Imprudence: Book Two of The Custard Protocol

Prudence

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By Moira Quirk
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When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama ("Rue" to her friends) is bequeathed an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female under similar circumstances would do: she christens it the Spotted Custard and floats off to India. Soon she stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife, and some awfully familiar Scottish werewolves.

Soulless

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By Emily Gray

Firstly, Alexia Tarabotti has no soul. Secondly, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Thirdly, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?

Etiquette & Espionage: Finishing School, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By Moira Quirk
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Fourteen-year old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. More interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea - and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy - Mrs. Temminnick is desperate her daughter become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish all right - but it's a different kind of finishing.

Poison or Protect: A Delightfully Deadly Novella

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By Suzanne Lavington
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Lady Preshea Villentia has four dead husbands and a nasty reputation. What society doesn't know is that all her husbands were marked for death by Preshea's employer. And Preshea has one final assignment. It was supposed to be easy, a house party with minimal bloodshed. Preshea hadn't anticipated Captain Gavin Ruthven - massive, Scottish, quietly irresistible, and...working for the enemy. In a battle of wits, Preshea may risk her own heart - a terrifying prospect, as she never knew she had one.

Romancing the Inventor: A Supernatural Society Novella

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By Emma Newman
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Imogene Hale is a lowly parlor maid with a soul-crushing secret. Seeking solace, she takes work at a local hive, only to fall desperately in love with the amazing lady inventor the vampires are keeping in the potting shed. Genevieve Lefoux is heartsick, lonely, and French. With culture, class, and the lady herself set against the match, can Imogene and her duster overcome all odds and win Genevieve's heart, or will the vampires suck both of them dry?

A Carriger Quartet

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By J. Daniel Sawyer, Merelan Jones, Dawn Phynix

Four original, unabridged, full-cast productions of Gail Carriger's most beloved fantasy short stories: "The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn't, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar": A mummified cat, a secret agent, and an aristocrat entangle Alessandro Tarraboti (father of Alexia Tarraboti from the Parasol Protectorate series) in a rollicking, wry adventure into the supernatural secrets of ancient Egypt.

A Study in Silks

• UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Emma Jane Holloway
• Narrated By Angele Masters
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In a Victorian era ruled by a council of ruthless steam barons, mechanical power is the real monarch and sorcery the demon enemy of the Empire. Nevertheless, the most coveted weapon is magic that can run machines - something Evelina has secretly mastered. But rather than making her fortune, her special talents could mean death or an eternity as a guest of Her Majesty's secret laboratories. What's a polite young lady to do but mind her manners and pray she's never found out?

Crudrat

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Gail Carriger
• Narrated By J. Daniel Sawyer, full cast

Welcome to Wheel: a perfect world without poverty, disease, or want. Tinkered and tuned in every way for maximum order by Rank and Spoke, every child knows her destiny - so long as she can take the neural implant. The defective, whose bodies reject the implants, do not exist. Ghosts. Cyphers. Haunting the edges of society, living on scraps, killed for sport. A lucky few, the Crudrats, scrape out a perilous living cleaning the toxic wastes from the great machines that power the station.

Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris
• Narrated By James Langton

Evil is most assuredly afoot - and Britain’s fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegade... and a librarian. These are dark days indeed in Victoria’s England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences - the Crown’s clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling - will not allow its agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however, with her disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to let the matter rest...

Masked Ball at Broxley Manor: A Royal Spyness Novella

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 44 mins)
• By Rhys Bowen
• Narrated By Katherine Kellgren

At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man - until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball at Broxley Manor. Georgie is uncertain why she was invited, until she learns that the royal family intends to marry her off to a foreign prince, one reputed to be mad.

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs: Half-Moon Hollow, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Molly Harper
• Narrated By Amanda Ronconi
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Maybe it was the Shenanigans gift certificate that put her over the edge. When children's librarian and self-professed nice girl Jane Jameson is fired by her beastly boss and handed $25 in potato skins instead of a severance check, she goes on a bender that's sure to become Half Moon Hollow legend. On her way home, she's mistaken for a deer, shot, and left for dead.

The Watchmaker's Daughter: Glass and Steele, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 21 mins)
• By C. J. Archer
• Narrated By Emma Powell
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India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who'll accept her - an enigmatic and mysterious man from America, a man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates him when he's ill.

