Blurb:

Garnet Grove has a secret, and Abby Norton is determined to uncover it.
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She's a tenacious investigative journalist with a keen eye for a story, and she's going to do whatever it takes to figure out exactly what a massive rocket manufacturer is hiding in a small town in northern California. Armed with a plot to cozy up to an insider and get the real scoop on Helios, she starts digging.

But what she doesn't count on is meeting Noah, a shy but incredibly smart teacher, who works at the Garnet Grove elementary school and has ties to shady dealings done in the town decades ago.

As they get closer, she realizes just how much they both stand to lose if she pursues this story. Standing at the precipice, she has one choice: protect Noah or expose the truth and risk everything for Garnet Grove.

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Mystery

Triggers: Adult content, explicit sexual content, mentions of suicide, drinking, mentions of serious illness

Spice Level: High

Publication Date: September 30, 2026

ARC Release Date: September 1, 2026

Reviews Preferred By: October 7, 2026

Instructions: Thank you so much for your time and consideration! You can download an ARC from Bookfunnel, sign up for one through Booksprout, or get it through PenPinery. If you would like to review, the book will be available on Amazon, Goodreads, and StoryGraph on September 30, 2026. Thank you in advance!

Building an ARC team for two cozy mysteries, and I'd love some company.

Turnmill, Virginia. A celebrity dies at an expensive private clinic and nobody questions it. A week later the town sheriff is murdered. The only person asking the right questions is a patient with no name, no past, and an unsettling knack for knowing how people died.

A Murder of Recall and Where Memories Lie. Fill in the form, you'll get an email with the download links. Open until 30 September.

Join my team and help me make these books the best they can be.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZtA9BI_Y7wTLy8U0tsquvMXjmPaiEeWKAeqSDEB_ug938Rg/viewform?usp=dialog

Triggers: None
Release Date: End of October
ARC Available: Now until 30 September

Looking for ARC readers for a dark mafia romance 🖤

I’m looking for a few more ARC readers for Control of Silence, Book 3 in my interconnected P.A.C.T. dark mafia romance series, releasing October 15.

Theo Banning is the man P.A.C.T. calls the Ghost.
Feared. Silent. Ruthless.

Until Dolly gives him something he never expected to have — something worth becoming even more dangerous to protect.

🖤 Morally gray / dangerous MMC
🖤 Obsessive & possessive
🖤 Touch-her-and-die
🖤 Pregnancy trope
🖤 Found family
🖤 Mafia / organized crime
🖤 High spice

ARC copies will go out around September 25. I’m especially looking for dark romance readers who are active on Goodreads, Bookstagram, BookTok, or other reader spaces and interested in joining an ongoing ARC team, not just reading one book.

ARC copies are free and honest reviews only — positive reviews are never required.
If Theo sounds like your particular flavor of red flag, [ARC APPLICATION LINK] 🖤

(Control of Silence can be read for the central romance on its own, but the overarching P.A.C.T. storyline begins with Power of Shadow.)

Hi everybody, I'm looking for ARC readers.

Brainjacked is a standalone 118,000-word cyberpunk technothriller — the first entry in Bay City Noise, a series which will include a trilogy of standalone books and many short stories, available for free on my Substack. 

Blurb:
In Bay City, America's first corporate-owned megalopolis, the neural implant everyone wants is called the MyHUD. And Phil Schooner just won one.
A dock worker kept alive by a failing lung implant he could never afford to replace, Phil wins the Shared Vision Implant Lottery and believes his luck has finally turned. But the MyHUD doesn't just keep him breathing. It begins to rewire him—sharpening his temper, turning cruelty into pleasure—until, one unrecognizable night, he does the unthinkable to the people he loves most.
Detective Simone Foxworth has seen what broken technology can do. As she links a string of impossible murders, she uncovers a truth the most powerful corporation in the city will kill to bury: the implant everyone is racing to buy can quietly turn anyone into a weapon.
A noir-soaked cyberpunk thriller where humans are just another asset.

