by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2026 | Teen & Young Adult |
The hardest thing to build is the courage to begin.
When the plant where his father has worked for eleven years announces an AI-powered automation rollout, Luke Lawson knows what it means for his town. He finds the American AI Challenge, a national competition with a fifty-thousand-dollar grant and a way to build something that matters. When he mentions it at dinner, his father sets down his fork and forbids it, quietly and completely, because no son of his will help build the thing coming for this town.
Luke enters anyway. With Lucy and four other friends, salvaged hardware, and a gutted repair shop on Mercer Street, he builds a machine learning system called Listener, trained to hear a machine failing weeks before the company’s own diagnostics will. What begins as a competition entry becomes a way to give a voice back to the workers no one is listening to.
Discord is a story about building something in a place that is being unmade, and about learning to listen.
Perfect for fans who loved the heart of Spare Parts — the true story of the underdogs who beat MIT.
YA contemporary fiction, coming-of-age stories, underdog competition novels, tech and STEM fiction for teens, small-town drama, father-son relationship stories, and books about artificial intelligence written for a general audience.
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by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2026 | Science & Natural World |
The hardest thing to build is the courage to begin.
When the plant where his father has worked for eleven years announces an AI-powered automation rollout, Luke Lawson knows what it means for his town. He finds the American AI Challenge, a national competition with a fifty-thousand-dollar grant and a way to build something that matters. When he mentions it at dinner, his father sets down his fork and forbids it, quietly and completely, because no son of his will help build the thing coming for this town.
Luke enters anyway. With Lucy and four other friends, salvaged hardware, and a gutted repair shop on Mercer Street, he builds a machine learning system called Listener, trained to hear a machine failing weeks before the company’s own diagnostics will. What begins as a competition entry becomes a way to give a voice back to the workers no one is listening to.
Discord is a story about building something in a place that is being unmade, and about learning to listen.
Perfect for fans who loved the heart of Spare Parts — the true story of the underdogs who beat MIT.
YA contemporary fiction, coming-of-age stories, underdog competition novels, tech and STEM fiction for teens, small-town drama, father-son relationship stories, and books about artificial intelligence written for a general audience.
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by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2026 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
She’s trapped with a monster… until a more dangerous one claims her.
Michelle hides bruises behind a perfect smile, praying her abusive boyfriend won’t go too far—until one brutal night changes everything. When her powerful boss, Kelan, steps in, he doesn’t just save her… he reveals a terrifying secret.
Kelan isn’t human.
He’s a dragon warrior from another world, sent to Earth on a mission that could decide the fate of two planets. Protecting
Michelle wasn’t part of the plan—but now she’s his.
And he’ll burn the world before he lets anyone hurt her again.
Each book in this series is a standalone romance, but for the best experience, it’s recommended to read them in order.
Warning: Adults Only
by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2026 | Science Fiction |
She’s trapped with a monster… until a more dangerous one claims her.
Michelle hides bruises behind a perfect smile, praying her abusive boyfriend won’t go too far—until one brutal night changes everything. When her powerful boss, Kelan, steps in, he doesn’t just save her… he reveals a terrifying secret.
Kelan isn’t human.
He’s a dragon warrior from another world, sent to Earth on a mission that could decide the fate of two planets. Protecting
Michelle wasn’t part of the plan—but now she’s his.
And he’ll burn the world before he lets anyone hurt her again.
Each book in this series is a standalone romance, but for the best experience, it’s recommended to read them in order.
Warning: Adults Only
by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
Wesley Aames shows up to New Covenant as a man who has already lost everything—wife, daughter, and the will to keep going. Hired to revive a sleepy Appalachian church, he finds a congregation on life support: dwindling funds, fractious trustees, and a choir director who distrusts the new pastor from day one.
When a teenager dies by suicide and her mother’s humiliation explodes online, Rosa Lee becomes a magnet for cameras and contempt. Wesley, barely a pastor and twice a stranger to mercy, steps into the storm—counseling teens, calming old ladies, cutting the grass, answering crisis hotline calls—trying to make faith look like rescue instead of rhetoric.
As the church’s finances and patience run out, a vote looms: keep the earnest, flawed pastor or replace him with steadier hands. But when the outside world shows up with microphones and accusations. Wesley’s choices become literal life or death. Can a man who still blames himself for his family’s deaths save strangers—and in doing so, finally forgive himself? This is a story about grief, messy grace, and the small acts that sometimes hold a town together.
