Showing posts with label fairy tale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fairy tale. Show all posts

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 9-8-2012

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.    

Killing with the Edge of the Moon
by A.A. Attanasio
4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Dark Fairytale


"Blud-eye-eth" is a fabled woman of Celtic myth." The witch's eyes shone in the dark like tiny silver mirrors. "The name means 'Flower Face," which is the owl's poetic nickname, the bird who steals souls - for Blud-eye-eth was a woman made from magic and flowers and, like the owl, she had no soul of her own."

The speaker is a hickory-faced crone trying to explain to Chet, a shy kid with eyeglasses and pocket protector, why he can't take her granddaughter to the high school dance. For quiet, elfin Flannery is not like other kids. A living Blud-eye-eth, she has caught the attention of the faerie, beautiful evil creatures from a mysterious Otherworld, who seduce their victims with moonlight raves before feeding them to a dragon and hunting souls with a supernatural black dog of prodigious evil.

And they have taken Flannery for one of their own.

And she won't be going to the school dance - not unless Chet rescues her.

This modern, demonic fairy tale weaves together themes of passion and self-discovery into an intricate Celtic knot of myth, moon magic, and teen romance. Thrust together in a dark, erotic Otherworld, Flannery and Chet discover they know each other better than they known their own hearts ... but can they sort things out before the black dog finds them?

And what was that about a dragon?



Unbound (Kayla Blackstone Book One)
by Adriane Ceallaigh
4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Werewolf Urban Fantasy


Kayla Blackstone wasn't always a slave. At one time she was a highly sought after Bounty Hunter. She never questioned what she carried, never cared, so long as the pay check didn't bounce. But everything changes the night the Mage Hunters come, the night her entire life is stolen.

Now she's been given a second chance, a run for her freedom. Keaton offers her a deal--she delivers a package before midnight and he'll let her go free. Unfortunately for Kayla, nothing is ever as simple as it appears.



Yesterday's Gone: Episode 1 
by Sean Platt & David Wright
4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Post-Apocalyptic Serial Thriller


On October 15 at 2:15 a.m. everyone on Earth vanished.
Well, almost everyone.
A scattered few woke alone in a world where there are no rules other than survival... at any cost.



Souled Out 
by Blakely Chorpenning
4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


Ell Clyne is lost living someone else’s life. But reading souls to save the fate of a loved one seemed like a fair trade. At first.

The lie has cost Ell her family, her future, her very soul. Now the secret is out and the vampires want answers. Becoming a pawn in her own conspiracy and being abducted more times than a psychiatrist might recommend, Ell just wants to stay alive and reclaim her life without burning something down. Oops, something else.

This is the story of a girl who isn’t a superhero or a badass, but manages to fight for her place in a cold-blooded world regardless of the pain caused by that empty space where her soul should be.



Survival, (Book 1 of The Guardians of Vesturon Series)
by A.M. Hargrove
3.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


While on a backpacking trip in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, nineteen-year-old Maddie Pearce finds her world has been thrown into a vortex and is madly spinning toward the impossible. Abducted by a mad psychopath, Maddie narrowly escapes with her life. But that is only the beginning. Her mysterious rescuer introduces her to a world that Maddie has difficulty accepting as reality. Will this strikingly gorgeous stranger be the key to her future or will she return to her mundane world, scarred from her experience? Follow Maddie as she is forced to make difficult decisions that carry her to mysterious places.



Friday, August 17, 2012

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 8-17-2012

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.   

LIGHTBRINGER: A Celestial Affairs Novel
by Frankie Robertson
4.9 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


Jared Price is a Celestial, one of a race of beings often taken for angels. Exiled on earth, he's offered a chance to return to the Celestial Realm. All he has to do is protect Cassie Lewis from a demonic assassin.

A genuine psychic, Cassie can't resist Jared's Celestial aura, but she doesn't trust him. He's hiding something behind his strong mental barriers and she's learned the hard way that what you don't know can hurt you. But when a demon tries to kill her, Cassie has no one else to turn to.

Then the stakes are raised even higher, and Jared must decide if Cassie's love is worth sacrificing a dream he's held on to for 150 years.



