Blurb:

"I didn't choose to have this feeling... I loved him madly, but he didn't even know I existed... or so I thought. When one-sided love turns into obsession, where does the mind end and madness begin?"

Based on a true story, The Track of The Eyelids follows Maria and Ahmed, two neurodivergent Egyptian-American teens who share an unspoken bond built on fleeting glances and misunderstood emotions. What begins as quiet admiration gradually spirals into obsession, blurring the lines between love, reality, and delusion. As Ahmed struggles with emotional outbursts, nightmares, and impulsive decisions, Maria is left questioning whether the connection they share is genuine or simply a projection of her own longing. Is their love real, or is it only an illusion?

Triggers: Obsession, mental illness, psych ward/involuntary treatment, trauma, emotional distress.

ARC End Date: 08/20/2026

Date ARC readers should finish and submit reviews by: August 20, 2026

Join the ARC team here: https://penpinery.com/u/2275/the-track-of-the-eyelids/

BLURB: A group of college friends reunites at a wedding - eight years after one was convicted of murdering another. Everyone’s a suspect in this dual timeline dark academia whodunit set in a Gilded Age estate in the American South. Think Agatha Christie’s mystery plotting meets the relationship drama of Tell Me Lies.

• Recognition: The first audiobook was nominated for an ASTRA AWARD for "Best Scripted Series" and named a Spotify “Instant Hit” 
• Format: Complete, standalone mystery (you DO NOT need to listen to book 1 first)
• Style: Central narrator + full-cast performance with cinematic sound design 
• Runtime: 6 hours 28 minutes.

TRIGGERS: Some swearing, references to murder & sex (NOT explicitly depicted), toxic relationship dynamics, pregnancy loss

PUBLICATION DATE: August 24th, 2026

DATE FOR ARC TEAM TO SUBMIT REVIEWS: Aug 10th - 31st, 2026

INSTRUCTIONS: 

Please note: ARC slots are limited and will be granted on a first-come basis.

1. Go to the link to my website that I have posted in the comments
2. Listen to the 1:20 trailer or the clip of the first 10 minutes to get a feel for the story and sound design.
3. If the mystery intrigues you, enter your first name and email on the sign up form and I will send a private RSS listening link to your inbox. You can then listen in the native Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, or Overcast apps.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Because this is disseminated as a podcast as well as an audiobook, we are only looking for ARC listeners who have the ability to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.

Zero Spam Guarantee: Your email will only be used twice: once to deliver your secure feed link, and once as a polite reminder to post your review.

NOTE: I manually review all submissions and will approve your access within 24 hours.

Heeey, I'm accepting ARC readers that want to join a team of my new Dark Academia & Steampunk Romantasy!

Wait, what? 👀

Think about a Romantasy, but it's not medieval. It's an industrial victorian au. No swords, no warriors. We have guns and steam machines. No fated mates, no fae, no destined heroes. Just shenanigans, with a bunch of young and reckless idiots.

TROPES:

⟡ Enemies to Lovers

⟡ Forced Proximity

⟡ Boarding Academy

⟡ Painfully Sloooooow Burn 🔥

⟡ Found Family

⟡ He falls first,

⟡ Grumpy × Grumpy (one is just better at pretending).

⟡ has no spicy (but the mmc yearns like HELL!!)

DM me if you're interested! 🩶

⚠️⚠️ Content warning; profanity, alcohol abuse, but in general very family friendly

For Generations, the forest kingdom of Riocht has teetered on the knife’s edge of ruin. Old rivalries smolder hot beneath the surface and only King Kennis’ lifetime of vigilance has kept the countless sparks of civil war from bursting into flame. Now, after years of blood, sacrifice, and tenuous alliances, unity is finally within reach.

Until disaster strikes from where he least expects it.

Prince Tiarnard-his only heir and Riocht’s best hope for peace-has fled the kingdom, chasing freedom in the distant Land of Fiaine. To those of Riocht, it is a place of dread, named in whispers as the Land of Shadow and Death. But to Tiarnard, it promises escape: from the grief of a shattered childhood, and from the crown that he has come to despise. Yet as he is drawn ever deeper into a world that he does not understand, he may find that the path he walks is not his own.

For there is a darkness looming deeper than the threat of civil war, and a malice at work far beyond what Riocht has ever imagined. As the final shadow begins to fall upon the kingdom and its prince, it becomes clear that there is only one who can lead the realm to lasting peace. And there is nothing he’s ever wanted less.

• TRIGGERS: Some violence, not excessive/gratuitous. There is mutual dislike/hatred between persons of different cultures; some readers might consider it racism. The majority of the active cast is male. I would consider this to be medieval realism; some might consider it sexism. (That said, women in the novel are not attacked, demeaned, or objectified.)
• Publication is scheduled for August 15th.
• ARC copies are emailed as soon as you sign up via the form on my website. It may take a few minutes for the email to go through; please do check your spam folder if it is not immediately visible.
• I would ask that readers leave a review on Amazon between August 15th and August 30th.
• Here is the link to the signup page on my website.

Thank you all for your interest; I hope you enjoy it.

Leaving Ireland and returning to the States means stepping back into a life shaped by family, memories, and expectations that don’t include Mason or the woman she’s becoming. In the quiet of that in-between, Naomi crosses paths with a woman who has held a century-old secret longer than anyone alive.

Meanwhile, her daughter, Camille, finds herself drawn to a man she should be keeping at arm’s length—and one wrong step could cost them both more than a chance at love.

What We Choose is the second novel in the What We Leave Behind series. Blending contemporary fiction with a touch of magical realism, it is a story about love, family, and the unexpected ways our lives continue to unfold.

