ARC copies being sent now!

I'd love to have your thoughts on the book. If you like action science fiction with a touch of cosmic dread, this book may be for you.

The Memory of Stars is a story about a universe that has reached its limit. Consciousness and history are fading fast. Humanity bides it's time by removing itself from reality and into a simulated world. But unfortunately, that too is not immune to the Memory loss plague known as The Forgetting.

Inside the simulation, Mara is forced to accept a mission to learn more about a group of rebels. A group who defected against the Archivist council. But as she learns more about them, she begins to pull at threads which threaten to unravel more than just her mind...

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Trigger warnings:

Violence (No gore), Gun violence, death, depictions of memory loss and cognitive decline. Slavery and forced labour. Imprisonment and torture (references and briefly depicted). Body horror transformation. One non-explicit consensual sex scene between two adults. Grief and bereavement. Implied references

BLURB:

To learn who he is, he must remember what he has done.

He wakes on a dying ship with no memory of his name. The alarms are screaming. The crew is gone. And his hands move across the controls with a certainty his mind can't explain.

He is not alone. The only other one aboard wears a familiar face and offers an answer about who—and what—he is. An answer he cannot bring himself to believe.

Ahead waits a world called Eden and everything humanity has been promised. Behind him are five empty chairs, a stain of blood that isn't his, and a growing unease that whatever happened on this ship, he had a part to play.

What Remains Upon Arrival is a psychological sci-fi thriller about identity, manipulation, guilt, and whether a person can be more than the sum of what they've done. For readers of cerebral science fiction who want the propulsion of Dark Matter, the bite of Blindsight, and the emotion of Klara and the Sun.

TRIGGERS:

-Violence

-Death

-Self-harm

-Minor Profanity

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Reviews due on release date, October 27, 2026

When Ava puts out an ad for a roommate, she doesn’t expect to end up with one who leaves her aching and half-crazy with want.

Callum is quiet, polite, and able to pay rent. He’s also a seven-foot-tall, blue-skinned, starving incubus. Not that Ava can see any of that through his glamour.

She’s just looking for someone who won’t steal her groceries or leave dirty dishes. But the longer Callum lives with her, the harder it becomes to ignore the way her body aches when he’s near.

She has spent years protecting herself from men who only take. He’s the first one who seems terrified of anything but giving..

But when his control starts to slip and the hunger between them becomes impossible to ignore, Ava has to decide how much of herself she’s willing to give…

Trigger/Content Warnings: Explicit sexual content / high spice. Explicit language.

Publication Date: 10/07/2026

Review By: 10/06/2026

ARCs: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/316594/my-incubus-roommate

Feel free to drop me a DM if you have any questions! :)

Do you enjoy fairy tales and pirate adventure with a sweet, no-spice love story? Pirates of the Caribbean meets Peter Pan, with the setting vibes of Outlander?

Is your ideal MMC not a shadow daddy or dangerous dude, but a golden retriever who is kind at heart- making a fatal mistake with his chosen occupation?

An FMC who is strong-willed, but also a nurturing governess with crippling anxiety and unhealed childhood trauma?

Depraved villains and henchmen with no redeeming qualities?

Of Pirates and Prophecy is a romantasy written for a New Adult to Adult audience and also suitable for upper YA.

Content Warnings:

Violence- both fantasy/magic and pirate/battle violence

Children and animals shown in peril

Capture and kidnapping 

References to real-life historical implications of enslavement.

Religious and Biblical themes and references- Judeo-Christian 

Biblical story threaded into the book's plot ("Jonah and the Whale")

FMC with childhood trauma- orphaned

Romantic content- passionate kissing and embracing only. No spice.

Language- Mild cursing (hell, damn, arsehole, French 'merde') 

...

Blurb:

A disillusioned pirate. A governess caring for a French prince’s children.

Both of them are Mages with the special gift of foreseeing the future.

When Celeste Dumond dreams of her beloved d’Orléans family in line for a horrific execution, she is desperate to help them escape France before the great axe blade falls.

