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

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

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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 Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (The Viking Witch Mysteries Book 1) by Cate Martin

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Featured Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (The Viking Witch Mysteries Book 1) by Cate Martin

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When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother’s small town in northern Minnesota.

The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother.

All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day.

If not for her beloved cat Mjolner, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her.

But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes. And finds trouble in the form of a dead body before she even finds her grandmother’s little town. How much can a town of stoic fishermen possibly be hiding?

As Ingrid is about to find out, quite a lot.

Featured Sci-fi: The Token Complete Series by Nathan Hystad

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Featured Sci-fi: The Token Complete Series by Nathan Hystad

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THE TOKEN: THE COMPLETE SERIES is a 1200 page science fiction thriller that’ll have you reading to the last page.

The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered…

Silas visits his estranged grandfather’s lakehouse, in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier.

Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she’s thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.

Special Agent Waylen Brooks exposes a covert operation linked to the death of a retired astronaut. He soon finds out he’s not the only one searching for answers, and willing to kill for the truth.

The unlikely trio find themselves defying the odds, with no one to trust but each other.

Aliens are among us, but who will stop the invasion?

From the best-selling author of Ethos, The Event, First Life, The Other Place, and Lost Contact.

Included Inside:

Echoes From the Moon: The Token Book One
Shadows of the Earth: The Token Book Two
Warmth of the Sun: The Token Book Three

Featured Sci-fi: Echoes of Tomorrow by Alexander Titus & Sean Platt

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Featured Sci-fi: Echoes of Tomorrow by Alexander Titus & Sean Platt

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First Place BookFest Award Winner — Sci-Fi Series

Earth is gone.
Humanity has one last world.

On the distant planet DaVinci, the survivors of Earth’s fungal apocalypse try to build a future. But the alien Bloom that blankets the planet carries a devastating side effect: no child can be born.

Until one scientist breaks the rules.

Dr. Samara Makinde engineers the impossible… a daughter designed to survive the alien world. The child should save humanity.

Instead, she changes it.

Across generations, DaVinci becomes a battleground. Geneticists push the limits of human evolution. Religious zealots rise in rebellion. Hybrid outcasts blur the line between human and alien. And when a mysterious billionaire arrives with cyborg servants and technology centuries beyond anything the colony possesses, the fight for humanity’s future turns into something far more dangerous.

Because survival isn’t the only thing at stake.

Who gets to decide what humanity becomes?

The Echoes of Tomorrowbox set contains the complete four-book science fiction saga by Alexander Titus and Sean Platt, a sweeping, cinematic story of alien worlds, forbidden science, rogue machines, and the evolution of the human race.

Featured Fantasy: The Nameless Throne (The Inkweaver Archive) by Lisa Cassidy

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An ambitious orphan. A ruthless warlord. An impossible destiny.

Arya Nameless is a lowly Raider posted to an isolated fort in the most dangerous place in Dunidaen. She has few prospects, and as much as she loves her fellow soldiers, she burns for more—more control, more autonomy, more power.

When her bravery during an unexpected attack leads to an offer to join the household of one of Dunidaen’s warlords, Arya finds a home and family she never expected. Yet her quicksilver temper and fierce pride put her place there at constant risk.

And as her warlord embroils them all in a dangerous political game to rule Dunidaen, over the border to the west, the Nightstalker lurks. A king who wields powerful magic, the Nightstalker’s fate is inextricably entwined with Arya’s. His relentless pursuit will force Arya into a choice she doesn’t want to make … between the family she would die to protect, and the power she may need to destroy everything he stands for.

Perfect for readers who love wyvern bonds, dangerous courts, fierce found family, and an underdog’s rise to a stolen throne — a complete four-book epic fantasy

Featured Sci-fi: The Forever World by Ethan Rhodes

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Featured Sci-fi: The Forever World by Ethan Rhodes

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On a routine border patrol, pilot Zane Lucas encounters a mysterious cluster of drones. When he reports it to the Scorpius head office, they quickly sweep it under the intergalactic rug and place him on leave.

That same night, Zane is contacted by an estate lawyer from the distant planet Earth and learns he’s the sole beneficiary of a person he’s never met. Determined to get answers, he finds himself thrust into a dead man’s quest, along with a resourceful colleague, Julia Rossi.

Zane’s mission is tied to an old myth based on The Forever World book.

His father used to read it at bedtime, before he went missing during a bloody war with the Gral twenty years earlier. Their alliance is on the brink of collapse and the revolution is just beginning.

Can Zane find The Forever World, if it in fact exists?

Would this fabled planet help restore the balance?

Time is running out, and the drones are multiplying.

Featured Sci-fi: Rebirth (The Evolution Gene Book 1) by Aaron Hodges

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Featured Sci-fi: Rebirth (The Evolution Gene Book 1) by Aaron Hodges

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America has fallen. The Western Allied States rose from its ashes—and it does not forgive.

Eighteen-year-old Chris never thought of himself as a traitor. He doesn’t get the chance to argue otherwise. Taken in the night, he wakes in a facility buried deep in the Californian mountains—and he isn’t alone.

Elizabeth Flores has been running her whole life, ever since the night soldiers took her parents. With a brutal winter closing in, she risks everything to reach Sacramento. The hunters find her first.

Now they’re both “volunteers” in the Praegressus Project—a government initiative to enhance the human race. Stripped of their rights, Chris and Elizabeth must work together to survive the torturous experiments. Every day is a test, and every mistake has a cost. The regime doesn’t waste resources on failures.

But only the lucky ones get to die.