Kindle Contemporary Fiction
This broad literary genre features novels that are set in modern times. These titles can include a wide variety of genres and subgenres, ranging from contemporary romance to horror novels to dystopian fiction. If you’re not sure what kind of fiction book you’re in the mood for, this section is a great place to start!
Blast from the Past
Imagine what it would be like to travel back in time and experience your teenage years all over again. Would your perceptions change? Would you be able to heal old wounds and let go of what you most regret; or would it all just be fun and games? Miles Goodwin is about to find out. ... Read more
Free: One Visit
In sleepy, rural North Wales, Frankie Gibbs, a recently laid off, aimless twenty-year-old on Universal Credit, wants nothing more than to keep his younger brother out of the care system. He single-handedly takes this upon himself while their alcoholic, cocaine-addict, single-parent father, Guy Gibbs, heaps misery on their lives through systematic abuse and his never-ending ... Read more
Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol: Another Untold Miracle of Charles Dickens’s Classic
Ebeneezer Scrooge isn’t the only one who is visited by Christmas Spirits. Tiny Tim, an endearing character in the classic tale by Dickens, is only 6 years old, but the intense pain from crippled legs and the bullying from other boys take him to his darkest hour. Then 3 Christmas Spirits appear as magical children ... Read more
Free: The Christmas Stocking
How a Christmas Stocking helps keep a family’s special memories alive. For those who have lost someone they love. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Afro-Bougie Blues: A Collection of Short Fiction
“You will find yourself not wanting this book to end.” Twelve stories – original, engaging and occasionally edgy. Watch each character experience a moment of tragedy, a challenge, a trouble, that makes them pause and reevaluate life. Abortion, alcoholism, obesity, adultery, a parent dying. Some funny. Some warm-hearted. Some tragic. All memorable. The stories transcend ... Read more
Ulsa Island
Paedophile hunting team on the islands of north scotland set out to catch the people responsible for abuse that took place at a school camp 30year previously but someone is lurking in the shadows $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Carrie: An American Classic
Carrie Larsen left a small town in Ohio a week after graduating college in 1963 to explore the counterculture in the Great American West. Four years later, tired, she came back to her parents’ house. Perhaps for a week? Perhaps for years? Carrie becomes the town Veterinarian on Main Street. She balances her enthusiasm for ... Read more
Free: No Going Back
Delve into the mind of a paranoid novelist who finds fame frightening. Brian Weathers is the real name of the little-known H. R. Peterson. He’s always hidden behind this pen name to protect his privacy and remain anonymous. So what’s going to happen when a photo threatens to shatter all that? Free on Kindle.... Read more
From the Ruins (Winds of Change Book 1)
Something beautiful from something broken. Who am I? What am I supposed to be doing now? What is God’s plan for my life? Since becoming a widow, these questions have plagued Sandra Tolbrook to the point where she feels completely lost without her soul mate. After an ankle injury forces her to sell the family ... Read more
Blind Date with a Billionaire Professor
She put him firmly in the friend zone, but he wasn’t giving up that easily. Abby Summerhill had a type—the unattainable player. When a friend set her up with handsome science professor, Colin Fitzgerald, she couldn’t believe her luck. He was tall, dark, and handsome, and made her stomach flip in the most amazing way. ... Read more
The Music We Make
Surviving an accident that takes his mother’s life, twenty-two-year-old songwriter, Santiago DeAngelo is consumed by grief, guilt, and the opiates he is prescribed for his injuries. Nearing rock bottom, he receives inspiration for a song from his late mother. As he struggles to write it, he falls in love with Kitty Holladay, a music producer ... Read more
Free: Murphy’s Luck
Master of a thousand hobbies but cursed from birth with a puzzling jinx, Murphy Drummer goes in search of a luck-free zone where the world might be spared from his mystifying whammy. Along the way, Murphy stumbles into charmed Joy Daley, hysterically upending her world and that of everyone in it. Love lucks. Over 500 ... Read more
A Wedding to Celebrate
Josie Johnson has a passion for planning weddings, until the day everything goes wrong and her client threatens to personally escort her off the premises. The humiliation of that event makes her question her future as a professional wedding planner. Her mom convinces her to get back in the game by taking on a free ... Read more