Call of the Selkie
by Jennifer Hudock
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Contemporary Fantasy


A young woman caught between her love for her mother and her father's mysterious disappearance searches the paintings her father left behind for clues about where he went. Plagued by strange dreams of the sea, her mother's untimely death brings her home again, where she can freely search her father's old studio for answers. A strange trunk in the attic with a rusted padlock holds the missing piece and the truth about all those late night fights that tore her mother and father apart.

Call of the Selkie is a short story and can also be found in The Dark Journeys Short Story collection.



Sebastian Cupid (The Arrows)
by J.J. Martin
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


If you’ve never shot yourself in the chest, Sebastian Cupid can tell you it hurts like hell. Still, he’d rather take three bullets to any part of his anatomy than find his brother’s body in an alley, drained of blood. Now Sebastian is facing an inquiry from three gods while an innocent mortal lies comatose in a bed just down the hall, and she’s the only eye witness.

Armed with next to no information and a lifelong history of resentment, Sebastian’s only pool for suspects is his step-family, who uses questionable methods to spread hate in the mortal world. But then disappearances begin to happen on both sides of the family. As gods clash and Temples fall, they pit power against power to survive. Little do they realize, the only one that can save them is the least powerful of them all.



The Old World (The Old World Series)
by Jill D. Hidy
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


The Old World: Where modern day Greece, meets old world mythology.

Still reeling from the sudden and tragic death of her parents, 22 year old Aria escapes to her family’s vacation home in Greece. But when a simple dream opens a portal into another dimension, Aria finds herself immersed in a world her parents sacrificed everything to keep her from. A world ruled by vengeful gods but where love can be measured by a mere touch.

Guided by the family she never knew existed, Aria begins to learn of a prophecy with the power to turn gods against one another in a war that could seal not only her fate but the fate of the man she is forbidden to love – a man who’s identity alone can change her life forever.

Some say love is blind but in The Old World, bloodlines run deep and family comes first…even if it means sacrificing your own.



The Gate of Lake Forest, YA Elf Romance (Guardians of the Gate Book #1)
by Ami Blackwelder
4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance



Within the small town of Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, there exists a quiet forest where a world undiscovered awaits. When soccer player, Michael Cole, of high school Green Mountain Falls sees the new girl Evelyn, coy yet intoxicating, walk into his senior English class he is forever changed.

His passion for her takes him deep into her heart and deep into her mystical world. Will their forbidden love be able to sustain them as their separate worlds collide? Evelyn and Michael go on a magical journey into adventurous and perilous realms where dangerous creatures are determined to defeat them.

High school will never be the same...


Friday, July 6, 2012

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 7-6-2012

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.


Vampire Love Story (#1)
by H. T. Night
3.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Vampire Paranormal Romance


Book #1 in the Vampire Love Story Series

Josiah Reign is a lover and a fighter. Out for a simple jog, he happens upon a young woman who needs help. So Josiah does what he does best. He takes on her attackers...all five of them, in fact. Little does Josiah know that this one act of goodwill will introduce him to a very strange world, a world of dreams...and nightmares.

For this woman, Lena, is not who she seems, and her friends are the stuff of legends. Worse yet, Josiah finds himself falling for not one, but two of these deadly creatures of the night. And as Josiah suffers a devastating loss that rocks his world, he will fight for what he believes in. He will fight for his one true love. And fighting is what Josiah does best.



Toby Streams the Universe
by Maya Lassiter
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Psychic Urban Fantasy


Toby Hay is a psychic living in New York City, supporting his screwed-up family using his visions to play the stock market. He also helps his private investigator best-friend with the occasional case--all while trying not to read the future of every person he meets. Such as Toby's new neighbor, a beautiful painter hiding from her violent Ex. Or Toby's psychic, sex-pot, sister, scared of her own future. Or his quirky virtual-assistant, struggling to care for her sick child. Toby wants to help them all, but his super-psychic father trained him not to interfere, lest he lose his own sanity in the process. Toby's father knew everything--he must have had good reasons for his rules. Of course, he vanished nearly a year ago...

