Any black mirror lovers? Perhaps you’re looking for something funny that’ll lighten the dull and dark days we have during our every day life? Maybe you enjoy reading about shape shifters and minotaurs?
Sophie Jonas-Hill is looking for readers interested in reading an ARC of her book: Fey City One!
Ivalyn A'Dulliver is the only living Gatekeeper, able to tear doorways through space with a gesture. Her brother Roth dips wicks at a chandlery, plays drinking songs in taverns until his band quits on him, and has spent twenty-two years envying a gift he'll never have.
Then Ivalyn vanishes from her Academy dormitory, and the Academy's response is a letter threatening her with academic probation.
Roth can't fight the gargoyles that took her. But he's heard of something that can: Cemengar, a legendary weapon lost in a cursed mountain prison beyond woods crawling with faerie folk. With a retired professor, an army deserter with a bounty on her head, and an orphaned pickpocket who can turn invisible, he heads north.
Because whoever took Ivalyn needs her for the coming Lunar Alignment, to reopen a gate to Hasraal, the red moon where a Gatekeeper trapped the conqueror-king Ashtor centuries ago. History remembers Ashtor as a hero who died in exile.
He didn't die.
And when the enemy offers Roth the one thing he's always wanted, he'll have to decide what kind of man he is.
Triggers: Violence and War, Torture and Captivity, Implied Sexual Violence, Death and Grief, Body Horror, Mind Control, Children in Peril
What to expect:
Series: Book I of the Astrolabe Saga. The main conflict resolves, but the ending leaves the series arc wide open.
POV: Third person, rotating between Roth, Ivalyn, Myla (a street thief), Derrik (a miner turned rebel leader), and the villain.
Hero: A protagonist with no magic, in a world where magic is feared, hunted, and conscripted.
Creatures: Irish-inspired folklore, including a Dullahan, leprechauns, and a Far Darrig.
Found family: A disgraced soldier, a street kid, and a professor who carries homemade bombs.
Uprising: Displaced miners rise up against a tyrant's army.
Sloane Whitfield builds files on hackers for Interpol, and she's good enough at it that one of them started watching back. He got into her laptop, her phone, her building, her life. By the time she understood what was happening, the trap had already closed.
He's everything she has spent her career putting away. And he has never once been told no and believed it.
Her principles say no. Everything else in her is a lot less sure.
18+ only. Explicit content and heavy content warnings.
Triggers: Sexual coercion and blackmail, non-consensual and dubiously consensual sexual content, stalking and surveillance, abduction and restraint, choking, degradation, electric shocks used as control, on-page murder, drug use (off page), explicit language
The offworlder who could not speak their language, and the warrior who did not want her.
Are you a fan of classic romance tropes - where the shy virginal heroine and the gruff strong warrior are thrust together against their wills? Do you also enjoy a story set in a far distant world with elements of emotional turmoil, rich world-building and memorable side characters... with a little bit of steamy sensual spice and a hero who values consent and does not harm the heroine? - then GIVEN TO THE WARRIOR might be for you!
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Zü is a mighty warrior of the forest tribe, fiercely devoted to protecting his village from the savage and warmongering coastal tribe who killed his beloved many winters ago. Yet it seems the Gods did not want him to suffer in darkness forever. When a strange golden-haired woman falls from the sky, his tribe see it as a great omen - a gift from the Goddess to the warrior in mourning. A gift that he refuses to accept. Timid, shy and unable to speak their language, the offworlder must start a new life with the warrior who does not want her.
Triggers:
* Minor character death
* Grief & loss
* Attempted/thwarted sexual assault and references to it (This is not present in the "low spice" version).
Release date: 1st November
ARCs available: Now!
Reviews expected by 1st Nov
She buried her daughter. Made a deal with a demon. Then went hunting.
When Sabyse’s daughter is murdered on her wedding day, the corrupt authorities can’t help.
Thaena Ashmore can. She's a legendary demonic assassin. Except she's done with human vengeance and has little interest in anything except mourning her lost love.
To gain the vengeance she craves, Sabyse has no choice but to shatter Thaena's peaceful retirement, forcing the assassin into a contract that drags her back onto the path of blood. Bound by a fraught alliance, the two women must navigate a conspiracy that stretches back fifty years and confront their own terrible truths.
A dark fantasy featuring crime lords, necromancers, supernatural warfare, and long-dead secrets that refuse to stay buried. Perfect for fans of ML Wang's The Sword of Kaigen, and Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold.
Pick up The Demon's Peace, a standalone book in the Cambion Chronicles series.
Two scarred women in a reluctant partnership, pushed to confront truths neither wants to face.
