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I Bring the Fire Omnibus eBook and The Defiant audiobook

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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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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: Bigfoot Bay Witches Books 1 – 3 by Cat Larson

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Featured Fantasy: Bigfoot Bay Witches Books 1 - 3 by Cat Larson

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Magic. Mayhem. Murder.

Just your typical day in Bigfoot Bay.

When Samm Hain left her small town 13 years ago to escape her witchy past, she never expected to return.

And when mysterious circumstances bring her back, she never expects to stay, dealing with one mystical mishap after another.

It’s enough to drive a girl batty.

As if that weren’t enough? She’s forced to tackle it all with her bewitched fiancé and no counterspell in sight.

This box set contains the first 3 full-length novels and bonus prequel in the Bigfoot Bay Witches paranormal cozy mystery series:
Witch on Ice
Bewitched Brew
Witch Bane and The Croaking Game
Away with the Fairies

Witch on Ice – Book 1:

When Samm Hain (aka reluctant witch extraordinaire) returns to her hometown after a 13-year absence, she has the misfortune to stumble upon her childhood nemesis frozen solid in a wall of ice.

So how did she end up the one taking all the heat?

Bewitched Brew – Book 2:

When the tavern fool is found floating in a vat of green beer at the local Irish pub, Samm can’t help but get charmed into the case.
She’s stuck in a town named after a hairy beast with her fiancé-turned-frog – what else has she got to do?

Besides, she might have been the last one to see Old Man Callahan alive…

Witch Bane and The Croaking Game – Book 3:

Someone is poisoning the townspeople of Bigfoot Bay and everyone’s a suspect… including the frog.

Away with the Fairies – Bonus Prequel:

Plant-whispering Sage and tea leaf-reading Violet travel from mystical Bigfoot Bay to a rural Irish village high up in the Wicklow Mountains where the fairy-faith abounds.

Hang on to your lucky shamrocks, girls. Because you’ve never seen magic like this before.

Other books in the Bigfoot Bay Witches series:
Witch Haunt – Book 4
The Witch is Back – Book 5
The Big Day Brew-HaHa – Book 6

Featured Science Fiction: Qualify (The Atlantis Grail Book 1) by Vera Nazarian

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Featured Science Fiction: Qualify (The Atlantis Grail Book 1) by Vera Nazarian

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You have two options. You die, or you Qualify.

The year is 2047. An extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, and the descendants of ancient Atlantis have returned from the stars in their silver ships to offer humanity help.

But there’s a catch.

They can only take a tiny percent of the Earth’s population back to the colony planet Atlantis. And in order to be chosen, you must be a teen, you must be bright, talented, and athletic, and you must Qualify.

Sixteen-year-old Gwenevere Lark is determined not only to Qualify but to rescue her entire family.

Because there’s a loophole.

If you are good enough to Qualify, you are eligible to compete in the brutal games of the Atlantis Grail, which grants all winners the laurels, high tech luxuries, and full privileges of Atlantis Citizenship. And if you are in the Top Ten, then all your wildest wishes are granted… Such as curing your mother’s cancer.

There is only one problem.

Gwen Lark is known as a klutz and a nerd. While she’s a hotshot in classics, history, science, and languages, the closest she’s come to sports is a backyard pool and a skateboard.

This time she is in over her head, and in for a fight of her life, against impossible odds and world-class competition—including Logan Sangre, the most amazing guy in her school, the one she’s been crushing on, and who doesn’t seem to know she exists.

Because every other teen on Earth has the same idea.

You Qualify or you die.

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Featured Fantasy: Escape (Lake Of Sins Book One) by L.S. O’Dea

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Featured Fantasy: Escape (Lake Of Sins Book One) by L.S. O'Dea

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Every year after harvest the weakest are removed from the encampment. None of them are ever seen or heard from again.

Trinity’s only hope of escape lies in the forest. She’s not afraid of the creatures that live there. There’s nothing bigger than foxes in those woods, except this time something is different.

This time she’s hunted from land and sea by predators that should only exist in legends.
Surrounded by three enemies. Surrender is her only option, but which one should she choose?

A captivating dystopian read filled with human-animal hybrids and creatures you’ve never even imagined.

Featured Science Fiction: The Chaos Job (Jackpot Drift Book 1) by T.M. Baumgartner

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Featured Science Fiction: The Chaos Job (Jackpot Drift Book 1) by T.M. Baumgartner

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How do you hide a chaos god on a partially terraformed world? Sil stays on her hilltop farm, the payout from 20 years fighting the border wars.

But the farm’s damaged AI herds sheep into symbols visible from orbit. Not knowing how to channel the chaos elsewhere, Sil enlists the help of a former enemy soldier.

Sparks fly when chaos and luck collide.

Ride along on this extraordinary space western full of gods, AIs, nanobots, and hope.

Welcome to Jackpot Drift!

Featured Sci-fantasy: The Dragonriders of Pern (Books 1 – 3) by Anne McCaffrey

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Featured Sci-fantasy: The Dragonriders of Pern (Books 1 - 3) by Anne McCaffrey

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Together in one volume—the first three books in the world’s most beloved science-fiction series!

DRAGONFLIGHT

On a beautiful world called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack. Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthright stolen—a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. But when an ancient threat reemerges, Lessa will rise—upon the back of a great dragon with whom she shares a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Together, dragon and rider will fly, and Pern will be changed forever.

DRAGONQUEST

Since Lessa and Ramoth, her golden queen dragon, traveled into the past to bring forward a small army of dragons and riders to save their world from deadly alien spores, fear and desperation have spread across the land. But while the dragonriders struggle with threats both human and otherworldly, a young rider named F’nor and his brown dragon, Canth, hatch a bold plan to destroy the alien scourge at its source—the baleful Red Star that fills the heavens and promises doom to all. 

THE WHITE DRAGON

Never in the history of Pern has there been a dragon like Ruth. Mocked by other dragons for his small size and pure white color, Ruth is smart, brave, and loyal—qualities that he shares with his rider, the young Lord Jaxom. Unfortunately, Jaxom is also looked down upon by his fellow lords, and by other riders as well. His dreams of joining the dragonriders in defending Pern are dismissed. What else can Jaxom and Ruth do but strike out on their own, pursuing in secret all they are denied? But in doing so, the two friends will find themselves facing a desperate choice—one that will push their bond to the breaking point . . . and threaten the future of Pern itself.

Feature Sci-fi: SPACE COLONY ONE Books 1 – 3 by J.J. Green

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Feature Fantasy: SPACE COLONY ONE SERIES by J.J. Green

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Terror stalks a new world colony.

After nearly two hundred years’ space travel, humanity’s first deep space colony expedition has arrived at its new home.

Ethan, the descendant of six generations who lived and died aboard ship, treads on soil and feels the wind and rain for the first time.

But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators lurk beyond the camp’s perimeter, and stowaway saboteurs are determined no one will survive.

Tensions in the new colony rise, and Ethan must fight to preserve the last hope of humankind.

Download books 1 to 3 today and start this epic space colonization adventure!