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!
Salvos
Downtown Olongapo in the Philippines during the days of Subic Bay Naval Base, battle group just arrived, the last years of the Ferdinand Marcos presidency. The town is hot, dusty, sprawling with bars, girls, sailors–and undercover cops. When Frank Salvos arrives in town to join a battle group, he’s already under suspicion of guerilla connections–through ... Read more
The New Boss: A Limited Edition Romance Collection
The boss will see you now…In this collection you can expect delectable sexual tension, all the witty banter, and steamy hookup goodness.These men are smart, audacious and sexy as sin with a body to match. They are in control and know how to takecharge. With late night deadlines and trips out of town, working together ... Read more
Free: The Cannabis Preacher: Sermon Two
The biggest grow op in the world is broken, and one man spent a fortune to own all of the pieces. How do you resurrect it? Is it even possible? Tadeo Ivers has an idea. He forces Rafael to make it happen—or else. Failure will not be accepted. Rafael fears there’s no way to breathe ... Read more
Free: 337
A story with a twist revealed on the last word. Samuel’s mother vanished when he was in his teens. His brother, Tom, found her wedding ring on the kitchen table along with the note. While their father pays the price of his mother’s disappearance, Sam learns that his long-estranged Gramma is living out her last ... Read more
The Beacon Hill Affair
Beacon Hill is one of Boston’s exclusive inner-city residential neighborhoods, with rows of crowded city townhouses, private city homes and city mansions lined along narrow city streets. For Edward, life on Beacon Hill was simple and routine, aside from needing a financial opportunity to save his ever-loving skin. With every passing day he came closer ... Read more
The eMusketeers
The eMusketeers is a series of short stories and cautionary tales that are connected through quasi-human characters who represent four functions of technology. The eMusketeers are the record keeper, the algorithm, social media, and multimedia – Bill, Al, Sam, and Mike. They track everything, respond to requests, create not-so-private journals, and are always listening and ... Read more
Greasy Joe’s & Other Stories
Those were her last words ‘wish me luck!’ What happened to Jessie the day she left Greasy Joe’s? Twelve dark or darkly funny contemporary short stories. Spend time with each, very individual character as they narrate their story. Discover their jealousies, loves, delusions, dreams, crimes and acts of kindness. Greasy Joe’s. Not Like Back Then. ... Read more
Free: Small Fortunes
Thunderstruck! Steve Stackhouse was overwhelmed by the woman on the other side of a crowded subway car on a steamy, miserable evening in New York City. Steve had to meet her, but he was so shy that he might inadvertently let her slip away through the crowd. As she exited the train, a sudden summer ... Read more
Free: The Sand Between Us: Hidden In The Heart – Book 1
Country music superstar Clayton Meyers and entrepreneur Kate Meyers, may seem like they have everything they ever wanted: fame, riches, and the lifestyle to match. From the outside, they do. Their life in Nashville looks like paradise. But in reality, their relationship has gone cold. Like ships passing in the night, they now live like ... Read more
Fallen Foe
Arsène Corbin does not intend to marry for love. His fiancée has always been a means to an end, a woman he wants to conquer. But when she dies suddenly in an accident, Arsène’s grand plan unravels. Still reeling from his fiancée’s death, he meets Winnifred Ashcroft, a struggling actress who lands a coveted role ... Read more
My Day As Regan Forrester
A Midwestern mom wakes up on the dangerous end of a body-swap bargain she never agreed to . . . Stuck in a rut as wife, teacher, and mom, Beth Barony makes a birthday wish for more excitement in her life—and wakes up as film star Regan Forrester, known for her rebellious smolder and empty ... Read more
Chasing Rabbits
A medical student faces an unexpected and difficult task; taking care of the children of the Pediatric Oncology ward. His competitive drive will be tested as he faces situations he is unprepared for, coming to face life and death for the first time since beginning his training. Shaken for the first time, he comes to ... Read more
Free: Black Chalk: A Portia Black Thriller
When Portia Black, professional vigilante, returns to the east coast to investigate the disappearance of an undercover NYPD officer, it seems like the long-cold trail is a never-ending loop of u-turns and dead ends. What’s worse, depending on who you ask, Isabella Parker is long dead. Or very much alive. Her father, Elroy, is convinced ... Read more
At Rope’s End
Sonny Dankovic loves his job as a superintendent of an apartment building. He likes the tenants, and they trust him to be there for them—no matter what. Then why does he want to commit suicide? Sonny has this secret which leads him to believe he’d be better off dead. So he makes detailed plans on ... Read more
Free: The Excelsior Appointment
Cameron Cunningham is flying high. Young, bold and ambitious, the rising star of Sydney’s advertising industry is one deal away from landing the biggest promotion of his career. But, for the man so used to having it all go his way, life is about to get a whole lot harder. Burdened by family and threatened ... Read more
Between the Causeways
“This charming canine tale offers a feel-good escape from the weight of fraught headlines.” -Kirkus Reviews “Beautifully descriptive, often almost poetic… breathtaking whirlwind events that you don’t always see coming. It may restore your faith in humanity.” -Readers’ Favorite In this novel inspired by a true story, three strangers set out on a rescue mission ... Read more
The Bridge to Freedom Series
The time, place, and people are easy to engage with and easy to read about because they are familiar. Come along and take a peek at the characters, see how and where they lived, get a sense of what was considered acceptable or not. Join Everett and Violet Banks and see beneath their many layers ... Read more
The Julia Street Series
The Julia Street Series brings this small place to life in a big way. Perhaps you were lucky enough to grow up in such a place, where neighbors supported each other, where children roamed freely and there was a sense of community. You will find everyday trials and tribulations common to many and a vivid ... Read more
Lost and Found: Second Chances
Lost and Found: Second Chances is the story of how a young man gets another try at life and how far he runs with it. It’s a story of determination, self-acceptance, and breaking free from the bonds people make for themselves. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Caused by Dray: Billionaire Dray Royce Series #9
The missing billionaire Royce Family patriarch; three female jail escapees. The tragedy for the world to see. The firings; the losses. The client; the new Black billionaire. The meeting; the unforgettable party. The mysterious new Royce gossip reporter; the connection to a crisis. A life-changing family event. Is Dray Royce the cause of all of ... Read more
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