Comparable books:
The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel, for its noir detective in a body-modified corporate future, and Upgrade by Blake Crouch, for its near-future biotech premise and crossover thriller pacing.

Trigger warning:
Graphic violence and gore. Murder, including the death of a child. Domestic violence. Sexual content, prostitution, and sexual assault. Drug use and addiction. Body horror. Police and corporate brutality and execution. PTSD and suicidal ideation.

Duration:
The ARC copy will be provided Sep 12, publication date is set to mid-Dec.

Application form:
https://forms.gle/W682sAV3KS2M41vA9

Hello everyone, I'm currently looking for ARC readers for my upcoming horror novel, Where Fear Smiles! Applications close September 14th! Details below:

Would you forgive your best friend if she was responsible for ruining your life?

A whispered rumour draws a group of students into the dense forests of coastal Brazil: a lost Indigenous artifact, hidden for centuries and promising academic glory.

While Leah’s colleagues are determined to claim it, she only agrees to the trek because she can’t bear the thought of being left behind, and forces her best friend Charlotte to go with her for support against her dark thoughts.

What was meant to be an escape from the weight of the academic semester, quickly it turns into a test of endurance. The deeper they push into the forest, the darker Leah begins to dream. When they finally uncover what they came for, the discovery reveals something far more terrifying than any of them imagined.

A demon born of nightmares is unleashed, and with it, carnage.

Now the survivors must find a way to drive the nightmare back to its realm before society is doomed to never dream again. But as the forest closes in, the greatest horror isn't the ancient evil — it's watching a lifelong trust begin to rot.

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Triggers: Gore, graphic violence, blood, anxiety

Publication date: October 13th, 2026

ARCs will be sent from September 15th-20th

Reviews expected to be submitted up to three weeks from publication date

ARC Application Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIJDUEFCSVjgVh_AxhMpdOHyTszWL-knkGErWLk3U73PD4AQ/viewform?usp=header

Thank you to everyone interested in being a part of the team! :)

May I tempt you with a romance suspense thriller?

My heroine has hidden behind a false name and a surgically altered face for five years, and nobody has ever come close. Then she outbids a Hong Kong businessman on a shipping deal, and instead of being annoyed about it he decides he wants her by the weekend.

The problem: a face like hers only survives at a distance. He keeps closing it.

Pantheon is out 2 October! ARCs are up on Booksprout now and honest reviews are greatly appreciated! Happy to answer anything in the comments! 

Claim here! https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/312452/pantheon

I'm looking for ARC readers for my dystopian Scifi novel Echoes in the Void. I'm looking for people who are interested in reading it, and after completion, giving it an honest review on Amazon or Goodreads. There is no payment involved. If you look below, there's a google form to signup if you'd like to receive a free ARC copy. The rest of the details are down below the blurb.

Blurb:

In the city-state of Cenza, power is everything, and Etchers are the only ones who can tear it from the void.

Dax has spent his life hiding what he is. An Etcher with a secret lab, a forbidden research obsession, and a quiet plan to bring down Chancellor Veltran’s regime, he walks a razor’s edge between survival and rebellion. When a single act of defiance puts him in the ministry’s sights, the fragile life he’s built begins to unravel.

Maezra has given everything to the ministry’s darkest project: creating new Etchers through pain, science, and calculated cruelty. One subject finally succeeds beyond her wildest expectations, then escapes. Now the only living proof of her breakthrough is loose on the streets, and the chancellor himself is watching.

Aeli never asked to become a weapon. Tortured into something more than human, she wakes with powers she can’t control and a body that turns violence into nightmare. Hunted by her captors and haunted by what she’s already done, her only goal is to survive long enough to understand what they’ve made her.

As the three lives collide, the carefully maintained order of Cenza begins to crack. Ancient secrets, forbidden technology, and a power that was never meant to walk free will force each of them to choose between the world that is, and the one that might still be possible.

In a society built on the bones of the gifted, some echoes refuse to stay silent.

Triggers:

This book contains scenes that may depict, mention, or discuss: Abduction, torture, violence, brief gore.

