by Philip Eliot | May 15, 2026 | Crime Fiction |
From Amy Shojai, CABC, certified animal behavior consultant, Animal Planet Dogs 101 and Cats 101 expert, and author of 35+ nonfiction pet books: a thriller that gets the animal behavior right because the author actually knows.”Love, loyalty, and a supremely smart service dog make TRICK OR TREAT a definite treat for thriller readers. Come for the wonderful Shadow and be drawn in by a can’t-miss plot that plays all the tricks.” – Clea Simon, author of The Cat’s Eye Charm, a Witch Cats of Cambridge cozy mysteryA costumed killer. A dog trainer with a knack for catching bad guys. Can she unmask the truth before her loved ones pay the price?September Day has hit her limit. Recovering from the shock of learning her birth parents’ identity, the self-doubting PTSD survivor strives to focus on her fiancé, his children, and upcoming Halloween festivities. But when her best friend’s cat runs off into a pumpkin patch, the thirty-year-old animal behaviorist and her four-pawed companion give chase … only to discover a dead body.Unwilling to abandon the traumatized boy she spots fleeing the scene, September tries to protect her mental health by turning the witness over to the police. But when law enforcement discovers another victim, the emotionally scarred adoptee is horrified to learn her bestie is the primary suspect and her own dark bloodline might be involved.When lies disguise facts, can September and her German Shepherd service dog Shadow expose the murderer’s ultimate goal?Trick Or Treat is the gripping ninth book in The September Day thriller series. If you like found families, loyal furry sidekicks, and adventure told partly from the dog and cat point of view that touches the heart, then you’ll love Amy Shojai’s exhilarating read.Buy Trick Or Treat to unwrap justice today!
by Philip Eliot | May 15, 2026 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
Eight-hundred year old vampire matriarch, Anna Breznik is in trouble. Worse, she’s dragged a normal human into trouble with her. Brian Stettler is her nephew’s assistant, an FBI agent, and he reminds her of her own children when they young so many centuries ago. Yet, some shadowy organization has kidnapped them both. Their goal: to understand what Anna is and control her. They will use any tool they have to accomplish this, including ending Brian’s life. Anna has worked for too long to keep her family safe to allow power hungry, short-sighted idiots destroy it all. She imagines she’ll have to murder her and Brian’s way to safety, until their first inquisitor enters the room.Evander Gunn is no ordinary US Army Military Intelligence officer. He’s an expert interrogator and he’s come to a black ops site at the request of Homeland Security. The subject he’s ordered to question is a foreign diplomat, a small delicate woman, and she’s been shot. Even worse, he recognizes her.He grew up listening to his grandfather’s WW2 stories about working with the French Resistance. His gramps had one hand-drawn picture of the woman who saved his life. Now she’s sitting on a gurney in front of Evan, covered in blood, looking for all the world like a lady at a tea party.Evan knows he must get Anna, and the baby FBI agent caught with her, to safety. It isn’t long until he realizes that there is no safe place…
by Philip Eliot | May 15, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
From the USA Today bestselling author of Fisher’s Light comes a “heartbreaking and hopeful” (AL Jackson) standalone romance about first love and second chances.How much can a man take before he breaks?1,843 days. That’s how long I survived in that hellhole. They tried to break me, but I resisted. And I owe it all to the memory of warm summer nights, the scent of peaches, and the one woman who loved me more than I ever deserved to be loved. Now, I’ll do anything to get back to her. Only Shelby Eubanks isn’t the girl I left behind all those years ago. She’s someone else, a stranger. My Shelby-my little green-eyed firecracker-would never give up her dreams, would never disappear into her mother’s ambitions. But I won’t give up on her. On us. I may be broken, and scarred, and not the man I used to be, but I will do whatever it takes to remind her of the story of us.
by Philip Eliot | May 15, 2026 | Fantasy |
Tinker Bell, banished from her homeland for doing the unthinkable, selling the hottest drug in Neverland-pixie dust-wants absolution.Determined to find a way home, Tink doesn’t hesitate to follow the one lead she has, even if that means seducing a filthy pirate to steal precious gems out from under his…hook.Captain Hook believes he’s found a real treasure in Tink. That is, until he recovers from her pixie dust laced kiss with a curse that turns the seas against him. With his ship and reputation at the mercy of raging storms, he tracks down the little minx and demands she remove the curse. Too bad she can’t.However, the mermaid queen has a solution to both of their problems, if Tink and Hook will work together to retrieve a magical item for her.As they venture to the mysterious Shrouded Isles to find the priceless treasure, their shared nemesis closes in. However, his wrath is nothing compared to the realization that achieving their goal may mean losing something they never expected to find-each other.A spicy fantasy romance that mixes feisty, enemies-to-lovers romance with the swagger and adventure of Pirates of the Caribbean in a retelling of Peter Pan that’s far from the Neverland you know.This is book 3 in the Ever After series but reads as a standalone.
by Philip Eliot | May 15, 2026 | New Adult Romance |
**AN AMAZON TOP 10 BESTSELLER**From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Jenshak comes an age gap sports romance that brings all the heat, banter, and swoon.The annoyingly handsome hockey captain glaring at me needs my help.He won’t admit that, of course. But with his teammate’s gone for the summer and him fresh off a season-ending injury, someone has to keep him in check and it’s not the nurses he keeps running off.I’m having one last summer of fun before I move away to start my first grown-up job, and I seem to be the only woman on the planet immune to his charm. Sure, I’ve noticed his chiseled jaw and sculpted muscles (Did I mention he’s annoyingly handsome?), but I have too much self-preservation to fall for a grumpy hockey star who can have any woman he wants and doesn’t do serious relationships.Except once he lets me help him, I see past his broody exterior and jerk comments and I realize something terrible. I want him.Now I just need to convince him to throw out all his rules for a fling with his teammate’s little sister.Forever Wild is a spicy hockey romance with a grumpy hero, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after. It can be read as a standalone.
