Contemporary fantasy Books

Ninety-six-year-old Tilly's great-grandchildren insist she try something new to keep her brain active. The cute little virtual game Hero's Journey seems harmless enough. And Tilly quite enjoys catching butterflies and swapping gifts with...

Australia, around 39,987BP (before the present) This chronicle comes alive from the legend of a great sweeping saga, which covered the lives of four Australians who lived and died numerous generations ago. Their meeting and lives together left an...

Australia, mordern-day When Detective John Pomeroy’s wife Lalaili, asks him to look into the mysterious death of young Jimmy Jungarai, an Aboriginal youth from a remote Aboriginal community in the middle of Australia’s dry Desert...

Published here as a stand-alone chapbook, Briar Day is a short, slipstream story about masculinity, fairy tales, and the narratives we tell ourselves. Also available in the collection The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales.Everyone remembers where...

Of all the denizens of the circles of Hell, perhaps none is more feared among those of a high-minded sensibility than the succubi.The Assizes of Suffolk in the eighteenth century granted the Office of the Witchfinder General the power to employ 'demonic...

IT SEEMS THAT, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU'RE WARNED NEVER TO WALK THE WOODS ALONE, TEMPTATION WOULD ALWAYS WIN.  Alessia Spencer is alone. Or at least it feels that way.  Orphaned at two years old after her mother, Grace, dies,...

A man carries his girlfriend in the left-hand breast pocket of his shirt. During World War II, a young soldier searches the houses and barns of the families with whom he grew up. An astronaut wonders whether she can adapt to life back on earth. In her...

'I have one question for you, Mr Macfarlane, and please don't take it the wrong way. Do you have any idea what you are doing? Any idea at all?' James Macfarlane - whisky tycoon and dilettante freedom fighter - is beginning to suspect his antagonists...

Winner of the 2022 Readers' Favorite Book Awards - Paranormal Romance - GOLDWinner of the 2022 NYC Big Book Award - Paranormal Romance"Intelligent without pretension... Of Dreams and Angels is an enjoyable, easy-to-read romance that probes the weight and...

A kingdom besieged with wickedness, The wretched cry out for salvation.From above the depraved skyrises,The deathless king heeds their despair.His fealty is thicker than blood, And valor stronger than stone.Mountains will quake with tumult,And...

Octavia Chavez, eighteen and fiercely passionate, has spent her life listening to the remote music of the stars, which only she seems to hear. She has a forbidden love of which she dares not speak, and a longing for wild, empty places. Her one true...

Within each of us is a strange fire-a way we burn which is uniquely ours, a heat that defines us, forges us, drives us, liberates us. Strange Fires is a richly diverse collection of queer speculative short fiction, starring pagan gods, psychic...

John wakes up one morning in the body of the man he had slept with the night before. His sensations, memories, personality, and soul are his own, but he inhabits the body of the previous night's trick, whom he had barely known. He then has to live with...

Once, Juvana had been a space-faring world—but a nuclear war destroyed all technology of the planet, taking them back to the Stone Age. This is the story of the people who brought Juvana back into the family of humanity and back to the...

Riley "Brendan" Major is a middle-aged geek trapped in a dead-end retail job and feeling that his life is one colossal failure. Strange dreams of another life plague him, dreams of superheroes and monsters that become frighteningly real when a boy in red...

Have you ever had a brush with death? There exists in this world a balance between life and death which must constantly be maintained. This scale is extremely sensitive; if tipped even by a little, the world falls into chaos. Of course, this balance...

Whan rich man Yashavanatarao dies, nobody imagines it could be a muder. A ananymous letter received by police mentions the death as murder. when police excavates the grave the find the body missing. Kith and kin of deceased thinks it is a bad a vomen...

We always try fighting with destiny. Trying to push it towards you. Lots of stress, sleepless nights just to make it to what YOU want.The problem is we keep challenging destiny, we keep fighting against it and not for the better of it. It's time to...

In a modern world dominated by dragons, a human discovers an ability to take a dragon's flame and changes everything.When Bree is snatched by a dragon off the sidewalk while going to catch her bus, she knows she is going to die, but something goes wrong...

