by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
A heart-tugging, laugh-out-loud small-town romance about second chances, family, and the love you thought you’d never find.When Grier McAllister teeters back into Timbell Creek, Virginia, in red-bottom stilettos, the last thing she expects is to fall for Bobby Jack Randall—the infuriatingly irresistible brother of her high school boyfriend. And she certainly doesn’t expect to be drawn to Bobby Jack’s hound dog Flo, or his spirited daughter Andy. But second chances have a way of arriving in the most unexpected packages.Now a successful image consultant in New York City, Grier has worked hard to bury the bad memories she left behind in Timbell Creek. Coming home was never part of her plan. But when a dream opportunity requires her to host a contest for the perfect “Jane Austen Girl,” she reluctantly agrees—determined to do her job and disappear again.But she never realized the town she wanted to forget was the one place her heart was always meant to come home to.Down a Country Road is a heartfelt, page-turning story of love rediscovered, family ties, and healing old wounds—the kind of romance that makes us believe in happily-ever-after all over again.If you love stories that make you laugh one moment and wipe away tears the next, you’ll fall for Grier and Bobby Jack’s journey home to love.Perfect for fans of Nicholas Sparks, Robyn Carr, and Kristin Hannah—grab your copy of Down a Country Road today and begin the journey back to love.
by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2026 | New Adult Romance |
Getting married to a hotshot hockey player in Vegas was definitely not part of my life plan.Callum Hendricks is my brother’s best friend and teammate.The guy I’ve secretly crushed on since forever.After one wild night in Vegas…Now I’m his wife.But here’s the kicker…Neither of us remembers saying I do.And my overprotective brother would lose it if he knew I accidentally married his best friend.What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay there.This time, it’s followed me home.The only thing more dangerous than my brother finding out about our Vegas wedding?The way Callum’s starting to look at me like maybe it wasn’t such a mistake after all…If you love swoony hockey players, forbidden crushes, and Vegas mistakes that turn into something real… meet Callum Hendricks.This steamy hockey romance includes:? accidental Vegas wedding? brother’s best friend? forced proximity? secret marriage? a cinnamon-roll hockey hero who falls first (and hard)Marrying my Brother’s Best Friend is book one in the Milwaukee Frost series: a series of interconnected standalones following a team of professional hockey players and the women who make them swoon. They do not need to be read in order, but you will gain glimpses of previous and future characters/couples in each book.
by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
“The way Jonas built up the atmosphere of menace to an all-encompassing evil is frightening and shocking. The magnitude, the scale of badness, blew me away.” —Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond.Nothing escapes. Not even time… Something is wrong in the deep woods of Oregon.Horribly, unnaturally wrong.For decades, people have vanished without a trace—tourists, locals, even law enforcement. The few bodies recovered are unrecognizable: aged decades in days. The government sealed the area with barbed wire and silence. No answers. No access.But when four strangers miss their train and stumble into the forest looking for shelter, they find more than ruins and old bones. They find what the government tried to bury.And then one of them disappears.The others want out. Now. But the forest isn’t letting them go. Something ancient lives beneath the canopy. It watches. It listens. It waits.It knows their fears. It knows their weaknesses.And it’s been hungry for a long, long time.You don’t just get lost in these woods.You get devoured.
by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2026 | Historical Romance |
Life on the Australian goldfields demands grit and determination—especially for a woman. Adelaide Greaves, widowed mother and postmistress in the isolated mining town of Maiden’s Creek, hides a dark secret behind her respectable façade. When Caleb Hunt, a battle-scarred veteran of the American Civil War, saves her young son’s life, an undeniable connection forms between these two wounded souls. But Caleb has come to Australia to escape his own dark memories. The mysterious widow and a town that needs him are the last things he is seeking. As their bond deepens, a figure from Adelaide’s past emerges to further threaten her carefully constructed world. Adelaide and Caleb must face their worst fears in the race against time and nature to protect what matters most. Can they escape their pasts and find a life together? For readers who crave a meticulously researched and vibrant tale of loss, desire, and courage that is full of the terror and the beauty of the Australian bush.
by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2026 | Thriller & Suspense |
“Chris Kelsey hits another home-run with this fast-paced and enthralling mystery starring Emmett Hardy.” –Sublime Book ReviewIt’s the late 1970s, a time when Oklahomans learn first-hand the meaning of the term serial killer…Small-town police chief Emmett Hardy sets out with a simple goal—find the family of a young woman who died years earlier at the hands of one of his officers. But when a friend helping with the search is murdered, Emmett’s task grows deadly. As he digs to find both the young woman’s family and the killer of his friend, he uncovers a twisted family saga rife with incest, abuse, and political corruption—a legacy of generational sin with roots reaching deep into the prairie soil.Torn between pursuing justice and preserving his own hide, Hardy navigates a labyrinth of lies, a compromised legal system, and his own haunted conscience. What starts out as a simple goal leads to a reckoning with the past—his own, and his state’s.Gritty, atmospheric, and laced with pitch-black humor, Somebody, Sometime is a slow-burn crime noir that peels back the layers of small-town culture to expose the rot beneath. For fans of Daniel Woodrell, Attica Locke, and James Lee Burke, this is Southern Gothic with a badge … and a bottle of bourbon.
