Charlie swore to be nothing but his fiery woman forevermore.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202855 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beneath This Man Series: #2 of This Man Author: Jodi Ellen Malpas Narrator: Edita Brychta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 50 Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 17 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Book 2 of the #1 New York Times bestselling This Man trilogy. Jesse Ward drowned her with his intensity and blindsided her with his passion, but he kept her away from his dark secrets and broken soul. Leaving him was the only way Ava O'Shea could survive. She should have known that Jesse Ward is impossible to escape--and now he's back in her life, determined to remind her of the sensual pleasures they had shared. Ava is equally determined to get at the truth beneath this man's steely exterior. That means letting herself get close to the Lord of the Manor once more. And it's exactly where Jesse wants her--within touching distance...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201144 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Supreme Macaroni Company: A Novel Series: #3 of Valentine Author: Adriana Trigiani Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller • Publishers Weekly Bestseller   In The Supreme Macaroni Company, bestselling author Adriana Trigiani weaves a heartbreaking story that begins on the eve of a wedding in New York's Greenwich Village and culminates in beautiful Tuscany. Family, work, romance, and the unexpected twists of life and fate all come together in an unforgettable narrative that Trigiani fans will adore. For over a hundred years, the Angelini Shoe Company in Greenwich Village has relied on the leather produced by Vechiarelli & Son in Tuscany. This ancient business partnership provides the twist of fate for Valentine Roncalli, the schoolteacher turned shoemaker, to fall in love with Gianluca Vechiarelli, a tanner with a complex past . . . and a secret. But after the wedding celebrations are over, Valentine wakes up to the hard reality of juggling the demands of a new business and the needs of her new family. Confronted with painful choices, Valentine remembers the wise words that inspired her in the early days of her beloved Angelini Shoe Company: ''A person who can build a pair of shoes can do just about anything.'' Now the proud, passionate Valentine is going to fight for everything she wants and savor all she deserves—the bitter and the sweet of life itself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201142 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished: The Third Rule of Scoundrels Series: #3 of Rules of Scoundrels Author: Sarah MacLean Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A rogue ruined . . . He is the Killer Duke, accused of murdering Mara Lowe on the eve of her wedding. With no memory of that fateful night, Temple has reigned over the darkest of London’s corners for twelve years, wealthy and powerful, but beyond redemption. Until one night, Mara resurfaces, offering the one thing he’s dreamed of . . . absolution. A lady returned . . . Mara planned never to return to the world from which she’d run, but when her brother falls deep into debt at Temple’s exclusive casino, she has no choice but to offer Temple a trade that ends in her returning to society and proving to the world what only she knows...that he is no killer. A scandal revealed . . . It’s a fine trade, until Temple realizes that the lady—and her past—are more than they seem. It will take every bit of his strength to resist the pull of this mysterious, maddening woman who seems willing to risk everything for honor . . . and to keep from putting himself on the line for love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone Else's Love Story: A Novel Author: Joshilyn Jackson Narrator: Joshilyn Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.73 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Someone Else's Love Story is beloved and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson's funny, charming, and poignant novel about science and miracles, secrets and truths, faith and forgiveness; about falling in love, and learning that things aren't always what they seem—or what we hope they will be. Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, aka Natty Bumppo, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced parents. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up and falling in love with William Ashe, who willingly steps between the robber and her son. Shandi doesn't know that her blond god Thor has his own complications. When he looked down the barrel of that gun he believed it was destiny: It's been one year to the day since a tragic act of physics shattered his world. But William doesn't define destiny the way others do. A brilliant geneticist who believes in facts and numbers, destiny to him is about choice. Now, he and Shandi are about to meet their so-called destinies head on, making choices that will reveal unexpected truths about love, life, and the world they think they know.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200907 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Jamaica Author: Russell Banks Narrator: Norman Dietz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ''A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror—the works.'' — Chicago Sun-Times In The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its ever-present racial conflicts. His narrator, a thirty-five-year-old college professor from New Hampshire, goes to Jamaica to write a novel and soon becomes embroiled in the struggles between whites and Blacks. He is especially interested in an ancient tribe called the Maroons, descendants of the Ashanti, who had been enslaved by the Spanish and then fought the British in a hundred-year war. Despite this history of oppression, the Maroons have managed to maintain a relatively autonomous existence in Jamaica. Partly out of guilt and an intellectual sense of social responsibility, Banks's narrator gets involved in reuniting two clans who have been feuding for generations. Unfortunately, his attempt ends in disaster, and the narrator must deal with his feelings of alienation, isolation, and failure.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200915 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Permanent Member of the Family Author: Russell Banks Narrator: Andrus Nichols, Danny Campbell, Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Suffused with Russell Banks’s trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family examine the myriad ways we try—and sometimes fail—to connect with one another, as we seek a home in the world. In the title story, a father looks back on the legend of the cherished family dog whose divided loyalties mirrored the fragmenting of his marriage. “A Former Marine” asks, to chilling effect, if one can ever stop being a parent. And in the haunting, evocative “Veronica,” a mysterious woman searching for her daughter may not be who she claims she is. Moving between the stark beauty of winter in upstate New York and the seductive heat of Florida, Banks’s acute and penetrating collection demonstrates the range and virtuosity of both his narrative prowess and his startlingly panoramic vision of modern American life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Theory of Opposites: A Novel Author: Allison Winn Scotch Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 12, 2013 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: What happens when you think you have it all, and then, suddenly it’s taken away?Willa Chandler-Golden’s father changed the world: with his