by Philip Eliot | Aug 25, 2025 | Children & Middle Grade |
Her biggest hero may be Neverland’s greatest villain. Stuck at an exclusive boarding school year round, Andromeda “Rommy” Cavendish counts down the days to her seafaring father’s twice-yearly visits. Every year, she hopes this will be the summer her father takes her with him on his travels. But he always says she is too young, and it’s too dangerous. But this summer is going to be different. As the newest and youngest member of her school’s fencing team, danger is her new best friend. There’s no way her father can say no. But he never shows up for his visit. Worried that something awful has happened, Rommy dresses as a boy and sneaks out of her school. Traveling through nineteenth-century London, she discovers more questions than answers. To find her father she’ll have to go to the magical island of Neverland where heroes are villains, and her father might be the baddest villain of them all. If you enjoy Once Upon a Time’s fairytale twists, swashbuckling adventures, and spunky heroines, you’ll love Hook’s Daughter: The Untold Tale of a Pirate Princess, first in the middle-grade fantasy adventure trilogy The Pirate Princess Chronicles. Join the adventure! Pick up Hook’s Daughter today!!
by Philip Eliot | Aug 25, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
When Trey Blanton left Westin McCoy, the cowboy life, and his family’s Colorado ranch forever, he just knew he was moving on to bigger and better things.It sucked to be wrong.When Trey comes back to the ranch, he brings a ton of baggage back with him. His grandparents are both gone, he’s losing his sight, and his best friend and housekeeper has passed from cancer, leaving him with her two kids. To make things worse, he can’t keep a ranch foreman, and he desperately needs someone to run all the things he can’t.What he doesn’t need is his ex to muddy up the waters.Cowboy Westin McCoy leaps at the chance to work as Trey’s ranch foreman when a mutual friend offers him the job. Trey is the one he let get away thanks to his own insecurity, and West finally feels like he might have something to offer Trey, something that he can do to help. He figures he’s all Trey’s, hat to boots.Together they wrangle old hurt, new hope, and all the things a busy ranch and two growing kids toss at them. Can they get over the hurdle of the past and work through all of the new difficulties to find common ground, or is history doomed to repeat itself?
by Philip Eliot | Aug 25, 2025 | Literary |
It started the day she heard Daddy slur, “She ain’t mine. You had the nerve to name her Dawn. Look at her! You shudda named her Midnight!” Then Daddy left . . . for good. And the loving music that had filled Dawn’s life went silent.That was the day that a “Midnight” Duckling appeared in the mirror, took up residence in her chest, and controlled her ability to breathe. That was the day she learned to recognize “leaving time” . . . her superpower.Couched in speculation, Jus Breathe is the tale of a young Black woman’s struggle to defy her inner “Duckling” and embrace her true self. Set in New York City during the turbulent sixties, it’s an improbable love story with precarious impulses, secret pasts, and inner demons.Dawn, a survivor, flees her stepfather’s violent home. While struggling to go to college, she perfects sofa-surfing and hones her ability to leave situations in an instant. But in the mist of the chaotic uprising that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, serendipity spins Dawn into Danny’s world.Toxically in love, no longer a “leaver,” Dawn realizes that in order to survive, she must break free of Danny’s dominance. But that Duckling, who’s allied with Danny, threatens to squeeze the life-breath from her if she dares to leave . . . that ugly, midnight-black Duckling, she has to kill.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 25, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
The monster killing business isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.We all have a monster within… understatement of the year. For 24-year-old Randi Matheson, she quite literally does. On every full moon, it rears its hairy head. She wasn’t always like this. Ever since her attack, the animal comes out to play. And on one full moon, the beast inside tries to eat her younger brother.Division X, a paramilitary group hellbent on the eradication of monsters, intervenes and saves Randi’s brother from being devoured. They take Randi far away and imprison her in a place no monster can escape. Held captive, Randi is given an ultimatum. Work for Division X as a new weapon in the fight against evil or be dissected. Without a real choice, she chooses the former and experiences the dark underbelly of reality as she faces off against vampires, demons, and redneck serial killers. Promised a cure to her condition along the way, Randi does her best to stay alive.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 25, 2025 | Fantasy |
DISCOVER THE FIRST BOOK IN THE THRILLING SPARKS SERIES What would you risk for a new life?This is the unforgettable story of a misfit and her dragon.It’s not easy being different, and no one knows that better than Aimee Wood. Born with patches of colourless, pigment-free skin she’s been an outcast all her life. Now with her only refuge stripped away she’s desperate. Maybe even desperate enough to risk the little she has left.The mountains surrounding the city of Kierell are home to the Sky Riders—a select cadre of female warriors who, with their bonded dragons, protect the city. The price of admission is to survive the deadly climb from Kierell. But that’s only the beginning.Aimee could forge a new life with the Sky Riders, but even fabled warriors have prejudices, and starting over isn’t easy.If Aimee can become a Sky Rider she might just be able to find a place to belong, even if that place is on the front line. With Kierell facing increasing peril, and Aimee’s future in the balance, she’ll need to rise above a lifetime of abuse and accept herself, or it could all be for nothing. STEP INTO A WORLD OF DRAGONS AND LEGENDS, WITH A GIRL LIKE NO OTHER.”This book will take you on a magical ride full of adventure and it’s an absolute must read if you love dragons and strong female characters!” — Rochelle, novelsanddaydreams“If you’re looking for a book filled with adventure, warriors, strong female characters and fantasy, you need to start this series today!” — all_books_great_and_small”The Sky Riders is a wonderful book which captured my heart.” – Lynsey, booksbybindu
