by Philip Eliot | Sep 7, 2026 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
She died saving a stranger. She rose marked by his fire.When a dedicated surgeon uses her last dying breaths to save a stranger, she expects nothing but darkness in return. Instead, he grants her a second chance. But eternal life is no mercy. It’s a sentence. One that awakens a thirst for blood and a power she was never meant to wield.Offered only two paths—train to defend the realm from which her savior came or die—she chooses survival.Ripped from the world she knows, she’s thrust into a land where magic is law, dragons rule the skies, and half-mortal, half-mythical creatures like her are feared more than the monsters that hunt them.In a court of fire-blooded gods and war-born beasts, the truth comes wrapped in lies, and love is a weapon as dangerous as any blade. Branded a threat, desired by the one who hides in the shadows, and hunted by a darkness that remembers her name, she must decide who she is: a healer, a soldier, or a villain.Sweeping and seductive, Born of Fire is a tale of forbidden power, fractured destiny, and a love that defies death itself.Content warning: Morally gray/morally bankrupt characters, open door content, blood consumption, spit, ritualistic acts, bondage, coercion, forced proximity, emotional and behavioral manipulation, violence, and gore.Intended for mature readers.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 7, 2026 | Cozy Mystery |
She thought she’d buried her old life. Then she turned the photograph over.Six months after her divorce, former investigative journalist Julia Mercer comes to Sand Dollar Cove to disappear—to drink her coffee on the sand at dawn, to stop being the woman who couldn’t let anything go.The little Cape Cod beach town is exactly what she needs: lighthouse and dune grass, a café that knows your order, and seven women past fifty who pull an eighth chair into their morning circle as if they’d been saving it for her.Then a body washes up on Driftwood Beach, and the town agrees a little too quickly that it was an accident.Julia knows the shape of a story someone wants buried—and she isn’t the only one.A retired detective. A forensic tech. A nurse. A teacher. A librarian. A realtor. An innkeeper. And Julia, who spent a career asking questions people didn’t want answered.Eight women. Eight lifetimes of expertise. Not one of them able to look away.The police call them a nuisance.The town calls them the Sand Dollar Detective Club.Julia came to Sand Dollar Cove to stop being the woman who couldn’t let anything go. She is about to discover that she was never going to manage it—and that this might be the first time it saves somebody.Because the dead man isn’t the only mystery waiting for them.A photograph surfaces where it never should have been. On the back, three words are written in a missing woman’s own hand:Don’t trust him.Her name was Emily Harrow.She vanished thirty-eight years ago.And Sand Dollar Cove has been keeping her secret ever since.Murder on Driftwood Beach is the first novel in The Sand Dollar Detective Club, a warm, witty, fair-play coastal mystery series for readers of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club, Elin Hilderbrand, and Louise Penny.Every book solves its own mystery completely and can be read on its own. Together, the novels unravel the one secret this town would do anything to keep buried.Expect clever clues, genuine emotional stakes, strong female friendships, and a seaside town you’ll want to return to again and again—with no gore, no gratuitous violence, and no cliffhanger on the central mystery.Perfect for readers who love:Coastal mysteries and buried small-town secretsStrong female friendships and found familyOlder protagonists with real lives, losses, and historiesFair-play mysteries you can solve alongside the charactersClean, suspenseful crime fiction without goreCharacter-driven mysteries where the people matter as much as the puzzleA long-running series with a deeper mystery unfolding across every book
by Philip Eliot | Sep 7, 2026 | Christian Nonfiction |
A captivating story of transformation in the face of dying. For nine-year-old Wendy Slattery, the world was a big place that had no interest in fulfilling her dreams. Growing up on a farm in the 1960’s meant absorbing the rhetoric that women don’t become doctors. Instead, Wendy abandoned her medical ambitions and turned her dreaming to imaginary stories.That big imagination took a back seat through the rebellious days of the 1970’s, where she fell into a cutting-edge career in the newly burgeoning computer field. Soon, the golden days dissolved into discontent, divorce, and a lack of direction only God could turn around.Increasingly anchored by prayer, Wendy rediscovered her early calling — and when she answered, life bloomed in unexpected ways.With love came joy, with purpose came fulfillment…and with living, came dying.Written with warmth, individuality, and unflinching self-examination, The Edge of the Unseen World explores what it means to build a life on the foundations of the divine.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 7, 2026 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
Grimoire du Sombra: Volume I is the first collection in the Sombra Demons series. It contains the first three books — plus a Christmas-themed short story — in one set:Mated to the Monster (Sombra Demons #1) Shannon and MalphasAfter playing with a book of spells, Shannon ends up opening a portal to another realm — and making an eternal vow to Malphas, an imposing shadow monster. Malphas has been waiting a millennium for his mate, and he’s sure that Shannon’s the one…Santa Claws (Sombra Demons #2) Shannon and MalphasWhen Shannon and Malphas have their first Christmas together, he learns all about the holiday — and Shannon learns that there are consequences to mating a Sombra demon during the night of the gold moon…Stolen by the Shadows (Sombra Demons #2) Amy and NoxFifteen years after her imaginary friend last watched over her, Amy needs his aid again — and Nox is no longer content to hide in the shadows while her ex relentlessly stalks her. But saving her only makes him want to keep her for himself…Bonded to the Beast (Sombra Demons #3) Kennedy and LokiWhen her customer has questions about the leather-bound spellbook she purchased, Kennedy takes a closer look at its pages — where she finds a compelling true love incantation. And reading it aloud summons the shadow monster who becomes her fated mate…
by Philip Eliot | Sep 7, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
Book One in the Gold Medal–Winning Stallion’s Quest SeriesRaina Swiftmain has always understood horses better than people.She can read a stallion’s fear in the twitch of an ear, disappear into wilderness that would swallow most soldiers whole, and loose an arrow before her enemy realizes she has drawn her bow.But Raven is different.The savage black stallion was supposed to belong to her enemy. No one can control him. No one can even get close.Until he chooses Raina.And Raven isn’t the only one who sees something in her that others have missed.Raina is carrying the last clues to Andrea’s vanished prince, and powerful men will kill to keep the rightful heir from being found. Hunted through a kingdom built on old betrayals, she has survived by trusting her bow, her instincts, her faith—and very few people.Then a warrior catches up with her.He is the enemy captain she should fear most: dangerous, relentless, and sworn to the very people hunting her.He should put her in chains.Instead, he might have the answers she needs.Now an ancient riddle is drawing Raina, Raven, and the one man she cannot afford to trust toward a future where a secret buried for years could restore a stolen crown—or destroy everyone trying to uncover it.Raina knows how to survive enemies and the wilderness.Can she survive discovering that the man she was supposed to run from may be the one person willing to ride beside her?A wild stallion chose her.An enemy has targeted her.And before midsummer, Raina will have to decide whether trust is an act of weakness—or the bravest thing she has ever done.? Winner of the Gold Medal for Inspirational YA Fiction ?Fantasy heroines are supposed to be graceful and mysterious.Raina gets distracted by food, talks to horses, disguises herself as an old woman, and occasionally bites people.For readers who love courageous heroines, unforgettable horses, clean slow-burn romance, dangerous quests, and fantasy where faith is woven into the adventure.Begin Archer today—and meet the girl a wild stallion refused to leave behind.