self-help bestseller Is It Really Your Choice? Why Your Entire Life May Be Out of Your Control, millions of devoted fans found solace in the notion that everything happens for a reason. Though Willa isn’t entirely convinced of his prophesies, she readily admits that the universe has delivered her a solid life: a reliable husband, a fast-paced career. Sure there are hiccups—negative pregnancy tests, embattled siblings—but this is what the universe has brought, and life, if you don’t think about it too much, is wonderful.Then her (evidently not-so-reliable) husband proposes this: a two month break. Two months to see if they couldn’t live their lives without each other. And before Willa can sort out destiny and fate and what it all means, she’s axed from her job, her twelve-year-old nephew Nicky moves in, her ex-boyfriend finds her on Facebook, and her best friend Vanessa lands a gig writing for Dare You!, the hottest new reality TV show. And then Vanessa lures Willa into dares of her own—dares that run counter to her father’s theories of fate, dares that might change everything…but only if Willa is brave enough to stop listening to the universe and instead aim for the stars.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Because We Belong: A Because You Are Mine Novel Series: #3 of Because You Are Mine Series Author: Beth Kery Narrator: Brianna Bronte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: The 'wicked good storytelling' (Jaci Burton) of New York Times bestselling author Beth Kery continues in Becaue We Belong, the new Because You Are Mine novel IAN...“[the] hero...dark, mysterious, and very dominant” (Smexy Books), a sexual force to be reckoned with, a man accustomed to getting what he wants. FRANCESCA...“a fascinating heroine” (Heroes and Heartbreakers), a woman who had no idea how far she was willing to go in the name of love. Introduced in New York Times bestselling author Beth Kery’s erotic phenomenon Because You Are Mine, they aroused an “addictive and delicious” (USA Today) romance that dared to break the rules of attraction. In Because We Belong Ian and Francesca return to reignite the exquisite passions that drew them together, and to finally face the intimate secrets that threatened to separate them forever. The secrets of an inescapable past that was one man’s darkest mystery—a darkness that seduced one woman and forever held her spellbound with forbidden desire. For both of them, the next step is total abandon.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200836 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Edge of Always Series: #2 of The Edge Author: J. A. Redmerski Narrator: Daniel Thomas May, Leslie Bellair Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author J. A. Redmerski brings us the breathtaking sequel to her novel The Edge of Never. When everything falls apart, love remains . . . The Edge of Always Camryn Bennett has never been happier. Five months after meeting on a Greyhound bus, she and her soul mate Andrew Parrish are engaged-and a wedding isn't the only special event in their future. Nervous but excited, Camryn can't wait to begin the rest of her life with Andrew, a man she knows in her heart will love her always. They have so much to look forward to-until tragedy blindsides them. Andrew doesn't understand how this could happen to them. He's trying to move on, and thought Camryn was doing the same. But when Andrew discovers Camryn is secretly harboring a mountain of pain and attempting to numb it in damaging ways, there is nothing he won't do to bring her back to life. Determined to prove that their love can survive anything, Andrew decides to take Camryn on a new journey filled with hope and passion. If only he can convince her to come along for the ride...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200789 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel Author: Fannie Flagg Narrator: Fannie Flagg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 9 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two women who are forced to reimagine who they are.   Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with is her mother, the formidable Lenore Simmons Krackenberry. Lenore may be a lot of fun for other people, but is, for the most part, an overbearing presence for her daughter. Then one day, quite by accident, Sookie discovers a secret about her mother’s past that knocks her for a loop and suddenly calls into question everything she ever thought she knew about herself, her family, and her future.   Sookie begins a search for answers that takes her to California, the Midwest, and back in time, to the 1940s, when an irrepressible woman named Fritzi takes on the job of running her family’s filling station. Soon truck drivers are changing their routes to fill up at the All-Girl Filling Station. Then, Fritzi sees an opportunity for an even more groundbreaking adventure. As Sookie learns about the adventures of the girls at the All-Girl Filling Station, she finds herself with new inspiration for her own life.   Fabulous, fun-filled, spanning decades and generations, and centered on a little-known aspect of America’s twentieth-century story, The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion is another irresistible novel by the remarkable Fannie Flagg.   Praise for The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion   “A beautifully told tale, world-class humor, and characters who live forever in a grateful reader’s world. Fannie Flagg keeps getting better and better. The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion proves it.”—Pat Conroy “If all the self-help books that promote ways to ‘find yourself’ were stacked in an enormous pile . . . none would approach the sweet wisdom with which Flagg infuses The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch   “It’s Flagg’s pleasure to hit her characters with several happy endings, but the real happiness is that she’s given us another lovable—and quirky—novel.”—The Washington Post “Flagg is at her South-skewering best. . . . A chuckle-while-reading book.”—The Mobile Press-Register “The kind of story that keeps readers turning pages in a fever . . . There are plot twists, adventure, heartbreak, and familial love in spades.”—Publishers Weekly   “Fannie flies high, and her fans will enjoy the ride. . . . A charming story written with wit and empathy . . . just the right blend of history and fiction.”—Kirkus Reviews “Fannie Flagg is a fantastic storyteller. She surprises the reader in every chapter with unexpected twists and turns. The only problem I had with this fascinating story is that it ended too soon. I can’t wait for her next book.”—Carol Burnett   “The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion is an absolute joy to read, full of Fannie Flagg's trademark humor, warmth, tenderness, and heart. If you’re looking for a novel to lift your spirits and make you smile, this is definitely the book for you.”—Kristin Hannah

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199245 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kanellis Scandal Author: Michelle Reid Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 1, 2013 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: 'It is not always wise to make him angry...' ...but Anton Pallis is livid! As the adopted son of the Kanellis patriarch, he's set to inherit the vast family fortune. Until it's revealed there's a true heir - in the rather appealing shape of Zoe Ellis. Zoe's Greek heritage means nothing to her - and to be involved with the Kanellis dynasty is to be cursed with scandal! Except now it's pounding on her front door - or rather Anton is, in all his dark, chiselled glory. And she has no idea what he's going to do next...