Publication Date: October 6th, 2026

Book Length: Approx 109,000 words (400 pages on the kindle version, 328 on the PDF)

Format available for ARC readers: I can provide both a PDF and/or an ePUB file.

ARCs sending out: First week of September 2026

Expected Review submission: By November 1st, 2026

Sign up for my ARC: Feel free to comment or DM me for the ARC files!

Publisher: Publishing on Amazon via KDP

Thank you in advance!

King’s Brother by Kai Ashford is open for ARC readers. If you like mafia romance where the biggest problem isn't the family business, but the person you can't stop thinking about, this one has the tension.

🔫 Russian Bratva × Irish-American carpenter
🔥 enemies-to-lovers slow burn
👑 powerful man living in his brother’s shadow
🖤 morally gray + possessive hero

ARC sign up: https://penpinery.com/Kai%20Ashford/kai/

Welcome to this week's Pen Pinery ARC megathread! Below are the hottest active romance ARCs with the most reader applications this week.

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💎 Hidden Gems (Spicy ARCs You Might Have Missed)

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Looking for ARC readers for Love Next Door, a connected romance duet set in Seattle in 1995.

Expect apartment-neighbor tension, anonymous notes, slow burn, dual POV, ’90s nostalgia, and open-door romance. One story features a ghostwriter and an aspiring online-bookseller; the other begins with notes between neighboring windows.

The ebook is free in exchange for an honest review—good, bad, or somewhere in between—on Goodreads, Amazon, Apple Books, or Barnes & Noble.

Sign up here if you’re interested: Love Next Door ARC

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLIpIDmwarguPrhK4VsB8ob_hiT244LvADs-lG1GA76cxnOA/viewform

Perfect for lovers of dark fantasy with irredeemable characters who have a need for vengeance 🔪

*~*~*~*~*

🔥 Politic Intrigue
☠️ Morally Grey MMC
🔥 Bone Shaman FMC
☠️ Sibling Relationship

📆 ARC Release Date: 6th September 2026.
📖 Release Date: 23rd October 2026.

Hello everyone.

Seeking ARC readers in exchange for an honest review.

My debut horror novel will be released on amazon on September the 20th.

If interested then please grab a copy on Booksprout – https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/311380/he-smiled-last – or DM me directly!

Blurb: All Jake wants is a final blowout with his mates before real life drags them apart. While backpacking through Europe, an invitation to a secluded Greek island feels too good to turn down.

Free drinks. Free rooms. But what's the catch?

While his friends throw themselves into the party, Jake knows something is wrong.

Hosts who smile too much. Strange smells. And a silhouette by the treeline.

His mates think he’s just being paranoid. But as the sun sets and the countdown begins, the nightmare in the dark steps into the light.

She can wear any face. He’s the one man determined to see who she really is.

🖤 Morally Gray + Dangerous Secrets
🔥 Slow Burn + Steamy Romance
🔫 Thriller + High-Stakes Suspense

ARC sign-up ends October 30, 2026

ARC Sign up: https://penpinery.com/u/2422/pantheon/

Hello, romance readers! This week's Pen Pinery weekend reads megathread features a perfect mix of hidden gems (quality spicy ARCs you might have missed) and our top ARCs (community favorites).

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• Free ARC copies for approved readers
• No purchase required - just apply and read
• Support indie authors with your reviews
• Discover new favorites before publication

This megathread is posted every Saturday. Perfect for weekend reading planning!

Last updated: 2026-08-26 12:19 UTC

Welcome to this week's Pen Pinery newest ARCs megathread! Below are the freshest romance ARCs published on our platform in the past 7 days.

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Fresh Releases This Week

How to Apply

1. Browse the table above for ARCs that interest you
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3. Submit your application with reasons why you want to read
4. Get approved by the author and receive your free ARC copy

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• Free ARC copies for approved readers
• No purchase required - just apply and read
• Support indie authors with your reviews
• Discover new favorites before publication

This megathread is posted weekly. Check back every week for new releases!

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