Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 8-26-2012

These ebooks were listed as free downloads at the time of the post. These are usually only free for a few days at most. Always double check the prices before downloading.    

Shining in Crimson: Empire of Blood Book One (A Dystopian Vampire Novel)
by Robert S. Wilson
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Vampire Dark Fantasy


Set in a dystopian, religiously-demented American Empire, the city of Las Vegas is no longer a city of sin. Now called Necropolis, it is a city that eats sin. The vampires of Necropolis wait patiently for the Empire's weekly drop off of guilty Penitents; sinners and criminals full of fresh blood.

Hank Evans is one of those Penitents and he would gladly let the vampires take every drop of his blood if it weren't for one detail: Toby. Toby is Hank's only son. Now, Hank must do whatever it takes to escape the city of the dead and save his son from an Empire as bloodthirsty as the vampires it uses to keep its people in line.



Drowning Mermaids (Sacred Breath Series)
by Nadia Scrieva
4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Contemporary Fantasy


Deep under Arctic waters lies an ice kingdom carved into a glacier. Those who dwell within it possess magnificent biological secrets. Due to the dangers of impending war, the Princess of Adlivun is forced to flee her undersea utopia and regroup with her sisters in Alaska.

Captain Trevain Murphy is a successful king crab fisherman who has spent his life building his empire above the sea, and knows nothing of the empire beneath it. When he meets a mysterious dancer whose father has recently died, he extends kindness towards her, unaware of her unique genetics and royal lineage.

Trevain's attraction to the enigmatic Aazuria Vellamo will involve him in dangerous designs that will forever change his life, and his perspective on himself and his world. He embarks on perilous journeys in which he will need to release all of his insecurities and inhibitions in order to survive.



A Wizard's Role
by Zak Shareef
3.9 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Contemporary Fantasy


Wands are for pretenders. Staffs for the impotent. Magic is an Art, and the only thing a real Wizard uses to create is his mind.

Joshua Awen casts spells as easily as he argues the theory behind them. During the school year he's a prodigy, but the summers are a different story. He chooses to spend those in a place where he can't work with the subtle, complex, and powerful force he was born to. He trains to fight with a simpler, rougher, brutal kind of magic.

The summer before his senior year Joshua has to do more than train. He's asked to use his full range of abilities to help the man who taught him how to fight. The consequences of his decision force Joshua to delve into the nature of his magic and reconsider what he believes a Wizard should do with his power.



A Magician's Purpose
by Zak Shareef
4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Contemporary Fantasy



Wands are for pretenders. Staffs for the impotent. Magic is an Art, and the only thing a real Wizard uses to create is his mind. The Awens are a family of true Wizards with a reputation for greatness stretching back millennia.

Unfortunately for him, Marcus Awen is only a Magician. Denied his heritage as a Wizard, he joins the Guard, a group of elite fighters who use their Magicians' magic to kill rogue Wizards.

Marcus is forced to reconsider his recent decisions and lifelong assumptions, when he gets sent to look into rumors of magical abuse in an Independent Zone, one of the few places on Earth where scientific development was not restricted when magic became readily accessible early in the 21st century.



Something to Live for (Moonlight Dating Series #1)
by Natalie G. Owens
4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance



Fifteen years ago, one fateful day bound the lives of two perfect strangers...

Melita Saari-Quinn is living the consequences of a traumatizing psychic event that turned her adolescence upside down. Now, disillusioned with her job as a psychotherapist and desiring a change from her lackluster existence, she hopes that something out of her ordinary sphere of existence - something totally uninhibited and spontaneous - will renew her zest for life.

Alex Moncado seems to have it all - good looks, a successful business, and a fun life in "party central" of the Mediterranean: the island of Malta. Except for one day in the year when he can't help but remember a tragedy that never should have been. One day he'd rather forget, because if he doesn't, the guilt will consume him.

Can one passionate night together banish the ghosts of the past and give two lost souls a second chance?

Only Fate can tell...

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 8-6-2012

These ebooks were listed as free downloads at the time of the post. These are usually only free for a few days at most. Always double check the prices before downloading.  

