Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 9-26-2012

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.   

Dark Union (The Descent Series)
by S.M. Reine
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy


Every fifty years, the most powerful ethereal and infernal beings convene on Earth to resolve conflicts with mediation by kopides--humans born to police relations between Heaven and Hell. They're meeting in Elise Kavanagh's territory this year, and she used to be the greatest kopis in the world. But she's not invited.

An old friend, Lucas McIntyre, asks her to attend the summit in his place. But when she arrives, she discovers that a human faction called The Union has taken charge of the summit, and they're not playing nice. Worse yet, someone has killed a prominent Union member, and now they're demanding blood.




Death's Hand (The Descent Series)
by S.M. Reine
4.1 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Dark Fantasy


Elise Kavanagh doesn't want to hunt demons anymore. It's been five years since she killed her last enemy, and life has been pretty good since then. She went to college. Got a job, and then lost it. Made a friend or two. Lived a normal life.

Now her former partner, a powerful witch named James Faulkner, wants Elise to fight one more time. The daughter of a coven member has been possessed, and Elise is the only exorcist nearby.

Doing the hero thing again would mean risking discovery by old enemies. But digging into the case reveals that it might already be too late--bodies are disappearing, demons slither through the night, and the cogs of apocalypse are beginning to turn. Some enemies aren't willing to let the secrets of the past stay dead...



The Darkest Gate (The Descent Series)
by S.M. Reine
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Dark Fantasy


When Elise Kavanagh retired from demon hunting, she swore it would be permanent. But an attack from a powerful necromancer forced her back into the business, and now she's trying to balance her normal boyfriend and normal job with everything supernatural.

Mr. Black is a demon hunter gone rogue. He's enslaving angels and stealing ethereal artifacts in pursuit of forbidden immortality, and an old grudge drives him to make his final stand in Elise's territory. Destroying her life and killing her friends isn't the goal, but it's a definite perk.

A demonic overlord offers to join against Mr. Black and protect Elise's loved ones. All she needs to do is ally with the demons she's sworn to kill, at the cost of her morals--and maybe her immortal soul. But once she crosses that line, there's no turning back.

Nothing is sacred when Heaven and Hell collide on Earth...



Death's Avatar (The Descent Series)
by S.M. Reine
4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Dark Fantasy


For five years, Elise Kavanagh and James Faulkner have policed relations between Heaven, Hell, and Earth with blood and blade. They're notorious as heroes and killers--the greatest demon hunting team in history. But they're getting tired of fighting.

Now a Goddess of Death is driving the world toward destruction. When her doomsday clock reaches twelve, the barriers between Hell and Earth will be ripped away and bring humanity to extinction.

The clock just struck nine. The world is running out of time.



Gray Moon Rising (Seasons of the Moon, Book 4)
by S.M. Reine
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Werewolf Dark Fantasy



It's been almost a year since Rylie Gresham was bitten by a werewolf on Gray Mountain. Now something is beckoning her back to the place she was attacked, along with every other werewolf in the world. But they aren't the only ones heeding the call. A group of hunters notices them gathering and sees it as their chance to wipe out the entire species.

Seth is about to graduate high school when he learns of the final hunt. He secretly plans to save Rylie and his werewolf brother even though he has to play along with the hunters to do it. But Rylie doesn't want to be saved. She's already decided to solve her problems with a silver bullet if answers aren't waiting on Gray Mountain.

One way or another, everything is about to end--whether it means Rylie's liberation or the end of her life...
               
GRAY MOON RISING is a dark fantasy novel for young adult readers who enjoy a splash of horror with their paranormal romance.

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 8-7-2012

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.  

Angel Fire: The First Book of Fallen Angels
by Valmore Daniels
4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy


My name is Darcy Anderson, and I am cursed with a dark power: Whenever my life is in danger, something inside me summons elemental fire to protect me. I cannot control this.

One night, I was attacked in my home. The fire ... it raged out of control. I survived the inferno, but my house burned to the ground - with my parents inside.

I was at a loss to explain to the courts what happened, and they sent me to prison for ten years for manslaughter.

Now I'm out on parole, and all I want is to return to my home town and rebuild my life; but the man who attacked me is back to finish the job he started.

