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Thanks to Barnes & Noble for recognizing our full cast audiobook in their Best Cast-Narrated Audiobook category.

Therese Plummer leads a full cast with her captivating performance as true-crime podcast host Ryanna Raines. When the bodies of a husband and wife are found brutally stabbed, their son, Jordan, and his girlfriend are suspects. The suspects, both theater students at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), offer exclusive interviews to Raines. What follows is a twisty psychological story. Narrator Lauren Fortgang’s shocked reactions to the unfolding story in her role as Raines’s production partner are engaging. Dan Bittner and Hillary Huber are outstanding in their supporting roles as attorneys. Kirsten Høj and Lucas Cheng capture the romantic chemistry between the two college students who are suspected of murder. The impressive group of 21 narrators includes current UCSB acting students. A.L.C. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

An amazing mix of veterans and newcomers, we're thrilled with this cast! Recording starts this month in Santa Barbara and New York.

With a Kiss We Die

A Novel

By L.R. Dorn

Narrated by: Therese Plummer
January LaVoy, Lucas Cheng
Kirsten Hoj, Vikas Adam, Lisa
Flanagan, Gabra Zackman, Fred
Berman, Lauren Fortgang, Hillary
Huber, Dan Bittner, Jarred Webb
Joan Cheam, Angel Villalobos,
Amaris Canada, William Huffaker

...when you see a "1 person is currently reading" alert on your book page six months prior to publication and you're still editing the first pass pages.

With a Kiss We Die...for those who know better than to try to get away with murder.

Multi-Voiced Performance

The Anatomy of Desire

Written by L. R. Dorn
Narrated by Santino Fontana, Shelby Young, Marin Ireland, JD Jackson, Dan Bittner, Vikas Adam, Gabra Zackman, Fred Berman, Darrell Dennis, Oliver Wyman, Jonathan Davis, Hillary Huber, Lisa Flanagan, and Sharahn LaRue
Published by HarperAudio

THE ANATOMY OF DESIRE is a PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Best Books 2021 pick in the Mystery/Thriller category!!

“Centered on the world of social media influencers, the pseudonymous Dorn’s remarkable debut takes the form of a true crime docuseries… The riveting trial, during which Cleo constantly changes her story, comes down to circumstantial evidence… With no witnesses to the murder, readers will breathlessly await the verdict.”…

"August 27 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of writer Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. Dreiser was the author of a number of the most important American novels ever written, including Sister Carrie (1900), Jennie Gerhardt (1911), The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914) and An American Tragedy (1925). The last-named was his crowning achievement, perhaps the most perceptive work of fiction ever written about the pursuit of the “American Success Dream” and its devastating social and psychic consequences..."

THE ANATOMY OF DESIRE

by L. R. Dorn (Trapeze £14.99, 320 pp)

Written by two successful American screenwriters under a pseudonym, this deliciously contemporary story focuses on a social media influencer, Cleo Ray, who has it all: hundreds of thousands of followers for her fitness advice and a rich and successful boyfriend.

But Cleo is torn between him and her old friend Rebecca (Beck), so on her way to join Finch for a hiking trip in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, she and Beck take a canoe trip on a deserted lake.

Less than an hour later, Beck is found drowned and Cleo has disappeared. What happened? A manhunt is launched and Cleo is eventually discovered with her boyfriend in the mountains — where she’s arrested for murder.

So begins a fascinating courtroom drama, witnesses each telling their stories as the plot unfolds. It reveals a compelling, poignant portrait of sexual desire in our social media age.