Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie Audiobook (Free)

When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell works away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life which has utterly betrayed her. Sports a new identification, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway program.

But there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends. Impulsive Lolli discussions of monsters in the subway tunnels they call house and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he could make about Valiant: TODAY’S Tale of Faerie handles creatures that no-one else can easily see. And there’s Luis’s sibling, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of allowing Val label along as he makes a delivery to a female who turns out to possess goat hooves instead of feet.

Whenever a bewildered Val allows Lolli to chat her into tracking down the concealed lair from the creature for whom Luis and Dave have already been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service with a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. So that as Val develops to learn him, she finds herself torn between her passion for an honorable monster and her fear of what her fresh friends have become.