I can sense the power in me growing. If I can't control it, it will control me and destroy everything - and everyone - I love.




Bound (Unleashed)
by Lee Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Urban Fantasy


Ursine Edwards was a normal, well-adjusted teenager prior to Summer vacation. Now he has unintentionally married a demon, fallen into line with a wolf pack, and is being hunted by witches as well as the government, who are all in turn trying to use Ursine for their own devices.



Firecracker
by Charles R. Verhey
4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy


A team of eccentric psychics who assist local authorities with difficult cases has reluctantly hired Aideen Cassidy, a timid pyrokinetic who has managed to accidentally burn to rubble every building she’s ever worked in. “It takes some real power and talent to melt a slushy machine.” Now, after months of scraping by on the last of her savings and spending every day terrified of her own gifts, she’s being given the chance to prove her worth. To be accepted for who and what she is.

But there’s more happening behind the scenes than anyone realizes, and Aideen soon finds herself caught in a conspiracy of evil monsters and dangerous assassins that dates back over six hundred years.

All she wanted to do was fit in. Now the lives of her new friends depend on her talents for fiery destruction...



Dragon Badge
by Scott Moon
4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy


A BAND OF BROTHERS

Officer Michael Prim doesn’t know much about his father, but remembers bedtime stories of mercenary wars, dragon slaying, and demon fighting. With his father gone, he serves as a hard charging beat cop in the Blue Point Police Department, never growing comfortable with the Dragon Badge they wear. He knows how to hunt down cop killing gang members, bring street justice down on wife beaters and child molesters, and put some muscle in police action. Yet something wicked is invading Blue Point, capturing souls and using the bodies as functional zombies to spread chaos and destruction. Soul stealing and zombie gang warfare has got to be a crime. Magic and sorcery had no place in police work before Travass Isegurad came with hellhounds, demons, and a relentless obsession to destroy the exiled son of the last Dragon Slayer.

HELL TO PAY

With the help of a burnt out, alcoholic cop who was kicked out of the seminary long ago, Prim learns that Travass is the most deadly serial killer alive and is executing an apocalyptic vendetta. Prim is forced to fight for his soul in a demon cage fight, stalked by hellhounds, and pays for the sins of his father.

DRAGON BORN

Learning of his heritage might be easier if his girlfriend was not at least half dragon and determined to be right in the action.

THE ARMAGEDDON EXPRESS

The next 9-1-1 call may be the end of the world as we know it. If Prim fails, the gate to a dangerous alternate reality will swing wide, releasing monsters, wizards, and warrior lords to pillage humanity.



Keeper of the Way (Aftermath Cleaners)
by Shirin Dubbin
4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


One man is a harbinger. The other a bad boy. She seeks to save their race. Too bad she has to die.

NiaMora, is destined to die--tonight. Severin, a harbinger of death, has already arrived to bear witness. But he'll defy his duty. He won't stand by and watch, not when NiaMora may be his people's last hope for survival.

Zan Wynn cares nothing for Severin's heroic delusions. The Fae-tech mogul has "spies" on NiaMora and her aftermath cleaner team. He wants her for reasons of his own, and as the quintessential bad boy--some might say bad guy--he can't be bothered to play fair.

Oblivious to her doom, NiaMora focuses on the missing Way, the very essence of the Fae and the reason they are trapped in the mortal world. There's also the small matter of remaining single when she can't deny Severin's power over her or Zan Wynn's hypnotic pull. One man is her fate, the other the prelude to her destruction.

Spotlight Urban Fantasy Novelette - Only Echoes Remain

Only Echoes Remain
by A. J. Kalliver
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy



The world has changed, and Isa is just an ordinary girl.

Decades ago magic came into the world, redefining what man thought of as ‘reality’, and Isa is just an ordinary girl.

Strange creatures, and beings once thought to be myth are abroad, in the wilds and in the largest of cities… and Isa is just an ordinary girl.

Isa is ordinary because she has to be.
The changes that have taken place have left many people frightened, and frightened people tend to lash out at the things they fear. For a girl who may or may not be even remotely human (though she will admit to being annoyingly cute), a low profile is essential. And profiles don’t get much lower than living in a cardboard box, on the streets of Chicago.
All she wants is to be left alone, but the world hasn’t changed that much.

