by Philip Eliot | Sep 13, 2025 | African-American & Black Interest |
A dead womanizer. A friend suspected of murder. And a teacher turned sleuth.In Willow, Ohio, English teacher Kendra Clayton craves more than dateless nights spent grading papers. And boy does she get it when her friend Bernie’s boyfriend, Jordan, a notorious womanizer, is brutally murdered, and both she and Kendra become suspects. Kendra can only save herself—and the friend she believes is innocent—by doing some investigating of her own.But between Jordan’s past and present conquests—and a chain of emptied wallets and vengeful hearts—which one could be a killer? As another murder draws Kendra deeper into the case, she finds herself attracted to a man who may hold the missing piece of the puzzle. But in the crosshairs of a crafty killer intent on covering their tracks, can Kendra survive long enough to put it together?The Company You Keep is the first book in the Kendra Clayton mystery series. Click the buy button and join the legions of fans of this quirky, laugh-out-loud series that Library Journal called “Highly recommended.””Highly recommended.”–Library Journal”With so many plot twists, Henry’s mystery is anything but predictable. Colorful characters and a strong plot drives this novel, which is pleasantly accented by light humor.”–Romantic Times”A tightly woven mystery…”–Ebony Magazine”A rock ’em-sock ’em novel full of humor, thrills, and criminal intent.”–SaVoy Magazine
by Philip Eliot | Sep 13, 2025 | Teen & Young Adult |
I promised my mother I would never come to Bato-Ko…and yet here I am.Narra Jal is one of the cursed, cast aside her whole life, considered unlucky. But with her mother’s life on the line, she will return to the city where she was born to face the trials: a grueling, bloodthirsty series of challenges designed to weed out the weak, the greedy, and the foolish. Trials to select the next ruler of Tigang.Narra has nothing. No weapons. No training. No magic. No real chance of leaving with her life. Just her fierce grit and a refusal to accept the destiny she’s been handed. Even the intense, dark-eyed Guardian she feels a strangely electric connection with cannot help her. Narra is on her own. But she’ll show everyone what the unlucky can do.Let the bloodbath begin.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 13, 2025 | Children & Middle Grade |
Magical triples, dark secrets, and evil forces…The mysterious Cheval triplets live a peaceful life in a secluded cottage on the edge of the Mystic Wood. Yet when their mother’s illness creeps her closer to death, the three sisters, Morganne, Amara, and Fae must leave their quiet sanctuary in search of a rare cure within the darkened forest.But they are not the only ones lurking in the midnight shadows, so when fiendish witch hunters capture the sisters, their search for a cure turns into a desperate escape attempt. Their only hope rests with the exhausted, worn out horses pulling the cart to the witch trial, and the secrets the sisters keep locked in the deepest chambers of their hearts.When they unleash the truth will it set them free, or send them closer to the burning witch pyres?The first in the epic Magic and Mage series – a clean, middle grade fantasy adventure fans are calling ‘spellbinding’
by Philip Eliot | Sep 13, 2025 | General Nonfiction |
When Jill Cahill was leaving to return home after visiting with her family for a week, she turned to her sister with a grin, and said: “If Jeff kills me, you can have all my things.” A few days later, she was in a coma in a Syracuse hospital, her skull shattered by a savage beating inflicted by her 37-year-old husband. Six months later, she was dead. Jeff and Jill Cahill seemed to have it all. Two kids, a dog, a nice house of the picket fence variety. But their relationship wasn’t as happy as it seemed. Jeff and Jill had been having serious financial problems and were headed towards divorce, legally separated but living in the same house until Jill could afford to move out. But on April 21, 1996 Jeff and Jill had a torrid argument while their kids were upstairs sleeping. In the aftermath, Jeff claimed that his wife had started stabbing him with a kitchen knife–and that was the reason for his taking a Louisville slugger straight to her head. She lay in a coma for nearly six months, and just as she started to show signs of coming out of it… she received a visitor. On October 27th of that same year, staffers at the University Hospital in Syracuse New York, noticed a strange-looking guy lurking in the hallway wearing a wig and outdoor boots. When Jill’s nurse went to check on her patient, she found her gasping for air, with bruises around her mouth, and white powder (later to be determined as cyanide) flecked across her chest…While She Slept is Marion Collins’ shocking true crime book about a man who would stop at nothing to keep his wife from testifying against him.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 13, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
AT THE EDGE OF THE CEMETERY RESTS A PLACE FOR CHILDREN TO PLAY. BUT NOT ALL SOULS THAT PLAY ARE AT REST.Nine-year-old Kylie Macklin defied the odds in conquering cancer. Now she wants nothing more than a fresh start at her new home in Huntsville. Soon, an enigmatic new friend introduces her to a playground unlike any other. Set next to Maple Hill Cemetery, the park is a sanctuary for the spirits of local children who died in the Spanish Flu and fell victim to a twisted serial killer.Nineteen-year-old Kayla Macklin resents being uprooted from the only life she knew. Bitter about the years her parents spent focusing on Kylie’s health, she struggles to reforge a bond with her little sister while making new friends of her own. But one reckless decision will threaten her newfound happiness.And put innocent lives at risk.Soon, Kylie’s classmates collapse with devastating fevers while a killer thought long dead returns to stalk a community still bearing the scars of his rampage decades earlier.With the children of Huntsville in grave danger, the sisters must race against time to learn the secrets of Maple Hill Park before they end up permanent residents of The Dead Children’s Playground.Experience a chilling ghost story inspired by true events in this first terrifying entry in James Kaine’s American Horrors series where fear always finds its way home.
