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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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 ...

The Regression Strain

Kevin Hwang
Nobody’s safe when the inner beast awakens...Dr. Peter Palma joins the medical team of the Paradise to treat passengers for minor ailments as the cruise ship sails across the Atlantic. But something...

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...

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...

Terminal Love

Audible Publishers
In a world of ticking clocks and hospital beds, Terminal Love is a story about what it truly means to live—told through the raw, beautiful chaos of two people who weren’t supposed to fall in love....

Husro & Shirin

Maryam Tabibzadeh
a fascinating historical saga of the love affair between the king of the Persian empire and the princess of Armenia,  based on true story which is set  in the 6th century.  Husro a...

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...

Being Broken:Tales and Essays of Survival and Death from Narcissistic Parental Abuse

Geoffrey R Jonas
A young woman dies alone in a hotel room, her fentanyl-poisoned cocaine still on the desk. She had been missing for nearly 2 weeks. Social Services had been trying to find a place for her to live with...

A Journey Toward Tomorrow - The Beginning

jjeckhardt
A science fiction novel with a touch of romance and mystery that takes you on a journey as new life begins from the forgotten ashes of the old.Unknown to Humanity, the Earth’s sun would soon release...

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...

Living The Dream: Law Of Attraction Secrets

ONE IAM
Living the Dream is not another book about accumulating great material wealth and living a luxurious life by using knowledge of the fundamental law of attraction (simply put, you attract what you focu...

I Was Adopted by a Sorceress, Book One

Albert
When life begins to confront you, you can give up, get angry, or stay true to yourself, fighting for your happiness and the place you are looking for under the sun, even if it is not your own luminary...

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...

Fascinating Facts for Curious Kids: 1050 Wonders: Packed with Fun Facts and Trivia from Amazing Animals to Astronomy and Marine Life to Monuments! (Awesome Facts for Ages 8-12)

Kristine Collins
🚀 GET 1050 JAW-DROPPING FACTS ACROSS TONS OF TOPICS AND THEMES!🤩 Help A Kid Put Down The Phone And Pick Up An Amazing Book Instead! 📚😍 IDEAL FOR KIDS to Spark Curiosity, Build Confidence, ...

The Death Wizard Chronicles: Volume 1

Jim Melvin
Enter a world where death is not final—it's a magical fuel.In the desert kingdom of Triken, sorcery is feared, power is brutal, and one man defies the laws of life itself. Torg, a Death Wizard, draw...

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 Godfrey

Being 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?

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Michigan Fixer

By: Phil Warner

This 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. 

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When Devils Prey

By: Debra Phillips

Jhodare 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.

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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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