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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: Empire of Shadows (Raiders of the Arcana Book 1) by Jacquelyn Benson

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Featured Fantasy: Empire of Shadows (Raiders of the Arcana Book 1) by Jacquelyn Benson

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Nice Victorian ladies don’t run off to find legendary lost cities.

One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions.

When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There’s just one teensy complication. A ruthless villain wants it, and Ellie is all that stands in his way.

To race him to the ruins—and avoid being violently disposed of—she needs the help of maverick surveyor Adam Bates, a snake-wrangling rogue who can’t seem to keep his dratted shirt on.

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Featured Fantasy: The Mortician Murders by Greta Boris

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Featured Fantasy: The Mortician Murders by Greta Boris

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When the Dead Want Justice, They Don’t Bother Making Appointments

Imogene Lynch thought trading the hair salon for the mortuary would mean a quieter life. She was dead wrong.

Her unsettling gift—feeling a person’s final moments through their tresses—makes her the last hope for the restless and the vengeful. Murder victims don’t drift peacefully into the afterlife. They infiltrate her world and demand justice.

The only way to cut them loose? Track down their killers.

But untangling a murder is never simple, especially in Orange County, where secrets lurk in the halls of power and influence. Every crime she exposes draws her deeper into danger. The dead may haunt her, but it’s the living she should fear.

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Featured Sci-fi: Dark Space All Nine Books by Jasper T. Scott

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Featured Sci-fi: Dark Space All Nine Books by Jasper T. Scott

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Dark Space: All Nine Books, over 800,000 copies sold, 20,000+ Reviews on Amazon, and 4.3/5 Stars average rating. For a limited time, enjoy over 3000 pages of this epic space opera for one low price!

HUMANITY IS DEFEATED
Ten years ago the Sythians invaded the galaxy with one goal: to wipe out the human race.

THEY ARE HIDING
Now the survivors are hiding in the last human sector of the galaxy: Dark Space–once a place of exile for criminals, now the last refuge of mankind.

THEY ARE ISOLATED
The once galaxy-spanning Imperium of Star Systems is left guarding the gate which is the only way in or out of Dark Space–but not everyone is satisfied with their governance.

AND THEY ARE KILLING EACH OTHER
Freelancer and ex-convict Ethan Ortane is on the run. He owes crime lord Alec Brondi 10,000 sols, and his ship is badly damaged. When Brondi catches up with him, he makes an offer Ethan can’t refuse. Ethan must infiltrate and sabotage the Valiant, the Imperial Star Systems Fleet carrier which stands guarding the entrance of Dark Space, and then his debt will be cleared. While Ethan is still undecided about what he will do, he realizes that the Imperium has been lying and putting all of Dark Space at risk. Now Brondi’s plan is starting to look like a necessary evil, but before Ethan can act on it, he discovers that the real plan was much more sinister than what he was told, and he will be lucky to escape the Valiant alive…

Included in this box set:
Dark Space: A Chance Encounter (Short Prequel Story)
Dark Space I: Humanity is Defeated
Dark Space II: The Invisible War
Dark Space III: Origin
Dark Space IV: Revenge
Dark Space V: Avilon
Dark Space VI: Armageddon
Dark Space Universe
Dark Space Universe II: The Enemy Within
Dark Space Universe III: The Last Stand

Featured Sci-Fi: Talman Prime (Interstellar Fleet Book 1) by J.J Green

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Featured Sci-Fi: Talman Prime (Interstellar Fleet Book 1) by J.J Green


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Three ships

One fleet

Many destinies

Setia Zees fled Earth to escape the clutches of a tyrannical master, becoming one of humanity’s first deep space colonists.

Her destination, Talman Prime, should be a pristine planet, never inhabited by intelligent life. That’s how it looks at first, but then Setia stumbles across what seem to be the remains of an ancient civilization.

The other colonists don’t agree. They think she’s crazy.

Can she convince them? Does it really matter?

When she discovers the aliens may still exist, it does.

Talman Prime is book one in the space mythic adventure, Interstellar Fleet.

Featured Sci-fi: Monster Squad by Heath Stallcup

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Featured Sci-fi: Monster Squad by Heath Stallcup

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Humanity has spent its time enjoying a peace that can only be had through blissful ignorance. For centuries, stories of monsters have been handed down through the generations.

When creatures of the night proved to be real, the best of America’s military came together to form an elite band of rapid response teams. Their mission: to keep the civilian populace safe from the creatures that go bump in the night and hide all evidence of their existence.

During a routine mission things go horribly wrong and the Monster Squad finds themselves having to rebuild from the ashes of what they once were. This time they face not only the monsters, but their own government as a dark storm brews on the horizon.

A storm that will threaten not just the squads and their existence, but the lives of every human on earth.

Featured Fantasy: Heir of Dragons Books 1 – 4 by Sean Fletcher

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Featured Fantasy: Heir of Dragons Books 1 - 4 by Sean Fletcher

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She’s got the powers of a dragon, and the Slayers are closing in…

Kaylee just blasted her first date with lightning. She has no idea how, but when the creep pulls a sword on her, what’s a girl to do?

Soon, she’s discovering a whole magical world she had no clue existed, all hidden in plain sight. And that lightning she summoned? Even among paranormals, that’s not normal.

Turns out Kaylee is a dragon-kin, a half dragon/half human with the incredibly rare power to summon storms. As if that weren’t trouble enough, her newly discovered magic has attracted the wrong kind of attention: Slayers, a murderous ancient order dedicated to eradicating all dragon-kin. They’re planning something big. Something deadly.

And they’re going to use Kaylee to do it.

Perfect for fans of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. If you like snarky, fast-paced fantasies full of dragon shifters, awakened elemental magic, and a slow-burn romance, then this series is for you!

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