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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 Fantasy: Wolf Rampant Trilogy (Book 1 Wolf’s Pack) by Aimee Easterling

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Featured Fantasy: Wolf Rampant Trilogy (Book 1 Wolf's Pack) by Aimee Easterling

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The complete Wolf Rampant Trilogy: An outcast shifter builds a life around running away from her wolf, until an irresistible alpha makes hiding impossible.

Terra Wilder has spent years smothering her inner wolf, pretending she’s human so she can slip through the cracks.

Then Wolfie Young walks into her life—an untamed bloodling alpha whose very presence shreds the careful control she’s fought so hard to maintain.

Soon, Terra and Wolfie are thrust into a maelstrom of warring packs, deadly secrets, and outcasts who become found family. Together, they must choose between the lives they were born into…and the future they could claim side by side.

Perfect for fans of Patricia Briggs, this complete trilogy blends slow-burn romance with pulse-pounding urban fantasy. Includes Shiftless, Pack Princess, and Alpha Ascendant.

Featured Sci-fi: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times

Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.

“[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist.”—Harper’s Magazine

“Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense.”—Atlantic Monthly

Featured Sci-Fantasy: Claus Legend of the Fat Man (Claus Series Book 1) by Tony Bertauski

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The 1st novel in the Claus Universe. The stories you never heard…

In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa discovered an ancient race of elven.

Short, fat and hairy, they have lived peacefully on the North Pole since the Ice Age but Nicholas is quickly swept into the colony’s first and only fracture. The elven known as the Cold One has divided his people. His name is Jack. And Jack’s tired of hiding. Why should they live in a shrinking ice cap when humans occupy the rest of the world?

It’s just not fair.

There’s no stopping Jack from world domination until Nicholas Santa, the only human to enter the elven colony, joins helium-bladder reindeer, artificially-intelligent snowmen, and a merry band of big-footed elven to bring peace back to the North Pole.

And becomes a legend.

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Featured Sci-fantasy: Christmas Presence (A Claus Universe Prequel) by Tony Pertauski

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WORLDS ARE WAITING TO BE OPENED.

Van Holloway wanted one thing: survive a Christmas party without looking like a total disaster. Instead, he got dragged into a virtual game that came with glasses that weren’t glasses and rules that weren’t rules.

Oops.

Turns out there’s a world inside the glasses. A place of clockwork toys, abandoned workshops, and secrets nobody ever meant to unwrap. Van and Charli (yes, the crush, yes, awkward) stumble out of the game with more than they bargained for. And something… stumbles out after them.

Now reality’s misfiring like cheap Christmas lights. Something really wants back what they accidentally took from the game.

From droids in Santa suits to gingerbread rebels with attitude, Van and Charli are stuck in a war between belief and machinery, myth and madness. To make it home alive, they’ll have to trust each other, cling to what’s real, and take on the one enemy stronger than magic itself: doubt.

Christmas Presence: The Prequel launches the Claus Universe with sci-fi sparkle, fantasy mayhem, and enough heart to melt the North Pole. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, The Santa Clause, and Ready Player One.

Featured Fantasy: Mist Riders Books 1 – 3 by Stella Fitzsimons

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The Mist Riders Series Box Set (Books 1-3): An Urban Fantasy

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WANTED: One Lunar Witch, preferably naïve.

This collection includes the first three novels in the thrilling Urban Fantasy series MIST RIDERS.

Being born a witch has always been just a detail from my past, you know, like summer camp, or the time Timmy ate a bug, but now, thanks to one very pushy Immortal, a handful of mutant shifters, a psycho named Chaos and a nice guy (I think) named Emmet, my magic’s become a real pain in my ass.

San Diego was a totally chill choice for college, until this whole moon-cycle madness was thrown in my lap (more like shoved in my face) and now I’m bumbling with basic spells, crash studying to go from zero to fierce in a matter of days.

Only problem with this test is that it’s graded pass/fail where failure is death.

I wouldn’t wish magic on anyone. It attracts all the wrong entities, the kind you can’t run from, the kind who always find you, the kind who know your dark secrets even before you do.

Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Assembly (Rogue Element Book 1 — A Spinward Fringe Novel) by Randolph Lalonde

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Featured Sci-fi: Rogue Assembly (A Spinward Fringe Novel) by Randolph Lalonde

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Rogue, a combat android made as a human decoy is allowed to break away from the battlefield. After wandering across a post-apocalyptic wasteland for some time, she returns to civilization in search of a technician who can help her with a systemic problem.

When a gangster mistakes her for a famous Captain, Rogue is drawn into a world of violent cyborgs and rare technology that will change the course of her future forever.

In Rogue Assembly, you can expect to see an android with a complicated past, a vibrant corporate cityscape, nasty criminal cyborgs, a vindictive gangster, a talking kitten and many other strange, sometimes violent or wonderful things.