Showing results by narrator "Kathleen Miranti" in Literature & Fiction

Broken Stories is a compilation of short stories and novelettes that accompanies the Broken World series. From California to Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Colorado, listeners will get a glimpse at what other people went through before, during, and after the zombie virus outbreak. Some of the characters featured in these stories have close ties to the main characters in the Broken World series, while others are brand-new.

No doubt the California Gold Rush brought more people west than for any other reason. Annabelle Moon is a sliver of what came after the rush was over. Enter Joseph Kinkaid, the less than successful prospector in constant search of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Enter Annabelle Moon, the lost girl in a vast wilderness who became the rainbow Kinkaid followed.

TJ Velde, author of the Texas Shifters series that began with the best-selling Wildcat’s Rose brings us the story of Hal Pike, the reluctant billionaire who wants to return to a life of Texas simplicity. He can’t ignore his feelings for Joanna, but there are issues in his past that might not just endanger their relationship but put her life at risk as well. How can he hope for a life with her when even his nature as a shifter might not be able to protect her? 

Betsy Wingate travels to Red Lodge, Montana, seeking refuge in her mother’s log cabin high in the Beartooth Mountains while awaiting the finalization of her divorce. In overwhelming pain and bitterness, Betsy swears off men forever. She has the handsome half-breed from her first look the day he tips his hat to her on the trail, but Betsy is not to be an easy conquest. Hawk must prove he is different from the arrogant, controlling, cheating husband she left. And the lovers have bigger problems to confront.

When Angel unexpectedly arrives, bringing with her the shadow of CIA involvement and secret missions to Costa Rica, she and Sue Ann’s son find instant attraction to each other, and Sue Ann is more than pleased. She is unaware of their clandestine search as they put together clues to the disappearance of Angel’s father, the greatest love of Sue Ann’s life. Is he still alive? If so, will he survive the threat posed by the reward hanging over his head? 

Ashley Butler, a prize-winning journalist at the San Diego Times receives an email from a man who claims to have discovered immortality by turning off the aging gene in a 15-year-old boy with an aging disorder. The email has pictures showing a reversal of the aging process and the names of a scientist and a company to investigate. Thinking it a hoax, she forwards the email to friends. Though skeptical, she calls to investigate and gets a no-longer-in-service message.

Welcome to Dove Valley. This warm, friendly, town was founded by the Bartlett family more than 100 years ago. Ezekiel Bartlett, a shining rodeo star, calls big sky country home. This fun-loving cowboy has always lived big. But this time, his rough and rowdy lifestyle has nearly cost him everything. Now with God's help, he is working on becoming a better, humbler version of his former self. Emily Thomas is a successful botanist and a beautiful, warm, loving woman. But, there was a time when she spent her days playing baseball, riding horses, and loving Zeke Bartlett from afar. 

Dr. Sue Ann Parrish, cherished by two men in her life only to lose both, has remained alone until she admits to loving Custer, the mountain dweller who befriended her in her sorrow and sees her through her greatest challenge, breast cancer. As she fights for her life, her daughter Betsy becomes a ghostwriter for her mother’s autobiography and thus learns the truth about her father. When ghosts from the past arrive and turn her world upside-down, Sue Ann must make a life-changing decision: stay with Custer or marry a man she thought lost to her years before. 

When Kat Delaney’s last romance ends in disaster, she flees from the city to claim a dubious inheritance from an eccentric aunt. Determined to stick to her new no-men-allowed rule, she settles in at Mill Pond and attempts to figure out her next move. It works, too, until a hungry pool filter eats her bikini top and she's rescued from drowning by a hometown hero with incredible dimples. Jake's dimples conceal a guilty secret. He's trying to move forward, but his options are limited.

Over the past years, author Daniel Rouse had written manuscripts but never completed the works. However, the manuscripts have potential but he likes where the stories have stopped and does not wish for the stories to be finished. Even though they're not completed, they are entertaining and worthy of publication.

The tragic adventure of pink pistol Sheriff Liberty Belle continues as she gets closer to her father's murderer. But that outlaw and his brothers know of her and plan to set up a deadly trap. Liberty Belle has no idea of the danger she is in while Victorio tries to race against time to come to her help before it is too late and an unexpected stranger of the Apache tribe might turn into Liberty's only hope for survival....

Abby is a woman who is lost in her life. She is a confused young woman. She has no intimacy in her life. The only man that Abby has in her life is her pet cats. Abby's life is boring. But Abby's life is going to change... in a BIG way!

Colette is worried about her daughter not finding a suitable man and remaining unmarried. She tries to persuade Abigail to accept the offers of marriage but she argues back, wanting to focus on her career as a schoolteacher. Her mind quickly changes, however, when she meets a handsome visitor to their Amish community. Abigail falls for him hard until she finds out some shady information about him from a previous girlfriend.

Melissa Morris (alias Tia Maria) is a clothing store owner in modern New York City. She receives a phone call from a lawyer in Tombstone, Arizona stating she is the only living heir of Wyatt Earp and tends to inherit his estate. But she has to go to Tombstone to receive it. She takes a plane from New York to Tucson, rents a car to drive to Tombstone. About halfway there, she hits a deer and goes in a ditch knocking her unconscious. When she regains consciousness, she is on a stagecoach heading for Tombstone.

Kathleen discovers that love cannot be paid back; it must be paid forward. And so, she finds true recovery.

In part three of the series on Kissing Bridge Mountain we meet Brad's youngest sister Kacey. Summer and Brad are slated to get married but things go awry in Kissing Bridge! Brad's younger sister, snowboarding champion, Kacey Anderson is forced to come home to heal from a bad accident. After being told she can no longer compete she begins to train at her home while still missing her beloved Olympic gold medalist Brody Jenkins.