by Philip Eliot | Aug 21, 2026 | Historical Romance |
He’s desperate to retrieve his journal pages. She’ll release them…for a price.Lady Honoria Eveleigh is determined to experience sensual pleasure before a loveless marriage. Her secret obsession with reading pornography has thus far sustained her passionate nature. But now that she’s seen the true confessions of an unrepentant rake, she means to sample the many ways he’s pleasured his conquests.Captain Leo Atherton thumbs his nose at an unforgiving ton…with lush portraits of their mistresses and his own legendary sensual exploits. When his eyes first lock with the incomparable diamond’s across a ballroom, he knows. She’s read his journal pages. After she’s listed her demands, he assumes getting his damning pages back and walking away will be easy.Honoria’s downfall is her innocent assumption…that she can enjoy bedsport without falling in love. One taste of Leo’s charms makes the thought of a loveless marriage even more repugnant, not easier. Leo’s usual ease of walking away from love seems to desert him as well, which leaves him with a dilemma. He’ll have to reckon with his own rightful place in the ton in order to secure her love for more than just a few reckless nights of abandon.Will they allow societal censure to tear them apart or will they risk everything to stay together?Dallying with the Diamond is the steamy first entry in the “Steam, Lies, & Forbidden Desires” series. If you enjoy open-door sensuality, enemies to lovers, and found family tropes, then you’ll love Louisa Cornell and Andrea K. Stein’s steamy Regency tales of love.Buy Dallying with the Diamond today and enter a world of passionate Regency nights with characters combining humor and warmth who stay with you long after the last page.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 21, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
Mackenzie I thought Ryker would be my forever.He’s still my best friend. The father of our children. But somewhere along the way, we lost each other.Weeks turned into months without intimacy, and I realized I was too young to feel this old.I want to feel beautiful again. Wanted again. Like the woman he fell in love with twenty years ago.And if asking him to move out is the only way to find myself, then that’s what I have to do. Even if it breaks my heart.RykerI never imagined my wife would ask me to leave.I knew we’d drifted apart. But I never believed we were broken.Now she’s building a life without me—one where she laughs more, smiles easier, and doesn’t seem to need me anymore.Losing my home is one thing. Losing the woman I’ve loved for half my life is breaking me.If I can’t find my place in her new life, I’ll lose everything that matters to me.
by Philip Eliot | Aug 21, 2026 | Historical Romance |
THE PIRATE LORD:American pirate captain Gideon Horn got his nickname The Pirate Lord by plundering British lords. But when he and his crew discover a hidden island paradise, they dream of abandoning their lawless ways to build a peaceful colony. There’s just one problem: their utopia needs wives. So when a convict ship bound for New Zealand crosses their path, the pirates see the perfect solution and seize their brides-to-be…Miss Sarah Willis has other plans entirely. The spirited reformer and earl’s stepsister is traveling in disguise aboard the convict vessel, documenting the shameful treatment of transported women. Swept up in the pirates’ scheme, she refuses to let these vulnerable souls become unwilling brides. Sarah strikes a bargain with the infamous Pirate Lord: give the women a fortnight to choose their own fates. He counters with one week. She stirs rebellion below deck. He silences her protests with searing kisses that leave them both breathless.But as secrets surface and danger threatens their island haven, Sarah and Gideon discover that the greatest treasure isn’t gold or safety—it’s a love passionate enough to transform even the most notorious pirate into a man worth surrendering to…
by Philip Eliot | Aug 21, 2026 | Thriller & Suspense |
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY BOOKLIFE PRIZE: “A shocking ending well worth the wait.”When Ryan’s dying father gives him a sealed shoebox with instructions to open once he’s passed, Ryan can only speculate on what’s inside. The last thing he expects is for his father to take his own life, or for the shoebox to contain ten thousand dollars cash.But the money isn’t for Ryan; it’s for someone named Jamie Norton. When Ryan learns Jamie is an old friend of the family with a shady past, he looks to his mother for answers.But he isn’t the only one looking.Ryan thought he knew his parents. But the deeper he digs, the more he learns that some families will do whatever it takes to keep their secrets buried.“Kept me glued to my seat.”—The Avid Reader“I raced to the end and loved it.”—Book-A-Holic“Keeps you guessing until the last page.”—Jody’s Bookish Haven“An amazing twist you will not see coming.”—Emma Book BloggerI step into the kitchen. Nothing is ransacked or looted. The only sound is the plink of the dripping faucet against the dirty dishes in the sink. I move into the living room, listen again, then make my way toward the bedroom.“Hello?” I call out.There’s no answer.I stop just shy of our open bedroom door and peek inside. The bed’s unmade and the comforter’s halfway on the floor, but everything else is as I remember. I go to the dresser. The shoebox and money are still there along with the envelope.It isn’t like me to be this paranoid, but this damn money has me all turned around in the head. I should just burn it and be done with it, but that would be stupid, and Rachel would never forgive me. In the back of her mind, I know she still thinks there’s a chance we might keep it.I sit on the bed, already hating myself for what I’m about to do. It takes less than a minute to count the money, but all ten thousand is there—just as I knew it would be. I tell myself I only checked to remove all doubt that someone had been inside our house. That was all. It had nothing to do with the hundred-dollar bill I found inside Rachel’s purse.Nothing at all..
by Philip Eliot | Aug 21, 2026 | Dark Romance |
CROSS is a full-length, standalone first book in a steamy and suspenseful new MC Romance series – Devil’s Nightmare MC – by USA Today Bestselling Author Lena Bourne. No Cliffhanger, HEA Guaranteed!CrossI’m the guy whose name brings fear into the hearts of even the hardest men. They call me Cross, because I’ve killed enough men to fill a cemetery, and I never saw any problem with that. Until a woman I hardly remember brought my eleven-year-old daughter that I didn’t know existed, to my doorstep and left her for me to take care of.At first my daughter was a complication I didn’t need, but now I’ll do everything I can to raise her right. I’ll even stay away from her hot-as-sin guidance counselor Roxanne, who makes me feel like I’m twenty again, and not pushing forty. Which isn’t to say I wouldn’t show her what a real man can do with a woman like her.RoxieMy father was the president of an outlaw MC, and until I turned twenty-one a world of bikers, mayhem and crime was all I knew. Then a rival gang destroyed it all, killed my family and everyone I held dear, and made me the property of a brutal, ruthless man. I ran away, got an education, and haven’t looked back.Now I’m the guidance counselor at a small town junior high school, my old life so far behind me it might as well be someone else’s past, and I was happy to leave it there. But then I met Cross, the bad boy biker father of one of my wayward students. He makes me yearn for the life I lost, crave all the excitement that used to be my everyday. Makes me want to be a bad girl again, if only for one night.But I won’t go down that road again. It doesn’t lead anywhere good.Cross: Devil’s Nightmare MC is a biker romance novel, which deals with themes that may be uncomfortable for some readers. Intended for mature audiences.
