by Philip Eliot | Sep 12, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
Enjoy this heartwarming story in the Fostered By Love series, from top selling author Margaret Daley.Three foster kids fall into Noah Maxwell’s lap and turns his life upside down. The successful businessman knows nothing about children, so he hires single mom Cara Winters to help care for his new brood. Cara senses that despite Noah’s confident faade, old wounds trouble him. But he refuses to discuss his past pain, despite her desire to help him heal. Perhaps her love can inspire Noah to relinquish his independence and give Cara and the children the fairy-tale ending they all deserved.Originally published 2008
by Philip Eliot | Sep 12, 2026 | Crime Fiction |
A troubled English boy sets out to uncover the truth about his father’s death, from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorFollowing the death of his father at an archaeological dig in Greece, young Crispin Almond returned to England and the mother he barely knew. Now a difficult, morose, and unreachable teenager, he has been expelled from every school he’s attended. At her wits’ end, his mother decides Crispin needs a positive male role model and turns to a former friend, who disappeared from her life sixteen years earlier when she rejected his proposal of marriage.Hired by the woman he always loved to be her son’s tutor, Evelyn Manville is determined to break through Crispin’s protective shell. But the closer he gets to the troubled teen, the more unsettling their relationship becomes. Because, despite having no evidence, Crispin believes his father’s death in Greece was no accident, and he’s been secretly manipulating events to prove it. And now his plan could be drawing a murderer into all of their lives.With Death Mask, the Edgar, Agatha, and Diamond Dagger Award–winning author of the Brother Cadfael Mysteries delivers a stand-alone novel that is “a literate and original piece of work” (Kirkus Reviews).
by Philip Eliot | Sep 12, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
Gold Medal Winner, LGBTQ Fiction – 2026 Readers’ Favorite Book AwardsSilver Medal Winner, LGBT Fiction – 2026 Global Book AwardsBlake is used to showing off his body. Baring his soul? That’s another story.By day, Blake’s a mild-mannered bartender. By night, he’s porn legend Dirk Slocum, heating up the runway as an exotic dancer at The Firehouse, San Francisco’s hottest club. When a developer threatens to gut the building and erase everything he loves, Blake makes a daring counteroffer: he’ll take over the lease and transform The Firehouse into the burlesque club of his dreams.There’s only one catch – Blake can sell a fantasy, but he has no idea how to run a business.Enter Ethan: a brainy business student with boy-next-door charm who has no idea who he just asked out. Ethan likes taking things slow – cuddling on a blanket under the stars slow – the kind of sweet, get-to-know-you romance Blake hasn’t had in a long time.As they throw themselves into saving The Firehouse, their business partnership deepens into something more. Blake wants to come clean about his past, but the truth might cost him the first man who’s seen him as more than a hot body and a pretty face.Can he risk losing the love he never thought he’d get to have?Brighter Than The Sun is a spicy, opposites-attract romance about found family, big dreams, and the kind of love that asks you to step into the light… even when you’re afraid of what it will reveal.Sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is let yourself be seen.(Brighter Than The Sun is book 2 in the San Francisco Sex Gods series. Each book follows a different couple and can be read as a standalone story.)
by Philip Eliot | Sep 12, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
A mysterious locket brings a fire survivor and a wounded veteran together, but their growing feelings might be more dangerous than the men pursuing them.Charlotte Clarke survived the flames that destroyed her town and took her family, but at what cost? Left injured and alone, she seizes the chance for a fresh start when a dying friend asks her to take a locket to a relative in Kentucky. But she has no means to reach her destination until she meets a handsome horse trainer headed south and convinces him to let her travel with him. Haunted by his years in the cavalry and desperate to save his family’s failing stables, Stefan Roberts is focused on transporting his father’s racehorses to Kentucky for the spring races. He isn’t looking for complications—especially not in the form of a determined young woman with secrets of her own. Yet as they travel together, Charlotte’s courage and determination begin to crack the walls he’s built around his heart. When a shadowy pursuer closes in, Stefan and Charlotte must face the pasts they’ve been running from, and the faith they thought they’d left behind, before their fragile hopes for the future go up in smoke.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 12, 2026 | Dark Romance |
She messed with the wrong billionaire. One who always gets what he wants. And what he wants is to devastate her…Determined to expose the shady billionaires who “buy” women for a week, undercover journalist Kimani Taylor puts herself up for sale at the secretive Scarlet Auction and checks the box that says she’s up for anything—no matter how dirty and wild. When she’s purchased by a wealthy, abusive jerk, she ends up stuck in a remote cabin and in physical danger.Hunky international billionaire Benjamin Lee happens to come to her rescue, but he’s no knight in shining armor. From the moment he set eyes on Kimani, even though her defiant gaze told him to “eff” off, he’s determined to have her for himself. An experienced Dominant, he intends to ravage her with his sinful repertoire.However, Kimani isn’t the docile pet he expected from reading her Scarlet Auction description. Not only is she not simpering at his feet like most women he’s come across, she seems hellbent on keeping him at arm’s length. But Benjamin Lee is used to getting his way, and he fully expects to have her gasping and writhing beneath him—and begging for more.If Kimani submits to Benjamin’s scorching touch, she risks losing her scoop and the chance to uncover the Scarlet Auction’s criminal activities. If Benjamin gets his way with her, she’ll become the biggest mistake he’s ever made…Trigger warnings: This dark billionaire romance is for readers 18 and up who like smart, daring heroines and billionaires who can dominate in all the right ways. BOUGHT is the first book in a 4-book serial in which the action gets hotter and hotter and hotter.
