Showing results by narrator "Ryan Haugen" in All Categories

Newly married and back from his honeymoon, C.T. Ferguson is out on the town when the lights go out, plunging the city into a winter darkness. Other city systems quickly start failing. The beleaguered IT staff can’t stop it. C.T. suspects the worst–a ransomware attack.

Henry is a squirrel about to set off on a grand adventure when he meets young puppy Austin. Poor Austin is an orphan with an injured leg, but Henry mends his injuries and tells him about his important mission. Henry travels in search of the legendary Golden Heart that once belonged to the Zakony tribe but was lost hundreds of years ago. He invites Austin to go along on his journey. If they find the Golden Heart, surely they’ll find fame and fortune. They use a special map with mysterious clues to follow the path, but along the way get distracted by people in need.

Following a desperate battle to save her sister, Tamara is left abandoned in the wake of her good intentions. She was promised family reconciliation and beauty for ashes, but fighting for these promises seems impossible, even more so now that she is carrying the weight of a long-buried family secret. Less than a week ago, Joe’s deepest desires were on the verge of coming true, but now with his dreams burnt to ash, and Tamara gone, he’s not sure what’s left to hold onto.

Cody Anderson burns with rage. Raised to believe in law and order, the 16-year-old son of a sheriff can only watch in horror as a band of desperados murder his father in cold blood. And as he kneels by the tombstone, the distraught youth vows to repay the killers with hot lead. Taken in by a gunsmith, the grim-hearted greenhorn spends the next two years training to become the quickest draw in the West. But when he faces the first of the outlaws, Cody fears he might not have the guts to end another man’s life....

Ten Laws of Great Decision-Making explores the different approaches and influences that feed into great decision making. It identifies 10 fundamental laws that, if applied to decision-making, can help entrepreneurs and business leaders make great decisions consistently over time. Ten Laws of Great Decision-Making is a practical guide that is easy to apply to help you make great decisions for your business.

Johnny's life changes drastically after a stroll down a quiet moonlit street. He encounters a beast he once thought fictional yet was far more real than he could ever imagine. Johnny befriends some of the most bizarre creatures as he makes his way to find the truth about his life and why everything was hidden from him for so long.

After killing the gang’s leader in Paradise, Cody Anderson is eager to continue his quest to track down and confront Jim Gallahan, the last surviving member of the band gunman that killed his father. However, his horse is too tired to continue the chase, and Cody is forced to board the eastbound stage to follow the fleeing desperado.

Cody thought that his long, difficult quest to seek justice from all the outlaws who murdered his father, Sheriff Anderson, was over after he killed Jim Gallahan, the last member of the gang. With the gunman’s dying words, however, Cody learns that these desperados were hired to kill the sheriff, by the father of his boyhood nemesis and realizes that he must now go all the way back to Shiprock, New Mexico to seek his final revenge.

On the planet Entitya, there were three Gods: Susegi, God of Light, Nefarion, God of Darkness; and Unacoria, Goddess of Love. These three deities came from Mother Universe and brought light and life to their island home, Sinuatollion. Peace was shattered the day Nefarion dared to assault Unacoria. Her revenge on him was just the beginning. Years later in his home on Sinuatollion island, Mesagan dreams about a wolf in a dangerous swamp. When Mesagan hears his father, Susegi, is going to visit a sick friend among the wolf pack, Mesagan decides to go with him.

Only Human is a soft sci-fi novel about a teen (name, description, and identity not specified) that is forced to "immigrate" into a slightly-absurd alien city teeming with hundreds of different species. Despite their best efforts to resist, they reluctantly find friendship, hatch an escape plan, and to add insult to injury, they also have to get a full-time job. Oh, and by the end, the fate of humanity hangs in the balance - so there’s that too.

Hacker-turned-private investigator C.T. Ferguson gets a client he never expected: his police detective cousin Rich. In rural Western Maryland, Rich's old army friend, Jim, died in an apparent suicide. Jim got help from a charity called Land of the Brave. He had a job and a purpose again, and he was happy. Jim's heartbroken widow doesn't believe he killed himself. As C.T. and Rich investigate, they come to doubt the suicide angle but can't prove anything. When C.T. makes a shocking discovery, he and Rich attract the wrong kind of attention.

In the quiet corners of life, where routine and privilege reign, emerges the story of Sally Anne. Sheltered from the world's cruelties, she navigates life's calm waters until an unforeseen tempest violently disrupts her existence. Suddenly cast adrift, Sally must find her own way in a world she never knew existed. The Thought of Her is not just a tale; it's an intimate journey of self-discovery. Struggling with unfamiliar challenges, Sally transforms, evolving from a sheltered girl to a resilient woman.

Maybe it is me haunting this place now.

Darius Hunter lives in a world where vampires live among us. Young vampires like Darius are kept on a government-mandated medication that prevents them from becoming fully undead until they’re 18. He’s smart, sensitive, and all too human - a struggling outsider just trying to fit in. Darius’ “cool uncle”, Jack, a vampire, introduces him to Blood Orange Soda, which can speed Darius’ maturation into full vampire state, but it can’t guarantee that he’ll win the love of Angel Martin or successfully face up to his bully. It also doesn’t make him immune to heartbreak.

One hundred sixty-five epic poems and six flash fiction stories comprise this poetry audiobook celebrating masculinity through the birth, life, and death of a Modern Gentleman (mod-gent). Potential listeners - don't be alarmed! Only the very best of man's heroic successes and damned failures live on these sections! This experience is divided into six sections of a man's life: Infancy, boyhood, teenager, manhood, parenthood, and the elderly years. This audiobook is an objective, visceral journey of life through the eyes of a middle-class, down-to-Earth, regular Modern Gentleman.

Four tales of horror, four pathways to take. Which is the right pathway to follow? Beware of the pathways we take, for no one truly knows where the path will take you. Humanity is the artist of life and death. With just a twist of its hand beauty beyond beauty. The mighty grip of the other hand destroys all that you will ever love.

Shadowlands Poetry is a collection of poems reflecting our polarized lives with equal parts light and dark, and the eigengrau that blurs the shadowy spaces between. Shadowlands Poetry is for those who embrace the cycles of life and find a balance between dreams and fears.

Second in the Umbra saga, Birth of Shadows is the sequel to Encumbering Ashes, following the same character line up as they figure out the origin and mystery behind one of their own. The crew meets some new people along the way, including Jayson who lost his father to the very type of person whom he was helping. Nick's lost past puts him in the wrong place at the right time. Samuel's daughters passing leaves him with more questions than answers when an ominous drawing was left behind suggesting there are worst things than death.

Dretlon Valley has been conquered, but now the city of Maldra has caught wind of a new threat stirring in Southern Elabrium. Rumors tell of not just adepts being possessed by the dreaded wraiths, but essentia, the common people, are turning against one another. Behaviour that was once only characteristic of necrom is revealing itself in them, too. Has the world gone wrong? Have the laws of elemental magic broken, or is there something more?

The circumstances surrounding the bizarre photograph initially inspiring Meredith Carson to ghostwrite Jack Wagoner’s horrifying account are now included in this audiobook and remain unexplained. When Meredith Carson accepted the task of ghostwriting the frightening narrative you are about to hear, she had no idea how that decision would affect her.