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stranger in the Moonlight Series: #7 of NPR: Hourly News Summary Author: Jude Deveraux Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: An enchanting new contemporary romance set in Edilean, about two childhood friends who are reunited after years apart, only to discover that the spark they felt even as kids still remains... In the second novel in her bestselling Edilean trilogy, Jude Deveraux returns to the idyllic Virginia town where three best girlfriends joyfully reunite as they each seek out their heartfelt dreams and desires. Kim Aldredge is delighted that her dear college “sister” Jecca has found lasting love with Kim’s cousin Tristan. But despite her flourishing jewelry-making career, Kim’s own happiness seems as distant as the childhood summer when she played the hours away with young Travis Merritt, who came to Edilean with his mother under mysterious circumstances. At the end of that innocent season, he promised Kim he would return one day...and then vanished without even a goodbye. Years later, a worn photo is Kim’s only proof of the perfect joy they shared. But when she least expects it, Travis, now a savvy Manhattan attorney, will crash into her life once more. Will Kim see the boy she knew under the man he’s become?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Man Series: #1 of This Man Author: Jodi Ellen Malpas Narrator: Edita Brychta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 95 Ratings of Narrator: 4.07 of Total 41 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Named one of 'The 20 Greatest Ever Romance Novels According to Goodreads Reviews' by O, The Oprah Magazine Young interior designer Ava O'Shea has no idea what awaits her at the Manor. A run-of-the-mill consultation with a stodgy country gent seems likely, but what Ava finds instead is Jesse Ward--a devastatingly handsome, utterly confident, pleasure-seeking playboy who knows no boundaries. Ava doesn't want to be attracted to this man, and yet she can't control the overwhelming desire that he stirs in her. She knows that her heart will never survive him and her instinct is telling her to run, but Jesse is not willing to let her go. He wants her and is determined to have her.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Meant to Be Series: #1 of An Anchor Island Novel Author: Terri Osburn Narrator: Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: October 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Sometimes the next best thing is what you’ve been looking for all along… Beth Chandler has spent her whole life pleasing others. She went to law school to make her grandparents happy. She agreed to marry her workaholic boyfriend, Lucas, to make him happy. And, despite her fear of boats, she took a ferry to see Lucas’s parents just to make them happy. While suffering through a panic attack on the ferry, Beth meets a tall, sexy stranger who talks her down from her fear—and makes her heart flutter in the process. Soon, she has a new reason to panic: her gorgeous, blue-eyed rescuer is Lucas’s brother, Joe. But could she ever leave her fiancé for his own brother…even if Lucas is more focused on making partner than on making their relationship work…and even if Joe turns out to be everything she never knew she wanted? Filled with excitement and delight, Meant to Be is the story of a young woman torn between urban pressures and small-town pleasures.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/197999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Bliss: A Novel Series: #4 of Weezie and Bebe Mysteries Author: Mary Kay Andrews Narrator: Kathleen McInerney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.75 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and Savannah was breezy But there's trouble afoot - and it's heading toward Weezie. Seems BeBe's been holding a big secret back that would make Santa's reindeer stop dead in their tracks. Can these two best friends wriggle out of these twists? Will they do it in time to ensure CHRISTMAS BLISS? Return to the wonderful world of Mary Kay Andrews' Savannah with Christmas Bliss.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200733 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy: A GoodReads Reader's Choice Author: Helen Fielding Narrator: Samantha Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A GoodReads Reader's Choice Bridget Jones—one of the most beloved characters in modern literature (v.g.)—is back! In Helen Fielding's wildly funny, hotly anticipated new novel, Bridget faces a few rather pressing questions:    What do you do when your girlfriend’s sixtieth birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s thirtieth? Is it better to die of Botox or die of loneliness because you’re so wrinkly? Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is it normal to be too vain to put on your reading glasses when checking your toy boy for head lice? Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant? Is it normal to get fewer followers the more you tweet? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? If you put lip plumper on your hands do you get plump hands? Is sleeping with someone after two dates and six weeks of texting the same as getting married after two meetings and six months of letter writing in Jane Austen’s day? Pondering these and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of loss, single motherhood, tweeting, texting, technology, and rediscovering her sexuality in—Warning! Bad, outdated phrase approaching!—middle age. In a triumphant return after fourteen years of silence, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is timely, tender, touching, page-turning, witty, wise, outrageous, and bloody hilarious. TODAY Book Club Selection

