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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 Everett Jacobs' ARC Team for The Haunted Mill, Book 1 of Bramble Grove Paranormal
Join us in promoting Everett Jacobs’ debut MM paranormal romance, The Haunted Mill, Book 1 of Bramble Grove Paranormal. October 20th, 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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Join L.E. Sells' ARC Team for the re-release of Kindred, Book 1 of Blood Rite
Join us in celebrating L.E. Sells’ re-release of Kindred, book 1 of Blood Rite. November 30th, 2026.
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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The Haunted mill
Book #1 of Bramble Grove Paranormal
by Everett Jacobs
Maxwell saw the Haunted Mill attraction as nothing more than a temporary Halloween gig to get him through the fall. But he didn't expect Luke. Luke is quiet. Guarded. Strange in a way Maxwell can't quite explain. He seems troubled by things nobody else can see. The longer they work together inside the crumbling haunted house, the more curious they become about each other.
Then the mill burns.
An eccentric local fixture dies, and the people of Bramble Grove settle quickly on an explanation: arson, suicide, case closed. But when the smoke settles, strange things begin happening around Luke. Messages from beyond. Unexplained fires. Entities made of ash and soot.
Maxwell doesn't believe in ghosts. But he believes Luke is terrified.
Former cast members reunite to search for answers. The closer they come to the truth, the more certain they become that something followed them out of the flames. And as the danger surrounding Luke grows, so does the connection between him and Maxwell.
Tropes
Slow-burn gay romance
Opposites attract
Found family
Skeptic × believer
Forced proximity / working together
Paranormal investigation
Haunted attraction / haunted location
Ghostly mystery
Something followed them home
Small-town secrets
Death, grief, fire/arson, suicide, paranormal violence and frightening supernatural activity, injury, and themes of extremism/cult behavior.
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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)
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Kindred
Book #1 of Blood Rite
by L.E. Sells
They told us vampires were a myth.
They lied.
Buried deep in human DNA lies a gene that awakens under trauma–unlocking a thirst for blood. Now, pharmaceutical giants seek to develop a drug to control it... but at what cost?
Yvonne Malone, an investigative journalist looking for the next big story, uncovers evidence that could shatter everything humans believe about themselves. The closer she gets, the more dangerous the hunt becomes–especially when she falls for the very thing she's working to expose.
Some truth can't stay hidden. Some love can't be denied.
And some secrets demand blood.
Tropes
Vampire romance
fated mates
secret societies
supernatural creatures
brooding MMC
blood bond
BDSM
blood play
telepathy
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)
