by Philip Eliot | Apr 18, 2026 | Teen & Young Adult |
The girl they condemned may be the only one who can save them, if they don’t execute her first. Violet was born to be wicked. Surviving as a street urchin in the island city of Sol’Karr, she struggles to stay one step ahead of the city guards. And when a burglary gone wrong lands her in a jail cell, her nefarious Viperi bloodline could send her straight to the executioner’s sword.Her last hope comes in the form of a job offer from a mysterious man who may not be who he claims. If she accepts, she’ll be working for The Zenith’s Call, an organization who guards the world’s most powerful magical artifacts—a task that requires highly skilled agents willing to risk their lives. They believe Violet may have the skills to join them, if she can prove herself trustworthy, but when someone tries breaking into the Call’s vault, rumors of Violet’s treachery fly like arrows, and she’s threatened with banishment back to a jail cell. Now the only option she has left to prove her innocence lies in hunting down the real thief. But embracing her wicked Viperi abilities to catch an expert criminal could be what finally condemns her once and for all.If you like Brandon Sanderson and Rick Riordan, you’ll devour Nicole Conway’s fast-paced, imaginative series.Buy BORN OF SHADOW and start the addicting dark epic fantasy series today!? WINNER of the 2026 Spring Pencraft Awards for Literary Excellence ?
by Philip Eliot | Apr 18, 2026 | General Nonfiction |
This “delightfully creepy” New York Times bestseller from the award-winning horror-comedy podcast team takes deep dives into nine infamous serial killers (Booklist). Since its first show in 2010, The Last Podcast on the Left has barreled headlong into all things horror, covering subjects spanning Jeffrey Dahmer, Jonestown, and various supernatural phenomena. Deeply researched but with a morbidly humorous bent, the podcast has earned a dedicated and aptly cultlike following for its unique take on all things macabre. In their first book, the guys take a deep dive into history’s most infamous serial killers, from Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy, exploring their origin stories, haunting habits, and perverse predilections. Featuring newly developed content alongside updated fan favorites, each profile is an exhaustive examination of the darker side of human existence. With appropriately creepy four-color illustrations throughout, The Last Book on the Left will satisfy the bloodlust of readers everywhere. “A fully illustrated compendium that revisits in print nine of the most notorious killers covered on the podcast, re-investigating the subjects and going through two rounds of fact-checking to provide definitive accounts of murderers from John Wayne Gacy to the Son of Sam to Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, which at the same time question their mythical status in our collective psyche and nightmares.”–Rolling Stone
by Philip Eliot | Apr 18, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
A frosty television host, a bubbly bar owner, and a litter of abandoned kittens. The recipe for ratings gold…or heartbreak?Eve Marlow has her eyes on the prize: a third season of her popular business makeover show, Do Over. But when her ratings take an unexpected dive, Eve needs a blockbuster new client, or she can kiss season three goodbye. She has her work cut out for her, and that’s before she discovers a litter of newborn kittens in a trash can. Now she’s desperate to find someone to take them so she can concentrate on reviving her career.Josie Swanson had to put her kitten rescue on the back burner when she inherited her father’s bar two years ago. Since then, she’s invested all her time and energy into keeping it afloat, but despite her best efforts, Swanson’s is going under. When she gets a phone call from Eve Marlow, host of the television show Josie applied to earlier that year, the woman she’s convinced can save her bar, Josie hopes her luck has finally turned.Eve knows what she needs to succeed, and it isn’t Josie—or her bar. There’s no denying the chemistry sizzling between them, though. Josie’s personality is as vibrant as her turquoise-tipped hair. She stirs things in Eve that haven’t been stirred in a long time, but there’s a reason she keeps her heart under lock and key. Eve stands to lose a lot more than her TV show if she lets her guard down, no matter how tempted she is to see if Josie’s love would be worth the risk.
by Philip Eliot | Apr 18, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
“Chris Sorensen summons a motley ensemble of psychics for a seance to end all seances. The Haunting of Sorrow’s Leap is a testament to the supernatural fact that it’s not only the ghosts you need to worry about conjuring up at Utter Hall, but the shadows hidden within the darkest corners of us all.” — Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your EyesEllen Marx used to talk to the dead. Now they’re ghosting her. With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she’s been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey’s Hooky Spooky Convention, she catches the eye of the event’s reclusive sponsor: a washed-up horror author with a haunted mansion in need of a serious cleansing.Reluctantly, Ellen joins his ragtag crew of psychic misfits (a near-death survivor, a paranormal tech bro, and a woman who may or may not be possessed) to investigate the mystery lurking inside his crumbling Hudson Valley estate.But as the haunting escalates, Ellen realizes that to uncover the truth behind the manifestation, she must first confront some ghosts of her own…From the bestselling author of The Nightmare Room comes a darkly humorous journey into a haunted heart.
by Philip Eliot | Apr 18, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
In the late nineteenth century, an esteemed Harvard professor gathers a small, unconventional team—brilliant minds and broken souls alike—to investigate supernatural phenomena.Their first case draws them to a secluded house steeped in whispers. The walls seem to watch them, and unseen forces soon turn their investigation into a desperate fight for survival.A sharp-witted assistant. An African-American physicist challenging the limits of accepted science. A young sideshow medium touched by the otherworldly. A Civil War veteran scarred by horrors both human and spectral. Together, they may uncover the truth… or be destroyed by it.Robert Herold’s THE EIDOLA PROJECT is an atmospheric tale of gothic mystery and horror.