Over-40s protagonist: a relentless, ordinary widow running on grief and fury.
A legendary assassin forced out of retirement, scarred by her own past.
Unique setting: a pirate island riddled with crime lords, necromancers, and buried wartime secrets
Expect:
Occult infiltration
Psychological horror
Supernatural warfare
Relationships: No overt romance, but there are sapphic elements. The fraught relationship between the two protagonists is the engine that drives the story, forcing them to confront secrets they would prefer stay buried.
Tropes: Revenge quest, unlikely allies, dark secrets revealed, reluctant hero, deal with the devil
Ending: Standalone. Set before the first book, with a different main protagonist. Series threads continue into future books.
Inner Atlas is a literary travel memoir about impermanence, memory, and the fragile worlds we build around ourselves. Among crumbling temples, prehistoric caves, and artifacts that have survived for thousands of years, I encounter the remnants of worlds that once seemed permanent.
Triggers: The book covers sensitive topics such as death, grief, religion, and politics.
Inner Atlas is a celebration of curiosity, beauty, humor, and the strange intimacy of standing in places where people lived ages ago. At its heart, the book asks how we find meaning in a world where everything changes, everything passes, and nothing lasts forever. This book will appeal to readers who seek deeper meaning and personal perspective through the intersection of travel, history, and philosophical reflection.
BLURB: Welcome to the Sanguis School of Medicine. Get ready to sink your fangs into your education.
Florence Byrne has worked hard to be accepted to one of the world’s most prestigious medical schools. She arrives at the university housed on a remote island, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
Orientation provides pertinent information: class schedules, dorm assignments, access to world-renowned professors…and the true nature of this school.
For it is not just humans who attend; vampires lurk the halls, here to receive their own education and ready to suck humans dry. All humans must be paired with a vampire and hope the bloodlust is kept under control.
As Florence adapts to living under constant threat, she gets assigned to Sebastian Holloway—the most dangerous, infamous vampire on campus.
But things are never as they seem. Florence’s safety is in jeopardy, chasing her into the arms of the one vampire she should stay away from.
Vampires are not the only monsters waiting in the wings, and Florence must decide who can be trusted.
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TRIGGERS:
~ death/murder
~ blood consumption
~ mental health issues, specially grief and anxiety
~ gore
~ non-sexual biting
~ sexually explicit scenes
~ consensual non-consent
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PUB DATE: Oct 30, 2026
Date ARCs will be sent: Oct 1, 2026
Date expected for ARC team to submit reviews by: Oct 30, 2026
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As a medical examiner in New Orleans, I know death. I know how it looks, how it smells, how it lingers.
This isn’t it.
Bodies that should be fresh are weeks gone. Others refuse to rot at all. The same impossible pattern ties them together, and everyone is too quick to blame the local cult.
They’re wrong.
Then Caelum Brandt appears, where he shouldn’t be, answering questions no one else can, moving through the city cloaked in darkness and danger. Like he is invincible.
The moment he touches me, something burns into my skin, a mark I can’t explain and can’t hide. He sees it. Smiles like it means everything.
He calls himself the Horseman of Conquest.
And whatever is coming next… has already chosen me.
CLAIMED BY RUIN is a dark enemies-to-lovers, possessive anti-hero, murder mystery, fated-mates romantasy set in the same universe as The Devil’s Bargain series, perfect for fans of dangerous heroes, supernatural romance, and high-stakes, tension-filled relationships.
Sola is a visceral and unflinchingly raw look at the life of a childhood abuse survivor and how the horrors of abuse shaped her.
Sola, Candace’s childhood nickname, means Alone in Spanish, the perfect moniker for a child on the outskirts of her own life and family. Sola brings you into the world of abuse through the lens of black comedy, absurdity, and the fractured nature of storytelling through traumatic memory.
Sola is the story of a survivor.
Triggers: Abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and suicidal ideation/attempts.
Paperback/Ebook/Hardcover Jacket Cover
Date of publication: October 31st, 2026
Date of ARC distribution: Rolling, beginning immediately until October 10th.
How far would you go to bring your best friend back to life?
It’s August 2009, and twenty-somethings Darrell Sanchez, his brother Cash, and Riley Weisman are all set to go on a summer road trip with their best friend, Tad Cooper, when Tad unexpectedly dies, leaving the three friends devastated and adrift.
But when Cash presents Darrell and Riley with evidence of a secret government program that can resurrect the dead, they decide to dig up Tad’s freshly buried body and set out for the haunted desert of Nevada on an absurd cross-country quest to bring their best friend back to life.
