by Philip Eliot | Dec 23, 2025 | Science Fiction |
DAUGHTER OF THE SAHEL
Ark of Remembrance: Book 1
The future remembers everything.
But someone is deciding what gets forgotten.
Zahra Sombi is the brilliant architect behind the Ark of Remembrance—a revolutionary memory system built in the heart of Zanzara, a futuristic African city shaped by return, innovation, and imagination. The Ark was created to preserve four hundred years of Black American history—not as textbooks or timelines, but as living experience.
The Ark doesn’t archive the past.
It lets you feel it.
When the system begins to fracture, Zahra uncovers a threat far more dangerous than a technical failure. A silent digital force known as the Hush is infiltrating the Ark, rewriting memory from the inside—softening resistance, erasing truth, and leaving no trace behind.
To stop it, Zahra is forced into an alliance she never wanted.
Elijah Jamison is a brilliant cybersecurity expert with his own secrets—and a history with Zahra that burns as hot as their mistrust. He challenges her authority. She questions his motives. And yet, the closer they get to saving the Ark, the harder it becomes to deny the pull between them.
Because some enemies don’t just collide.
They ignite.
As political pressure mounts, betrayals surface, and the Ark’s intelligence begins to awaken, Zahra must decide what she’s willing to sacrifice—for legacy, for truth, and for a love that could change everything.
Because when memory becomes a battleground,
the heart may be the most dangerous weapon of all.
Daughter of the Sahel is the gripping first novel in the Ark of Remembrance trilogy—an Afrofuturist sci-fi romance about memory, power, and an enemies-to-lovers bond forged in the fight against erasure.
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by Philip Eliot | Dec 22, 2025 | Christian Fiction |
When a church lady falls in love, she falls hard. Sometimes she lands on her knees.Miss Budge does as she moves quietly and powerfully through her daily life in Old Cloverdale, where F. Scott Fitzgerald once courted Zelda, and two miles away Nat King Cole was born. Fitzgerald wrote about love. Nat Cole sang about love, and Mildred Budge knows those words. She can sing along with Nat and has. But Miss Budge lives love too—is always in love.The world wants a certain kind of love. Miss Budge offers a different kind—one that is so rare, so foreign as to be misunderstood…. But make no mistake. The love a church lady offers is real and powerful and it never stops. Never fails. That’s why church ladies seem to get younger over time. They develop superhero powers like being invisible and speaking soft words now and then that cause peace instead of pain. Church ladies never stop falling in love—not just with a handsome stranger here or there (oh, sure! they’re completely human after all), but they are also very much in love with the moments of life that encapsulate its goodness.Life is good for church ladies and that’s why they want to share the good news that love like they know exists. And it’s free for everyone. Love is real. It comes from heaven itself, and church ladies want to share that good news.That love is revealed in this first collection of short stories featuring Mildred Budge and friends. Buy it today for yourself or for any friend of yours who needs a little love and a friend like Mildred Budge.What readers say about Mildred Budge. “What our readers love about Miss Budge is that they all know her personally. In fact, they all are her in one way or another. Daphne’s stories are instantly recognizable to those in a church community, and that’s where the real humour and real pathos comes from. Daphne is a keen observer of the strange and wonderful subculture of ‘the church lady.'” Brett Alan Dewing The Christian Courier (Canada) “Mildred Budge is a forthright, almost larger than life, woman who challenges every reader’s faith walk by being transparent about her own. She reminds us that Jesus loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us as we are.” Julie Innes EvangelThere are three series featuring Mildred Budge and her friends.The primary series has four novels: Mildred Budge in Cloverdale, Mildred Budge in Embankment, The Bride’s Room, and Kingdom Come.The shorter adventures introduced Mildred Budge, and it begins with Miss Budge in Love, The Mission of Mildred Budge, and Miss Budge Goes To Fountain City.A third series highlights the lives of her friends and begins with Belle: A Mildred Budge Friendship Story followed by A Gentle and Lowly Christmas. All books are available in various formats.
by Philip Eliot | Dec 22, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
His second chance at love needs a holiday miracle.Becoming a werewolf messed up Gunner’s plans for the future. He’d pictured getting married to his high school sweetheart, popping out a few kids, and growing old and chunky, loved by his family.In reality, he went to war, got bitten, became a werewolf, and ditched his past, including his fiancée because he’s convinced he can’t have a normal life.Or so he thinks.Seeing his Lycan brothers finding their happily ever after has given him hope. Maybe if he’s willing to try, he can have a second chance.Nope.Kylie isn’t interested. As far as she’s concerned, he messed up big time and she’s moved on. Luckily for Gunner, fate intervenes, and when danger threatens, Kylie has only one person to turn to. One man she can trust.Can this lone wolf save Christmas?
by Philip Eliot | Dec 22, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
Turns out I’m a good girl who likes very bad boys.No, not boys. Monsters.I don’t think much of it when I hook up with the brooding stranger making eyes at me from across the bar—just a one-night thrill with a man who feels like danger wrapped in heat. But when I run into him again, everything changes.Because this time, he’s an accused killer.And it’s my job to put him away.As a brand-new prosecutor for a top-secret judicial system that governs the city’s supernaturals, my first case should be simple: convict the vampire who left a trail of bodies behind him. But nothing about Luke is simple. Not his past. Not the case. And definitely not the way he looks at me like I’m the only thing in his world worth saving.He swears he’s innocent.He swears the real killer is still out there.And my head knows better than to believe him.But my body remembers every wicked thing he did to me in the dark…And my heart is whispering that trusting him may be the only way to survive.Because choosing his side won’t just risk my career.It might cost me my life.“A dark, dangerous, and fascinating paranormal world that enthralled me from the very first page.” Tracy Wolff, New York Times bestselling author of the Crave series.”Intense and sexy from page one with a deliciously dark hero. You’ll devour this book!”~#1 New York Times bestselling author Helen Hardt
by Philip Eliot | Dec 22, 2025 | Romantic Suspense |
The 2025 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Winner in Holiday FictionFor years, Sergeant Matt Johnston has been taunted and blackmailed by an unknown villain. But there’s a puzzle to be solved—Matt has yet to discover what the blackmailer is really after. When musician Cara Naughton unexpectedly captures his heart, Matt decides it’s time to somehow move forward. But Cara has secrets of her own that she’s afraid to expose. Now that it’s Christmas, can they finally put the dark secrets from their pasts behind them and surrender their hearts to love?
