The Vigiles Urbani Chronicles: Year One

Accession of the Stone Born, Dust Walkers, Shades of Fire & Ash

By: Ken Lange

Narrated by: Andrew Pond, Paul Clewell

Accession of the Stone Born Death doesn't always ride a pale horse.

Gavin Randall hasn’t been home in nearly thirty years. Upon his return, he steps into a world he never knew existed and awakens dormant powers to discover that he’s one of the rarest beings in the supernatural community - a Stone Born. Now his very existence is a threat to the established order.

A mysterious death pulls him in further, forcing him to face off against family and foe alike. Gavin must reconcile the past he knew with a strange world of magic, along the way encountering new creatures and dangers he’s never experienced.

Will Gavin discover the truth? Or will this new world swallow him whole?

Dust Walkers

When newly minted vigil Gavin Randall is summoned to a small town in New Mexico, the last thing he’s expecting is to have to fight a cartel of necromancers. Their undead horde tests the limits of his powers and shows him just how vulnerable he really is…and that’s not the worst of it. His enemies have spent centuries preparing for a war no one within the Archive has foreseen, and he has yet to learn to control his abilities or figure out his place in this ancient conflict. With time running out, will he be able to forge the alliances he needs to survive the coming storm?

Shades of Fire & Ash

After surviving an unholy horde in New Mexico, Gavin Randall didn’t think things could get much worse, but the world he walked into eleven months ago grows more dangerous with each passing day. A new threat has surfaced in the form of fanatics hellbent on destroying him, his friends, and the Archive itself. It’s his job to make sure that doesn’t happen, but these guys don’t play fair and have found a way to stack the odds in their favor. With the primordial fires of Muspelheim lapping at his heels, can he survive long enough to fulfill his destiny, or will the world be burned to ash?

©2019 Ken Lange (P)2019 Ken Lange

BRAVO!

Let me begin with OMG. I listen to a hundred books a year. Yeah, I have a problem. lol. I got this book as a gift a few days ago and I almost never give written book reviews, especially after the first listen. I feel like a damn yelper when I do write one, because lets be honest, who cares what I think. So i finished my current listen, then began this book a couple days ago. Damn is it good! Hooked me in the first 5 mins and kept my full attention throughout the story. Great story with perfect narration. I am more into scifi, then fantasy but I think this book is extremely well written and has me wanting to listen to more of this genre. Im really glad I got the opportunity to enjoy such a great book. Ken paints a great picture in your minds eye and the narration ties it all together so well. Bravo! I will definitely seek out more books by this author now.

Excellent story and performance

This is a great audiobook. I cannot wait for the next book in the series.

first time

first time hearing about this author and this audio sounded interesting; it was better than I honestly thought it would be. I'll probably look into more from this author.

Excellent Urban Fantasy

So. I am completely awed by this author's ability to successfully combine so many worlds, while still managing to keep them separate. There is so much more depth than a typical urban fantasy, I want to take notes, so I dont miss something potentially important down the line. There are stories within stories, subplots, and even sub-subplots. It's an intricate and highly intense world. I can't stress enough how much I love this world. Looking forward to more from this author. And, while it was a bit weird to have the narrator change, I'm glad he chose to switch to the narrator from his other series. Especially with the reading order switching back and forth between series. I love both narrators, and am sad the change was necessary, but also glad it was. It seems more cohesive this way .

Great collection.

The first two books in this trilogy we’re good, but I wasn’t as fond of the narrator. The last book has the same narrator as the warden global books, and I enjoyed it much more. My principle complaint is that Gavin goes from getting his butt kicked frequently to having way too much power. I still like the series, and enjoy that it is set mostly in New Orleans. Just bought the next book in the series so obviously I am hooked.