Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 9-25-2012

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Children of the Fallen
by Maya Lassiter
5.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Angel Urban Fantasy


Seven haunted and talented half-breeds, not knowing who they are or what they can do, grow up in a city full of fallen angels. Only Old Abe knows them all, helping them and hiding them from their glorious and terrifying parents who call them abominations.

A homeless musician, a blind painter, a boy who can photograph angels, a fiery cellist, a tarot card reader--all lovers, children, or grandchildren of fallen angels, and just a few of Abe's charges.  Fallen angels with wings of fire, wings of stone, wings of night--or dawn, or mirrors, or music--they walk invisibly through the city, just a few of Abe's enemies.

At first the half-breeds are unaware of each other, seven unique people muddling through their troubled, intertwined lives alone.  Until a young man, raised by angels, finds them all and they begin to spill their secrets.  Because only by coming together will the half-breeds be able to save Abe from those of the fallen who wish to kill him for his audacity.




The Fireball Rebellion
by Eric Priuska
4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Super Power Adventure


Twelve-year-old Frankie Lenten never asked to be swept up into a rebellion against the secret superpowered society known as Artemin, but she has no choice after being hit by a rebel fireball that gives her superspeed. And even though she agrees with the rebellion that Artemin's rulers are overbearing and they should let everyone use their powers, a terrifying encounter with one of their psychotic leaders convinces her that there is true evil on the rebel's side. Now, caught between the rulers and the rebels, Frankie must find her own way to fight back. Luckily, she has the help of two true friends--the wickedly funny Eliza, who can move things with her mind, and the philosophical Shaun, who is not supposed to know about their secret lives. But as the trio races to stop an all out war, one question remains. Between her friends and her family, her principles and her power, her life and the lives of thousands around the world just like her, what will Frankie have to sacrifice to become a real hero?

The Fireball Rebellion--a fantasy adventure novel for ages 11 and up--is the first book of the Fireball Rebellion series. Look for the second book, Hurricane Frankie, to blow into your town soon.



Charlotte's Feathers
by Matthew Fish
4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Contemporary Fantasy


A young man named Benjamin Strong has just lost everything after the death of his parents and girlfriend. After a failed suicide attempt, Benjamin wakes up to find an angelic version of his girlfriend, Charlotte, sitting by the edge of his bed. She tells him that he has seven days left to live- and that he has a very important decision to make: Die alone, or take all of humanity with him.



Savage (Daughters of the Jaguar)
by Willow Rose
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


The year is 1983. Christian is 22 years old when he leaves his home in Denmark to spend a year in Florida with a very wealthy family and go to med-school. A joyful night out with friends is shattered by an encounter with a savage predator that changes his life forever. Soon he faces challenges he had never expected. A supernatural gift he has no idea how to embrace. A haunting family in the house next door. A spirit-filled girl who seems to carry all the answers. An ancient secret hidden in the swamps of Florida. One life never the same. One love that becomes an obsession. Two destinies that will be forever entangled.



Avow (A Last Selkie Short Story Prequel)
by Elizabeth A. Reeves
5.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance



A Last Selkie Short Story.

A tragic life cut short.

What could be crueler than facing death alone?

Twenty years before Adrift, a young man named Ethan Tanner found out he had a inoperable malignant brain tumor and had less than a year to live.

Impossibly, help comes in a mythical form.

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 9-3-2012

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The Haunting of Pico (Pico, Texas - Book 1)
by Patrick Kampman
4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Horror


Pico, Texas is full of secrets, as Chris discovers when his family unwittingly moves into the town’s haunted house.

As an Asian adoptee relocating from a big city, Chris worries about fitting into a small-town high school still using a Rebel soldier for its mascot. But to his relief, the attitudes of the town are changing, and soon he has friends, a job, and a cute new neighbor.

Still, the shadow of a less tolerant time lingers.

Sixty years ago, Charlotte Monroe was murdered in Pico, hanged from the oak outside of Chris’s bedroom window. Chris is sure that it’s her ghost he hears every night. As the weeks go by and Charlotte’s midnight wailing gives way to violent outbursts, Chris knows that to save his family he must put the sins of the past to rest.



Guardians Inc.: The Cypher (Guardians Incorporated)
by Julian Rosado - Machain
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Contemporary Fantasy


GUARDIANS INC.: THE CYPHER is two stories in one. A glimpse into a multinational company that is in reality the oldest of secret societies, one that spans close to seven thousand years of existence, weaving in and out of history, guiding and protecting humanity from creatures and forces that most of us believe are only mythology and fairy tales.