Bloodhound (Rise of the Unseelie Urban Fantasy Series)
by S.A. Archer and S. Ravynheart
5.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy


Donovan rescued the earthborns. Protected them. Gave them shelter from the predators who would feast on their blood and Sidhe magic.

That time is over.

Time for the earthborns to train. To fight back. To reclaim what is theirs.

Time to show the world what it means to be Unseelie.



End of the World (Champion of the Sidhe urban fantasy series)
by S.A. Archer and S. Ravynheart
4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy


***Now includes a bonus short story! "In Whom You Trust" the prequel to the Champion of the Sidhe series.***


The day Lugh, Champion of the Sidhe, has long fought for finally manifests; all Sidhe unified under one Court. No more Light versus Dark. No more wars. Brothers, one and all. But on the day that should be celebrated as their greatest triumph, treachery brings his world crashing down, literally. Now if he can’t find a way to stop it no fey will survive.



Rippler (The Ripple Trilogy)
by Cidbet Swanson
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


Invisible. In Love. In Peril.
When Samantha Ruiz turns invisible in front of team mates on a rafting trip, she knows something's wrong with her. According to her knowledgeable friend Will, she's got a rare genetic disorder. Fearing a lifetime sentence as a lab-rat, Sam wants to keep her ability secret. But she also wants to know if there's a connection between dark Nazi experiments on others like her and her own mother's death eight years earlier. At the same time that Sam is sleuthing, she's falling hard for Will. And soon, she'll have to choose between keeping her secrets hidden and keeping Will safe.



Brittle (Between the Tides: Book 1)
by Jordan Calher
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Urban Fantasy


A diabetic since freshman year, the control Sara Jacobs needs to survive is obliterated when she unleashes Voodoo barons of the afterlife from the dark witch trial history of her hometown -- Andover, Massachusetts. Past and present blend and ignite as her life crumbles beyond recognition, shattered by the same forbidden forces she is drawn to embrace: magic, the supernatural, and the demon raging uncontrolled in her veins. Rewired by magic, she revisits and dominates her petty high school world – paybacks to authority, and a little help with that crush from freshman year. But ultimately, will control ever fill the hollows left behind by the lies of her former life?

From a gossip-crazed high school to a moonless limbo of tombstone covered hills, BRITTLE is what happens when Sara stops being the victim.



Ring of Destiny (a Reynald Tale)
by Eric Quinn Knowles
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy



The Magi are coming.

Strange things happen in the small town of Reynald. Jared and his father come to Reynald looking for a fresh start, but when a vampire cheerleader draws Jared into her plot to find the Ring of Destiny, he is forced to join a pair of supernatural detectives in order to save his family. But the Magi want the ring for themselves and when they come to town, Reynald will never be the same.

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 8-4-2012

These ebooks were listed as free downloads at the time of the post. These are usually only free for a few days at most. Always double check the prices before downloading.   




Open Heart (Farsighted Series)
by Emlyn Chand
4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


Simmi Shergill's life is a mess. Her powers of psychic feeling are on the fritz, and Grandon Township's sudden population boom has brought quite a few unsavory characters to town. She also looks like an over-blown balloon in her size 14 pants, but not even starving herself seems to be working as a diet plan. Well, at least her boyfriend, Alex, loves her so much he'd do anything for her. Last summer he even risked his life to protect her from the mysterious boy everyone was convinced wanted to kill her.

The problem is, she's not so sure she feels the same way. Is Alex really the man of her dreams? And why can't she stop fixating on her would-be killer, Dax? Whenever he's around, part of her wants to run screaming in the other direction while the other part longs to run into his embrace, no matter who she'd hurt or what she'd risk.

Simmi's loyalty is on the line. Who will she choose--the blind seer who loves her, or the charming telekinetic with "bad idea" written all over him? Emotions run high as the tension mounts in book two of the Farsighted series.