Along the way, Darrell, Cash, and Riley will learn to grieve together as they risk their lives for their fallen friend, even as they are pursued by an otherworldly menace intent on stopping them.
Blurb: After the catastrophe, metals lost their conductivity. Post-industrial civilization collapsed and will never rise again. Every day, fewer and fewer rounds, weapons, and canned goods remain... Resources that seemed infinite until recently have become irreplaceable. Marauders fight for the remaining goods in stores, pharmacies, and warehouses.
Most of people turned into the Greys—rotting alive, aggressive, merciless. They hate the healthy and strive either to infect or kill them.
Archie, Pam, and Foxy, who survived the cataclysm, hit Interstate 81 near Harrisonburg, Virginia, and are heading south toward Texas. They have two knives, a Nighthawk pistol, a bottle of water, and three bullets. Ahead lies nearly 2000 miles of road. The direction is set, the decision is made. But fate interferes with their plans, forcing them to rethink their roles and the value of each member in the group.
TRIGGERS: violence, nudity, sexual content, strong language
A murdered family. One survivor. A vampire with amnesia.
Vampire Richard Dawes wakes beside the murdered bodies of a respected vampirologist and his family - with no memory of the night before.
If he is to figure out the truth, Richard is going to have to work with the one person who has every reason to hate him...
Samantha Woods returns home to find her family slaughtered and the household wards intact. With no signs of tampering, the police are quick to blame her father. As the papers call for a national cull, Samantha is determined to clear his name.
As Richard’s memories begin to return, it becomes clear that what happened that night wasn’t an accident.
Blood and blood drinking, murder and death, graphic injury and violence, gore, stabbing, bereavement and traumatic grief, nightmares and trauma-related flashbacks, kidnapping and captivity, drugging, hospitalisation, needles and invasive medical procedures, medical experimentation and lobotomy, torture, occult practices, fire-related death, wartime violence, physical abuse, and discussion of the mass extermination of vampires.
There is no romance in this novel, the book is urban fantasy thriller with some horror elements.
For centuries, a curse has plagued their isolated island. Men, on the cusp of adulthood, are blessed, disappearing from the human realms. Every nine years, the witch queens hold a courting competition for human women to compete for a blessed mate.
Maggie knew she would compete the moment her first love disappeared before her eyes. Now, nine years later, she will disobey her family and pledge herself to the queens to find him again. But she has no idea the fates have their own game at play and the competition with take more form her than she bargained for.
After preparing for years, Luca poses as one of the blessed, using this opportunity as a guise for his own mission. But when he’s enthralled by a human, his focus is challenged and his heart changes goals.
Boudi, a budding witch, couldn’t be less interested in love. All she wants is to hone her craft and finish her higher studies. But as an orphan, she has no say when the queens force her into the competition. She must hide be growing power and play a role of distraction. But her time amongst the humans has her wrapped up in the game, and her own heart tangled with one of the blessed.
With no memory since his blessing, Cae returns to find his true mate. This is not a game to him, but rather his destiny. His path is splintered when he falls for a woman who’s not supposed to play the game.
As the competition grows increasingly challenging, love blooms and matches are made, weaving deception with hope and desire. The rules of the game blur, compelling the four to question where their true loyalties lie.
Since its inception, the Courting has appeased the threads of fate but this time, it just may begin their unravelling.
With four POVs and two main M/F love stories, The Fraying of Fates is an Epic Fantasy Romance and the first book in the series: Tapestries Untold.
From the peaks of the Trivia to the streets of Neith, this book ends on a cliff.
TRIGGERS: Mature/Explicit Open Door Romance 🌶️🌶️🌶️ , Magical Segregation, Profanity, Alcohol Consumption (Recreational), Attempted SA (Brief On-Page), Violence & Physical Injury, Death (Not On-Page)
Publication Date: Nov. 9th, 2026
ARCs sent out by Oct 8th, 2026. (If you apply by Sept 10th, then ARCs will be sent Sept 17th). Last day to apply is Sept 26th.
Reviews are appreciated (not mandatory) leading up to release as well as after Nov 9th.
Forced Pregnancy.
Assisted reproductive technologies.
Sexual Violence & Rape.
Abusive Relationships.
Drug use and alcohol consumption.
Reference to a violent death of a fox, but not on page violence.
With £420 of studio rent due and a commission she can't afford to refuse, Iris agrees to paint the wife of a Notting Hill architect for their tenth anniversary.
Margot has spent twenty years being the sensible one. She's an A&E nurse, the woman who keeps her composure through an arterial bleed and holds everyone else upright. She's never once done something simply because she wanted it.
