Abandoned and Unseen

By: Carrie Ann Ryan, Alexandra Ivy

Narrated by: Aiden Snow

The next in a new dark and gritty paranormal series. Abandoned and Unseen continues the journey with New York Times best-selling authors Alexandra Ivy and Carrie Ann Ryan.

Abandoned

When bear shifter Anya Tucker fell in love with the wrong man, the only thing she left with was a broken heart - and her two bear cubs. Now, she's mended her wounds and learned that in order to raise her babies, she can only trust herself. When her sons meet the lazy cat next door and fall heads over tails for him, she'll do whatever she takes to protect them - even from a past she'd thought she'd left behind.

Cole McDermott is a jaguar on a mission. Long naps, a willing woman, and a full stomach is usually all he needs when it comes to relaxing after a long day of protecting his pack. Then he meets Anya, and the burn of temptation is silky and tantalizing indeed. When a horror from Anya's past threatens everything she loves, Cole will put everything aside and fight for her family - as well as his own.

Unseen

Nicole Bradley had no reason to live after the humans murdered her son - not until she learns to hunt down those responsible for his death. Shifting into her wolf form at night, she slips out of the compound, determined to do as much damage as possible. The last thing she expected was to discover secrets that could destroy the SAU.

Polar shifter Tucker Stone lives off the grid. It's the only way the unseen can avoid being rounded up by the humans and tossed into a compound. Besides, he's a loner by nature. But he can't walk away when he sees the pretty female wolf in danger. Risking exposure, he takes her to his hidden den and tries to heal her wounds.

Can a reclusive polar bear and a wolf with a death wish find happiness together?

©2015 Carrie Ann Ryan, Alexandra Ivy (P)2015 Carrie Ann Ryan, Alexandra Ivy

Another hit

I love Carrie Ann Ryan's stories and this one didn't disappoint. I can't wait to listen to the next one.

Abandoned and Unseen

I loved it and can't wait for book 3 to be on Audible.com. Aiden Snow is a great narrator as always. I found this series by searching for books narrated by Aiden Snow. He also narrated the HOT series by Lynn Raye Harris which is how I first heard him.

belief in the truth will always find a way to win

this series is so awesome, the thoughts in this are almost scary in the fact of government being like that, but the shifters even though done wrong keep strong in trying to prove the government is in the wrong and are what caused all the deaths in the first place. Having two books in each one tells two couples stories from meeting to battling the bad guys.

Terrific shifter world!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💚🩷
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Chemistry: 🧪🧪🧪🧪
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: 🙃🙁😀😋🥰
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The World: Earth 25 years after the Verona virus that nearly wiped out most of the human population. Shifters had come out of hiding to offer their blood as an antidote which brought the virus to an end. Shifters then ended up branded, collared and forced to live like animals in small compounds for each type of shifter (canine, ursine, and feline), though recently as a punishment, all three types have been forced onto one small compound. Humans and the SAU (Shifter Accommodation Unit) keep enacting new laws that threaten the shifters even more.

ABANDONED

The Hero: Cole - he is a jaguar shifter and a tracker for his pack. He does his best to keep his pack safe. Now that his pack shares territory with ursine and canine shifters, he has been participating in the cage fights between packs which have been keeping the tensions under control. Other than that, he likes to lay around and take it easy, though he is fine if a willing woman comes by and offers to take care of his other needs. A few bear cubs have been hanging around him and their mother bear, a female named Anya, doesn’t like him at all and really dislikes like her boys spending time with him.

The heroine: Anya - she mated the wrong man and was left with nothing but two troublemaking cubs when he took off. Frank Talbot had been one of the medical professionals who had studied their pack, but he hadn’t been willing to be labeled a shifter lover. In the two weeks since her bear shifter pack has been combined with the wolves and cats, she has had to track down her errant cubs more than once. She is not happy when she finds them again in Cole’s yard. She thinks he is nothing more than a lazy cat.

The Story: Cole kept telling himself that he didn’t care about the pretty Anya, but when another male comes up with her to find her cubs in his yard. Though some of the tension eases when he sees it is Anya’s brother Oliver, the seer of the bear pack. Anya feels like she doesn’t have much control over her own life. After watching her babies get branded, she feels like she can’t trust anyone but herself and her brother. She knew that her children were her responsibility, and she took that responsibility seriously.

Frank Talbot was a scientist, a self professed genius, and he had been forced into back alleys and abandoned warehouses to do his research. He had been studying the beasts for a while and had even used his own body to procreate with one of them. After the SAU kicked him out, he was on his own to find a way to create shifters. He wanted to find a way to create shifters and make an army of his own or sell it to someone willing to pay for for it. He decided to use his own children with the female bear as his live samples. He even thought it was perfect that there was a pair of them, that way he had a spare, in case one died due to his experiments.

This series has had some really in-depth stories for shorter books, and though the SAU is the major ongoing villain in the stories, each story has also had specific villains like Frank who have been after something specific to use for their own purposes. I have been really enjoying the romantic suspense and the steamy romances so far and this book is no different. Cole and Anya’s tension-filled relationship, plus the added complexity of Anya’s cubs and her past with Frank, makes for an emotionally charged story.

