Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 6-5-2012

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.  


Parallel (Travelers Series Book 1)
by Claudia Lefeve
4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


Destiny has a way of catching up.

Saddled with powers she doesn't understand, Etta Fleming's world is turned upside-down the day she meets Cooper Everett, the man who transports her to an alternate reality. A reality she was meant to be a part of.

One minute, she's an orphan living at Dominion House for Girls, an institution for delinquent foster kids, then finds herself attending the exclusive Dominion Hall Academy.

Plucked from the only world she's ever known, Etta now has to deal with an aunt she never knew, a boyfriend she doesn't know, and a best friend who can't know.



 The Immortal Guardians, Souls
by M.L. Davis
4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


After I'd endured the tortures of a broken heart, the terrors of countless nightmares, and the disconcerting feelings spawned by years of hauntings by a strange male voice in my head, I decided to start my Sophomore year at the University of Nebraska with the promise of a good year...a new beginning.
But what I received in return was so much more...


I found a new friend in Amanda. I was offered the gift of a new love with Christian. And despite my misgivings, I embraced a new belief in everything I once deemed to be fantasy.


My name is Lexi, and as unbelievable as it might seem...this is my story.

Nineteen year old Alexandrea (Lexi) Mitchell is completely undecided if her discovery of the supernatural world is a blessing or a curse, but she accepts her fate as an immortal warrior and ultimately chooses the path that will lead her to fulfilling her destiny.

She follows her heart. She voluntarily joins her soul with Christian's. And she struggles with not only her new reality, but the demons who are out to destroy her.

But defeat is a thing of the past for Lexi when she learns and chooses to abide by the seven heavenly virtues instilled in her by the Gods. She learns and then masters her ancestral gifted powers - and most amazingly of all - she manages to accomplish all of this while experiencing the most wonderful, terrifying year she could have ever imagined.



Before (Heven and Hell)
by Cambria Herbert
3.9 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


What if your life was charmed and everything in it was perfect…....
Before.

This is the story of my past. Of what things were like for me when everything was normal. Of what every teenager’s life is like. Clothes. Parties. Boys and summer vacation. What’s so wrong with that?

I liked it. I was happy.

Until things changed. I changed.

I didn’t know that lies and secrets were about to take over my existence. I didn’t know there was someone out there, someone meant just for me. I didn’t know that I was about to go on a journey, a journey that would lead me to the girl I am today.

This is the beginning of the worst year of my life. Would I go back and change things? Erase everything that has happened to go back into these moments?

Not a chance.

This is a story of before.


Diary of a Vampeen (Vamp Chronicles)
by Christin Lovell
4.1 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance

Imagine living a human charade for fifteen years and never knowing it. Imagine being provided less than a week to learn and accept your family’s true heritage before it overtook you. Alexa Jackson, Lexi, is abruptly thrown onto this roller coaster and quickly learns that she can’t change fate, regardless of how many lifetimes she is given. She will be transformed into a vampeen on her sixteenth birthday, she will be called upon to fulfill a greater destiny within the dangerous world of vampires, and she will have to risk heartbreak and rejection if she ever wants a chance at love with Kellan, whether she likes it or not.



Outside of the Wire
by Richard Farnsworth
5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Supernatural Thriller

Fallen angels, demons, lycanthropes, monsters and even a disembodied hand (or is it), Outside the Wire is a collection of six previously published short stories about things we don’t want to let in, all anthologized for your reading pleasure.



Endlessly
by C.V. Hunt
4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Vampire Paranormal Romance

When Ashley walks into a shop run by the vampire, Verloren, they both get the surprise of their lives. Ash is about to learn that she’s not just another pretty young woman, while Verloren is astonished to find himself falling in love. But how can a vampire love a human? And what if the human isn’t as human as she seems? When Ash’s true nature reveals itself, the entire power structure of the world’s outsiders teeters on the brink of destruction. Verloren and Ash become more and more terrified as they grope their way toward the ultimate truth: that they hold the key to something much larger than their own survival.

Spotlight Anthology - Dark Fantasy

Gateway Drug
 by Scott Nicholson, Tom Lebbon, Shane Jiraiva Cummings
 5.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon

 After the first hit, there's no turning back. Ten tales of murder, mayhem, madness, and dark magic from a #1 bestselling author. A man finds that fast cars and fast women don't mix. An artist uses very special tools to convey his passion. A rebellious teen will make any sacrifice for rock stardom. A mother finds a new role in a post-apocalyptic world.

Gateway Drug. It leads to more dangerous things.

