by Philip Eliot | Jan 13, 2026 | Fantasy |
The Dark Moon Rises, And With It, Ancient Magic That Threatens To Tear The World Apart. House Deyron’s shame has shadowed Helio since birth. As ward to House Sarras–the dynasty that deposed his family from the throne of Ephemer—he’s learned to swallow his pride and do his duty. But when the new king has Helio’s closest friend executed and marks him for death, survival means flight into a realm he doesn’t recognize. Trouble stirs in the East. The Penumbran emperor marches north to crush a dangerous uprising, leaving power-hungry rivals eyeing his Dragon Throne. Yu Zi Mei is the only daughter of peasant farmers of the Green River. When forced into a nightmare marriage too young, her desperate flight leads her into ancient shadows—where a curse becomes prophesy.
by Philip Eliot | Jan 13, 2026 | Fantasy |
Some people carry the blood of demons. They often appear normal. They may even be unaware of it themselves. Until the curse activates. When a monster awakens, someone usually ends up dead. But not all hope is lost. All monsters are welcome at Nightshade Academy. Eighteen-year-old Nova Ray didn’t have big plans for the future. She was comfortable living life quietly and unseen with her mother, but all of that changed the night a mysterious man triggered her curse and revealed her vampire nature. Nova would have killed someone that night, maybe even her human mother, if she hadn’t been found and taken to Nightshade Academy first. But her troubles are far from over. Nova’s in lockdown. Nightshade Academy is supposed to rehabilitate monsters. The goal is to teach them how to control their monster natures so they can rejoin human civilization. But Nova’s bloodlust is insatiable and picky. She’s fixated on a star student: Kian Salazar. He wants to help her, but she can’t stop thinking about drinking his blood. It’s all too much. What if she kills him? If the curse consumes Nova, she’ll truly be a monster. And there’s no going back from that. This book contains Nightshade Academy Episodes 1-5.
by Philip Eliot | Jan 13, 2026 | Science Fiction |
Author Robert M. Kerns returns to Space Opera Science Fiction with The Shepherd , a novel of Shepherd Security Services. Stolen livestock. A determined heir. A fateful choice. Alex spends his days learning to manage the family sheep ranch. He wants nothing more than to take over when his parents retire, because his family has owned and worked it since the Westward Expansion. But all is not well in Southwestern Wyoming. Five neighboring ranches have been raided, all their livestock stolen without a trace… each on a new moon. Alex feels his family’s ranch is next and decides to spend the night with the flock when the next new moon comes around. That decision changes his life forever. How will Alex survive in an alien society? Find out in The Shepherd !
by Philip Eliot | Jan 13, 2026 | Science Fiction |
A new world for Earth’s last survivors. But something deadly waits for darkness to fall. Ember Steele only wanted to live a full life. That’s why she went into stasis, to wait for a cure for her terminal disease. Now she and five other people awaken in a spacecraft, far from Earth. Hundreds of years have passed. Everyone Ember knew is long dead. And what’s worse—far, far worse—humanity is all but extinct. Ember and the others aren’t astronauts, scientists, or soldiers, yet they’ve been selected for a monumentally important mission. Why? Because they all have the same terminal condition, making them the only people who can survive in a faster-than-light needle ship. Their mission: select a suitable terraformed planet for human civilization to start over. The clock is ticking. With limited air and no food or water, this ragtag team must act fast or fail. They land on Tenoth, a seemingly hospitable world, but soon find themselves in a nightmare of deception and danger. Worst of all are the eclipses, when Tenoth’s moons obstruct its sun. For when the darkness comes, so comes death. Primal Eclipse is a post-apocalyptic, colonization adventure with memorable characters and turbo-paced, nerve-shredding thrills.
by Philip Eliot | Jan 12, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
If only owning a bookstore didn’t mean dealing with people. No one was more surprised than Harper Brevig when Great Aunt Lorene (not “Lori,” thank-you-very-much) died and left her least favorite niece her bookstore–including a prime piece of real estate in downtown Red Wing, Minnesota. Making a go of the place shouldn’t be too hard. With her library science degree, she should be set. Then again, the website describing library degrees had said it would teach her excellent communication skills. It had not. Could she get a partial refund? Still, owning the building should mean crazy-low overhead to offset her less than optimal “book-side” manner. Ahem. So when yet another huge bill arrives, and she starts getting twitchy about the low bank balance, Harper does the only thing she can think of. Enter Milton Coleridge. He’d been excited about the possibilities of the store last year, but Harper had sent him packing before he could talk to her about them. Now he has a chance to make a difference. But she’s right. She’s bleeding money, and it doesn’t make sense! Milton’s job is to figure out what’s going on, plug the financial leak, and maybe… do a little matchmaking. That dad with the adorable little boy would be good for her… and she’d be good for him. Probably. Twice Sold Tales: the first full-length novel in the Bookstrings series releasing with The Mosaic Collection
