by Philip Eliot | Apr 30, 2026 | New Adult Romance |
Rule #1: Never fall for your client.Rule #2: Never fall for your client’s fiercely protective, smoking hot sister-in-law.I’m the kind of guy who believes that everyone deserves the best legal representation money can buy—which just so happens to be me, Lucas Wright. Give me your henpecked, your cuckolded, your irreconcilable differences yearning to break free. And if you’re the bad guy in your marriage, that’s cool, too. Your green is as good as anyone’s.Tell that to Trinity Jones. It’s my job to destroy her sister—the soon-to-be ex-wife of my a-hole of a client—and Trinity’s “big sis” instincts are dialed up to the max. I admire that. I admire her. But she won’t stop me from representing my client to the best of my ability.Not even if my chemistry with Trinity is undeniable. Not even if we can’t keep our hands off each other. Not even if she injects life into a heart assumed to be long dead.Because when faced with a choice between love and duty, the job will always win—or at least that’s what I thought before I met Trinity . . .And suddenly conflict of interest never felt so right.Previously published.
by Philip Eliot | Apr 30, 2026 | New Adult Romance |
She’s brilliant, cautious, and back where she doesn’t belong.He’s reckless, sun-kissed, and exactly the kind of trouble she swore she’d avoid.Now they’re stuck together—and neither of them plays fair.WalkerI swore I’d never come back. Two years ago, I left without a word, trading designer wardrobes and late-night dim sum for libraries and lecture halls.My plan is simple: slip in unnoticed, finish my research, and get the hell out. No one needs to know I’m back.Especially not him.Heath Lawrence.The guy who still looks devastatingly perfect in low-slung board shorts, who can still unravel me with a single glance. The same guy who shredded my heart the last time I trusted him.It’s been two years.I’ve moved on.Obviously.So why wouldn’t I accept his help getting into the library for my research? There’s nothing between us but a bunch of old memories that don’t mean anything.But being trapped in close quarters with him—watching him fidget beside me, sun-kissed limbs distracting in the worst way possible—is a dangerous game.A game I’m not sure I’ll survive.HeathWalker Halifax shattered my heart two years ago when she disappeared without a word. Everyone witnessed my breakdown, but no one knows why she left or why she hasn’t been seen since.Seeing her again is like being hit by a storm I didn’t see coming. I thought I could handle it, but seeing her bite her lip, catching the scent of that familiar shampoo…I’m not as strong as I thought I was.There’s a reason she left. And I need to remember exactly what it was.But every heartbeat, every glance, every word whispers that maybe this time, losing her isn’t an option I can survive.Ace of Betrayal is perfect for readers looking for:Second chance romance w/ lots of angstForced proximityBroody, possessive surfer MMCsStudious book-loving FMCsFound family friend groupsRevenge plots & morally gray characters
by Philip Eliot | Apr 30, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
Her sister died yesterday. Her nephew is three weeks old. The stranger in the limo says he’s the baby’s guardian.Sarah just finished identifying two bodies at the Manhattan morgue — her sister Leah, her brother Elijah — when a black limousine glides to the curb and a stoic surgeon in a three-thousand-dollar coat steps out holding her infant nephew, Joshua. Cyrus Norouzi is a world-class cardiac specialist, a natural-born son of the trillionaire Norouzi family, and the man Leah secretly named in her will.Sarah is a waitress. Cyrus wants her to move into his beach compound in Virgin Cove and co-raise the child her sister left behind. She’s too broke to say no. Too proud to look grateful.And then Darren Davis comes back.Sarah’s mother’s old pimp — the man who sold Sarah’s virginity at sixteen — has heard there’s Norouzi money on the table, and he wants his cut.Forced proximity. Billionaire + nanny. Guardian of infant nephew. Quiet stoic hero meets a survivor who refuses to let him save her.
by Philip Eliot | Apr 30, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
I never meant to come back to the small town I fought so hard to leave.But after a broken engagement leaves my life in pieces, I have nowhere else to go.Then I see Jimmy Langston.My childhood best friend.The boy next door I was forced to leave behind.The one person I never knew how to let go of.Only Jimmy isn’t a boy anymore. He’s taller. Rougher. Built from hard years and heartbreak—and still looking at me like I’m the one girl he never forgot.Now we’re both back for the same wedding, surrounded by old memories, unfinished feelings, and the kind of chemistry neither of us can outrun.With the wedding throwing us together at every turn, staying away from Jimmy is impossible.I lost him once.I’m not sure I’ll survive losing him again.
by Philip Eliot | Apr 30, 2026 | New Adult Romance |
A sexy, brother’s best friend sports romance from # 1 New York Times bestseller Lauren Blakely!Let me make a few things clear. I didn’t go to the wedding intending to dance with the best man, to dare him to show me a very sexy pic on his phone, or to accidentally kiss him in the hotel elevator after the reception ended.But things just happen at weddings…The next day, Crosby and I agree to put all those shenanigans behind us. The fun-loving, stupidly gorgeous, all-star baseball player might be my brother’s best friend, but he’s my good friend too and has been for years.I can’t risk losing him even though now I can’t stop thinking about how much I want him to be my first.After he takes me to a gala, I make him a proposition. A few nights of friends with benefits, and the benefits are lots and lots of Os. The biggest rule of all? We walk away friends.But the more nights we spend together, the more I start to feel for my friend. What will happen to our friendship if we rip up the rulebook?This is Crobsy and Nadia’s romances. Tropes include: best friend’s sister, sports romance, lessons in seduction, fake dating
