by Philip Eliot | Jun 17, 2025 | General Nonfiction |
The New York Times–bestselling author’s pioneering true crime classic: It’s “Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood turned inside out” (Newsweek). During an armed robbery in 1974, five hostages were held in the basement of a small home-audio store in Ogden, Utah, by a group of enlisted US Air Force airmen stationed at a nearby base. The victims—including wife and mother Carol Naisbitt—were brutally tortured, shot in the head, and left for dead. Yet somehow, Carol’s sixteen-year-old son made it out alive—and “the emotional strain his family underwent during his year-long hospitalization, is the heart of Kinder’s story” (Kirkus Reviews). In Victim, the first true crime book to go beyond the headlines and tell story of love, loss, courage, and survival, “the crime in question becomes not merely something that happened to somebody else somewhere else, but rather an event that touches us all firsthand and very deeply.” A compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence, it remains one of the most influential books in the victims’ rights movement and has become required reading for trainees at the FBI Academy at Quantico (Boston Herald).
by Philip Eliot | Jun 17, 2025 | Fantasy |
Bryn Reyes is a real life sleeping beauty. Afflicted with Klein-Levin Syndrome, she suffers episodes of prolonged sleep that steal weeks, and sometimes even months, from her life. But unlike most KLS patients, she doesn’t spend each episode in a catatonic state or wake up with no recollection of the time she’s missed. Instead, Bryn spends half her life in an alternate reality made up of her memories. For Bryn, the past is a place, until one day a boy she’s never met before washes up on the illusory beach of her dreams with no memory of who he is.But the appearance of this strange boy isn’t the only thing that’s changed. Bryn’s symptoms are worsening, her body weakening as she’s plagued by hallucinations even while awake. Her only hope of finding a cure is to undergo experimental treatment created by a German specialist. But when Dr. Banz reveals that he knows more about her strange symptoms than he originally let on, Bryn learns that the boy in her head might actually be the key to understanding what’s happening to her, and worse, that if she doesn’t find out his identity before it’s too late, they both may not survive.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 17, 2025 | Fantasy |
This is not how I die. A truth every aqueduct technician knows. Not here, not like this. When I go out, the light will come with me … No one will mourn me. They won’t even know I’m gone … Unless I’m Selected. Then I’ll have a purpose. My life will have meaning.Aqueduct technician Sage Woods is summoned in the middle of the night to assist with repairs to the foundations of the Palace of Justice. An attack by the rejected rebels beyond the city walls has temporarily crippled the city of Skau. The Principalities, which serve to enact the edicts of the goddess Ma’at, rush to undo the damage and interrupt future attacks.Ejected from the city walls, Sage’s efforts to save the palace from destruction may lead to her own. As the day of her Selection approaches, could the appearance of an alluring, dark stranger be the key to her survival? Or must she lay low to avoid political machinations that risk her expulsion.As chaos mounts around her, Sage fights for her place in the Principalities.Which palace will she serve?
by Philip Eliot | Jun 17, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
When Frances Teller accepts a job teaching at the prestigious Thackeray School in Vermont, she learns that the ghosts who haunt the hallways have a direct connection to her dangerous past. Now Frances must come to terms with the crime she committed as a student—before history repeats itself.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 17, 2025 | Science Fiction |
An alien attack leaves them adrift in space.Survive, rebuild, and rejoin the war.Fresh out of the Academy, Ensign Cole Jackson’s first posting to Freedom couldn’t have come at a worse time. All over the Alliance, planets and colonies are suddenly under attack by the vicious Coven Empire.Freedom and her sister ship, Hood, are ambushed by alien warships, leaving Hood drifting dead in the void.Cole is ordered to salvage parts from the powerless Hood, but when he arrives on the unpowered hulk, Freedom is called away, marooning him and a group of malcontent techs in deep space.With the timer on survival ticking down, Cole must find the confidence to take control, whip his tiny crew into shape, bring Hood back to life––repairing communications, propulsion and even weapons.He’s got one chance to transform the derelict ship into a combat-ready vessel. One he can take into battle and alterthe course of the war.Don’t miss the start of this science fiction thrill ride about a crew of young soldiers mustering the courage to fight back against both a vicious alien enemy, and the terrifying void of being stranded in space. It’s perfect for fans of Daniel Gibbs, J.N. Chaney, and Vaughn Heppner!
