by Philip Eliot | Jun 28, 2026 | Fantasy |
Ancient Orkney: a world of warring Celtic tribes, pagan gods and dark magic.The Selkie Wars are over. The finmen have been banished to one remote, rocky island. The Orkadi clan are unchallenged. Yet there are rumours of finmen sightings, and some claim that the speys, Orka’s witches, still practice their rituals in clifftop tombs and among the standing stones.Talorc arrives at King Anga’s court claiming an enormous sea serpent devoured his family and burned his village. He insists he saw a druid of the finmen summon it with blood magic.Runa is Princess of the Orkadi. She believes Talorc’s story and sides with him, even though he bears the mark of the finfolk and can summon their magic. Runa knows what it is to carry a secret.As blood darkens the sea and King Anga prepares for war, Talorc and Runa set out to discover the truth. Their journey takes them from selkie caves to mountaintop rituals, and from the dark isle of the finmen to the halls of their god, the Sea Mother.“A born storyteller weaves Scottish island myths into a driving narrative of survival”— Ian Stephen, Saltire Award–nominated author“Extraordinary… right up there with Chronicles of Ancient Darkness”— Mara Menzies, Scottish Book Award–winning author”Urgent drama and ancient magic… I devoured it in a single sitting”— Peter Snow, Author of A Rosslyn TreasuryCeltic mythology meets epic fantasy in the opening chapter of The Orkney Cycle, a sweeping saga of pre-Christian Scotland and Northern Europe written by USA Today bestselling author and oral storyteller Daniel Allison.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 28, 2026 | Christian Fiction |
She left ten years ago and promised herself she would never come back.Ten years ago, Dr. Reagan Cole left the Gulf Coast island of Tidewater Crossing in the middle of the night — no explanation, no goodbye, and no intention of ever returning. The town wrote the story without her. Her ex-fiancé held the pen. And Reagan let them, because the truth was something she wasn’t ready to speak out loud.Now a respected marine biologist, Reagan is sent back to the very beach she fled to lead a critical sea turtle conservation project during nesting season. The assignment is career-defining. The location is soul-destroying. And the man the local church has assigned to partner with her on the project is the last person she expected — Colton Morrow. Her ex-fiancé’s older brother. The quiet one. The steady one. The one who has no idea what really happened the night she left.Colton has spent a decade believing the same story everyone else believed. But the woman standing in front of him doesn’t look like someone who left because she didn’t care. She looks like someone who left because she had no other choice. And the closer they work together — long nights on the nesting beach, a community that’s slow to forgive, and a conservation fight that puts them directly at odds with his own family — the harder it becomes to ignore the cracks in the story he’s been told.As old secrets press toward the surface and new feelings refuse to stay buried, Reagan and Colton must each face a question they’ve been avoiding: What happens when the truth costs you everything you thought you knew — your family, your reputation, your carefully constructed peace — and God asks you to tell it anyway?Set against the breathtaking Gulf Coast shoreline, Where the Tide Returns is a story about the courage it takes to go back to the place that broke you, the grace that meets you when you get there, and the kind of love that only grows in the soil of honest, Christ-centered truth.Tides of Grace SeriesBook One: Where the Tide ReturnsBook Two: Where the Shore BeginsBook Three: Where the Bayou BendsBook Four: Where the Current CarriesBook Five: Where the Water Remembers
by Philip Eliot | Jun 28, 2026 | New Adult Romance |
Troy Marshall doesn’t do chaos.Or feelings.Or anyone who threatens the control he’s spent years perfecting as a ruthless lawyer turned politician.But then free-spirited Georgia Cameron moves in.She’s the nanny.His grandson’s nanny.Too young, too reckless, and way too curious for a man with a political reputation to protect.She should be off-limits.But try telling that to the part of him that can’t stop watching her.Georgia:The Hamptons were supposed to be a break—one last summer job before I figure out my next move.Instead, I got a brooding, single grandfather who makes my skin prickle and my heart pound.He’s twice as grumpy as anyone warned me and ten times more magnetic than he has any right to be.And when the walls come down between us, what we find in the quiet is nothing like what I expected.He has a campaign to win.I have a past I can’t outrun.But somehow, in the middle of secrets and second chances, we keep finding our way back to each other.And maybe that’s the real risk.Not falling for him—But what happens when I have to leave.This is book 1 in the Whitewood Creek Farm series and can be read as a standalone. Guaranteed HEA.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 28, 2026 | Fantasy |
“Thanks for your concern, but I don’t need your protection. I have a mystical cat, an unprincipled gnome with a violent streak, and I have my magic.”Betty Lennox is an elemental witch on a mission to leave her desert hometown of Smokethorn, California, for good. But first, she needs to sell the property she inherited from her mother to someone who, among other things, doesn’t mind living in a paranormal seniors’ trailer park in a town where it’s so hot in summer that the local demons head back to Hades to cool off.She’s also running low on cash to keep up the protection spell on the park. When she’s offered a job to procure a cursed grimoire, one so dangerous the local coven won’t touch it, she takes it. Even though the job comes from a vicious wolf alpha who won’t rest until she’s dead.To get the grimoire and keep her soul, she’ll have to lean on her partner—a magic cat named Fennel—Cecil, a homicidal garden gnome, a graveyard demon, her retired necromancer best friend, and her second-least favorite bartender in town, who also just happens to be the wolf alpha’s son.If they can manage to work together without killing each other, Betty just might survive.For fans of urban fantasy with a side of slow-burn romance.
by Philip Eliot | Jun 28, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
When a romantically awkward pro hockey star asks his sassy next-door neighbor for kissing lessons, it’s all business—until it’s not. Can love between this unlikely pair score a win, or will it get iced?Blake Barrett here. My wicked wrist shot’s on fire, and the NHL spotlight’s on me. But off the ice? Let’s say my skills could use some work. Enter Michaela Wagner, my new neighbor—a sharp attorney with no time for my fumbling. When she offers kissing lessons, I jump at the chance, confident there’s no risk of getting attached. Love isn’t for me, thanks to my parents’ disastrous marriage. Happily-ever-after? Yeah, right.Meanwhile, Michaela’s dream is finding her Prince Charming, though she’s certain he’s not me. Yet somehow, our practice sessions pull us closer, and her smile and fierce spirit keep getting under my skin. Her optimism challenges my beliefs, and I start questioning if maybe I’ve been wrong all along.As our connection deepens, my fears claw at me. Letting her in risks not just my heart, but the fragile control I’ve fought to keep over a life that’s one mistake away from fracturing. And I’m not sure I can survive that.
