Explore Top Contemporary Indie Books
Discover a curated collection of indie Contemporary books written by self-published authors from around the world. Whether you're looking for fresh plots, bold voices, or hidden gems, this is your go-to shelf for immersive Contemporary storytelling.
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Reciprocity
D.C. Gilbert
Gilbert delivers a high-octane blend of emotional depth, tactical precision, and unflinching realism in his latest installment in the JD Cordell series. JD Cordell, a recently retired US Navy SEA...
The Dream of Matter: Waking the Mind Within the Mirage: No Spoon, No Self: Escaping the Illusion of Form
ONE IAM
What if the world you touch... was your own thought in disguise?In The Dream of Matter, you are not handed answers, you are handed mirrors.This book dissolves the boundary between subject and object, ...
To Love a Beast: (A Christian Western Historical Romance Fairy Tale Retelling of Beauty & the Beast) (Once Upon a Time in Texas)
Karen Witemeyer
Beauty & the Beast in 1800's Texas.Once known among New York's elite as the American Adonis, Everett Griffin now lives as a recluse in the wilds of Texas. The treachery of a former admirer left hi...
Where Sunflowers Stand
KJ Backford
Alex Curtner, the CIA’s Chief of Station for Russia and Ukraine, is in dire straits. His most critical operation is on the verge of collapse. Russian counterintelligence is closing in on a spy – A...
The Masquerade Kilker
Ivan Cisneros
Some masks conceal identities. Others reveal the truth.Cutter’s Ridge was never meant to be a place of murder. Tucked away in the Montana mountains, it was the kind of town where secrets were buried...
All For A Buck
Doris Anne Beaulieu
Brotherhood Beyond the Battlefield Haunted by combat and betrayed by their own country, the veterans return-not as heroes. As paranoia grips the town. All For A buck transforms into grippi...
THE LAST NEANDERTHAL CLAN
Charlie BORING
Enjoy historical fiction? You will love these adventures into prehistoric times, forty thousand years ago, when the last Neanderthals struggled for survival. The robust Neanderthals ruled the terrain ...
The Fulcrum: A Novel
Michael Decter
In this sweeping climate thriller, an economist and a public servant join forces—and hearts—to navigate a dangerous international conflict and imminent environmental disaster.Matthew Rice needs a ...
Awakening Within: A Guide To Self Knowledge For Conscious Community Influencers
ONE IAMA practical guide to spiritually awakening and providing God level leadership to those under your influence.
My Way on the Camino Portuguese
John Seegers
What happens when the road demands more than your body can give—but your spirit refuses to quit?In My Way on the Camino Portuguese, John Seegers shares the honest, humorous, and deeply personal stor...
Seeing GOD, Face To Face: The Absolute Truth About You, And How You Operate.
ONE IAM
The Universe is information aligned in mental energy under rules and laws to appear as a "physical" manifestation. The mental energy produces a perception in the divine Mind. The perception has severa...
Funny Fairy Tales - 5: Alice in Wonderland - Jack & the Beanstalk - Princess & the Pea - Little Mermaid
Reut Barak
Funny Twists on your favorite Fairy Tales that will make you laugh out loud! Age 16+Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there lived a woman who was allergic to dust. Her name was Cinderella.In the sa...
The Reborn Prince (Mages in the Mundane Book 1)
Julianne Munich
He was a prince, forced into a new life as a pauper.Luc, a poor but vain young man in 1775 Paris, is confused by his dreams of gilded ballrooms and unknown people in lace and jewels. What's more, ever...
Mako Bay
Stephanie Ruth
MAKO BAY Otago Waters Book 1. Maybe friends really do make the best lovers? Shal Hoffner’s back in Dunedin after eight years of self-imposed exile. Setting up a new fas...
SuperPower: The Ability to Fly or to Become Invisible: The Deal of the Art (Book #1)
Roger E Pedersen
Today, I invite you to explore these extraordinary possibilities within the pages of a groundbreaking new book series, SuperPower: The Ability to Fly or to Become Invisible, written by none other than...
FINN ..a Trafficking Victim's Quest for a Safe Place
By: Geraldine L Anderson
Finn's journey delves deep into the realms of human suffering and resilience. Kidnapped as a toddler, she was ripped from her innocent world and thrust into a harrowing existence, raised in captivity and groomed for the unspeakable. However, at seventeen, a twist of fate alters her grim reality when Cree Doyle, a federal agent, mistakes Finn for the leader of the Froràta trafficking ring. Creerealizes that his attempts to extract information from her are misguided when hefinally realizes the heartbreaking truth, his captive is a victim, not a villain. The dynamics between them becomes precariously more complex when Finn b...
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Slave Trader
By: Carol Marvell
For the past three years, attractive women with criminal records have been vanishing from Sydney – prostitutes, drifters, those with nowhere to turn. The mastermind behind their disappearances has always stayed one step ahead, leaving no trace . . . until now.Detective Billie McCoy, part of Sydney's elite undercover squad, stumbles onto a shocking slavery ring while on what should have been a routine assignment. Run by a ruthless cop, the operation drags Billie into a web of corruption far deeper than she could ever imagine.Trapped among prisoners who trust no one – ex-crims who despise cops – Billie must fight not only for her own survival but for the lives of the captives around her....