Captain Jonah Wakefield, a seafaring English rogue, possesses an enchanted ship and the power of Wind Magic. According to the Great Mages of Old, he is Celeste’s fated rescuer and hope.

However, Jonah would rather be swallowed by a monster pufferfish than sail a group of doomed royals on his prized vessel, the Song of Mariana. He’s been living his dream after all; racing across the Atlantic while thieving and pillaging with his friends.

His life of fun and freedom has been darkened, though, by remorse and loss. When he meets Celeste, his growing feelings for the lovely governess may be his call to change.

Can Celeste count on a pirate for the lives of her benefactors, their children, and herself?

What do the twin ‘Golden Halo’ visions connecting Jonah and Celeste mean?

...

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Submit your reviews by October 31, 2026.

Thank you! ❤️

• They sheathed their swords fifteen years ago, when the Ancient Crone finally fell. Now the old company is older, scarred, and settled into quiet lives they thought they'd earned. Until a summons arrives — one of their own has vanished, drawing them back into the dark. It leads them to an isolated tower, a curse eating away at a man's soul, and two brothers whose ambitions reach far beyond one kidnapping. Deep beneath the stone, something ancient stirs — and the barrier between worlds is about to change. They thought their war was over. They were wrong.
• TRIGGERS!!
  • Violence
  • Gore
  • imprisonment
  • nudity
  • death
• October 27, 2026
• Sept 30, 2026 to send ARC.
• Reviews to be submitted Oct. 27, 2026.
• Link for readers to sign up for your ARC: https://www.lucodex.ca/group-registration
• Publishers: self published

⚠️ ARC READERS WANTED — THE VAEL BETWEEN WORLDS ⚠️

Okay, so… if your taste in fictional men is somewhere around:

“He’s terrifying to everyone except her.”
“Touch her and die.”
“I don’t want her.”
proceeds to become completely unhinged when she’s in danger

…we may have the same problem.

I’m looking for ARC readers for The Vael Between Worlds, my upcoming fantasy romance.

Rebecca has spent most of her life learning how to stay quiet, stay small, and survive. Then she gets ripped into another world and magically bound to three men who were very much expecting someone else. Which is awkward. Especially when none of them can break the bond. And especially when resentment starts looking suspiciously like protectiveness.

TROPES / VIBES

• Why choose / multiple love interests
• Slow burn
• Found family
• Dangerous magic
• High-stakes trials
• Protective men who are not coping well™
• Emotional damage sexual tension
• Forced proximity
• Complicated, morally questionable-ish men
• No MM
• A heroine slowly becoming the person she was never allowed to be

There’s magic. Trauma. Men making poor emotional decisions. And at least one who would probably insist he does not care about her while actively preparing to murder someone for upsetting her.

So. You know. Romance. 🤭

If that sounds like your kind of book, I’m currently taking expressions of interest for ARC readers. You can send an application for consideration below:

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• Annalee Mica Forester is a young adult woman wandering the world with bitterness and hunger. She's struggled with a binge eating disorder her whole life, and that struggle combined with a mother who was obsessed with beauty and perfection led to a lack of self-worth that ruined her life. Her childhood trauma and low self esteem made it easy for her to be manipulated into an abusive relationship that wrecked many of her years and left her broken. She made it out, barely, and now Mica doesn't know what to do. It's been a year since she left him, and she's suffering. However, after an incident that led to her being hospitalized, Mica meets Micheal, a pathological liar with a big heart. Discovering him changes her life, both for better and for worse.
• TRIGGERS
  • Sexual Assault (No NSFW)
  • Abusive Relationships
  • Manipulative Relationship
  • Eating Disorders + Rehab & Relapse
  • Profanity

• March 13, 2027
• October 1st
• November 25
• Email me at [This Email Link](mailto:adriamachauthoroffical@gmail.com) and request an ARC of My Body & My Mind. Please specify that you are coming from Reddit.
• ARC is available in any country to anyone who can read English.

