by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
When a church lady falls in love, she falls hard. Sometimes she lands on her knees.Miss Budge does as she moves quietly and powerfully through her daily life in Old Cloverdale, where F. Scott Fitzgerald once courted Zelda, and two miles away Nat King Cole was born. Fitzgerald wrote about love. Nat Cole sang about love, and Mildred Budge knows those words. She can sing along with Nat and has. But Miss Budge lives love too—is always in love.The world wants a certain kind of love. Miss Budge offers a different kind—one that is so rare, so foreign as to be misunderstood…. But make no mistake. The love a church lady offers is real and powerful and it never stops. Never fails. That’s why church ladies seem to get younger over time. They develop superhero powers like being invisible and speaking soft words now and then that cause peace instead of pain. Church ladies never stop falling in love—not just with a handsome stranger here or there (oh, sure! they’re completely human after all), but they are also very much in love with the moments of life that encapsulate its goodness.Life is good for church ladies and that’s why they want to share the good news that love like they know exists. And it’s free for everyone. Love is real. It comes from heaven itself, and church ladies want to share that good news.That love is revealed in this first collection of short stories featuring Mildred Budge and friends. Buy it today for yourself or for any friend of yours who needs a little love and a friend like Mildred Budge.What readers say about Mildred Budge. “What our readers love about Miss Budge is that they all know her personally. In fact, they all are her in one way or another. Daphne’s stories are instantly recognizable to those in a church community, and that’s where the real humour and real pathos comes from. Daphne is a keen observer of the strange and wonderful subculture of ‘the church lady.'” Brett Alan Dewing The Christian Courier (Canada) “Mildred Budge is a forthright, almost larger than life, woman who challenges every reader’s faith walk by being transparent about her own. She reminds us that Jesus loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us as we are.” Julie Innes EvangelThere are three series featuring Mildred Budge and her friends.The primary series has four novels: Mildred Budge in Cloverdale, Mildred Budge in Embankment, The Bride’s Room, and Kingdom Come.The shorter adventures introduced Mildred Budge, and it begins with Miss Budge in Love, The Mission of Mildred Budge, and Miss Budge Goes To Fountain City.A third series highlights the lives of her friends and begins with Belle: A Mildred Budge Friendship Story followed by A Gentle and Lowly Christmas. All books are available in various formats.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2026 | Fantasy |
Thirteen years ago, a woman came out of the Burly Wood carrying a small wooden box. She died on the Great Wall getting it over.Calum O’Brian is fifteen, average in every measurable way, and keeps a journal about it. Then a stolen box etched with flowers lands in his hands, and it does something it has never done for anyone else: it glows. It hums with drums nobody else can hear. It pulls him west, toward the forest no one crosses. And when he holds it near certain people, it tells him, without words, who not to trust.The same week, he is picked for the Eighth Clan’s team in the Clan Games — five contenders, ten clans, one summer to train. His mentors have their own reasons for wanting him close. So does a masked rebel in the Green Forest who calls himself the Hero, and who knows more about the box, and about Calum’s mother, than anyone in the Clans will admit.Every faction on Echo Island wants what Calum is carrying. The box wants him to run. And the Games are about to start.Book One of Echo Island, a five-book fantasy series. For readers 11 and up.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2026 | Thriller & Suspense |
The explosive psychological thriller from the Anthony Award-winning author of THE FOLLOWER and TOO FAR. If you love Harlan Coben or Gillian Flynn, you’ll tear through this book in one sitting.You can’t protect your family from everything.Dr. Adam Bloom seems to have the perfect life. He is financially secure and lives in a luxurious house with his wife, Dana, and their daughter, Marissa, a recent college grad. Late one night, his daughter wakes up and says, “Somebody’s downstairs.” From that moment on, life in the Bloom household will never be the same.As the family recovers from the break-in and the Blooms’ marriage starts to fall apart, Marissa meets a young, talented artist named Xan. Adam feels that something’s not quite right with Xan, but his daughter ignores his warnings and falls for him. When suspicious things happen all over again, Adam realizes that his first instinct about Xan was probably dead on…PRAISE FOR JASON STARR’S PANIC ATTACK”Panic Attack is the ultimate page-turner.” – Michael Connelly“Funny and suspenseful, this is Starr delightfully at the top of his game.” – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“Starr’s writing is slick and his plotting is second to none.” – Guardian, London“Completely brilliant…If there is such a thing as the perfect thriller, Starr has just written it.” – Jerry StahlWWW.JASONSTARR.COM@JASONSTARRBOOKS
by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
Career versus kids? She wants the career.Kate MacBain, dubbed “the woman who will never have children,” is focused on her future. Despite her three brothers, she plans to be her father’s successor in the family company. She’ll do whatever her parents ask, but cleaning houses in the Murphy’s Maids subsidiary? That’s a punishment not a reward.Composer Alex Adamski’s creative well is dust dry. Since his divorce, he hasn’t been able to finish his overdue sonata. Then a fiery housecleaner named Kate tells him he’s a slob and jars him out of his slump.Their chemistry is off the charts, but while Alex is thinking family and forever, Kate rejects anything that might derail her climb to the top.Can he convince her there’s more to life than being CEO?
by Philip Eliot | Sep 30, 2026 | New Adult Romance |
It’s all about the game. Until one wrong play brings her into his life.One intercepted pass with less than a minute left in the game and Dante Kelley, star quarterback for the NFL expansion team Portland Mountain Lions, loses it all: the championship, his girlfriend, and his dignity.When he finds an off-the-beaten-path bar to drown his sorrows, he also finds…a one-night stand.They both walk away satisfied and with no expectations. Hell, she doesn’t even know his real name. She has no idea he is a famous quarterback for one of the most popular NFL franchises.He kind of wishes she knew, because he’d kind of like to see her again.But it isn’t in the cards.Or so he thinks.Fast-forward to the beginning of the next football season and standing on the sidelines at his first game is none other than Allison, the one-night stand he hasn’t been able to get out of his head.Maybe they can pick up where they left off. See where things go. Take it nice and slow this time.And maybe the demons from her past will show up and ruin the first good thing he’s had going for as long as he can remember.Portland Mountain Lions series:The TackleThe QuarterbackThe CenterThe LinebackerThe KickerThe Wide Receiver
