Best-selling author Joanne Pence releases Ancient Illusions as an Audiobook
Hello again dear audiobooks fans! After I reviewd two audiobooks in the Ancient Secrets Series of paranormal mysteries by Best-Selling author Joanne Pence in these last three months, I was thinking abbout the characters and wanting to live their latest adventure. As such, I reached out to the author and requested to review the third book in this great series, called Ancient Illusions and after diving into this new story. I think it was a great ideea.
The audiobook version of Ancient Illusions is performed by Tim Paige, just like the two previous releases, and it is 9 hours and 39 minutes in duration. From the Publisher’s Summary we find out the following plot lines.
A long-lost diary, a rare book of ghost stories, and unrelenting nightmares combine to send archeologist Michael Rempart on a forbidden journey into the occult and his own past.
When Michael returns to his family home after more than a decade-long absence, he is rocked by the emotion and intensity of the memories it awakens. His father is reclusive, secretive, and obsessed with alchemy and its secrets – secrets that Michael possesses. He believes the way to end this sudden onslaught of nightmares is to confront his disturbing past.
But he soon learns he isn’t the only one under attack. Others in his life are also being tormented by demonic nightmares that turn into a deadly reality. Forces from this world and other realms threaten madness and death unless they obtain the powerful, ancient secrets in Michael’s possession. Their violence creates an urgency Michael cannot ignore. The key to defeating them seems to lie in a land of dreams inhabited by ghosts…and demons.
From the windswept shores of Cape Cod to a mystical land where samurai and daimyo once walked, now filled with the eerie ghost stories of the strange author, Lafcadio Hearn, and the frightening “suicide forest”, Michael must find a way to stop not only the demons, but his own father. Yet, doing so, he fears may unleash an ancient evil upon the world that he will be powerless to contain.
From her page on Audible, we learn that Joanne Pence is the award-winning, USA Today best-selling author of two mystery series, the very long-running Angie Amalfi mysteries, and the new Rebecca Mayfield mysteries. She has also written historical fiction, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, a fantasy, and suspense. She hopes you’ll enjoy her stories as they present a variety of times, places and reading experiences from mysterious to thrilling, emotional, to lightly humorous, as well as powerful tales of times long past.
A review will be live next Weekend, but as I am more than half-way through the audiobook, I can tell you right now that this is another great story from an author I started to enjoy very much. Joanne Pence‘s books remind me of the old school adventures by Clive Cussler…
Victor Dima
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