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Beasts in the Garden is the book launch I’m funding with my Kickstarter, set to begin May 24, 2024. Enjoy this extended excerpt!
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Beasts in the Garden is the book launch I’m funding with my Kickstarter, set to begin May 24, 2024. Enjoy this extended excerpt!
[Read more…]by Carolynn
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.
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.
by Carolynn
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Commander Noa Sato doesn’t believe in aliens. She’s wrong.
Imprisoned on her home planet, accused of aiding an alien invasion, Noa witnesses the beginning of a genocide–however, the murderers are not aliens, but her own people. Launching a daring attempt to reach the Galactic Fleet, she makes an unlikely ally in stranded professor James Sinclair.
But James is not all that he seems.
James is not the man he once was. He has technological augments that give him extraordinary abilities. His augments protect Noa and himself, but he has no memory of how he came to have them. Worse, the changes may be more than physical.
Noa’s mission and the answer to James’s mystery will put them at the center of a confrontation of galactic proportions.
A confrontation that challenges the boundaries between human and alien, man and machine.
A confrontation that might spell the doom of the entire human race.
This collection contains:
Archangel Down. Archangel Project. Book 1
Noa’s Ark. Archangel Project. Book 2
Heretic. Archangel Project. Book 3
Carl Sagan’s Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe: A Novella
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by Carolynn
The I Bring the Fire series audio versions are complete! Start listening to the series in audio at Amazon US, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia
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I Bring the Fire is available via Overdrive, the ebook and audiobook service for libraries. If your library participates you can read or listen to the whole series free of charge … all you have to do is request they order them. Someone asked me if I “minded” readers getting my books through the library. Loki’s whiskers! I am delighted to be in libraries. Please, request away. Heck, even if you own them, request them from your library so other people can discover them!
by Carolynn
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In Prime Example, veteran bounty hunter Kole Anwynn is ambushed after completing a job. In an effort to defend his reputation and maintain his pride, he gives chase to his assassin. The hunt takes him to a mostly barren world deep on the Galactic Rim, where he will find unexpected allies and a danger he never could have anticipated.
In Viridian Skies, Kole and his new apprentice are settling into their partnership. A string of successful hunts calls for a reprieve, however, and Neela has an idea for the perfect vacation – a planet-wide celebration during a rare celestial event. She even found a local job to help defray expenses. Kole reluctantly agrees and finds himself in a fight for survival.
In Pirate’s Nest, Kole is approached by a Hegemony Intelligence officer with a job he can’t turn down. A pirate menace has been growing on the Rim, and the officer has tasked him with infiltrating the group and taking out their shadowy leader. Kole has experience mingling with the dregs of society as a bounty hunter, but even he isn’t prepared for what awaits.
by Carolynn
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In the tiny village of Somer, far from the city, Cherie knows nothing of the evil spell. Her home is a safe, Magickal place. The Fae travel freely along its roads, Magickal humans and animals are welcome, and everyone is hidden from the Queen’s sight by Jack Frost, the local ghost, who blurs the Queen’s mirror with snow and ice.
But when Jack’s spell begins to crack, the Queen’s eyes fall on Somer. Nothing will keep her from abducting all of Somer’s Magickals, not even a war with the Fae.
To avert a war, save her village–and herself–Cherie strikes a perilous bargain. Aided only by Jack and her own small Magick, she’ll set off on a quest … If she fails, she’ll lose more than her life.
The first two books are retellings of Snow White Rose Red with Urban Magick, plenty of folklore, and a Princess Charming. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Spinning Silver. Books 3 through 5 are a retelling of Grendel & Beowulf.
by M Gockel
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Chaining myself to a broody reaper while colluding with a demon sounds like a death wish. But hey, I’ve been dead before.
You’d think being an assistant to the most notorious reaper in the city would have its perks. After all, what lowly human like myself wouldn’t appreciate a little borrowed magic?
Here’s the kick. I didn’t sign up for this.
Correction: I don’t remember signing up for this.
