Margie Valine

Anna's Dilemma (2021)
Voice-over by ACX/Audible (Romance, History and Western) Narrator Anna Martelli had lived in fear for far too long. Staying in Cincinnati, living at home, and working in The Cincinnatian Hotel held no appeal. Why not get on the train and go to Laramie where Timothy Bailey, a rancher, was ready to marry her? Granted, nobody in Wyoming expected her to arrive in the heart of a bitter winter, but whatever situation she found herself in would be temporary. When the Catholic priest’s housekeeper decided to do a little matchmaking, the “temporary” started to feel ideal, a permanent arrangement. Anna was a perfect match for her son, a widowed man with a seven-year-old daughter. Simple became messy when Timothy fell in love with another woman, a woman about to become Anna’s new best friend. The severe Wyoming winter prevented discovery of the truth, but spring would come, and secrets would be exposed. Then what would Anna do?

Life and Love in the U.P. (2021)
Voice-over by ACX/Audible (Romance) Narrator Marni McDonough had known Bethany and Brad Ames all her life. Now young adults they were best friends forever. But could a man and woman be just friends, especially since the man has had the “hots” for her since they were kids? When his girlfriend dumps him and tells Marni she can have him, their relationship is destined to change. She sought counsel from Bethany. News flash - Bethany already had the two of them tying the marriage knot. It was inevitable. Everybody thought so. Everybody except Marni. What was she to do? She was going to end up happily married or will have lost her best friends. And so goes Life and Love in the U.P. a light-hearted romance set in Escanaba, Michigan.

Callie's Gamble (2020)
Voice-over by ACX/Audible (Romance, History and Western) Narrator Desperate people might do crazy things; crazy like adverting for a mail order bride; crazy like answering the ad. Michael Malloy was desperate. His mother had died in a tragic accident nine months prior and his father had become a drunkard. He ran their ranch but was stuck doing the work of all three. How could he get some help? How could he fashion a future? Were any of the girls he knew in Laramie, Wyoming the answer to all his dreams? Hmm. He could advertise for a bride, specifying all the attributes he was seeking. It was a gamble; a gamble a desperate man was willing to take. Callie O’Brien had spent four years in Cincinnati. In all that time she hadn’t found that good man her Pa claimed was out there waiting for her. When the old man, Big Red, died she had no place to live. Well, she was stuck in a dead-end job. Maybe that good man was a rancher in Laramie, Wyoming. Replying to his ad was more than a little crazy. It was a desperate gamble. She rationalized. How likely was it she’d be chosen?" Callie's Gamble is set in Laramie, Wyoming in the year 1886. The story follows a lonely and desperate rancher and his mail-order bride, a Kentucky southern girl, Callie O'Brien. It's a story of adjustments, trials, new adventures and overcoming life's obstacles.

Overland Before the Hippie Trail
by Pro Audio Voices Narrator It is 1965 in this memoir when Patricia and her new husband set off on to Europe on their honeymoon. Little did she know that this trip would stretch into a two-year journey that would take them around the world on a bare-bones budget. While living rarely more than an arm’s distance apart in their VW van, they make their way from Europe and West Asia to South Asia, then continue across East Asia by train, bus, and hitchhiking. In those days with no mobile phones, no Internet, and few guidebooks, they were out of contact with family for months at a time while dodging a cholera epidemic in Iraq, staying in a palace in Pakistan, meeting a maharaja in India, and floating down the Mekong River in Laos. The journey had become a way of life, one in which they found a world that was not only large and varied, but filled with people who were curious, welcoming, and generous.

Places You Will Be From
Voice-over by ACX Narrator A contemporary woman finds herself immersed in the body of a Ninth Century runaway after accidentally engaging the cyclic properties of the fifth dimension. She must find a way to survive and bide her time until a rescue can be arranged or be lost to the ages.