The other is the story of Thomas Byrne, a young man thrust into secrets he shouldn’t be aware of and dangers he shouldn’t face but, that he ultimately will, for he is a Cypher. The only one who can steer humanity’s future.

The ultimate conspiracy theory is that Magic is real. Kept in check by technology but, every five hundred years the balance can shift and, if it does, technology will fail and those creatures we’ve driven into myth will come back with a vengeance.

To protect the present, Guardians Incorporated needs to know the future.



Get Psyched
by Janet McLaughlin
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Psychic Paranormal Romance


There's more at stake at this year's two-day National Cheerleading Competition than taking first place. Lives will be changed and possibly even lost if 15-year-old Zoey Christopher doesn't take action.

She knows she'll need help, but who to trust is the problem. No one knows about Zoey's gift and she wants to keep it that way. Being fifteen is tough enough. Being fifteen and psychic—as Zoey would tell you if she trusted you—really sucks.

At practice the night before the competition, Zoey gets a vision about a fellow cheerleader whose life is in danger. Later, she gets more sensory hints: a cheerleader surrounded by smoke and a panicking crowd; a vendor covered in ashes.

To further complicate her life, she meets Josh, whose very touch sends her sensory system into overload. Circumstances force Zoey to tell Josh, and her friends Becca and Mike, about her visions. The foursome band together to stop the fire that threatens to destroy the hotel/convention center and the lives of so many of her fellow cheerleaders.



American Goddesses
by Gary Henry
4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Superhero Fiction


When two small-town women find themselves with nearly unlimited powers of mind and body, their lives get complicated. Things turn nasty as a shadowy organization attempts to use Megan and Trish for their own evil ends, and destroy them, their town and the USA in the process.



Foul is Fair (The Witch Hunters)
by Chantal Halpin
4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy



Sam would prefer to stay concealed amongst the nobodies. She’s a witch with a dodgy past hiding in the insurance claim industry. When a high profile politician is threatened with having his Community position as a vampire exposed, she couldn’t care less.

Sadly her boss forces her on baby-sitting duty and she unwittingly attracts the attention of a witch-hunter. While trying to protect her confidential client’s secret identity she also has to fight her attraction to the pyromaniac hunter like a suicidal moth.

An urban fantasy short story of approx 2,500 words set in London with British spellings.

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 9-1-2012

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Blood of the Beast (The Blood Chronicles)
by Tamela Quijas
3.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


There is a scent that fills the night, far more delicate than the beat of the heart, more fragile than the whisper of breath escaping human lungs.

The echo that fills the darkness is the scent of blood pulsating through the mortal body.

Commonly overlooked by those among the living, it is a sound fervently sought by those residing on the fringes of the world existing between the living and the undead.

Blood is what the beast craves.

Detective Valentina Kureyev had been assigned to one of the worst murder cases of the century. A serial killer haunted the streets of her city, depositing bloodless corpses throughout the section of town known as Little Europe.

She hadn't a clue to the identity of the culprit.

The case was hopeless.

The terror was real.

As real as Demetri Daskova.

The Professor of Russian Antiquities had been targeted with the murderer's special form of a calling card. Val couldn't turn away from his offer of aide in the bizarre case, even though he whispered tales of 'those that walked on the dark side of the moon' and the beast that hungrily fed on human blood.

He was the primary suspect.



Blood Moon (The Blood Chronicles)
by Tamela Quijas
3.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


I wrote torrid historical romances for a living.
I’d be the first to admit writing was my love. Through the pages of a novel, I could live in a realm clouded by daydreams and fantasy. I preferred to exist in a world filled with imagination---where life ended with that eternal Happily Ever After.
Reality didn't prepare me for the horror I witnessed on a cold September night.
He had died in my arms, the victim of a vicious and brutal crime.
I would never forget his gasping words or the molten gold of his eyes. He held my hand in his icy touch as that final gasp of breath escaped his lips.
Haunted, I left the city soon afterward, tormented by his handsome image.
I had been with him when he died.
Then, why, was he on my doorstep?



Dark Beauty (Seeker)
by Taryn Browning
4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Vampire Urban Fantasy


For fifteen-year-old Seeker, Isabelle Crowe, ridding the Houston streets of the undead is an inherited duty, passed down from her Cherokee ancestors. During her first night without her mentor, she encounters Abram, a more experienced Seeker from Chicago looking to avenge his cousin's death. Isabelle quickly learns she must work with Abram to protect her city. With one Seeker already dead, Isabelle's love of the hunt becomes a fight to survive.