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Solomon's Magpie
By: Robert Crompton
With Solomon's Magpie Robert Crompton returns to his favourite haunts in Cheshire to disentangle a story told by Solomon Whitaker, boatman, basket-maker and brewer. Solomon heard the tale from his mother and he went to the trouble of learning to read and write so that he could set it down.Generations later, fifteen-year-old Judy Whitaker must try to create a readable version of the story for her family. But there's a problem - a large portion of it is missing, and it is clearly the most important part. Supported by her unlikely friendships with Twirl and Tracey, Judy fills in the gaps herself. Nobody believes her, however, because she is a compulsive spinner of yarns and teller of tall tales...
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Grip
By: Carla D E GodfreyBeing PA to the formidable Jane Marsden is no picnic so, for James, becoming her lover also wasn’t the smartest move! As things reach a critical point for them both professionally and personally - James has to wonder...is it time to break away and does he even WANT to?
Michigan Fixer
By: Phil WarnerThis crime novel follows the life of a career ‘fixer’ as he strives to build his wealth, while one of his victims sets out to seek vengeance. This novel is based in Detroit and surrounding areas and is an extremely engaging read.
When Devils Prey
By: Debra PhillipsJhodare Rimsey thought it would be easy. Get in, get the loot, get out, and get paid, but even the best laid plans can go wrong, especially when you chose the wrong old woman to rob. Now he's on the run and hiding out from a crazed killer who is determined to get his property back.
Bitter Prestige
By: Karuna Sanghvi
In the quiet salt-laced town of Amligarh, tradition clings like dust to skin. *Bitter Prestige* explores the dark chasm between honor and humanity, as one family confronts the unspoken truths buried beneath generations of silence.When Lehar, a young woman from a respected household, gives birth to a daughter, what should be a celebration becomes a source of shame. Within days, the child dies in what is described as a tragic accident—but suspicion creeps in like the sea breeze. Did tradition kill the baby girl?Told through multiple perspectives—of a grieving mother, a conflicted father, and a society tethered to patriarchy—Karuna Sanghvi’s novel lays bare the hypocrisy of inherited va...
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STIGMATIZED!
By: Antonio Saseun
The deliverance of a people from an ancient tribal stigma hangs on the shoulders of an American returnee who got shot by his own people …. as he dies, his blood seeping away slowly, in a relay of visuals, he sees the deliverance of a vital yet oppressed people of which he belonged. He sees himself becoming a great man of means and finally after his death, he rose to become a great man of God, one he had seen in those visuals. Will he succeed in reality? Who can tell if he would and could deliver the Osu people of Eastern Nigeria?The scourge on the Ibo bloodline is a serious subject that millions of Ibo people have decided tacitly or by coercion and shame, to be silent about in Nigeri...
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The Color of Oceans
By: Kevin F McCarthy
Ben Nickerson lives on Cape Cod, one of the premier vacation spots in the country. He doesn’t have a house with an ocean view or live near the beach. He doesn’t own a boat. Ben lives in a sober home because he’s a recovering alcoholic. He works menial jobs and stays below the radar. His closest confidant is a two-year-old child who lived over a century ago. As bleak as his life seems Ben is still trying and he has a plan. A plan to put his life back together, put his marriage and his career back together. And while the road he’s currently on isn’t an easy one, or a normal one, Ben has no idea yet how much more twisted it will become. This is a story about hope and reclama...
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Sunspots
By: Karen S. Bell
Sunspots is personal. A personal journey of grieving, a personal journey of self-discovery, and a personal journey geographically. A young woman from Brooklyn, Aurora, a man from Austin,Texas, Jake,meet accidentally in NYC and it changes the trajectory of their lives. Aurora decides to grab on to what she perceives may be her only chance at the comfy married existence that has so far eluded her. It is also no hardship to leave NYC and her stalled acting career for this apparently wealthy, dynamic, handsome lover who whisks her off her feet. But after the honeymoon, reality sets in and she realizes that marriage can be isolating, and that the socio-economic differences between her and Jake ca...
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Reciprocity
By: D.C. Gilbert
Gilbert delivers a high-octane blend of emotional depth, tactical precision, and unflinching realism in his latest installment in the JD Cordell series. JD Cordell, a recently retired US Navy SEAL, is enjoying his new life with his wife, Ellen, who is expecting their first child. When two young women, one related to Cordell's mother, fleeing their pasts in Vietnam to start new lives in America suddenly disappear on a layover in Manila, Cordell answers the call to lead a rescue mission straight into Manila's treacherous Tondo district, entering a world of corruption, underground fights, and human trafficking.In a race against time, Cordell leads his team, and with the help of a tortured ...
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