F/F Boston Preternatural Investigations Series Books 1-5 - Aoife Wood

Written by Aoife Wood
Read by Abby Craden
Format: M4B
Unabridged

*** Blood Rituals: A Cait Reagan Novel 01 Abby Craden

Boston Homicide Detective Caitlin Reagan walks a razor’s edge, propping up her life on emotional constructs designed to help her manage grueling PTSD. She keeps her mother, boyfriend, and work separated and controlled, all in service to one horrible, tragic act she committed amid the Iraq war.

But when the murder of a charity worker brings her face to face with the beautiful and charismatic philanthropist, Marcella Carson. Cait is unable to deny the attraction and finds everything she thought she knew about her world, her life, and her very identity called into question as Marcella draws Cait into her dark world.

Sliding inexorably into an unsuspected Boston subculture, where creatures of myth and nightmare struggle to survive in a world of fading magic and proliferating public surveillance, Cait must face down her inner demons, rediscover her lost past, and catch an undead serial killer.

In her first novel, Aoibh Wood explores a dark urban fantasy world through the eyes of a woman struggling to come to terms with Post Traumatic Stress, personal trust issues, and the belated realization that she is a lesbian. On the way, we meet a colorful cast of characters, from a Latino cowboy cop with a love of country music to a ruthless vampire assassin and a retired serpent goddess with a passion for science.

This book is intended for adult listeners. It contains scenes of an intimate sexual nature, as well as themes and depictions of violence, sexual assault, and death.

*** Black Mirror: A Cait Reagan Novel 02 Abby Craden

Detective Cait Reagan, forever changed by her relationship with Marcella Carson, has survived the opening of the Black Gate and the vampire curse. Now, seemingly cured, Cait has a new lease on her mortal life, but difficulties beset her at every turn. Cait’s mother, Róisín, is neurologically devastated, unable to function without constant supervision, and her reunion with Morgan Kennedy, the first woman she ever loved, is downright awkward. In the meantime, Cait struggles to raise Katie, the sixteen-year-old vampire she turned in a desperate bid to save her life. Once Cait’s enemy, Elizabeth is helping with Katie, but Cait’s relationship with Liz is tenuous and strange. And eight-hundred-year-old vampire Nastasia Volkova, the acting head of the vampire council, seems to have her eye on Cait, refusing to remove her from the roll of known vampires.

As if all of this turmoil wasn’t enough for one woman to handle, Marcella is missing, and someone is murdering the remaining vampires who survived the battle of the Black Gate. Nastasia has made it crystal clear that she wants the culprits found and brought to her brand of justice. Meanwhile, something sinister stalks from the Black Gate deep beneath Boston.

Cait must juggle her increasingly complicated personal life with the needs of her job, Nastasia’s strange fixation, and the whirlwind of her own desperate search for self as she grasps for answers to the question, ‘What is true evil?’

*** Green Rath: A Cait Reagan Novel 03 Abby Craden

Two thousand years before Cait Reagan was a twinkle in The Morrigan’s eye, Weyna played handmaid to that very same Goddess in the year leading up to the Second Battle of Maighe Tuireadh, where the Tuatha de Dannan faced the forces of Fomori in a climactic final battle. But when Weyna stuns the assembled Gods and Goddesses by taking down the greatest fighter the Óșeni have ever known using a technique she never learned, she sets in motion a series of events that will ultimately lead to the discovery a long-buried secret two millennia later.

In the present, Cait’s sister, Aoife Reagan, a former member of Ireland’s Tacaíochta Faoi Arm, the Garda version of SWAT, is drawn to Boston for the funeral, only to find that it’s not going to happen. Cait died, but it didn’t take as Cait returned to the ranks of the undead somewhat posthumously. Unfortunately, Cait’s soul has decided to go on walkabout, and she remains in a strange sort of stasis.

In the meantime, Liz believes something larger is at work, and she has concocted an insane plan to draw out Cait’s killer and lead them one step closer to whoever is behind him. Aoife will impersonate Cait, leading the would-be assassin to believe they’ve failed. Now she just has to convince Aoife to be the bait, impersonate a nine-year veteran of the police department, and do it while chasing down a vicious creature of myth that is running loose in Boston and could destroy half the city.

*** Dark Sisters: A Cait Reagan Novel 04 Abby Craden

In a world where light deceives and darkness speaks in whispers, Cait Reagan’s quest to save her sister will awaken powers—and enemies—beyond her wildest nightmares. Bound for Ireland, Cait’s mission to rescue her sister, Aoife, falters before it even begins.

The journey ahead is perilous, and Cait’s complicated feelings for Elizabeth and Nastasia only deepen the stakes. But even worse, the Light Fae—once the guardians of all that is good—have transformed into something far darker. The Emerald Isle, meant to be a sanctuary, feels more like a snare closing in.

Caught in the chaos of Cait and Nastasia’s frantic escape from Boston is Maggie, a no-nonsense Army medic. Though held hostage, Maggie might be more than she seems, her presence stirring questions Cait isn’t ready to face. Meanwhile, Doyle is changing—her innocent cravings slowly becoming darker, unsettling the group as much as their enemies. And then there’s Rowan, an ancient vampire said to be the first of his kind—impossible to predict and even harder to trust.

Yet Cait’s most dangerous enemy might be herself. A dark power stirs within her, reshaping her thoughts, her actions, and perhaps even her soul. As her companions grow more uncertain, Cait begins to fear that the person they knew is slipping away—replaced by something far more dangerous. Haunted by a voice—her own, yet not—whispering truths she’s terrified to confront, Cait must face the unraveling of her identity while trying to discern friend from foe in a world gone mad.

Dark, gripping, and steeped in supernatural peril, Dark Sisters is a tale of light veiled in shadow. Cait’s battle to save her sister could cost her everything—even herself. And as the mist clears, one terrifying truth becomes clear: her greatest challenge lies ahead—against a foe she never saw coming.

*** Shadow Veil: A Cait Regan Novel 05 Abby Craden

Remember the old faerie tales, the real ones? Where Dark Faeries stole children, cursed kingdoms, and reshaped lives. Yeah, they weren’t stories.

Cait Reagan fled Earth not out of cowardice, but out of love. Half-mad with wild fae magic and terrified she’d hurt the people she cared about most, she ran to Shaddan—the ancestral home of the Dark Faerie. There, broken on the brink of death, she was taken in by the ancient guardians of the Vermillion Palace and slept like a gothic Snow White for eight months.

But Mother Morrigan isn’t done with her… not yet.

Cait wakes blind, transformed, and—much to her horror—crowned the sole Faerie princess of a blood-soaked legacy. She inherits no real power, a crumbling court riddled with ancient grudges, and more enemies than she can count. Worse, the magic remaking her is neither quiet nor kind. Something dark is settling into her bones: new instincts she doesn’t recognize, impulses she should hate… but doesn’t, and a pull toward power that feels like ecstasy.

Before Cait can even find her footing, she’s maneuvered into a political betrothal with the exiled and dangerously charming Princess of the Night Court. And Liz, her vampire fiancée from Earth? Well, she’s on her way.

Caught between two worlds, two promises, and a crown she never wanted, Cait must survive lethal Dark Fae politics and hold on to herself long enough to choose what she becomes.

Even if it leads her to war. Even if it kills her. Again.