With her mom as her partner, 17-year-old West lies and cons her way through life, ruthlessly taking advantage of one naïve and trusting victim after another. It’s yawn, rinse, and repeat when West and her mother swoop into town to scam a rich widower and his teenage son. But her entire life suddenly goes off the rails when her mark causes her to confront her life and rethink her choices. Forced to choose between her mother and the boy she is falling in love with, West faces a no-win scenario…or is it? $3.99 on Kindle.
Fyr
At seventeen, Toury arrives in Fyr, where magic is power, a prince’s love is deadly, and female autonomy is a dream. Formerly a loner and burden to her adoptive parents, she ruins her chances of a fresh start by offending an ogler who just happens to be the prince.
Alex, the Prince of Fyr, is no novice when it comes to pressure. He has to face his father’s ailing health, the expectation to marry soon, and the hidden necromancers trying to take over the realm by exploiting his dark curse. At least there’s hope in a cheeky savior, but Earth girls aren’t so easy.
Toury and Alex learn that the strongest magic cannot be conjured but must be earned. They must risk their lives, hearts, and futures to save the land from a darkness of apocalyptic proportions. But can they trust each other enough to save Fyr? Or will everything they hold dear turn to ash?
This title has been rated 17+, appropriate for older teens and adults, and contains frequent intense kissing, moderate implied sex, intense violence, domestic violence, moderate positive and negative alcohol use, and moderate language.
For more information on our rating system, please, visit our Content Guide. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Children of the Knight
Teenage Lance is saved from death by an armored knight who claims to be Arthur, king of ancient Britain and says he’s seeking cast-off kids to create a diverse new Camelot to shake up American society & gain more rights for marginalized youth. They fashion a populist crusade and gain some powerful enemies. Free on Kindle.
Free: Beats of Time
Beats of Time is a Dystopian, Music Themed, Coming of Age mashup!
The year is 2166. Music and artistic expression has all but died out. After the final World War, a new world was built in an image of how the leaders of the world felt we should be….and that was nothing like our past.
Join Johnny Jones, a 17 year old, as he starts a journey of musical discovery, influenced by some of the greatest artists and bands of the past. Meeting the weird and the wonderful. Faced with love, laughter and secrets. All this sets him on a roller coaster of experiences as he begins to shout his name at the world.
(Part 1 of Beats Duology) Free on Kindle.
Free: Shade
For fourteen-year-old Callum Silver, seeing dead people is a curse. Forced to live his life surrounded by searing pain, sickening smells, and desperate moans from the long deceased, Cal’s existence is as lonely as the murdered spirits who seek him out. When he’s offered a place at Camp Wanagi, ten weeks in the French countryside isn’t a vacation—it’s a lifeline.
Run by a mysterious group known as the Oracle of Senders, Camp Wanagi brings together teens from around the globe who possess the unique ability to interact with the dead. Cal is excited to meet others like himself and prove his ability can offer more than years of solitude and therapy. But he quickly learns that everyone experiences spirits differently. Some of the campers revere their abilities and don’t understand his hesitation. Others—like quiet bookworm Meander Rhoades—have good reason for wishing they could get rid of their gifts.
Cal is not sure he wants to learn more about ghosts. But when an unmarked grave reveals aspects of his ability he never knew existed, he’s forced to decide if being a part of the Oracle of Senders is necessary, dangerous . . .
Or both. Free on Kindle.
Where Fish Can Breathe
Ten-year-old Swift is weary of being “the Lad,” and he longs to feel a sense of belonging with his three older brothers. When a chance strikes to go night fishing together on their father’s mighty brigantine, the Regulus, it seems the perfect chance for Swift to prove himself.
When night falls, however, when stars rise and the fishing begins—as Swift ventures into the wilds of the sea and its creatures—a sense of alienation creeps in.
To realize his place in the strange water world, he must summon the courage to confront the North Atlantic with all its savagery. And to learn what it means to be one of four brothers, Swift must rally the bravery to reveal to them, at the heart, who he is.
