by Philip Eliot | Aug 28, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
A fake engagement. A charming Irish pub. And one last shot at saving what matters most.When gift shop owner Niamh Kelly’s business teeters on the edge, she needs a miracle. Grumpy pub owner Darragh O’Sullivan needs a quick way to impress a bank loan officer. Their solution? A fake engagement that might just solve both their problems—and spark something very real in the process.As it turns out, everything. Thanks to the town’s biggest gossip, their “engagement” becomes the talk of Dooncarra. Suddenly, they’re stuck with cake tastings, dance lessons, and a nosy town committee planning a wedding they didn’t want. But somewhere between the fake kisses and forced smiles, sparks start to fly—and neither of them knows what to do about it.When the lines between real and pretend blur, Niamh and Darragh have to decide: is love worth the risk, or should they call it quits before someone gets hurt? The Pub Owner’s Proposal is a warm, funny, small-town romance about unexpected love and second chances.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 28, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
A handsome widower. A woman who doesn’t trust second chances. What will it take to open their hearts to love? Porter Matthews knows grief. He’s worked hard to rebuild his heart after becoming a widower eight years ago. Finding true love once in a lifetime is rare. Finding it twice? That would be a miracle. When a feisty woman catches him trespassing on her llama ranch, she doesn’t appreciate his help. He was trying to free the llama from a thicket, but will the llama’s beautiful owner be the one to free his heart?After being let down in the past, Emily Hutchings is determined to achieve her dreams on her own. She’s working hard to open a llama therapy center, but the handsome cowboy up the road is becoming a major distraction. With looming deadlines, does she have time in her life to trust a new man?When Porter doesn’t show up for their first date, Emily decides she didn’t need the distraction anyway. Too bad her heart has other plans.A Llama for the Cowboy is the first book in the Elk Mountain Ranch series. This family saga will make you swoon with handsome cowboys, healing hearts and happy endings.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 28, 2025 | Action & Adventure |
The unthinkable happens in the skies over Florida, when someone hijacks the CIA Director’s flight as he returns from his daughter’s wedding.WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Winter 2020 – Best Spy ThrillerFINALIST: Eric Hoffer – First Horizon Award – 2020HONORABLE MENTION: Readers’ Favorite Book Awards 2020 – Fiction-Thriller-Espionage~~~Michelle Reagan—code name Eden—and an elite team of US Navy SEALs are sent halfway around the world to rescue him. Their high-risk mission to rescue the director and his wife becomes a full-scale assault on a heavily fortified military base. If rescue becomes impossible, Eden will have to carry out the CIA’s best-kept secret: Directive One.K.C. Finn of Readers’ Favorite Book Reviews says in a 5-star review: “Author Scott Shinberg presents an excellent addition to the action and military genres along the lines of those who enjoy Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, and Andy McNab, but with a distinct twist in the central figure of a powerful and capable heroine. Michelle Reagan is a powerhouse of a woman who still retains a truly feminine narrative quality, without pandering to any particular trope of the genre. With this core strength, the novel takes shape in both the plot and the atmosphere around her. The elite soldiers and operatives of the team are well-drawn characters with realistic behavior and dialogue, which adds to the heart-in-mouth feel of the action, as though we are rooting for real people when we read about them. When this is coupled with the tense descriptive power of the action scenes, it results in a well-paced thriller not to be missed. Overall, Directive One is a highly recommended read for thriller and spy novel fans everywhere.”EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS a non-stop thrill ride with action galore, insights into covert action tradecraft, and descriptions of exotic locales around the globe so detailed you can smell them. Directive One is perfect for fans of Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Dean Koontz, Brad Meltzer, and Len Deighton.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 28, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
A “darkly comic, gritty look at life on the streets” from the former LAPD detective and multiple New York Times bestseller (Publishers Weekly). In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world’s busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed, as their love develops among the myriad cops and criminals who occupy the harbor. Suspense and tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor, with the unflinching eye for detail and spot-on humor that only a master of the form like Joseph Wambaugh can provide. Their paths will cross with many colorful characters introduced in Wambaugh’s acclaimed bestselling Hollywood Station series: the surfer cops known as “Flotsam and Jetsam”, aspiring actor “Hollywood Nate” Weiss, young Britney Small, along with new members of the midwatch. Humor, love, suspense and tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor, with the unflinching eye for detail and spot-on humor that only a master of the form like Joseph Wambaugh can provide.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 28, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
From internationally bestselling author JULIE JOHNSON… a bewitching new standalone romantic comedy set in magical Salem, Massachusetts!GWENDOLYN GOODE LIVES A CHARMED LIFE. As owner of an occult shop in downtown Salem, Massachusetts she’s accustomed to all things odd and otherworldly. But when a bloody animal sacrifice is left as a warning outside her place of business, the police seem to think Gwen might be the target of some truly evil-doers. Suddenly, her sunny existence is riddled with danger in the form of crazed pagans, rogue employees, and nefarious henchmen. And there’s only one man who can protect her until the storm passes…GRAHAM GRAVES HAS NO TIME FOR WITCHY NONSENSE.Not in his love life, and definitely not in his line of work. Despite the ever-present oddities of his hometown, the private investigator and acclaimed police consultant prides himself on staying objective in every case that comes across his desk. That all changes when Gwendolyn — a woman who gets under his skin like no other — finds herself in the crosshairs of dangerous criminals. Graham is determined to make her safe, even if her presence tests his steely resolve. But as their mutual dislike sizzles into unexpected attraction… he becomes even more determined to make her something else:HIS.BAD LUCK CHARM is a total standalone romance of 450+ pages, featuring cameos from a fortune-telling parrot, a modern day pirate, and a coven of well-meaning octogenarians. With characters that leap off the page and plenty of spooky twists and turns to keep you guessing, fans of Johnson’s previous Boston Love Story series in particular will adore this blend of heat, humor, and suspense.