Free: Bongs For Steve
A desperately critical narrator finds the seeds of his redemption in past episodes of abandonment. Burnt-out copy editor Seamus Cullen is placed on leave in midlife, over absenteeism from his newspaper job. Invited to reflect upon happier days, he finds himself reconstructing euphoric binges he had shared with friends in his 20s. As he immerses ... Read more
Out of Time
Is there someone you’re destined to meet? For most of her 78 years, Maddie has done things the “wrong” way. Her unconventional life was the key to her professional success but contributed to her failed marriage and divorce. Octogenarian Nate takes pride in doing things the “right” way. He had a successful career as a ... Read more
The Wranglers and Writers Trilogy
Three authors, sure they don’t need love. Three hardworking cowboys, working to make a living. Is the state of Wyoming big enough for the sparks between them? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Other Shoes of Larry Martin: Revelation of Lies (Book One)
“The Other Shoes of Larry Martin” is a story of transformation; a story of emotional, physical, and mental growth achieved by a remarkable young journalist, Larry Martin. Larry Martin is a young man – the only child of an abusive father – who was unwittingly indoctrinated into the belief system of the Alt-Right. Larry begins ... Read more
A Thousand Moments
Wallflower Rosemary Fillmore has never endeavored anything more than a good book, a cool glass of sweet tea, and a cat to curl up in her lap after a long day of teaching teenagers how to dissect literary masterpieces. Dowdy and shy, hardly anyone in her quaint southern town of Vallantine, Georgia, knows she ... Read more
Secret Babies for my Friend’s Dad
A masquerade ball. My one shot at a kinky forbidden fantasy. The night I shared with my best friend’s dad would be veiled from the world. Even from him. My best friend’s dad gave me the most erotic night of my life. I’ve wanted Noah ever since I knew what it felt like to desire ... Read more
Free: The Sugar Queen (Emerson Pass Contemporaries Book 1)
True love requires commitment, and many times unending sacrifice. . . At the tender age of eighteen, Brandi Vargas watched the love of her life drive out of Emerson Pass, presumably for good. Though she and Trapper Barnes dreamed of attending college and starting their lives together, she was sure she would only get in ... Read more
Sydney’s Promise
Despite being a child raised by a village, Sydney Regan always believed her upbringing defined her while other adversities that she was subjected to caused her to assume that she was irrelevant to the world. Based on true-life events, Sydney’s Promise is a fictional, time-shifting story of a young girl besieged by the struggle of ... Read more
Rising Tides: The Complete Series
A family broken by time. Can they discover what truly matters? Returning to her quaint childhood home after years of success in the big city, Brie is faced with a flood of memories from a long-gone past. Still struggling after the death of her late husband, she throws herself into reconnecting with her family and ... Read more
Free: Fly Away Home (Pigeon Grove Series Book 1)
Is running away from your troubles the best path to a fresh start? Claire Perkins struggles with her past, even as a thirty-eight-year-old woman. While attending her abusive mother’s funeral in the town where she grew up, Claire discovers a deeper emotional scar that challenges her definition of home. No longer willing to put on ... Read more
Free: Southern Heart
Some secrets have a way of coming back and haunting us, no matter how much we try to bury them. Chelsea Coming back home was supposed to be normal. Not that my life had ever been normal, but it was getting there. Then I opened the door and found a man—broken, bloodied, and fighting for ... Read more
Darling Descent
A university psychiatrist. A curious undergrad. A dangerous attraction. When Kenna O’Callaghan visits Dr. Dayton Merino to propose a mentorship, she freezes. There’s something familiar about him. His scars. His black eyes and hollow stare. She’s seen him once before, emerging from the confessional ahead of Christmas Eve Mass. Kenna soon learns he had plenty ... Read more
Ivan: A Dark Mafia Romance (Underworld Book 1)
She Tried To Kill Me…She crept into my room with a syringe full of poison. Now she’s my prisoner. She refuses to tell me who sent her or why. But I’ll get every last secret out of her. Through pleasure or through punishment. I captured her and now she belongs to me… $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Breathe
