This Week at the Tavern: Books Looking for Readers (July 13)
Welcome back to the Tavern, friends. Pull up a chair by the fire for our weekly look at the books hoping to find their readers right now. We have a full shelf this week, so let's see what suits your mood.
🎲 From the shelves
A few picks with a little more runway, pulled from the open calls around the Tavern.
Crowned With Lies by sybildelmar
Alpha · Romantasy
This New Adult Romantasy follows a girl who reads destinies with a single touch, sworn to certify kings and careful never to fall for the stablehand she cannot have. One accidental vision changes everything, blurring prophecy with longing. If you love slow-burn romance, forbidden feelings, and court intrigue where fate might just need a little bending, this trilogy opener is calling.
Open through October 3 · See the call and apply →
The Tidy House Method by clairehoytbooks
ARC · Nonfiction
For anyone whose home never seems to stay tidy no matter how hard they try, this is a practical reset rather than another guilt trip. Built around the S.P.A.C.E. Framework and small habits like a ten-minute daily routine, it trades all-or-nothing weekend purges for lasting order. A gentle, doable pick for busy folks, families, and anyone worn down by clutter.
Open through August 31 · See the call and apply →
Poison Apple: Snow White and the MC Beast (Sons of Ragnarök MC: Germany #1) by katlyn_s_coen
ARC · MC Romance
A fairy-tale spin on MC Romance set in Germany's industrial heart, where a wary mother collides with a ruthless Sons of Ragnarok patch-wearer in a dark parking lot. He is fourteen years her senior and no one's idea of safe, yet her fearless toddler reaches for him first. If you like protective, dangerous heroes and a heroine guarding her son, this age-gap read delivers.
Open through October 13 · See the call and apply →
Life in Bloom by jillshelton2701
ARC · Contemporary Fiction
Charlie has always been the anchor for everyone else, so focused on holding her family together that she forgot the adventurous woman she used to be. When tragedy shakes her world and buried truths surface, she begins a quiet journey of reinvention. Readers who love contemporary fiction about second chances, found sisterhood, and rediscovering your own dreams will find much to love here.
Open through August 13 · See the call and apply →
🆕 Fresh this week
Hot off the press: the newest calls to reach the Tavern.
Finished Business by Victoria Brun
ARC · Humor
Welcome to the afterlife, where Hazel is a fresh graduate trying to succeed at her first job, except she's dead and her boss is one of Hell's most fearsome demons. Tasked with a startup that helps ghosts finish their unfinished business, she teams up with a 1930s housewife and a coconut octopus. A wonderfully odd comic read for anyone who likes their humor with a supernatural workplace twist.
Just posted! · See the call and apply →
The Ashes of Summer by Rebecca Dale
ARC · Dark Romance
Summer is taken and held in a place where obedience means survival, while the man who swore to protect her abandons his badge and every rule to burn the world down getting her back. This is Dark Romance with a possessive anti-hero, dangerous secrets about her past, and a love described as feral rather than gentle. Best suited to readers who want their stakes high and their heroes lawless.
Just posted! · See the call and apply →
Whichever door you choose, there's an author waiting for your honest thoughts, so pick one up before the week slips away. Happy reading, and see you next time by the fire.
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