by Philip Eliot | Aug 22, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
What they don’t tell you is that you’ll still be conscious.Every lamp in Hollowmere is burning someone’s name. The city runs on soul-light. Sign the paper at the Hall of Records and your name lifts off you like sand through your fingers. Your family gets a pension. Your sister gets an education. You get sixty years as a frequency in a copper pipe, keeping the streetlamps violet. The Church of the Mechanismus calls this transcendence. Lord Callum Vane calls it what it is. He has spent seven hundred days locked in the Ravencrest Institute with a stack of papers he calls the Record — two years of ink, two years of names the city has agreed to forget. Cal can hear them. The Vane gift means the pipes do not sound like metal to him. They sound like a choir. Then a man in a waxed canvas coat opens his door and says he was hired to find something else, and has decided to take Cal instead. Fenwick has no interest in martyrs. Cal has nothing but a list. Between them and the truth beneath the Sovereign’s Cradle stand a Church that has perfected the paperwork of erasure, a family that built the machine, and a clock that has not missed a second in sixty years. One of those things is about to stop. Book One of the Hollow Clock Saga. The story continues in The Hollow Cathedral and concludes in The Hollow City — the complete trilogy is available now. Gaslamp fantasy with a slow-burn M/M romance at its heart, for readers of Freya Marske, C.L. Polk, and KJ Charles. Dark, but never hopeless: this saga ends with both of them still standing.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 22, 2026 | Cozy Mystery |
Trouble is brewing in Blarney Green, and former matchmaker Penny Cavanagh must catch a killer before her luck runs out.When a professional disaster lands California matchmaker Penny Cavanagh’s business in hot water, the native Irish lass takes a much-needed break from reality and visits her extended family in Blarney Green, Ireland. Unfortunately, Penny’s happy reunion is quickly diluted when her new acquaintance, English master gardener Colin Bexley, dies within hours of visiting Blarney Castle’s famed poison garden and kissing the Blarney Stone. The hot gossip brewing around town is that the fussy foliage expert was murdered—and Penny’s grandmother, Nan, lands in the sights of handsome Detective Inspector Finn Campbell.Determined to clear Nan’s good name, Penny takes it upon herself to solve the mystery of who murdered Colin Bexley, aggravating a by-the-book Finn at every turn and being equally vexed by him in return. However, when a star witness winds up dead, Penny realizes that the stakes of this game are higher than she’d realized. If she isn’t careful, she just might wind up in the crosshairs of a killer . . . and pay the steepest price of all.This clever whodunit from Annie’s Attic’s Irish Tearoom Mysteries series is a must-read for fans of cozy mysteries, Irish settings, and female friendships.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 22, 2026 | Science Fiction |
How many times does it take to destroy the world before you can save it?
In 1986, physicist Timothy Straus hears voices that teach him how to create a space-warping engine that will change the world. In 2098, a fighter pilot hears voices that help him fight an authoritarian corporatist regime in the ashes of nuclear fallout. In 2155, the only self-aware robot on Mars struggles to steer humanity away from a demagogue who speaks from the shadows. Told through kaleidoscope storytelling across space and time, these three people are connected in ways they could never imagine. As they pull on the strings of the multiverse, what they can’t see is that every villain begins as a savior—every enemy starts as a friend. With the power to refract reality, will they learn that one person can’t save the people? That only the people can save the people?
by Philip Eliot | Aug 22, 2026 | Action & Adventure |
The Lewis family Western saga continues as brothers face threats from Mexican authorities, hostile Indians, and a deadly blood feud.”Elmer Kelton, a wily old cloudburst, imbues his Westerns with ancient myths and modern motifs that transcend cowboys and cattle trails.” —The Dallas Morning NewsTen years have passed sine Michael Lewis made his first venture into Texas, now a province of Mexico. Together with a small number of Americans pioneering on the Brazos and Colorado Rivers, Michael and his brother Andrew, each have a plot of land assigned to them by the entrepreneur Stephen F. Austin.To secure their places in their newfound lands in Texas, the Lewis boys have to fight not only Mexican authorities and hostile Indians, but their own kind—renegade white men attempting to settle on Texas land without permission or authority.In The Raiders, Elmer Kelton continues hi sage of the Lewis family and the formative years of Texas, a series, said Booklist, “that brings to mind L’Amour’s multigenerational Sackett Family saga. . . . Readers will eagerly anticipate the next entry in the series.”
by Philip Eliot | Aug 22, 2026 | Erotic Romance |
Hawkeye found a rival club doing something the Fallen Angels MC would not sit by and let continue. They were trafficking in women. They went in, pulled out the women and eliminated the problem. But when the victimized women turned on one of their own, Hawkeye couldn’t leave her with them.Delilah had been given to the Royal Crows by a husband who wanted to be rid of her. She didn’t know why but they hadn’t treated her like the other women, something she would never complain about. When strangers came in pulling all the women out, she never thought she’d end the night on the back of a bike.Now she’s at the mercy of yet another club. But were the Fallen Angels different from the Royal Crows or had she gone from the frying pan into the fire?
