by Philip Eliot | May 9, 2026 | Literary |
Some debts are financial. Some are emotional. The ones that haunt you most are the ones you never agreed to carry.
In eight unforgettable stories set in the cities of Bombay and Bangalore, Manik Bal brings together a cast of ordinary people navigating the weight of their choices. A musician who can’t outrun the ghost of a first love. A young bride discovering the distance between the life she imagined and the one she’s been handed. A man who hasn’t visited his childhood neighborhood in decades — and the phone call that makes him reckon with why. A boy whose recklessness one night costs him everything.
These are not dramatic lives. They are yours, your parents’, your neighbors’. But in Bal’s precise, empathetic hands, the familiar becomes quietly devastating — and quietly beautiful.
Dates, Debts, and Dates is Book Five in the celebrated Odd Tales from Bombay and Bangalore series — and a collection that proves, once again, that the most extraordinary stories are hiding inside the most ordinary lives.
For readers of R.K. Narayan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Raymond Carver. For anyone who has ever asked: what do we owe the people we’ve left behind?
by Philip Eliot | May 9, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
Some debts are financial. Some are emotional. The ones that haunt you most are the ones you never agreed to carry.
In eight unforgettable stories set in the cities of Bombay and Bangalore, Manik Bal brings together a cast of ordinary people navigating the weight of their choices. A musician who can’t outrun the ghost of a first love. A young bride discovering the distance between the life she imagined and the one she’s been handed. A man who hasn’t visited his childhood neighborhood in decades — and the phone call that makes him reckon with why. A boy whose recklessness one night costs him everything.
These are not dramatic lives. They are yours, your parents’, your neighbors’. But in Bal’s precise, empathetic hands, the familiar becomes quietly devastating — and quietly beautiful.
Dates, Debts, and Dates is Book Five in the celebrated Odd Tales from Bombay and Bangalore series — and a collection that proves, once again, that the most extraordinary stories are hiding inside the most ordinary lives.
For readers of R.K. Narayan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Raymond Carver. For anyone who has ever asked: what do we owe the people we’ve left behind?
by Philip Eliot | May 9, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
In the snowy heart of Alaska, love blooms where it’s least expected in this clean and wholesome romance collection.Unforgettable tales of second chances, emotional healing, and finding your place in the world unfold in the breathtaking Alaskan wilderness. Follow three courageous women as they discover the power of friendship, dog-sledding adventures, and unexpected romance in the most remote corners of small-town Alaska.This special edition includes:• The Loneliest Cottage• The Brightest Light• The Truest HomePerfect for fans of cozy love stories, slow burn romance, and dog lover’s fiction, this bundle brings all the feels and snowy charm you’ve been craving.Grab your copy and fall in love with Alaska.
by Philip Eliot | May 9, 2026 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
CHECKED OUT BY A MONSTER—sounds hot, right?Except I’m not the type anyone ever gives a second glance to, let alone is interested in. The only thing guys check out from me are the books in the library that I oversee.But every day, the same Chupacabra comes back. At first, I think he’s just lonely as he prowls behind me as I work, asking me questions.Then I realize he can’t read.Knowing his job depends upon it, I offer to teach him, reading stories aloud to the sweet monster. Everything is great until he brings me The Tentacle Kama Sutra and Monster Orgasms with a wink, silently daring me to open them—and like an idiot, I accept the challenge.Now the damned man won’t leave me alone. He’s always lurking behind my shelves…Chasing me.Charming me.Cherishing me.It’s almost like one of those monster romances I secretly read alone at night—but those stories are labeled fiction for a reason.Will I continue to hide behind the pages of my book, or will Chente prove love isn’t just make-believe?
by Philip Eliot | May 9, 2026 | Romantic Suspense |
During the chaotic upheaval of his team, guys transferring, new guys coming in, and the veterans are left dealing with the loss of one of their own, Ryuu “Dragon” Shannon heads home for a visit to his Brooklyn neighborhood. He discovers that Jo is living with his mom, and to his shock, he finds his one-night stand with his tattoo artist produced a daughter, Ceri. He’d been drunk that night, and she’d been willing. As they work to navigate his newfound place in Jo and Ceri’s lives, he’s charmed by their sweet daughter and starts to fall for the girl he’d never gotten the chance to know and who has grown into a woman he can’t get off his mind.
Josephine Moretti is glad that Dragon is back for an extended leave. She remembered touching his body both when she gave him his distinctive tattoo and the night they spent together. A night that changed her life and…gave her Ceri. She’d had a thing for him, but had never gotten to know him as well as she hoped. He’d disappeared and she didn’t know how to get in touch with him. Now he was a Navy SEAL, and as far as she could tell, nothing had changed. Things were about to get complicated now that he was home and she wants her little girl to know her dad. But, Dragon has been away for a while, and Jo’s learned to take care of them both, but when a threat from Dragon’s past threatens them all, she finds that Dragon is every inch the hero she thought he was and maybe, just maybe, an amazing dad for Ceri.
