ADDENDUM: I just noticed that
By Darkness Hid is currently
free as a Kindle mobi at Amazon. The URL for it is at the bottom of this post. G.
Fiction author Jill Williamson is apparently a very popular author. And, almost without exception, her many books garner
very high ratings. You might want to take a look at her Amazon webpage
here, to see what I mean.
On top of those things, she is an extremely prolific writer, which is all the more amazing because, if the photos of her on her Amazon webpage are any indication, she is pretty young.
Well, I found out that she offers, on her personal website,
free audiobooks of the first and second books of her Blood of Kings trilogy. Let me quote her:
For a few years, I recorded a serial podcast of the Blood of Kings trilogy that anyone could listen to free online for subscribe via email, podcasts, or iTunes. I posted one chapter a week on Friday afternoons, just in time for the weekend.
It was a fun way to reach new readers (listeners) and to post content on my blog.
It became too time consuming to keep up with, though so I stopped after book two. But you can still listen to all of book one or book two . . . .
This is a great offer, if for no other reason, because of the fact that
none of her books are commercially available as audiobooks. At least, I could find none of them at Audible.
I have listened to a portion of one of the books. Keep in mind that Ms. Williamson is not a professional narrator. But we are not talking about LibriVox recordings here, either. Her narration is adequate and the audio has evidently been recorded in a recording studio or, at least, in a room with very good acoustic qualities for audio recording.
Anyway, here are links to the two audiobooks that are available. The default is streaming audio. To save the file, right click on the progress/volume bar, and click on "save" or something to that effect (the procedure and wordings will differ slightly, depending on the web browser that you use). For your convenience, I am putting the URLs for the corresponding webpages for the ebooks at Amazon beside those links:
By Darkness Hid.
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Hid-.../dp/B00266Q078.
To Darkness Fled.
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Fled.../dp/B003EYVZF8.