Features "Hounds of Love, "Sung Li," and other tales from the pages of Cemetery Dance, The Book of All Flesh, and more, along with the afterword "One Sick Puppy." Bonus contributions from British horror master Tim Lebbon and mult-award-winning Australian dark fantasy writer Shane Jiraiya Cummings.

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 6-4-2012

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.  



Angel in the Shadows, Book 1 (The Angel Series)
by Lisa Grace
3.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Dark Urban Fantasy


Fifteen-year-old Megan Laughlin has a gift--or what seems like a curse at times. Megan sees angels and demons. Megan knows her destiny is to protect her friends against dark angels who try to sway them into situations that can destroy their lives, their souls, and their eternity. At school, she recognizes Judas, an über popular boy, as an evil angel hell-bent on destroying her and everyone she loves. As Judas spreads horrible rumors and overdoses two of her classmates at a rave, Megan realizes the enormity of his power. While classmates die, Megan, with the help of an angel, Johnny, and a team of friends will face the fight of their lives as they battle Judas.

Megan thinks God hasn't given her any "special" powers, but discovers she has what she needs as she confronts Judas and his seemingly unconquerable power.


Alex: The Demon Chronicle
by Robert Xavier
5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Dark Urban Fantasy


Alex lives in Fairport, a suburb of Rochester, New York, where he's a senior in high school. For most of his life, he's been a bullied and awkward social outcast. His one love has been Audrey, a childhood friend who grew up to be the most popular girl in school. One day, Alex uncovers a mysterious book on demons in the private collection of a local millionaire. Lost, he commits himself to a desperate and horrifying ritual that transforms him into a demon-possessed creature. Now he must consume human blood to survive. The sleepy town that once abused him becomes his personal hunting ground and revenge rules the day. However, when his bloodlust results in an unintended death, Alex finds himself haunted by a ghost for reasons he struggles to fully understand. Soon he is pulled into an urban adventure through a dangerous world where ghosts, zombies, a Haitian voodoo priestess, and even a centuries-old demon-possessed Albanian boy, inhabit the shadows of a cruel and unforgiving world.


Daywalker ~ The Beginning (Nightwalkers)
by J.C. Stone
4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Urban Fantasy


Every one-hundred years a daywalker is born.

During that time, immortal nightwalkers search the earth…hunting for that rare, chosen soul. Hoping to find the one unique human who can give them the ability to walk in the sun.

Or kill them.

Lacy Logan thought she had a normal life. She was healthy, pretty, and about to start her own paranormal-investigations business…until she met the man in black.


Heavenly Lover (A Guardian Angel Romance)
by Sharon Hamilton
4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


Claire, an unconventional Guardian angel sent to save a sexy Brazilian-born painter from killing himself, discovers Daniel has been preyed upon by a powerful dark angel posing as his best friend and agent. Although successful in saving Daniel’s life, Claire is in danger of losing her own when attraction to her handsome charge blooms into a forbidden love.

The dark angel offers her what she’s only dared to dream about—an eternity with Daniel. Will she sacrifice her soul, or sacrifice a lifetime with a man she knows she was created to love?


Eternal Eden (Eden Trilogy, Book One)
by Nicole Williams
3.9 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


College sophomore Bryn Dawson is a self-proclaimed poster child for normal. However, the day William Hayward enters her life, normalcy is the last thing Bryn will be able to count on if she wants to be with him. Too mysterious and appealing to be good for a girl, Bryn feels drawn to him in a way that seems out of her control—as if fate is orchestrating it.

Despite every red flag and warning siren going off in her head telling her not to, Bryn falls hard for William, knowing he’s categorically different from anyone she’s ever met. She never imagined how right she was. When William takes her deeper into the rabbit hole of his world, Bryn must decide just how much she is willing to sacrifice to be with him, knowing no matter what, fate always finds a way to have the last laugh.

Spinning a new twist on star-crossed lovers, Eternal Eden will put Bryn through a gauntlet of turmoil, challenging her to find the power within herself to become the heroine in her own story.


Bewitching the Werewolf
by Caroline Hanson
4.1 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Humorous Paranormal Romance


When witch for hire, Megan Stephens, is assigned to help the local werewolf pack leader find a mate, she thinks the job will be easy. Get in, get him up and get gone. But when she meets Zack Connor, she realizes her future might have a lot more dog jokes in it than she ever imagined.

This is a short story-- approximately 40 pages in length-- and includes an excerpt from Love is Darkness, the first book in the Valerie Dearborn series.

**Please be aware that this book contains sex. And not in a fade-to-black-sort-of-way but an-OMG-that's-in-public-sort-of-way**

Spotlight Novel - Paranormal Romance Thriller

HeartsBlood
by Carolyn McCray
4.1 out of 5 stars on Amazon


A woman of science.
A man of magic.
Hunted for their HeartsBlood.