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196844 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Starry Night: A Christmas Novel Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Macomber hits the sweet spot with this tender tale of impractical love. . . . A delicious Christmas miracle well worth waiting for.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)   Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author.   Living in the remote Alaskan wilderness, Finn has written a megabestselling memoir about surviving in the wild. But he stubbornly declines to speak to anyone in the press, and no one even knows exactly where he lives.   Digging deep into Finn’s past, Carrie develops a theory on his whereabouts. It is the holidays, but her career is at stake, so she forsakes her family celebrations and flies out to snowy Alaska. When she finally finds Finn, she discovers a man both more charismatic and more stubborn than she even expected. And soon she is torn between pursuing the story of a lifetime and following her heart.   Filled with all the comforts and joys of Christmastime, Starry Night is a delightful novel of finding happiness in the most surprising places.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Range of Motion Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A simple but intensely moving story about the redemptive power of love…. [Elizabeth Berg is] a writer whose luminous prose is likely to stay with you a long, long time.” —Chicago TribuneIn this exquisite, emotionally rich novel, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg offers a deeply satisfying story about the bonds of love and the balm of friendship. A young man named Jay lies in a coma after suffering a freak accident, and his wife, Lainey, is the only one who believes he will recover. She sits at his bedside, bringing him reminders of the ordinary life they shared: fragrant flowers, his children’s drawings, his own softly textured shirt. When Lainey’s faith in his recovery falters, she is sustained by two women, Alice and Evie, who teach her about the endurance of friendship—and the genuine power of hope. Filled with beautiful writing and truths about life, Range of Motion is hard to put down and impossible to forget.“A stunning, believable, funny novel that celebrates the unassuming invincibility of the human spirit.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune“A luminous, bittersweet, almost mystical meditation on the unexpected, often hidden, joys found in the least likely of places.” —San Francisco Chronicle“The terrifically talented Berg at her best.” —People

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pilot's Wife: A Novel Author: Anita Shreve Narrator: Melanie Griffith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tilted World: A Novel Author: Tom Franklin, Beth Ann Fennelly Narrator: Brian D'arcy James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning poet Beth Ann Fennelly The year is 1927. As rains swell the Mississippi, the mighty river threatens to burst its banks and engulf everything in its path, including federal revenue agent Ted Ingersoll and his partner, Ham Johnson. Arriving in the tiny hamlet of Hobnob, Mississippi, to investigate the disappearance of two fellow agents who'd been on the trail of a local bootlegger, they are astonished to find a baby boy abandoned in the middle of a crime scene. Ingersoll, an orphan raised by nuns, is determined to find the infant a home, and his search leads him to Dixie Clay Holliver. A strong woman married too young to a philandering charmer, Dixie Clay has lost a child to illness and is powerless to resist this second chance at motherhood. From the moment they meet, Ingersoll and Dixie Clay are drawn to each other. He has no idea that she's the best bootlegger in the county and may be connected to the agents' disappearance. And while he seems kind and gentle, Dixie Clay knows full well that he is an enemy who can never be trusted. When Ingersoll learns that a saboteur might be among them, planning a catastrophe along the river that would wreak havoc in Hobnob, he knows that he and Dixie Clay will face challenges and choices that they will be fortunate to survive. Written with extraordinary insight and tenderness, The Tilted World is that rarest of creations, a story of seemingly ordinary people who find hope and deliverance where they least expect it—in each other.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196954 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Lucky Vampire Series: #19 of Argeneau Vampire Author: Lynsay Sands Narrator: Jack Dupont Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: September 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.18 of Total 11 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: No one does wickedly funny and irresistibly steamy like New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands—especially in this red-hot romance between a reluctant vampire and the beauty who needs his help. Luck be a vampire tonight . . . When Nicole Phillips agreed to hire a housekeeper, she pictured someone a little frumpy and almost certainly female. Instead, she gets gorgeous, unmistakably male Jake Colson. The man is proving indispensable in the kitchen—and everywhere else. Except Jake might not be a mortal man at all. . . . and every night Who wouldn't want to be a tall, dark, powerful vampire?Jake, for one. He's barely had time to adjust to his newstate before he's roped into a family favor. Still, secretly playing bodyguard to sweet, sexy Nicole is turning out to be the wildest ride of his life. First, he'll put a stop to whoever's targeting her. Then he'll prove that this kind of love, and luck, happens only once in an eternity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199015 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Awesome Girl's Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men Author: Ernessa T. Carter Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Four women. Two years. A friendship to last a lifetime. The only things that Sharita, Thursday, Risa, and Tammy have in common are their disastrous love lives. But the year three of them turn thirty will be different, they swear! Sharita, a conservative accountant, wants to make partner at her firm and find the man of her dreams. Thursday, the daughter of a formerly chart-topping political rapper, wants to stop being a serial one-month stander, and settle down into a stable life with a stable boyfriend. Risa, a skinny and audacious electronica punk rocker, wants to finally land an album deal, which she feels is the only way to win back the heart of her on-again of off-again closeted girlfriend. And after getting fired as the spokesmodel for her family’s hair company, sweet and gorgeous Tammy wants to prove that she has what it takes to make it on her own. None of these women get what they want, but over the course of two years, they get exactly what they need. And that proves to be the best thing after all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Always on My Mind Series: #8 of A Lucky Harbor Novel Author: Jill Shalvis Narrator: Annie Greene Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 24, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: THERE'S NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING After dropping out of pastry school and messing up her big break on a reality cooking show, Leah Sullivan needs to accomplish something in her life. But when she returns home to Lucky Harbor, she finds herself distracted by her best friend, Jack Harper. In an effort to cheer up Jack's ailing mother, Dee, Leah tells a little fib - that she and Jack are more than just friends. Soon pretending to be hot-and-heavy with this hunky firefighter feels too real to handle . . . No-strings attachments suit Jack just fine - perfect for keeping the risk of heartbreak away. But as Jack and Leah break every one of their 'just friends' rules, he longs to turn their pretend relationship into something permanent. Do best friends know too much about each other to risk falling in love? Or will Jack and Leah discover something new about each other in a little town called Lucky Harbor?