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May 3, 2026 by Carolynn

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

Find Libraries that Offer Libby/Overdrive

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.

Filed Under: Free Ebooks Tagged With: KoboPlus, Libby, Overdrive, Scribd

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

June 11, 2026 by Carolynn

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

FREE as of June 11, 2026
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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?

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A Storm of Paper Starlings, Inka York, Not the Same River

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

June 11, 2026 by Carolynn

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

99¢ as of June 11, 2026
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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

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Bad Luck Charlie, Scott Baron

Featured Sci-fi: Space Janitor by Julia Huni

June 11, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Space Janitor by Julia Huni

START THE SERIES FREE—Book 2 only 99¢
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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

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Julia Huni, Space Janitor

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

June 9, 2026 by Carolynn

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

FREE as of June 8, 2026
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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.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Atlas and the Winds Book One, Eric Michael Craig, Stormhaven Rising

Featured Sci-fi: D-Day (Time Patrol Series) by Bob Mayer

June 9, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: D-Day (Time Patrol Series) by Bob Mayer

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June 6th. Six dates in history. One mission: Save D-Day—or watch our timeline disappear forever.

The Shadow strikes again, this time targeting the most pivotal day in modern history: D-Day, June 6, 1944. But the invasion of Normandy is only one of six simultaneous attacks across time. From ancient Greece to prehistoric France, from West Point to the storming of Omaha Beach, the Time Patrol must defend history itself against an enemy that can strike anywhere, anywhen.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Bob Mayer, D-Day, Time Patrol

Featured Sci-fi: Legacy of Pandora (Shan Takhu Legacy: Book One) by Eric Michael Craig

June 8, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Legacy of Pandora (Shan Takhu Legacy: Book One) by Eric Michael Craig

FREE as of June 8, 2026
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Stranded beyond the edge of civilization.

One crew. One secret. One shot at survival.

Commander Jephora Cochrane and the crew of the Jakob Waltz stumble upon a secret lost to time — a half-billion-year-old relic that could change humanity’s path through history.

Cut off from civilization and surrounded by uncertainty, Cochrane must lead his crew through chaos, betrayal, and shifting loyalties toward a discovery powerful enough to rewrite the past and change the future.

But with danger closing in and no one left to trust, survival is far from guaranteed. If Cochrane can’t navigate the maze of hidden agendas and keep his crew alive, humanity may never learn the truth.

Legacy of Pandora is Sci-Fi Suspense at its best. If you loved The Expanse, or The Arrival, be sure to grab yours today!

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Eric Michael Craig, Legacy of Pandora, Shan Takhu Legacy

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