by Philip Eliot | Aug 30, 2025 | New Adult Romance |
Dear Sir/Madam,I would like to nominate my jerkface of a boss, Kingston Chase for the worst boss of the year award. I don’t know if that’s a category at your esteemed paper as yet, but if not, it should be.Yours Sincerely,Skye ReddingSkye,You do realize you sent this to me, your boss, right?Not Amused,Kingston ChaseKingston,Maybe if you cracked a smile some days, you wouldn’t be the monster that you are.SkyeP.S. And of course I realized. I was just giving you a heads up before I actually submit something.Skye,Just so you know, you never have to let me know before you want to give me head…a heads up.KingstonThis was the email exchange after one week at my new job. Not even I could have predicted where this was going. I had no idea just how much Kingston Chase would change my life.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 30, 2025 | New Adult Romance |
My brother’s best friend might be a cocky wide receiver with an ego the size of Texas, but I swear I did not mean to almost kill him with a ghost pepper.Logan Murphy should come with a warning.He’s as hot as a Carolina Reaper on black asphalt in the middle of July.With perfectly messy dark hair and smoldering blue eyes—and don’t even get me started on the way that black tee stretches across his toned chest…He’s my brother’s best friend.He’s also a football star on track to win the first wide-receiver MVP in league history.Good thing I only date golfers… or I did.Good thing he’s only visiting for a month, because the more I see he’s not a player, the harder it is to block him from running away with my heart.I’ve always loved football, but after eight years pro, everything about it leaves me cold.So when I agree to head south with my best friend, the last thing I expect is to have my face melted off by his pepper-loving little sister.Dylan Bradford was supposed to be a kid, not a feisty pinup who looks at me like she’s never seen a man before.She’s all curves and cutoffs, bare feet dancing in the warm summer night,But I’m only in town a month, and she doesn’t date football players.Then late-night talks turn to sharing past hurts and future dreams, and shy looks turn to confident kisses.The heat between us can’t be denied. It’s spicy and sweet, and it melts us together.Until the way we touch becomes more than friendly—it’s forever.(THE WAY WE TOUCH is a small-town, brother’s best friend, sports romance with hilarious “accidents,” and a dirty-talking hero. No cheating. No cliffhanger. No third-act breakup.)
by Philip Eliot | Aug 30, 2025 | Historical Romance |
Once Upon a Time . . .Beauty Became the Bounty HunterCathleen Chase was an unassuming farmer’s wife until her husband was gunned down in front of her. Desperate for revenge, she offered con artist Alexi Romanov anything if he would school her in the art of the dodge.Alexi didn’t realize he’d turned Cathleen Chase into Cat O’Banyon, a ruthless bounty hunter who would stop at nothing to catch the man who murdered her husband, until she was gone. That she took the heart he didn’t know he had along with her surprised him even more.Now Cat has a bounty on her head. Hunted by every gunslinger from Abilene to St. Louis to Denver, she won’t last long without an ally. With little choice, she turns to Alexi for help. But, again, he has his price. Again, she will pay any cost.To survive, they must trust each other, but in a relationship forged from deception and lust, is trust even possible?And if they can’t learn to trust, can they ever learn to love?
by Philip Eliot | Aug 30, 2025 | Historical Romance |
A ruthless battle between 19th century London’s most decadent, sinful, gaming hells, is about to explode into all-out war.”Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.”A merciless gaming hell ownerBorn on the streets, Lachlan Latimer is neither a stranger to ruthlessness nor short on hatred for London’s wealthy elite. When he’d been young and desperate, he struck an alliance with three dukes. He even called them brothers. Now, rich, jaded, and life-hardened, he’s since learned his lesson. Unfortunately for his betrayers, Latimer’s gone rogue.A lady with a planBorn of questionable parentage, Miss Livian Lovelace straddles two worlds, but doesn’t truly belong to either. As a headstrong, unmarried, woman, it’s never been clearer just how much of an outcast she actually is. Too proud to spend the rest of her days reliant on the good-will of her family, Livian takes matters into her own hands.When a chance meeting brings Lachlan and Livian together, passions fly. After one scorching night spent in the arms of the enigmatic, gaming hell, proprietor, Livian’s carefully laid plans go up in smoke. From the ashes, springs dreams of a future with the prideful, Lachlan Latimer.The only problem? Livian’s falling for a man too mired in a dark past to offer her anything more than his hot embraces.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 30, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
Welcome to Starkford, where the cocktails are strong and the chemistry’s even stronger.After catching her husband on tape with another woman, Dawson Everly ditches Nashville, and him, for Starkford, Mississippi. She’s ready to rebuild. New town, new job, zero complications. But that plan goes straight to hell when she meets Patrick Butler: smoldering bartender, high-key womanizer, and, oh yeah… her landlord.Patrick Butler has rules: no strings, no drama, no strings again. So of course, the sharp-tongued literature professor living in his guesthouse checks every box he should avoid. She’s off-limits. She’s off-kilter. And she might be the one woman who makes him want more than meaningless hookups and whiskey.She’s brilliant and guarded. He’s broody and bad news. And when the heat between them starts to simmer, denying it might be the biggest pour choice of all.Pour Choices is a laugh-out-loud, spicy small-town romance with a fierce heroine learning to begin again, a bartender who turns emotional unavailability into an art form, and enough twists to leave your heart shaken, not stirred.____________________________________________________Praise for Pour Choices:????? Wonderfully sexy read! I look forward to more from this exciting new author!! POUR It On!!????? Witty, funny, tongue-in-cheek, highly entertaining modern sexy romance… strongly recommended to readers who like lots of steam with their double entendres.????? Like having a girls’ night with your favorite smart-ass best friend! Highly recommended!????? One delicious surprise after the next… Characters so relatable you feel like you could actually know them????? I laughed, cried, and was just consumed by the characters and the plot!????? If you like Mary Kay Andrews you’ll love PJ DeVere! It’s all Southern authentic… loved the story!????? DELICIOUSLY ADDICTIVE!!!!????? laugh-out-loud… with a dash of real, rough emotions that are true to life????? Her characters are served up Southern style. Familiar as Sunday dinner and just as satisfying.????? Patrick !!! Eeekkk I just want to have a Patrick for myself !!!
