by Philip Eliot | May 3, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
When a runaway bride hitches a ride from her best friend’s grumpy brother, their lives will never be the same.Anna Harris needs a getaway car after her wedding day ends in disaster. She may be a hopeless romantic, but she knows there’s no Prince Charming coming to her rescue. There’s only Beau, and right now, he’s her only chance at freedom.Beau Lawrence planned to sit through the ceremony and slip out before the reception. Helping the bride disappear wasn’t on his to-do list. But now here he is, walking her to his motorcycle, trying to ignore the way her trust in him stirs something long buried.Beau avoids relationships, and he is the last person Anna expected to give her hope as her life falls apart. And yet, what started as a desperate escape plan has quickly turned into the adventure of a lifetime—and maybe, just maybe, the answer to prayers she never knew to pray.But when they return to the real world after a life-changing week completing her honeymoon bucket list, will their differences destroy their happily ever after?If you loved the Blackwater Ranch series and the Wolf Creek Ranch series, get ready to fall in love all over again in Blackwater, Wyoming.
by Philip Eliot | May 3, 2026 | Crime Fiction |
Kate Adair is a New York investigative reporter targeting two things: a serial killer and a Pulitzer. When the first sets her in his sights, it is Kate who becomes the target.Taken to the wild Western North Carolina mountains to hide out, Kate’s investigation takes a turn. These mountains hold dangerous secrets for Kate. Isolated in the high hills, Kate meets people and discovers places that challenge everything she knows to be true.As Kate peels back the layers of her past, she finds herself at the center of the story—a story of family, sacrifice, a mother’s love, and murder.
by Philip Eliot | May 2, 2026 | Science Fiction |
When Sam Martinez finds himself abducted by aliens, he thought he was having a bad day. When he finds himself in charge of an eccentric collection of fellow captives on a stolen spaceship, he realizes it could always get worse.Thus begins the misadventures of Captain Martinez and the crew of the starship Schwarzenegger. Intent on finding their way back to Earth, they encounter strange new worlds, new life and new civilizations… and immediately piss them off.Follow their journey as they navigate through bizarre alien customs, evade a crime syndicate with a score to settle, and match wits with a galactic government that refuses to recognize humanity as a sentient species.Fans of Galaxy Quest and The Orville will love this story of a ragtag band of misfits discovering just how strange the universe really is.
by Philip Eliot | May 2, 2026 | Literary |
A Woman in the Wild is a revealing, emotionally rich, and unforgettable novel about trauma, abuse, grief, healing, forgiveness, resilience, and personal transformation.A psychologist in crisis leaves her established practice in the city for an open-ended retreat in the mountains at the Institute for Healing and Transformation. Feeling lost, betrayed, and burdened by guilt over not being able to save her daughter from abuse, she steps away from the life she once knew in search of peace, clarity, and a meaningful new path.Soon after her arrival, a mysterious “wild” man who had been roaming the forest with a bear is captured and brought to the institute. When he is placed in her care, she is drawn into a suspenseful and emotionally layered journey that challenges everything she believes about healing, identity, human connection, and the limits of therapy.As she hikes the mountain trails and meditates each day, she begins an inner journey that shakes her loose from the familiar. In the silence and solitude of the wilderness, she is forced to confront her own pain, sorrow, guilt, betrayal, and unanswered questions. Over time, she wrestles with the weight of her past, the wounds of motherhood, the meaning of self-forgiveness, and the possibility that true healing may come not through control, but through surrender, courage, love, and deep self-discovery.Set against a powerful natural landscape, A Woman in the Wild is both a psychological novel and a story of emotional healing. It explores the hidden forces of the unconscious, the complexity of trauma recovery, the ache of loss, and the human search for meaning after life has been broken open.Readers who enjoy literary fiction, psychological fiction, women’s fiction, emotional healing stories, trauma recovery themes, and novels about resilience, self-discovery, and transformation will find this book deeply engaging and thought-provoking. It is an absorbing and dramatic story of abuse, inner conflict, survival, healing, and the search for peace.The Orpheus Trilogy by Tad Crawford explores the life dramas of people bound together by grief, guilt, loss, forgiveness, love, and the struggle to heal. A Woman in the Wild is Book 2 of the trilogy. Book 1, The Cave of Forever, is scheduled for publication in May 2027. Book 3, The Mysterious Velocity of Love, is scheduled for publication in May 2029.
by Philip Eliot | May 2, 2026 | Womens Fiction |
Five sisters. Five journeys. One family. Dawn Kalama fostered hundreds of children over the years. She was a pillar of their community in rural Hawai’i… until her husband passed away, leaving her unmoored and adrift. The Aloha Sisters come together to support their mother and seek refuge from the stormy seas of their own lives.Anne left the island at seventeen. When her marriage and career both come crashing down, she brings her kids home to Pualena. Can she build a new life in a place filled with the ghosts of her past?Laurie never felt like she belonged. She’s the family introvert, always at the edge of things. But as her situation at home grows more desperate, she has to reach out to the people who love her most.Oakley has a picture-perfect life… at least at first glance. Cracks are spidering beneath her bright facade, and she needs her sisters more than any of them realize.Halia is the eldest sister, only thirteen years younger than her adopted mother. With Dawn a faint shadow of her former self, the responsibilities of family matriarch are on her shoulders.Akemi is a globe-trotting content creator who hasn’t stayed in one place for more than a few months since the day she left home. But that might change now that the baby of the family is expecting a baby of her own…Set against the lush beauty of the Big Island, this heartfelt women’s fiction novel explores sisterhood, second chances, and the courage it takes to begin again.