Come sail the North Atlantic with Swift and his family in this poignant coming-of-age novelette. $2.99 on Kindle.
Karik’s First Battle
His friends and family are dying. Now the only way to help them is to brave the cold and dangers of the north…Karik is sick of the hunger slowly killing his village. And after watching his brother die of starvation, he fears the icy winter will claim them all. So when the jarl declares they need to reduce the number of mouths to feed, the tormented young man bravely volunteers to leave. With his small group of fellow exiles stumbling onto a tiny settlement, Karik gladly accepts an invitation to stay and work. But he isn’t there long before sensing the jarl is keeping deadly secrets… including dark dealings with a dragon. Behind it, all lurks the legends of Vranr, their mythical forefather Can the desperate hero survive his formidable quest and live to see the spring?
Karik’s First Battle is the action-packed Book 1 in The Legends of Karik fantasy series. If you like courageous characters, treacherous journeys, and epic battles, then you’ll love Evan Oliver’s perilous adventure. $1.99 on Kindle.
Free: Alone With The Bad Boy
Alone overnight at the store with the school bad boy. That’s not what I planned on when I hid in the bathroom until well after closing. I thought I was by myself, which was why I started trying on clothes outside the dressing room. I wasn’t expecting to be caught in my underwear by anyone. Least of all by the intimidating guy everyone warned me was dangerous. Free on Kindle.
Everything, Somewhere
The power of memories.
Little Rush is a sleepy town on the Ohio River. Bruce Michaels is a renowned Hollywood actor. The two should never cross paths, yet one summer everything changes. The actor, haunted by demons, chasing a ghost. The town, unaware. Until the two collide.
Hudson, Willow, and Mason are high school seniors with very different upbringings, but all on the verge of adulthood. As the sun sets on their final summer, questions abound. Will they ever leave the town? Is there a future here? As their plans waver, time is running out.
The struggle of mental illness.
As he loses his friends and sinks deeper into depression, Hudson forms an unlikely bond with the actor, Bruce Michaels. But the old man is a ticking time bomb. As Hudson relies on him more, the danger to them both grows.
When dark secrets are revealed, Hudson must confront the truth about his idol and himself. Bruce Michaels isn’t who he seems. Hudson is nearly lost. And in the end, they may be more similar than different.
The search for meaning.
Different paths, converging in a web of alcohol, fights, and romance. Worlds collide one summer in Anywhere, USA. The question is who will make it through.
EVERYTHING, SOMEWHERE is an ambitious, sprawling look at the stories, people, and places forming the nuanced landscape of rural America. $1.99 on Kindle.
Goddess Revealed: Chronicles of an Elemental Witch
Magic disappeared from the lands after Myomi, the water goddess, abandoned her people for an offense that has been lost to time, but now her vengeance is ready to be unleashed.
Eighteen-year-old Leilani is far from pious, but she relinquishes her freedom in order to raise her family’s societal status and increase the coin in her pockets by volunteering to serve in the temple. Surely, she can keep her head down and stay out of trouble for two years…right?
She’ll soon learn how wrong she is as the head temple priestess pushes them all to their limits as she plots to regain the favor of the absent goddess.
Desperate to escape her new prison, Leilani gets more than she bargains for when the goddess herself answers her plea for help, but only if Leilani vows to help her quench her thirst for revenge. $4.99 on Kindle.
Kingdom of the Star Queen
Chi must live her life in hiding. Now she must choose if she will risk everything–her life and the lives of her family–for a chance to be free of their Anunnaki overlords. However, just as she starts to break free, she learns that her life is headed on a far greater path.
Vampire aliens, romance, royalty, and a surprise twist you won’t see coming. If you loved clean Dystopian romances, you’re going to love this twist on the ancient alien theory. $2.99 on Kindle.
