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I Bring the Fire Omnibus eBook and The Defiant audiobook

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You can read (and listen to!) most of my books through subscription services:

  • Everand* (formerly Scribd) – ebooks + audiobooks
  • Kobo Plus – ebooks (no Kobo device needed—the app is free)

Both offer 30-day free trials—so if you’re a fast reader, you could get through quite a bit at no cost.

Learn more about KoboPlus and Everand. 

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You can also find my books at your local library:

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  • CloudLibrary
  • BorrowBox

If your library carries ebooks or audiobooks, there’s a good chance they have my books—or can request them.

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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.

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 Sci-fi: Star Rebels by Multiple Authors

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Featured Sci-fi: Star Rebels by Multiple Authors

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There are rebels among the stars…

Meet eleven protagonists battling to save themselves and the ones they love. Human, cyborg, clone, or alien, they’ll find themselves pitted against intergalactic crime bosses, interstellar mercenaries, a quantum-wave-riding collective mind, and the universe itself. Along the way, there’s plenty of action, adventure, humor, and even some romance.

Written by the freshest voices in science fiction, these stories are short, but they’ll light your imagination like a solar flare.

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Featured Fantasy: Shadow Magic by Multiple Authors

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Shadow Magic: Six Strong Heroines of Urban Fantasy - Multiple Authors

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Dive into six full-length urban fantasy novels by USA Today and national bestselling authors!

Escape into tales of shifters and sorceresses, gamers and bakers, demons and artifact hunters, plus one very mischievous Norse god. Full of adventure, mystery, romance, and plenty of snark, these novels will immerse you in magical worlds while you turn pages far into the night.

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

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Featured Sci-fi: Space Punks by Anna Mocikat

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Meet the Space Punks—the only ones crazy enough to challenge the Pentad’s supreme power…

David wakes up in a high-security prison on the forsaken Martian moon Deimos with no memory of his past. A chance encounter with Aztec, a deadly purple-haired cyborg, propels him into a daring jailbreak. She brings him on board a mysterious warship manned by the most notorious and badass crew of the galaxy—the Space Punks.

One hundred years ago AI waged a devastating war against its human creators. Humanity won, but barely and at a horrible price. Ever since, the solar system has been strictly controlled by the Pentad, a ruthless coalition of megacorporations.

As David tries to regain his memory, he finds himself fighting battles between mechs, cyborgs, robots and super-soldiers alongside his new brothers and sisters-in-arms.

But is there more to the Space Punks than meets the eye? Everyone on board, human and cyborg alike, seems to have their own secret agenda.

Needless to say, the Pentad sends out their best people to get rid of this unruly menace.

And in the shadows lurks the seemingly defeated enemy, a threat to all humankind, ready to strike again…

Space Punks is a sexy, adrenaline-fueled ride for fans of Firefly and Guardians of the Galaxy!

From the bestselling, internationally-published author of Behind Blue Eyes!

Featured Sci-fi: Stories of the Orphan Corp by Earl T. Roske

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Featured Sci-fi: Stories of the Orphan Corp by Earl T. Roske

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Could Sgt Seavers’s mission kill him?

Yes. Yes, it could.

Sgt Seavers of the Orphan Corps is having a run of bad luck. First, he gets in a fight with three marines while on a space station. Second, he wins that fight. And now, after learning he was being considered for officer candidate training, he is informed of his penance.

Can Seavers handle a resentful platoon of Marines? Can he do it while delivering medical aid to a suspicious colony of terraformers?

To get back his chance at officer candidate training, he’ll do his best. Or die trying.

If you love a good military adventure, crossed with sci-fi worthy of Andre Norton and Asimov, then Rescue on Gimhae is the story you’re looking for.

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Featured Sci-fantasy: Zombies vs Aliens vs Vampires vs Dinosaurs by Jeff Abugov

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Featured Sci-fantasy: Zombies vs Aliens vs Vampires vs Dinosaurs by Jeff Abugov

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When a highly sophisticated race of alien insects arrive to exterminate mankind, mythical creatures from human lore turn out to be more real than anyone imagined. It is an epic battle for the preservation of our planet, and no one is left out. Oh, and some of them fall in love.

“A chaotic, full-throttle parody that’s as smart as it is slimy.” – Kirkus Reviews

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Featured Fantasy: Shadow Blade Series by Yasmine Galenorn

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There are some places even a demon fears to tread…

My name is Kyann, and I’m half-demon. I grew up on the streets, learning how to take care of myself early on. I also learned, with the help of my best friend, how to control my darker side.

Now, together with Dante, a wolf shifter who’s too hot for his own good, I own a supernatural PI firm. We investigate everything from wayward pixies to vampire stalkers.

While checking out the murder of a local member of the Witches Guild, we uncover a demonic force trying to creep into the area, one that feels oddly familiar to me.

As we race to solve the murder, I start piecing together scattered pieces of my past. Now, not only are we embroiled in a murder, but I seem to be on a collision course with the dark secrets of my birth.