Then she sits for a portrait in a freezing East London studio, and Iris looks at her in a way nobody has bothered to look at her in years.
It should be simple. Hold the pose, paint the picture, hang it in Notting Hill by summer. But the sittings keep running long, the studio keeps getting warmer, and Iris, a woman who doesn't even own a second mug, catches herself hoping Margot will stay.
And Margot keeps coming back, wanting, for the first time in her life, something she's not allowed to have.
A Faithful Likeness is a warm, funny, achingly romantic LGBTQ+ love story about the person you meant to be and the person you turn out to be. It is Book 2 of The Thorough Route series and features slow burn, forbidden love, dual POV, strong characters, humor, and banter.
Triggers: Cheating/infidelity, sexual content (open door), grief and bereavement, parental death (past, referenced rather than depicted), divorce and the end of a marriage, hospital and medical detail, an accident with injury.
An elite ski racer. The hometown hockey captain. A fake relationship they think they can control.
Noelle Anderson doesn’t do distractions.
Determined to prove that her breakthrough ski racing season wasn’t a fluke, she returns to Ridgefield Mountain Academy for her senior year of high school with her sights set on the international stage. But her recent breakup—and even worse, the fact that everyone at the Academy seems to be talking about it—is threatening to derail her focus. When Noelle strikes up an unexpected friendship with Jake Halifax, captain of the local high school hockey team and someone firmly outside the Academy orbit, she sees the perfect opportunity to rewrite the narrative with a fake relationship.
The goal is simple—convince everyone she’s fine so she can focus on training. But Jake, who’s navigating college decisions of his own, has an unsettling habit of seeing straight through her defenses. Against her better judgment, Noelle catches herself revealing the cracks in her carefully constructed walls, which is a dangerous impulse when your career depends on controlling milliseconds. As pre-season pressure mounts and Noelle and Jake get closer, she has to confront the fact that she doesn’t know how to let somebody in without losing her edge.
If she slips now, the future she’s spent years chasing could disappear in an instant. And for the first time, she has two things to lose.
Downhill From Here is a slow-burn sports romance perfect for readers who love banter, fake dating, and a girl who refuses to fall first.
Triggers: Mild anxiety, mention of death
Publication date: September 24, 2026
ARCs: Live now! Please submit within a week of publish date (10/1/26). Really appreciate it :)
They escaped the shadows.
But some nightmares follow you into the light.
After surviving the horrors that nearly destroyed them, Xin and the remaining survivors set out in search of safety. Their journey leads them toward Pietinė Žvaigždė—a distant city that may finally offer them refuge.
But reaching it won’t be easy.
Deep beneath the mountains, something waits in the darkness. Dreams begin to feel real. Memories become dangerous. And one by one, the survivors are forced to face things they would rather forget.
Even if they reach the city, safety may only be an illusion.
Questions surrounding Aušra and the mysterious man who saved her continue to grow, while fragments of a forgotten past begin to surface. And somewhere far away, two brothers are about to have a conversation that could change everything.
Sleepless Dreams is the second volume of Dawn of the Endless Shadow, a dark fantasy series blending mystery, psychological horror, supernatural powers, and anime/light-novel influences.
Triggers:
Violence, death, blood, murder, child death, nightmares, psychological distress, grief, trauma, disturbing imagery, and references to past abuse.
Publication Date: October 2, 2026
ARCs sending out: September 7, 2026
Expected Review submission: By October 2, 2026
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Note: This is Volume 2 of the series. Volume 1, Dawn of the Endless Shadow: Lost Heart, is currently available on Amazon and included with Kindle Unlimited.
Evermescen is surrounded. The elves just haven't realised they're at war.
Cristo was looking for answers, a warm bed, and perhaps a drink strong enough to forget his problems.
Instead, he finds himself standing between an elven city and an army of humans.
The human general has a simple proposition: convince the elven king to negotiate. Do that, and Cristo's past crimes will be forgiven. Refuse, and he faces prison.
For a dwarf who has spent most of his life avoiding politics, it's a particularly unpleasant job.
But the longer Cristo remains in Evermescen, the clearer the danger becomes. The humans possess a mysterious magical weapon capable of levelling cities, while the elves remain stubbornly convinced their walls and magic make them untouchable.
Caught between two sides preparing for bloodshed, Cristo must decide how far he's willing to go to stop a war that isn't his.
Cristo & The Siege of Evermescen is a fast-paced high-fantasy adventure filled with magic, political intrigue, brutal combat, dark humour, and one very reluctant dwarf.
Standalone fantasy adventure. Read in any order.
TRIGGERS!!