Scales
“This fantasy delivers a bright tsunami of hormones and heroism.” — Kirkus Reviews
Transformed into a storm-summoning dragon warrior, a comic-obsessed teen misfit finds himself caught up in a world of ancient powers, secret identities, and colossal monsters threatening to destroy his new home. $0.99 on Kindle.
Chin Music Rhubarb
An inspiring tale of friendship, teenage love and fistfighting from an acclaimed, shortlisted author.
When Layton O’Her’s sick mother gives him her dying wish, he becomes so focused that he believes that all the trouble he’s gotten into has come to an end.
But as he embarks on his dream of making the high school baseball team, Layton realizes that there are insurmountable obstacles in his path. He fistfights his peers who hate his passion for baseball, his coach uses him for his own means and the girl he falls in love with is dating the starting left fielder. As misfortune and conspiracies gather against him, Layton is forced to confront his own behavior. Is he a baseball player, or a fistfighter? Along the way Layton finds friendship, love, the art of hitting and eventually himself.
CHIN MUSIC RHUBARB is a young adult, coming-of-age novel that confronts issues such as toxic masculinity, racism, sexism, white privilege and classism through an 80s lens. $2.99 on Kindle.
Prosthesis
Prosthesis – Human beings are, by their very nature, fragile. The slightest bump to the wrong place in a bone, or eating, or drinking the smallest amount of something that you’re not supposed to, can lead to months of recovery, or even death. But what if it didn’t? What if a broken bone or failed organ could simply be replaced like so much a broken plate? Well, in Prosthesis, they can and are. $2.66 on Kindle.
Unleashed
Seventeen-year-old Aleasha’s family is dead, and she blames herself.
After being attacked during an early-morning run, she discovers her father had secretly trained her to be a spy. Now Drew, an employee from the AGENCY has come to collect her.
Hoping to learn more about her father’s covert life, Aleasha joins the AGENCY, but on her first day, she screws up her objective and lands herself squarely in the crosshairs of the person she was trying to implicate.
Then her entire team disappear and Aleasha must dig down deep, unleash her inner spy, and risk everything to rescue them. $1.99 on Kindle.
The Killing Spell
Edward Peach is a fourteen-year-old wizard who receives a letter that he has been accepted into the prestigious Prymoutekhny Wizards Academy for Boys in the faraway land of Aradia. His parents are overjoyed, but he feels reluctant to leave his family, friends, and comfy cottage in the English coastal village of Manley.
As term begins, Edward falls in love with a charismatic, privileged boy and talented wizard known only in the school as “Mr. Andreas.” Soon, the young sorcerers realize their attraction for each other, causing controversy in the school as the first boys from feuding houses to come together, especially in a school where house rivalry can end in murder.
Edward is put to the ultimate test as he must risk being with the boy he loves, even at the cost of his own life! $4.99 on Kindle.
Natalie’s Choices
Natalie’s Choices depicts family relationships, teenage angst, and the consequences of both right and wrong choices. Is it possible for two teen-aged girls from completely different backgrounds to forge a lasting friendship—a relationship strong enough to endure endless trials and life-altering events without devastating consequences?
This Faith and Family series is a must read by parents and teenagers alike. Natalie’s Choices, book one of three novellas, is set in the late 1980s on a Southern plantation in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The series follows the lives of Natalie Hudson and Tori Rhodes from high school into adulthood, careers, and ultimately marriage with families of their own. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: My Alien
What do you do when you’re connected to an alien – for life? Zoe Brennan thought she had everything sorted until one disastrous data the beach she becomes host to Rion, an alien entity who has ideas of his own as to how she should live her life. But the trouble starts when he turns up at East Valley High. Only Zoe knows his secret, and even if she told it, no one would believe her! Free on Kindle.
The Old House By The Woods
Free: Intent – In the Shadows
It’s hard to enjoy high school when someone is stalking you…
Raylee, a pastor’s daughter, just wants to get through the last two years of high school. But it’s not easy when you’re an outsider. Or when the most popular girl in school’s goal is to make your life miserable.
