The Valens Legacy: Publisher's Pack 1

The Valens Legacy, Books 1-2

By: Jan Stryvant

Narrated by: Leland King

Black Friday, book 1:

In his junior year at college, the only things on Sean's mind are doing his homework and getting out of college to get a real job. A gamer and a bit of a nerd, Sean's philosophy in life has been to keep his head down and get his work done: He doesn't have the time or money for anything more after his father died in an industrial accident when Sean was eight.

But when a failed kidnapping attempt leaves him with a gaping hole in his memory, his oldest friend dead, and his mother missing, Sean suddenly finds his whole world turned upside down as he's thrust into the hidden world of magic and the supernatural. Apparently he's now wanted, dead or alive, by all of the magical societies, though he has no idea why. About the only thing going for him is what his friend did for him just before he died and the cute track star who lives in the room next to his, who has suddenly taken a very personal interest in his problems.

Perfect Strangers, book 2:

During his junior year in college, Sean finds himself suddenly dropped into the middle of a world that he didn't even know existed. A secret world of magic and magic users, lycanthropes, goblins, and all the other things that go bump in the night. To make matters even more difficult, the very same magic users who had Sean's father killed now believe that Sean will somehow inherit his father's work when he turns 21, which is just a few days away.

Needless to say most of the magic users' councils seem to be in two camps: The first camp wants him dead. The second camp wants him captured and will probably kill him after they've learned his secrets. The only solution Sean sees to any of this is to finish his father's work, the very thing that got his father killed. But in order to do that, Sean must first find out just what his father was working on! He's also going to need to learn magic himself, find a safe place to stay, raise some money, and gain a lot of allies.

Fortunately for Sean he's got two good women at his side: Roxy, a cheetah lycanthrope with a lot of experience in fighting; and Jolene, a tantric witch with more than a few connections in the supernatural black market.

WARNING: The Valens Legacy contains explicit sexuality, nudity, violence, bad language, attempted murder, actual murder, self-defense, proactive self-defense, destruction of private property, vandalism, breaking and entering, tantric magic, polyamory, mayhem, gratuitous sex and violence, littering, breaking speed limits, a used car dealer, one Plymouth hemi, and some poor guy who just wants to earn a paycheck as a cashier.

©2018 Jan Stryvant; 2017 Jan Stryvant (P)2018 Podium Publishing

Awesome

Where's the rest? I want more from this now it's to good to just sit and wait another year and no reading the normal way won't do it for me

surprisingly good

I've never listened to this genre before and enjoyed the story a great deal!! Now if audible will get the rest of the series.

Pretty Good and stimulating

Though the writing sounds like a teacher’s assistant in literature wrote it (professional but with a touch of amateur in it), I love the story development and its take on the fantasy genre in a modern setting. Though i love a good harem, i’m slightly unsure of how easily the women just flaunt it (women’s equality and all) Still, i cant wait for the next book.

great books

all of these books and I've listened to are absolutely amazing as far as the story is concerned and the narration is top-notch all the rest of the books are a must to listen to

entertaining

the comments about a 15 year old sex fantasy are correct however the book is very good if you get past that

this book is misaganistic as fuck

title says it all, taking ad a joke, this book is fun, taken seriously it's a chovinest set dream and its obsessive demeaning to women. it is well written however and the sec scenes are hot. so if your a fan on sexiest unwanted harem books. this is the book for you. if your anyone else, I'd say pass on the rampant sexism.

A great story

This is a great story with both action and humor. It pulls you right into the action and never stops.

Lots of sex

Not that it was grossly descriptive but if you are not ok with sexual content this book is not for you.

Having said that I thought it was a fun book.

Fun, glorious fun!

I'm shallow. I have low standards. I'm not a literary critic, but I am an avid if not obsessive audiobook listener. This first installment (or first two installments of you like) if this series us good enough that I immediately dropped two credits on the other packs (four books total). There is nothing brilliant going on here, and some of it may even be a little juvenile. But I enjoy a story with a little action and a dash of fun, plus a splash of sex thrown in for flavor. Stryvant delivers all that, wrapping it up in familiar mythology (the new urban kind) and a somewhat unusual magic system. The narrator handles the voice acting just right, so it is never intrusive. It just fits, much like everything else about the book. Yeah, you get the usual "harem" aspects typical of this sort of fantasy, but that really isn't so bad, is it? Just focus on the "fantasy" thing and have fun with it.

WOW

This story hooked me at the beginning and never let go. I feel that I came to know the characters.