by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2025 | Womens Fiction |
Life is hard, but friends make it better.Jackie Turner has never felt so invisible. As a top performer, the forty-eight-year-old is shocked when she’s passed over for a promotion at work. Has she become irrelevant? It’s a bitter pill, but she vows to keep her disappointment to herself as she travels back home to Minnesota for her thirty-year high school reunion. She deserves this unspoiled time to reconnect with her oldest and dearest friends.Their special friendship kicked off at summer camp when five young girls bonded over butterflies, a troubling accusation, and a simple craft project. They dubbed themselves the Kaleidoscope Girls, and not even their turbulent high school years could tear them apart.They promised to stay close, but life can thwart even the best of intentions.Decades later, Jackie realizes she needs her lifelong friends now more than ever. Who better to turn to for advice on navigating the highs and lows of midlife? Her career feels stale, her nest is empty, and her father is fighting a battle he can’t win. She needs a fresh start, and together with the rest of the Kaleidoscope Girls, Jackie will hit the road and experience what it feels like to have fun again.Experience the magic of female friendships in Better with Friends, the first book in The Kaleidoscope Girls women’s fiction series. Let Kimberly Diede, best-selling author of the popular Celia’s Gifts Whispering Pines series, give you a glimpse into the early years and bring you along as the next chapters unfold for these five amazing women. Their future journeys will be even richer, thanks to old friends.Let the Kaleidoscope Girls remind you that the best is yet to come. Scroll up to purchase your copy today.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
I always dreamed of finding my place in the world, but I never imagined it would be beside a dragon…Landing a job at The Dragonne Library, a haven for magical books, should have been a dream come true. Instead, an accidental bonding with a powerful dragon throws me headfirst into a world of danger and desire.There’s the loyal gargoyle shifter with his quiet strength. The arrogant fae with a chip on his shoulder. The tormented professor hiding a broken heart. And the shadowfae who seems to know my every secret.They’re everything I never knew I craved, and their touch ignites a fire within me. But my sudden bond with my dragon has drawn unwanted attention. Now, ancient forces are gathering, determined to destroy us all.And as the lines between loyalty and love blur, I must learn to choose my allies wisely, because in this world, falling for the wrong person could be my undoing…If you like books by Tessa Hale or Alex Lidell, then prepare to fall for Tempest Awakening, a paranormal romance series with a bookish heroine, multiple hot and powerful heroes, and a magical adventure that will leave you wanting more.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
The first three novels in the apocalyptic, romantic, science fantasy series, SEER WARS. River Cleopatra Jones, Hollywood stuntwoman and psychic, gets pulled into an intergalactic and inter-dimensional war between light and dark, good and evil, thanks to highly-trained seer, Valek––a pirate, soldier, prince, and warrior on one side of the war, and River’s intractable kidnapper, sometimes protector, and mostly infuriating enemy.Enemies to lovers. Forced proximity. Fated mates from past lives. Inter-dimensional portals and multiple worlds. Dark romance. Betrayal, lots of plot twists and turns. Space opera partly set on a world very much like ours.**Note: this series was originally written as a serial and therefore has a lot of the structural quirks of a serial in terms of cliffhangers and longer arcs. Individual parts end in cliffhangers. Season 02 is currently being written and will be released as a collection upon completion.Includes the following books:SEER WARS SEASON ONE: A New Earth (Part I)SEER WARS SEASON ONE: A New Earth (Part II)SEER WARS SEASON ONE: A New Earth (Part III)*Description of PART ONE:“Back up. Down the ladder, sister.”Her hands gripped the holes in the wall. “Am I a prisoner?”Surprise flickered over his face, a bare ripple. River got the sense the surprise was real.She also got the feeling people didn’t question him much.River Cleopatra Jones just finished a movie shoot as a stuntwoman in Hollywood, when she’s abducted by surly, uncommunicative space pirate, Valek Targen. After scaring her, blowing a hole through the middle of her ex-boyfriend, and unceremoniously knocking her out, he informs River that her “real” family hired him to bring her back home.River’s maybe not as surprised by the news as she should be. Plagued by strange dreams and psychic since childhood, she suffered through foster homes and adoption before finally being rescued by her friend, Malcolm, who trained her as a stuntwoman, and put her to work.Now, as River struggles to adjust to an alien, overtly hostile and, at times, disturbingly familiar-feeling world, she fights constantly with her even more hostile and intractable guardian and captor, Valek, who harbors dark secrets of his own.*SEER WARS is an epic, romantic, gritty science fantasy series that started off as a serial and now is being released as a series of novels. Abandoned in Los Angeles as a weapon for a future inter-dimensional war, River Cleopatra Jones never knew her true identity until she got abducted by seer, ex-soldier, and pirate, Valek Targen. But Valek has his own dark secrets, and a much deeper connection to River and her purpose than either of them know. Apocalyptic science fiction, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, slow-burn science fantasy with romance for people who like complex, character-driven sci-fi with a strong romantic subplot.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2025 | Romantic Suspense |
Where winemaking, lovemaking, and mischief-making abound.In California’s wine country, the Butler family has built their empire on sacred ground—but some secrets are buried deeper than the vines. When former CIA operative Kade Butler dies serving his country, his death sends shockwaves through his brothers and the woman who loved him, leaving them to navigate forbidden attractions, deadly family feuds, and enemies who will stop at nothing to claim their ancestral land.Set against the intoxicating backdrop of Paso Robles vineyards, the Butler Ranch series weaves together military honor, passionate romance, and dangerous secrets in a saga where every heart must choose between duty and desire. When the past refuses to stay buried and love becomes both their greatest weakness and only salvation, the Butler family will discover that some bonds are stronger than blood.Books included: Brodie’s Promise, Maddox’s Truce, Naughton’s Secret, Mercer’s Vow, and Kade’s Return.While each title in this series is a standalone featuring one couple with their own HEA, the books in the series will be more enjoyable read in order.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 30, 2025 | Erotic Romance |
When Rourke Donahue gatecrashes a secret masquerade ball where the rich and powerful unleash their most forbidden desires, a harmless prank turns into a dangerous game with a mafia warlord. I just landed the job of my dreams. Assistant to reclusive billionaire Roman Menshikov. He’s as handsome and ruthless as they come. Powerful men cower in his presence. Beautiful women fall at his feet.Not me.I think he’s arrogant, infuriating, and annoying, and he hates me just as much. He has me running pointless errands, arranging dates with a pop star, and wishing I was the one in his bed screaming his name instead of her. From the sound of things, he knows how to get a girl where she’s going.Anyway. What were we talking about?Oh. Right. My jerk of a boss.Talk about misery! My days are spent tiptoeing around Roman’s ego, while my nights are spent fantasizing about how he looks in the shower. If I weren’t homeless and broke, I’d tell him to shove this job up his bite-worthy bottom.To make matters worse, the more I’m around Roman, the more I’m convinced we’ve met before.At the secret masquerade.Where names and faces were forbidden.In one of the private party rooms.Behind the anonymity of our masks, we did dirty, delicious things to each other. I fantasize about doing them again, but I can’t afford to lose this job.What will happen when he realizes the woman at the masquerade is me?THIS GRITTY AND DARK ROMANCE COMES from USA Today bestselling author Jeana E. Mann. Trilogy complete and ready to binge.