Or when someone starts to STALK you…
When classmate Paul befriends Raylee, she is determined to ignore Crystal’s ploys. And when new student Billy arrives, Raylee finds herself drawn to his mysterious side. But Crystal is determined too, and she will do whatever it takes to keep him from Raylee and to ensure that the rest of Raylee’s high school years remain angst-ridden.
Raylee must cling to her FAITH in God more than ever, because someone lurks in the shadows, watching her, leaving scary clues, someone who wants to set her on edge. But why? Is it Crystal and her clique, or worse, someone she trusts? Free on Kindle.
Red Blood
In the fifty-two domains, there exists two groups of people: The bound and unbound, those without powers and those with them. Only the unbound can hold the highest positions in the government: The Card Holders.
When her domain’s Card Holder dies, seventeen-year-old Neela Blydes is forced to participate in a tournament to find the unbound most worthy of leading the Queen of Hearts Domain. But the tournament isn’t as glorious as it seems. It herds unique unbound known as Specialists into deadly combat. Winning by default is nonexistent and killing is permitted.
As Neela progresses through the first few rounds, she realizes the tournament is just one of her worries. The burn scar on her left shoulder suddenly flares up at random times, an elite assassin marks her as his next target, and a frightening connection to the murderous rogue organization comes to light. While trying to deal with all these stresses weighing on her shoulders, one more appears in the form of a white-haired man with crimson eyes.
Dangerously familiar crimson eyes. $4.99 on Kindle.
Free: CC’s Road Home
Free: The Beast of Beauty
“What are you?” I asked quietly.
“A beast,” it whispered. Its voice was definitely feminine.
“What’s your name?”
It shrugged as if it didn’t matter.
“But… you’re a girl,” I said. “Girls usually aren’t beasts.”
She chuckled, and it made me feel warm inside. “Well, I’m definitely not the beauty.”
The Beast of Beauty is a modern retelling of your favorite fairy-tale, with one important twist: This time, the GIRL is the beast! Free on Kindle.
Free: Growing Up Aimi Series
Prepare to rediscover the value of friendship when family lets you down, the benefits of teachers even when they are not around and the meaning of sacrifice when nothing else will suffice.
Follow along in this true-to-life series as Aimi meets the challenges of growing up.. No magic, no time-travel, no fantastical beasts. Just good clean storytelling.
The Giant Forest – Aimi and her friends are each lost. To return home they must find themselves and find one another before they can find their way home all the while also overcoming ‘giants’ that have plagued them throughout their lost experience.
A Giant Forest = a really big forest … Or … a forest with giants? Or both?
Only the reader knows.
The Heliuna Academy – In this frame narrative, Aimi is on a peace corps mission in the deepest jungles of India.
Her first priority is the safety of the children she came to serve. Her second is to teach them to love to read. Aimi reads a story from her past that is relevant to the day-to-day struggles her students are facing in the present.
Can Aimi and her friends learn why their beloved teachers have gone missing? Can they stop the tides of change? What will happen to the children in the jungle home in India?
Only the reader knows.
The LoGlas Theater – A few moments shy of putting a wrap on the last performance The Rose and the Thorn, a unique take on Beauty & the Beast written by junior higher, Aimi Wilby, the key player, an exchange student from the foothills near Bran Castle home to the legend of Dracula goes missing.
Can Aimi find her and convince her to return? What will happen if she returns and is required to go back to her home in Transylvania?
Only the reader knows. Free to $2.99 on Kindle.
Revelation: Poppet Cycle (Book 1)
16 year-old Ellie must choose between a life of greatness or her love for her poppet. Her choice will change the world.
Ellie learns the poppet trade, her family business, isn’t as harmless as everyone led her to believe. With the help of a boy from the wilds named Moze, she tries to change the tragic system from within. $0.99 on Kindle.