Audiobooks you keep
Buy an audiobook once and it is yours. 29 titles at $2.99 each, direct from the author, with no subscription, no app and no credits that expire. Download MP3 chapters, one MP3 file or one M4B file.
Cozy and funny mysteries
The Stitch
A Vera Crus Funny Cozy Mystery
Fourteen hundred quilts. One stern judge. One stitch that does not add up.
The Write Off
A Vera Crus Funny Cozy Mystery
Tax season. One shoebox. One black book nobody was supposed to read.
The Hobby
A Vera Crus Funny Cozy Mystery
He spent forty years making the numbers add up. Now he's counting suspects.
The Jackpot
A Vera Crus Funny Cozy Mystery
The jackpot finally hit. Then the numbers stopped adding up.
Full Draw
A Novel
A Pennsylvania hunting season mystery that starts over bad coffee with the game warden.
Humor
The Pickled Egg
Life is Good (Even When It Isn't)
This one is for anyone who has buried someone they loved and still puts the kettle on in the morning. The Pickled Egg is seventy, a widow of one year, and the most cheerful woman on her street. She is not pretending. Over a year of bridge nights, a rabbit that steals her lettuce, and a neighbor who has not smiled since 2004, she shows what paying attention can do. It is a gentle, funny book, and a good one to hand to your mother.
The Grumpy Old Man
The Grumpy Old Man is a warm, funny, and relatable storybook about an old man who has an opinion about everything, and none of them are particularly cheerful. From noisy mornings and grocery stores gone wrong to technology, traffic, holidays, and everyday modern life, he faces each day with a sharp eye, dry humor, and perfectly timed complaints. Told through short, story-driven chapters, each filled with simple scenes and memorable one-line sayings, this book captures the small annoyances everyone recognizes, but rarely says out loud. Grumpy, yes. Mean, no. Honest? Absolutely. As the days pass, the world doesn't change much, but something quietly shifts. Beneath the complaints is a man who notices more than he admits, remembers how things used to be, and keeps showing up anyway. Perfect for:
The Grumpy Old Man Goes On A Cruise Ship
A Funny, Clean Comedy About Surviving a Vacation Without Enjoying It
He Didn’t Book a Cruise to Relax. He Booked It to Complain.
Family saga and fiction
La Voglia
Some Secrets Are Served Last
Andrew McMurphy had a plan for everything. A one mile run at six every morning. A job designing medical equipment. A brand new BMW he had wanted since he was nineteen. What he did not have was anyone in the passenger seat, and he told himself that was fine.
Where the Bluestem Grows
A Story of Grief, Grit, and Second Chances
Some fires take everything. Others burn away only what was never meant to last. Kansas, 1891. Sarah Townsend has built her life on hard ground and harder work: a whitewashed farmhouse, twenty-six horses, five children, and a husband whose quiet love has carried her through every dry spell and every long winter night. Then a single bolt of dry lightning ignites the prairie, and in one terrible afternoon, everything Sarah believed was certain is gone. Left alone to keep the horses fed, the children safe, and the farm from slipping through her hands, Sarah does not know how she will make it through another winter, let alone another spring. Then a quiet stranger named Jacob Miller rides up the long dirt track with steady eyes and patient hands and offers her help she cannot afford to refuse, and a tenderness she is not ready to want. But the prairie is unforgiving. Town gossip spreads like wildfire. Horse thieves come in the dark. And Sarah must decide whether holding tight to the man she lost is worth turning away from the second chance the wind has carried to her door. A sweeping, tender novel of love after loss on the wide Kansas plains.
Where the Bluestem Bends
Annie's Story
Kansas, 1918. Annie learns what the prairie takes and what it gives back.
Where the Bluestem Stands
Birdie's Story
Kansas, 1934. Birdie comes home to her grandmother's farm as the dust starts to blow.
Where the Bluestem Holds
Ruby's Story
Kansas, 1943. Ruby Smucker is sixteen and keeping the books on the family farm when the Army sends three German prisoners to help with the harvest. There is a name on a casualty list she is still angry about, and she means to keep her distance. Over two harvests and a long winter she watches Franz Weber work the ground the way her own people do. This is quiet historical fiction about the home front, and the first of the Bluestem books.
Where the Bluestem Unites
Joanie and Ruby’s Story
Ruby's story picks up in 1954. Her mother Birdie is gone, and Ruby has the farm, the accounts and the egg cooperative on her shoulders. Her younger sister Joanie comes home from Wichita with a head for numbers Ruby did not know she needed. Then a German farmhand named Franz Weber walks up the lane looking for work. Read Where the Bluestem Holds first if you can.
Where the Bluestem Returns
Erica’s Story: Book Six
Kansas, 1985. The farm crisis is here, and the bank wants everything.
Romance
The Good Girl
From a Tortured Marriage to a Love Worth Choosing
“She had spent eight years putting beauty inside things.
Faith
A Quiet Heart, A Fragile World
A Sofia & Ethan Novel Book One of the Sofia & Ethan Series
A Quiet Heart, A Fragile World A Christian Teen Romance of Faith, Healing, and First Love
When Shadows Follow
A Sofia and Ethan Novel: Book 2 in the Series
Fear doesn’t always fade when the danger ends.