No one ever gets what they want just by wanting it, and someone is always looking to use you for their own ends.


Quotes from Reviews:


Tightly Written, Excellent World building


In a time when the work of so many first-time authors still has the cling of not-quite-fully-edited writer's workshop prose, this first work by AJ Kalliver stands out as a tightly written and well thought out powerhouse.


This story was definitely worth the money. I found myself asking questions as I read, hoping that the answers were to be found later. I wasn't disappointed. After reading the first paragraph, I was hooked. Told in first person, 'Only Echoes Remain' is a terrific look into the life of a powerful person who immediately made me want to know more about her. Definitely a must read!


The pace was quick and the characters were fully formed in the context of the story.

Spotlight Novelette - The Sidhe Princess

The Sidhe Princess 
 by Loucinda McGary
 5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
 Contemporary Fantasy

In the rural Northern Ireland of the 1960s, sixteen-year-old Moira Mullins is newly released from her second stay in a mental institution. Her problem is that she can’t seem to escape the notice of the other-worldly inhabitants of the wild lands bordering her family’s farm. Creatures nobody else can see or hear.

When one of these beings, a fairy princess called the Maid of Ulster, offers to foretell the future, Moira jumps at the chance. But the Maid has ulterior motives that could have tragic results for Moira, who learns the future is sometimes better unknown.

Reviews:

"I was hooked by the Sidhe Princess from the first page. The heroine, Moira, was engaging and multi-layered. The villain was suitably wicked. And the author's artistry with description made the setting so vivid, it was almost another character in the story. I hope there are more books in the series because I can't wait for more."


"First and foremost, I have to say the ending of this short novella rocked. I love books that leave you hanging, though preferably if I know the author is going to come out with a sequel."

"The Sidhe Princess is a beautiful story, a cautionary fairytale, in which the author's lyrical voice shines."

"Reading The Sidhe Princess, I felt as if I were right there in Ireland, seeing through the main character's eyes, feeling the cold, misty air on her skin. This story takes the reader into the realm of faerie tales with dark and sinister things facing off against the pure and good heroine. Definitely it's a re-readable, many times over."

Spotlight Novelette - Paranormal Romance

Eternity Embraced (Demonica)
by Larrisa Ione
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon

Desire...

Demon slayer Andrea Cole has always taken down the demons and vampires she hunts without mercy. But when a fellow slayer is captured and turned into a vampire by a sadistic monster, she must choose between loyalty to her family and the man she loves.

Versus Instinct...

Kaden Quinn has dedicated his life to slaying vampires, so when he is turned into one, his greatest nightmare comes to life. And when the woman he loves is thrown into a dungeon with him -- as food -- he must battle new instincts and old desires, and choose between his life, and hers.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a short novella that originally appeared in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2 and the anthology Vampires in Love. It has been expanded for its stand-alone digital release. In the Demonica timeline, it falls between book 3, Passion Unleashed, and book 4, Ecstasy Unveiled, though it can easily be read without having read the Demonica novels.

Review:

"...dark, dynamic, and dangerously seductive!" -- New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton 

Spotlight Novelette - Paranormal Romance

Afterlife: a Fall of Angels novelette
 by Keary Taylor
 5 out of 5 stars on Amazon


Cole Emerson never was and never will be a good man. He has his position for a reason. But there are consequences for returning to the world of the living. He is about to lose the one thing he still has, his leadership of the condemned. As if that wasn’t enough, one of his brothers is hell bent on exposing what has happened to Jessica and Cole has no choice but to protect her. And he’ll stop at nothing to do it. Even if it means ending a few lives.

Cole never was and never will be a good man.

Reviews:

"WONDERFUL ADDITION TO THE SERIES! I must say, this addition was like the icing on the cake. The fall of Angels series was so great I hated to see it end.. but this addition allowed me to accept the ending because we know what happened with cole. Excellent writing and I recommend this series to everyone!"


"This series is a must read! All four books were great, with this Novelette bringing it to a close. I didn't feel like I was left hanging and the end gave just enough closure for me to not be, too, sad that it was over! Even though Cole is a dark, dark man...it lets you into the reasons why and I couldnt help but feel for him. After all, dark haired bad boys are right up my book-crush alley!"