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.
by Philip Eliot | May 2, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
An FBI agent must protect the woman who can identify a terrorist bomber in bestselling author Susan Sleeman’s riveting romantic suspense novel. Each day could be her last…but not if he can help it.Tara Parrish is the only person ever to survive an attack by the Lone Wolf bomber. Scared and emotionally scarred by her near death, she goes into hiding with only one plan–to stay alive for another day. She knows he’s coming after her, and if he finds her, he will finish what he started.Agent Cal Riggins has had only one goal for the past six months–to save lives by ending the Lone Wolf’s bombing spree. To succeed, he needs the help of Tara Parrish, the one person who can lead them to the bomber. Cal puts his all into finding Tara, but once he locates her, he realizes if he can find her, the Lone Wolf can, too. He must protect Tara at all costs, and they’ll both need to resist the mutual attraction growing between them to focus on hunting down the bomber, because one wrong move could be fatal.
by Philip Eliot | May 2, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
A marriage of convenience brings a family together—and heals broken hearts—in this historical inspirational romance from the award-winning author.Mitch Hammond is a man of his word. And as far as Cora Beth Collins is concerned, that’s a problem. The stubborn sheriff has vowed never to love again, for fear of wounding someone else. The most he can offer Cora Beth is marriage in name only. And with no other way to adopt two runaway orphans and keep her patchwork family together, she accepts.Mitch is doing the honorable thing. So why does it feel so wrong? Despite his intentions, Mitch is starting to want more from Cora Beth . . . and from himself. For in her trusting eyes he sees everything he hopes to be—as a lawman, a father and a husband.
by Philip Eliot | May 2, 2026 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
Funny, romantic and a little bit wicked, this is Mhairi McFarlane… with vampires!I mean hey, what’s the worst that could happen? Ok fine, the worst that could happen is that I didn’t imagine those fangs after all…Squeaky clean good girl Lucy Partridge is a sucker for heartwarming tales and happy endings. So a weekend reporting on the Whitby Goth Weekend is well outside her comfort zone. As is sharing her tiny annexe accommodation with all six feet three inches of bad boy bar owner Liam Bramwell. And that’s before she discovers that he’s an actual living – or, er, ‘undead’ – vampire!Logically, Lucy knows she should run the other way, but the reporter in her can tell there’s more to Bram than his fangs. It’s clearly time for this good girl to take a walk on the dark side, and if that path leads her straight into Bram’s muscular tattooed arms? Well, a girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do…Readers are obsessed with Love at First Bite!‘It’s funny, it’s quirky, it’s romantic… an iconic book’ ?????‘ATE THIS UP!’ ?????‘This book was such a vibe!’ ?????‘Delightful combination of cozy romance and horror… Lots of snark, amusing self banter, and slow burn sizzle…Love these characters, can’t wait for more.’ ?????’…One-bed forced proximity, opposites attract, and a secretly soft undead hero, and I was completely sold.’ ?????’SO CUTE. Ultimate black cat/golden retriever pairing.’ ?????’I literally read this book in one sitting… I just had to find out what happened between Lucy and Bram…so heartwarming.’ ?????
About the Author Katherine Dyson studied Creative Writing at the University of Leeds and worked as a marketing copywriter and a greeting card verse writer for over fifteen years before finding her way back to fiction. These days she works as a teaching assistant in a primary school by day, and by night she writes uplifting stories about love and, apparently, vampires.
