Contemporary fantasy Books

When ESL teacher Riko finds an old journal buried in the forests beneath Mt Fuji, a malevolent, untraceable force begins to threaten her at every turn.But is it all in her head?The more she studies the journal for answers, the more questions she uncovers...

What will the next pandemic look like? And must it be viral in nature? The author's conjecture, in his latest novel, The Spaceman, is that it will be different this time around.The Space is a patch of turf in the Australian Alps. Should a...

Trust no one. Not even yourself.There’s something terrible coming to the city of Coleton. After six months in hiding, Ari’s life might finally be settling down. That all changes when a little girl tries to kill her, and Ari discovers a new...

It started with uncaring humanities destruction of koala habitat. The poor creatures quietly endured until finally, the pressure to survive produced mutations. Brown eyes turned to blue as koala became kala. The mutation gave the kalas human...

Beth Ormonde lives in a beautiful wooded valley, surrounded by the nature that she loves. She is close to her family, tolerates her school and detests her younger brother. And she is becoming very afraid of the dark. In particular, the darkness beneath...

A captivating and immersive science fiction fantasy adventure set against a backdrop of the Australian landscape.How far will a mother go to save her child?In a near-future world where humanity is confined to climate-controlled domes, Outdwellers, Anna...

Seven-year-old David Glum watches as his grandfather is abducted by a legendary herd of elephants. Twenty years later, after failing to sell his novel to a New York publisher, David returns to his parents' home to focus on growing a beard, a goal he...

Eibonvale Press came into being in the winter of 2005 in a tiny Slovenian mountain town at the hands of David Rix, who sat down one day and decided "Today I am going to make a book." The fact that he knew a lot about books but nothing at all about the...

A lost galaxy, a perfect planet. The Horoscopian Zodiac Warriors must find a new home. Earth is just the place and after a long flight, they lie dormant waiting for humans to discover them. Feisty PhD student Lily Noor is the first to uncover the Zodiac...

After having been on the back-foot for some time, John and his circle of friends now have an opportunity to end the war once and for all.But the new ruler of the world has other ideas entirely as he works tirelessly to consolidate his power at every...

Lucy McLaren went back to her family name after she and her long-term partner split. The McLaren family history and their cottage in Somerset in England drew her inexorably to the past and gave it an importance that she was unable-or perhaps, unwilling-...

An old foe has returned and is looking for vengeance. After being attacked twice, Zack and his team are back on their heels but not out.Now the race is on. Zack and his team need to find their mysterious enemy and bring them to justice before they finish...

Zack and his team have their work cut out for them.How do you catch someone who can appear as anyone?The Rose is a shapeshifting assassin that has left a trail of bodies in high-profile hits all over the globe for the last decade. The bounty on the...

"Both chilling and chic, frightening, yet fashionable--pure evil has never been this much fun!"--New York Times bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks, "Dark secrets and truly wicked socialites--666 Park Avenue is a thrill to the very last page."--New York...

The Void still aches to be saved.Sacrifices must be made.Nerilis Dunsman may have given up his quest to send as many souls back to the Void as possible, but his band of underground followers are willing to take up the cause. While a secret society...

There was no consciousness, only purpose. Do what I was created to do, then turn off. A curse on soulmates, fated to reincarnate for eternity. Sleep untell the boy falls in love with the girl, possess the girl, then rip the boy apart as her screams...

Shona is on a mission and she has the perfect plan. Trouble is, she never sticks to plans. She seduces the wrong man and steals something precious from him. Ekbeth, her victim, is an As’mir, living between two worlds. He needs to recover the...

Four friends started their B-school journey together. They lived in House #872 near the Delhi - Faridabad border. Neeraj, an Oriya boy with very high aspirations, focused all the time on studies and really helped many of his batchmates pick up...

'हर अंत एक शुरुआत होता है। बस, उस समय हमें इस बात का पता नहीं होता है.' एकाकी जीवन व्यतीत कर रहा भूतपूर्व सैनिक एडी अपने 83वें जन्मदिन पर एक छोटी लड़की को बचाने के दौरान हुए दुखद हादसे में मारा जाता है। अपनी अंतिम साँस लेते समय वह दो छोटे हाथों का स्पर्श...

Five women of various ages face, each in her own way, what seems to be the deterministic trap of Fate: a freshman in a girls’ boarding school with the strange ability to share other people’s dreams; a young woman in a straitjacket,...

The King is DeadLong Live the KingThe Mage-King of Wessex has passed away, and the stage is set for a battle royal:The richest Mage in England versus the most powerful Coven of Witches.And Conrad finds himself in the middle.The struggle is a civilised...

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific...

