by Philip Eliot | Sep 18, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
My boss accused me of corporate espionage after I spent the night in his arms.Nicholas Blackwood lives in a hotel suite because permanent things can be taken away.He learned that lesson from Victoria Sterling—the woman who seduced him for business secrets, then nearly destroyed Event Horizons when he discovered her betrayal.Now I’m the new employee who challenges his decisions and makes him lose control in ways he’s spent years avoiding. I’m falling hard for his brilliant mind and the way he looks at me like I’m a wrecking ball threatening to crumble his carefully built walls.When we finally give in to the attraction burning between us, and he shows me exactly how much I affect him, I think we’ve turned a corner.Then a client crisis hits, and he chooses suspicion over trust. Treats me like the enemy instead of the woman who just shared his bed and listened to his deepest fears.Fine. I’ll prove my innocence by solving his problem myself. Track down the real corporate spy. Show him exactly what loyalty looks like.But proving I’m not Victoria Sterling means facing the fact that amazing sex and genuine feelings might not be enough to heal a man too broken to trust.This is a standalone romance. No cliff hanger. Happily ever after guaranteed!Boss RomanceSpicy
by Philip Eliot | Sep 18, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
She’s my workplace enemy, my newest scuba student, and completely forbidden. In a small town like Dove Key, this kind of trouble runs deeper than the ocean.Eli:Julianne Verne and I are fire and ice. She’s the resort’s over-organized accountant, and I’m the laid-back dive instructor. We’ve spent years clashing over every inch of my family’s Florida Keys paradise, but now I’m her unwilling coach for a wild wedding stunt.The forced proximity is doing dangerous things to our animosity. Her knife-sharp wit sounds more like playful banter. Our intense glares are looking a lot like smoldering glances. When we combust in a beach shack, there’s no turning back.This attraction is a forbidden complication I don’t need. The no-workplace-romance rule could capsize everything our family has fought for, but Julianne is the one adventure I can’t resist.TROPE LIST:??ENEMIES TO LOVERS??SMALL TOWN ROMANCE??OPPOSITES ATTRACT??STANDALONE SERIES STARTER??FOUND FAMILY??FORBIDDEN ROMANCE??WORKPLACE ROMANCE??STEAMY AND SWEET??IRRESISTIBLE SETTING??BANTER!BETTER THAN NEVER is a sweet and steamy interconnected small-town romance filled with humor, family, and a guaranteed HEA. Perfect for fans of Laura Pavlov and Melanie Harlow. Dive into the Sunset Siesta series today.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 18, 2026 | Thriller & Suspense |
Lying to Iris Raines is like throwing a boomerang—the truth always comes back hard.This gritty Texas private investigator mystery is relentless and razor-sharp—where sabotage, cartel money, and dark family secrets collide in a dangerous game of truth and consequences.Iris Raines doesn’t scare easy. Sardonic, relentless, and backed by her St. Bernard, Festus, she’s built a career digging the truth out of the dung heap of deception. But when sabotage turns lethal, Iris finds herself caught between powerful enemies—and a client who isn’t telling her everything she needs to know.South Texas restaurateur Quinten Farragut built his circus-themed dining empire on burgers, cheesy fries, and nostalgia—until sabotage turned his brand of family fun into deadly business. When poisoned food kills a customer and sickens dozens more, private investigator Iris Raines is hired to expose the saboteur before Farragut’s empire folds like a circus tent.But following the trail means digging deep into a tangled family history, using forensic genealogy to uncover long-buried secrets—and discovering that the past may hold the key to the crisis engulfing her client’s business.The deeper she digs, the clearer it gets: this isn’t sabotage—it’s corporate warfare. A killer with nothing to lose, a client with everything to hide, and a cartel moving in for the kill leave Iris with one choice—expose the truth before it buries her.She’s made a career exposing other people’s lies—but what happens when the truth cuts just as deep as the betrayal?Fast-paced, fearless, and full of twists, Pants on Fire delivers another high-stakes ride with private investigator Iris Raines. Written by a licensed private investigator with decades in the field, Pants on Fire is perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, and Robert Crais.PrologueDon’t lie to your PI. It’s a maxim for successful living…right up there with never stiff the hitman and don’t blow-dry your hair in the bathtub. Yet every day clients walk into the offices of PIs and lie just like rugs on the floor. How can they believe we’re going to resolve their current imbroglio without uncovering their own role in it?If you’ve been a PI since lunch, you know that people do not end up slogging upstream, ass-deep in a river of alligators, without having somehow gotten into the water in the first place. However much of an asshole they may be, when we join their team, they become our assholes, and we keep their secrets and do every legal thing in our power to save them. It’s the job. We explain this to them ad nauseam. But they lie to us anyway.Knowing this, my bullshit antenna is constantly scanning the environment for deception, like the spinning radars perched on the masts of warships. But this time I had no inkling—not until the first bullet hit my windshield. First Place — Next Best Read Writing Contest Award for Fiction, July, 2026 Top Ten Finalist — BooksShelf Writing Contest Award for Fiction, July, 2026
by Philip Eliot | Sep 18, 2026 | Fantasy |
Long before humanity named the worlds of the Solar System, an ancient traveler was already crossing them. Unable to remember anything before awakening aboard his ship, he has spent an unknown span of time moving between worlds and studying life wherever he finds it.
When he discovers signs of an intelligent civilization hidden beneath the ice of a distant world, observation turns into first contact. The beings he encounters live in ways that challenge his ideas of individuality, belonging, memory, and responsibility, and what begins as careful study gradually becomes something far more personal.
As he becomes part of a world he never expected to find, a distant mystery begins to grow beyond anything he anticipated. What Weather Could Not Remember is a philosophical first-contact science-fiction novel about alien life, connection, discovery, and the forgotten histories of an ancient Solar System.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 18, 2026 | Science Fiction |
Long before humanity named the worlds of the Solar System, an ancient traveler was already crossing them. Unable to remember anything before awakening aboard his ship, he has spent an unknown span of time moving between worlds and studying life wherever he finds it.
When he discovers signs of an intelligent civilization hidden beneath the ice of a distant world, observation turns into first contact. The beings he encounters live in ways that challenge his ideas of individuality, belonging, memory, and responsibility, and what begins as careful study gradually becomes something far more personal.
As he becomes part of a world he never expected to find, a distant mystery begins to grow beyond anything he anticipated. What Weather Could Not Remember is a philosophical first-contact science-fiction novel about alien life, connection, discovery, and the forgotten histories of an ancient Solar System.