Thrillers, suspense and sci-fi
The Mother with One Eye
A Psychological Suspense Novel
Erin Sheridan was twenty-eight the night she crossed a lakefront bar in Bucks County to talk to a stranger who called himself Jimmy. He moved the time of their picnic by an hour, over the phone, so that nothing about it was ever written down. He asked whether she had needed to rearrange anything to come out. Then he drove her up a township road with a turned sign on it, and she turned to look back over her left shoulder, and that was the last thing that eye ever did.
Before You Tell Me
Some neighbors know too much
They know your secrets. They moved in next door to use them. When the Paines arrive on Tall Oaks, a quiet cul-de-sac outside Philadelphia, they are everything new neighbors should be warm, attentive, impossibly well-prepared. They remember birthdays. They bring the right casserole. They know things, one conversation too early, one detail too specific, that no one told them. For most of the street, the Paines are a gift. For Sandy Hackman, they are a threat she cannot name out loud. Sandy has a secret she has spent fourteen years protecting. The name on her mailbox isn't the name she was born with. Her Marriage isn't legal. And hidden in a drawer upstairs is evidence of a crime she witnessed the night she finally ran, evidence she has carried in silence ever since, telling herself she would know When the time came to use it. The time may have just arrived. But so have the Paines. As the neighborhood's secrets begin surfacing, a financial disaster here, a shattered reputation there, Sandy is the only one who sees the pattern. The only one watching the watchers. The only one who understands that the cheerful couple at the end of the circle didn't stumble onto this street. They chose it. And they chose it for one reason: someone on Tall Oaks owes them something. Sandy has to find out who, before they find out who she really is. Before You Tell Me is a gripping, razor-sharp domestic suspense novel for readers of Liane Moriarty, Lisa Jewell, and Freida McFadden. It asks the question no smart home, data broker, or friendly neighbor can answer for you: can you ever truly be known, and still be loved?
The Silent Visitor
First Contact Mystery in the Appalachians: A UFO Experience
John Carter went into the Pennsylvania mountains to hunt. He found a crashed ship and a wounded visitor named Xylar who is calm, curious and nothing like the movies. Hunters will know these woods. Science fiction readers will know the questions. It is a first contact story told from the ground by an older man who did not ask for any of it.
Hunting, fishing, and camping
The Cabin By The Deep Lake
Every fall, six men return to a remote cabin deep in the woods of northern Maine. They come to hunt, to work, to sit by the fire, and to keep a tradition alive, one passed down not just through family, but through time spent on land that asks to be treated with care. What begins as another familiar season changes when a wounded deer leads one of them into ground that has been quiet for more than a century. Hidden in stone and shadow is a truth the land has protected through silence, human lives caught between hope and history, waiting where freedom once passed north. As the discovery unfolds, the men are faced with a choice: preserve the secret as it is, or allow the past to finally speak. What follows is not a rush toward answers, but a careful reckoning, with legacy, responsibility, and the difference between ownership and stewardship. This is not a story about hunting trophies or buried treasure. It is a story about restraint. About listening. About knowing when to act, and when to leave things exactly where they are. Blending wilderness realism with quiet historical mystery, The Cabin by the Deep Lake explores:
For kids and families
Santa's Blitzen Block
This Christmas Eve, Santa is trading hooves for horsepower. His brand new candy cane car runs on pure Christmas joy. The happier the houses, the faster it goes. What could possibly go wrong?
PIP and the Mistake
Before the questions, there was a mistake.
Journals and nonfiction
The Coyote at the Door
True stories of sudden wildlife attacks in Pennsylvania where humans least expect them.
The Coyote at the Door: True Stories of Sudden Wildlife Attacks Where Humans Least Expect Them The wild isn’t always deep in the mountains. Sometimes, it’s standing right outside your door. In The Coyote at the Door, real people share their terrifying, unforgettable encounters with one of North America’s most adaptable predators. Set in quiet suburbs, rural backyards, neighborhood parks, and wooded walking trails, these are true stories of sudden wildlife attacks that shattered the illusion of safety and brought the wilderness crashing into everyday life. From a nurse mauled behind her workplace in rural Pennsylvania… To a father who fought off a rabid coyote to protect his young daughters… To children attacked in their own front yards. To hikers, joggers, and dog walkers ambushed in places they thought were safe… These gripping narratives reveal what happens when instincts collide, when fear takes over, and when ordinary people are forced to confront a wild animal at close range. Each chapter offers a dramatic retelling of real events, some fueled by rabies, others by hunger, confusion, or territorial drive, and shines a light on the growing tension between expanding suburban life and the rising presence of urbanized Coyotes, Bears, Deer and Bobcats. This book will pull you in from the first page, and stay with you long after you finish.
Questions readers ask
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What format do the audiobooks come in?
You choose after checkout: MP3 chapters in a ZIP, one single MP3 file, or one M4B file for Apple Books and audiobook apps.
What can I play them on?
MP3 files play on nearly anything: a phone, a computer, a car stereo or a kitchen speaker.
How much do they cost?
Every audiobook on this page is $2.99, sold direct from the author.