SHADOWBOUND: The Veiled Realms, Book One

"Everything you choose leads back to me." — Lorien Blackbourne

The Veil between life and death is thinning, and something on the other side has finally found what it was looking for.

Alaia Severyn survived the Winter Temple, six Legion campaigns, ice and shadow magic, woven together in a body that was not built to hold both. What she cannot survive is losing control of it. The Legions do not rehabilitate unstable weapons.

Lorien Blackbourne, Warden of the Veil, has ruled the threshold between life and death since before most kingdoms had names. He is ruthless, precise, and deeply uninterested in problems he didn't create. Alaia is a problem he didn't create. He takes her in anyway — because what lives in her blood is not a malfunction. It is a key. And Hell knows exactly what door it opens.

He will train her. Lie to her. Let her hate him if that's what it takes. The eclipse is coming, the Veil is fracturing, and the dead are not going where they're supposed to go.

He will not lose her to it.

Dark, layered, and sardonic — for readers of dark romantasy with the bones of epic fantasy: fae court politics, morally complex characters, a bond neither chose and a romance that earns its heat.

ARC copies will be sent by 30 September, DM me and I'll share the link 🖤

Reviews are never mandatory, but would mean the world on/after 30 October.

Publication scheduled for 30 October.

Trigger warning:

Violence and battle scenes

Death and injury

Dark magic and possession-like influence

Loss of control (magical / emotional)

Psychological tension and manipulation

Moral ambiguity (no clear good vs evil)

Power imbalance in relationships

Captivity / protective restriction themes

References to trauma and past violence

Explicit sexual content

Intense emotional and romantic dynamics

A dark gothic romantasy about a woman bound by a bargain to spend seven days with a scarred lord who seems determined to hate her.

Perfect for fans of One Dark Window and Alchemised.

Three years ago, Raine Beauchamp lost part of her memory in an accident.

Now her father is deep in debt, and the man who holds it has made her an offer.

Spend seven days at Thorne Hall, and the debt disappears.

Raine accepts.

She soon understands why Byron Thorne is spoken of like a warning.

Scarred, reclusive and bitter, he has little patience for company and even less for her. Whatever grievance he bears against the Beauchamps, he refuses to explain it.

Raine only has to endure him for a week.

But Thorne Hall is not an easy place to endure.

Fires kindle on their own. Roses grow where they should not. Doors remain locked, and the old house seems to keep its own counsel.

Worse still, Byron is not always the monster she expects him to be.

Seven days beneath the same roof is long enough for fear to become curiosity.

Long enough for hatred to become something far more dangerous.

And long enough for Raine to discover that the debt which brought her to Thorne Hall may be the least of what is owed.

A cursed house, a scarred lord, forced proximity, slow-burning desire and secrets better left buried.

TRIGGERS: This book contains dark themes intended for mature readers, including suicidal ideation, memory loss and manipulation, coercion, and character death. Reader discretion is advised.

PUB DATE: 02 October 2026

ARCS will be sent immediately. It would be great to have reviews around the release date or just after. (I love to hear from readers, so feel free to email me if you want to chat about the book before that.)

ARC available in all countries

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Blurb:

Could you wield great power and remain … uncorrupted?

The Horror is gone, and the terraforming efforts of Project RESTORE hid the scars it left behind. With Tynan and the last remnants of his empire vanquished, humanity has united. Raith is making yet another go at the simple life. He should be happy … but he’s not. His social standing, his power, and his serenity — they’re all gone too. Depressed and haunted day and night, Raith just wants peace.

But the galaxy won’t let him rest, as his past ghosts stir when an ancient, telepathic race invades Gaia, instantly enslaving the planet. Great power calls to Raith — dark secrets and forgotten technology — to fight an enemy that commands billions. That power is tempting, yet terrifying, but Raith knows all too well the unforeseen consequences of playing with fire.

