by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2026 | Crime Fiction |
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mara Jacobs comes Book 1 in the Anna Dawson’s Vegas mystery series.
My name is Anna Dawson, and I’m a gambler.
And like any gambler will tell you, sometimes that’s good, and sometimes…not so much. And sometimes it’s an outright problem.
I love Vegas, and I love the life I’ve built, but when one of my friends is murdered, and another one shot at, I know I need to take a serious look at myself. And I need to call in the big guns. Even if that means teaming up with Detective Jack Schiller, a man who’s dealing with his own demons.
Right now I’m just trying to juggle protecting my friends, helping Jack while not letting him get too close, and finding a murderer. And, oh yeah, no one can learn about my gambling.
Or this will be the last hand I’m dealt.
*NOTE: The case is solved, the perpetrator caught, but there are a few threads that are continuing on through the next book and the series.
Books in the Anna Dawson series thus far:
1 – Against The Odds
2 – Against The Spread
3 – Against The Rules
4 – Against The Wall
5 – Against The Grain
by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2026 | Science Fiction |
Kirkus ? GET IT · BookLife by Publishers Weekly ? Editor’s Pick · Foreword Clarion 5 out of 5 · Literary Titan 5? Gold Book Award · 2× American Fiction Awards Winner“An engaging time-travel romp that mashes up Jung and Doctor Who to masterful effect.” — Kirkus Reviews“A deep, winding epic about hope, empathy, and living in the moment… Lovers of humane SF will find much to relish.” — BookLife Reviews by Publishers WeeklyKikiloa, both the 200,000-year-old Mitochondrial Eve and a modern teenage trickster, time-surfs across universes seeking an answer to time’s inevitable end. Perhaps her ordinary friend Hazel holds the key. This award-winning literary science fiction debut asks: Is it better to hope, or accept the end?The Kikiloa Chronicles is the wildest surf trip imaginable, where you never know what the next wave brings — a glowing, complex, multilayered story packed with vivid characters. It spans present-day shenanigans in San Francisco and Marin County, the dystopian dawn of humanity in prehistoric Africa, and a cat-and-mouse game with an enigmatic mentor that stretches from a tsunami in pre-contact Hawai?i to the end of time itself. Holding it all together is Kiki: everywhere all at once, ancient beyond measure, flawed and lonely with plenty of charm.Beneath the multiverse machinery run the real currents: mortality, purpose, hope, acceptance, love, self-discovery, and the stubborn value of human connection. Filled with mind-bending scientific and philosophical questions, the story never stops moving, and every scene lands with feeling. It’s funny, haunting, and beautiful in the same breath.“Ambitious and deeply imaginative” and “unlike anything else,” The Kikiloa Chronicles lingers long after the final page.For anyone who wants a story that refuses to play it safe.Circe meets The Midnight Library in the spirit of Ursula K. Le Guin.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2026 | Dark Romance |
It all started with the Turning.Nine months ago, everything went to hell. An injectable medicine touted as humanity’s savior turned one-third of the United States into ravenous monsters whose only vulnerability is fire. They killed more than a half of us, leaving the rest a group of shell-shocked survivors.All we do now is band together in individual communities, working to push back against the lurkers—hooded, hungry zombie-like creatures that lurk in the dark, eager to take a bite—and make it another day. Resources are scarce, and there’s no one to help us. Our useless government abandoned us all to the creatures all those months ago. Phone and television and the outside world… they don’t exist.Or do they?After a tragedy in my settlement has me desperate to escape, I’m willing to do anything to get the hell out of here. Enter Maverick Brooks. A dark-haired stranger fifteen years older than my twenty-five, he arrives at the Grave, stoic and mysterious, and looking for volunteers to join him in a suicidal plan to take the lurkers head-on.I’m the only one reckless enough to raise their hand.The leader of the Grave—who is also my dad—isn’t thrilled that I offer to go. Neither is Chase Knight, but I get it. The sexy hunter wants me to stay so that we can talk about the night that changed everything between us… the night that I just can’t forget or forgive myself for. Call me a coward, but I refuse to. As much as I’m drawn to him, there can’t be anything between us.Not when he was my dead twin’s fiancé.But he’s named well, and though I head out with Maverick, it isn’t long before Chase comes after me, and then sparks fly—and I don’t just mean from my lighter.We’re on a mission to kill as many lurkers as can. That’s it. He’s an extra hunter… so why can’t I stop finding myself giving in to him no matter the reason?I don’t know, but if I can’t get control of myself, it won’t only be the rest of the world that goes up in flames… * Burn is a dark dystopian/post-apocalyptic/zombie romance told in 1st person POV. This is Xandra’s story, and while it seems like a love triangle is possibl, Chase is way too possessive to let her think about choosing anyone else… even if, on the outside, he seems like the perfect golden retriever love interest.Previously published under the name Jessica Lynch, this version has been changed and is intended for a mature audience so, please, check the CWs.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
She forgot she loved him. He would die to make her remember. Meg Foxcroft has never minded the tattling village gossip or her uncle’s ill-tempered rebukes. After all, she has Tom McGwen—and one day, they will build their own cottage, paint it red, and live a wonderful life. But then the unthinkable happens. Meg is attacked, her uncle’s apothecary shop goes up in flames, and when she wakes up in the arms of an eloquent lord, she remembers nothing. Not even her own name. In a frantic race against time, Tom plunges into dangerous water, bent on sheltering Meg from harm and discovering who wants her dead. Even if she despises him. Even if it’s now the handsome lord she casts her smile upon. As danger swells and truth comes crashing around them, Meg must confront the past and decide who she trusts—and loves—before the enemy makes the final strike.Enjoy other Gothic Style Regencies from Hannah Linder:Beneath His Silence When Tomorrow Came Garden of the Midnights The Girl from the Hidden Forest Never Forgotten
by Philip Eliot | Sep 19, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
* 2023 International Book Awards Romance Finalist! *Twenty years have passed, yet not one thing in my hometown has changed … even the man I left behind.I was the girl no one could touch because they all feared my father. He was a legend, the head football coach who had created this town’s Friday night lights. Only two football players dared to win my heart—the boy next door and the new guy in town. I grew up on this football field and fell hard for these two men, who loved me just as much as the game.When my dad died, decisions had to be made, and I chose the one who held my heart.As I sit here in the stands, watching the one I didn’t choose fill my father’s role, I can’t help but remember our fumbled past. Wondering if I followed the right guy or what my life would have been like if I hadn’t.
