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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Join us in promoting V.M. Winter’s debut cozy romantasy, The Lost Heir on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026!
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Join T.L. Johnson's ARC Team for The Rite of Recognition, Book #1 of Velkyn's Hollow
Join us in promoting T.L. Johnson’s, The Rite of Recognition, Book #1 in Velkyn’s Hollow. Releases September 10th, 2026
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Join Ella Sparkle's ARC Team for I Hate Nothing About You, Book #2 of Stormy Love
Join us in promoting Ella Sparkle’s second installment of the heart-felt Stormy Love series, I Hate Nothing About You. September 8th, 2026!
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Join Summer Robert's ARC Team for Carved, Book #3 of Sins of the Sigma
Join us in promoting Summer Robert’s third installment of Sins of the Sigma, Carved, a dark romantic thriller, September 30th, 2026!
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Join Shyla Colt's ARC Team for Chance of Us, Book #3 of Chance Falls
Join us in promoting Shyla Colt’s third installment of Chance Falls, a contemporary romance coming September 30th, 2026!
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Join V.M. Winters' ARC Team for The Lost Heir, Book #1 of Celestial Tales
Join us in promoting V.M. Winters’ debut cozy romantic fantasy, The Lost Heir, Book #1 of Celestial Tales. October 15th, 2026!
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Join Nakita Kirwan's ARC Team for Ballad of the Broken, Book #2 of Crowns of Gods and Monsters
Join us in promoting Nakita Kirwan’s second installment of Crowns of Gods and Monsters, Ballad of the Broken. October 24th, 2026!
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Glitchborn Heart
Book #1 of Dreamless
by H.J. Spence
In a neon-drenched city that never sleeps, falling in love is the ultimate glitch. Would you fall for the man who trapped your soul in his AI? What if he were the only one who could save you?
Dr. Kael Ryudon designed the corporation's largest AI system to be his generation's sanctuary. Instead, it became her prison...and his obsession. Now the system is slipping into The Void, and he's trapped on the outside of a heart he no longer knows how to reach.
He was supposed to rescue her...but now she's his only hope.
Tropes
Enemies to Lovers
Morally Grey MMC
Fierce FMC
Tech Magic
Forced Proximity
Found Family
Touch Her and Die
Obsession
Slow Surrender
Content Warning: Threats of violence, explicit language, sexual scenes, casual alcohol use, light drug use, morbid humor, light BDSM, sword play, and rope play.
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The Rite of Recognition
Book #1 of Velkyn’s Hollow
by T.L. Johnson
In Velkyn’s Hollow, bonds are not discovered. They are sanctioned.
Ritual decides alignment. Law decides love. The square bears witness.
After watching yet another arranged binding seal two strangers into permanence, blacksmith Nuria Vale does something forbidden: she forges a ring meant to answer only to mutual will. She carves no name into the metal. She makes no claim. She expects silence.
Instead, the ring answers Kayd Merrick—the man exiled years ago for refusing the bond the council chose for him.
Their recognition is quiet, intimate, and impossible for the council to classify. It does not command, pull, or claim; it reveals a truth that exists beyond sanction. When the council threatens to name, correct, or dissolve what has found them, Nuria and Kayd must decide whether they can choose each other without allowing magic—or law—to choose for them.
The Rite of Recognition is a romance-first fantasy about ritual magic, forbidden bonds, an exiled hero, a blacksmith heroine, and the power of mutual choice. It is the first interconnected standalone in the seven-book Velkyn’s Hollow cycle.
Tropes
Blacksmith heroine
Exiled hero
Forbidden magical bond
Fated bond with agency
Consent-forward romance
Mutual yearning
Ritual magic
Defying institutional control
Public reckoning
Interconnected standalone
HEA
Institutional coercion and control; threatened forced alignment and dissolution; social exile and ostracism; ritual cutting and blood; brief threats of physical force; consensual open-door sexual content, described non-graphically.
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I Hate Nothing About You
Book #1 of Stormy Love
by Ella Sparkle
Cassie
I have one rule when it came to guys: no more than two dates. Anything more and there’s a risk of catching feelings. Once you have feelings for someone it opens you up to a broken heart. I’ve been down that road before, and there’s no way I’m getting close to it again.
Because when you love people, they leave. It’s really that simple.
But now Mike has entered the scene and suddenly I want to go beyond two dates. Things with Mike feel…different. He’s the calm to my chaos, the rational to my emotional, the black Converse sneakers to my stiletto leopard-print heels, but somehow when we’re together it just works…
Except for that whole ‘I can’t ever tell him I love him because I don’t want him to leave’ issue.
Mike
I’m pretty certain the first moment I saw Cassie Charles, I fell in love with her. Bright red hair, legs for days, and a personality that I find both incredibly sexy and a tiny bit frightening. She’s passionate, driven, and one of the hardest workers I’ve ever known. She’s it for me.
I might be a bit rusty at the whole dating game…okay, a lot rusty…but I’m going to take down those walls Cassie has built around her heart, brick by brick. It feels like nothing could tear us apart…
Except for a nagging voice in the back of my mind that the other shoe has yet to drop.
Tropes
Opposites attract
Bold MFC x Shy MMC
Engaged in therapy
Found Family
Closed Door/Fade to Black
Learning to love
New Adult
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Carved
Book #3 of The Sins of the Sigma
by Summer Robert
Three names remain. She will have her revenge. Or die trying.
Eighteen months after her ex-boyfriend bled out in her arms, Monroe Campbell is dead. Forgotten. Clawing herself out of a depthless rock bottom.
That is until she answers a fortuitous call from a woman who fled a sex cult party where men wore demon masks and concubines were named pets. Sigma. Reborn like a bloodthirsty phoenix, Monroe reignites her vendetta.