Then a voice speaks in Toby's mind, offering a path away from the dark future predicted by the Family Histories--if only Toby will challenge what his father taught him and learn to use his visions, rather than merely control them. Now Toby must find his father, uncover the identity of the voice, and save his friends from their futures, all while figuring out how to live inside his own, increasingly strange mind.



Mermaid
by D.F. Marsh
4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Contemporary Fantasy


The fast one who lived in the ocean had observed many humans through her long years. Always keeping her distance, she'd witnessed the bipedal species technological evolution. She'd watched their warfare, their harvesting methods. She'd watched humans playing on boats and on beaches, laughing and crying and fishing and building; and though she had beckoned to many humans over these hundreds of years, and though her forefathers had called out to many over thousands of years, not one human had ever listened.

Until this day….

Fourteen-year old Ashton and his sister Autumn, younger by two years, should have drowned that day, a mile from the deserted windswept beach in Oregon where they gone to sail. But as they spiraled down in a whirlpool to certain death Ashton saw a bright white light, and in the blink of an eye, they were safe—rescued by something remarkable, or a fortuitous wave had ferried them right back to the beach.

The next day, as Ashton thought about that light, wondering if he'd actually seen a large luminous hand under the tiny rowboat, he heard a whisper. In bed later that night he heard that same whisper...and again whilst cycling on the coast road: "Are you human. Are you aware?"

Telepathy wasn't something Ashton new much about…he'd never suspected that he was capable of it…never gave it a thought, but... "Yes, I'm human. What do you mean "aware?"" he asked.

The voice then said, "Come, Ashton, come in the submersible."

Ashton wasn’t a submariner, or an oceanographer, or even an adventurer, he was just a mischievous teen with an uncanny telepathic ability.

But that's why he was chosen.

Now Ashton and Autumn will embark on an impossible journey… in a stolen submersible, into the deep sea, where they will find that the seafloor is not the bottom—there is a way to go deeper yet. Below the seabed, traveling through ancient tunnels, vast undersea plains and subterranean eddies, following the telepathic instructions in Ashton's mind, they will move into a world as alien as another planet… and Ashton will discover what it means to be chosen.

Now the adventure really begins…

Young Adult Literature with environmental and spiritual themes.



Better to Die a Hero
by Michael Van Dagger
4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Post-Apocalyptic Urban Fantasy


Sometimes smart kids, good kids, the type of kids that you think would know better, do stupid things. Steve Pierce is an overweight eighteen-year-old with a propensity for daydreaming. His best friend Bryan, voted class clown, is gangly with a gift for mimicry. Their beautiful acquaintance Nora usually runs with the popular crowd. When Steve thinks back to the moment he and his friends held their innocent tea ceremony, when they dissolved the powder into the water, he cannot fathom why he drank it. Nora Chan was at his house earlier in the week when he’d opened the crate of antiques, an inheritance from a father he’d never met. It was in that crate they discovered the powder. Nora’s ninety-year-old grandfather identified the substance as a Chinese health remedy. Still, judging from the antique container, the contents were at least a hundred years old or older. The substance is a mystical compound and it endows them with great power. On the powder, the three take to the Bronx rooftops where they vault alleyways and delight in super strength, and enhanced reflexes. They create costumes and play at being superheroes; but really, how many crimes occur in any given neighborhood on any given night? None. And, what’s the use of being strong when there are no super villains? Still, a properly motivated superhero living in New York should be able to find a worthy adversary, and then regret it. You always remember your first super villain, provided you live.



Mind Secrets (An Urban Fantasy Novel)
by Chris Reynolds
5.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Psychic Urban Fantasy/ Thriller


On the run and without his memories, Michael escapes from a man called Carter onto the unfamiliar streets of London. There, he meets a gang of teenagers with the power to sense the thoughts and feelings of others. They live in fear of ‘the cure’, a mysterious process which takes away their power and, some believe, destroys their personality. Suspecting the cure caused his memory loss, Michael goes undercover to investigate the truth behind the doctors of the cure clinic. What he discovers leads him to a conspiracy that runs to the heart of government and reveals the shocking reality of his own past.

