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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 Weapon Books 1 – 3 by Richard Fox

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Featured Sci-fi: The Weapon Books 1 - 3 by Richard Fox

99¢ as of July 9, 2025
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1000+ Pages of explosive military sci-fi action await in the complete The Weapon Series from Richard Fox.

On the battlefields of the future, death is not the end for a soldier.

The Revenant Program collects badly wounded soldiers broken by war and converts them into unthinking, unfeeling cyborg weapons. Their bodies are immune to pain, their minds impervious to fear and doubt. All controlled by a neural implant called the Imperative.

They are the ideal force for any mission too deadly or too difficult for normal men. A force that answers to the darkest corners of the military.

But when one of the Revenants awakens, he can only remember two things: that he must fight, and a code name…Dead Man.

Who was he before he became a Revenant? What are the officers and scientists controlling the program to do with a soldier that can question the horrific orders he’s given?

The more those controlling the Dead Man learn of who he was, they realize they may have turned a monster into something truly unstoppable. And with every memory recovered, the Imperative drives the Dead Man closer to insanity.

The Weapon is a new series by best-selling military science fiction author Richard Fox, author of the Ember War Saga and Governor: Ascent to Empire.

Featured Sci-fi: On Impact (Reliance Sinclair Space Opera Book 2) by Heather Texle

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Featured Sci-fi: On Impact (Reliance Sinclair Space Opera Book 2) by Heather Texle

New Release—Sequel to On Impulse
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They turned me into a weapon. Now I’m the only one who can stop them.

When an assassin kills a Ritruvian official using an illegal bionic weapon, the galaxy teeters on the edge of war. My team must locate the remaining weapons and shut down Tazza Industries, the company that developed them.

I have history with Tazza. Six months ago, they used me as a test subject, implanting a cutting-edge chip into my brain designed for espionage and covert operations. Instead of killing me, it gave me a deadly advantage—and a purpose.

To take them down and avoid an interplanetary war, I’ll need to confront my darkest fears—and trust the lethal skills I never wanted.

Featured Sci-fi: Starship Found (Alien Ship for Sale Books 1 – 4) by Miles Rozak

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Featured Sci-fi: Starship Found (Alien Ship for Sale Books 1 - 4) by Miles Rozak

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1,500+ pages kick off with the #1 Space Marine bestseller and #1 new release in Space Opera… now expanded with all-new scenes and available for one low price!

What would you do if the night you discovered a starship, your four-year-old son went missing?

Tyson Gage has no choice but one—which even for the Marine Corps vet—seems impossible: leave life on Earth behind to mount a rescue among the stars…

Eight hundred years from our time.

Destiny awaits where the war over artifacts connects to our past and future. Surrounded by factions and tech more deadly and awesome than he can imagine, he’ll have to prove himself to be selected for special ops…

Where he’ll ascend—reloaded, reborn—as one of the galaxy’s greats.

This box set contains Books 1-4 in the Alien Ship for Sale series (Starship Found, Child Missing; Star Centurion; The Son Returns; and Code Red Bounty).

If you like action-packed military scifi with discovery, humor, and strong characters, join those who’ve already discovered this #1 Amazon Scifi bestseller. Join Gage’s quest to recover his son while learning how to lead in his first command.

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Featured Science Fiction: Lucky’s Marines the Ultimate Collection by Joshua James

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Featured Science Fiction: Lucky's Marines by Joshua James

99¢ as of July 9, 2025
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Over 3,000 pages of nonstop action!

INCLUDES TWO BONUS STORIES AND AN EXCLUSIVE AFTERWORD

“Like Starship Troopers on CRACK!” -Goodreads reviewer

The name’s Lance Corporal Lucky Lee Savage. I’ve survived 157 missions, not because I’m good—because I’m lucky. But now my luck’s wearing thin.

What started as a standard op turned into a nightmare. My squad’s decimated, we’re stranded on some backwater planet, and we’re facing an enemy with weapons that can slice through Empire destroyers like they’re made of paper.

Worse, I’ve learned these freaks are pawns of something ancient—the Da’hune, aliens planning a full-scale invasion of our universe. And somehow, I’m connected to them through a darkness inside me called the Hate.

With only Rocky—my smartass AI copilot—on my side, I’m facing an impossible choice: unleash the monster inside me or watch two universes fall. This darkness might be our only hope—if it doesn’t devour me first.

If you like your military sci-fi brutal, your heroes damaged, and your stakes cosmic—welcome to my universe.