Kill. Them. All.
But infiltrating Sigma’s hidden compound is more precarious than anticipated, garnering the infatuation of not one, but two, cult leaders in the process. Monroe was ready for danger.
She wasn’t ready to confront unresolved feelings from her past.
This time, she won’t fail.
If only she can stop herself from falling in love with a cult leader first.
Tropes
Murderous secret society sex cult
Lethal FMC vigilante
Psychotic female rage
Obsessive MMCs with hidden agendas
Corrupt billionaires paying for silence
Deadly betting games
Knife, blood & pain play
Shocking twists
Multiple POVs (3+)
Please read with caution. This book is intended for mature, adult audiences only.
Carved (and the Sins of the Sigma series in general) contains themes that may be distressing to readers, including:
- Scenes of extreme violence, death and dismemberment
- Memory and discussion of Domestic Violence that happened to a Female Main Character (FMC) in the past and off-page, including a bruise of the FMC’s body from a DV incident
- Untreated severe mental illness
- Depression and references to off-page suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts
- Holding women captive against their will
- Reckless and disturbing use of guns, knives, sedatives administered via syringe and orally
- Arson
- Discussion of narcotics addition
- References to human sacrifice and nefarious cult rituals that involve blood
- Grooming from a female peer
- This book also contains detailed and explicit two-person and group sex scenes that include elements of knife play, blood play, pain play, primal play, chasing, intense use of BDSM toys and other BDSM elements.
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Chance of Us
Book #3 of Chance Falls
by Shyla Colt
Chance Falls' most eligible bachelor has a secret: he's not single by choice—he's cursed.
Bridger Murphy broke the rules of his family's legacy, and now every woman he dates is plagued by bad luck. Keeping things casual has always been his safest bet—until the one woman worth risking everything for moves to Chance Falls. Distance once kept her safe from the curse, but with her suddenly close, he'll have to choose between protecting his heart and fighting for their future.
Independent single mom Story comes to Chance Falls for her best friend's baby's birth and unexpectedly finds something she thought she'd lost forever—a place to belong.
She's determined to build the perfect life for her daughter, Journee, and won't let her hookup buddy get in the way. Keeping their no-strings agreement should be easy... if they can stop falling into each other's arms.
For readers who loved Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score and The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston.
Tropes
BIPOC representation
contemporary romance
small town
single mom
slow burn
friends to lovers
later in life
on-page explicit spice
Brief mention of child loss
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The Lost Heir
Book #1 of Celestial Tales
by V.M. Winters
Cara Monroe-Woods agreed to attend Silverbrook University for one reason only: to respect her father’s last wish. Her priorities are straight: a cushy dorm, some studying, minimal responsibilities, and enough time for pilates and coffee breaks. So when a foul-mouthed squirrel starts following her across campus, insisting she's the missing heir to an alien kingdom, Cara does the sensible thing and assumes she's losing her mind, because honestly, who wouldn’t?
The hallucination theory falls apart when a dark creature attacks her in the university library. The squirrel is telling the truth: Cara is Celestia, heir to a kingdom on a distant planet waiting for her return. The problem? Cara has zero intention of leaving Earth for a place stuck under a magical veil that she doesn’t even remember.
Her plan is simple: avoid the bigger problem, master just enough magic skills to not get killed and definitely don’t fall for Black, the broody post-doctoral researcher who keeps showing up exactly when she needs him, and is infuriatingly difficult to figure out.
Spoiler alert: things don't go as planned.
Somewhere between the magic lessons and the friends she wasn't supposed to make, Silverbrook stopped feeling temporary. When the person she trusted most turns out to be the greatest threat of all, Cara has to make a choice: stay in her comfortable Earth life, or go to the kingdom that's been waiting for her return.
Tropes
Enemies to lovers
Chosen family
The chosen one
Magical test
Reluctant hero
Magical animal
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Ballad Of the Broken
Book #2 of Crowns of Gods and Monsters
by Nakita Kirwan
The mortals are freezing. The Fae are being hunted. The Hells are burning.
All because the Throne of Gods is broken.
But the price to mend it will shatter Lyra’s heart…
Dragged into the Seven Hells, Lyra is forced to marry the fallen god who betrayed her. Yet Riven is no ordinary captor, and in the Hells, nothing is as it seems.
Bound to a past Lyra cannot remember, she will do anything to find a cure for the curse consuming Rythos—even if it means marrying her enemy. But the deeper she falls into the Hells, the more she realises her connection to Riven threatens far more than her heart.
Above the Hells, the Commander of Death is running out of time. The bond torments him, forcing him to feel Lyra falling for another while the curse rots him from within.
Determined to hold Lyra one last time before he dies, he sails the Dead Sea in search of the only woman he has ever loved.
But when Lyra uncovers the monstrous truth behind the broken Throne and the Commander’s curse, she realises only one sacrifice can stop the kingdoms from collapsing forever…
Caught between the monster made to kill her and the god who refuses to let her go, Lyra must decide between saving the Kingdoms, or her heart.
Because the throne demands more than blood.
It demands heartbreak.
Tropes
Morally Grey
Why Choose (MMF)
Fated Mates
Dual POV
Cursed Oceans
Forced Proximity
Captor Romance
Spice
Enemies to Lovers
Graphic violence, Descriptive Gore, Death, Grief, Torture, Emotional Abuse, PTSD, Panic Attacks, Unhealthy Relationships, Religious abuse and cult themes, Sacrifice, Sexual content (explicit/open door), Dubious consent (contextual), Captivity, Manipulation, Coercion, Blood and Body Horror, Psychological trauma, Suicide references, Monster Romance, Morally grey love interests, Why Choose (MMF)