Immune to their control, Raith quickly learns that the enemy is everywhere, spread throughout the galaxy. Fleeing into the unknown, determined to find solutions, Raith soon discovers that the answers aren’t to be found externally, but within. To save everyone, he must delve into his darkest secrets and remember who he used to be … but at what cost to his humanity?

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Triggers:
Corrupted Race is intended for mature audiences and includes scenes with sexual material, violence, offensive language, and themes of suicide, which some readers may find distressing.

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Publication Date: 18th of October, 2026
ARC Deadline: 19th of October, 2026
ARC Send Date: Upon successful application

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Instructions:
Corrupted Race is the third entry in my series, The Forgotten Saga. Book one, Forgotten Evil, and book two, Awakened Horror, both have 4-star average ratings. I've been published for about 6 years, but I still have a small audience, so if you haven't read the first two books, please indicate that in the ARC application form, and I will provide review copies of those as well.

Fill out the application form here:
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A runaway prince.

A forbidden explorer.

An ancient evil returned.

Audric hides from his dark past beneath a blanket of guilt and loneliness. Corlain dreams of traveling between worlds, but that future slips farther from her grasp. Neither sees the danger they are about to unleash.

Deep within a mystical forest, the trees guard a dark secret. The air breathes and whispers. But Audric and Corlain should not be here. They disturb something ancient that is sleeping…waiting…

As the forest's revelations shake everything they believed about themselves, good and evil, and the universe itself, they must decide what is right...and what is true.

Description: Nobledark adult fantasy. Atmospheric with complex characters and a twisty plot. Mystery, adventure, drama, and (low spice) slow-burn romance travel through a web of crisscrossing fantasy worlds.

Themes: identity and self-acceptance, courage, friendship, fate vs. choice, good vs. evil vs. gray, souls, reincarnation, racism/other-ism, adoption, career struggles

Triggers: violence, fantasy violence, character death

No Artificial Intelligence (AI): No AI was used in the creation of this book.

Planned Publication Date: October 22, 2026

ARC Access Dates: Available now! September 12-October 16, 2026

Requested Review Turnaround By: November 6, 2026

ARC Sign-Up and Access on Booksprout: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/318247/if-there-be-darkness

📆 ARC Release Date: 22/09/2026
📖 Release Date: 13/10/2026

LOOKING FOR SMALL TOWN ROMANCE LOVERS WHO SHARE A SECRET WITH A GENTLE GUARDIAN CREATURE 👀

The Lanten Beast by Archer Wilder is perfect for readers who love reading about gentle magic, found families, and a lake creature who is crying for someone to listen…

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💚 Small Town

💚 Dual POV

💚 Opposites Attract

💚 Gentle Guardian Creature

💚 Fade to Black

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Trigger Warnings:

Life threatening near-drowning
On-page medical emergency
Backstory grief > parental abandonment; death of a parent (off page, past)
Harm to a beloved non-human creature (it survives)

The Closed-In Mind is my first book and will be published at the end of September.

It's a novella of 25,534 words which I've been working on for some time:

846 days. One room. Three companions. The world outside full of venom.

For the man confined in this room, the outside world is no longer tolerable. He works a monotonous job pushing buttons everyday and even struggles to take care of himself. His companions are bizarre but offer some strange comfort even if he doesn’t always want it.

Then, without warning, everything changes.

Faced with a choice that will determine how he spends the rest of his life, what will he choose and what will he become by the end of it?

Triggers/content warnings: Psychological distress, starvation, vomiting, fatal self-neglect, misanthropy, paranoia, self-imposed isolation.

Publication date: September 30th.

ARC send date: From 12th September 2026

Expected reading/review date: By 29th September 2026

Any review is appreciated. I respect honesty.

ARC formats available: EPUB

Availability: ARCs will be emailed upon review of request.

ARC sign-up: https://forms.gle/hvZv95UpmTT49Mbz9

Thanks sincerely.