The Last Necromancer: The Ministry of Curiosities, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 59 mins)
• By C. J. Archer
• Narrated By Shiromi Arserio

For five years Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy in the slums. But when one theft too many gets her arrested, her only means of escape lies with a dead man. Charlie hasn't raised a spirit since she first discovered she could do so five years ago. That time her father banished her. This time she brings even more trouble upon herself. People are now hunting Charlie all over London, but only one man succeeds in capturing her.

A Curious Beginning

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Deanna Raybourn
• Narrated By Angele Masters
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As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry - and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is fending off admirers, Veronica wields her butterfly net and a hatpin with equal aplomb, and with her last connection to England gone, she intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.

Lady of Devices: A Steampunk Adventure Novel: Magnificent Devices, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Shelley Adina
• Narrated By Fiona Hardingham
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At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St. Ives, was expected to do nothing more than pour an elegant cup of tea, sew a fine seam, and catch a rich husband. Unfortunately, Claire's talents lie not in the ballroom, but in the chemistry lab, where things have a regrettable habit of blowing up. When her father gambles the estate on the combustion engine and loses, Claire finds herself down and out on the mean streets of London. But being a young woman of resources and intellect, she turns fortune on its head. It's not long before a new leader rises in the underworld, known only as the Lady of Devices...

The Vampire's Mail Order Bride: Nocturne Falls, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Kristen Painter
• Narrated By B.J. Harrison
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After seeing her maybe-mobster boss murder a guy, Delaney James assumes a new identity and pretends to be a mail order bride. She finds her groom-to-be living in a town that celebrates Halloween every day. Weird. But not as weird as what she doesn't know. Her groom-to-be is a 400-year-old vampire.

The Dark Days Club: The Lady Helen Trilogy, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Alison Goodman
• Narrated By Fiona Hardingham
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London, April 1812. Eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall is on the eve of her debut presentation to the Queen. Her life should be about gowns and dancing, and securing a suitable marriage. Instead, when one of her family's housemaids goes missing, Lady Helen is drawn to the shadows of Regency London. There, she finds William, the Earl of Carlston. He has noticed the disappearance, too, and is one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of powerful demons that has infiltrated every level of society.

Skinwalker: Jane Yellowrock, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Faith Hunter
• Narrated By Khristine Hvam
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Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind-a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she's been hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katie's Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who's killing other vamps.

A Study in Scarlet Women: The Lady Sherlock Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs)
• By Sherry Thomas
• Narrated By Kate Reading
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With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper-class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name.

The Accidental Alchemist

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Gigi Pandian
• Narrated By Julia Motyka

Unpacking her belongings in her new hometown of Portland, Oregon, herbalist and reformed alchemist Zoe Faust can't help but notice she's picked up a stowaway. Dorian Robert-Houdin is a living, breathing three-and-half-foot gargoyle - not to mention a master of French cuisine - and he needs Zoe's expertise to decipher a centuries-old text. Zoe, who's trying to put her old life behind her, isn't so sure she wants to reopen her alchemical past... until the dead man on her porch leaves her no choice.

Clean Sweep

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Ilona Andrews
• Narrated By Renee Raudman

On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast.

Besieged

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Kevin Hearne
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
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The ancient gods are alive and well in the modern world in this hilarious, action-packed collection of original short stories featuring Atticus O'Sullivan, the handsome, tattooed, 2,000-year-old Irishman with extraordinary magic powers from Kevin Hearne's New York Times best-selling Iron Druid Chronicles.

Kiss of Steel: London Steampunk, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Bec McMaster
• Narrated By Alison Larkin
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Most people avoid the dreaded Whitechapel district. For Honoria Todd, it's the last safe haven. But at what price? Blade is known as the master of the rookeries - no one dares cross him. It's been said he faced down the Echelon's army single-handedly, that ever since being infected by the blood craving he's been quicker, stronger, almost immortal. When Honoria shows up at his door, his tenuous control comes close to snapping. She's so...innocent. He doesn't see her backbone of steel - or that she could be the very salvation he's been seeking.

Steam and Sorcery

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Cindy Spencer Pape
• Narrated By Helen Stern
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Sir Merrick Hadrian hunts monsters, both human and supernatural. A Knight of the Order of the Round Table, his use of magick and the technologies of steam power have made him both respected and feared. But his considerable skills are useless in the face of his greatest challenge, guardianship of five unusual children. At a loss, Merrick enlists the aid of a governess....