HeartsBlood... a love taken to its dangerous conclusion.

Reviews:


5 out of 5 Stars
Equal parts thrilling and romantic, HeartsBlood swept me off my feet. How the author weaves a story of science and magic so seamlessly still amazes me. And did I mention the sexual tension between the dark stranger and the heroine struggling to accept the fact her reality has been shattered? Oh yeah, this is a great one folks!"
Your Need To Read - Book Reviewer


5 out of 5 stars
"Um... I just finished HeartsBlood less than two minutes ago, and I can honestly say that it has been a very long time since a book has affected me as deeply as HeartsBlood did. Not very often does a book come along that makes you feel so intensely that the tears actually stream down your face. This one did. In fact, I'm still tearing as I write this... THIS BOOK IS PHENOMENAL"
Theresa Cole - Book Reviewer "Book Lovin' Bitches"

Free Contemporary Fantasy Kindle Books 6-3-2012

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. 


 Daniel X: Demons and Druids - Free Preview
by James Patterson
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Action Adventure


The Alien Hunter is playing with fire…Daniel X is on an impossible mission: to eliminate every intergalactic criminal on the face of the Earth. Using his incredible superpower to create objects out of thin air, he’s taken on some of the most fearsome and fiendish aliens in the universe. Now Daniel has travelled to England in search of his next target: the explosive demon of fire Phosphorius Beta and his army of flame-weaving henchmen.But it’s going to take a whole new level of mojo to destroy this villain. Beta’s strength has been growing since he arrived on Earth more than a millennium ago, and he’s finally ready to turn the blue planet into his own fiery wasteland. The only way to stop him is by jumping back in time to the Dark Ages to end Beta’s blistering reign before it has a chance to begin. But can Daniel X take the heat? Or will the Alien Hunter finally get burned?




Witch Hunt (Witch-Game Series)
by K.C. Blake
4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
YA Paranormal Romance


A magical game of Hide n Seek begins.
Find the missing player and win.
The game resets, everyone forgets, and they start to play again.

Starr Hughes hasn’t believed in magic since her mother died. As a reporter for the school paper she’s only interested in cold, hard facts. When she hears rumors that the mysterious It-Squad members are about to play a secret game, she is determined to learn all about it, especially since she’s been in love with one of the members half her life. Hiding under the headmaster’s desk, planting bugs, and breaking into a fellow student’s locker are all on her to-do list.

Starr is about to discover that witches not only exist, but they need her help. Someone is using the game to steal their memories, their powers, and maybe even their lives.


ForNevermore: Episode 4
by Sean Platt and Dave Wright
5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Thriller


From the writers of the groundbreaking post-apocalyptic serial “Yesterday’s Gone,” comes a dark new fantasy horror serial, “ForNevermore.”

All 17 year old Noella Snow ever wanted was a normal life.

But normal died with her mother, minutes after she was born. Then again when her father was murdered before her eyes on her seventh birthday. Now she spends her days in quiet misery, an outcast at school, harboring a secret crush on her best friend, Sam.

Noella’s only happiness lies in her dreams, in a world where her father still lives and Dante, a mysterious stranger with a deadly touch, guards over her.

Now those dreams have turned to nightmares as Noella begins hearing voices, witnessing murders she can’t possibly know of, and seeing the monsters from her sleep merging into her waking life.

Noella doesn’t want to return to King’s Point, the psychiatric hospital where she was forced to go after an “episode” two years earlier.

She tells herself she’s better.

But then one night Noella sees the impossible... Dante, watching her from afar, as he has for centuries – nearly as long as he's loved her.

Is Noella losing her mind? Or is she linked to a hidden world, destined to be normal ForNevermore?

ForNevermore is a bold new paranormal serial, with awesome cliffhanger endings that will make you feel like you’re watching your favorite TV show right on your Kindle.


Burial To Follow
by Scott Nicholson
3.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Supernatural Mystery


When Jacob Ridgehorn dies, it's up to Roby Snow to make sure his soul goes on to the eternal reward. The only way Roby can do that is convince the Ridgehorn family to eat a special pie. Lurking in the shadows is a mysterious figure named Johnny Divine, monitoring the crossroads between the living and the dead. Southern Appalachian funeral customs get crossed when Roby has to perform miracles...or else.

CONCENTRIC CIRCLES (Twin Sparks of Love)
by Aithne Jarretta
5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Paranormal Romance


Shayla Brinawell comes from a fragmented family. Fearful of the dangers her daughter could face, Shayla's mother raised her to deny and hide her magical gifts. Shayla is about to have her world turned upside down and every other which way. Witch way that is. She must come to terms with her magical destiny in hyper drive.
Meekal Chilkwell has always known his life purpose. To protect the magical and healing waters of The Chalice Well located in the shadow of the great mystical Tor in Glastonbury, England. A new danger has arisen. One that threatens not only the Chilkwell family, but also the non-magical world.
Shayla & Meekal join together in order to conquer Syther the Quitch, an evil wizard bent on spreading darkness.


Occupy Faerie
by Marilyn Peake
4.0 out of 5 stars on Amazon
Dark Urban Fantasy

Dark urban fantasy short story. From the world of faerie, Ella Byrne thrives on chaos and destruction. Seducing a wealthy Senator while infiltrating a major protest movement, Ella finds her bliss within the human world.


BAIT (The Angler)
by Annie Nicholas
4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon
HOT Paranormal Romance Thriller


Live bait makes all the difference.

Sent on a mission to lure Budapest’s vampire Overlord into a trap, Connie Bence is instead caught red-handed by the dark Casanova.

Her employer has concrete proof of the dubious leader’s misdeeds but she is surprised when this ruthless killer, Rurik, offers her protection and rescues her from his own kind. It plants seeds of doubt in her mind and she begins to question his guilt.

Now she is thrown into his world where blackmail determines her every move and where she must betray those she cares about or let them die. The stakes are high. She either puts her trust in Rurik or leads him to his execution.

Love or life.

Spotlight Book Trailer - One Grave at a Time - Jeaniene Frost

 One Grave at a Time: A Night Huntress Novel
 by Jeaniene Frost
 3.9 out of 5 stars on Amazon

Having narrowly averted an (under)world war, Cat Crawfield wants nothing more than a little downtime with her vampire husband, Bones. Unfortunately, her gift from New Orleans' voodoo queen just keeps on giving-leading to a personal favor that sends them into battle once again, this time against a villainous spirit.


Praise for the Night Huntress series:

"Frost's dazzling blend of urban fantasy action and passionate relationships makes her a true phenomenon." -- Romantic Times


"Sexy, nonstop thrills." --Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author


"Cat and Bones are combustible together." #1 bestselling author
Charlaine Harris.


"The Frost name guarantees quality!" Romantic Times.

Book Trailer:


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Spotlight Novel - Paranormal Romance

THE FOREVER GIRL (Forever Girl Series #1)
by Rebecca Hamilton
4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon


A Cult. A Murder. A Curse.

Sophia's family has skeletons, but they aren't in their graves...

At twenty-two, practicing Wiccan Sophia Parsons is scratching out a living waiting tables in her Rocky Mountain hometown, living under religious prejudice, the shadow of her bi-polar mother, and an unsolved murder.

Sophia can imagine lots of ways to improve her life, but she'd settle for just getting rid of the buzzing noise in her head. When the spell she casts goes wrong, the static turns into voices. Her personal demons get company, and the newcomers are dangerous.

One of them is a man named Charles, a centuries-old shape-shifter who Sophia falls for despite her better judgment. He has connections that can help her unveil the mystery surrounding her ancestor's hanging, but she gets more than she bargains for when she finally decides to trust him. Survival in his world, she learns, means not asking questions and staying out of the immortal council's way. It's a line she crossed long ago.

If Sophia wants to survive the council and save the people she loves, she must accept who she is, perform dark magic, and fight to the death for her freedom.

The Forever Girl is a full-length Paranormal Fantasy novel that will appeal to lovers of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, witches, vampires, ghosts, paranormal mystery, and paranormal horror.

Reviews:


Morning Star Reviews
"If I met someone who has never read Twilight or Anne Rice or any other popular book in this genre- I would tell them to start with The Forever Girl by Rebecca Hamilton, because it really does lead the pack with literary genius."
morningstarfroyd.blogspot.com

Jessica Fortunato, author of The Sin Collector, wrote...
"Rebecca Hamilton has been the ONLY fiction author I have ever read who described ritual, as well as Wiccan beliefs accurately and completely. For her insight and research, I applaud and respect her."
thesincollector.weebly.com

How I See It Reviews...
"Quite simply said one of the best debut novels I have ever read!"
thereviewsofmar.blogspot.com

Thomas Winship, author of Vaempires, wrote...
"Rebecca Hamilton displays a sophistication and style far beyond that of many seasoned authors."
vaempires.com

Chapter by Chapter Reviews
"Hamilton's writing style is addictive." and "Charles just oozes sex appeal."
chapter-by-chapter.com

Reading by the Beach Reviews
"Tantalizing. Extraordinary. Captivating." and "The story will linger, the characters will haunt until we are satisfied by reading the next book."
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