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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 Fantasy: Dragons on the Edge (Jane Austen’s Dragons Book 16) by Maria Grace

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Featured Fantasy: Dragons on the Edge (Jane Austen's Dragons Book 16) by Maria Grace

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Secrets, swords, and a touch of dragon fire
” A top fun comfort read.”~ Gail Carriger

Everyone expects Sir Fitzwilliam Darcy to fix their problems: estate management, endorse a courtship, hide from the Blue Order Council dragons. Some were more difficult that others, but still within the realm of a Pendragon Knight.

The mounting dangers to the Blue Order and all of Dragonkind, though, dealing those would require more effort. Perhaps after a strong cup of coffee—not tea, world-ending disasters required coffee.

Dragon Sage Elizabeth’s pregnancy had left her tired and cranky and as big as a dragon. But her father’s emergency visit … best just say, it did not foster pleasant tea time conversations.

Between his entitled demands and his socially-inappropriate dragon assistant, Bede, nothing is sacred. Not correspondence, not locked rooms, and especially not the secrets Bede is supposed to be keeping, rather than whispering into the ears of impressionable young firedrake, Pemberley.

Of course, Pemberley intends to do something with all the secrets she isn’t supposed to know. Things which could turn the Blue Order on its ear. Things which would soon make Elizabeth and Darcy’s world very, very complicated.

Swords, poisons, and a touch of dragon fire could be required to set things back to rights. But first maybe coffee.

A fresh new gaslamp fantasy adventure in the engrossingly intricate world of Jane Austen’s Dragons. Anne McCaffrey meets Jane Austen, a perfect mix for dragon lovers and regency-era fans alike.

Featured Fantasy: Jane Austen’s Dragons by Maria Grace

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Featured Fantasy: Jane Austen's Dragons by Maria Grace

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” A top fun comfort read.”~ Gail Carriger

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a dragon.

Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley has the good fortune to be in possession of the first English firedrake egg laid in a century. Or, at least, he was until some miscreant stole it. Mr. Darcy tracks the thief to Hertfordshire. Catching the thief, however, proves to be an entirely different kettle of brimstone, especially when he encounters fellow Dragon Keeper, Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourn.

Elizabeth Bennet’s deep connection to dragons and remarkable grasp of their lore make her the ideal companion for finding the egg. It’s too bad that from their introduction she finds Darcy arrogant, conceited, and selfishly disdainful of the feelings of others.

Time is running out for Darcy to win Elizabeth’s trust and recover the precious egg before it hatches, and the fragile peace between humans and dragons is lost forever.


Meryton meets Pern in a fantastical regency romp bound to delight readers of Jane Austen and Anne McCaffrey alike.

Featured Fantasy: A Storm of Paper Starlings (Not the Same River Book 1) by Inka York

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Featured Fantasy: A Storm of Paper Starlings (Not the Same River Book 1) by Inka York

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What if the ordinary family you crave finds you? Only they’re not ordinary, neither are you, and neither are the vampire neighbours raising your twin sister.

An accident is all it takes to turn my mundane life in a London children’s home upside down.

Power and magic lurk at the priory, my new home in the Oxfordshire countryside, and I learn fast that nothing is ordinary around here. Not my newfound family—the Penhaligons. Not my long-lost twin sister. And not the hostile new neighbours—a coven of vampires, vaewolves and demons.

As I grapple with family secrets, four powerful new brothers, and latent abilities of my own, my sister and the man who raised her find themselves in mortal danger—a danger that draws me and my family into a battle to save them.

Finally embracing the meaning of family, two questions burn at the back of my mind.

If vampires and demons exist, what are the Penhaligons?

And what am I?

Featured Sci-fi: The Dragon Mage Series Book 1 – 3 by Scott Baron

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Featured Sci-fi: The Dragon Mage Series Book 1 - 3 by Scott Baron

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Charlie had all the luck. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the good kind.

Sucked through a wormhole, Charlie’s spaceship crash landed on a distant world, yet somehow he survived. But survival was about to get a lot harder as he found himself not just stranded on a new planet, but in another galaxy entirely. One ruled not by the laws of technology, but by magic. A realm of space pirates, deadly assassins, alien gladiators, and even dragons. For the spaceman from Earth, it was enough to make his head spin.
And that was only the beginning.

Welcome to the Charlieverse.

Contains Books 1-3 of the 12 book Dragon Mage series:
1. Bad Luck Charlie
2. Space Pirate Charlie
3. Dragon King Charlie

Featured Sci-fi: Space Janitor by Julia Huni

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Janitor by Julia Huni

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It’s a dirty galaxy and someone has to clean it. Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of Station Kelly Kornienko is bot-programmer Triana’s number one rule. Well, number two, right after “eat all the chocolate.”

But when one of her cleaning bots finds a dead body, all the rules go out the airlock. A highly connected security agent interrupts her routine with stories of missing bodies, and Triana can’t ignore him; it’s cooperate or find a new job. A girl has to pay the rent, even on a crappy studio compartment.

Working with a shiny detective beats a shuttle dirt-side, so Triana lends her programming skills to Agent O’Neill’s investigation. Together, they find more victims and evidence of a major cover-up.

It will take all Triana’s technical talents, most of O’Neill’s connections, and some really excellent croissants to stop the murders, save her job, and ultimately, her life.

The Vacuum of Space is the first book in a completed series.

This book was previously published as Murder is Messy

Featured Sci-fi: Stormhaven Rising (Atlas and the Winds Book One) by Eric Michael Craig

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Featured Sci-fi: Stormhaven Rising (Atlas and the Winds Book One) by Eric Michael Craig

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An extinction-level asteroid.

A divided world. One last chance.

When a rogue asteroid is discovered on a collision course with Earth, time runs out faster than governments can react.

Colton Taylor, an eccentric industrialist and architect of the global Stormhaven empire, may be the only man with the resources to stop it. But saving the world means stepping into a political battlefield where nations, power, and survival collide.

As tensions erupt across Earth and the Moon, Taylor must risk everything to save a fractured world—before humanity’s last chance slips away.

Read Stormhaven Rising today, and find out how far one man will go to save the world.