Contemporary fantasy Books

Tristram Jones is given an opal by his dying grandfather. Little does he know its connection to an old aboriginal witch doctor with bright orange eyes. He is Dinewan - meaning Emu - taken from the Great Spirit of the Dreamtime.But is he...

Life spins stories around us as we slide through time, anchored by our secrets.Tristram Jones has an opal that is of deep significance to his teacher, Ivan MacAllister: a compelling and charismatic mentor haunted by a trauma caused by the...

BAND ON THE RUNLaurina and the women are forced to flee along with Gavrael and the Aeternus soldiers.  Their last hope is gaining sanctuary from the mysterious denizens of SubLupina who still bear a deep resentment towards humanity.  With...

FOR MAGIC. FOR MEMORY. FOR EACH OTHER. Mortal mage Henley Yu has enough to worry about between the storms caused by broken magic and his strained relationship with his father. He's trying to keep his head above water, but when he finds a stranger hiding...

Mit vierzehn Jahren wurde ich auf dem Scheiterhaufen verbrannt ...Mit vierundzwanzig Jahren wurde ich in einem See ertränkt ...Mit siebenundzwanzig wurde ich auf einem öffentlichen Marktplatz gesteinigt ...Ich bin schon hunderte Male auf hundert...

"Just as spellbinding as the first... and then some! Five stars and two thumbs, way up!" -One Guy's GuideBriar Pryce has earned a little rest and relaxation. She's rescued her best friend from being transformed into a cat and stopped a war in the...

"...an intriguing blend of modern times and fairy tale lore." -InD'tale MagazineBriar Pryce has the power to change the emotions of others by handing them a rose. It is a talent that has done surprisingly little for her, besides landing her a dead-end...

“My name is Neha Rutherford Patel Vishravan, and I am a creature of darkness. I am the heir to an ancient legacy, older than humanity itself, and I am not alone. I am but one of a handful of powerful beings who have gone against our nature to...

Havoc...Destruction...Revenge...With triumph heavy on their hearts, Kara O'Keefe and the survivors from the battle atop Yesterday's Dreams rush to Ireland and Tír na nÓg, carrying with them a weapon feared by gods and men. There...

When Detective Danny Fitzpatrick leaves his hometown of Chicago and moves to Fairbanks, Alaska he wants nothing more than to escape the violence and heartbreak that left his life in pieces. Numbed by alcohol and the frozen temperatures of an Alaskan...

Eysheus (eye-she-us): An individual with the ability to enter and manipulate storybooks at will.In Reitrin's world there was never a silver lining. Living in an apartment with a broken family, no friends, and a spirit of guilt left every day the same as...

With a serial killer on the loose, the baffling mystery of Aiden’s past, and their tenuous budding romance, Aiden and Fouchard tread through a world of magic and myth on padded shoes, terrified to stir up something neither can control or defeat...

In the tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, we present the surreal adventures of the revered members of the Society for the Preservation of Preposterous Absurdity. The preposterous will live while there is breath in their bodies, living or...

An ambitious apothecary tends a beautiful stranger with an ancient, world-shaking secret. A young man in a world of fairy-tale creatures discovers an invasion. An imprisoned roc struggles with his baser instincts. A doomed mine worker runs to escape...

The last thing reluctant shaman Joanne Walker wants is to be assigned to a case of ritual murders. It'd be creepy enough all on its own, but her boss, already trusting her magic more than Jo does herself, suspects there's more to it than just a serial...

Joanne Walker has accepted her path as a shaman-but she's lost her spirit guide along the way.Without Coyote's cryptic guidance, and entangled in the disaster she calls a love life, Joanne finds herself the last one standing as a magical illness sweeps...

Anya was thrilled to be reunited with her father, legendary giant the Bodach. The rest of the world, not so much.With Chris by her side and her powers at their peak, Anya, the Queen of Winter, did the unthinkable and freed her father and brothers from...

I'm not an assassin witch, I swear... But one bad day at work as a Guardian was all it took to make everyone think I am.Darcy Pierce—infamous, soulless, lethal. Betrayer.It’s all good, though. I fit right in at my new job as the...

As the story opens, Shea is preparing for her wedding.  She’s a landscape photographer who has moved from Manchester, England to America to marry Cal, a man she barely knows. At the reception, she meets Alex, a friend of her new husband...

The world consists of three parallel realms; the Grey where Greyborn—preternatural creatures of legend live; the Ether which is the realm of Heaven and Hell; and the Absolute where humans make their home, blissfully unaware of the tripartite nature...

