Audiobooks by Sidney St. James

This Old House: A Lily Blooms in the Jaws of Hell

THIS OLD HOUSE A Lily Blooms in the Jaws of Hell BOOK 1 VICTORIAN MYSTERY SERIES I walked out of my grandmother’s home on Stockbridge Street in Eagle Lake, Texas, late on a Sunday night, and stared across the street. Against the night sky, all I could see was the crumbling walls that were nothing more than a ghostly silhouette of some previous grand existence. The evening summer breeze whistled through the trees bringing with it the laughter of children who once lived there and the caring call of a mother letting them know dinner was ready. This novel has been in the works since its beginning in 2005 when a century and half old colonial style home was restored by the author and his wife, Barbara. For over twelve months, the house did an amazing transformation, the third time since its original construction in 1845. The first time it was restored was 1861. The second time in 1932 and the last time in 2005. Although a work of fiction, the story was inspired by actual events that will raise the hair on the back of the reader’s neck. What happened to the woman who disappeared overnight? Stand and watch a paint lid as the name “Annie” is written in cursive in the wet paint right before your eyes. Or, listen to the heavy footsteps of a construction worker on the roof in the middle of the night? Smell cherry tobacco smoke in the hallways when no one is around? What lies under the white limestone rock in the rose garden, other than dirt? Happy Reading!

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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DESTINY WAITS: Murder in the Lakeside Museum

The Eagle Lake Fire Department sounds off its siren at straight-up noon, informing all the residents in the community it 'was time to eat.' The Lakeside Museum began to empty out of those attending for the lunchtime call. The few people still lingering among the interesting displays of the great museum were suddenly startled by the sight of one of the uniformed guards racing down the red longleaf pine steps of the main staircase, shouting! Justin Thomas raced up, 16 points ahead in the latest poll for Governor of Texas, shouting, 'Lock the doors! No one is to leave the building!' After a brief moment, Thomas, the Director of the Museum, and others ran up the stairs to find a beautiful young woman, not more than eighteen years of age, lying on the cold wooden floor with an arrow protruding from the center of her chest. No one could believe what their eyes were telling them. A quick call was placed into Eagle Lake Headquarters, and lo and behold, a veteran detective who had made Eagle Lake his home in his seventies, answered the call. It was no other than Vincent James Gideon! To the people in Eagle Lake, he was best known only by his last name, GIDEON. He looked around the museum and asked his sidekick, TJ Johnson, to make a list of names. There were twenty-one witnesses that said they saw nothing. How could that be? Someone must be lying, but who?

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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Nine Months Will Tell

NINE MONTHS WILL TELL BOOK TWO IN THE STORM LORD TRILOGY SERIES a paranormal romantic fantasy From the novel… “Though the sunset was illuminating the horizon, the pathway through the tall woods behind the cottage was still dark. The tall aspens stood as if charcoal against the deep blue skies from the setting sun. The only color left was the orange pouring across the skyline to the west over the Pacific Ocean. Angel slung the Flaming Blue Sword over her shoulder and walked, not looking at the danger ahead, only at the rain-sodden path along the cliff, treacherous with slippery mud.” In Chapter Two, the continuation of the Storm Lord Trilogy finds Angelica Thompson and Sheriff Kevin Connors expecting their first child. Her pregnancy came as a surprise to her and Kevin because it was precisely nine months after their defeat of Ethan Knight in Chapter One of the Storm Lord Trilogy series. Throughout the book, significant events taking place appear to threaten the life of Angel’s first child. Is she too old, past the age of 39, to give birth? She wonders if it’s just her age. Is there a problem with her child? Angel doesn’t want to know if it is a boy or a girl. She was ready to have the child naturally and gets closer to her full term but wondered if that was such a good idea. The expecting mother lives with pain day in and day out. She experiences dreams that are, once again, so real, she can never get more than an hour or two each night of sleep. Angels appear in her dreams. Demons appear in her dreams. Death occurs in her dreams! In the last two weeks of her pregnancy, she realizes her child’s life is threatened by outside forces. Has the Storm Lord returned to her dreams…but, wait? Is he real? Who did she and Kevin kill in their first encounter if it wasn’t the Storm Lord?

