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Join Ivy Whitaker's ARC Team for The Fall, Book 2 of Grim Tide
It’s time to take a trip back to Pleasant Valley for the second installment of Grim Tide.
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Join Laurel Osterkamp's ARC Team for The Next Breath's Audiobook
Is it possible to hang onto love and still let go? Find out now by joining Laurel Osterkamp’s ARC Team.
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Join Sue Ward Drake's ARC Team for Defying the Odds, Big Easy Brothers Book 4
Follow our heroes through a suspenseful journey through New Orleans.
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ARC Listeners wanted for Laurel Osterkamp's The Next Breath Audiobook!
Join us on a journey of love after loss, narrated by Claire Owen.
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Join Tracey Magruder's ARC Team for her Debut Novel, Between the Lines
Grumpy x sunshine, small town, healing, forced proximity… what’s not to love?
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ARC Readers wanted for Ivy Whitaker's, The Fall!
Help us spread the word about this gothic, small town paranormal romance!
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ARC Readers Wanted for Nakita Kirwan's Debut Dark Fantasy Romance, Melodies of the Damned, Book 1 of Crowned by Gods and Monsters
You’re not going to want to miss this one!
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Tour Hosts, Readers & Hype Squad wanted for K. Ingraham's Illusion of Safety
Sink your teeth into this debut romantic suspense: protector MMC, forced proximity, slow burn, found family, PTSD rep!
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ARC Readers wanted for Defying the Odds!
Dive into this romantic suspense! We’re looking for ARC Readers for Sue Ward Drake’s Defying the Odds, Big Easy Brother Book 4
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Help us find readers for Nakita Kirwan's debut novel!
We’re blasting this book all over social media to help it find the readership it deserves!
The Fall
Book 2 of Grim Tide
by Ivy Whitaker
Some secrets were never meant to be kept—and some are worth dying for.
Karina Levy lost her memory in a tragic fall, and when she woke up, she was different. A monster. She walked away from a promising legal career and a fiancé who adored her, fleeing to Pleasant Valley—straight into the claws of the Grim Moon Pack.
Now she's caught in a web of politics and power: the Alpha's pawn, the Beta's enemy, and the Enforcer's target. Her only refuge is Avery Locke—her boss, her best friend's father... and her forbidden lover.
Together, they dig into the Pack's buried sins and restless ghosts. But to survive Grim Moon's corruption, they'll have to play dangerous roles—Karina, the sharp new pawn with a deadly secret; Avery, the moral center of a Pack rotting from within.
As an outsider closes in and blood threatens to spill, betrayal is inevitable. To save them all, Karina may have to sacrifice everything—including the two people she loves most.
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The Next Breath
The Audiobook
by Laurel Osterkamp
Ten years ago, Robin found true love with Jed. Though he tried pushing her away, insisting that "permanent doesn't exist," she gave him her whole heart. So, after Jed died, of course her whole heart broke into millions of tiny pieces.
Fast forward a decade. Robin meets sweet yet irreverent Nick. He loves 80s sports flicks, Ben Folds Five, and Robin--which makes her believe in second chances. Except, months before meeting Nick, Robin had agreed to star in the play Jed wrote for her before he died.
Now, she's part of this weird, tragic love triangle. Nick doesn't even realize he's competing with a memory, while Jed's ghost lingers in her dreams, urging her to move on. But how can she, when she can't be honest with Nick, or with herself?
Perfect for fans of Carely Fortune and Jo Jo Moyes, The Next Breath is a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, is it possible to hold onto love and still let go?
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Between the Lines
Debut Novel
by Tracey Magruder
After ten years in a toxic relationship, Sadie Reed is done being anyone’s cautionary tale. By day she edits other people’s stories, polishing their words and pushing their dreams forward, while quietly abandoning her own. So when she’s offered one impossible assignment, fly to a quiet English village and convince reclusive bestselling author Corbyn Pearce to finish the novel he’s been avoiding, she says yes.
Corbyn is brilliant. Corbyn is infuriating.
Corbyn is absolutely not interested in being “handled.”
Scarred by a tragic accident and locked behind walls he refuses to lower, he has driven away every editor sent his way, until Sadie. Their clash is immediate, electric, and laced with a spark neither of them expected.
But as creative battles turn into late-night confessions, old wounds resurface, hers from the man she escaped and his from the betrayal he never recovered from. And when a long-buried truth pulls them back to a single, unforgettable moment from their past, Sadie must decide:
Is she brave enough to rewrite her story?
And will Corbyn choose to be part of it?
Between the Linesis a heartfelt, slow-burn romance about healing, found family, the courage to trust again, and the love we are meant to find, no matter how many years it takes. Perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Carley Fortune, and emotional, character-driven love stories.
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Defying the Odds
Big Easy Brothers Book 4
by Sue Ward Drake
She’s on the run, her only safe harbor the man she’d loved years ago.
He was out of the protection business, but he can’t say no to the woman who saved his life.
Law student, Maggie Macrae, wants to put her crime family’s background firmly in the past and has turned state’s evidence for the government. When she’s exposed and followed by her brother’s thugs, she knows Kurt won’t let her down.
Kurt Guidry isn’t the man he used to be. A retired U.S. Deputy Marshal, he's stayed as far away from Maggie as he can. She deserves more than he can give, even as his need for her still burns hot.
When she seeks him out and danger closes in, he will fight for her with all he’s got.
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Melodies of the Damned
Crowns of Gods and Monsters, Book 1
by Nakita Kirwan
Princess Lyra Meridian would do anything to be free, even if it promised death.
The sacrificial rite of Asanction is her only chance to escape—a ruthless offering to estranged gods, where mortals either die or rise as their soldiers. She expected to be devoured. Instead, when she leaped into the cursed ocean, it recognised her… and something ancient awakened.
Now creatures crawl from the Hells to hunt her. And her kingdoms nightmare—the Commander of Death— is the first to find her. Forced into a blood bargain, Lyra is his prisoner. But the commander has motives far darker than she realised, and none of them involve letting her go.
As monsters close in and prophecy coils tighter around her throat, Lyra must decide whether the Commander is her captor, her protector…
or the temptation that will damn them both.
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Illusion of Safety
by K. Ingraham
February 2nd - 6th, 2026
“I’m deathly afraid he’s taken pieces of me I’ll never get back.”
Clara Santos was never meant to survive. She was supposed to be The Chameleon’s eighth victim. Trapped in captivity where time stood still, she endured the unthinkable—only to wake in an even darker nightmare: buried alive in a coffin six feet underground. She clawed her way back to life, but her tormentor isn’t finished. Now that he knows she’s alive, he refuses to let her go—and survival is only the beginning.
FBI Special Agent Maverick Rhodes has been chasing a ghost—one who has left seven bodies in its wake. When he pulls Clara from the brink of death, the case becomes personal. The Chameleon isn’t done with her, and he’ll do whatever it takes to finish what he started. As Maverick hunts a predator whose true face has never been seen, the lines between the protector and the protected begin to blur.
With time running out and a killer closing in, Clara must confront her trauma while Maverick fights to stop the man who won’t let her escape twice.
Tropes
protector MMC
romantic suspense
forced proximity
slow burn
found family
PTSD
hurt/comfort