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Covet Author: Tracey Garvis Graves Narrator: Scott Aiello, Kathleen McInerney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: Tracey Garvis Graves, the New York Times–bestselling author of On the Island, returns.  What if the life you wanted, and the woman you fell in love with, belonged to someone else? Chris and Claire Canton’s marriage is on life support. Downsized during the recession and out of work for a year, Chris copes by retreating to a dark place where no one can reach him, not even Claire. When he’s offered a position that will keep him away from home four nights a week, he dismisses Claire’s concern that time apart could be the one thing their fragile union can’t weather. Their suburban life may look idyllic on the outside, but Claire has never felt so disconnected from Chris, or so lonely. Local police officer Daniel Rush used to have it all, but now he goes home to an empty house every night. He pulls Claire over during a routine traffic stop, and they run into each other again at the 4th of July parade. When Claire is hired to do some graphic design work for the police department, her friendship with Daniel grows, and soon they’re spending hours together. Claire loves the way Daniel makes her feel, and the way his face lights up when she walks into the room. Daniel knows that Claire’s marital status means their relationship will never be anything other than platonic. But it doesn’t take long before Claire and Daniel are in way over their heads, and skating close to the line that Claire has sworn she’ll never cross.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman Unab: A Novel Author: Sena Jeter Naslund Narrator: Cynthia Darlow, Barbara Caruso Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: "Is it a crime to live? To create happiness for yourself through your own work?" How do writers and painters get their ideas? And what are the hard realities of such seemingly glamorous and romantic lives? In her groundbreaking new novel, New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund explores the transformative power of art, history, and love in the lives of creative women. It's midnight on St. James Court, at the heart of which is a beautiful fountain sculpture of Venus rising from the sea. Kathryn Callaghan has just finished the first draft of her novel about renowned painter Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, a survivor of the French Revolution who was hated for her sympathetic portraits of Marie Antoinette. Although the manuscript is complete, its author remains haunted by Élisabeth's experiences, which are revealed in Sena Jeter Naslund's ingenious novel-within-a-novel interleaved with the chronicle of a day in the life of Kathryn Callaghan. Despite being separated by time, place, and culture, Kathryn and Élisabeth possess similar gifts and burdens: uncompromising aesthetic codes, fierce pride in their artistic expression, and unwavering love and sacrifice for their children. And before the next midnight rolls around, Kathryn will have confronted personal danger as frightening as the butchery that Élisabeth faced during the Reign of Terror. Each woman will be called upon and tested; each will, like Venus, rise triumphantly above the expectations of her world. In this, her compelling and intimate ninth book, Sena Jeter Naslund presents the reader with an eye-opening alternate vision of The Artist: not an angry young man but a woman of age and hard-won experience who has created for herself, against enormous odds, a fulfilling life of thoroughly realized achievement.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196659 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Revealing Us Author: Lisa Renee Jones Narrator: Grace Grant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones takes readers on the ultimate journey of sensual discovery in Revealing Us, the third installment in the sexy Inside Out series. No in-between… He has become her life, her heart, her very soul. But he is dark and damaged, and his secrets are many. Sara will risk everything for him. He, in turn, will dare to expose his deepest needs, his most erotic desires. And in the fury of passion he will reveal all that torments him, all that he can never escape. To love him, Sara must embrace the darkest part of him, and become his shelter in a storm that will be his ultimate salvation.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hive: A Novel Author: Gill Hornby Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: September 10, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: There's only room for one Queen Bee: A hilarious and touching novel about the social world of school mothers. It's the start of another school year at St. Ambrose. While the children are busy in the classroom, their mothers are learning sharper lessons. Lessons in friendship. Lessons in betrayal. Lessons in the laws of community, the transience of power...and how to get invited to lunch. Beatrice -- undisputed queen bee. Ruler, by Divine Right, of all school fundraising, this year, last year, and, surely, for many to come. Heather -- desperate to volunteer, desperate to be noticed, desperate to belong. Georgie -- desperate for a cigarette. And Rachel -- watching them all, keeping her distance. But soon to discover taht the line between amused observer and miserable outcast is a thin one. The Hive is a wickedly funny and brilliantly observed story about female friendship, power plays, and the joys and perils (well, mainly perils) of trying to do one's part.