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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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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 Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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Featured Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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INTRODUCING
HONOR HARRINGTON

Having made him look a fool, she’s been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.

Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship’s humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.

The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.

Parliament isn’t sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called “Republic” of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn’t work to police the entire star system.

But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They’ve made her mad.

Featured Sci-fi: Humanity’s Last Stand Books 1- 9 by Daniel Young

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Featured Sci-fi: Humanity's Last Stand Books 1- 9 by Daniel Young

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Commander Nathan McCrory expected a routine seven-month deployment.

He woke up three hundred years too late.

The solar system is unrecognizable. Mars has been renamed. The planets have moved. And humanity—once masters of the stars—now numbers fewer than five thousand souls, hiding in underground cells while relentless machines hunt them to extinction.

Everyone McCrory knew is dead. His civilization is gone. The enemy is overwhelming, tireless, and utterly without mercy.

But McCrory refuses to accept humanity’s defeat.

Armed with three-hundred-year-old military training and a stolen machine ship, he begins teaching desperate survivors a radical concept: they can fight back.

Humanity’s Last Stand collects all nine books of the Operation Brainstorm saga—over 400,000 words of desperate combat, impossible odds, and humanity’s refusal to surrender.

When extinction is certain and hope is gone, one man’s vision changes everything.

The war for humanity’s survival starts now.

Featured Sci-fi: The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper

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Featured Sci-fi: The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper

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An Albuquerque bookseller is caught up in an intergalactic drama when aliens choose her as messenger of their wisdom in this feminist sci-fi novel.

The bizarre events that have been occurring across the United States—unexplained “oddities” tracked by Air Defense, mysterious disappearances, shocking deaths—seem to have no bearing on Benita Alvarez-Shipton’s life. That is, until the soft-spoken thirty-six-year-old bookstore manager is approached by a pair of aliens asking her to transmit their message of peace to the powers in Washington.

An abused Albuquerque wife with low self-esteem, Benita has been chosen to act as the sole liaison between the human race and the Pistach, who have offered their human hosts a spectacular opportunity for knowledge and enrichment.

But ultimately Benita will be called upon to do much more than deliver messages—and may, in fact, be responsible for saving the Earth. Because the Pistach are not the only space-faring species currently making their presence known on her unsuspecting planet. And the others are not so benevolent.

Featured Fantasy: Lattes and Levitation by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Lattes and Levitation by Christine Pope

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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 Sci-Fi : Pirates of the Milky Way Books 1 – 10 by Jaxon Reed

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Featured Sci-Fi : Pirates of the Milky Way Books 1 - 10 by Jaxon Reed

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When the League moves on a golden planet deep inside Republican territory, war breaks out. Competing forms of galactic government fight to the death. AIs strategize, teleporting star fleets and space-based weapons systems across vast distances in an epic interstellar conflict.

Outgunned and desperate for more ships, the Republic turns to privateers, recruiting law-skirting companies from the fabled planet of Lute and offering huge rewards for their service.

One man, Captain Christopher Raleigh, flies the Ultima Mule with a crew of brilliant misfits. Together, they set out to teach the League a lesson or two, and collect multiple bounties along the way . . .

Fans of The Expanse and Firefly, your next series is here! 

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!