Showing results by narrator "Daryl Mayfield" in All Categories

I moved to Florida to leave behind the old Jamie Flynn and the small town that fostered all her insecurities and self-hatred of being a plus sized woman. I needed a fresh start. Somewhere not tainted by faulty memories. Somewhere I could focus on myself and all the things I wanted to achieve. But when a couple of drunk idiots left my painstakingly crafted confidence shattered, I ran out into the night so fast I didn’t even stop to thank the sexy stranger that defended me.

Something is watching me. I can’t tell if it wants to hurt or protect me. Is the howling at night real or is my mind playing tricks on me? What about the flashes of white fur I see out of the corners of my eyes? And who is the beautiful, pale man haunting my dreams? As carnival performers, it’s always on to the next show. A tattooed sword swallower with an affinity for fire has gotten me all fired up. Connor not only doesn’t mind, but he’s encouraging the sparks to fly. My heart’s being pulled in multiple directions and somehow it actually feels right.

A colored human Android device, Chad is also the first fully functional sentient Afro-American robot. It has a mission to assimilate into Afro-American culture and use its supplemental characteristics to improve and enhance. Welcome to the world of Chad! Chad will excite and thrill, opening up doors and the possibilities of Afro-Americans in the 21st century.

Years ago, a desperate widow was left an inheritance to kill for. Three organized crime families had to hide their assets, and their accountant had a desperate widow and limited time live, so he devised a way to steal their money. To his surprise, it worked. Eighty years later, the powerful families are in a war for their legacy, when they discover the widow's debt. Everyone on both sides of the law wants the money, but where do they look?

The Moonstomper series is a two-fisted, suited-and-booted tale that take the listener through Chicago’s dive bars, dark alleys, and smokey house-parties to deliver a curb-stomped world filled with Punks, Skins, Goths, Skaters and Metalheads. In Book 3, as dawn breaks across Chicago, Cheyenne, Joey Zion and Happy are tasked with completing a time-sensitive errand while Steve makes moves which may alter the course of his life and the lives of those around him.

Only one thing keeps me from turning this world into a nightmare...and that's the angel of a woman I've fallen in love with. Her purity and beauty are the only things that soothe my tortured soul. The world fears me. It doesn't matter if you're a human, orc, or dark elf—you shrink away in terror when I come into view.

Birth of a nation on steroids! Techno science fiction. A close roboticist friend of Dr.Overton uses nanotechnology to recreate Nat Turner and the slave uprising of 1831. The incident takes place in historical Southampton, Virginia, with the whole of mankind being at stake this time around....

In a world where success is predominately measured by how much money we have in the bank, the size of our financial portfolio, and how prestigious our lives are, there have been great American Entrepreneurs who have chosen to take the path less traveled–to be truly compassionate and giving. They risked judgement, ridicule, and their fortunes; but in doing so they realized they could never out give God.

In The Hard Choices we reconnect with Chicago Rudeboy Steve Andersen, utterly exhausted from working three jobs while sacrificing his schooling and future to protect his sister Luna and brother Matt from the hands of their estranged father, Mike. Meanwhile, things seem to be looking up for Sammy as his relationship with fellow Metalhead, Tiffany, begins to bloom and a shaky friendship with Luna develops.

The war has taken a turn, and those the Renegade once thought were allies have turned out to be an even bigger threat than Golan. Brock wakes up on the Developer's warship after being dematerialized and mistaken for a Developer. He has no way to contact his team and no way of knowing where he is heading, and it is only a matter of time before he is discovered.

Almost a year has passed since the kidnapping and unlikely return of heiress Megan Whittmeyer. Now CEO of her family's company, Megan is dealing with the cleanup effort of its sordid past, while her rescuers try to move on and manage the everyday drama of their own lives. Before long, cryptic poems and the appearance of a strange man in black makes it apparent that their troubles with John Styles are not over...despite the small problem of him being dead.

The Splinter Galaxy, once believed to be nonexistent, now holds the fate of life in the universe. The phantom galaxy hidden within the Draco constellation is a system in conflict. See how the universe is affected when Earthlings are abducted to fight in the war of other worlds - only to find that wars never really end. Now, the peacekeepers create Bounty Hunters to aide in the disputes. Korbalus Gunson is one such Operative. The terminally brain-damaged gunslinger may be the missing key to unlock everyone’s desires. The only problem is he wants out.

When private detective Barney Little is kidnapped by two creeps trying to overthrow Hell, banished demon Samm is on the case! Tasked by Satan to stop the potential coup d'etat, with fellow demon Jude, witch-in-training Adesina, and a three-year-old kid who seems to be more than meets the eye, Samm will have to travel around the globe and beyond to solve his latest assignment. But first, he'll have to get his hands on the object everyone wants.

With the Developers destroying any race they find a threat to their advancements, the Renegades must destroy them quickly or risk losing more civilizations. Bixom is back from behind enemy lines, and he knows the threat is even greater then he could have imagined. He is ready to wage war when he unexpectedly runs into his lifemate. How can he protect her in the midst of a battle he does not even understand himself?

What happens when you cross Harry Potter with Douglas Adams? You get Little Idiots! Samm is a lower-class demon having the worst day of his millennia: banished from Hell, powers stripped from him, caught in the middle of a demon turf war, and an escaped soul is out for his blood. Satan has promised to allow him back into Hell; all he has to do is capture the soul and discover who helped it escape. The good news is he already knows who did it. The bad news is it’s him. Samm will have to wade through the middle of this if he ever wants to see Hell again.

He could use a break. With his wife expecting and the undead rising, he’s not going to get one… Newly minted wizard and NYPD Detective Eddie Berman is burning the staff at both ends. Between his crime-fighting duties and the fast-approaching birth of his third child, he knows he’s staring down more sleepless nights. And when a drug bust exposes vampires attempting to fulfill a sinister prophecy, he’s in a race against time to stop them from raising the dead.

Joshua Bennet needs some answers. After growing up with impossible stories about the undead, the young African American journalist receives a large and unexpected inheritance after his father’s suspicious death. Curious about his dad’s tall tales, he quits his hated newspaper job and sets off to unearth the terrifying truth.

Set within the fast, loud and sometimes violent world that was Chicago’s Hardcore Punk and Metal scenes of the mid-1980s, Moonstomper follows Steve Andersen, a Trojan Skin who does anything he can to protect his younger siblings Matt and Luna from the negative influence of their father and disgraced Chicago cop, Mike.

Habitual cheater Xavier Richardson likes his women naive, subservient, and plus-size. Hope Richardson, his wife of five months, is all of the above, in addition to being a homebody who's self-conscious about her weight; something Xavier takes full advantage of.

The Robot and the Vampire tells a futuristic story of man and machine becoming more than most can imagine. The strange and seductive mix of robots, vampires, and mechanically enhanced humans result in emotional entanglements, weird romantic connections, and murderous retribution.