The first time she was instantly terminally plagued with the disease, Chance Dubois accepted that her expiration would come sooner than the slice of birthday cake she’d left out on the counter the night before. Now, miraculously in permanent...

The book has only two main characters: Belinda Zimmerman, the only one named, and a personified diary. Belinda records everything, including her innermost thoughts, in her diary. It has a life of its own.This is the story of a self-taught con woman,...

The Wondrous Variety of CatsA sleek black cat with a gift for finding hearts in need of one another.A community of cats bringing comfort and peace in a world closing down.A fluffy black cat with a secret life she only shares with the ones she loves most...

Joshua felt the desire to help when his city needed him.  He summoned some acquaintances and went on a quest to find the cities missing Midas Orb, a powerful orb that kept the city safe and stable.  It seemed simple enough, find the Midas Orb...

Amber is the one true world of which all others are but shadows. Collected here in one binding are seven tales of Amber. It was Zelazny's intent to use these short stories to tie up unfinished threads from his amazing Chronicles of Amber. With stunning...

In the wonderful town of Dazzler, where everyone practices kindness, a group of intelligent younger adults set forth to spread the message of being good to our earth. Sapphire, the leading teen, starts the ball rolling into several main events. The...

Death Stalks the Fire Child is the fourth and final book of the Fire Child series. In Return of the Fire Child, T.J. grudgingly accepts his destiny as the Fire Child, protector of the Inner World, a civilization located within the core of the Earth...

Centuries of vampire hunts have ensured vampires live on the brink of extinction. Only the Goya clan survives by working as vampire assassins for unscrupulous humans who want to eliminate their enemies. The vampires are in demand because their killings...

The comfortable world of a well regarded Santa Fe, New Mexico based archaeologist is turned around by the realities of reservation life, and death, in the shadow of corporate uranium mining on Indian lands. The failure of the dominant culture to address...

After shooting his Dad and fleeing to Switzerland, famous YouTuber "McJuggerNuggets" (Psycho Kid) struggles with his own sanity, only to learn that his Psycho Dad isn't actually dead. Psycho Kid seeks out magical elixirs to hopefully gain...

It was a dark night to be walking the road from the Traveler's Inn to the cottage. The moon and stars were hidden by heavy clouds, but Darkvale Warrior, Jack Killian, wasn't worried. Mallard Pond was a safe place, and he had Everleigh Roberts, a witch,...

What would you do if a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Egypt really did change your life?Plagued with anxiety and mental health struggles her whole life, Julia Wheelwright has always felt like something was missing. During a serendipitous tour of Hatshepsut's...

Perfection is key. That's how Ayra Brightheart made it to Fraydora Academy. It didn't matter that her parents left her at the academy's doorstep when she was a baby; she had to earn her way in. Years of studying, late nights, taunting from her...

In the world of Basodin, a land in which magic and technology live in harmony, the denizens of this land live their lives knowing they must be loved in some way. If not, a mysterious force known as the Dark comes for them, rendering them weak before...

In a realm where dreams and reality intertwine, only the damned dare to seek the truth.Dreams of the Damned takes you on an ethereal journey through a world where nightmares are more than mere figments of the mind-they are the whispers of destiny. In...

"The Serpent of the Forest wants to hiss in your ear. " The theme describes an off-beat modernist literary work that is based on hallucinary speeches of a forest made to a dreamer who enters it. The Serpent snake is the sleeping forest who awakens at...

Let the Magical Mayhem begin! Cindy Eller has not one, but two weddings to prepare for in less than two weeks when the cupcakes hit the fan-- a mysterious man has appeared claiming to be betrothed to Cindy and insisting she must marry him before her...

The Gate city has grown too large for one Guardian to protect and the Powers That be have Decided Harry needs some help. Maeve Trolls Daughter runs from Boston to Nashua to escape the clutches of Simon head of the vampire Clan Toriba. Working as a...

Trouble is coming. Selkies and finfolk are enemies for a reason. Lorelei can't afford to forget it.Castle and Crown is the final book in the Water Rites fantasy trilogy, where there's more to sea storms and the ocean's depths than we mere human mortals...

A DROLL ADULT FAIRY TALE ABOUT SELF-DISCOVERY AND MORE Waking Up to Being is a fairy tale about self-discovery and getting to the core of our being. It is a dream-like story that combines magical realism with folklore, mysticism, mythology,...