by Philip Eliot | Jul 12, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
Newlywed Cathy Jefferson is looking forward to a peaceful honeymoon on Long Island with her husband, Steve – until she discovers a body near their cottage.The victim is a former hotel employee who seems to have died from venomous snake bites. When the hotel manager pleads for Cathy’s help to clear his name, she reluctantly agrees, enlisting her friends Nancy and Mildred to join the investigation.As Cathy and her friends dig deeper into the case, they uncover a tangled web of suspects, from Brenda’s ex-husband to eccentric reptile rescue volunteers and hotel staff with plenty to hide.The fifth book in Debbie De Louise’s Buttercup Bend cozy mystery series, THE CASE OF THE REPTILE RESCUING RECEPTIONIST, will test Cathy’s sleuthing skills – and courage – like never before.
by Philip Eliot | Jul 12, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
“FAVORITE ROMANTIC COMEDY OF THE YEAR!” NetGalley reviewer, ?????Ed is a virgin. I didn’t know those existed – not at our age anyway. Maybe he was so drunk that he forgot all the times he’s had sex. I wish I could get that drunk.Mia and Ed have been best friends ever since they began teaching at the same school. Ed bakes cake for the staff, Mia eats the cakes. Ed can’t control his students, Mia sorts them out. Mia’s love life might be chaotic but she’s totally devoted to her super-tidy, cat-owning, geeky but not bad-looking best friend. So, when Mia discovers Ed is still a virgin at twenty-eight, she decides to take matters into her own hands and teach him the skills he needs to seduce the pretty new maths teacher, Caitlin.It’s an education that involves panic-buying sex toys and buddy-watching porn, and when Ed graduates with an A+ for effort – and begins dating the perfect-on-paper Caitlin – Mia knows her work is done.But is Caitlin as sweet as she seems? And could Mia’s feelings for Ed be stronger than she realised?A fabulously feel-good and unmissable read for fans of rom-coms by Sophie Kinsella, Mhairi McFarlane and Beth O’Leary and anyone who loved Sex Education, Teachers and When Harry Met Sally. If you’ve ever cringed at the memory of your first time, nursed a broken heart with wine and takeout, or fallen for a friend, you’ll love this hilariously funny, sexy, heartwarming story.Readers have fallen head over heels for Sex Ed:“Oh wow, I love this novel… I literally started it and was hooked, it was like watching the best comedy of my life. If you love an amazing story, a good laugh and thinking ‘I wish these were my best friends’ then give Sex Ed a go – it is a fantastic novel.” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“I LOVED this book!!” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“The funniest book I have ever read.” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“All I can say is wow! I absolutely loved it. I flew through it as it was so good I didn’t want to put it down. Absolutely hilarious. Highly recommended with a massive 5 stars from me.” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“My favourite rom-com of the year so far. Highly, highly recommended.” Kitty Wilson, author, ?????“Hot, sexy, and kept me wanting more!” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“A great big yes, yes, YES! Thoroughly entertaining, wonderfully uninhibited and just such fun. I grinned so often, my husband asked me what I was reading, and genuinely didn’t want to have to stop reading to go to sleep.” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“Had me howling with laughter.” Bookseller review,“I absolutely loved this book!! So freaking hilarious… I was laughing literally every other page… If you love good banter, British humour, friends turned lovers, and an absolutely fun cast of side characters please pick up Sex Ed!!” MK’s Book Nook, ?????“Words cannot begin to describe how much I enjoyed this story… I was so beyond invested that I never wanted to put it down. It was hilarious, real and raw.” The Optimistic Book Nook, ?????“A riotously funny and chaotic read… with so much heart and warmth.” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“The perfect spicy romcom to kick off summer!” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“This was a wonderful, feel-good, hilarious rom-com and definitely left me with a huge smile on my face – I loved it!!” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“What a hysterically fun book. I was hooked from the first page and looked forward to reading it every night.” NetGalley reviewer, ?????“This was one of the funniest books I have ever read! Read it, you won’t be sorry!” NetGalley reviewer, ?????
by Philip Eliot | Jul 12, 2025 | Children & Middle Grade |
“What could a far-away galaxy possibly have to do with a middle-school genealogy assignment? Astara is about to find out. Fast-paced, full of surprises . . . and the excitement keeps building right up to the very end!” –Pamela Taylor, best-selling author of the Second Son ChroniclesOn planet Delphi, a secret government experiment leads to babies born with supernatural powers. As they grow older, their powers and abilities become stronger. Government leaders, fearing their secret will be discovered soon, decide to take the children away from their parents. But five rogue families flee Delphi taking their children to begin a new life on Earth in 1947.Pursued by Delphi authorities, the families escape their doomed starship in a life pod. While U.S. military and federal agents search crash sites near Roswell, New Mexico, the alien families are rescued by a rancher and his two grandchildren. As federal authorities close in, volunteers for SIEL (Search for Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life) disguise the aliens as humans giving them new Earth names, identities, and lives.Seventy-five years later, an alien granddaughter, Astara Spurlock, researches her family roots for a class project. Finding her search stymied, Astara emails the Federal Witness Protection Program for help. Then her unusual DNA test results send shock waves from Earth to the planet Delphi, placing the Spurlock family in grave danger. Will anyone be able to save the aliens Spurlock?
by Philip Eliot | Jul 12, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
A modern urban romantasy full of dangerous charm, dark secrets, and a love story that bites. Set in the streets of New Orleans and then in faedom, this is a fast-paced paranormal story featuring vampires but includes witches, shifters and fae. If you loved True Blood & Twilight, this is for you.
Ava Winters is officially over dating. After one too many disasters, she’s ready to delete the apps & adopt a cat. But then Julian Deveraux appears. He’s perfect. Gorgeous. Charming. Protective. There’s just one small problem—he drinks blood. And she doesn’t know it. Yet.
by Philip Eliot | Jul 12, 2025 | Historical Fiction |
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun.
Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s.
Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions.
Eva’s story reveals that she never joined the Nazi party, had Jewish friends, and was credited at the Nuremberg Trials with saving 35,000 Allied lives. As Anna’s journey leads back through the treacherous years in wartime Germany, it uncovers long-buried secrets and unknown reaches of her heart to reveal the enduring power of love in the legacies that always outlast war.
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