Nightshifted: An Urban Fantasy Audiobook | Daily Chapters
Cassie Alexander | Urban Fantasy, Shifter Romance
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A free urban fantasy audiobook delivered as a daily podcast. Nurse Edie Spence works the graveyard shift on a secret ward for the undead, accidentally kills a vampire, and must navigate a supernatural underworld to save her soul. The story blends gritty medical drama, supernatural noir, slow-burn romance, and dark humor. New chapters are released every morning, no subscription required.
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Chapter 1: Unusual Patient, Unexpected Challenges | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 02.03.2026 20mA new night nurse takes a job on Floor Y4, the off-books ICU at County Hospital where vampires, werewolves, and zombies get their blood and IVs. The job came with a promise about her brother — and a stack of papers she signed without reading.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 2: Heartstopper Moment | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 03.03.2026 12mNight two on Floor Y4, and Mr. November is still fighting the tube in his throat while the doctor he needs won't return a single call. One exhausted new nurse, one charge nurse who may not be human, one older coworker who's better at this than she is. By 4 a.m., she's planning exactly how much more sedation he can take — and he still hasn't stopped trying to tell her something.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 3: Night Shift Paranoia | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 04.03.2026 12mEdie can't sleep: there's a bruise on her hand, and a dead patient's pocket watch hides an address. So she rides the train to a crumbling tenement, armed with latex gloves and bad decisions. The landlady warns something's wrong with him. The refrigerator proves it. Then Edie turns the corner.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 4: Photographs of Terror | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 05.03.2026 13mMr. November's secret room holds a century of stolen faces, and one name Edie can't walk away from. Armed with holy water, a spreading bruise, and a whispered address, she follows the dead into the city's darkest corners. But saving a girl who never ages means facing monsters that never die.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 5: Painful Choice | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 06.03.2026 12mA starving captive has her teeth in Edie's hand, and only one desperate gamble might loosen her jaw. Bleeding and half-drugged on vampire spit, Edie leans on a reluctant cabbie and her flaky brother to reach County. But was saving the girl Edie's choice, or a vampire's command?-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 6: Missing Pieces | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 09.03.2026 17mDischarged from Y4, Edie comes home to missing furniture and a brother who swears he's become unkillable. With a vampire's blood on her hands and ghosts she can't sleep off, she hits the dance floor to forget. But the dark-eyed stranger with the British accent might be more than a distraction.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 7: Silent Surrender | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 10.03.2026 18mEdie tries to lose her fears in a nameless stranger's bed, but her scars follow her home, and into dreams of a young vampire's past. Then, desperate for cash, she floats to Pediatric ICU, where a paralyzed boy and a fragile infant await. Some shifts don't stay quiet.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 8: Pedi Rooms Mirror | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 11.03.2026 14mEdie's float shift in Pedi ICU should be easy: two sleeping kids, a free computer. Then a CD player starts blaring German on its own. On her break, she slips down to Y4 and finds a patient she never believed existed, one whose diagnosis hits uncomfortably close to home.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 9: German Patient Blues | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 12.03.2026 19mA haunted CD player won't stop preaching German myths, and the pediatric ward is heating up fast. When a syphilis-crazed dragon breaks loose from Y4 and claws toward her patients, Edie has a trach-dependent teen, a helpless infant, and a furious charge nurse to protect, and only a badge between them.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 10: Dragon's Endgame | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 13.03.2026 23mA dragon is loose on the pediatric ward, and Edie's only weapons are suction canisters, a busted CD player, and one very angry German ghost. When the hospital's mysterious Shadows finally arrive to clean up, they leave Edie shaken. Then a charming British stranger insists he owes her one.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 11: Employee Health Clinic Nightmare | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 16.03.2026 19mEdie's finally trusted to run Y4 alone, until a boy in a bowtie asks for ice water and room four fills with Armani-clad vampires, twenty bags of elder blood, and a chanting ritual no nursing school covered. The Rose Throne is claiming one of its own. Keep the tranquilizer gun close.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 12: Nurse's Nightmares | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 17.03.2026 14mEdie's post-bite nightmares are the least of her problems when a vampire Husker arrives on Y4 with a chained, snuffling Hound and a summons: she killed one of theirs, and a tribunal awaits on the darkest night. Her only shield? Meaty, fierce staffing ratios, and bureaucracy. Running isn't an option.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 13: Night Shift Stressors | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 18.03.2026 20mSeven nights until the vampire tribunal, and Edie's only lawyer won't take her case unless she finds a girl who vanished into the dark. Strange footprints circle her apartment, a gloved social worker knows too much, and her handsome new date reveals the one thing she can't forgive.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 14: Blood Ritual | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 19.03.2026 13mTo lure a feral child vampire out of the snow, Edie needs blood, so she starts stealing it from her own patients. But her next target, a scarred zombie firefighter, has no pulse, a wicked sense of humor, and a disarming habit of seeing right through her.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 15: Wandering Wolves | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 20.03.2026 14mEdie's bait for a feral child vampire? A stolen vial of were blood. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Now Anna is inside her apartment, bound only by a promise, and Edie holds the one secret that could win her testimony or get her killed.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 16: Narrative Lives Matter | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 23.03.2026 17mEdie confesses to Anna: she killed Mr. November. Now the child vampire, a century old, starved, and furious, is sleeping in her duct-taped closet. At nightfall, Anna demands to see her uncle's home, and a snowy train ride unearths a family history darker than any sewer. Some witnesses cost more than they're worth.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 17: Hell's Cradle | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 24.03.2026 11mInside a room papered with lost girls, Edie confronts the horror Anna survived, and the rage it unleashed. Anna wants to burn it all down. Edie wants justice. But ten suited vampires are waiting in the snow, and on these streets, nobody's watching.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 18: Lost Time Winding Down | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 25.03.2026 17mAnna's been snatched, Edie's clock is ticking, and the only help on offer is a vampire lawyer with a full appointment book. Back on Y4, a drained drifter swears a "rabid cat" bit him, and Edie's first thought is Jake. When every shadow might bite, who keeps her brother safe?-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 19: Shadow Fixing | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 26.03.2026 12mTi's discharge is hours away, and the scarred zombie firefighter has a proposition: he'll help Edie find her kidnapped vampire friend in exchange for a movie date. But her shift ends with an elevator ride that runs far past forty seconds, and something waiting in the dark already knows her name.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. -
Chapter 20: Elevator Cavern | Urban Fantasy Audiobook 27.03.2026 14mAn elevator ride drops Edie into a glowing cavern beneath County Hospital, where the Shadows feast on human suffering. They've lost track of pain in five dark zones, and they want Edie's help. The price is her eyes, and in return they'll help find the missing vampire girl. The tribunal is three days away.-----A SIGNAL BOX STUDIO PRODUCTION🧠 Writer: Cassie Alexander⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Voice Characterizations are provided on site by Boson AI's Higgs Audio — https://www.boson.ai/higgs-audio.Signal Box: Fiction’s Next Chapter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.