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Stories to get lost in.
Worlds to come home to.
Settle in with R.E. Carr’s welcoming worlds, wonderfully human heroines, monsters with opinions, and one bakery where a little magic is always on the menu.
01 Find your next escape
A little magic
for every mood.
From cozy kitchens to unruly supernatural adventures, every shelf holds a world worth settling into.
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Xenia’s Bakery
for Beasts
Xenia wanted an escape. She got a magical portal, a sleepy town menaced by organized crime, and an orcish horde with an appetite. Time to start baking.
- Female lead
- Portal fantasy
- Found family
False Icons · Book three
Halfhearted
Hunter
Five years of literal hell. Full comic-book amnesia. Dryads, sun-walking vampires, a baby minotaur, and one wizard ex-boyfriend. Second chances are complicated.
- Urban fantasy
- Found chaos
- Armageddon-ish
False Icons · Book four
Deviant Dark
Dryads
A monstrous mother. Demon matchmaking. A bomb-wielding father. A supernatural war. Some families exchange holiday cards; this one threatens the fabric of reality.
- Demons
- Dark comedy
- Chosen family
02 Browse every shelf
Four ways
into the chaos.
Choose a universe here, then choose any title below. The whole library stays on this page.
03 Complete in six
Rules
Undying
Vampires, werewolves, ancient laws, messy loyalties, and heroines who refuse to stay at the bottom of the food chain.
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Rules Undying · Book one
Four
Gail finally finds legitimate work—except her new boss has been dead for centuries. One interview later, everything Hollywood taught her about vampires is wrong, including the part where they never fall in love.
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Rules Undying · Book two
Six
Paige Carmichael has built a quiet life around one rule: never rock the boat. Then her estranged paranormal-investigator father arrives with a warning—vampires are real, and she may be next on the menu.
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Rules Undying · Book three
Ten
Georgia tends to her recovering vampire master while refusing to give up on Ren. Across the country, Paige discovers that werewolf romance is no simpler—and both women’s tangled pasts are about to collide.
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Rules Undying · Book four
Point One
Five
Gail has a legitimate job, a quiet Texas life, and witness protection keeping the past away. Then Jonathan Dean rolls into town looking exactly like the vampire romances she knows cannot possibly be real.
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Rules Undying · Book five
Zero
Paige is on the run with a comatose husband, Georgia has lost the protection of the four laws, and Gail is still getting used to vampires being real. Finding one another may be their only way to survive.
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Rules Undying · Book six
One
Arthur has returned to usher in an age of vampire glory, Ren is gone, and one last hope remains: Mordred reborn. Old allies must make an impossible sacrifice before tragedy repeats itself.
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False
Icons
Teenage heroes, arrogant wizards, furious dryads, sun-walking vampires, and enough family trouble to threaten the fabric of reality.
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False Icons · Book one
Second String
Savior
Jessie goes to bed with mousy brown hair and wakes with supernova-red locks that burst into flame whenever she is threatened. Naturally, the magical makeover leads straight back to Gary: wizard, trust-fund brat, and professional complication.
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False Icons · Book two
Wannabe
Wizard
Jessie thought witches, dryads, and gods were finished jerking her around. Then her father is kidnapped, a suspiciously charming vampire starts following her, and her best friend’s family decides he needs to die.
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False Icons · Book three
Halfhearted
Hunter
Five years of literal hell. Full comic-book amnesia. Angry dryads, sun-walking vampires, a baby minotaur, and one wizard ex-boyfriend. Second chances are complicated—especially when Armageddon wants another round.
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False Icons · Crossover 3.5
Sins of
the Past
Vampire Ed Vesser is trapped by a would-be conqueror while technomancer Serena Taylor is buried in dangerous overtime. Long-lost dryads and undead goons ensure neither escape will be simple.
