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My ebooks* and audiobooks are available through Everand (formerly Scribd). My ebooks are available through KoboPlus (You don’t need a Kobo device, the Kobo app is free for your phone, tablet, and PC.)

Everand and KoboPlus are subscriptions services, much like Kindle Unlimited. Both services have 30 day FREE Trials (conceivably, if you read fast, you can read all* my books FREE.) Learn more about KoboPlus and Everand. 

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Find Your My eBooks and Audiobooks at Your Local Library with Overdrive/Libby, CloudLibrary, Hoopla, and More

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.

Find Libraries that Offer Libby/Overdrive

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

Featured Fantasy: Lattes and Levitation by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Lattes and Levitation by Christine Pope

$4.99 as of March 3, 2026
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Welcome to Las Vegas…New Mexico, that is. It might lack the neon lights of Sin City, but this quirky town has a surprising knack for unexpected murder.

Skye O’Malley just wants to pour the perfect espresso at her shop, Levitation Latte, and lead a normal, quiet life. But when the local body count starts interfering with business, Skye has to rely on her hidden talents — reading tea leaves and the occasional prophetic dream — to catch the killers. With a little magic and a lot of caffeine, she’s brewing up some serious justice.

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Featured Fantasy: Mom of the Chosen One (Magical Midlife Mom Book 1) by DM Fike

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A magical secret, a hidden world of fae, and a single mom on the edge.

Welcome to my midlife crisis.

I love my smart, kind, and funny daughter. We may not have much, but we get along without any of the normal teenage drama.

Or at least we did, until my daughter got curious about her biological father.

Now our world is falling apart. A handsome client threatens my employment. A monstrous black wolf shows up on our doorstep. A mysterious masked woman begins stalking us.

And that’s not mentioning the fae.

I didn’t expect to have a midlife crisis involving magic, but it doesn’t matter. I may be just a single mom, but I’ll do anything to protect my daughter.

Even if it kills me.

Join Melissa Hartley as she goes on a magical journey only a mother could take. For readers of Paranormal Women’s Fiction who like strong female protagonists, witty banter, and a hint of romance.

Now a complete series!

Featured Sci-fi: Independent Flight by T.M. Baumgartner

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Featured Sci-fi: Independent Flight by T.M. Baumgartner

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Rose piloted spaceships… until she crossed the wrong owner. Now she’s stuck in the Oligarchy with her cat, working in a salvage yard while trying to fix her ship — though without a cardinal crystal, the hyperspace drives are useless.

When she finds an outlaw AI who claims to have a synthetic crystal, Rose promises to smuggle the AI back to the Independent Federation for a reward.

It’s the perfect solution! If the synthetic crystal works. If her second-hand (possibly stolen) ship doesn’t fall apart. And if they can escape all the people chasing them.

Space opera has never been more fun! Download Independent Flight and start your adventure today!

Featured Fantasy: Dragon Storm (Heritage of Power 1) by Lindsay Buroker

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Dragon Storm Heritage of Power Book 1 Lindsay Buroker

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Born with a secret power he must hide…

Telryn “Trip” Yert has always been a little odd, with hunches that are too accurate to explain. Magic is feared and forbidden in Iskandia, so he’s struggled his whole life to hide his eccentricities. As a boy, he was forced to watch his mother’s execution. Her crime? Witchcraft.

Understandably, Trip wants nothing to do with the power that lurks within him, always threatening to reveal itself. Instead, he dedicates himself to serving as an officer in the king’s army, to battling pirates and imperial conquerors. He longs to become a soldier as respected and renowned as the legendary General Zirkander.

But his country is in need of more than a soldier…After disappearing for over a thousand years, dragons have returned to the world. 

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Featured Sci-fi: A Dead Ship in the Deep Black (Dominion Chronicles The Lyra Cycle Episode 1) by Rene Astle

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Rule number 1: Whatever you do, don’t open the box.

Well, that’s rule number two actually. Rule number one is don’t take salvage jobs from people who’ve tried to sell you to an Antillian bug salesman.

Neara “Tink” Bell is used to a life of odd jobs and even odder crewmates, working as the engineer and all-around fixer on the cargo ship Lyra. But when the ship picks up two new crew members and a salvage job on a third-rate space station, things go sideways in a cosmic way.

Alek Wa is on the run. And he’s pretty sure he can hide amongst the motley crew of Lyra. But that’s not the only reason he’s on-board. He has a mission. If only his minders had told him what it was.

Captain Rebeka Mino just wants to retire with a whiskey and a steamy novel. She’d even let the ship’s cat sit on her lap, provided he keeps his claws to himself. Too bad the ship keeps getting shot at.

And when they arrive at the coordinates for the salvage job, they’re confronted by a dead ship in the deep black.

Can Tink keep the Lyra running despite unexplained accidents? Can Alek outrun the people hunting him? Can Rebeka prevent their pursuers from blowing them up? Most importantly, can they keep their curiosity in check and not look in the box?

Find out now in this rollercoaster ride of a sci-fi adventure!

Featured Fantasy: Snow White and the Seven Shades (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

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Featured Fantasy: Snow White and the Seven Shades (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

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SNOW WHITE meets Persephone . . .

Seven shades. One runaway goddess. A fate even the Fates couldn’t foresee.

Fleeing her overbearing mother, Snow White tumbles through a hidden chasm and lands at the gates of the Underworld. Sneaking past Cerberus, she finds refuge among a group of eccentric shades who inhabit the seers’ pit of Tartarus. Though they warn her of Hades’s wrath should she be discovered, Snow White is captivated by the hidden wonders of the Underworld, a place far more enchanting than the bleak prison her mother described. But when the Fates intervene, casting her into an enchanted sleep within a glass coffin, her fate rests in the hands of the very ruler she has evaded.

The books in this series can be read in any order.