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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The Three Keys to Armageddon

Using the rich background of the spiritual world of Archangels Michael and his Sword of Angels and Gabriel with his trumpet of victory as the background, Sidney St. James’ Storm Lord Trilogy Series pursues the return of Satan himself with a paranormal bent world of evil versus good filled with fascinating characters. The ever-moving series’ sharp dialogue, highly original plotlines, and stylistic flair are as rhythmic and vibrant as his earlier works written under his other pen names. Through James’ fertile imagination, these three novels in the series are provocative, confrontational, and contain highly ingenious twists and turn into the unexpected, but always with a healthy dose of humor, not to mention romance, no matter how intense the circumstances may become. His imagination is unbound and improvises – leaving reality, touching the sky, and returning – often with such descriptive style-will leave the reader on the edge of their seat. In this final chapter, Angie Connors must find the Three Keys to Armageddon, or all Hell will break loose…literally. Every expertly written quest pits our heroine against evil out to destroy the goodness in the world. Along with her mother, Angelica Thompson, Nikki is propelled into challenges in which they could die at every turn. Action on their part is required every step of the way to keep the world good, balanced, and in peace!

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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Storm Lord Trilogy Box Set, The: Books 1-3

he Storm Lord Trilogy Box Set (The Complete Series Books 1-3): An Epic Paranormal Romance Book 1: The Flaming Blue Sword Angelica Thompson, an award-winning romance novelist, decides to end her turbulent relationship back home in Denver and heads to a secluded spot on the shores of Black Rock Cove in Oregon. Writer's block is preventing her from finishing her last novel in her paranormal romance series and is being pressured by her publisher, BeeBop Publishing, to finish by the end of the summer. She discovered the first night of her arrival how vividly her mind's thoughts and dreams came alive. Her imagination of a dead sea captain, a black panther pouncing on her for his evening meal, and falling to her death in a cove hundreds of feet below are only the beginning. Book 2: Nine Months Will Tell AngelicaThompson and Sheriff Kevin Connors expect their first child. Her pregnancy comes as a surprise to her and Kevin because it is precisely nine months after their defeat of Ethan Knight in Book 1. Throughout the book, significant events taking place appear to threaten the life of Angel's first child. Is she too old, past the age of 39, to give birth? She wonders if it's just her age. Is there a problem with her child? Book 3: The Three Keys to Armageddon Final chapter in Storm Lord Trilogy Series, love must begin between a human and a supernatural being. This happens. The hero, the human character in this novel, is put into some kind of danger, where they come to realize they can overcome this danger either on their own or with the assistance of the supernatural love interest! Through James' fertile imagination, these three novels in the series are provocative, confrontational, and contain highly ingenious twists and turn into the unexpected, but always with a healthy dose of humor, not to mention romance in this final chapter of the series.

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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The Lady in Red

Sebastian Westfield, the grandson of Connor Westfield, is living life in style with the hefty allowance given to him monthly by his grandfather. The problem is, one night started like all the rest, with his arrival at Sid’s Cabaret in Portland, the home of famed theater star Valentina Clemente. When the evening first started, he could remember everything. However, the next instant, his mind goes blank. He can’t remember what happened the rest of the night when an assassin took his grandfather’s life in Black Rock Cove or how he ended up on the floor of an abandoned farmhouse a few hundred yards away from his grandfather’s house the following day. The trees of the forest by the lake became slightly out of focus, like that of a poorly taken photograph. It wasn’t until Sebastian got closer, it congealed into a form… a woman dressed in red with silver skin and a predator’s smile. All became silent while he watched the woman skirt along the edges of the stagnant lake. Then, without warning, he found himself on his back, looking up at a person wearing a red and black ski mask. He shook his head back and forth and heard the words from what he thought was the woman in red, but the words were said in a man’s voice with a rasping tone of a one-pack-a-day smoker. “Have you come to play, Sebastian?” Sebastian couldn’t find words to say and only opened his mouth to scream. Then without warning, he found himself back on the dilapidated and deserted farmhouse floor. Abruptly, a chill rose up his spine making him shiver. Something was here with him. He could feel it! A voice, hoarse and faint, echoed around him, coming from the adjacent room in the farmhouse. Sebastian slowly turned his head over his shoulder, and the whispering came to a stop. The air chilled to ice, and his labored breathing was the only sound he could hear. It was hanging down from the ceiling, crawling ever so slowly, closer and closer… dark and brooding.