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Someday: A Novel Author: Dianne Dixon Narrator: Kate Rudd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Someday, Livvi Gray will break free from her past. Someday, she will escape her recurring nightmare about a stranger in a shimmering silver dress. Someday, she will have a family of her own. Now she’s found Andrew, and someday seems to be right around the corner.But there’s so much Livvi doesn’t know. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, she will come face-to-face with the stranger from her dream—an encounter that will alter Livvi’s future and crack open everything she knew about her past.Livvi is swiftly moving toward the ultimate turning point in her life—and she’s not the only one. Linked by an unforgettable mystery, photographer Micah and young mother AnnaLee are also being rapidly drawn into a web of secrets about the unexpected ways in which we choose to protect—and betray—the people we love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196337 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Untouchable Author: Kresley Cole Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.73 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this paranormal story from the Deep Kiss of Winter anthology, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole delivers a breathtaking tale about a brutal vampire soldier who experiences love for the first time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195204 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Prayer Box: A Novel Series: #1 of The Carolina Heirlooms Series Author: Lisa Wingate Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 40 Ratings of Narrator: 4.36 of Total 14 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A young woman, an old woman, and the story of a lifetime… When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls, but everything changes with the discovery of eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, dating from Iola's youth to her last days. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper—the hopes and wishes, fears and thoughts of an unassuming but complex woman passing through the seasons of an extraordinary, unsung life filled with journeys of faith, observations on love, and one final lesson that could change everything.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194202 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Monster Author: Bridget Clerkin Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A powerful story about a mother struggling to keep her family together amid unsettling events: the family dog goes missing, her teenage daughter has become increasingly rebellious, and a bloated, unidentifiable animal corpse washes up on the local beach. As her two younger children hang up missing dog posters around the neighborhood, she discovers that a class ring identical to one worn by her old flame was found in the mysterious creature, and now the local news and her children are beginning to ask questions. Bridget Clerkin’s Monster is the chilling story of a mother who leaves the monsters of her bad relationships in the past--but has to face the reality that her children are unable to forget the scars left behind.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194418 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Disenchanted Widow Author: Christina McKenna Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: It’s 1981 and Belfast is burning. So, too, is freshly widowed Bessie Halstone: she burns with a desire to break with her troubled past. With her feckless husband gone, she leaves home hurriedly with her naughty nine-year-old son, Herkie, and not much else. The Dentist, an IRA enforcer, is on her tail. He’s convinced that Bessie, with her “yella hair all puffed up like Merlin Monroe’s,” has absconded with the takings from a bank heist. But car trouble strands mother and son in Tailorstown, a sleepy Ulster village. Bessie finds temporary work as housekeeper for the handsome and mysterious parish priest. In the meantime, Lorcan Strong, an artist and a native of the village, is summoned home. He’s been shanghaied into forging paintings for the IRA. It’s work he cannot refuse; his mother and their business are under threat. Yet things are not what they seem in quirky Tailorstown. There is a “sleeper” in the village. But who? Bizarrely, it is young Herkie, due to his childish curiosity, who unravels the mystery and saves the day.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Million Dirty Secrets: Million Dollar Duet Series: #1 of Million Dollar Duet Author: C. L. Parker Narrator: Rubyyy Jones, Rockwell Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.72 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 4.58 of Total 12 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: “Super-sexy with snappy dialogue, this wonderful Cinderella tale begins the search for Lanie and Noah’s happily-ever-after. . . . The sequel cannot arrive fast enough.”—RT Book Reviews (4-1/2 stars) Delaine Talbot has a secret. When a matter of life and death threatens to tear apart her family, Delaine makes the ultimate sacrifice. She auctions herself off at Chicago’s most exclusive erotic club. Now she belongs to Noah Crawford, a wealthy mogul who introduces her to a seductive feast of the senses, awakening desires she only dreamed about.    Noah doesn’t know why Delaine sold her body for a cool two mil. But it’s the perfect business arrangement. The inexperienced beauty will learn to satisfy his every sensual need, yet never touch his heart. Almost immediately their relationship generates heat—in more ways than one. When they fight, they take no prisoners. When they love, they show no mercy. When they’re together, they never want to leave each other’s arms. But soon, their intense, physical bond will take an unexpected turn—evolving into something neither has bargained for: the promise of a lasting love. Praise for A Million Dirty Secrets   “Smoldering sex scenes and a cliffhanger ending will have [romance] fans panting for more.”—Publishers Weekly   “This book has some yummy scenes. The chemistry is absolutely there, the back and forth bantering, the punishments, and the tender moments. . . . I am looking forward to the next one for sure as we are left with a bit of a cliffhanger . . . man I hate (love love love) that!”—The Reading Cafe   “Explosive . . . If I had to sum this story up in three words, they would be thrilling, dangerous and addictive.”