by Philip Eliot | Mar 9, 2026 | Fantasy |
If you’d asked me a week ago, I would have told you that the best cupcakes were dark chocolate with chocolate cream cheese icing, that dancing in a crowd of magic wielders — the Adept — was better than sex, and that my life was peaceful and uneventful. Just the way I liked it. That’s what twenty-three years in the magical backwater of Vancouver will get you — a completely skewed sense of reality. Because when the dead werewolves started showing up, it all unraveled … except for the cupcake part. That’s a universal truth.Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic is the first book in the Dowser series, which is set in the same universe as the Oracle, Reconstructionist, Amplifier, Archivist, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series. While it is not necessary to read all the series, in order to avoid spoilers the ideal reading order of the Adept Universe begins with Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1).
by Philip Eliot | Mar 9, 2026 | Fantasy |
Red Riding Hood & Beauty and the Beast meet Dragons in this fast-paced fantasy about a young woman caught up in a world steeped in danger and all the power and fiery heat of dragons. Gillian was willing to enter the Shadowlands and trade her life for her brother. Getting caught by the son of the Great Dragon was not the trade she’d bargained for. Now she’s a captive, far from home, learning a tangled web of history she’s somehow part of.But there is more to the lords who rule the Shadowlands than stories of her youth could’ve prepared her for, and she finds her heart thawing in the face of their fiery heat. Torn between duty to family and longing for the forbidden, Gillian must choose a path and, thereby, a future.And time is running out.Journey into an action-packed book that blends romance, fantasy, and dragon lore into an unforgettable read.
by Philip Eliot | Mar 9, 2026 | General Nonfiction |
The true crime story of the Texas mother who murdered her two young sons in 1996.Not since the Susan Smith case have two murders so shocked the nation . . . Hush Little Babies is the appalling true story of Darlie Routier, the neighborhood’s most wonderful mom, who, one night, coldly, calculatingly and brutally stabbed her two sons and watched them die in a pool of their own blood.Darlie claimed an intruder had come through the window, fatally stabbed her sons, six-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon, slashed her throat with the same knife, then fled, while her husband and infant sons slept upstairs. At first Darlie’s heartfelt testimony evoked fear and sympathy in her safe Dallas community. Then police became suspicious after these troubling questions were raised:· Why, according to a police report, didn’t Darlie make any attempt to help her dying sons?· Why, when she called 911, did she tell the dispatcher that her own fingerprints would be on the murderer’s knife because she had picked it up?· Why did the trail of blood left behind contradict Darlie’s testimony?From the dark forces that drove her to kill her own flesh and blood, to the evidence that snared her in her own twisted web, here is a chilling account of homemaker, loving wife, mother of three, and cold-blooded killer—Darlie Routier.
by Philip Eliot | Mar 9, 2026 | Horror & Paranormal |
When George Sinclair discovered he can destroy ghosts and save their victims, he became a ghost killer.Now, George works alongside his new friends and assists the Watchers: an international group of ghost killers and supernatural experts who monitor the world for ghostly sightings and demon infestations, maintaining the balance between the living and the dead.When San Francisco and the surrounding area are suddenly plagued by rogue ghosts and demons, the Watchers know it isn’t a random occurrence. As George and the Watchers investigate, they discover that a demonic presence is behind the attacks.With time and odds against them, they must find the source of evil and destroy it, or risk extinction of all humankind.
by Philip Eliot | Mar 9, 2026 | Fantasy |
New York Times-bestselling author: Take flight with the first adventure in the Owl Mage trilogy—an epic fantasy full of action, gryphons, and an elf-like race that forms magical bonds with birds.After fleeing into the forest when barbarians attack his village, a young orphan encounters the Hawkbrothers—and finds his place among them.Darian’s parents had been hunters who worked in the Pelagiris forest, trapping the bizarre change-creatures which had been created by the mage-storms, and selling their fantastic hides. But Darian had not accompanied them on their last expedition into the Pelagiris—a hunt from which they never returned.Now Darian is apprenticed to Wizard Justyn, a kindly old man who insists that Darian has “talent.” But Darian, grieving over his parents, has no interest in magic—and instead of studying, finds solace in the forest, where can hide among the huge trees and mourn in privacy.It is from this secret retreat on the edge of the Pelagiris that Darian sees an army of northern barbarians sack and burn his village. Alone and helpless, Darian flees into the deep forest. But unbeknownst to him, the Hawkbrothers—an old, magical, and elf-like race—dwell in the ancient woods, and his flight will lead him on a path of discovery which neither Justyn nor Darian’s parents could have ever predicted.
