I’ve done it again. I’ve added to my audio library. Audiobooks have increased in popularity these last years and the idea of listening to something while doing something else suits those who love to multi-task. In many ways, listening to an audiobook pulls people back to a time where they listened to people reading to them, maybe bedtime stories or story hour in the library. When I was teaching English, it wasn’t uncommon for me to read to my classes, especially when I knew how busy their after-school lives were.
To date, I have four audio books available from Amazon.com or Audible.com: Tequila Sunrise, (https://www.audible.com/pd/Tequila-Sunrise-Audiobook/B0F22MYL8G) Beneath the Ashes (https://www.audible.com/pd/Beneath-the-Ashes-Audiobook/B0FHXTLX57) A Case of Mistaken Identity (https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Case-of-Mistaken-Identity-Audiobook/B0DXFZ195M) and The Tigress (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Tigress-Audiobook/B0F2CXGDBX) This week, I added a fifth. Listen to the Stones Book 1, The Awakening (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Awakening-Audiobook/B0FXF41S17 )
The Awakening introduces you to a modern fantasy/paranormal romance. The story set across four books follows the three main characters: Marina, Jerome, and Teine. Wronged in the past, the two of the three souls must face their enemy, but only by finding true love, that which was lost eons ago, can they hope to defeat the Dark Lord.
In book one, the main characters realize that there is more to them than they thought. Once they accept who and what they are, the next step will be returning th the Sacred Place to find one another.
An only child raised by a secretive, single mother who forever mourned the loss of the man she loved and an Irish grandmother who espoused a strange blend of Christianity and paganism, Marina Fraser Robertson Mitchell has eschewed all beliefs in magic and fantasy that made up a great deal of her early life, but doing so hasn’t stopped the vicious nightmares about monsters and a deep water phobia that have haunted her for years.
As her thirtieth birthday approaches, changes are happening within her, alterations to her personality that lead to psychic abilities she neither wants nor understands. She’s convinced that she’s on the verge of madness, an insanity brought on by some form of physical illness or mental illness inherited from her maternal grandmother.
When her ex-husband sends over three boxes and a footlocker that were misplaced after her mother’s passing, Marina discovers that everything she knows about herself is a lie. While her mother’s letter gives her some explanations, it doesn’t explain her ESP, her sense that she doesn’t belong here, and her phantom lover. She has more questions than answers.
At the suggestion of her neighbor, a friendly, elderly woman with a cat named Rosie, Marina visits a psychic on her thirtieth birthday, but that only increases her confusion. The unusual woman greets her with the words, my lady, and exhorts her to accept herself for who and what she is. She warns her that the choices she makes from now on will determine who wins the final battle for the fate of the world. Shaken, Marina leaves, well aware of that those words are similar to those her grandmother spouted in her dying days.
As the nightmares she’s suffered so long continue, she searches for answers and a reprieve, an escape from a life in which she has lost everything that matters. Her prayers may be answered when she discovers that she has inherited property on the Isle of Lewis and Harris, the place where she suspects the standing stones from her dreams are located, stones that speak to her in the dead of night, and may hold the answer to her future.
But can she accept what she’s becoming? Does she dare return to the place where she was born, a place her mother fled in fear? Everything she knows about herself is a lie. Is the truth waiting for her there? She has a choice to make. Will she make the right one? Only time will tell.
I’m working on Listen to the Stones, Book 2 as we speak, and hope to have it available by December. Not sure you like audiobooks? You can try Audible today for only 99 cents USD for three months. Why not start with Listen to the Stones?
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Awakening-Audiobook/B0FXF41S17
In December, I will be part of a audiobook event on December 11-12. Over the course of the event, I will be giving away 4 of my audiobooks. The others participating in Jingle Bells will do the same. Why not set the time aside now to drop in and visit? I will post more information as the date approaches.
Living the Dream 