by Philip Eliot | Jun 26, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
Army veteran Jake Black has a new lease on life, thanks to his service dog Felix and the dog’s trainer, Marcia Banks. Despite a traumatic brain injury, Jake’s able to ride his beloved motorcycle again, with Felix in the sidecar. But his freedom to hit the open road is threatened once more when he and his wife are arrested for robbery.Called in to dog-sit, Marcia can’t sit idly by. She and her mentor dog, Buddy, set out to clear the Blacks’ name, fighting misconceptions about bikers and the nature of TBI along the way.When murder is added to the mix, Marcia redoubles her efforts, despite anonymous threats and her sheriff boyfriend’s strenuous objections, both to her putting herself at risk… and to dragging him along on her wild ride.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 26, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
** From the Queen of Feel-Good Crime **INTRODUCING THE SLEUTHS OF LAST RESORT: Five crime buffs are brought together to solve an Impossible Mystery. There are millions at stake and just two weeks to do it… Police say the case is open-and-shut. The heir to a massive fortune, Heath Burlington, slaughters his parents, confesses to the crimes, then turns the gun on himself. Heath’s grandfather says, “Not so fast.” With the case now closed, Sir George assembles his own crack team of detectives—five amateur sleuths with a nose for mystery and a need to prove themselves—then pits them against each other to solve it.THE IMPOSSIBLE MYSTERY: “Prove Heath’s innocence and you get $1 million each. The sleuth who makes the biggest breakthrough scores a bonus million. The sleuth who does the least gets nothing.” They have just two weeks.THE AMATEUR SLEUTHS:Cluedo champ Merry (she can read a crime scene like no other);Reckless PI Kila (his rule-breaking might be what this case requires);Bestselling crime author Martin (he wrote the book on Locked Room Mysteries);Dinosaur ex-detective Earle (he’s a straight-shooter with the inside track);Fearless crime reporter Frankie (she knows the case inside out. Or thought she did…)AND SO THE ADVENTURE BEGINS… As the story twists from Sydney’s cliff-top mega-mansions to the shadowy Snowy Mountains and back, the strangers must learn to work together—and to their skill-set—to solve the mystery and face their own demons before their time runs out.From the best-selling author comes an exciting new series for fans of fun, fast-paced whodunnits with twists you will not see coming.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 26, 2025 | Romantic Comedy |
Lights, camera, love!Chicago wedding planner Ivy Rhodes is blindsided when a reality TV crew shows up at one of her weddings. They’re an intrusion …and a complication, since the sexy cameraman’s a relentless flirt. Ivy follows his easygoing charm straight into the bedroom.Dealing with bridezillas was not what Bennet Westcott expected when a scandal cost him his career as a news videographer. But the gorgeous wedding planner on his latest assignment has him saying “I Do”… to a one-night stand.When he discovers Ivy’s a forever kind of girl, he walks away, breaking her heart.The show must go on… and the network wants Ivy to be the star. She signs the contract before learning the Casanova cameraman who shredded her heart into confetti will spend the next three months filming her. Suddenly Ben’s spending every day watching the woman he can’t resist, while Ivy wonders how to plan for a happily ever after when the guy you want doesn’t believe in love?
by Philip Eliot | Jun 26, 2025 | Children & Middle Grade |
Simone leads a double life. As a covert agent, she walks in the footprints of her spy mother, darting between the shadows. If she’s not sleuthing, she’s icing eclairs and dusting pastries in her father’s patisserie. When a notorious thief returns to Paris, the patisserie is threatened, and Simone questions everything. She and her father must participate in the exclusive Chocolatiers’ Ball to redeem themselves and catch the thief. Simone’s concealed life is crumbling, the shop hangs in the balance . . . and now she needs a ball gown! Life in a French patisserie may not be as sweet as she thought.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 26, 2025 | Teen & Young Adult |
Author of The Princess of Thornwood Drive, Khalia Moreau, returns with a Cain and Abel retelling set in post-colonial Trinidad, in which family rivalry drives one brother on a desperate quest to save—yet possibly damn—his older sibling.The Dead Live In Sapo. And They Will Claim A Soul, Come Hell or High Water.When sixteen-year-old Roran’s saintly and light-skinned older brother falls ill in 1963 Trinidad, people in his village, Sapo, blame obeah. Blaming dark sorcery, the same kind believed to have sunk the southern half of Sapo thirty years prior, is ludicrous to Roran. He’s a boy of science and his brother is just ill, albeit the doctors aren’t quite sure with what.But when Roran hears the cries of those who died in southern Sapo, he seeks out Father Basdeo, a man rumored to have eyes that can see the living and the dead. Father Basdeo explains to Roran that Roran has the eyes on him, too, and only Roran can save his brother by communing with the spirits. He just needs to put his jealousy aside and risk the one thing most people in his village would never dare risk—having his soul trapped in Sapo’s sunken side.A historical horror-fantasy set in post-colonial Trinidad, He Burns By The River explores themes of colorism and racism while incorporating folklore and culture unique to the Caribbean. And, it just might keep you up at night.Come wade in the murky waters of Sapo, if you dare.