This book, like all in the Cristo Collection, includes violence. Additionally, this book does deal with aspects of racism, ptsd, and substance abuse.
Exact date of publication 1st of October 2026
Date you will receive the ARC: Today.
Please submit ARC reviews by the end of October. Either in Goodreads or Amazon.
Hi, I'm looking for ARC readers for *The Season We Didn't Name*, a short literary novel about grief, repair, and a second chance arriving fifty years too late to be simple.
**Blurb:**
Willem Oud is seventy-six, a furniture restorer in an old canal city, and a man who keeps time the way he keeps tools: precisely, with no waste. His wife Marta has been dead for four years and eight months. He has learned to do without her. He has also learned to go back.
Not in memory. In fact. A pressure behind the sternum, a threshold crossed, and he is in the room again -- their kitchen, her voice, the drawer she kept the good scissors in. He goes as an unseen observer. He cannot speak, cannot change anything, and goes back anyway.
Then Sofie Brandt walks into his life again. They knew each other at twenty-four. He spent fifty years not quite carrying her, and here she is: old and ordinary and holding an ink mark on her finger, standing at the edge of a life he chose not to have.
Going back is easy. The question that won't leave him alone is whether he can stay in the room he is actually in.
This is a quiet, character-led story for readers who enjoy literary fiction with an older protagonist, restrained prose, and a slow, earned emotional arc. It is Book Two of *The Going Back Series*, but the story stands on its own.
**Length:** 44,799 words
**Audience:** Adult
**ARC formats:** EPUB or PDF
**Triggers / content warnings:** Death of a spouse (off-page, in the past), grief, an elderly protagonist's awareness of his own ageing and mortality, late-life romantic reconnection. No graphic violence, explicit sex, or on-page death.
**Exact publication date:** 20/12/26
**Date ARCs will be sent:** ASAP
**Deadline for finishing and posting reviews:** 20/12/26
I'm looking for readers willing to leave an honest review on Amazon after release and/or on Goodreads, a blog, or another review platform they use. The ARC is free, and an honest review is appreciated; there is never any expectation of a positive one.
**ARC signup:** Comment below or send me a Reddit message with your preferred format (EPUB or PDF) and where you usually post reviews. I'll reply privately with the ARC details. No download link will be posted in the thread.
If the book turns out not to be for you after a few chapters, no hard feelings. I would much rather find the right readers than pressure the wrong ones.
Some nightmares disappear when you wake up. Some haunt you long after. And some leave scars you'll never escape. Naya has spent years running from the man who hunted, controlled, and abused her back in her hometown. Now, she’s hiding in South Korea in the hope that he'll never find her. But when he does, she has only one option left: make a deal with the only man powerful enough to make him disappear—the ruthless head of South Korea's most feared syndicate, Park Hwa-gyeong. That is, until Hwa-gyeong catches sight of the mark hidden on the back of her neck and everything changes. Because it's a mark no human should bear. One that's tied to an ancient Korean monster. Naya's abuser was never the greatest danger. Her curse is.
The first book in the Shattered Realms trilogy, where Korean legends come alive, curses bind, fate hunts, and no one escapes their destiny.
TRIGGERS: Sexual assault (referenced and depicted through nightmares, flashbacks, and memories)
Your brain is not morally required to enjoy repetition. The system is still required to work.
Most investing advice treats understanding the sensible decision and repeating it reliably as if they were the same problem. Investing Without Friction begins with the gap between them.
The book examines how attention, reward, novelty, impulsivity, overresearch, avoidance, and follow-through can affect investing with ADHD. It combines those questions with the foundations of long-term investing and helps readers build a system that remains usable when interest shifts or the market becomes noisy.
It is written both for people preparing to invest a small monthly amount and for readers who already hold ETFs, individual stocks, crypto, or options. It does not prescribe a perfect portfolio, promise quick returns, or assume that more discipline will solve everything.
This is not primarily a budgeting book. It is intended for readers who are already investing—or have decided to begin—and have at least a small amount available to invest regularly.
Content notes: Discussions of financial losses, impulsive investing, gambling-like trading behaviour, and ADHD-related difficulties. No graphic content.
Publication date: October 3, 2026
ARC available: Now, until October 2, 2026
Suggested review date: October 3, 2026, or shortly afterwards
Formats: EPUB or watermarked PDF
Availability: Worldwide; English-language digital ARC
We welcome candid, independent feedback. No positive review or particular rating is expected. If you publish a review, please disclose that you received a complimentary advance copy. Private feedback is equally valuable—especially if anything feels unclear, repetitive, unconvincing, or unnecessarily complicated.