UNSEEN

The Hero: Tucker - He is a polar bear shifter and is one of the “unseen”. The unseen are shifters who stayed hidden after all the other shifters were rounded up and put onto compounds where the SAU keeps them behind fences and guards them like they are animals. The unseen pack are busy out in the world working agains the SAU, trying to find definitive proof that it was the SAU that created the Verona virus, and it was shifters that ended it using their own blood to save everyone.

The heroine: Nicole - she is a wolf shifter from the river pack and years ago her son was murdered by humans and the only thing she lives for now is to cause havoc and make the SAU pay for that death. She dug her own tunnel under the fences and escapes whenever possible to sabotage anything she can that the SAU owns. She keeps planning bigger and more devastating outings to burn down buildings, ruin their fleet of cars and/or steal them or whatever else she can do.

The Story: On the anniversary of her son’s death, Nicole slips away and goes to the SAU facility that one of her pack mates found recently. She wants to do as much damage as she can to the SAU who were responsible for her five-year-old son's murder. However, Tucker and his pack of unseen shifters are trying to take the SAU down from the inside. He and his mates have been hired as guards for the SAU and have been gathering evidence for months, so when Nicole shows up one night, he can’t let her ruin what they have been doing.

This setup is gripping! Tucker and Nicole have such strong, opposing approaches to the fight against the SAU, which makes their dynamic crackle with tension. He’s playing the long game, infiltrating the system to gather proof, while she’s driven by pure, devastating loss and wants immediate destruction. The contrast in their methods could lead to some really compelling conflicts—and maybe grudging respect.

This audiobook was narrated from multiple perspectives, done in solo narration by Aiden Snow. I absolutely love Aiden’s voice, it is deep, but soft and I could listen to him all day. He is one of the few narrators that I don’t mind at all listening to as solo narration. He does a terrific job. He has a voice that could make reading a grocery list sound dramatic. His ability to carry multiple perspectives solo added a lot of depth to the experience.

2 in 1

This amazing book actually has two stories in it. And that are both written and narrated beautifully.

Branded Packs Book Two

Branded Packs Book Two

Abandoned:
Anya Tucker is fed up with the lazy cat shifter that has allowed her boys to hang out under his tree. Cole McDermott is not the kind of male she wants her cubs to look up to. When Owen and Lucas go missing, however, Cole is the first person she runs to for help. As the cats' tracker, Cole can find anyone. When Anya scents the man who betrayed her years ago, though, her bear loses it. Will Anya and Cole survive outside the compound? More importantly, will they survive each other?

Unseen:
Nicole Bradley is on a vendetta. She will not stop until she finds the man who killed her baby seven years ago, even if she endangers the lives of the Unseen - a pack of shifters who have not been caught and branded. Tucker Stone knows he has to stop the woman, but he understands her pain. After seeing the proof of the brutality against her son, Tucker decides to help her in his own way. Maybe they can help each other.

Audio Review:
Aiden Snow narrates this series with a balance between drama and reality. He knows when to pump up the action and when to pull back for the emotional moments. His deep voice and talent with accents gives each character a personality and depth that enhances the authors' written words.

If you're looking for two stories about women who were betrayed and the men who can right those wrongs, this is the book for you!

Bears, Cats and Wolves

This follows the same of 2 stories in one. The first had Anya and Cole which I loved them together. Cole comes across as hellasexy. Anya's cubs are taken so this follows them on their journey to get their cubs back.
The next is a Polar Bear Tucker, who I vision being so hot! He and Nicole have just as hard of a journey as the rest so far in this series as Nicole seeks revenge on her son being killed by the SAU guards.
I enjoyed this one and moving on to the next in the series.
Aiden Snow did heavenly as always.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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Steamy and Suspense love this book

Abandoned and Unseen
by Carrie Ann Ryan and Alexandra Ivy
book 2 in Branded Pack. I love this story the Shifters vs humans is gong on we meet new breeds of shifters and part of the mystery of the. more fated mates and the cutest cubs. Aiden voice perfect growly and seductive perfect for this book.

Omg so flipping awesome

Okay Peps you want 2 yes I said to of today's hottest authors writing the most amazing series together ever. Then pick this one. I'm normally not a fan of writers coming together like this because of the difference that normally make it hard to follow, but not this one. My god not only is each author in there own right but together it book magic. I could die today one happy woman after listening to this book. It's sooooooooooooo great. I love love love love thid. And let me tell you you won't stop listening once you start. It's that awesome.
I received this audio arc for my honest opinion

Great story!

I loved this story! It pulled me in from beginning to end and I loved getting to see the other packs more in this book. We get to see a little bit more of the cats but more of the bears and the unseen packs in this dual story. I loved getting to see both stories in this book as we follow two couples on their journey to finding each other and rescuing loved ones and revenge for ones lost. I loved the way that the stories and the relationships were developed throughout the stories. They also move forward the overarching storyline of trying to free the shifters and changing humanity’s view of them. This story definitely hooked me in to the story and I can’t wait for the next one. It was a great continuation and expansion of the series.
The narrator was great as well. Did a great job with the voices and emotions throughout the story and brought it to life.