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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Nevaeh: Lost City of Nemea

“If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depends, would dry up at once.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky Many people believe that being immortal is a bliss, something that’s priceless… something that one would do next to anything for. Would it be bliss to live long enough to see all your loved ones perish? To wander around the world in loneliness, for every friend you ever made have run out of time to spend with you? Personally, I think not! It’s not a bliss. If anything, it’s a downright curse. Lucas Petersen, a professor at the University of Texas, is resting quietly in his apartment on Guadalupe Street near the main campus. There’s a knock at his door that surprised him. He is visited by Tommy Hansen, a good friend. With him, he brought a steel box, set it down at his friend’s table, and explained his unusual request, including the fact that he was soon to die. Part of the request was that the contents of the box couldn’t be disclosed for twenty years. Later that day, Lucas received a message that his good friend did, in fact, die the same night after visiting with him. At that time, he adopted his friend’s five-year-old son and waited over twenty years to open the steel box. After twenty years, Lucas and his adopted son read of the quest they must follow into the darkest jungles in Peru, a place more than one thousand miles northeast of Lima. As they journeyed, the men encountered a most terrible storm, a river full of crocodiles, never-ending mosquitos, seven-foot-tall savages, giant Anaconda snakes, cannibals, and last but not least, Queen Nevaeh herself.

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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Crux Ansata: The Lost City of Ankara

Book 3 of Omega Chronicles: Part II, a Sequel to Nevaeh, Part I “True love is not necessary the number of kisses, or how frequently one gets them, TRUE LOVE is the feeling that still remains long after the kiss is over.” Crux Ansata – The Lost City of Ankara is a gothic fantasy novel that follows as a sequel to Nevaeh – The Lost City of Nemea from the Caves of Chivateros in Peru. It is Book Three in the Omega Chronicles. Freja Jensen, contemplating retiring from BeeBop Publishing Group in Austin, Texas, received a brown paper parcel in the mail. She opened the package and saw that it was from Lucas Hansen, or his pen name, Lucas Pedersen. With the letter was a manuscript. Another note received was from a doctor who asked to remain anonymous. Included in a small teakwood box was an ancient sistrum, an Egyptian musical instrument with magical powers, and had the etching of an ankh on top. In this sequel to Nevaeh – The Lost City of Nemea, Lucas and Oliver Hansen's twenty-year search begins to find Oliver’s lost True Love. You might ask, “What is true love? No one can really define what it is. Thousands upon thousands of people will have an answer. Many answers will point to a feeling they experience, but never has the Truth been more known until one reads the dramatic conclusion in this sequel, CRUX ANSATA – THE LOST CITY OF ANKARA. In the case of Oliver Hansen, also known as the Golden One, his love, unlike feelings, doesn’t come and go. It stays with him for over twenty years as he searches for that one true love, the Goddess Nevaeh. He explores through the good and the bad… and when we say bad, we mean really bad!

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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Nevaeh - The Lost City of Nemea & Crux Ansata - The Lost City of Ankara: Part I and Part II

Nevaeh - The Lost City of Nemea Part I Lucas Petersen, a professor at the University of Texas, is resting quietly in his apartment on Guadalupe Street near the main campus. There’s a knock at his door that surprised him. He is visited by Tommy Hansen, a good friend. With him, he brought a steel box, set it down at his friend’s table, and explained his unusual request, including the fact that he was soon to die. Part of the request was that the contents of the box couldn’t be disclosed for twenty years. “True love is not necessary the number of kisses, or how frequently one gets them, TRUE LOVE is the feeling that still remains long after the kiss is over.” Crux Ansata – The Lost City of Ankara, Part II is a gothic fantasy novel that follows as a sequel to Nevaeh – The Lost City of Nemea from the Caves of Chivateros in Peru. Freja Jensen, contemplating retiring from BeeBop Publishing Group in Austin, Texas, received a brown paper parcel in the mail. She opened the package and saw that it was from Lucas Hansen, or his pen name, Lucas Pedersen. With the letter was a manuscript. Another note received was from a doctor who asked to remain anonymous. Included in a small teakwood box was an ancient sistrum, an Egyptian musical instrument with magical powers, and had the etching of an ankh on top. In this sequel to Nevaeh – The Lost City of Nemea, Lucas and Oliver Hansen's twenty-year search begins to find Oliver’s lost True Love. You might ask, “What is true love? No one can really define what it is. Thousands upon thousands of people will have an answer. Many answers will point to a feeling they experience, but never has the Truth been more known until one reads the dramatic conclusion in this sequel, CRUX ANSATA – THE LOST CITY OF ANKARA.

