by Philip Eliot | Mar 24, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
“For every reader out there who has ever said ‘I’m not enough’…read this book and unburden your heart.” –Cam Torrens, award-winning author of Stable, False Summit, and ScorchedAfter a vagrant upbringing, free-spirited Wren Atwood has fought to beat the odds. She has a career as a massage therapist, a solid church community, and now her lifelong dream is coming true, with a little blue house to call her own. But the first person to congratulate her is the last person she wants to see: pompous businessman Daniel Hollis.Adored by most of Ridley Bay, Hollis has found success as an entrepreneur. Yet no amount of money can buy love from his family or health for his sister.When a hurricane rips through the Texas coast and forces Wren and Hollis together, the walls they have built are exposed, along with the family secrets they hide.As Wren turns to her toxic family for help, and Hollis fights to save his sister’s life, they discover their efforts alone will never be enough. If grace can’t repair the past, how can it rescue the future?
by Philip Eliot | Mar 24, 2026 | Thriller & Suspense |
For fans of: Herman Wouk, Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, Daniel Silva
In the tradition of Herman Wouk’s sweeping historical war epics, Fallout of War follows Lieutenant Commander James Fairbanks, a career naval submarine officer assigned as a military attaché to the American embassy in Kyiv in late 2021. Fairbanks arrives in Ukraine with his wife, Lucy, a State Department analyst, just as tensions with Russia reach a critical juncture. A thoughtful, disciplined officer known for his strategic acumen and unvarnished assessments, Fairbanks quickly becomes immersed in the complex political and military landscape of Eastern Europe.
Fairbanks tours the Chernobyl exclusion zone, where he meets Ukrainian special forces conducting training exercises amid the haunting ruins of the 1986 disaster. These encounters with hardened Ukrainian soldiers, many of whom fought in the Donbas since 2014, give Fairbanks his first understanding of Ukrainian determination and the existential nature of their struggle. Through a series of diplomatic functions and intelligence briefings, he develops relationships with key Ukrainian officials and eventually meets President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose evolution from entertainer to wartime leader forms one of the novel’s central character studies.
When American intelligence detects massive Russian troop concentrations along Ukraine’s borders in January 2022, Washington selects Fairbanks to deliver a personal message to Vladimir Putin, hoping that a military officer’s assessment might carry weight with the former KGB operative. In a tense Moscow meeting, Putin not only receives Washington’s warning but, in a calculated display of strength, invites Fairbanks to inspect Russian forces massing in Belarus along the Ukrainian border. What Fairbanks witnesses during this extraordinary access shocks him. He recognizes the scale and organization of forces preparing not for exercises but for invasion, and his detailed report to Washington becomes a prescient but controversial document that divides American policymakers between those advocating preemptive support for Ukraine and those counseling restraint to avoid provoking Moscow.
Lucy Fairbanks, meanwhile, has established herself in Kyiv’s expatriate community, forming friendships with Ukrainian families and other diplomats. Her perspective provides the novel’s intimate domestic counterpoint to James’s military observations. As February 2022 approaches, Lucy’s growing anxiety mirrors the city’s increasing tension, even as many Ukrainians struggle to believe that full-scale war is actually coming.
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by Philip Eliot | Mar 24, 2026 | Crime Fiction |
Jessica Byrne’s a rookie PI with an attitude, an overactive sweet tooth, and big problems. She’s got two clients—and one of them is dead. Wealthy Daniel Lakeland is chilling at the morgue, and her other client, sketchy Vlad, is cooling in the clink, charged with Daniel’s murder.
Despite his less than stellar reputation, Jessica thinks Vlad’s innocent. She’s got to find the real killer before Vlad goes up the river for good, the real killer goes free, and her fledgling business flatlines. Jessica’s got backup—her best friend and business partner Sam, a paranormal investigator who swears her Ouija board knows more than the cops do. Jessica’s case collides with her heartthrob ex and main rival, PI Max O’Conner, and they’re forced to team up and beat the weird streets of Pottstown, Pennsylvania—a town overflowing with secrets and trouble.
On the hunt for the killer, they’ll bend the law, dodge gangsters with a fast food habit, go undercover at an ’80s party, and try (and fail) to keep their chemistry under control.
Snark, sparks, and small-town scandal—this mystery proves that sometimes the dead aren’t the only ones haunting you. For fans of Janet Evanovich, Darynda Jones and Jess Lourey.
by Philip Eliot | Mar 24, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
Not even the Italian Mafia could break their vows of love.
An explosion in New York City rocks Valentina Mancini’s world, killing her beloved husband, Emilio Armani, her parents, and the rest of her family. Unsure if this is a mafia vendetta, she must assume a new identity and flee New York to protect herself. Grief tears apart her world. How can she go on without Emilio? Where will she go and how will she survive? How will she reconcile her family motto of “Duty, honor, family” with a new life after her family’s murders?
Inside family documents, she discovers an old villa on the coast near Palermo, Sicily, that belonged to her great-great grandmother. Valentina assumes the identity of Gia Benedetti and claims her property on the island of Sicily. Gradually, with the help of newfound family members, Gia reclaims her life. As she refurbishes a magical Italian villa, she discovers unimaginable treasures of building a new life, and rediscovers love in an unexpected way.
A heartfelt HEA story of undying love, romance, passion, and grief. An Italian Mafia romance with secret identities. Alpha male, grieving and discovering a found family when you need them the most.
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by Philip Eliot | Mar 24, 2026 | Romantic Suspense |
Not even the Italian Mafia could break their vows of love.
An explosion in New York City rocks Valentina Mancini’s world, killing her beloved husband, Emilio Armani, her parents, and the rest of her family. Unsure if this is a mafia vendetta, she must assume a new identity and flee New York to protect herself. Grief tears apart her world. How can she go on without Emilio? Where will she go and how will she survive? How will she reconcile her family motto of “Duty, honor, family” with a new life after her family’s murders?
Inside family documents, she discovers an old villa on the coast near Palermo, Sicily, that belonged to her great-great grandmother. Valentina assumes the identity of Gia Benedetti and claims her property on the island of Sicily. Gradually, with the help of newfound family members, Gia reclaims her life. As she refurbishes a magical Italian villa, she discovers unimaginable treasures of building a new life, and rediscovers love in an unexpected way.
A heartfelt HEA story of undying love, romance, passion, and grief. An Italian Mafia romance with secret identities. Alpha male, grieving and discovering a found family when you need them the most.
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