Being in high school isn't all tea and cupcakes for anyone. For Minerva-Minnie to her friends-it's especially hard. She and her guardian get by in the small, rural, Western town where they're hiding, but the whole "hiding" thing is part of what's hard...

Volner, a happy student nearing the end of college. Tonight he dreams a medieval battle scene. Arrows flying. Cascading clashes of steel. Screams of men and horses. The smell of mud and blood and worse. A golden knight atop a giant golden unicorn...

AWARD-WINNING DARK FANTASY WITH ACTION, SNARK, AND DEMONS GALORE“If you love action-packed dark edged urban fantasy with mystery, humor and a lot of foul language then check this one out.” – Sharon Stogner, I Smell SheepStraight out of...

Two years after saving the Archangel Gabriel, Sam Buckland is feeling the pressure of a world plagued by evil. When the Angels Fall and Heaven is attacked by an ancient Egyptian sorcerer, however, he must put aside his weariness and muster all his powers...

Living a good life as an architect with a fiery, beautiful wife, Tom becomes angry when he mistakes another woman for her and makes an irreversible decision.  Life for Tom changes abruptly, and he unwillingly travels different paths finding new and...

ZOMBIE MUNCHKINS!TURD-FLINGING FLATHEADS!EVIL CORPORATE CONSPIRACIES!DELICIOUS MEXICAN FOOD! OZ IS REAL! Magic is real! The gate is really in Kansas! And America is finally allowing Earth tourists to visit this weird-ass, mysterious land. But when Gene...

A demented fairy tale about a pickle, a pancake, and the apocalypse. It is Gaston Glew's sixteenth Sad Day - the sixteenth anniversary of the saddest day of his life: his day of birth - and his parents have just committed suicide. Fed up with the...

The village of Icil, in the land of Compute, was created by its original form being joined by two other makers - the Eye and the Pye. The chronicle is related by a scribe who had come from the land of the Tit-e-I, where he had tired of his labour. He was...

In his sixth adventure, Sam Spallucci: Bloodline, Lancaster's whiskey drinking, chain smoking investigator of the paranormal faces his toughest challenge yet - a shadowy cabal of werewolves that are led by a supposedly benevolent building magnate by the...

Year 2018. Chehnuh, a half-elven and sole survivor of his people's genocide, resides quietly in a remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains. No one knows how he came to the United States. No one knows that he is part Elf. He is a mystery to all who...

Magic and science are normal to Ketayl. She was content in her lab at the Terran Intelligence Organization until the day an explosion in Elven Territory thrust her out of the lab and into the field.There, she finds a kind of twisted, dark magic that she...

After being thrust into a new world of spirit animals, Reiki Chatwani now faces new challenges that threaten her freedom, her morals, and her life itself. With new friends and new foes, is anyone really as they seem? Is she?

Imani Jefferson was one paper from her Doctorate Degree, something she decided to pursue mid-career with the hopes of expanding her brand in the corporate world. Her daughter was college bound and she was about to be an empty-nester. She needed a new...

Eons ago, Kalum, an angel and demon hybrid, nearly wiped out humanity after a betrayal. Divine and supernatural forces conspired to imprison him in a cave with a single clue to his freedom: "A human life spilled will release him, but an immortal...

Zombie Waylon Jenkins is dead set on proving that cosmetology can save the world... What's a zombie--who also happens to be a cosmetologist--do when dead bodies show up with missing limbs and the local police captain thinks the zombie did...

Otto Boteman suffers a massive heart attack and wakes up in a strange, jeweled city filled with beautiful people, a mesmer sky defying all physics, and what looks suspiciously like his first car. He has a disturbing encounter with a murdered...

God is near death. The dimensions of Reality are collapsing. And The Infinite Definite, an amorphous gang of magick-wielding terrorists, has become even more powerful and effective in its mission of unleashing universal chaos.In the middle of it all are...

Three years after contracting the White Fire Virus, Watcher agent Robert Goldner still considers himself damned and confused. Damned to live with a body overrun by billions of sentient parasites. Confused that the deadly infection has not killed but...

CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 2: More Tales of Beauty and StrangenessStory marries style. The result is a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy.The second volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature dares to surpass the...

In this, the final issue of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination people of color take over! Special Guest editor Nisi Shawl has assembled a breath taking array of stories by some of the best writers in the science fiction and fantasy field today, and...

Rain Woodrow is an entrepreneur, both at heart and by profession. She's not afraid to do whatever it takes to make her company a success. It's a work ethic that is about to come in handy at home too. One night, she and her boyfriend, Cullen Dangsi,...

Mariah Nichols was adaptable. She lived through her parent’s bitter divorce, a childhood of neglect and the discovery that her only sibling was transgender – so the concept of turning into a mortal vampire was just one more adjustment in an...