by Philip Eliot | Sep 10, 2026 | Science Fiction |
Unlike most captains, Alex Racine can’t detect an anomaly, log it, and ignore it. His curiosity drives him to push his ship to its limits, swinging around a massive planet to gain the velocity he needs to intercept the object.What he captures in the dark isn’t an asteroid. It’s a crippled starship. Survivors of a lost colony ship are in stasis, and a self-aware digital entity is only hours from ending its existence. There’s the unmistakable evidence of damage from a powerful weapon that his people have never seen. It’s a first contact no one planned for, with a civilization as human as Alex’s own and a threat from anything but. The adversary has consumed entire worlds for six decades without leaving a single survivor to warn others. It does not respond to hails, does not negotiate, and does not stop its advance. Now two long-separated branches of humankind divided by a vast technological gulf must come together to have a fighting chance to survive.A thought-provoking sci fi adventure grounded in hard science and a hard-won alliance. It’s a gripping story about humankind pushed toward extinction and what people are capable of doing when everything is at stake.The first battle is proof of what’s attainable, but the war has only begun.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 10, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
“The Wantland Files gripped me from the beginning and didn’t let go. Filled with suspense, romance, and mystery, this novel has all the right elements to keep you guessing until the end.”–Tamara Grantham, RONE-award-winning author of the Fairy MD series ?Oklahoma Book Awards Best Fiction Finalist?She sees dead people. He’s sure they don’t exist. Psychic Kimberly Wantland investigates paranormal disturbances. Her television show, The Wantland Files, catapulted her from private paranormal investigator to media sensation. She receives thousands of requests for help every day, but during her latest investigation at a young mother’s house, Kimberly senses something different. And disturbing.As if she didn’t have enough problems with this case, renowned illusionist and confirmed skeptic Sterling Wakefield shows up unannounced, ready to disprove her psychic abilities.A dark figure drifts through the halls. Mysterious yowling echoes in the night.Something dark haunts this house.Before Kimberly can convince Sterling her powers can resolve this terror, she first must convince herself…
by Philip Eliot | Sep 10, 2026 | Thriller & Suspense |
A hilarious crime thriller by Anthony Bourdain, the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN. CIA-trained assassin Henry Denard is looking for the good life when he retires with his wife, Frances, to the Caribbean. He may have botched his last job a little–allowed Donnie Wicks, the guy Jimmy Pazz hired him to kill, to escape with his life–but Henry and Frances are determined to take it easy. That is until Donnie agrees to testify against Jimmy Pazz, and gets relocated by the Federal Witness Protection Program to Saint Martin as well. Now Jimmy Pazz is after both men–the mobster, and the man who was supposed to kill him–and things in Henry’s paradise are about to get a lot more complicated. Written in Anthony Bourdain’s signature style-raucous, funny, a bit vicious, and always fun-Gone Bamboo is a feast of murder, hitmen, and the hitwomen they love.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 10, 2026 | Dark Romance |
I made one mistake…I caught the attention of the most dangerous man in Italy.Barone Cavalieri is the head of a dynasty powerful enough that even the mafia show him respect.I’m nothing. A servant at his son’s wedding. Invisible. Replaceable.Until he looks at me. One touch and the air turns electric.One command and my world tilts off its axis.One kiss and I realize men like him don’t ask…they take. He says he’s protecting me.From scandal. From enemies. From the darkness surrounding his family.But the real danger is him. The way his voice drops when he says my name.The way his hands linger like he’s already claimed me.The way his control snaps whenever another man gets too close. I should run.I should hate him.Instead, I’m trapped in the orbit of a powerful Italian dynasty built on secrets and violence. And the deeper I fall into the Cavalieri world, the more I realize—The rumors about him are true.The scandals are real.And the man who swore to protect me might be the one who ruins me. Because in the end…Barone Cavalieri always gets what he wants.And now he wants me. Scandals of the Father is a full-length dark billionaire romance featuring an age-gap romance, enemies-to-lovers tension, an obsessive and possessive hero, forced proximity, family secrets, Italian luxury, scandal, and a powerful hero who doesn’t believe in letting go. Meet Sebastian Diamanti before he takes center stage in Brutal Heir, Book One of the new Diamanti Billionaire Dynasty trilogy, beginning September 22. Sebastian makes his first appearance in Scandals of the Father as Barone Cavalieri’s close family ally—long before the ruthless Diamanti heir meets the woman who will change everything. From Zoe Blake, USA Today Bestselling author of Sweet Cruelty (Best of BookTok) and one of the original voices in dark mafia romance, who’s been writing dangerously obsessive love stories for over a decade.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 10, 2026 | Historical Romance |
He should have thrown her out. But when club owner Alexander Lavoie catches a mysterious blonde counting cards at his vingt-et-un table, he’s more intrigued than angry. He has to see more of this beauty-in his club, in his office, in his bed. But first he’ll have to devise a proposition she can’t turn down.Gossip said he was an assassin. Common sense told her to stay away. But Angelique Archer was desperate, and Lavoie’s club offered a surefire way to make quick money-until she got caught. Instead of throwing her out though, the devil offers her a deal: come work for him. Refusing him means facing starvation, but with a man so sinfully handsome and fiercely protective, keeping things professional might prove impossible . . . 2018 RITA award-winning author! “Wonderful! A charming, clever, and engaging storyteller not to be missed.” — Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author