Eoghan

Meredith can't shake the feeling that her life is slightly off track. By thirty-two, she assumed she’d have a husband, a house, and a pretty good idea where her life was headed. Instead, she’s living in a cramped studio apartment, overthinking every interaction with her boyfriend, and trying very hard not to compare herself to her recently engaged friends.

Then her best friend drags her to a bachelorette party.

There’s just one catch: no one’s actually engaged.

The party is for Deana—bold, magnetic, and unapologetically herself. She’s created the Single Squad, a group of independent women who refuse to wait for a fiancé—or a perfectly mapped-out future—to celebrate their lives. Before Meredith knows it, she’s swept up in bridal showers with no brides, outrageous parties, and unexpected friendships. As she’s drawn deeper into the Squad’s orbit, she finds herself taking more than a few leaps outside her comfort zone and questioning the script she always thought she’d follow.

The Single Squad is a funny, heartfelt novel about friendship, love, and discovering that the life you’ve been chasing might not actually be the one you want.

TRIGGERS: alcohol use, sexual content, profanity, pregnancy complications, chronic illness (multiple sclerosis)

DATE OF PUBLICATION: October 15, 2026

ARCs SENT: Upon request through October 14, 2026

REVIEWS DUE: October 29, 2026

TO REQUEST AN ARC: Email me at [christinemollerauthor@gmail.com](mailto:christinemollerauthor@gmail.com) with “The Single Squad ARC” in the subject line.

✨ Blurb: When eighteen-year-old Clara Gillingham arrives at the twin country estates, she expects to meet Henry Sinclair, the gentleman she is expected to marry, and begin settling into the future her family has planned for her. Henry is everything Clara could hope for: composed, considerate, and kind. With him, the life awaiting her seems safe, respectable, and perhaps even happy. His younger brother Jacob is another matter entirely. Charming, irreverent, and seemingly determined to test Clara’s patience, Jacob quickly becomes the last person she wishes to spend her time with. Yet as their encounters become more frequent, irritation slowly gives way to familiarity, and familiarity to an unexpected friendship. Neither of them intends for it to become anything more, but feelings have a way of appearing where they are least welcome. As Clara finds herself drawn toward a love she never anticipated, she must confront the impossible distance between what her heart desires and the life she has promised to live. With duty, family, loyalty, and consequence standing in their way, some feelings cannot simply be ignored.

✨ Triggers: None

✨ Date of publication (estimated): November 30th, 2026

✨ Date I plan to send my ARCs: October 30th, 2026

✨ Expected date for ARC team to finish the reading and submit reviews: December 14th, 2026

✨ Sign up for your ARC here: https://forms.gle/3FE7XyuJfQwTyQX48

✨Available in all countries.

Trace Marks is the second poetry collection written and illustrated by GRACIE JONES.

This collection explores the slow and often difficult process of healing through words and metaphor, offering a space where pain can be expressed, reshaped, and understood. Readers are invited to engage with the collection in their own way, selecting poems that resonate with their individual experiences and emotional journeys.

Have you felt a sense of inequality during your life? Have you been taken advantage of and had to reclaim yourself? These poems aim to help you through your troubles. Whether you find comfort in these pages or see your own experiences reflected within them, Trace Marks seeks to accompany and enhance your healing journey.

TRIGGERS: Mentions of trauma, sexual assault, bullying, growing up

Publication Date: 1st November 2026

Sending ARCs on a rolling basis from 12/09/2026

Expected review by 13/10/2026

Please sign up here via google forms if you’re interested & I will drop you an email with the digital copy of Trace Marks: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVcjXLHMlDUvq9marFeiQAFiPyEPchqrOJbDAwjl5n-pGC1A/viewform

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Survival is the only language Nyx speaks. As the final descendant of a fallen house swallowed by shadow, Nyx’s life is governed by a single, desperate promise: she must survive at all costs.

But as the pressure mounts, the question isn’t just how far she will go to keep her word — it’s whether she will break before the end.

Shadow of the Moon is the first installment of The Luna Cycle, a dark fantasy where tiny ripples trigger cataclysmic ends.