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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The Flaming Blue Sword

Angelica Thompson, an award-winning romance novelist, decides to end her turbulent relationship back home in Denver and heads to a secluded spot on the shores of Black Rock Cove in Oregon. Writer’s block prevents her from finishing her last novel in her paranormal romance series, and she is being pressured by her publisher, BeeBop Publishing Group, to finish by the end of the summer. The novelist discovered how vividly her mind’s thoughts and dreams came alive the first night of her arrival. Her imagination of a dead sea captain, a black panther pouncing on her for his evening meal, and falling to her death in a cove hundreds of feet below are only the beginning. Janie, her new friend, awakens her in her cottage. Was she awakened during a dream, or… could it be real? An ancient prophecy of destruction has been set into motion, and what destiny has in store for Angelica and the entire village of Black Rock Cove is more significant than anyone could imagine. She sits on the front porch staring out to the sea while her mind gets lost in another dream. She can see Black Rock Cove off in the distance, standing like that of a skeleton. She dreams of barren wastelands, empty now that disease took over whatever the fire didn’t. Even the Pacific Ocean stood still like a semi-stagnant pool of death and decay. There are no waves, as even the wind appears to have left the earth. The skies are barren… with no seagulls flying over or squawking their usual morning sounds. All the while, the oppressive heat came down like the breath of Lucifer himself! The end is coming! That is unless Angelica and the others learn to believe in what is about to happen and trust each other. If not, they may never unravel the mystery surrounding the death of Jonathan Knight from two hundred years ago. Is the black panther what he appears to be, or is there something strange in how he comes and goes? See real magic—fear real evil. Find true love.

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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Ace of Spades: Volume 1

In the stack of envelopes on top of Gideon's desk, one was curiously unlabeled, the same as any random piece of junk. He slid it open nonetheless. All the envelope contained was a simple leaf… dark green with serrated edges, finely divided and lacy. It was almost triangular, broad at the base with the tip tapering to an almost point. No sooner did he lay the envelope down on his desk, his phone rang. It was the Chief of Police requesting his service on another case. Across town, another event was happening. Watching her take a sip, it took the assassin every urge not to swat the glass away, but he knew it was the only way to save his life. He stared at the beautiful woman and wondered how long it would take to go into effect. He questioned how much time it would be before she became dizzy and forgot where she was. Everything seemed to switch into slow motion. For a moment, the killer doubted himself and wondered if, in fact, he poisoned the wrong glass? Guilt began to creep into his gut. It took all his strength to withhold the tears that started to glisten in his eyes. Why? The wine glass fell to the side, and her body collapsed to the floor. The killer wasted no time. With an ivory-handled dagger, he stuck the Ace of Spades across the point of the blade and pierced her in the chest. He then placed her body inside the largest trunk among the many in the hallway packed earlier for a long journey. Then, he called on a deaf-mute to carry the trunk to an unknown destination. But, the blundering detectives assigned to the case get all the facts twisted, and the wrong man was accused… or, was it the wrong man?

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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Gideon - The Final Chapter: Case of the Ace of Spades - Volume 2

By the time the world's greatest detective figures out whodunnit… his own son could die in the electric chair in this murder and mystery suspense novel. There was only one case out of hundreds of cold cases that Vincent James Gideon never wholly solved, Rosenthall. (Read about it in Book 1 of the Gideon Detective Series.) If that should happen in Volume 2 of the Case of the Ace of Spades, his son could walk down that lonely hallway to the electric chair. Watching her take a sip, it took the assassin every urge not to swat the glass away, but he knew it was the only way to save his life. He stared at the beautiful woman and wondered how long it would take to go into effect. He questioned how much time it would be before she became dizzy and forgot where she was. Everything seemed to switch into slow motion. For a moment, the killer doubted himself and wondered if, in fact, he poisoned the wrong glass? Guilt began to creep into his gut. It took all his strength to withhold the tears that started to glisten in his eyes. Why? She began to cough and cough. The wine glass fell to the side, and her body collapsed to the floor. The assassin wasted no time. With an ivory-handled dagger, he stuck the Ace of Spades across the point of the blade and pierced her in the chest. From the many trunks in the hallway packed for a long journey, he placed her body inside the largest one available. Then, the killer called on an accomplice to carry the trunk to an unknown destination. But, the blundering detectives with the Black Rock Cove Police Department who were assigned to the case got all the facts twisted. The wrong man was accused. He was known as Billy Bob Tanner, Gideon's son. By the time the victim was found, her flesh was as cold as the wintry night. Her ivory skin was splattered with blood.

Sidney St. James (Author), Sidney St. James (Narrator)

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