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I Bring the Fire Omnibus eBook and The Defiant audiobook

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You can read (and listen to!) most of my books through subscription services:

  • Everand* (formerly Scribd) – ebooks + audiobooks
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Both offer 30-day free trials—so if you’re a fast reader, you could get through quite a bit at no cost.

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You can also find my books at your local library:

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If your library carries ebooks or audiobooks, there’s a good chance they have my books—or can request them.

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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.

A quick note

I’m a big library user myself and often enroll in various subscription services (books add up fast—and so do growing kids’ expenses).

However you choose to read—buying, borrowing, or listening—I’m just glad you’re spending your time with my stories.

*Everand isn’t currently featuring Magic After Midnight.

Featured Sci-fi: Future’s Fall — The Complete After the Apocalypse Books 1–5 by Kevin Partner

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Future’s Fall by Kevin Partner

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The complete series in one thrilling collection.

Thirty-five years after the world ended, a lonely man picks his way across the ashes of America on a final mission.

Reuben Bane spent decades believing he was a force for good, preserving humanity’s gene pool by hunting and eliminating deviants.

Now, he seeks redemption for his evil deeds, and revenge on the cultish Foundation. He must travel across a broken country to find a woman from the past who holds the key to the future.

Set among the ashes of a destroyed world, the series brings to life a possible future world teetering on the brink between endless darkness and an uncertain future.

Featured Fantasy: The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan (A Gentle Apocalypse Book 1) by M. H. Foster

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The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan by M. H. Foster

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A USA Today Bestseller

The Demon Overlord retires to farm turnips in peace, only to find small village life more chaotic than he ever could have anticipated.

“A wonderful romp with a Dark Lord who gets a taste for Pratchett-esque small town living, assisted (kind of) by a floofy hellhound and a devious goat. Lots of fun!” —Django Wexler, author of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

Galornus Prime was the Demon Overlord. He had defeated the Hero and done everything worth doing—some of it more than once.

His retirement plan was simple: get a goat, farm quietly in the small town of Lower Middleton, and avoid accidentally conquering anything. The plan didn’t include soul-crushing town halls, after-school combat lessons with children, and an undergarment-based war with the rose-growing widow next door.

When corrupt officials and greedy merchants threaten his infuriatingly loveable neighbors, Galornus faces a new kind of challenge: saving the village without revealing he is the monster parents invoke to make children eat their vegetables.

The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan is a cozy fantasy with teeth, where the hardest battle isn’t defeating heroes—it’s staying retired and learning how to live after 444 lifetimes of villainy.

Featured Science Fiction: Into Twilight (The Stefan Mendoza Series Book 1) P.R. Adams

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Featured Science Fiction: Into Twilight (The Stefan Mendoza Series Book 1) P.R. Adams

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He does the government’s dirty work. When he’s double-crossed by one of his own, he’ll stop at nothing to take out the trash.

Korea, 22nd Century. Surrender isn’t in Stefan Mendoza’s DNA. So when a traitor betrays his black-ops team, he alone pushes through the torture and escapes with revenge burning in his mind. On the verge of a systems failure, he taps into his underground network for a set of cybernetic limbs. But his high-tech recovery comes at a heavy price—an assassination hit on a rising political star.

Filled with resentment for the cutthroat world of contract killers, he uses the hit job as a cover to track down the traitor. When he discovers he’s competing with other assassins for the same political target, he starts to piece together a sinister conspiracy that could lead him straight to the shadowy figure behind his betrayal.

Trapped within a hotbed of corruption, can Mendoza exact his revenge and win his freedom or will he spiral deeper into the twisted game of brokered death?

Into Twilight is the first book in The Stefan Mendoza Trilogy of high-octane cyberpunk techno-thrillers. If you like street-smart soldiers, complex conspiracies, and immersive sci-fi settings, then you’ll love P.R. Adams’s noir-style page-turner.

Featured Fantasy: Murder Any Witch Way (Brimstone Bay Book 1) by N. M. Howell

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Featured Fantasy: Murder Any Witch Way (Brimstone Bay Book 1) by N. M. Howell

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Welcome to Brimstone Bay—where the coffee’s strong, the gossip’s stronger, and the witches try not to burn the town down.

Fresh out of journalism school, River Halloway thought a sleepy coastal town would be the perfect place to launch her career—and hide her magical identity. But when a traveling Shadow Festival arrives and a body turns up behind the boardwalk, River is pulled into a mystery with more secrets than the town library.

Armed with coffee, charm, and questionable spells, River must find the killer before her own secrets rise from the grave.

If you love small-town charm, quirky witchy housemates, and mysteries with a magical twist, you’ll adore this paranormal cozy mystery series. Start reading Murder Any Witch Way today—and fall under the spell of Brimstone Bay.

Featured Fantasy: Forever Charmed (The Halloween LaVeau Series) by Rose Pressey Betancourt

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Forever Charmed by Rose Pressey Betancourt

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Halloween LaVeau is descended from a long line of witches. Yes, her name is Halloween. The cosmic universe is definitely playing some kind of sick joke on her. She’s the ultimate witch cliché, complete with a black cat and spooky house. Thank heavens she’s missing the warts and flying broom.

When Halloween inherits her great-aunt’s manor, she decides to put the house to good use as a bed-and-breakfast. Her first guest is the sinfully good-looking Nicolas Marcos, but he’s not here for the continental breakfast. Halloween discovers a ratty old book in the attic. It’s written in an unfamiliar language.

Halloween soon learns this is not an ordinary spellbook. The tome brings her a new talent, but her new skills come with a catch. When a rival witch comes after the book, Halloween doesn’t know who to trust—the sexy vampire who says he wants to save the day, or the warlock who says he can destroy the book once and for all.

Featured Sci-fi: Peace Warrior Book 1 by Steven L. Hawk

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Peace Warrior by Steven L. Hawk

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A soldier from the past. A peaceful world under alien rule. One last chance for humanity.

Sergeant First Class Grant Justice dies in combat in the mid-twenty-first century. Six centuries later, scientists recover his body from an Arctic lake and bring him back to life.

The world he awakens to has rejected war and forbidden violence—but its devotion to peace has left humanity enslaved by the alien Minith. A man trained for a way of life everyone else has abandoned may be their only hope of freedom.