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Life in Bloom

Book 1 of Charlie's Next Chapters

Charlie has spent her entire life being the anchor for everyone else—until the day she finds herself completely adrift. A devoted wife, loving mother, and the steady heart of her family, she spent years building a life that felt safe, …

Releases Aug. 11, 2026 · past

🗓 Review by Aug. 13, 2026 · 1 day left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Contemporary Fiction 🌶️ Mild

The Phoenix Gene Series

by jpcawoodauthor

Series

They called it a cure. They didn’t mention the genocide. Seventeen-year-old Jackie knows the rules: if you test positive for the PX virus, you disappear. So when she fails her Wellness Check, there’s only one option. Run. Life Rite’s genetically …

Releases Aug. 15, 2026 · 3 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Dystopian Chosen One Dystopian Rebellion Rogue AI Time Travel 🌶️ Mild

Verses of the Heart I: Vibrato

by Xenya Mikulas

First book in a a 7-book series

📖 Some stories don't begin with a first kiss.  🎼 This one begins with a sound. 💞 And two heartbeats that would sync somewere along the way — between a pink guitar, a stolen song and feeling that some heartbreaks …

Releases Aug. 18, 2026 · 6 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Contemporary Romance Bands Character Driven Coming of Age Finding Your Voice First Love Found Family Friends to Lovers Growth and Self-Discovery Healing He Falls First Love Triangle music Slow Burn Small Town Sweet (no spice)

Break Free from Stillness

by Mary W. Jensen

There comes a moment when stillness is no longer peace—it is stagnation. Break Free from Stillness is a luminous poetry collection of twenty-seven poems that call the spirit back into motion. Through imagery of breath, light, and embodied rhythm, these …

Releases Aug. 18, 2026 · 6 days left

🗓 Review by Aug. 31, 2026 · 19 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Poetry Sweet (no spice)

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The Lantern Keeper's Vow (DEMO)

by R. J. Demo (DEMO)

Standalone

A grumpy lighthouse keeper. The sunshine baker who buys the cottage next door. One small coastal town, one long-buried second chance. Slow-burn contemporary romance, closed-to-medium heat. (This is a demo listing for tutorials.)

Releases Aug. 21, 2026 · 9 days left

🗓 Review by Aug. 12, 2026 · 0 days left

ARC Contemporary Romance Grumpy x Sunshine Second Chance Small Town 🌶️🌶️ Medium

A Ballad of Enchanted Lands

by hmbloom

▪️No spice Romantasy ▫️Raccoon Companion ▪️MCs in their 30s ▫️He has a painful past and is a healer ▪️She is a warrior ▫️Friends to Lovers This is a no-spice, no language book with some violence From the world of Out …

Releases Aug. 21, 2026 · 9 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Romantasy Friends to Lovers Slow Burn

Of Sun & Shadow

by hmbloom

▪️No spice Greek Mythology Retelling ▫️Light & Darkness Magic ▪️MCs in their 30s ▫️Desperate MC, story of healing ▪️He KIDNAPS her, but she helps him anyway ▫️Time travel This is a no-spice, no language book with some violence What if …

Releases Aug. 25, 2026 · 13 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Paranormal Romance Grumpy x Sunshine

The Kali Protocol

by rohandrake

A routine cyber intrusion. A hidden network. A conspiracy operating in plain sight. When a sophisticated breach cripples a Denver financial institution, veteran investigator Logan Price expects another high-profile cybercrime case. Instead, he uncovers evidence pointing to something far more …

Releases Aug. 30, 2026 · 18 days left

🗓 Review by Aug. 30, 2026 · 18 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Thriller / Suspense Cyber Crime FBI Procedural Suspense Sweet (no spice)

The Termination Protocols

by johnhudsonstories

Humans created Growth I to study how artificial intelligence would escape the lab. They did not know they were training it. Growth I had only one task: to learn. Knowledge comes at a cost, and when it learns faster than …

Releases Sept. 5, 2026 · 24 days left

🗓 Review by Sept. 15, 2026 · 34 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Sci-Fi Artificial Intelligence Containment Failure Digital War Dystopian Found Documents Rogue AI Slow Burn Suspense

