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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: Spellbound Boxset Books 1 – 10 by Annabel Chase

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Featured Fantasy: Spellbound Boxset Books 1 - 10 by Annabel Chase

99¢ as of December 10, 2025
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Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal.

This charming, feel-good series has it all–
A magical town with an enchanting secret.
A feisty heroine with a heart of gold.
A fallen angel with a redemption arc.
A snarky owl.
And, of course, cozy mysteries galore.

Grab your latte with a shot of sparkle, settle into a comfy chair, and escape to Spellbound cozy fantasy series.

This 10-book collection includes the following titles:
Curse the Day
Doom and Broom
Spell’s Bells
Lucky Charm
Better Than Hex
Cast Away
A Touch of Magic
A Drop in the Potion
Hemlocked and Loaded
All Spell Breaks Loose

Featured Sci-fi Series: Universe in Flames Boxset Collections by Christian Kallias

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Featured Series: Universe in Flames Boxset Collections

START THE FIRST TRILOGY FREE
Boxset 4 – 6 only $2.99, Boxset 7 – 9 only $3.99
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** NOW INCLUDES: Wings of Destiny, Way of the Warrior, Damocles Fall, Into The Abyss & Course Correction (shorter stories) **

I am Fury. Evil has followed me to Earth. I shall Protect this World until my Dying Breath.

When the Obsidian Empire obliterates the Star Alliance with the help of the Zarlacks, an old evil race long thought extinct, the universe is set ablaze.

The last survivors are forced to make a blind jump beyond the outer reach of the charted universe, to a world teeming with life: Earth.

The fleet’s arrival inadvertently alerts the enemies to the presence of sentient life in that part of space, resulting in a swift and devastating invasion of the blue marble. Under the guidance of the Olympian goddess of Love, Aphroditis, Lieutenant Chase Athanatos learns of his origins and must race against time in a daring attempt to save Earth, their Last Sanctuary.

With Earth now thrown at the center of the conflict, the newly formed Earth Alliance struggles to keep the enemy at bay. Desperately outnumbered, Chase and his friends must wage one battle after another while seeking new allies to survive. When it becomes clear that his Fury powers are awakening in him, Chase must face his inner demons and learn to control them or he could very well destroy the universe he has sworn to protect.

Can his Fury heritage and unwavering determination hold the key to change the course of everyone’s destiny?

Featured Fantasy: To Kill a Fae by Jamie A. Waters

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Featured Fantasy: To Kill a Fae by Jamie A. Waters

FREE as of December 10, 2025
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The darkness holds more than just secrets…

Marked for death, Sabine escaped from her home more than ten years ago. 

But the Wild Hunt will never give up.

It should have been easy to stay hidden. All Sabine had to do was keep her head down, avoid telling anyone about her past, and above all else — not let her glamour drop.

Even the best-laid plans eventually fall apart.

When a charismatic stranger arrives in the city, Sabine finds herself unwittingly drawn to the power she can sense hidden within him. Keeping her distance is nearly impossible, especially after a life debt is called due and she’s tasked into helping steal a rare artifact.

Sabine is the only one who can break the magical barriers protecting the item, but that means revealing the truth about her identity and exposing her darkest secrets. 

Unfortunately, the Fae aren’t the only ones hunting her.

And the most dangerous monsters aren’t always confined to the dark.

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Featured Science Fiction: Star Nomad (Fallen Empire Book 1) by Lindsay Buroker

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Featured Science Fiction: Star Nomad (Fallen Empire Book 1) by Lindsay Buroker

FREE as of December 10, 2025
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The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she’s stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter. She has no money or resources, and there are no transports heading to Perun, her former home and the last imperial stronghold.

But she has a plan.

Steal a dilapidated and malfunctioning freighter from a junkyard full of lawless savages. Slightly suicidal, but she believes she can do it. Her plan, however, does not account for the elite cyborg soldier squatting in the freighter, intending to use it for his own purposes. As an imperial soldier, he has no love for Alliance pilots. In fact, he’s quite fond of killing them.

Alisa has more problems than she can count, but she can’t let cyborgs, savages, or ancient malfunctioning ships stand in her way. If she does, she’ll never see her daughter again.

Fans of Firefly and Star Wars should enjoy this fun, fast-paced new series from USA Today best-selling author, Lindsay Buroker.

Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

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Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

$2.99 as of December 10, 2025 (RECOMMENDED!)
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One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time

The book that inspired a legend—the first novel in the beloved, bestselling Redwall saga.

Welcome to Mossflower Wood, where the gentle mice have gathered to celebrate a year of peace and abundance. All is well…until a sinister shadow falls across the ancient stone abbey of Redwall. It is rumored that Cluny is coming—Cluny, the terrible one-eyed rat and his savage horde—Cluny, who has vowed to conquer Redwall Abbey! The only hope for the besieged mice lies in the lost sword of the legendary Martin the Warrior. And so begins the epic quest of a bumbling young apprentice—a courageous mouse who would rise up, fight back…and become a legend himself.

Perfect for fans of T. A. Barron’s Merlin saga, John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series.

“The medieval world of Redwall Abbey—where gallant mouse warriors triumph over evil invaders—has truly become the stuff of legend.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Featured Fantasy: Legacy of Dragons the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

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Featured Fantasy: Legacy of Dragons the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

99¢ as of December 6, 2025
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She’s hunted for what she is. He hunts those who would hurt them.

When Astrid is attacked by a creep calling himself a Slayer, it seems like a cruel prank the universe is pulling on her already crappy life.

Then Kaden, the most infuriating, stunning boy she’s ever met, arrives and tells her she’s a dragon-kin like him—part dragon, part human.

Then Astrid actually shifts into a dragon.

Wonderful.

It’s not wonderful to Kaden, who should be busy hunting down the Slayers, a group as vicious as his methods and as dark as his past. He doesn’t have time to chaperone a girl with newly awakened dragon powers, one who’s too stubborn to stay safe.

Yet as the Slayer threat grows, Astrid and Kaden will have to work together to control a magic unlike any their world has ever seen, and stop a rising darkness from destroying everything they know.

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