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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 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…

Featured Sci-fi: Starship Breaker (Alien Coded Book 1) by G J Ogden

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Breaker (Alien Coded Book 1) by G J Ogden

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He unearthed the galaxy’s most powerful alien artifact. Now, he must run to survive.

Jax Mulder is just trying to survive. Scraping a living as a Breaker in the perilous, interstellar junkyards, he’s used to risking his neck for worthless space trash. But when he unearths an impossibly rare, glowing alien artifact, he thinks his days of grueling poverty are finally over.

His dreams shatter when a savage betrayal causes the entire sector to learn of his discovery. Instantly, Jax becomes the most hunted man in the cosmos.

Forced into a reluctant alliance with Mara Holt, a strict Beyond Earth Authority officer, Jax must outfly ruthless rival scavengers and evade a terrifying, emotionless corporate assassin known only as the Agent.

On the run, and fighting for their lives, Jax and Mara realize that the artifact is worth more than just cold, hard cash. It could unlock the greatest secrets of the universe. Secrets the mega-corporations will do anything to own.

Outgunned and running out of places to hide, Jax and Mara must make an impossible choice. Will they surrender the artifact to a ruthless corporate dynasty, or risk it all to keep the secrets of the alien relic for themselves?

Starship Breaker is book one of the Alien Coded series, by Kindle Storyteller Award winner, G J Ogden. Perfect for fans of fast-paced science fiction adventures like J.N. Chaney’s Backyard Starship and A.K. DuBoff’s Starship of the Ancients, packed with alien discovery, action, humor, and mystery.

Book Review: The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales Book 1) by Olivia Atwater

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Book Review: The Witchwood Knot (Victorian Faerie Tales Book 1) by Olivia Atwater

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If you like lovely, atmospheric fantasy with twisty fae, and a touch of romance, you can’t go wrong with Olivia Atwater. I’m so glad she returned to this world.

Olivia Atwater returns to the world of Half a Soul with a “sharp and beautiful gothic romance” (Alix E. Harrow). Dive into The Witchwood Knot, and enjoy a dark faerie tale set in a magical version of Victorian England.

The faeries of Witchwood Manor have stolen its young lord. His governess intends to steal him back.

Victorian governess Winifred Hall knows a con when she sees one. When her bratty young charge transforms overnight into a perfectly behaved block of wood, she soon realises that the real boy has been abducted by the Fair Folk. Unfortunately, the lord of Witchwood Manor is the only man in England who doesn’t believe in faeries—which leaves Winnie in the unenviable position of rescuing the young lord-to-be all by herself.

Witchwood Manor is bigger than its inhabitants realise, however, and full of otherworldly dangers. As Winnie delves deeper into the other side of the house, she enlists the aid of its dark and dubious faerie butler, Mr Quincy, who hides several awful secrets behind his charming smile. Winnie hopes to make her way to the centre of the Witchwood Knot through wit and cleverness… but when all of her usual tricks fail, who will she dare to trust?