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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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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: Brews and Clues (Hallow’s Promise Book 1) by A.N. Payton

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Featured Fantasy: Brews and Clues (Hallow's Promise Book 1) by A.N. Payton

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CSI meets fantasy – with a dash of cozy!

Trouble is brewing in Hallow’s Promise…

Rae wants to steep in the success of her magic potion wagon, BREW-TEA-FUL, and sell drinks that help the residents of Hallow’s Promise. She certainly doesn’t want to assist the town’s investigator in solving another murder. Except this crime has a personal link to her own history: the victim came from the same place she’d once escaped. Rae agrees to help with the case on one condition: it’s her last one.

But her “last” case simmers with danger, dark connections to her past, and a delicious man with a really big…sword. While dodging increasing threats, juggling a creature that keeps trying to eat (dead) people, Rae eventually faces her greatest challenge of all: determining if the life she’s built in Hallow’s Promise is worth risking everything.

Grab a hot beverage, a warm blanket, and curl up for this almost-cozy fantasy murder mystery, spiced with magic, sweetened with new friendships, and stewed especially for you.

Featured Sci-fi: Level One (Galactic Merc Book 1) by Chris Kennedy

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Featured Sci-fi: Level One (Galactic Merc Book 1) by Chris Kennedy

Expected to be 99¢ from September 26-October 3rd, 2026
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Jack Taylor was having a bad night. And that was before the aliens showed up.

Abducted by Gray slavers and hauled across the galaxy, Jack wakes up months later with no money, no way home, and exactly one viable career option:

Mercenary.

But there are problems. Jack has no military training, no combat experience, no nanites, and no clue how to survive an alien battlefield. According to the software implanted in his head, he doesn’t even qualify as a Level One merc.

He’s Level Zero.

Jack will have to to train, fight, earn credits, and level up fast—because getting killed doesn’t pay very well, and the galaxy is far more dangerous than anything he ever wrote about.

And then he discovers the truth about Earth—aliens have been interfering with humanity for thousands of years.

Suddenly, getting home is no longer enough. Jack needs to become rich, powerful, and dangerous so he can do something about it.

But first, he’ll have to survive Level One.

For fans of Reluctant Emissary, Psyker Marine, Drone Ensign, and other military LitRPG science fiction. What does destiny have in store for you?

Featured Fantasy: The Midnight Pack (Jericho James Book 1) by Jasmine Kuliasha

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Featured Fantasy: The Midnight Pack (Jericho James Book 1) by Jasmine Kuliasha

FREE as of September 21, 2026
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Jericho James is in over her head.

She’s a Private Investigator famed for debunking mythical creature sightings, and she expects her latest case in Stillbridge, Maine, to be just another instance of “town who cried wolf.” But instead of finding a poorly judged animal in the Northeastern woods, Jericho discovers a family of reclusive scientists. Handsome scientists, no less, working on a cure for a mystery virus.

Intrigued by the virus and utterly captivated by Benjamin—a man with cheekbones that must have been chiseled by God himself—Jericho finds she’s dying to learn more about the family and their work.

And when she accidentally discovers the family’s secret, she might just get her wish.

Featured Fantasy: Heir to Magic (Tales of the Misplaced) by Adam K. Watts

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Featured Fantasy: Heir to Magic (Tales of the Misplaced) by Adam K. Watts

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International Impact Book Awards Winner

A spell gone wrong. A teenage girl fighting for survival. The fate of a world hangs in the balance.

A splintered portal spell strands sixteen-year-old Mira in a magical realm where she is befriended by a sprite assassin and attacked by goblins. Mira must learn how to survive a world callously ruled by the Sidhe, with a revolution of the downtrodden races of the land looming over her head.

Mira gets entangled in a fight that will eventually decide the fate of the realm. Along the way, she discovers that she can make a difference. Eventually, Mira must decide whether the plight of this world she finds herself in is as important as getting home.

Featured Sci-fi: Extinction Horizon (The Extinction Cycle Book 1) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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Featured Sci-fi: Extinction Horizon (The Extinction Cycle Book 1) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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A mission that doesn’t exist. A threat that could end us all.
A rapidly spreading outbreak no one can contain.

When a covert Medical Corps facility goes dark, it triggers a classified response. Master Sergeant Reed Beckham has led Delta Force Team Ghost through every kind of hell imaginable—and never lost a man. But this time, his team is deployed to contain a biological outbreak that has already escaped.

By the time they return to Fort Bragg, it’s spreading and turning people into Variants: hyper-fast, intelligent, and ravenous predators. Bullets and bombs can slow them, but they won’t stop them. Only science might.

As outbreaks escalate and cities begin to collapse, the military launches Operation Reaper—firebombing infected zones in a desperate attempt to slow the advance. In the middle of the chaos, Team Ghost is ordered to keep CDC virologist Dr. Kate Lovato alive while she searches for a cure.

What she uncovers is a terrifying truth and a solution that could either save humanity or destroy what remains. Because sometimes, to kill a monster… you have to create one.

Grounded in real science and military precision, Extinction Horizon is a pulse-pounding race against time where the only thing more dangerous than the virus is the lengths humanity will go to survive it.

Experience the first book in the global bestselling Extinction Cycle series, by New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sansbury Smith (Hell Divers), revised in this definitive edition and included in Kindle Unlimited for the first time!

This edition also includes an exclusive new prequel novella, Extinction Kill Zone!

Featured Sci-fi: Between (Stellar Bridge Book 1) by Maureen Miller

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Featured Sci-fi: Between (Stellar Bridge Book 1) by Maureen Miller

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New York City hides a portal to another world.

Six years ago, Marda lost her husband and daughters to a portal linking Earth to her planet. It was supposed to be safe—just an ancient corridor between two worlds. But sometimes, people get trapped inside it.

Marda calls that void the BETWEEN.

Now the portal is acting up again. In the middle of Central Park, people are vanishing.

Ben, a burnt-out Wall Street analyst.
Lily, a dreamer trapped in a suffocating life.
Tony, a young caregiver with nothing left to lose.

Their paths collide in a place that defies logic.

The BETWEEN took Marda’s family. Now she’s willing to let it take her too—if it means she can find them again.

From USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen A. Miller comes an emotional sci-fi mystery about loss, resilience, and a mother’s refusal to give up.

This is the first book in a series, but it can be read as a standalone novel. No cliffhangers.