—23 Review Street A Million Dirty Secrets is intended for mature audiences.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Twins Author: Saskia Sarginson Narrator: Candida Gubbins, Clare Wille Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: They were inseparable until an innocent mistake tore them apart. Growing up, Viola and Issy clung to each other in the wake of their mother's eccentricity, as she dragged them from a commune to a tiny Welsh village. They thought the three of them would be together forever. But an innocent mistake one summer set them on drastically different paths. Now in their twenties, Issy is trying to hold together a life as a magazine art director, while Viola is slowly destroying herself, consumed with guilt over the events they unknowingly set into motion as children. When it seems that Viola might never recover, Issy returns to the town they haven't seen in a decade, to face her own demons and see what answers, if any, she can find. A deeply moving, gripping debut, this is a novel about the secrets we carry, and the bonds between twins.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199027 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The First Affair: A Novel Author: Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 58 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: I was twenty-two years old and only three weeks out of college. I thought my whole life was beginning.… Then he kissed me.Jamie McAlister has resigned herself to the fact that in this job market, her painfully expensive degree might only get her a position at Starbucks, when she suddenly lands a prestigious internship at the White House. Although she doesn’t hit it off with the other interns—lockjaws who come from so much money that ten weeks without a paycheck doesn’t faze them—she is eager to work hard and make the best of the opportunity while it lasts. An unexpected encounter late one evening with the charismatic President Gregory Rutland seems like just a fleeting flirtation, but when he orchestrates clandestine meetings and late-night phone calls, their relationship quickly escalates. Jamie knows what she is doing is wrong: he’s married, he has kids, he’s the President. Yet each time she tries to extricate herself, Greg pulls her back in. With the conflicted desires of the most powerful man in the world driving her to her breaking point, Jamie can’t help but divulge intimate details to those closest to her. But she must have confided in the wrong person, because she soon finds herself, and everyone she cares about, facing calculated public destruction at the hands of Greg’s political enemies, and—perhaps no matter how much he cares about her—at the hands of Greg himself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194467 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wake the Dawn: A Novel Author: Lauraine Snelling Narrator: Kristin Kalbli Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 20, 2013 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: National bestselling author Lauraine Snelling brings a small mountain town to thrilling life when a natural disaster threatens to destroy lives. U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James' life is in tatters. A tragic accident stole the love of his life and he never finished grieving. Turning to the bottle for support, he lost sight of what was important. While making his last patrol run before a storm rolls in, Ben's canine partner Bo finds an abandoned baby hidden in the woods. As Ben rushes the child to the only clinic in the area, the storm strikes with unexpected fury. Esther Hanson runs a second-rate clinic in the small community of Pineville, Minnesota, on the Canadian border. Though she has fought for years to get the equipment she needs, the town refuses to approve the funding. When the unprecedented storm ravishes the area, cutting them off from all outside help, Esther struggles to help her patients without giving in to overwhelming emotions. The event triggers a long-suppressed memory, and Esther must come face to face with the reality of her past and learn to forgive herself. Brought together by the life of a child, Ben and Esther become each other's reason to change.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196382 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl You Left Behind Author: Jojo Moyes Narrator: Penny Rawlins, Clare Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 20, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 69 Ratings of Narrator: 4.61 of Total 18 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Look out for Jojo’s new book, Paris for One and Other Stories, available now. Another New York Times bestseller by the author of Me Before You, After You, and One Plus One—a spellbinding story of two women united in their fight for what they love most. Jojo Moyes’s word-of-mouth bestseller, Me Before You, catapulted her to wide critical acclaim and struck a chord with a wide range of readers everywhere. Now, with The Girl You Left Behind, Moyes returns with another irresistible heartbreaker—a breathtaking story of love, loss, and sacrifice told with her signature ability to capture our hearts. Paris, 1916. Sophie Lefèvre must keep her family safe while her adored husband, Édouard, fights at the front. When their town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War I, Sophie is forced to serve them every evening at her hotel. From the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie’s portrait—painted by her artist husband—a dangerous obsession is born, one that will lead Sophie to make a dark and terrible decision. Almost a century later, Sophie’s portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston, a wedding gift from her young husband before his sudden death. After a chance encounter reveals the portrait’s true worth, a battle begins over its troubled history and Liv’s world is turned upside all over again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fiancé by Friday Series: #3 of Weekday Brides Author: Catherine Bybee Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the newest installment in her popular Weekday Brides series. Gwen Harrison: The beautiful, high-born daughter of an English duke came to America to take over her sister-in-law’s matchmaking business. But just because she’s the boss doesn’t mean she can’t fantasize about making her own perfect match with bodyguard Neil MacBain. Will the enigmatic man who haunts her dreams cost her more than she bargained for? Neil MacBain: The retired Marine can’t deny the effect blue-blooded Gwen has on his troubled soul or his battle-hardened body. But as a client, Gwen is off-limits—until a threat from Neil’s past returns…and Gwen is caught in the crossfire. Now to keep her safe he will risk it all: his career, his life…and his heart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/179614 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Bake a Perfect Life: A Novel Author: Barbara O'Neal Narrator: Tanya Eby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In a novel as warm and embracing as a family kitchen, Barbara O’Neal explores the poignant, sometimes complex relationships between mothers and daughters—and the healing magic of homemade bread.Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through the most turbulent times, including a baby at fifteen and an endless family feud. But now Ramona’s bakery threatens to crumble around her. Literally. She’s one water-heater disaster away from losing her grandmother’s rambling Victorian and everything she’s worked so hard to build.When Ramona’s soldier son-in-law is wounded in Afghanistan, her daughter, Sophia, races overseas to be at his side, leaving Ramona as the only suitable guardian for Sophia’s thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, Katie. Heartbroken, Katie feels that she’s being dumped again—this time on the doorstep of a woman out of practice with mothering.Ramona calls upon a special set of tools—patience, persistence, and the reliability of a good recipe—when rebellious Katie arrives. And as she relives her own history of difficult choices, Ramona shares her love of baking with the troubled girl. Slowly, Katie begins to find self-acceptance and a place to call home. And when a man from her past returns to offer a second chance at love, Ramona discovers that even the best recipe tastes better when you add time, care, and a few secret ingredients of your own.“This book will have you smiling and crying and pining for an old love, or just a hunk of really good fresh-baked bread. I loved every single delicious bite.” —Jennie Shortridge, author of When She Flew

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moonlight in the Morning Series: #6 of NPR: Hourly News Summary Author: Jude Deveraux Narrator: Gabra Zackman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.83 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: In a trilogy set in blissful Edilean, Virginia, Jude Deveraux weaves together the tales of three young women, best friends since college, and the lives, loves, and dreams that await them. Sparks are flying between Jecca Layton and Dr. Tristan Aldredge. At the urging of her dear friend Kim, Jecca put the ruthless New York City art world on hold to spend the summer pursuing her passion for painting while enjoying Edilean’s tightly knit artistic community. For years, Kim’s cousin Tris—the town’s handsome and dedicated doctor—felt a deep connection to Kim’s college “sister” Jecca, though they had met only once before; now, Jecca is swept off her feet by this strong, sensitive man in a summer of sensual delights. But when long shadows announce Jecca’s return to “real life” and the big city, the lovers must decide: Can they survive the distance? And who will sacrifice the life they’ve created for themselves to be together?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rose Harbor in Bloom: A Novel Series: #2 of Rose Harbor Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Lorelei King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Debbie Macomber returns to the charming Rose Harbor Inn, where each guest finds a second chance and every room comes with an inspiring new view. “Macomber uses warmth, humor and superb storytelling skills to deliver a tale that charms and entertains.”—BookPage Since moving to Cedar Cove, Jo Marie Rose has truly started to feel at home, and her neighbors have become her closest friends. Now it’s springtime, and Jo Marie is eager to finish the most recent addition to her inn. In memory of her late husband, Paul, she has designed a beautiful rose garden for the property and enlisted handyman Mark Taylor to help realize it. She and Mark don’t always see eye-to-eye—and at times he seems far removed—yet deep down, Jo Marie finds great comfort in his company. And while she still seeks a sense of closure, she welcomes her latest guests, who are on their own healing journeys. Annie Newton arrives in town to orchestrate her grandparents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration. While Annie is excited for the festivities, she’s struggling to move on from her broken engagement, and her grandparents themselves seem to be having trouble getting along. Worse, Annie is forced to see Oliver Sutton, with whom she grew up and who has always mercilessly teased her. But the best parties end with a surprise, and Annie is in for the biggest one of all. High-powered businesswoman Mary Smith, another Rose Harbor Inn guest, has achieved incredible success in her field, yet serious illness has led her to face her sole, lingering regret. Almost nineteen years ago, she ended her relationship with her true love, George Hudson, and now she’s returned to Cedar Cove to make amends. Compassion and joy await Jo Marie, Annie, and Mary as they make peace with their pasts and look boldly toward their futures. Rose Harbor in Bloom is Debbie Macomber at her heartwarming best.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194108 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Color Master: Stories Author: Aimee Bender Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: August 13, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories. Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and bittersweet” (Vanity Fair), and “full of provocative ideas” (The Boston Globe). In her deft hands, “relationships and mundane activities take on mythic qualities” (The Wall Street Journal). In this collection, Bender’s unique talents sparkle brilliantly in stories about people searching for connection through love, sex, and family—while navigating the often painful realities of their lives. A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who have been ripped to shreds. In these deeply resonant stories—evocative, funny, beautiful, and sad—we see ourselves reflected as if in a funhouse mirror. Aimee Bender has once again proven herself to be among the most imaginative, exciting, and intelligent writers of our time.