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I love to read! I also have a teenage son who consumes a gallon of milk every other day, and a growing daughter who needs new clothes and shoes on the regular.

I support my book habit by frequenting my local library. Maybe you do, too. All my books are currently available to libraries through Overdrive/Libby (the most popular app), CloudLibrary, BorrowBox, Hoopla, and more. If your local library loans out ebooks, but doesn’t have mine, they’ll have a way to request it.

If your library doesn’t loan ebooks or audiobooks, you may be able to get a library card at a larger library system for a modest fee. Here is a website that lists libraries with non-resident borrowing priveleges.

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*Everand isn’t featuring Magic After Midnight at this time.

Featured Fantasy: The Inquisitor’s Guild (Three Novels from Frosthelm) by Dave Dobson

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Featured Fantasy: The Inquisitor's Guild (Three Novels from Frosthelm) by Dave Dobson

FREE as of March 15, 2026
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Humorous fantasy detective stories at a 40% discount!
This is a three-book collection of novels from the Inquisitor’s Guild of Frosthelm. The three books included are:

  • Flames Over Frosthelm
  • The Outcast Crown
  • The Woeling Lass

These stories tell the tale of investigators from the Inquisitors’ Guild, a group of detectives, soldiers, and spies in the city of Frosthelm. Expect magic, swordplay, intrigue, scheming nobles, dire threats, and a grand adventure in each book. Each story is a complete stand-alone mystery.

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Featured Fantasy: Demon Riding Shotgun (The Rifter Series Book 1) by L.R. Braden

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Featured Fantasy: Demon Riding Shotgun (The Rifter Series Book 1) by L.R. Braden

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A demon in her head. A cop on her tail. A city about to burn.

Mira Fuentes has been possessed by a demon since she was eleven.
Fortunately, the demon is on her side… mostly.

Together they hunt Rifters—demon-possessed humans who sow chaos in the Mortal Realm. Most hunts are quick, brutal, then she moves on, but when a routine hunt in Baltimore uncovers a powerful Rifter with plans to tear open the barrier between worlds, everything goes sideways, and Mira goes from the hunter to the hunted.

Recently retired from the Paranatural Task Force after the death of his partner, Detective Ty Williams wants nothing to do with magic anymore, but when a victim is killed by supernatural forces, Ty becomes the department’s reluctant expert.

His prime suspect?
The mysterious woman he took home from a bar the night before.

As Ty closes in, Mira faces an impossible choice: keep running… or trust a man determined to uncover her secrets. If she fails to stop the Rifter, the humans of Baltimore will become meat puppets for the denizens of the Rift. If she succeeds, she may take its place as public enemy number one.

Demon Riding Shotgun is the explosive first book in the Rifter Urban Fantasy Series—perfect for fans of fast-paced supernatural action, sharp-tongued demons, slow-burn romance, and gritty city magic.

If you love the dark humor of Venom and the monster-hunting thrills of Supernatural, buckle up.

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Featured Science Fiction: Archangel Project by C. Gockel

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Featured Science Fiction: Archangel Project by C. Gockel

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Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea … but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.

Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he’s never met.

A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn’t have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions–and their own.
Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission:

The archangel is down.

Featured Fantasy: Ghost Mortem (Ghost Detective Book 1) by Jane Hinchey

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Featured Fantasy: Ghost Mortem (Ghost Detective Book 1) by Jane Hinchey

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Yesterday, my biggest problem was finding a blouse without a coffee stain.

Today, it’s the ghost of my best friend demanding I solve his murder. Oh—and his cat talks. With a British accent.

Ben doesn’t remember how he died. Just that it wasn’t an accident. And somehow, in the middle of all this, I’ve inherited his private investigation business.

Me. Audrey Fitzgerald. Formerly employed. Frequently underestimated. Currently seeing dead people.

Between a ghost with unfinished business, a cat who believes he’s the smartest one in the room, and a distractingly handsome detective who thinks I should leave the investigating to professionals, my life has officially veered off course.

I don’t trust cops. I trip over perfectly flat surfaces. And I have absolutely no intention of letting Ben’s murder go unsolved. He was my best friend. And if someone thinks they got away with killing him, they’re about to learn otherwise.

Ghost Mortem is the hilarious first book in the Ghost Detective paranormal cozy mystery series, featuring a ghostly best friend, a talking cat, small-town secrets, and a slow-burn romance that starts with suspicion.

Featured Sci-fi: Trans Glactic Insurance (Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant Book 1) by Andrew Moriarty

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Featured Sci-fi: Trans Glactic Insurance (Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant Book 1) by Andrew Moriarty

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The Galactic Empire disappeared a lifetime ago. Jake Stewart doesn’t care, he needs to earn a living.

He fled his station in the outer Belt, enrolled in the merchant academy, and snagged a scholarship. The future looks bright. But a crooked boss, some paperwork shenanigans, and a freeloading best friend put him in a bind.

When he’s accused of a murder he didn’t commit, he goes on the run from the Planetary Militia. There’s only his wits and a suspiciously helpful pretty girl between him and jail. Can he trust her to prove his innocence? Or does she have another agenda?

Tired of books where everything that moves gets shot? How about a book where people use their brains? If you like strategy over tactics and thought before action, The Adventures of a Jump Space Accountant series is for you.

Spinning Silver Book Review

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Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

$1.99 as of March 14, 2026
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Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik is the second in a wonderful series, though I read it first and had no trouble jumping right in. This book is lush in its descriptions and emotions. There is plenty of love—of the friendship variety, of child to parent and parent to child, and even romance. 

This is a story is a take on Rumplestilskin, but in it the heroine Miryem owes nothing to a dwarf. She is the daughter of a money lender who is too kind for his own good. She goes about collecting on her father’s debtors to keep her family from starving. Lenders of money are seldom the heroes, but there is ethically lending  and unethical lending. (There is ethical denying of money—it is wrong to lend money to someone you know will never be able to pay it back.) Her family does spread their wealth around, and is good to those who work for them, treating them as family.

I loved the heroine. She is shrewd and hard when she needs to be, but her coldness is directed at those who deserve it. She is also brave…but not unflawed. In a moment of pride in an enchanted forest she boasts about being able to turn silver to gold, catching the interest of the forest’s powerful fae.

This isn’t just Miryem’s tale. It spins in the tale of a princess and a shepherdess. It’s really full and rich, and I highly recommend it.

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