She’s a hunted hacker and former CIA informant. He’s a small-town pediatrician who long ago fell in love with the girl next door. When she moved away, she never looked back. Now, she can’t stop looking over her shoulder. There are whispers of an attack on the US power grid and suspicions of double agents. ... Read more
Small Town, Big Rumors
He tasted like tequila and the fake name I gave him was Rose. Four years ago, I decided to get over one man, by getting under another. A single night and nothing more. I found my handsome stranger with a shot glass and charming but devilish smile at the end of the bar. The desire ... Read more
Mail Duty
Captain Dustin Reed escaped from an understaffed psychiatric hospital. Three years later, he was Justin Rowe, the Crazy-Town mailman—a lovable, eager to please, nerd. He knew his customers: when their bills were late, when their adult-toys arrived, when they went on vacation, and when their cars were parked at the church, while they were at ... Read more
Meat
In the murky wake of the financial crisis a string of establishments pop up across Europe catering to a hedonistic underground, its clientele beholden to a strange, hallucinatory meat. Stoked by the fleshy and charismatic Hugo and fuelled by voracious consumption of ecstasy, the craze spreads from the heart of Europe all the way to ... Read more
Free: Dr. Hot Stuff
Racing heart? Check. Damp palms? Check. All signs indicate I’ve got it bad for Lady Isabella Blankenship. It could be contagious, since Iz shows all the same symptoms. But what’s got her pulling back anytime things blaze between us? I know a modern-day duchess might have baggage from finding out she’s the illegitimate child of ... Read more
HIS Mess, HIS Stress: Rod and Maris
Rod blindsides his family by revealing something none of them are prepared to hear. But wanting to call it quits on a 20-year marriage is not easy for Maris, and she struggles with what to do with the everyday new normal that has now taken over her family and has it in complete dysfunction that ... Read more
Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin
Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin is a quirky metaphysical dark comedy about death and polka music. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Love, Chocolate, and a Dog Named Al Capone
Capone, the newly acquired puppy of Miss Josephine St. Clair, owner of Bartleby’s Books, is a literature loving Labrador. Obsessed with Jane Austen, and cursed with a terrible name, Capone hopes to change his doggie karma and prove he’s just as much a gentleman as the heroes in his favorite books, by finding the perfect ... Read more
Hate You
I loved to hate her…She made it so easy. She was everything I wasn’t—everything I didn’t want to be. A reminder that from the moment I was born, I was the outcast. The rebel. I went against everything that was expected of me and created a life on my terms. I built my own empire, ... Read more
Free: Maximum Emptiness
Part mindfulness mystery, part neuroscience thriller, Maximum Emptiness is a modern and thought provoking novel which explores the relationship between mind, heart and technology, asking: what happens when we are forced to let go of things we know we can never let go of? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Eight-Man Cowboy
Delvin Davis is an NFL coach on his way to the Hall of Fame when an egregious Super Bowl blunder costs him everything. Humiliated and running from haters, he’s exiled to a woebegone fishing town in Maine and relegated to coaching eight-man high school football with flimsy hopes of returning to the spotlight. Battling rival ... Read more
Happily Ever After Cookbook
Immerse yourself in the world of romance with book-inspired recipes! Bestselling authors of your favorite novels teamed up with private chefs to develop original dishes. Now you can cook your way to a happily ever after…Enjoy New Orleans Gumbo from Kennedy Ryan’s RITA-Award Winner Long Shot. Then bite into Texas BBQ Tacos from USA Today ... Read more
YOUR EVERY MOVE
A young mother finds she has an admirer who is very difficult to please Dana is not in a good place financially or emotionally. So when she finds a bag of money under a bush after dropping her kids off at school, she’d be forgiven for thinking her luck has changed for the better. Unfortunately, ... Read more
The Trouble with Belonging
Kehuan, a lonely boy carving his way in a foreign city, and Niki, a carefree little girl roaming the streets, meet by chance and form an instant connection. The unusual friendship transforms both their lives, but can it withstand a catastrophe…and growing up? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