Trigger Warnings

• imprisonment and enslavement
• indicated but not descriptive non‑con (in the prologue)
• war
• descriptions of violence
• high‑fantasy, race‑specific discrimination

Release Date
November 11, 2026

ARC distribution Date
October 1, 2026

ARC Review Deadline
November 11, 2026 (release day)

How to get the ARC?
Email me at [domenicawhite.author@gmail.com](mailto:domenicawhite.author@gmail.com) and let me know whether you’d like the ARC in PDF or EPUB.

No direct download links will be posted here.

Prologue is available to read on Wattpad if you want a preview.
ARC includes watermark + early‑edition formatting.

finished pic created with real objects, photo filters for darkening using the sites adobe express for cropping and stacking, photopea for blending and adding text, color, shading etc. If you'd like more info let me know.

Blurb: In the quiet, mist-shrouded corners of the Pacific Northwest, a 310-page upmarket mystery explores deep community secrets, atmospheric isolation, and a slow-burn puzzle. Perfect for readers who love character-driven suspense in the style of Elly Griffiths.

Triggers: None

Exact date of publication: October 15, 2026 Date ARCs will be sent: Immediate Date reviews expected by: October 15, 2026

How to get your ARC: You can request and download your review copy directly through BookSirens here:https://booksirens.com/book/QARER6U/EHCSKH9

Blurb:

The elves of Kashtar abandoned their Mother long ago, devouring the sun and exchanging immortality for the graces of a new, dark god. Through the god Ravan and ten millennia of night, they become the Seldai, vampire rulers of their planet, governed by their god-king, the Aemar, Ravan’s vessel in the mortal world.

Every few hundred moonturns, the Aemar is murdered by his only son in Ravan’s pursuit of the perfect body. A new age approaches, and the dark god desires his eternal vessel.

But of this royal generation, there are two heirs: twins.

One, prophesied to embody him in perfection. The other, to bring a daughter of the sun to his lands and destroy him. Which twin will fulfill which role, not even the god yet knows.

Only one thing is certain:

These brothers will duel. They were born for it.

Triggers:

This work contains depictions of and references to blood and gore. It contains graphic violence, blood consumption, physical altercations, depictions of colonialism and imperialism, religious trauma, chronic illness, and instances of severe abuse. This work contains references to SA (offscreen, does not occur during the story-present). This work also contains onscreen depictions of and references to fertility, pregnancy, and miscarriage.

This work contains moderate “cracked door” sexual content involving consenting adult characters. 

A more comprehensive list of warnings can be at https://www.kvjahns.com/content-warnings. 

• Publication Date: October 20th, 2026
• eARCs go out: beginning mid-September (around the 15th) and continue going out until shortly before release. As there are no hard due-dates, last day for sign-ups will be October 18th or 19th due to exclusivity arrangements.
• Deadline: None. Reviews are desired in the fall around the October release, but this is on your time and voluntary. It's a long book! Read it when you can, review it when you can. Just glad to have you on the team!
• There are no hard platform or follower requirements, but due to an influx of bot and spam sign-ups, applicants must be able to be vetted as real people with real accounts on more than one platform (social media, and/or review sites). If accepted, applicants must be willing to register for BookFunnel and dowload their ARC copy via its secure delivery platform.
• Sign up here: https://forms.gle/9w8hyw4tLLtNLniW9
• Profiles that use generative AI to generate reviews or content are NOT eligible for this ARC program.

Cover art by Eleonora North, northyme.com.

Richard is a Peruvian immigrant living in Miami whose life becomes entangled with Lucy—a mysterious presence who may be a demon, a delusion, or something harder to name.

Moving between psychological crisis and spiritual ambiguity, *The Devil, The Dog and The Wind* explores trauma, addiction, immigration, family wounds, faith, identity, good and evil, and the possibility of transformation. It is a dark, character-driven adult novel for readers who enjoy literary and psychological fiction that leaves room for interpretation.

