by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
Fans of Gilmore Girls and Murder She Wrote won’t want to miss this suspenseful cozy novel from USA TODAY Bestselling author Nancy Robards Thompson.It’s one thing to write a mystery, but when your daughter is the suspect — you solve it.Wedding planner Jenna Bell doesn’t panic when the groom is a no-show to the ceremony – even though he is her former high school sweetheart and this wedding is the small town’s event of the year. However, when he turns up dead and she is falsely accused… well, yeah, now it’s the time to panic.Jenna’s mother, Maddie, puts her cozy mystery writing skills to use to try to clear her daughter’s name, stepping on by-the-book Chief of Police Jackson Bradley’s toes in the process. No matter how enticing he finds her, he doesn’t want this writer-turned-amateur-sleuth interfering with his murder investigation.With nearly all of Hemlock, North Carolina, picking sides and the town’s own Gossip Brigade churning out the rumors, Maddie discovers the mystery isn’t very cozy when it hits this close to home.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2025 | Romantic Comedy |
I prefer high heels to fishing reels, but single dad Henry Cooper is determined to hook me.I’ve seen too many women give up everything they want for some man, and I refuse to do the same.That path leads straight to heartache.I say the absolute wrong thing every time I’m around him, but Henry still flirts and teases like he’s mistaken me for someone with a sense of humor.My plan to avoid the construction contractor with the big hands, strong thighs, and ridiculous fishy puns is shot all to heck when my cousin asks Henry to teach us how to fly fish for an upcoming competition.I’m a strong, ambitious woman and I can handle my own primal yearnings. Until I fall in the river before I learn the difference between a fly and a lure, and he takes care of me in a way no one has before. My resolve is faltering, and I’m going to have to use everything in my power to push him away.Because no matter how perfect he seems, he’ll never want me once he discovers my dirty secret.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
A magical boarding school. Budget cuts. Missing teaches. A not-so-cozy mystery.You think you know the world of magical boarding schools? Not from a teacher’s perspective at a school for at risk youth.This book bundle includes: Tardy Bells and Witches’ Spells, Hex-Ed, Witches Gone Wicked, A Handful of Hexes, Hexes and Exes, and BONUS MATERIAL. Personal Ads for Witches and Thirteen Ways to Tell if You are a Witch are also included in this bundle.Book 1: Tardy Bells and Witches’ Spells (A prequel before Clarissa teaches at Womby’s School for Wayward Witches.)Most of us have faced the fact that an owl will never come with our acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Find out what this teen does to take matters into her own hands. Will she become a witch, even if the price is higher than she expects?Book 2: Hex-EdConsider what would happen if a bumbling character like Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum had been told with the quirky voice of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and she was trying to get a job at Hogwarts.A gang of evil Fae wants to kidnap and enslave Clarissa for accidentally using magic at the wrong place and the wrong time. Clarissa must escape little old ladies in gingerbread cottages, the evil school district psychologist who has always been out to get her, and a hoard of harpies before she can prove to the Witchkin that the bad apple falls farther from the tree that they’d guessed.If she can do this, then maybe, just maybe her dreams will come true and she’ll land that job teaching the dark arts and crafts.Book 3: Witches Gone WickedAs if being the new “arts and crafts” teacher isn’t hard enough at a school for juvenile delinquent witches, budget cuts are just as severe in the magic community, administrators are as unrealistic in their expectations of teachers, and the job is a hazard if the students find out you can’t actually do magic.As if this isn’t enough pressure, she has to figure out why teachers are mysteriously disappearing. If she doesn’t, she might be next.Book 4: A Handful of HexesWhen Clarissa finds her mother’s diary outlining her experiments with the Fae Fertility Paradox, she is desperate to uncover the mysteries of her mother’s past that will help with her own magic problems of the present. She suspects this book will solve the feud between Fae and Witchkin.Either that or it will cause an all-out war.Book 5: Hexes and ExesThe ghosts of boyfriends past are haunting Clarissa Lawrence, the most unmagical teacher at Womby’s School for Wayward Witches.When Clarissa’s problems aren’t filled with her exes, they are filled with hexes. Everything in her life revolves around letting go of her past so she can accept her future. Clarissa must save Derrick before the Raven Queen gets him for good, even if it means she must join the dark side to do so.BONUS MATERIAL Personal Ads for Witches Thirteen Ways to Tell if You are a Witch Dear Jezzy: Love Advice for Paranormals
by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2025 | Teen & Young Adult |
A fast-paced fantasy adventure in which an Elven warrior comes to question everything about her world.?? FINALIST American Fiction Awards 2025!!?? Honorable Mention in the Next Best Read Writing Contest 2025!!?? Kirkus Endorsed! This is first-rate fantasy in the Tolkien vein, with future volumes sure to deepen the story.With fleets of airships, mancery, and the ability to read anyone’s Truth, the Elves have squashed every rebellion with bloodshed and war. But the arrival of a foreign race on the shores of Belissia threatens to tip the balance of power.Airship Captain Selouteau of the Elven Armada, races to save her home from the Human invasion by seeking an alliance with the exiled Prince of the Ez. But in the Prince’s court, Selouteau finds someone that brings the legitimacy of the entire Elven reign into question.Old tensions rise and as the continent slips towards another war, Selouteau grapples with the weight of what she’s discovered.Can Captain Selouteau stop the next Belissian war before it begins? And if she can’t, do the Elves—her own race—deserve to remain in power?
by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
Gil Valentine knows three things: he doesn’t want kids, he doesn’t want a relationship, and he likes to be alone.He spends Sundays tinkering in the garage, cruising on his motorcycle, and enjoying the luxury of a bed that he doesn’t have to share. After his last relationship with his best friend’s brother ended in disaster and nearly cost him a friendship, Gil swore off anything that might lead to complications.Rowan Verne knows two things: being a single dad is hard, and being a single dad to a pre-teen is harder.After the death of his wife and a tough few years as a struggling single dad, he’s determined to give his son a better life in a new town. Between moving into a fixer-upper and handling the demands of parenting a twelve year old, he’s juggling more than he anticipated—and then his son turns up down the street, talking to a very handsome, and very single neighbor.Rowan is everything Gil doesn’t want and Gil is everything Rowan doesn’t think he needs. Even though they’re opposites, the chemistry between them is undeniable. What’s supposed to be a one-time thing quickly turns into something both men want to continue. And when tensions get high and memories from the past flare their ugly heads Gil and Rowan realize everything has changed, but they both know one thing to be true.Once is never enough.