Kilian Kildare is a soldier, fighting the witches and vampires who twist the gift of magic into something dark. However tragedy after tragedy have left him struggling—he's been turned into a vampire, ostracized, and left to grieve alone. An...

With heinous cults and unruly mobs all around, Effie—descendant of the Seily Court—must become something more than herself lest Scotland fall into devastation.Thrust into the public eye as the “Green Lady,” Effie of Glen Coe has...

This collection includes six short stories in the Jolene Tomberlin urban fantasy series.The Gratitude of the OceanThe Little Animals, the Vermin, of VeniceThe Love of the SeaThe Sacrifice of the Modern WorldThe Salt Side of BrassandThe Seduction of the...

Stories include Knitting Hope, Knitting Out The Sorrow, and The Story of a Skein. Knitting patterns include Janie's Diamonds Hat, Janie's Chevron Hat, and the Micaceous Cowl.When you think about it, just the act of manipulating two needles and some...

This collection includes seven short stories in the Jolene Tomberlin urban fantasy series.A Life Worth SavingSalt in the StormThe Serpent in the ShallowsDrink Deeply, My Love, Drink DeeplyThe Darkness at DepthBurnin' Out the BadandThe Body of Evidence,...

Enjoy the action, suspense, and humor in this newest sequel of the Adventures in the Glade Series. Just when Davy, Racer and family think all is well in the sacred woods, Cousin Ronnie is determined to get back at those he believes are responsible for...

A fascinating and remarkable work of unexpected genius, a carefully orchestrated symphony with overtones of Alice in Wonderland, Carlos Castenada and a dozen philosophers of ages past. The writer sweeps us along on a journey into the deepest realms of...

Vampires, convicts, and revenge plots. Who knew small town living could be so complicated?The Australian Outback is a vast landscape rich with natural resources, but it's also an ancient land imbued with magic - some forgotten, and some just simmering...

Witches guard the way. The Fae hold all the secrets. And a woman from another world has three days to stop a devastating war...Elspeth Quarrie has embraced her powers and her new name, Odhweine, and defeated the greatest threat the Druids have ever faced...

When the black sun rises...nothing is as it seems.The one place Elspeth Odhweine thought she'd find herself, another world wasn't it.As an honoured guest of the Fae court, she finds herself in the middle of a deadly game of political tug of war. She...

A prophecy of doom. A destiny she cannot escape. When the black sun rises, death will choose the hand of fate.The real Elspeth Quarrie has awoken, and with her comes a prophecy of extinction.Her dark Fae power, known as the black sun, will destroy...

A secret past. A forbidden power. Someone's got some serious explaining to do.After her secretive father dies, Elspeth Quarrie embarks on a quest across the world to discover her unknown Scottish heritage.Landing in Edinburgh, she doesn't count on her...

Choosing between Heaven and Hell isn't as easy as it seems, especially when angels hunt you down and demons save your sorry derrière. After nineteen years of being treated like a time bomb by the witches who raised her, Lily Star Morgan tries her...

After an accident in their childhood, Jordan and Olivia have losttheir friendship and become strangers to each other. Well, not exactlystrangers as Jordan is a prince and Olivia is his servant. Will they beable to reignite their friendship or become...

Seraphina Lyton has suffered the loss of her father and sister and nowis being forced to live and work at the palace of the royal Neckettfamily.Pot only does she have to endure the wrath of the palace people butalso has to deal with Prince Poah, who must...

I'm no longer a knight. My armor is no longer shining. For I'vebecome a broken, shattered person. A person whose every hope anddream has crumbled to pieces in front of his very eyes. I can't bear tolook into the mirror anymore. I can't bear to see the...

Worthington Prep, right? senior?You're not helping your case. everyone knows I'm from Worthington.how did you get my number? Why are you texting me?you left station twelve yesterday. After throwing a fit and being rudeto the owner.

He already died once. Some people want him to repeat the experience. Recently deceased sixteen-year-old Auric Eure is sent to Hell to live out the remainder of his afterlife. During the process, he is separated from his sister, and he searches for her...

Small town girl, Lynnie Russell, wakes after a late night celebrating her twentieth birthday, naked and caked in blood. As memories rush back to her, the horrifying reality of what she's done-what she's become-rips her soul to shreds.To keep those she...