by Philip Eliot | Dec 7, 2025 | Historical Romance |
The most scandalous Musgrave is back in town…‘Dante’ Musgrave, Viscount Southwick, has finally returned to England after years of outrunning scandal throughout all of Europe. Unfortunately, scandal has a way of finding him and he can’t seem to escape it this Christmas.A solution is offered the form of a ruined young woman in the wilds of the English countryside. It seems simple enough—wed the girl, save her reputation, and fashion himself a new status as a staid married man. There’s one catch though—he has to persuade said ruined woman to accept his proposal.And that’s made all the more difficult when he meets her twin sister.Maddie is used to doing her duty and ignoring all desire for adventure and excitement. When her sister Phoebe finds herself caught in a situation Maddie blames herself for, it seems only right Maddie try to fix things. The arrival of Lord Southwick will save the family from ruin and ensure her sister’s future. Now all she needs to do is persuade the ridiculously attractive viscount Phoebe is worth fighting for.Not an easy take when she wishes he was fighting for her.All he’s ever known is scandal. She’s about to get caught up in one. Can they resist the pull between them long enough to save them both from ruin or will this instant attraction prove to be the downfall of them both?Christmas with a Son’s Earl is a steamy Regency Christmas romance that can be read as a standalone. If you love reformed rakes and forbidden romance, you’ll adore this romantic Christmas story.
by Philip Eliot | Dec 7, 2025 | Erotic Romance |
The Marquess of Alastair is trying to be a gentleman for a change, but this Regency miss won’t take ‘no’ for an answer!Mildred Abbott is a proper Regency miss, but she cannot deny the dark desires that torment her body in the quiet of night. Engaged to an uninspiring sycophant, she asks the influential nephew of her patroness in debauchery to interfere and break her engagement. When her appeals to him fail, she decides to take a singular opportunity—a visit to the Château Debauchery—to indulge her most wanton cravings before she submits herself to a life of wedded dullness.The Marquess of Alastair concerns himself with no one, but to appease his aunt on her birthday, he agrees to select one person whose interests he will look after. It was not his intention to choose the plain and simple Miss Abbott, but when she unexpectedly shows up at the Château Debauchery, his hand is forced. Knowing his aunt to be partial to the miss, he grudgingly decides to act the part of a gentleman and preserve Miss Abbott’s honor by removing her from the Château.But Mildred refuses to go until she has had her night of wicked debauchery. If you think you can take the heat, get Submitting to the Marquess today to scorch up your reading!READER ADVISORY: This novella is a work of erotic fiction with romantic elements. It contains light bondage, BDSM elements and themes of submission/dominance.
by Philip Eliot | Dec 7, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
Three people confront their haunted pasts when children begin vanishing in this “suspenseful and psychologically rich thriller” (Booklist, starred review).In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely . . .When another child goes missing, and then a third, it’s no longer possible to believe that their deaths were accidental, and the villagers must admit that there is a murderer among them. Even Catrin Quinn, a damaged woman living a reclusive life after the accidental deaths of her own two sons a few years ago, gets involved in the searches and the speculation.And suddenly, in this wild and beautiful place that generations have called home, no one feels safe and the hysteria begins to rise.But three islanders—Catrin, her childhood best friend, Rachel, and her ex-lover Callum—are hiding terrible secrets. And they have two things in common: all three of them are grieving, and none of them trust anyone, not even themselves.In Little Black Lies, her most shocking and engaging suspense novel to date, Sharon Bolton will keep the reader guessing until the very last page.”Achingly suspenseful.” —Washington Post”[Bolton’s] crafty plotting produces an intricately detailed mystery . . . And her deft characterizations respect the psychological complexities of the three islanders who serve as narrators.” —New York Times Book Review
by Philip Eliot | Dec 7, 2025 | Action & Adventure |
A deadly thrill ride featuring the “refreshingly amoral” Parker, “a thief who always gets away with the swag” (Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly).The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters, in Slayground. There are no exits from Fun Island. Outnumbered and outgunned, Parker can’t afford a single miscalculation. He’s low on bullets and making it out alive is a long shot—but, as anyone who’s crossed his path knows, no one is better at playing higher stakes with shorter odds.Praise for Richard Stark and Slayground”Energy and imagination light up virtually every page, as does some of the best hard-boiled prose ever to grace the noir genre.” —Publishers Weekly”The caper novel, the story of a major criminal operation from the point of view of the participants, has no better practitioner than Richard Stark.” —Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review”Gritty and chillingly noir . . . [Stark] succeeds in demonstrating his total mastery of crime fiction.” —Booklist”The Parker novels . . . are among the greatest hard-boiled writing of all time.” —Financial Times
by Philip Eliot | Dec 7, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
Book 1 in a six-part series about a female private detective. Jacaranda Dunne—known to everyone as JD—is an ex-Metropolitan police officer who has moved to Málaga to open a detective agency. After the bustle of London she finds the work routine and boring: missing dogs, stolen passports and unfaithful husbands.Until one day a woman bursts into the agency, waving the photo of a young girl; it’s her missing daughter, Sophie. Together with her best friend, Julie—both aged fourteen at the time—Sophie had disappeared the previous summer. An extensive police search failed to find the teenagers until now.Julie’s dead body has been found in Málaga. Instead of continuing with the investigation the police have closed the case. JD is the distraught mother’s last hope.This intricate crime noir, Sophie is still Missing, is the first book in the Jacaranda Dunne Mysteries by award winning Joan Fallon, and takes the reader into the shadowy world of the Costa Del Sol, people trafficking and modern slavery.If you like crime noir you will enjoy following JD as she searches for the missing girl.Trailer: https://youtu.be/aSMCDUKTcQ0