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False Icons · Book four
Deviant Dark
Dryads
A monstrous mother. Demon matchmaking. A bomb-wielding father. A supernatural war. Some families exchange holiday cards; this one threatens the fabric of reality.
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Shingles
Video-game disasters, horror-comedy detours, the complete seven-story G.I.R.L. saga, and protagonists nobody sensible should leave unsupervised.
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Shingles · Book one
G.I.R.L.:
Guy in Real Life
Being trapped inside a video game sounds cool until Rob(erta) Hardlick wakes in Tales of Verdainia—inside a body designed for aesthetics and a world designed to kill her.
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Shingles · Book two
G.I.R.L. 2:
The Author Needed
More Money
Doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result may be insanity. Unfortunately, Rob has never been anyone’s poster child for sound judgment, and the game still has fresh ways to ruin her day.
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Shingles presents
Cluck You!
J and her quarantine companions escape the pox-ridden city for a Thanksgiving road trip to quaint little Beaver City. Their holiday promptly takes the scenic route through Terrorville.
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Shingles · Book three
G.I.R.L. 3:
Girl in the Hood
Rob has found the good life in Penultimate Phantasm XIX: best friend Mich, a paladin with benefits, and enough digital fried chicken for eternity. Everything is perfect—which is usually when the universe starts laughing.
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Shingles · Book four
G.I.R.L. 4:
Combat Devolved
Jack into a cutting-edge virtual world, they said. It will be fun, they said. Nobody mentioned that Rob’s brain would be at the mercy of game designers whose bad ideas have consequences.
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Shingles · Book five
G.I.R.L. 5:
Endblame
Rob is the biggest badass in online gaming and now wants to become a genuine superhero. Saving Virtual City Smackdown beats dying quietly of domestic bliss—even if her very proper British wife disagrees.
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Shingles · Book 59 · Finale, part one
The Final
G.I.R.L.
Part One
Rob remembers being there when the world ended—but not the life they were meant to have. Fungal zombies, discount fascists, a partner with benefits, and one catastrophically snotty teenager stand between them and an answer.
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Shingles · Book 60 · Finale, part two
The Final
G.I.R.L.
Part Two
A road trip to the ruins of Las Vegas would be bad enough without an undead horde, a mysterious alien parasite, a snarky teenager, and one sentient tentacle monster. Rob is done playing—and ready to end the game for good.
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The complete seven-story collection
The G.I.R.L.
Saga
All seven of Rob(erta) Hardlick’s adventures in one 591-page LitRPG omnibus: high-fantasy MMOs, zombie dramas, simulated fried chicken, boss beasts, escort quests, and developers who have finally noticed what Rob has been doing.
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Other
Works
Accidental demons, fractured timelines, and two fresh opportunities to make a perfectly ordinary day extremely weird.
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A standalone adventure
The Accidental
Summoner
Meg Reynolds is a gamer with a dead-end job until one bad burrito and one desperate bathroom prayer summon Vocharlian Variegatus. Her life finally has direction; unfortunately, that direction is demon-shaped.
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A standalone adventure
The
Download
Jennifer MacDonald is having a very unusual day. Her roommate has accidentally teleported her across time and space, leaving her to solve a problem that definitely was not on the morning schedule.
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▶Narrated by
Alejandra
Reynoso
The available Rules Undying audiobooks are brought to life by award-winning actor Alejandra Reynoso—the voice of Sypha Belnades in Netflix’s Castlevania and Liko in Pokémon Horizons.
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▶Narrated by
Andrea
Emmes
The False Icons series is performed by award-winning audiobook narrator Andrea Emmes. Crossover 3.5, Sins of the Past, pairs her with Christopher John Fetherolf.
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05 Behind the stories
Meet
Rachel.
R.E. Carr is an accountant, author, ramen enthusiast, former video-game reviewer, and full-time wrangler of the vast army of characters arguing in her brain.
“Some people have imaginary friends. I have imaginary universes. Now I get to share them.”
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