by Philip Eliot | Aug 14, 2025 | Historical Romance |
Butterflies bring them together but will love capture her heart?Georgiana Linfield is a lady biologist who is determined to travel the world. Upon arriving in London for the Season, she decides the best way to fulfil her dreams is to find an amenable husband to indulge her every whim. Refusing to give up her interest in natural history for a dull domestic life, she sets out to forge a different path for herself.When her father’s elderly cousin asks her to set his natural history collection in order, she accepts his request with joy. However, the task brings her into almost daily contact with his godson, Sir Giles Tavistock, a renowned entomologist, who regards her with some suspicion. When Sir Giles discovers her skills as a scientific illustrator, he asks her to sketch his South American butterfly collection, and they forge an uneasy truce.Their tenuous connection is shattered, however, when Sir Giles believes a rumour casting Georgiana in a far from flattering light. Vowing to have nothing more to do with him, she keeps him at a distance. But when the baronet’s butterflies attract unwanted attention, a series of events unravel that make Georgiana wonder if the famous collector might have done the impossible and captured her heart.*Please note that The Baronet’s Lady Biologist is a sweet and clean traditional Regency romance.Alissa Baxter’s Regency Series:The Linfield Ladies Series (in Kindle Unlimited)The Earl’s Lady GeologistThe Viscount’s Lady NovelistThe Baronet’s Lady BiologistThe Grantham Girls Series (in Kindle Unlimited)The Duke and the Lady GardenerThe Baron and the Lady ChemistThe Lord and the Lady Astronomer
by Philip Eliot | Aug 14, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
That One Regret is a standalone small town age gap romance.He was her unforgettable one-night stand. She’s the one woman he can’t have.Grace never meant for the dare to go this far.Flirt with the hot stranger at the hotel bar? Easy. Spend the night tangled in his arms? Even easier. Walk away without a backward glance? Impossible.But when morning brings a devastating revelation, Grace has no choice but to leave Michael Devlin behind—without a goodbye.She thought she’d never see him again. She was wrong.A year later, Michael is in her small town, and he’s even more maddeningly irresistible.Older, guarded, and carrying secrets of his own, he makes it clear he’s not staying. But avoiding him in a town like this? Not an option.Every accidental touch, every heated glance, every stolen moment makes it harder to remember all the reasons he’s off-limits.Michael knows he should keep his distance. Grace deserves more than he can give her. But every time she looks at him like he hung the moon his resolve shatters.The temptation is too sweet. The risk too dangerous. Because when their secret comes out, it could destroy everything.Until her, he thought he could live without love.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 14, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
Welcome to Ramsey, New York – a small town full of characters. Some are looking for love, some most definitely are not. Sooner or later, everyone finds his or her happily ever after.
Camille Quinn has had her heart broken twice and she isn’t interested in finding love again. She’s busy raising her two children, Brandon and Molly. When Maxwell Steward, the first man who broke her heart, thirty years earlier, comes back to Ramsey, all she wants to do is avoid him.
When Brandon manages to crash into Maxwell’s expensive sports car during a driving lesson, avoiding the man becomes impossible. The Ramsey Summer Fair throws Camille and Maxwell together and brings back memories for Camille. Maxwell seems more than happy to rekindle their friendship, seemingly not realizing how badly he hurt her in the past.
Camille isn’t interested in being friends with her former boyfriend. She’s much more concerned with guarding her heart.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 14, 2025 | Mystery |
For one unfortunate British politician, murder is the worst medicine: “An ingenious, logical, and sparkling tale.” —The New York Times For Member of Parliament Sir Derek O’Callaghan, a simple visit to the hospital proves fatal. But as Inspector Alleyn will discover, any number of people had reason to help the gentleman to his just reward, including a sour surgeon, a besotted nurse, a resentful wife, and a cabinet full of political rivals, in this classic of detection by the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. “A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine
by Philip Eliot | Aug 14, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
A SERIAL KILLER WITH A BURNING DESIREIn the country town of Tallmans Valley, an arsonist is burning homes down. Their signature move is placing an identical model of the house on the front porch before setting the fire. But no one is there to witness this in the silence of each dark winter night.A happy couple is out celebrating their anniversary when they receive a chilling phone call – a recorded children’s verse warning them their house is on fire and their children gone. They race home to an inferno and missing children.Detective Jace Franco is first on the scene and is confronted by scenes that will haunt him. The couple were good friends of his. And there’s something else – a model house near the front door. He sighted exactly the same thing thirteen years ago, at a fire that claimed the lives of a whole family.Franco becomes certain a twisted killer is at work. But with the fire officially deemed a tragic accident, his team is not convinced.There is just one other person who saw what Franco did thirteen years ago – Franco’s former homicide partner, Kate Wakeland. Can he tempt her away from her new role with the federal police for this one case?Or will the arsonist continue to destroy the evidence with each of their deadly blazes?