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


A secret society, hot guys, and vampires come together where fate intersects romance for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure proving that true love can find you in the strangest places, even far, far from home.




Blaze of Glory
by Sheryl Nantus
4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Humorous Superhero Urban Fantasy



Saving the world is easy for a superhero—unless you’re a fraud.

Jo Tanis is a superhero, fighting evil on the city streets, using her ability to feed off electromagnetic energy and fire off charges—and it’s all just a show. The Agency captures her and others like her when their powers begin to manifest, pitting them against each other in staged, gladiatorial fights. An explosive implant on the back of her neck assures she’ll keep right on smiling for the camera and beating up the bad guys.

When Earth comes under attack, suddenly the show becomes deadly real. Unable to deal with a real alien, the “supers” are falling in droves. Millions of innocent civilians are going to die…unless Jo can cobble together a team from among the fake heroes and villains the Agency enslaved. Including Hunter, who not only promises to show her how to deactivate the implants, but seems to know more than he should about how the mysterious Agency operates.

Forcing a rag-tag bunch of former enemies to work together is the least of Jo’s problems. The trick is determining if Hunter is friend or foe—and becoming the hero everyone thought she was before the world is destroyed for real.

Warning: Contains superhero in-jokes, Canadiana and large alien craft shaped like avocados. Really.

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 7-24-2012

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Cheyenne, A Timeless Series Novel, Book One
by Lisa Wiedmeier
4.1 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


Murder, romance, secrets and hidden pasts. Deception from every angle—who's telling the truth?

Cheyenne Wilson's life is thrown into turmoil after her adoptive parents are killed in an accident. With only her best friend Colt to comfort her, she scours through the family archives, hoping to quell her grief. Instead she begins to unravel the mystery behind her birth parents, and her secret heritage. She is a Timeless- a being that ages one year for every hundred human years when they reach their twenties- and of the royal line, destined to gain great power.

But Cheyenne has other problems. The ones who killed her parents want her too, and Colt is hiding something of his own. Surrounded by danger and with few she can trust, Cheyenne must face the dark truth of her past, and choose between a forbidden love that will forever hold her heart, or her destiny...



Dark Isle (Celtic Legacy Book 2)
by Shannon Mayer
4.9 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


When evil begets evil, a choice is forced on Quinn, the one person who can see the danger. Does she save the ones she loves, or does she save the world from Chaos?

As the realms of Fae and human collide, Quinn's future has never looked so grim, or so damn impossible.



Hellbound (Hellbound Trilogy)
by Tim Hawken
5.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Humorous Dark Contemporary Fantasy


“You look very confused when I say I’m just trying to help these lost souls make their way to Heaven,” he said. “The reason you’re confused is that you think I’m speaking metaphorically. Well, my dear friend, take it very literally. You see, I may have introduced myself as Asmodeus, but let me run off a few of my more well known aliases. Now, let’s see, we have Mephistopheles, Beelzebub, Bafomet, Iblis, The Fallen One, Lucifer, The Morning Star, Lord of the Dark, The Devil, oh and my favorite; Satan.”

Face to face with Satan, Michael has awoken in the bowels of Hell with no memory of who he is, or why he has been damned.

Hell, however, isn’t what he expected. Rather than the fires of torment, he finds a hedonistic city of gambling, sex, murder and revenge.

With the Devil as his guide, Michael embarks on a quest of self-discovery and self redemption. But will he get a second chance at salvation? And why is Satan helping him?

Hellbound is a contemporary view of Hell, exploring today’s idea of sin and religion, through witty dialogue and bursts of descriptive prose.

Dark, funny and philosophical.




Genesis (Return to Eden)
by John C. Hartness
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Contemporary Fantasy



The end of the world was just the beginning.

Now they have to stay alive.

17-year-old Christin Kinsey started the day with nothing more pressing than an English exam. But when an EMP attack knocked out all technology across the globe, she found herself in the mountains of Georgia trying to stay alive in a world suddenly thrown back in time a hundred years or more.

And when she starts shooting lightning bolts out of her hands, things get really weird. Christin, her younger brother Matt, and Matt’s cute friend Dave have to figure out what this new world is about, why they suddenly have super powers, and what happened to their mom in this apocalyptic fantasy novel geared for audiences 16 and up.

Mad Max meets X-Men: First Class in the first book of the Return to Eden trilogy by the best-selling author of The Black Knight Chronicles.