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My ebooks* and audiobooks are available through Everand (formerly Scribd). My ebooks are available through KoboPlus (You don’t need a Kobo device, the Kobo app is free for your phone, tablet, and PC.)

Everand and KoboPlus are subscriptions services, much like Kindle Unlimited. Both services have 30 day FREE Trials (conceivably, if you read fast, you can read all* my books FREE.) Learn more about KoboPlus and Everand. 

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I love to read! I also have a teenage son who consumes a gallon of milk every other day, and a growing daughter who needs new clothes and shoes on the regular.

I support my book habit by frequenting my local library. Maybe you do, too. All my books are currently available to libraries through Overdrive/Libby (the most popular app), CloudLibrary, BorrowBox, Hoopla, and more. If your local library loans out ebooks, but doesn’t have mine, they’ll have a way to request it.

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.

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*Everand isn’t featuring Magic After Midnight at this time.

Featured Sci-fi: The City Below (A 2603 Novel Book 1) by Kory M. Shrum

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Featured Sci-fi: The City Below (A 2603 Novel Book 1) by Kory M. Shrum

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A new science fiction thriller from the bestselling author of the Shadows in the Water series.

In the meticulously controlled world of Zone 2, Commander Grace Buteo has dedicated her life to keeping citizens safe from cybercrime, terrorism, and threats from the outer zones. But when an IED meant for Grace kills her husband and son, her belief in the city she protects begins to fracture.

Desperate for purpose, Grace immerses herself in a high-profile investigation: the theft of twenty-six artificial organs from a powerful genetic engineering corporation. What begins as a routine case soon exposes cracks in the city’s perfect façade—and raises unsettling questions about the people closest to her.

For fans of Philip K. Dick’s provocative science fiction and J.D. Robb’s In Death series, The City Below is a gripping blend of mystery, technology, and moral suspense.

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Featured Fantasy: The Prince’s Man (The Five Kingdoms) by Deborah Jay

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Featured Fantasy: The Prince's Man (The Five Kingdoms) by Deborah Jay

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What if the magic that could save your loved ones condemns you to death?

Rakish royal spy, Rustam Chalice, loves his life the way it is, so when the kingdom he serves is threatened from within, he leaps into action. To his dismay the spymaster prince teams him up with an untouchable aristocratic assassin. And to make matters worse, she’s the most beautiful woman in the Five Kingdoms.

Plunged into a desperate journey over the mountains, the mismatched pair struggle to survive deadly wildlife, the machinations of a spiteful god—and each other. When Rustam discovers he has magic of his own, he is forced to question his identity, his sanity, and his loyalty to his prince. For in Tyr-en, all magic users are put to death.

The Prince’s Man is the first book in The Five Kingdoms epic fantasy series. If you like action, intrigue, and magic, spiced with a touch of romance, then you’ll love Deborah Jay’s vividly realised characters.

Featured Sci-fi: End of Days by Sam J. Fires

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Featured Sci-fi: End of Days by Sam J. Fires

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From Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author…

No lights. No power. No help.

During the coldest winter on record, an EMP attack wipes out the nation’s power and cripples the country.

As the city spirals into lawless chaos, investigative journalist, twenty-six-year-old Cassandra Drews is forced onto the dangerous streets of Portland to begin the long walk to her parents’ home in Oregon.

But hypothermia and starvation aren’t the only dangers Cass and her rescue dog, Daisy, face on their perilous trek. Danger is stalking them, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Help comes in the form of troubled ex-marine Isaac Winters, who slips back into soldier mode with the city’s collapse.

Now, the trio must work together in a fight for survival as they race to escape the city before violence, or the bitter wintry storm can claim them. Do they have what it takes to make it out alive? Or will they be crushed by the brutality of the unforgiving cold?

Featured Fantasy: Gates of Hell (The Ragnarok Prophecy Book 8) by Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: Gates of Hell (The Ragnarok Prophecy Book 8) by Matt Larkin

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No one returns from Hel.

With Baldr’s death, Ragnarök has begun. Now, Odin has sent Hermod to the farthest reaches of creation to bring back his son’s soul. The son of a valkyrja, Hermod alone can make such a trek. But to do so he must descend into horrors beyond imagination.

Meanwhile, Odin begins an even more desperate gambit: to challenge the Norns themselves for control of Fate. Yet his journey will offer him knowledge he could not him imagined nor ever would have wanted …

This total reboot of Gods of the Ragnarok Era replaces and expands on that Norse-inspired epic. Mythology, horror, and dark fantasy meld together in an ice age. The Eschaton Cycle begins.

Featured Sci-fi: Ghosts (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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Featured Sci-fi: Ghosts (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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When an alien spacecraft four times the size of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier enters the solar system, tensions run hot within the UN, but the alien vessel doesn’t approach Earth. Instead, it sits off at L4, over a hundred million miles from Earth, baffling scientists from around the world. Chris ‘Crash’ Williams leads an international crew to investigate the appearance of this ghost ship, but he quickly learns that the spacecraft isn’t as dead as it seems.

Ghosts was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s 1973 novel Rendezvous with Rama, which went on to win the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Rendezvous with Rama is a classic. It examined a plausible, realistic alien encounter, considering not only the physics involved but also the inevitable politics and religious implications.

FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity’s first interaction with extraterrestrial life. This series is similar to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that the series is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows these books to be read in any order. Technically, they’re all first as they all deal with how we might initially respond to contact with aliens, exploring the social, political, religious, and scientific aspects of First Contact.

Featured Fantasy: The Spiritual Warriors (Warriors of the Way) by Orlando A. Sanchez

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Featured Fantasy: The Spiritual Warriors (Warriors of the Way) by Orlando A. Sanchez

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A WAR. A WEAPON. A WARRIOR.

After ten years of grueling training with legendary martial arts Master Wei, Dante is selected to undergo a secret tournament.

Emerging triumphant, but bloody, he is chosen to join the ancient sect of Spiritual Warriors—supernatural fighters trained to protect our very plane of existence from the Shadows of evil.

But a civil war is brewing and Dante will be forced to choose a side.

Can he embrace the darkness within to protect the light? Can Dante master this weapon without succumbing to the darkness within himself?

And will he unravel the mystery before he must face the evil of the Dark One?