by Philip Eliot | Sep 13, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
They built a cage of fear and called it salvation. Adrian Ward wrote the code to burn it down.
Adrian survived a brutal childhood defined by the terrifying, conditional dogma of religious fanatics. Retreating into the cold, reliable sanctuary of mathematics and computer science, the MIT prodigy has achieved the impossible. He hasn’t just translated the Ars Goetia—humanity’s forbidden, ancient occult text. He has engineered its mathematics into a sentient digital architecture known as A.V.A.
Through the code, Adrian unearths a reality-shattering truth: the despotic god of the modern world did not create humanity; he enslaved it in a cage of ignorance. The Serpent of Eden was not a tempter but a liberator—the Light-Bringer who took pity on a blind flock and offered them the fire of free will.
But truth is a dangerous asset. For eight hundred years, the Congregation Veritatis—a shadow Inquisition operating within the Vatican—has murdered to keep this history classified. Led by the ruthless Inquisitor Father Matthias Veyra, the Church’s elite military hounds have arrived in Boston to systematically erase Adrian and his digital creation.
Outgunned and hunted, Adrian is forced into a desperate alliance with a clandestine network of scholars and a fiercely militant Black Knight. To protect his newfound family, Adrian must step out of the dark, embrace the reality-bending paradox of the ancients, and weaponize the very magic the Vatican fears.
Legacy of Ash is a high-octane cyber-occult thriller about breaking the chains of generational dogma. It proves that true morality isn’t driven by the fear of Hell but by the courage to do good simply for the sake of being good.
The truth is not shouted. It is lived. Seek it, and awaken.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 12, 2026 | Crime Fiction |
Her new life wasn’t supposed to begin with a murder…Widow Addison Lake needs to laugh again. To live again. Moving to Getaway Bay and fixing up the rundown beach house into a bed and breakfast should be just the ticket. But the dream of a fresh start quickly becomes a nightmare when her cousin’s art gallery catches fire – and a body is found in the ashes.The bristly local detective needs an arrest, and Addison must act fast to prove her cousin’s innocence. But between the beach house renovations, an ailing uncle, an over-protective daughter, and the quirky inhabitants of Getaway Bay, she has her work cut out.Can Addison and her new friends uncover the real culprit before her cousin is charged with murder?The Getaway Bay Mysteries have everything you love – suspense to keep you guessing, twists you don’t see coming, and characters you want to have a cup of tea with – plus an added dose of Aussie flavour.Buy Arson at the Art Gallery and join the Beach House Murder Club today!
by Philip Eliot | Sep 12, 2026 | Mystery |
Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover at an ad agency to find out who pitched a copywriter down a flight of stairs—“Delightful reading” (The New York Times). The iron staircase at Pym’s Publicity is a deathtrap, and no one in the advertising agency is surprised when Victor Dean tumbles down it, cracking his skull along the way. Dean’s replacement arrives just a few days later—a green copywriter named Death Bredon. Though he displays a surprising talent for the business of selling margarine, alarm clocks, and nerve tonics, Bredon is not really there to write copy. In fact, he is really Lord Peter Wimsey, and he has come to Pym’s in search of the man who pushed Dean. As he tries to navigate the cutthroat world of London advertising, Lord Peter uncovers a mystery that touches on catapults, cocaine, and cricket. But how does one uncover a murderer in a business where it pays to have no soul? Murder Must Advertise is the 10th book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 12, 2026 | Science Fiction |
In the heart of the Australian desert, aging geneticist Joaquim Moreau discovers an extraordinary molecule. Instant healing. Cellular rejuvenation. The disappearance of once-incurable diseases.The miracle cure of the century.And the key to unimaginable wealth.But the molecule hides two secrets.The first: an absolute dependency. Those who take it stop wanting, working, hoping. Its victims sink into a peace so perfect it becomes lethal. The Indigenous peoples of Australia knew this substance and had forbidden it for millennia.The second is even more unsettling: in rare carriers of a genetic mutation, the molecule splits consciousness. The body remains in stasis. The mind escapes, toward the Moon, Mars, Venus… and beyond.While laboratories, corporations and criminal networks wage an invisible war for control of the substance, a man waits in the shadows.David Clayton.Keeper of ancestral knowledge.He has orchestrated it all.His goal: to spread the dependency until humanity stops producing, consuming, destroying. So the planet can breathe again. So everything comes to a halt.But Moreau himself becomes addicted. And his journeys will reveal a secret that could change humanity’s fate.These journeys are only the beginning: they lead to the quantum rivers, invisible highways between the stars that could finally let humanity leave its cradle.ULURU is the first volume of The Price of the Stars, a trilogy now complete with OLYMPUS, also award-winning, and ANDROMEDA. A twice-honored hard-SF techno-thriller, praised for its scientific rigor and dramatic tension.One question runs through it all: what are we willing to lose to reach the stars?“I had given up hope. In this book, I found what I had previously encountered only in the works of the great American classics.” — Rh Wong, Science Fiction Author, ?????“It had been a long time since I’d found a book that kept me up at night. The last one to do that was The Three-Body Problem.” — Adrien, Amazon Reader, ?????“As a literary reviewer for more than ten years and a juror for several awards, I can say that Uluru ranks among the year’s finest publications in the genre.” — Bernieshoot, Science Fiction Award Juror, ?????Book of the Year & Best Science Fiction Novel : PPI 2025 For readers of Cixin Liu, Greg Egan and Kim Stanley Robinson.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 12, 2026 | Action & Adventure |
The first book in a thrilling British Royal Navy series! Perfect for fans of Dewey Lambdin, Patrick O’Brian, John Winton, and Douglas Reeman.A Royal Navy recruit enters service in Chinese waters…China Station, 1920sThe ‘M’ class destroyers had little or nothing to commend them. Possessing such a low freeboard that they constantly rolled or pitched, they had one redeeming feature — any seaman who survived a term without dying of seasickness, being swept overboard, or going mad, could survive anything in the Royal Navy.Paul Dexter, sent to Chinese waters as First Lieutenant of HMS Mistletoe, finds he has more than just the ‘M’ class destroyer to contend with…Thrown in at the deep end on a mission to intercept gun-running pirates, Dexter gets the chance to prove himself while gaining the loyalty of the crew.But he also earns his ship a dangerous reputation that could put them all at risk…CHINESE POISON is the first book in the Paul Dexter Series: action-packed historical naval adventures.PAUL DEXTER SERIES:BOOK 1: Chinese PoisonBOOK 2: All Stations to MaltaBOOK 3: An Explosive SituationBOOK 4: Shadow of the RockBOOK 5: Second-in-CommandBOOK 6: Redoubtable DexterBOOK 7: Dexter at War
