Showing results by narrator "Christine Marshall" in All Categories

Lex Rhoades was finally making it on her own. She had settled into her new place, was making new friends, and had a job that she didn’t hate. The best part was she was far away from her father’s unyielding grasp and magic altogether. For the first time in a long time, she was beginning to feel like she could be happy. Cage Stone liked his life just the way it was. Then an elemental witch moves into his backyard and he’s tasked with discovering what it is she wants. However, the moment he lays eyes on her, his entire world begins to crumble around him.

The Applebaums, with a new arrival on the way, must find a bigger house. But in the tough L.A. real estate market, you practically have to kill to find a house. So no wonder Juliet is prepared to overlook a corpse on the grounds of her dream house. To gain the owner's favor, Juliet promises him she'll find his sister's killer.

PJ Gray, psychologist and expert in the groundbreaking field of forensic computer simulation, made an impressive debut in Shirley Kennett's acclaimed first novel, "Gray Matter". Now, PJ returns to track down a cunning killer who is manipulating the computer system of a busy St. Louis hospital.

Christine's Charlie and the Giants series is filled with magic, mythical creatures, and an awesome female protagonist that has to figure out who she wants to become. If you love books that will help you forget the real world for a little while, are full of surprising characters, and will keep you guessing, these are the perfect books for you!

Finding herself alone in a once-familiar world, 15-year-old Charlie tries to find answers. With help from new friends and old, Charlie learns she must save the world. Again.

Fifteen-year-old Charlie leaves home and ventures into the unknown to battle monsters, befriend fairies, and discover who she really is. Oh, and save the world.

This audiobook contains a fractured Sleeping Beauty retelling with a tragic ending.

A princess in hiding. A huntsman as her protector. Seven unlikely companions by her side. Can she stop the growing evil threatening her world....

In October 2018, Mark “Mace” Macy, sixty-four years old, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. He had spent thirty years competing in Colorado and around the world in ultra-endurance competitions and is one of the few people who have finished all eight Eco-Challenge events. Once diagnosed, he feared losing endurance, strength, and independence.

What if Cinderella was already a princess? What if her step-sisters weren't mean? What if she learned to control the animals? What if her family, her crown, and her love were ripped away from her? What if, in her grief, she made a terrible mistake? Maybe not all fairy-tales have a happy ending...

Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's quest to investigate the victim's life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis. On this journey stretching from the southern tip of Japan to the bottom of Grand Canyon, and into the ugliest aspects of human behavior, Pure Land offers proof of the healing power of nature and of the resiliency of the human spirit.

In 2004, 34 men, women, and children stepped out of a Southeast Asian rainforest and presented themselves as refugees from violence engulfing their native Cambodia. They did not know that the war they were fleeing had in fact ended - 25 years earlier. Corinne Purtill was one of the first journalists to meet the families upon their incredible return to society. Years later, she returned to Cambodia to learn the truth about their time on the run.

In 1775 Hayward Morgan, a young gentleman destined to inherit his father's estate in Derbyshire, England, captures the heart of the local vicar's daughter, Eliza Bloome. Her dark beauty and spirited ways are not enough to win him due to her station in life. Circumstances throw Eliza in Hayward's path, and they flee to America to escape the family conflicts. But as war looms, it's a temporary reprieve. Hayward joins the revolutionary forces, and what follows is a struggle for survival.

When Sarah's husband, Jamie, drowns, her young life is shattered and takes a turn that she never expected. Pregnant and now widowed, she reaches out to Jamie's family for help, but they are unwilling. Instead they devise a plan to have her kidnapped. She is deceived and taken aboard a ship headed for the Chesapeake to be sold as an indentured servant, bound to unspeakable hardship and forced into the same harsh world she left.

A tale of love won and love lost and the faith to find it again. From the banks of the Potomac to the misty moors of England, Darcy follows a path where the secrets of the past slowly rise to the surface in this dramatic saga that began in Before the Scarlet Dawn. She meets Ethan Brennan, an aspiring English horse breeder who embraces her independent spirit and marvels at the simplicity of her faith. Ethan and Darcy fall in love but are kept apart by a promise.

"Welcome to paradise," archeologist Susan Dunne hears on arrival at the Caribbean island to research petroglyphs and unravel the mystery of her brother's drowning. Was John murdered? This sunny tourist paradise conceals shadowy secrets - violent native unrest, a sunken treasure guarded by legendary Jumbies, and a bloodthirsty cult.

The winter field was planted, the seedstones buried to the depth of a woman's wrist. Any deeper and they might decline to sprout. Any shallower and.... Well. There were tales enough of that. Children stayed up all night for the terror of them.

The astonishingly talented Valerie Trueblood has imbued each story with its own depth and mystery, so rescue comes as a surprise to the listener, who is in intimate sympathy for the soul in extremity. And these are diverse characters whose fates, in lesser hands, might be thought of as hopeless: the fired cop turned security guard, the stolid 19-year-old nurses' aide who will not be going to art school, the cynical radio producer who is dying of breast cancer and on a plane on her way to Lourdes.

Following her divorce, Regan McKinney moves to San Francisco to start a new life, but she couldn't have chosen a worse time to arrive. The city is gripped with fear as a brutal killer stalks the streets, murdering women - women who look a lot like Regan. Though disturbed by the vicious crimes, Regan is determined to get on with her life, landing a promising job and finding her confidence again when she catches the attention of her handsome dance instructor.

After her husband dies in a plane crash, psychic Gabriella Deveaux leaves Boston with her young daughter, returning to her Creole roots on the beloved Louisiana bayou where she was raised. But she soon finds her new life at her old home won't be the refuge she was hoping for: The estate is in ruins, her late husband's wealthy family is aggressively pursuing custody of her daughter, and her gift for connecting with the spirit world seems to have left her.