Along Came a Demon (Whisperings Paranormal Mystery)
by Linda Welch
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Mystery


I'm told the dead are all around us. I wouldn't know about that, I see only the violently slain. They can be victims of hit-and-run, innocents caught in a cross-fire, the murdered. They whisper to me and they never, ever, forget the face of their killer. I've learned to live with my uncanny ability, in fact I've made a career out of it.

The departed aren't the only supernaturals I see. No, they're not vampires or werewolves or fae - those things don't exist. We live side by side with what some call the Otherworldy. That's too much of a mouthful for me, I call them demons. If you saw them as I do, you'd know why.

Right now I'm trying to track down a missing six year-old boy whose mother was murdered. Or maybe she wasn't. To further complicate the case, Clarion PD gave me a partner I'd rather shoot than work with.

I can't tell them he's a demon.

They'd think I'm crazy.

I'm Tiff Banks. Welcome to my world.

WHISPERINGS. Paranormal mystery with a splash of humor and dash of romance.



Faerie Wishes and Jaguar Kisses
by Ronnie Massey
4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


If faced with extinction, could you make the ultimate sacrifice and live a life without the hope of love? For almost a thousand years Lawless has done just that. One of the last of her kind, she made a vow to do her part in ensuring the survival of her people; even if that meant she would be destined to face forever alone.

But fate has other plans for the Omnimorph, and those plans come in the form of a werejaguar named Kincaid Willis.

Kincaid is the type of man that Lawless could lose herself in; kind, caring, tall, dark and handsome, and sexy as hell. One night in his arms, proves to disarm her defenses, and before she knows it; Lawless begins to question her role in the Omnimorphs future.

But the answers she finds might leave her foresworn and at the mercy of The Morrigan. Lawless has already walked away from a chance at love once. Can the duty bound Fae's heart survive if she's forced to walk away from Kincaid?



Crux
by Moira Rogers
3.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance



To find her destiny, she must trust him with her life…and her heart.

Southern Arcana, Book 1

Jackson Holt makes a decent living as a private investigator in New Orleans, home of one of the largest underground supernatural populations in the United States. He and his partners have never met a case they couldn’t crack…until a local bar owner asks him to do a little digging on her newest hire.

New Orleans is the fourth destination in as many months for Mackenzie Brooks, a woman on the run from a deranged stalker. After all, any man who shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her destined lover has more than a few screws loose. But crazy doesn’t explain why he always finds her no matter how far she runs.

When her well-meaning boss puts a PI on her case, Mackenzie comes face to face with the incredible truth: magic is real, and whatever spell has kept her hidden and separate from the paranormal world is rapidly deteriorating.

With time running out, she has no choice but to trust Jackson as he struggles to uncover the truth of her past—and her destiny.

Spotlight Novel - Urban Fantasy Romance

Sterling (Mageri Series: Book 1)

by Dannika Dark
3.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon


Book 1 of the Mageri Series

Zoë Merrick lived a less than ordinary life, until late one night, she was brutally attacked and left for dead.

A man named Adam spotted her running down the road covered in blood, and took her under his wing. Zoë didn't just survive that night - she underwent a physical transformation and acquired strange new abilities. Severed from her old life, her frustration grows as she tries to comprehend what's happening to her.

Serendipity leads her to Justus. He's handsome, arrogant, and not entirely human. Zoë learns the truth about what she is, and just how dangerous their world is for a young Mage. The only way she will understand her power is by putting her trust in this man, and accepting the protection he offers.

When her immortal freedom is threatened by the one man who has a right to claim her, Zoë learns the price of freedom...and the value of loyalty.


Reviews:


Dannika throws the reader into her unique fantasy world where literally everything you thought you knew is thrown out the door and reinvented in a smart new way.... The world is fresh, unique and compelling"
- Literal Addiction"

I thought that it was wonderful and brilliant and I loved it". 
- Claire's Book Corner

"It stands on its own because the story is very original."
- My Para-Hangover

"I for one can not wait to see what she does for the second book in this series." 
- What's on my Kindle"

STERLING is a unique take on a current trend, and I loved it". 
- Enter the Portal

"I have not read another book in some time that has captured me as deeply as this did." 
- Mandi - Reader Review