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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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Find Your My eBooks and Audiobooks at Your Local Library with Overdrive/Libby, CloudLibrary, Hoopla, and More

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.

Find Libraries that Offer Libby/Overdrive

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

Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 – 11 by Baileigh Higgins

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Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 - 11 by Baileigh Higgins

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Discover A Savage Prehistoric World Lost To Time

Born 75 million years ago, Ridley has never known anything beyond the primeval wilderness and its primordial beasts. Fierce and headstrong, she’s no stranger to adversity and loves the thrill of the chase. When she learns about an extreme endurance race, she jumps at the chance to compete in the most dangerous competition in history.

A thrilling adventure awaits as Ridley and her loyal wolf companion, Loki, set off in pursuit of the ultimate prize. The competition is fierce, with cutthroat competitors, savage predators, and rugged terrain standing in their way. But Ridley is determined to prove herself and come out on top, no matter the cost.

Join Ridley and Loki as they face challenges and danger at every turn, pushing their limits and testing their survival skills. Will they be able to outwit, outsmart, and outlast the competition?

This heart-pumping tale of adventure and perseverance includes the entire Primordial World series and will keep you on the edge of your seat until the end. The first series in the Primordial Universe, Primordial Earth, can be enjoyed separately as part of its own collection.

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Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

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Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

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A standalone cozy romance filled with books, baby dragons, and happily ever after guaranteed!

Emmy has an enemy, and his name is Luke. The good news? She rarely sees him. The bad news? When she does, she (and her pet dragons) are reminded just how handsome he is.

Besides, Emmy is too busy focusing on her dragon-fuelled business to have time for love. But when both she and Luke approach the same local investor for funding, she’s suddenly unable to avoid him. The kookie investor insists they must compete for the cash by working at the local failing baby dragon bookshop to prove their magical business knowledge.

Determined to win the funding, Emmy dives into the task. But making a very flammable bookshop fit for baby dragons is no small feat, and it seems these rivals may need to join forces. Could Luke and Emmy’s fiery animosity spark something more between them?

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Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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The capstone and crowning achievement of  the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction…

Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein’s longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.

Featured Fantasy: Under Dark Skies (Nightshade Forensic FBI Files Book 1) by A.J. Scudiere

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Featured Fantasy: Nightshade (Forensic FBI Files Book 1) by A.J. Scudiere

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The supernatural isn’t hiding in the woods. It’s getting recruited into the FBI.
Their first case could break them both…

Eleri Eames thought her career as an FBI analyst was over after her last case got her committed for psychiatric help. When she’s offered a chance to be an agent with the secret NightShade division, it feels like a second chance. But her new partner may be hiding more than she is, and he and NightShade are both not what she expected.

Donovan Heath was content in the morgue, his uncanny abilities making him a sought-after medical examiner. When his wins start drawing unwanted attention, that offer from the Bureau starts looking like a solution. NightShade needs the unusual edge he brings. Donovan understands what he is makes him a target, but Eleri might just figure him out before he can decide if he even trusts her.

Thrown together on their first assignment, they’ll have to track a charismatic cult leader, solvea high-profile kidnapping, and navigate a world where nothing is as it seems. As NightShade’s mysteries grow darker, the line between what they hunt and what they are blurs.
Will their secrets save them or destroy them?

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Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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The surprise attack within the Auriga Star System was worse than brutal, it was heinous—leaving the US-Navy’s 3rd Fleet decimated. Thousands of crew are reported dead, including the ship’s Captain.

Reluctantly, the young XO, Galvin Quintos, will be taking command of the fleet’s crippled dreadnaught, the USS Hamilton, while doing his best to bring fleet survivors back to Earth.

Going from bad to worse, a murderer is running loose onboard the ship. Add to that fuel levels are critically low, and the Grish are back and in fast pursuit—ready to finish what they’d started. Only by sheer luck, along with a good measure of cagey smarts, will Quintos be able to rise to the challenge.

Featured Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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Featured Sci-fi: On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber

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INTRODUCING
HONOR HARRINGTON

Having made him look a fool, she’s been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.

Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship’s humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.

The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.

Parliament isn’t sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called “Republic” of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn’t work to police the entire star system.

But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They’ve made her mad.