Includes all 13 books in the Lucky’s Marines series:

  • Lucky Universe
  • Lucky Legacy
  • Lucky Empire
  • Lucky Forever
  • Lucky Invasion
  • Lucky Revenge
  • Lucky Justice
  • Lucky Bastard
  • Lucky At Last
  • Lucky’s Mercs: Retribution
  • Lucky’s Mercs: Rebellion
  • Lucky’s Mercs: Resurgence
  • Lucky’s Mercs: Reloaded

Praise for Lucky Universe:

“This sucker is a grab your ass and hang on ride! Full throttle action from page one through the epilogue.” -Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

“A great military sci-fi novel! … The fight scenes are fast-paced and intense. There are lots and I do mean lots of twists and turns in the plot. Nothing is quite as it seems.” –Errant Dreams review

“One of the things that marks this book out from other military SF novels is the twists and turns. Just when you think you have it figured out, the author throws another one in. In hindsight, you can see how it all links together and how it drove the characters.” –SF Crows Nest review

“Do yourself a favor if you love sci-fi with nonstop action, great character depth and environments that are off the charts, read this series!” -Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

Featured Fantasy: Prophecy of the Forgotten Fae Complete Series by Tessonja Odette

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Featured Fantasy: Prophecy of the Forgotten Fae Complete Series by Tessonja Odette

New Release
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This COMPLETE SERIES COLLECTION includes all three books in the trilogy in a single volume: A Throne of Shadows, A Cage of Crystal, and A Fate of Flame.

A feisty outlaw.
A conniving prince.
A war of magic and shadows.

Wanted by the crown for a murder she didn’t commit, Cora dreams of getting revenge on the mage who framed her. In the meantime, she hides in the forest and hones her witch magic. But when she discovers her enemy’s violent hunt for rare and endangered unicorns, she forms a plan for vengeance.

Prince Teryn, heir to a bankrupt throne, will do anything to keep his country from sinking into ruin. When he meets an outlawed witch wanted by a neighboring kingdom, he gets his chance. The woman has an impressive bounty on her head, one that could pay off his kingdom’s debts.

If Teryn can help Cora save a few magical creatures, he can gain her trust, hand her over to her king, and collect the bounty. But Cora has plans of her own, and none of them include being betrayed by her handsome new traveling companion.

The closer Cora and Teryn get to their desires, the harder their tasks become. And it isn’t just their budding attraction that’s the problem. A secret war is coming, one stemming from ancient feuds and forgotten fae magic. They must work together to stop it, or else both their kingdoms will crumble to ash.

PROPHECY OF THE FORGOTTEN FAE is perfect for fans of Throne of Glass, Air Awakens,andShadow and Bone. If you like fierce witches, a sassy unicorn familiar, and a slow burn enemies-to-allies-to-lovers romance that spans all three books, then you’ll love this epic romantic fantasy tale.

PROPHECY OF THE FORGOTTEN FAE is an upper YA/NA fantasy that contains moderate violence/gore and adult situations. The romance is sloooow burn, leading to open-door mildly steamy scenes in the third book.

Featured Fantasy: Fated to the Frost King (Frostbound Court Book 1) by Robin D. Mahle & Elle Madison

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Featured Fantasy: Fated to the Frost King (Frostbound Court Book 1) by Robin D. Mahle & Elle Madison

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A brutal Frost King. A bastard fae bride. A bond neither of them wanted.

Everly Elarion never asked to be chosen. A bastard with a dangerous lineage, she’s spent her life surviving in the shadows of powerful men. Now she’s being forced to marry one.

Draven Ashwynter, the Frostgrave King, rules the Winter Court with an iron will and a heart carved from ice. Just when the kingdom teeters on the edge of ruin, the Court’s Visionary comes forth with a solution: the king’s fated mate has been found.

He’s meant to receive a match to his power. An equal. Instead, he gets Everly. She’s illegitimate, defiant, and the last woman who would ever kneel to a king.

She doesn’t trust him. He doesn’t want her. But fate never asked their permission.

As enemies close in and old magics stir beneath the ice, their cold alliance begins to thaw into something far more dangerous than desire. Because in a court ruled by frost and blood, love isn’t just a weakness.

It’s a weapon.

And when war comes for the court, it may not be the kingdom that shatters first.

Fated to the Frost King is a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy, perfect for fans of Shield of Sparrows, Carissa Broadbent, and Sarah J. Maas.