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"Narrators Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla, and Patti Murin provide outstanding performances, creating such believable characters that listeners might wonder if the story is based in fact."—Library Journal This program features multicast narration. New York Times bestselling author...

We were lovers once, then enemies. Now I have to marry him for an alliance. He never told me he was with the Bratva. When I found out, it was already too late. Our love was forbidden, and he became my enemy. It broke me, and he grew cold. Now I'm forced to marry him and give him my plus-size curves for the sake of my family. He's the only man I ever gave myself to, raw and vulnerable. After he became my enemy, my heart was never quite the same. Now I'm forced to walk down the aisle as he inspects me with his cold eyes. He makes it clear that I'll obey him, that I'm his alone. He controls my...

Left penniless and alone after her father's sudden death, Isabella Barrett accepts a position at Harrowgate Manor, an isolated estate shrouded in secrets and sorrow. Whispers stalk the halls. Icy fingers graze her skin. And shadowed figures watch her from the dark. The spirits want something from her—and their intentions are growing darker. Her new employer, the enigmatic Rhys Caradoc, is a man forged of silence and secrets. He claims to need her help cataloguing his rare book collection, but Isabella soon realizes he knows far more about her gift—and her past—than he should.

Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Emma Thompson lends her immense talent and experienced voice to Henry James' Gothic ghost tale, The Turn of the Screw. When a governess is hired to care for two children at a British country estate, she begins to sense an otherworldly presence around the grounds. Are they really ghosts she's seeing? Or is something far more sinister at work?

He wins me at a knife throwing contest. Now I’m his forced bride. I’m tied to the wall, used as an unwilling, innocent target for knife throwers. My arm is already bleeding when a much older Bratva guy takes his turn. When he wins, he pays my family money so that he can take me with him and make me his wife. I’ve always had big dreams, the biggest one to break free from my family who exploit me for labor. But now an untamed Bratva player has me tied to him. He’s a monster who carves a knife as slowly as a vulture circling its dying meal. And when he sees me, his protective instincts...

Audible presents a special edition of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde narrated by Richard Armitage. With Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Richard Armitage tells the story of a conflicted man who seeks a remedy to free the monster inside him from the clutches of his conscience. Following his celebrated performance of David Copperfield, Armitage delivers another powerhouse performance as the narrator of this Gothic tale.

Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respected London physician, secretly creates a potion that allows him to separate his moral self from his darker impulses. When he drinks it, he transforms into Edward Hyde—a cruel, violent figure who embodies Jekyll’s repressed desires. At first, Jekyll believes he can control this split existence, enjoying freedom from guilt while preserving his public reputation. But Hyde grows stronger and more independent, committing shocking crimes, including murder. Soon, Jekyll finds himself transforming into Hyde without taking the potion.

Only a woman with an iron backbone could succeed as an undertaker in Victorian England, but Violet Morgan takes great pride in her trade. While her husband, Graham, is preoccupied with elevating their station in society, Violet is cultivating a sterling reputation for Morgan Undertaking.

Once upon a time there lived three men bonded by darkness and pain. Each fighting a past that wants to drown them. All of them damaged and broken. None of them complete. Until her.

My world is on fire, and I’m obsessed with the girl who lit the match. Bloodied knuckles and a lifeless body at my feet confirm it: Penny is my demise. My gentlemanly façade is nothing but a memory. My sins are seeping through my shirt like ink. I tried to leave her. Couldn’t do it. I tried to snuff the life out of her. Couldn’t do that, either. So we’ll slow dance in the flames until I’m nothing but ash and embers. I’ll only rise like a phoenix when she’s gone. The problem is, I’d never let her go.

An American couple travel to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. This difficult journey leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her apparent illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child. The couple check into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the restaurant serves 13-course dinners from centuries past.

A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery… Spirited Zina and her secretive grandmother, Baba Valya, own a tearoom on rue Daru in Paris, where...

Jane Eyre remains a classic of 19th-century English literature and is the most famous and influential novel by Charlotte Bronte. Published in 1847, one of the most popular of all English novels, the story tells of the rise of a poor orphan girl against overwhelming odds. It is a work of fiction with memorable characters and vivid scenes exploring themes that have as much relevance today as in the time it was written.

Some secrets should not be kept. They should be screamed. I have a secret. In fact, I have many. Most of them could get me killed, so my silence is the golden ticket to survival in this asylum from hell. But my watchers don’t like it when I’m silent. They like when I scream. When I beg. When I’m a bad girl who tells the things I shouldn’t. Maybe this time I’ll let it all out. Divulge the ugly truths and cast light on the real monsters living in our world. Maybe my secrets will save me this time.

I'm from a place where you eat or get eaten. Two gangs are at war, and I'm hungry for survival. Growing up in a broken town doesn't make you a good man. In fact, the North Shore of the Falls has made me merciless. I survive because I'm a good soldier for the North Shore Crew. I'm cool-headed, I never lose sight of my goals, and my only obsession is to wrench our town from the clutches of our sworn enemies, the Kings. Alexandra Delacroix is just a job. The plan is straightforward: charm her, uncover incriminating information about her senator father, and tip the balance of power in our favor.

I’m forced to marry four brutal Bratva Pakhans. They’re all much older than me, and they’re at war. The only way out of it is an alliance through a forced marriage and a joined heir. With me. I don’t want to give them my plus-size curves, let alone a baby. But I don’t have a choice. I grew up in an orphanage before I was brought into the dark underworld. Now I find myself forced into a wedding dress to marry four ice-cold monsters. I’m a pawn in their game, trapped in their web of violence and manipulation. They can do with me whatever they want. And I can’t defend myself. ...

What if the man your father sells you to would rather see you dead than share his bed? Enemies by blood. Bound by marriage. Ruined by desire. The day my father traded me to the MacRae clan, he called it peace. Duncan MacRae called it leverage. I crossed the gates of his fortress as a bride… but every man in that castle looked at me like a spy waiting to be executed. I am Ailsa Cameron. Daughter of a traitor. A hostage wrapped in silk. I was raised to smile while men decided my fate, but no one warned me what happens when the enemy looks at you like he is already calculating how much blood...

His Promise. Her Fear. His world. Their vows. Nashville Stanley is the Dark Horse MC. James Bishop doesn’t know who she is. She’s signed on the dotted line with instant regret. She’s made a huge mistake. He’s got more regrets than he can count. She knows the only way out is death. Her life is a mess. He knows he’s too old for her. She knows she’s too young for him. They will never work.

After two years of hiding, I'm finally free, and all I want is some peace and maybe a little garden to tend. The adorable cabin in the forest is just what I'm looking for, private and secluded. Other than the long-dead inhabitants of the old graveyard nearby, I only have one neighbor. Arlow Shaw is antisocial if not outright reclusive, quiet, and guarded when it comes to discussing himself. A nature lover, he spends most of his time in the forest or tending to his bee hives. His calming effect on me is perplexing but exactly what I need.

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and 18-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune.