by Philip Eliot | May 29, 2026 | Crime Fiction |
Would You Kill to Keep a Secret? Bob Anderson — local banker, city council member, and now murder victim — had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wants those files; no one can find them.Katy Williams was hired to make the Plains City Gazette into a modern newspaper. She’s got enough on her plate with the newspaper, a Texan boyfriend, and Texas in general. She’s understaffed, overworked and just grateful to get the newspaper out every day.But someone wants Bob Anderson’s files bad enough to kill. He’s killed once, and he’s willing to do it again to keep his sins hidden. Unfortunately for Katy, half the town want those files, for all kinds of reasons. And they think she has them.Katy can either find the files and publish, or she can end up as the next victim of a very determined murderer.First in a historical mystery series, A Newspaper in Texas, set in the 1980s.
by Philip Eliot | May 29, 2026 | Romantic Suspense |
First Sergeant Mack McClanahan loved his wife, Charlotte, more than anything. The two of them dreamed of having a big family. After years of miscarriages and heart break, Charlotte packs her things and leaves, telling him to have the dream with someone else.He couldn’t convince her that the only thing he really wanted was her… that she was all the family he needed.After retiring from the military, he moves to Upstate New York to live like a hermit. He spends his days refurbishing an old farm house, and spending time with his dog, Bo, trying to forget the woman he lost.Just when he’s settled into his lonely existence, spending the holidays alone, his ex-wife shows up at his door with a knife wound in her stomach, and bad guys on her trail.Before he gets his old team together, he asks her, “Who did this to you?”Four Calling Birds is the first in the Mourningkill series. All of the books can be read as a standalone. No other books must be read before this.
by Philip Eliot | May 29, 2026 | Science Fiction |
In the vein of Girls with Bright Futures, a mother-daughter story with apocalyptic stakes.
“AI Baby explores how far parents will go for their children in a world where intelligence can be engineered—and love may be the last thing that can’t be programmed. A must-read.” — Dana Frank, Best-Selling Author of Get Up And Get On It
Tiger mom Erica Barbieri has sacrificed everything, including her marriage, to get her daughter Zoey to the top of her class. Zoey thinks her mom is lovingly psychotic but knows her methods equal survival in The Hunger Games of college admissions. Senior year begins with Zoey poised to be valedictorian and Harvard acceptance a “likely.” Neither sees the threat coming.
Fenella Kingsley, a genius with supermodel looks, rolls into their elite Seattle prep school and dethrones Zoey. Erica insists she’s too perfect and suspects Fenella’s mother, billionaire Lannie Kingsley who runs the AI company Prometheus, has engineered her intelligence. Erica lands a job at Prometheus to investigate while Zoey befriends Fenella, falling under Lannie’s influence. Erica breaks into the Kingsley mansion to find Zoey and makes a mind-bending discovery. Confronted by her own failures, she must fight for Zoey and the essence of what it means to be human. But her success may depend on the one person she fears the most.
“AI Baby has compelling, complex characters and a strong story that could be less fictional than many think…I couldn’t wait to see how it turned out…Brava!” –Karen Smiley, Founder, She Writes AI
“Smart, humorous and a somewhat terrifying look at life, where we are now and what might soon be our reality. I loved every minute of it.” — Stacey R. Campbell, Author of the Highly Rated Lakeview Series
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by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2026 | Contemporary Romance |
He never touched another woman. Never wanted to. She was always his—even when she didn’t know it.He came home from the Army broken and full of regret. She came home a widow, exhausted and starting over.Lily never planned to return to Sweetbriar, Oregon. But at thirty, widowed with a six-year-old and a baby in tow, home is the only place left to go. She’s made peace with the life she built—and with the hole left in her heart since Luke walked away.Luke never stopped loving her. Not when he left to protect her from himself. Not through years of silence, unopened letters, and the kind of grief that hollows a person out. Coming home meant facing everything he’d lost—and everything he’d done wrong.Now they’re back in the same small town, tangled up in the same close-knit family, and the feelings neither of them could ever completely bury are rising to the surface.But Lily’s been through too much to risk her heart on hope.And Luke knows that this time, love won’t be enough—he has to earn her trust back, one careful step at a time.In My Heart is a slow-burn, emotionally rich second-chance romance about two people who never truly let go and the courage it takes to choose each other again.
by Philip Eliot | May 28, 2026 | New Adult Romance |
Ada Rose never expected to find herself homeless in her thirties. Then again, she also never thought she’d encounter a man as heartless as Jonathan Oaks. Her job managing a care home for the elderly is a struggle and the sudden death of her father and stepmother—who she had been living with— has thrown her world into disarray. The house is left to Jonathan, her stepmother’s estranged son, and he wants Ada gone ASAP.In fact, he’s given her a week to pack her things and move out.As a resident in the home, Ada knows she has certain rights but her pride gets the better of her. If Jonathan wants her gone then she’ll go, and finding herself out of options, resorts to sleeping in her car. But she’s a survivor and has gotten through a lot worse.After a week and still finding no apartments in her price range, Ada is getting desperate. She receives a call from Jonathan requesting she come collect some of her late father’s belongings. She doesn’t expect him to be there when she drops by, and after he takes one look at Ada’s possessions stuffed into her car she’s filled with a sense of shame. Resentment, too, because he’s the very reason her life has been upended.Being a wealthy investment banker, Ada anticipates Jonathan’s disdain for her situation but it never comes. Instead he mentions a vacant apartment he owns and offers to rent it to her for a reasonable price. Not willing to look a gift horse in the mouth, Ada accepts his offer. But what she doesn’t realise is that the apartment is right next door to Jonathan’s, and becoming his neighbour means getting to know him a whole lot better.Quietly Yours is book #3 in L.H. Cosway’s Quiet Love Series and can be read as a standalone.
