by Philip Eliot | Dec 11, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
A small-town cowboy and former Special Forces soldier. A single mom. A second chance at Christmas love.After years in Special Forces, Rohan Telford has swapped his helmet for a Stetson and returned home to Marietta, Montana to help run his family’s cattle ranch. But one final task for his fallen team leader forces him to face the woman he never stopped loving—his high school sweetheart, Ginny Lane.Single mother Ginny has no time—or trust—for Rohan. She’s focused on keeping her father’s legacy alive by opening the Harry’s House Annex for local teens. But when Rohan saunters back into her life, her heart and memories are stirred, and a hell-no quickly becomes a maybe.As Christmas approaches, the tension between past regrets and present desires threatens to ignite a second chance at love. Can Rohan remind Ginny of the good they once shared, or will old wounds keep them apart forever?First published as The Cowboy’s Christmas Homecoming
by Philip Eliot | Dec 11, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
Journey back in time with this beloved couple to experience their love story sparked by the enchantment and wonder of the Christmas season.When Trey Helton arrives in Duluth, Minnesota, he’s looking for a new life, but the last place he expects to find it is rescuing a badly injured woman from the side of the road.Allison Drakos puts up a brave front while dealing with her attackers, but the only place she feels truly safe is in Trey’s arms. As she adjusts to life using a wheelchair, she wonders if she’ll ever make her dreams a reality.Christmas Eve has always held a special place in their hearts, but this year, Allison hopes to wrap the one gift that will make all their dreams come true.Inclusion: The heroine uses a wheelchairPreviously titled Trusting Trey. This is a companion novel and can be read as a stand-alone.
by Philip Eliot | Dec 11, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
A perfect weekend. The perfect company. A perfect cabin.The perfect place to bury a body…For Joel and Stella, it’s the trip they’ve been dreaming about. Fresh air, quiet time in the woods, and no work to distract them from each other. Being a new couple, they don’t waste any time with their first full weekend away together.But their perfect getaway turns into a nightmare when an accident occurs and they find a dead woman lying outside their cabin.Clearly they have to call the police, but what Joel reveals to Stella makes her understand there’s no way they can get the authorities involved.Stella has no other choice than to go along with Joel’s plans to hide the body, realizing now that she never really knew the man she’s sharing a bed with.But what if there’s more that Joel isn’t telling her? And what if he figures out that she doesn’t trust him anymore?Most of all, what if Joel finds out the secret that she’s been hiding from him?
by Philip Eliot | Dec 11, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
Once a rising star in the FBI, with the best case closure rate of any investigator, Ella Porter is now exiled to a small gold mining town bordering the wilderness of Alaska. The reason for her new assignment? She allowed a prolific serial killer to escape custody.But what no one knows is that she did it on purpose.The day she shows up in Nome, bags still unpacked, the wife of the richest gold miner in town goes missing. This is the second woman to vanish in as many days. And it’s up to Ella to find out what happened.Assigning Ella to Nome is no accident, either. Though she swore she’d never return, Ella grew up in the small, gold mining town, treated like royalty as a child due to her own family’s wealth. But like all gold tycoons, the Porter family secrets are as dark as Ella’s own.Read Girl Under the Ice and eight more edge-of-your-seat psyche thrillers in this bargain boxed set.
by Philip Eliot | Dec 11, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
“A dynamite tale of family fallout, mystery and intrigue, southern-style. Demands to be read in one all-night page-turning frenzy.” —David Baldacci, #1 New York Times–bestselling authorIn her beloved hometown of Beaufort, South Carolina, Georgie Smallwood has carved out a life for herself, but it hasn’t been easy. A teenage mother at sixteen, she built a thriving business restoring and selling antiques with the help of her steel magnolia mother.But little does Georgie know how deep the secrets run in her family—until her mother dies under circumstances that she finds suspicious, even if her sister and brother don’t. Georgie can’t help but think the worst of her controlling, unfaithful father, whose murky military past haunts him. The slow drops of doubt pool into a surging wave of fear that threatens to destroy the bond between Georgie and her siblings—and sink the very foundations they have built their lives upon.High Water is a gripping Southern thriller about blood ties, betrayal, and the legacy of silence—where the past rises like the tide and nothing stays buried forever.”High Water is a lyrical, compelling novel about secrets, family, and even love.” —Lisa Scottoline, New York Times–bestselling author”Hightower fills the story with plot twists that will appeal to thriller fans, but the novel, steeped in the feel of small-town South, also offers an introspective look at a woman’s life, her personal relationships, and her sense of family loyalty.” —Booklist”This intensely involving study of family dysfunction . . . is distinguished by its driving prose, lyricism and psychological nuance.” —Publishers Weekly”The story hurtles along as rapidly as any of Hightower’s police procedurals or thrillers but finds room for a world of family pain and southern warmth.” —Kirkus Reviews