Mind Secrets is a compelling thriller set in a contemporary world and will appeal to readers of the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness and anyone who's ever wondered what it's like to have mind powers.



My Familiar Stranger (The Order of the Black Swan)
by Victoria Danann
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Vampire Paranormal Romance


Minutes ahead of inevitable assassination, Elora Laiken is forcibly transported to an alternate dimension similar, but not identical, to her own. She is stranded. Alone. Far from home. A stranger in a "strangish" land.

Of course a girl could suffer worse problems than having gorgeous suitors. Perhaps more importantly, in the midst of an epidemic of vampire related abductions, can she stay alive long enough to choose between an honor debt, true love, or the breathlessness of single-minded passion?

Friday, June 29, 2012

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 6-29-2012

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.


Gateway (The Gateway Trilogy, Book 1)
by Christina Garner
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Occult/ Supernatural


Everybody has their demons. Some are just a little more real than others...

Ember has always known she doesn't belong in this world, but when she takes matters into her own hands, she winds up in a mental institution.

There she draws the attention of Taren, a mysterious boy with a dangerous secret.

When chaos erupts, they are forced to flee together and Ember learns her secret might be the deadliest of all.

With lives on the line, Ember must face old demons and new at... The Gateway.



The Snow Owl
by Jon Hartling
4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Modern Fantasy


Ben thinks his son’s talk of the magical kingdom of Lukana is just typical childhood imagination. But one winter day, when seven year-old Eric sculpts a snow owl in his backyard, he seems to set in motion events that cannot be anything but magical. Now Ben faces the terrifying prospect of losing his only child to a wintry spirit… a spirit that just might be the boy’s true father.



Blood Oath (Gabby Girls Adventure Series #2)
by T.L. Clarke
3.9 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Urban Fantasy


The battle against pure evil begins. Friendships are betrayed. Rivals bond...and powers collide.
Before I discovered that I was born into a secret society called the Eternals, blood-oath
Warriors sworn to track and slay the dark and evil creatures that walk the shadows of the earth, the only major thing that I, I mean we--that's me, Jessica, Rosalinda, and Zora--cared about was starting our freshman year at Vineswell Academy, the prestigious boarding school for girls.

But that was way before the blinders were cruelly ripped from our eyes and cold reality slapped
us on the back of our heads with a chain of not-so-nice realities, like the fact that everything we knew about our mothers was all lies, essentially smoke and mirrors designed to hide their very secretive lives as Circles, women Warriors inside the very deadly world of the Eternal Warriors.


Song to Wake to (Levels # 1)
by J.D. Field
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


CONTAINS SONG TO WAKE TO PARTS 1 AND 2.
Sixteen-year-old Maddy Bride starts at a new school in the countryside. She knows she’ll have to deal with sports obsessed rich kids, cliques, and pressure. She doesn’t expect myths from the shadowy past to be taking place around her. Not only are the legends unfinished. They’re starting all over again.

Her new classmate, Eddy Moon, is awkward, and shy, and has lived a life of hardship and loneliness. As his strength and sense of purpose become more and more striking, Maddy comes to believe that he may have a place in the stories. At the same time she realises that the place she wants is by his side.
Closeness to Eddy brings Maddy another shocking realisation. Not only is he a mythic hero returned to life in the countryside, but maybe she too has a place in the legends. Torn between normality and her attraction to the magnificent Eddy Moon, Maddy has to decide who she is, who she is going to be, and whether stories must end the same way twice.



The Fallen Star (Fallen Star Series Book 1)
by Jessica Sorensen
4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


For eighteen year-old Gemma, life has never been normal. Up until recently, she has been incapable of feeling emotion. And when she’s around Alex, the gorgeous new guy at school, she can feel electricity that makes her skin buzz. Not to mention the monsters that haunt her nightmares have crossed over into real-life.

But with Alex seeming to hate her and secrets popping up everywhere, Gemma’s life is turning into a chaotic mess. Things that shouldn’t be real suddenly seem to exist. And as her world falls apart, figuring out the secrets of her past becomes a matter of life and death.