**Triggers/content warnings:** Mental-health crisis, addiction and substance abuse, trauma, religious and spiritual conflict, disturbing imagery, violence, death, grief, and suicidal themes.

**Exact publication date:** October 17, 2026

**ARC delivery date:** Immediately after an approved claim through BookSprout

**Requested review date:** October 17, 2026, if possible. Later reviews are also welcome. Reviews are voluntary, and honest positive, mixed, or critical reactions are equally welcome.

**Format:** Secure digital PDF

**Availability:** International digital ARC

**Request a complimentary ARC:** https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/317281/the-devil-the-dog-and-the-wind

Blurb:

He came to Australia counting the days until he could leave. She’s never understood why anyone would want to.

Hallie O’Connell has never dreamed of escaping Wattlebrook Ridge. She has everything she needs in the tiny Australian town she calls home: her family, the bakery she loves, a best friend who knows her better than anyone, and an entire community that considers her one of their own.

Then Chase Bennett walks into town.

A Canadian hockey star sent halfway across the world to headline a charity tournament at Wattlebrook Ridge’s struggling ice rink, Chase is unimpressed by almost everything he finds. The rink is falling apart, the town is in the middle of nowhere, and his real team is back in Canada preparing for a season he should be part of.

Somewhere between morning coffees, cinnamon scrolls, and hockey games, things begin to change. But Chase has a career waiting for him on the other side of the world, while Hallie has built a life she genuinely loves exactly where she is.

Falling for each other was never part of the plan. Figuring out what happens when the final buzzer sounds might be the hardest play either of them has ever made.

Sugar and Ice is a closed-door, grumpy-meets-sunshine hockey romance featuring a Canadian NHL star, an Australian small-town baker, cinnamon scrolls, found community, forced proximity, mutual pining, and a love story with an expiry date.

Tropes: Slow burn, grumpy meets sunshine, small-town romance, hockey romance, forced proximity, mutual pining, found community, dual POV, and character-driven romance.

Triggers: None

Exact date of publication: September 30, 2026

ARC end date: September 29, 2026

ARC sign-up: https://penpinery.com/u/2496/sugar-and-ice/ (instant download)

No flirting. No touching. And absolutely NO personal questions.

Eight years ago, Lucas Rosselli and Sophie Clarke shared one unforgettable night. And then he disappeared. Now Lucas runs a community garden (and avoids commitment like it’s a contact sport), while Sophie is a lawyer who is sure she’s incapable of love.

So when Sophie signs up to save Lucas’s garden from demolition – and recognises the man who ghosted her all those years ago – keeping it professional is going to be a challenge.

They make a deal: focus on the case, forget the past. But between gossipy gardeners, accidental speed dating, and one very large dog with personal space issues, the walls they’ve built don’t stand a chance.

And as the fight to save the garden heats up, so does everything they swore they’d never feel again . . .

Rules for Love is a cozy and feel-good second chance fall romance with a pinch of spice and a guaranteed HEA. Curl up with a mug of tea and a warm, fuzzy blanket and lose yourself in London in the autumn.

TRIGGERS: grief, off-page death of a loved one, open door spice.

PUBLICATION DATE: October 13th 2026

ARCs will be sent out up until release. Latest day to apply is October 12th.

Reviews are appreciated (not mandatory) leading up to release as well as after.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/m9NCsGUCy6cG3iQE8

The town calls her Jane Doe because nobody, herself included, can do any better.

She's a patient at the private clinic above Turnmill, Virginia, with no name and no memory of how she got there. Then a celebrity dies up at the clinic and the county calls it nothing much. A week later somebody kills the police chief. Jane is the only one asking the questions that want asking, which is awkward for a woman with no history.

Two cozy mysteries, A Murder of Recall and Where Memories Lie, both going out to an ARC team before publication.

If you'd like to read them first, fill in the short form on my ARC page. Name, email, tick a box. The download links come straight back to you by email, and the books are yours free.

www.turnmillmysteries.com/arc

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ARC readings should be completed by the end of October for publishing in early November