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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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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: The Trilisk (The Trilisk Ruins Book 1) by Michael McCloskey

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Featured Sci-fi: The Trilisk (The Trilisk Ruins Book 1) by Michael McCloskey

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Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans have found alien artifacts but haven’t ever encountered live aliens. Of all the aliens whose extinct civilizations are investigated, the Trilisks are the most advanced and the most mysterious.

Telisa refuses to join the government because of her opposition to its hard-handed policies restricting civilian investigation and trade of alien artifacts, despite the fact that her estranged father is a captain in the United Nations Space Force.

When a group of artifact smugglers recruits her, she can’t pass up the chance at getting her hands on objects that could advance her life’s work. But she soon learns her expectations of excitement and riches come with serious drawbacks as she ends up fighting for her life on a mysterious alien planet.

Featured Fantasy: Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun by Christine Pope

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All Phoebe wanted was a fresh start. What she got was a roommate forty years past his expiration date.

Clairvoyant Phoebe Finch has spent her whole life learning to ignore the things only she can sense — the grief soaked into old houses, the secrets people don’t say out loud, the occasional opinion from someone no longer technically alive. Burned out and done with all of it, she buys a dilapidated Victorian B&B in the foggy coastal town of Madrona Cove and plans to disappear into a quiet life of sanded floors and fresh paint.

Then she meets her permanent houseguest.

Lanny Olsen died in 1988 at the age of eighteen and has never left the building. He’s loud, nosy, stuck in the decade that killed him, and convinced his death was no accident. He wants justice, and he’s decided Phoebe is going to get it for him, whether she likes it or not.

She doesn’t. But the more she pokes at the forty-year-old cold case, the more she realizes Lanny might be right. The town closes ranks. The handsome local archivist, Theo Lindgren, knows far more than he’s letting on. And somewhere behind Madrona Cove’s lavender beds and wellness retreats, someone is still protecting a very old, very ugly secret.

Phoebe just wanted to renovate a house. Instead, she’s about to renovate the truth…one buried clue at a time.

Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun is a completely standalone paranormal cozy mystery — no prior books required, just a fresh start, a stubborn ghost, and a mystery that won’t stay buried.

Featured Fantasy: Nocturne (The Fourth Talisman Book 1) by Kat Ross

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Featured Fantasy: Nocturne (The Fourth Talisman Book 1) by Kat Ross

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Nocturne, a wilderness of eternal night where magic reigns supreme.
Solis, a wasteland of endless day where ancient kingdoms vie for power.

Nazafareen is a Breaker, a mortal who has the rare ability to shatter spell magic—although her talent carries a price. With the memories of her former self erased, she comes to Nocturne hoping to start a new life under the triple moons of the darklands.

But when an assassin forces Nazafareen to flee to the sunlit mortal city of Delphi, she finds herself embroiled in a deeper mystery whose origins lie far in the past. Why was the continent sundered into light and dark a thousand years before? And what really happened to the elegant but ruthless creatures who nearly reduced the world to ashes? The new Oracle might know, but she’s outlawed magic and executes anyone caught practicing it. Nazafareen must hide her powers and find a way out of the city—before it’s too late.

As the net slowly tightens, something ancient and vengeful begins to stir in the arid death zone called the Kiln. A dashing daeva named Darius is pursuing Nazafareen, but so are a multitude of enemies. War is brewing again. Can she stay alive long enough to stop it?

Featured Sci-fi: Old Blood, New War by Jonathan P. Brazee

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Featured Sci-fi: Old Blood, New War by Jonathan P. Brazee

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Five decades ago, Corporal Isiah “Bull” Amato, Unity Coalition Marine Corps, was ordered to lay down his arms and became a prisoner of war of the Sirius Alliance Syndicate. When he returned to his home planet of New Cotswold, the government had had enough of galactic politics, so it withdrew from the coalition, disbanded its military, and disavowed war.

Not everyone got the memo.

Bull is the commander of his aging-out Veterans of Galactic Wars post when drop troopers land and quickly take over Bally on the Vine. He once swore he would never allow himself to be taken prisoner again, but what can one seventy-three-year-old do to resist?

A Marine’s oath doesn’t have an expiration date, and no matter what the politicians say, his duty is to protect his fellow citizens. Whatever the odds, he has no choice. Bull will fight the invaders.

Featured Fantasy: Dreamweavers, LLC “Where Your Dreams Are Our Reality” by Sean Tirman

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Featured Fantasy: Dreamweavers, LLC "Where Y our Dreams Are Our Reality" by Sean Tirman

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The bad news: Alora is dead.

The good news: She just landed her dream job.

Or rather, she got a job making dreams for those still alive on Earth. But working in the Afterworld for Dreamweavers, LLC isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Her boss, the Greco-Roman god of dreams, couldn’t care less about anything. Her coworkers, a bunch of bedsheet-wearing ghosts, don’t trust her. Worst of all, she just discovered that Chernobog, the god of misfortune and head of the Nightmare Department, is plotting a hostile takeover of the whole company.

Driven by a mysterious yet familiar mantra—If you’re going to do something, do it right—Alora undertakes a desperate gambit to save her job, department, and maybe the entire Dreamscape. That means uncovering all she can about Chernobog’s schemes and exposing the dastardly demon’s plot to the highest power she knows, Dreamweavers’ Chief Operations Officer, before it’s too late.

Featured Fantasy: Dragonskull by Jonathan Moeller

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Featured Fantasy: Dragonskull by Jonathan Moeller

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War comes for an unprepared squire.

Gareth Arban wants to become a knight and win glory enough to marry the girl he loves.

But death is the other face of glory.

When invaders sweep out of the north wielding mighty dark magic, it will take more than a squire’s bravery to stop them…