Category: Story: A-

Narrated by Gary Furlong and Iggy Toma Unguarded is my favourite (and the best so far) of the Vino and Veritas series – a warm, sexy and emotionally satisfying romance between a small-town veterinary surgeon and a snarky ex-pat Kiwi…

Narrated by Michael Pauley Running From My Heart is a beautifully written, deeply emotional story about love and loss and grief, about standing still and moving on and letting go and second chances; and while the characters have suffered traumatic,…

Narrated by Kale Williams My Felice Stevens glom continues with The Coincidence, a sweet, romantic and sexy standalone contemporary romance from 2019, in which two men – who start out as complete strangers – discover that their lives are more…

Narrated by Gary Furlong Note: The Soulbound series features a number of overarching plotlines, so this book is unlikely to make much sense unless you’re familiar with at least some of the previous entries in the series. There are likely…

Narrated by Beverley A. Crick Minerva Hepplewhite is a survivor. After receiving a surprise monetary gift from a mysterious benefactor, Minerva – née Margaret – Finley fled her horrific, abusive marriage. She sued for divorce but feared her estranged husband…

Narrated by Gary Furlong In Crossing the Touchline, book two in Jay Hogan’s Auckland Med. series, we meet twenty-three-year-old rugby player Reuben Taylor, who is on the verge of achieving his lifelong dream of playing for the All Blacks. It’s…

Narrated by Sienna Frances The books that comprise Bec McMaster’s London Steampunk and Blue Blood Conspiracy series are, to my mind, the best books to have appeared in the genre in recent years. The world-building is meticulous, the characters are…

Narrated by Eric G. Dove Cold Wicked Lies is book three in Toni Anderson’s Cold Justice: Crossfire series, which is a spin-off from her long-running Cold Justice series. I recently listened to book one of the Crossfire books, Cold &…

Narrated by Nick J. Russo I read N.R. Walker’s The Dichotomy of Angels when it came out at the end of 2019 and loved it. It’s a clever, funny and poignant story about two angels who are sent to Earth…