Showing results by narrator "Piers Ryman" in Literature & Fiction

Struggling actor Rick Thornton is on a downward spiral. Once a celebrated stage and screen star, scandal and heartbreak caused the roles to dry up. Persuaded by his agent to take a temp job as Santa at the local mall to get himself back in the game, he's hit rock bottom.

A well-placed kick into Kanti’s stomach dropped him back to the deck, grasping his gut and gasping for breath.

To survive as a scullery maid requires hard work, discipline, and a stiff upper lip. To survive as a demon hunter is something else entirely. Elizabeth Smyth learned this after she was captured by demons and rescued by hunters. Now a hunter herself, Elizabeth's first task in this new and strange world is to aid the recently wounded Reece Foxjohn, and get him back into demon-slaying shape.

“What’s wrong?” The bigger geroo asked, twisting Kanti’s helmet free. “Can’t breathe?” The commissioner accidentally let his last cleaning crew starve to death. So now, Kanti and 49 of his teammates will have to spend the rest of their lives in a one-room barracks, with only a single airlock protecting them from the planet’s poisonous atmosphere. Surrounded by towering monsters, on a world where the very air is lethal, mysterious burrowing strangers are pushing the crew into a panic. Will Kanti be able to keep them from tearing each other apart?

Sebastian Saunders is 3,000 miles away from home. Working for his father’s expanded business in New York, he's left behind the music career he craved, the friends he relied upon, and possibly the love of his life. In a city that never sleeps, how can the nights cure a broken heart? Jay Ruttman is in London, throwing himself harder into football and his quest to make it on the professional playing field. Locking himself back in the closet, how can he ever open the door, and his heart, again?

You can think of this edition as the director’s cut of Long Way Home. Specifically, the director cut all of the images. This bold new direction redefines how the entire work is approached. For instance, the listener will not have any pictures to refer to, forcing them instead to imagine not just 99 percent of the story entirely in their head, but a full 100 percent. Publishers everywhere are taking notice: is a picture-free novel the future of the industry? Some say it's already here. But I say, with no hyperbole whatsoever, it started with Long Way Home.

All I want for Christmas is a sexy silver fox, and Cuffd Kinkmas events are the perfect places to find temporary Daddies for steamy hookups. I don’t expect to get swept off my feet. I don’t expect to want more of Magnus.

Jason is in the closet. He's given up on love to play football at the highest level. He doesn’t want to be the poster boy for LGBT people in sport—and his advisors have told him that coming out will ruin his career. It’s not an issue until Scott captures Jason’s heart and turns his world around. Scott has always been out. Funny, clever, and a terrific dancer, the science student has many talents, but the man he loves requires something else—discretion. They seem an unlikely couple, but neither can resist the chemistry that draws them together.

I’ve realized that I lean more toward being a Daddy than being strict. I’m kind and caring, and I want someone to spoil. I’ll always put my boy’s needs before my own. I’ll take care of him in every way he needs me to. I’ll discover what he wants, how to make him smile, laugh, and moan

After a debilitating injury leaves Brice Lambert in agony, he's relegated to teaching others to hunt demons. He knows all the secrets of the demon war and plans to die for the cause. Never did he expect his dreams of a loving wife and big family to come true, but the very witch who healed his leg is capturing his heart.

My best friend may be the Cinderella type, but I’m not. While she swans around English castles, I work overtime. I took a weekend off to be her maid of honor as she married Alex, Duke of Fernborough, and planned to hot-foot it home again in time to punch the clock Monday morning. Fairy tale endings are for other girls.

Raised by her grandfather to stand on her own, Victoria Saville has always considered love to be a frivolous endeavor. So when a suitable match with Collin Marsh, Earl of Dalton presented itself, she willingly agreed. But when she meets Collin's best friend, Benjamin Duncan, her world is thrown into chaos. The new Viscount is everything her intended is not. Benjamin's wit and charm draw Victoria to him, and his touch lights a fire in her she never anticipated. However, the dashing Viscount's past is filled with dark secrets that threaten to tear the new lovers apart.