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Ways to Read and Listen to My Series For FREE or Close To It

March 5, 2023 by Carolynn

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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. 

Or Read & Listen Completely FREE!

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.

Filed Under: Free Ebooks Tagged With: KoboPlus, Libby, Overdrive, Scribd

Featured Sci-fi: Return to the Galaxy Book 1 by BA Gillies

July 2, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Return to the Galaxy Book 1 by BA Gillies

FREE as of July 2, 2025
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Return to the Galaxy – Winner of the London Book Festival 2025 (Science Fiction)

The Humans Are Coming. The Galaxy Better Be Ready.

The astonishing truth? The human race didn’t evolve on Earth.

Ewan Scott was a dying SAS veteran, until a 300-year-old alien AI Avatar offered him a second chance: rebirth in a bio-engineered body, fitter, stronger, and movie-star handsome. His mission? Reunite humanity with its parent civilization, the Saret Federation, before merciless enemies erase all life on Earth.

Frigate Captain Velal, haunted by her past and bound by impossible orders, fights to save what’s left of her civilization. As worlds fall to alien invasion and nuclear fire, the ancient monsters she dreads are hunting for Earth.

An ancient empire falls to betrayal. A merciless enemy closes in. Earth lies defenseless. Its last hope a flawed hero reborn, and a woman who will fight until the stars go dark. Join Ewan, Velal, and wise-cracking Jera in an epic, fast-paced space opera packed with:

– Savage interstellar war
– Planetary colonization
– Special Forces warfare
– Found alien tech
– The secrets of a dying empire

If you love John Scalzi, Craig Alanson, and David Weber, the epic scale of Peter F. Hamilton, and the military brilliance of Elizabeth Moon

Grab your copy now!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: BA Gillies, Return to the Galaxy

Featured Fantasy: Cinderwitch (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

July 2, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Cinderwitch (Olympus Ever After) by Eva Pohler

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CINDERELLA meets Hecate . . .

They promised to protect her. Instead, they made her a slave.

For eighteen years, Hecate lived in peace, but now war shatters her world. Given to Zeus for safekeeping, she is betrayed, bound to servitude as his Cinderwitch. Even when the war ends, her freedom does not. Instead, she is sent to the Underworld, a silent shadow in Queen Persephone’s court.

Yet one light remains—Hermes, the quick-witted trickster who moves between realms, bringing laughter to the world of the dead. He has her heart, though no one has his.

When Zeus announces a grand ball where Hermes must choose a bride, Hecate is desperate to attend. Forbidden to leave, she defies Hades, cloaking herself in magic to dance in Hermes’s arms. But if her secret is revealed, she risks everything. Will she confess the truth—or remain forever a Cinderwitch?

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

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Cinderwitch, Eva Pohler, Olympus Ever After

Featured Sci-fi: On Impact (Reliance Sinclair Space Opera Book 2) by Heather Texle

July 1, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: On Impact (Reliance Sinclair Space Opera Book 2) by Heather Texle

New Release
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They turned me into a weapon. Now I’m the only one who can stop them.

When an assassin kills a Ritruvian official using an illegal bionic weapon, the galaxy teeters on the edge of war. My team must locate the remaining weapons and shut down Tazza Industries, the company that developed them.

I have history with Tazza. Six months ago, they used me as a test subject, implanting a cutting-edge chip into my brain designed for espionage and covert operations. Instead of killing me, it gave me a deadly advantage—and a purpose.

To take them down and avoid an interplanetary war, I’ll need to confront my darkest fears—and trust the lethal skills I never wanted.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Heather Texle, On Impact, Reliance Sinclair Space Opera

Featured Fantasy: Academy of Horrors (New Arrival Book 1) by Holly Hook

July 1, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Academy of Horrors (New Arrival Book 1) by Holly Hook

New Release
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I’m Raelyn Silverton, and as a 16-year-old born into a prestigious monster slayer family, I’ve already seen my fair share of feral, law-breaking vampires, werewolves, and other creatures. But as a girl, my parents insist I carry a phone and tablet instead of stakes and crossbows, and my brother is the only person who believes in me.

But when my awesome brother and I find a monster that shouldn’t exist, which steals his soul, I’m elevated…to top suspect in his disappearance.

My Hunter’s Guild doesn’t believe what I saw, so to get help, I break into the closest monster reserve and then into Soulstone Academy—no Hunters allowed. Attending as a fake witch is my best shot for saving my brother, and I’m lucky to have help from Asher Love, the school’s top warlock student.

Though in class with civilized monsters—mostly—if I’m found out, I’ll go into the dungeons or worse. And do you know what’s scarier? My brother is still missing, and new, more terrifying monsters are mysteriously appearing. And Asher might be closer to the problem than I thought.

Academy of Horrors: New Arrival is a fresh new series in the Cursed Academy and Monster Academy universe. This new series can be read alone as it begins with a new character, but Cursed Academy and Monster Academy are also recommended for those who are new to this book universe. This book is the first of a YA (Young Adult) urban fantasy book series that features a slow-burn romance and numerous paranormal and academy tropes, along with plenty of spooky secrets. If you like slayer stories, magic, and Halloween, you’ll love Academy of Horrors.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Academy of Horrors, Holly Hook, New Arrival

Featured Sci-fi: Puki Horpocket Presents by Zachry Wheeler

July 1, 2025 by Carolynn

SERIES SALE: FREE Books 1 – 3 & Books, 4 & 5 only $2.99 Each
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One lonely plumber. One bad decision. One trillion lives upended.

This is the story of Roy, the architect of an epic crisis that paralyzed the largest space station in the universe. The aftermath created a legend, but the lunacy behind it remained a mystery. That is, until now. With the aid of footage and eyewitness accounts, this book reveals the outrageous truth behind the greatest pandemonium ever recorded.

Roy is a Readers’ Favorite® 5-Star Selection and a B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Puki Horpocket, Zachry Wheeler

Featured Fantasy: A Magical Adventure by Nicole Beyer and Nathan Ryan

July 1, 2025 by Carolynn

FREE as of June 30, 2025
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When Rafe contracts a magical sickness, what else can his friends do but go on a quest to find magic and heal him?

Gavin the leader, Millie the fighter, and Ethan the bookworm set out to leave their town. Rumors of magic lead them to Lost Man’s Grove. All too quickly, they become lost themselves, lost in the past, in the Age of Magic.

Their main goal has shifted. They still need to save their friend, but first, they need to stay safe. When magic ruled, wyverns and dragons existed too.

The trio must survive and return home hopefully with magic. That’s not too much to ask, is it?

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Nathan Ryan, Nicole Beyer

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