KATHY

The Best Laid Plans

• ABRIDGED (7 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Sidney Sheldon
• Narrated By John Rubinstein

The first entry in Leslie Stewart's diary read: "Dear Diary; This morning I met the man I am going to marry." It was simple, optimistic statement, without the slightest portent of the dramatic chain of events that was about to occur. The Best Laid Plans takes listeners inside two of America's most powerful and ruthless institutions: the world of politics with it's scandals, corruption, and cover-ups; and that of newspaper publishing, where it is not unusual to use the power of the press to destroy lives - or bring down heads of state - in pursuit of a story or to settle a score.

The Marriage Bargain: Marriage to a Billionaire, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Jennifer Probst
• Narrated By Coleen Marlo
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

To save her family home, impulsive bookstore owner Alexa Maria McKenzie casts a love spell. But she never planned on conjuring up her best friend's older brother - the powerful man who once shattered her heart.

Billionaire Nicholas Ryan doesn't believe in marriage, but in order to inherit his father's corporation, he needs a wife and needs one fast. When he discovers his sister's childhood friend is in dire financial straits, he offers Alexa a bold proposition....

Anointed

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Patricia Haley
• Narrated By Kevin R. Free

Patricia Haley’s inspirational series following the drama-filled Mitchell family shot her to the number-one spot on the Essence best-seller list. Anointed transports listeners back to the saga’s beginning, when Dave and Madeline Mitchell were still married, raising a family, and building a million-dollar business. Then Dave hires a pretty young assistant named Sherry Henderson, and temptation gives way to desire - setting events in motion that will haunt the Mitchell clan for decades to come.

The Great Escape

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• Narrated By Shannon Cochran
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Instead of saying "I do" to Mr. Irresistible, Lucy Jorik hitches a ride on the back of a beat-up motorcycle with a rough looking, bad-tempered stranger who couldn't be more foreign to her privileged existence. While the world searches for her, Lucy must search for herself, and she quickly realizes that her customary good manners are no defense against a man who's raised rudeness to an art form. Lucy needs to toughen up - and fast. Her great escape takes her to his rambling beach house on a Great Lakes island. Here, she hopes to find a new direction...and to unlock the secrets of this man who knows so much about her.

So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore: An Unexpected Journey

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Jake Colsen, Wayne Jacobsen
• Narrated By Wayne Jacobsen

What would you do if you met someone you thought just might be one of Jesus' original disciples still living in the 21st century? That's Jake's dilemma as he meets a man who talks of Jesus as if he had known him, and whose way of living challenges everything Jake had previously known. So You Don't Want to Go To Church Anymore is Jake's compelling journal that chronicles 13 conversations with his newfound friend over a four-year period and how those exchanges turn Jake's world upside-down.

Inner Circle: The Wives Association

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Evelyn Lozada, Courtney Parker
• Narrated By Nicole Small
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Inner Circle depicts the life of Evelyn Lozada’s off-camera alter ego, Eve Inez. Much like The Basketball Wives, Inner Circle reveals everything athletes’ wives live through, complete with the cheating, scandal, manipulation, and gossip. And this time, nothing is being held back. None of the wives are prepared for how addictive their rich lifestyles can be, and they find themselves stooping to unimaginable levels of deception to preserve their social status.

Confessions of a Video Vixen

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Karrine Steffans
• Narrated By Karrine Steffans
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Confessions of a Video Vixen is the widely anticipated memoir of Karrine Steffans, the once-sought-after sexy siren who appeared in the music videos of multiplatinum hip hop artists such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly, and LL Cool J. A top-paid video dancer, Karrine transitioned to film when acclaimed director F. Gary Gray picked her to costar in his film A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel.

The Ivy Chronicles

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Karen Quinn
• Narrated By Julia Gibson
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Fans of New York Times best seller The Nanny Diaries will rejoice in this wickedly hilarious novel, which acclaimed author Katharine Weber says is "much funnier and darker". Optioned for a major motion picture starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, The Ivy Chronicles skewers the twisted priorities of America's well-heeled elite.

Ain't She Sweet?

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• Narrated By Kate Flemming
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But 15 years have passed, now she's come home, broke, desperate, and too proud to show it.

Nobody's Baby But Mine

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• Narrated By Anna Fields
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Jane Darlington is a genius at physics, but there's one problem she can't solve. She yearns for a child, but wants to spare it the pain of growing up as...well, a nerd. And surely any child of Jane's would be a little too brainy for the playground set. So she sets out to find a special man to father her child, someone without too much gray-matter between his ears: in short, a big, strong dope. Cal Bonner, legendary pro quarterback, seems to fit the bill. But there's something Dr. Jane hasn't counted on.

Call Me Irresistible

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• Narrated By Shannon Cochran
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Call Me Irresistible is the book Susan Elizabeth Phillips's readers have long awaited. Ted, better known as "little Teddy," the nine-year-old heartbreak kid from Phillips's first best seller, Fancy Pants, and as "young Teddy," the hunky new college graduate in Lady Be Good, is all grown up now—along with Lucy from First Lady and Meg from What I Did for Love. They're ready to take center stage in a saucy, funny, and highly addictive tale fans will love.