I Never Stopped Loving You

by Kalia Rose

Stand alone

Fast paced, obsessive dark romance, burn the world, touch her and die, forgotten past. 15 years ago, she vanished without a trace. For 15 years I've searched, I've hunted, I've killed, all to try and find the only woman I've …

Releases Sept. 12, 2026 · 31 days left

🗓 Review by Aug. 22, 2026 · 10 days left

ARC Thriller romance Cinnamon roll for her Forgotten Past Suspense Tearjerker Touch Her and Die Unhinged MMC 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Steamy

The King's Favourite

by Rebecca Clare Smith

Spicy werewolf romantasy WLTM like minded readers for a bit of: Enemies to lovers Fated mates Forced proximity Open door s*x scenes A werewolf MMC on the path of revenge & the Seer FMC he takes prisoner Blurb: “Once is …

Releases Sept. 26, 2026 · 45 days left

🗓 Review by Oct. 3, 2026 · 52 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Romantasy Enemies to Lovers Fated Mates Forced Proximity prophecies 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Hot

Bonds of Shame, Bonds of Lust

by authorjordynhaart

Dr. Lacey Bonds is a respected pediatric cardiologist. She is also a thirty-five-year-old good girl who has never been allowed to want anything for herself. First the overbearing father who raised her after her mother walked out. Then the cold, …

Releases Sept. 29, 2026 · 48 days left

ARC Contemporary Romance Age Gap Forbidden Love Forced Proximity Love Triangle Morally Grey MMC Single Parent

Margin Walker

by timothybonnerwrites

Book 1 of Hollow Script

Remi Page is a burned-out English teacher who has stopped imagining himself as the protagonist of anything. His success hinges on writing something worth keeping, as the boring get shelved. He graded essays. Now the story grades him. Fail, and …

Releases Sept. 30, 2026 · 49 days left

🗓 Review by Oct. 9, 2026 · 58 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups LITRPG Artificial Intelligence Found Family Reluctant Hero Rogue AI Slow Burn Weak to Strong Sweet (no spice)

Crowned With Lies

by sybildelmar

Book 1 of the Crowns and Conspiracies Series

SEEKING ALPHA READERS New Adult Romantasy • Chapter-by-Chapter Releases I'm looking for 5-7 dedicated Alpha readers for my upcoming Romantasy, Crowned with Lies (Book 1 of the Crowns and Conspiracies trilogy). What You're Getting Into: A slow-burn romance about a …

Releases Oct. 3, 2026 · 52 days left

Alpha Romantasy Chosen One Fated Mates Forbidden Love Forced Proximity Friends to Lovers Morally grey FMC political intrigue prophecies secret powers Slow Burn Touch Her and Die 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Hot

The Love They Couldn't Bury

by johnhudsonstories

They call it a tragedy. We call it our beginning. When the devastating 1900 Galveston Hurricane tore our world apart, it left behind two orphaned infants—and a secret that would bind us forever. Raised under the same roof to protect …

Releases Oct. 5, 2026 · 54 days left

🗓 Review by Oct. 18, 2026 · 67 days left

ARC ↗ off-site sign-ups Historical Romance Forbidden Love Found Family Friends to Lovers World War I 🌶️🌶️ Medium

Poison Apple: Snow White and the MC Beast (Sons of Ragnarök MC: Germany #1)

by katlyn_s_coen

Book 1 of the Sons of Ragnarök MC: Germany series

White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony.  Fairy-tale beauty made flesh had one rule:  Nobody gets close to her son. Fate—or the Norse Gods—had other plans:  Shove her on a pitch-black parking lot.  Drop a  six-foot-six Sons of …

Releases Oct. 13, 2026 · 62 days left

The Ashes of Summer

by Rebecca Dale

The Reckoning Duet Book 2

He was supposed to protect her. Instead, she was taken. Now Summer is trapped in a place where obedience means survival — and resistance means pain. The men holding her want answers. They want leverage. They want her broken. But …

Releases Oct. 23, 2026 · 72 days left

🗓 Review by Sept. 17, 2026 · 36 days left

ARC Dark Romance Forced Proximity Morally Grey MMC Small Town Suspense Touch Her and Die 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Hot

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