See, I died. And, according to my contract, agreed to return to the land of the living in exchange for a memory wipe and a lifetime of servitude to Apollo Grim, head reaper and insufferable prick.
Now, my best friend has been accused of murder. I know she’s innocent, but tensions are high and powerful people are looking for a scapegoat. To prove her innocence and find the true murderer, I have no choice but to team up with Detective Slater Brimstone, Rosethorne City’s most ruthless demon.
If Apollo ever finds out I’m working with Slater, our contract will be considered void and he’ll finish what he started. And this time, there’ll be no coming back from the dead.
Reaper’s Assistant is a fun, fast-paced urban fantasy with plenty of twists and a dash of slow burn romance. Please note this book contains PG-13 content such as adult language and mature themes. This book ends on a cliffhanger.
by Carolynn
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Chad Huntley—The Source—is the world’s most wanted man.
He’d done his part during the Great Pandemic to help defeat the deadliest threat to face mankind in modern history. At last he can live his life, alone and on his terms. He finally has a chance at peace.
But just when things return to normal after a decade of chaos, the devastating virus returns–this time as a weapon. The unique properties of Chad’s blood provide the tools needed to craft a cure but not everyone wants the plague stopped. A team of Army Rangers is sent to retrieve and defend The Source at all costs and Chad finds himself in the crossfire. He may be the last best hope for mankind, but only as long as he can stay alive.
The sacrifices made to secure The Source will be in vain if the scientist who spearheaded the original effort to stop The Pandemic can’t be found. The invasion of America has begun and foreign soldiers are willing to tear the country apart to find him. Cooper Braaten’s Navy SEALs race to secure the virologist and his critical research but it will take all their skills and more than a little luck to succeed when Apache Dawn is declared.
Apache Dawn is a high octane military thriller for fans of post-apocalyptic action.
by Carolynn
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“This one deserves more than 5 stars.”
“[B]rings you such phenomenal dragons that your jaw will be on the floor.”
“I might have just read my favourite high fantasy book of 2023.”
“Just came off a high after Fourth Wing and Bound and Broken series. In a funk until I found your Realm Breaker series.”
The Realm-Building Enterprise is open to all. On the continent of Elondria, anyone may become the next legendary dragon rider by building the greatest towns, cities, and even kingdoms.
Skálda Branwright dreams of leaving the Longcold and becoming the first Dragonlord to build an official realm. Only no dragon egg has ever hatched for her.
But when a wild hatchling falls to her from the skies, begging for rescue, she must decide whether to relinquish her dreams and become the worst criminal of all – a rogue rider. One with the potential to restore mankind’s sovereignty from the brutal dominion of elves.
The Realm-Building Enterprise was meant to unite all races, until it became a means for elves to control the continent.
But this is no ordinary dragon. By the time Skálda realizes what she holds in her hands, it is much too late.
Stealing this hatchling will mean breaking Elondria’s twenty realms, beginning with the one she calls home…
A Realm-Breaker is coming.
by Carolynn
FREE as of July 21, 2024
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SPACE IS VAST AND UNTAMED, AND IT HOLDS MANY SECRETS.
Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them.
The year is 2322. Humanity has expanded into the stars, inhabiting over 100 worlds across a third of the galaxy. Though thriving as never before, they have discovered neither alien life nor the key to utopia. Earth struggles to retain authority over far-flung planets and free-wheeling corporations while an uneasy armistice with a breakaway federation hangs by a thread as the former rebels rise in wealth and power.
Alexis Solovy is Earth Alliance royalty, her father a fallen war hero and her mother an influential military leader. But she seeks only the freedom of space and has made a fortune by reading the patterns in the chaos to discover the hidden wonders of the stars.
Nothing about her latest objective suggests the secret it conceals will turn her life— not to mention the entire galaxy—upside down. But a chance encounter with a mysterious spy leads to a discovery which will thrust Alex into the middle of a galactic power struggle and a sinister conspiracy, whether she likes it or not.
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