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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: Disappearing Nightly (An Esther Diamond Novel) by Laura Resnick

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The first novel in this hilarious urban fantasy series introduces Esther Diamond, a struggling New York actress who can’t stop attracting supernatural mayhem.

“A paranormal screwball comedy adventure. Light, happy, fantastically funny!” —Jennifer Crusie, New York Times bestselling author of Bet Me

Bizarre magical disappearances are disrupting shows around the city, and Esther receives a mysterious warning not to go on at her off-Broadway show. Since she’d rather stay on stage than resort to waiting tables, Esther turns to her new BFF, Dr. Maximillian Zadok, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting New York from Evil.

The show must go on, and the astronomical rent must be paid, so Esther and Max team up with a conjuring cowboy, a banker with stage aspirations, and a flock of fearless drag queens to get to the bottom of this mystery.

Also on the case is Detective Connor Lopez, a sexy cop who has a thing for Esther, but he may be drawing the conclusion that she and Max are the real problem rather than the vanishing performers.

Boldly facing down an enraged producer, a hungry tiger, and other deadly obstacles, Esther, Max, and their friends pursue Evil to its lair in order to find the missing performers and restore harmony to the city that never sleeps.

“Celebrate! Disappearing Nightly is the start of a new urban fantasy series that is smart, cool and wicked funny.”  —Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author

Features Sci-fi: Archangel Project Convergence by C. Gockel

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Features Sci-fi: Archangel Project Convergence by C. Gockel

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When John Miller signs up for the rescue mission to the Proxima Centauri outpost, he expects to find his former lover, Hana, the brilliant physicist behind the invention of near light engines, dead.

Instead he and his team find Hana missing and a large part of the outpost destroyed.

John’s team suspects suicide. John knows Hana would never give up so easily.

John and Hana are very different people. Their relationship was a fluke born of proximity and convenience. But when he discovers her Hail Mary attempt to return to Earth with a dangerous, experimental faster-than-light vessel, he has to follow her.

But it isn’t where Hana has gone that is the real surprise. It’s when …

Vessels damaged, fighting for survival, Hana and John struggle to rebuild the basics of civilization from scratch. They’re in a world where unboiled water or an untreated cut can result in death, and four-legged predators lurk in the trees. But the greatest threats to Hana and John are almost human.

Featured Sci-fi: The Watchers by P.A. Vasey

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The Watchers by P.A. Vasey

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Elijah looks eleven. The truth is far more dangerous.

Found alone in the woods with no memory of how he got there, Elijah should be an ordinary lost child. But the doctors examining him discover something impossible.

Then his abilities begin to surface.

With forensic psychologist Charlotte Dutton at his side, Elijah searches for answers as fragments of a forgotten past return. But someone else is searching for him too, and the closer Elijah gets to discovering what he is, the more dangerous the pursuit becomes.

Because Elijah is not the only one.

Across the world, others like him are beginning to wake, each carrying a secret that could change everything humanity believes about itself.

For thousands of years, humanity has looked to the stars, and wondered if we are alone.

We have been looking in the wrong direction.

First contact isn’t coming. It’s already here.

Featured Sci-fi: Farthing (Small Change Book 1) by Jo Walton

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Farthing by Jo Walton

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An influential family’s weekend party is the stage for murder in this alternative history trilogy opener set in a post-WWII England where the Nazis won.

Eight years have passed since the upper-crust “Farthing Set” overthrew Winston Churchill and led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler. Now those families have gathered for a weekend retreat. Among them is estranged scion Lucy Kahn, who can’t understand why she and her husband, David, were so enthusiastically invited. But all becomes clear when the eminent Sir James Thirkie is found murdered—with a yellow Star of David pinned to his chest.

Lucy realizes that her Jewish husband is about to be framed for the crime, an outcome that would be altogether too politically convenient, given the machinations underway in Parliament in the coming week. The Farthing Set are determined to pass laws further restricting the right to vote, and a new outcry against Jews and foreigners would suit them fine.

But whoever’s behind the murder and the frame-up didn’t count on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being so prone to look beyond the obvious—or his being a man with his own private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts and underdogs . . .

Featured Fantasy: Sword Catcher (Chronicles of Castellane Book 1) by Cassandra Clare

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Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of dangerous magic and dark secrets that could change the world forever in the start of a riveting epic fantasy series from the author of The Shadowhunter Chronicles.

“Everything I look for in fantasy.”—George R. R. Martin

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In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill.

Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible.

Lin Caster is a physician from a small community whose members still possess magical abilities. But despite her skills, she cannot heal her best friend without access to forbidden knowledge.

After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the ruler of Castellane’s criminal underworld. But as long-kept secrets begin to unravel and forbidden attractions arise, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war—and the world into chaos?

Featured Fantasy: Magic Today (Mathilda Holiday Urban Fantasy Book 1) by Anna McCluskey

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Magic Today by Anna McCluskey

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Magic is real — and it’s a bitch.

Mattie’s life is already unraveling when she learns that her twin sister, Tillie, has vanished. She drops everything and rushes across the country to join her friend Trevor in the search.

What they uncover is bigger than a disappearance.

A hidden room filled with crystal balls and grimoires. Strangers manipulating time. Spells cast in broad daylight. A powerful network of mages operating in the shadows.

Tillie isn’t just missing.

She’s being hunted.

Can Mattie and Trevor outmaneuver a secret society before they become targets in a deadly magical conspiracy?

Magic Today is the first book in the Mathilda Holiday series — a fast-paced contemporary urban fantasy with LGBTQ+ characters, neurodivergent representation, found family, supernatural suspense, and sharp humor woven through escalating danger.

Perfect for readers who love queer urban fantasy, paranormal thrillers, secret societies, strong female leads, and character-driven contemporary fantasy.

If you enjoy fantasy by Nicholas Woode-Smith, Emma Shelford, Kim Richardson, or Lisa Edmonds, you’ll love this free series starter.