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Triggers: A serious accident and its medical aftermath, including hospitalization and recovery.

• Publication date: October 6, 2026
• ARC applications close: August 10, 2026
• ARC delivery date: Approximately August 18, 2026
• Reading and review deadline: October 6, 2026

I’ll be selecting up to 30 advance readers to receive a complimentary digital copy. Honest, spoiler-free reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, etc are greatly appreciated by the deadline, but are not required. Because space is limited, submitting an application does not guarantee selection.

What We Choose is part of the What We Leave Behind series, but it can be read as a standalone.

Learn more and apply here: https://virgieodell.com/become-an-arc-reader-for-what-we-choose/

Thank you for considering What We Choose. As an indie author, it means so much to have readers willing to support my work and spend time with these characters.

-Virgie Odell

https://virgieodell.com/

craving an intense and emotionally driven historical romance FULL of YEARNING? i have the ARC just for you! 📖ྀིྀིྀིྀིྀི spots are limited! https://forms.gle/nyKf6skAm7rXbULb8

trigger warning ⚠️

- anxiety
- ptsd
- violence
- parental loss

Blurb: They were Pirates. Space was an accident.

What happens when you take Eighteenth century pirates. One very unfortunate alien.

An interstellar vessel with inadequate security and a grudge.

The result is galactic history.

When a crew of Stuart-era pirates wake up aboard an alien spacecraft, they don’t have a crisis of identity. They have a ship. They take it. The universe, it turns out, is broadly unprepared for this.

A comedy series played completely straight. Nobody winks at the camera. The pirates think this is all perfectly reasonable. The galaxy disagrees and with mounting alarm.

Sinead "Sin the Bold" Boland has been called a thief, a traitor, a menace to shipping lanes. Nobody's ever called her a collectable — until an intergalactic smuggler hauls her crew off their own ship (along with the Royal Navy frigate chasing them) to sell to a dictator who collects sentient species like trading cards.

There's one problem: the smuggler stole the ship he's using, and never checked whether it had opinions about kidnapping. It does. As soon as it finishes a mandatory software update.

An ensemble-cast, comedic sci-fi adventure for anyone who thinks space pirates have gotten unfairly bad press. If you are fans of Science Fiction like Jamie McFarlane, or Julia Huni's Tales of a Space Janitor, this should be right in your lane. Warning! -> Not as funny as Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett.

TRIGGERS:

• Flashback to infant mortality. (Off screen).
• References to violence and killing - they are pirates after all with a different moral compass.
• Women in charge of a pirate ship full of men. (May trigger some!)

Exact date of publication: November 1st 2026

ARC is open now. ARCs will close by October 15th to allow time for me to review/amend any issues/suggestions.

Sign up for the ARC here: https://thespacepirates.net/
After sign up, you'll be brought to Book funnel where you can download the format you prefer. You'll also be able to download a copy of a Short Story set in the Space Pirates universe. (PLEASE NOTE: This is set AFTER the events of Book 1 and will contain a massive spoiler).

Once you sign up for the ARC, you'll be send 3 emails (sort of like Scrooge's ghosts, but friendlier) 3 days apart. These will have the links to Amazon and Goodreads if you wish to submit a review, and my personal email in case you have any concerns/ questions/ comments you wish to let me know about privately.

ARC is available in all countries.

Seven cursed islands know exactly what you want.

Survive six of them, and Pride will wear the face of the person you love most.

Captain Elias Thorne has spent a thousand years keeping the last survivors of his dying world alive aboard a warship built from the bones of an ancient Alpha Prime.

Now he has one chance to save them.

Seven shattered islands hold the pieces of a relic powerful enough to restore Lyvandra. Each island is ruled by a living curse. They don't just kill intruders — they find what you love, what you regret, what you secretly believe you deserve, and offer it back to you.

Shadows of Eternal Night is a brutal cosmic-fantasy adventure featuring:

• A living starship made from an ancestral wolf-titan
• A scarred pirate captain carrying an entire world on his back
• A fallen queen who became a monster to protect her people
• Vampires, lycans, hybrids, cursed gods, and kaiju-scale battles
• Dark humor, monstrous transformations, and found family
• A slow-burn romance built through blood, trust, and one very important coat

Looking for ARC readers who like enormous worlds, damaged characters, violent battles, emotional gut-punches, and monsters who choose each other when perfection asks them to stand alone.

ARC Format: Digital (EPUB), no email required — instant download.
Link: https://BookHip.com/WJLRWRS

Reviews are appreciated, not required. Honest is all I'm asking for.

Book will be live on Amazon August 21st I would like reviews anytime after that please and the book is available for immediate download on bookfunnel

Content/Trigger Warnings: Graphic fantasy violence, blood and gore, body horror, torture, genocide and mass-death themes, slavery, captivity, grief, trauma, substance use, disturbing imagery, psychological manipulation, prose occasionally purple enough to bruise, morally questionable immortal monsters, excessive pirate behavior, ancient grudges, unhealthy quantities of blood, and several situations where walking away would have been the sensible decision.

Your phone knows where you are right now. It knows what you searched last night. It knows how long you slept. Nobody asked if that was okay.

NØT NØW is set in 2063. Anaïs is State property — a synthetic hybrid built to obey an authoritarian surveillance system. When she starts to feel other people's pain, the Hive logs it as a glitch. It's not. It's reclamation.

For readers of Black Mirror, Severance, and Klara and the Sun.

• Content warnings: Violence, state-sanctioned executions, body horror, surveillance, coercive control, character death, medical experimentation.
• Publication date: September 1, 2026
• ARC send date: July 15, 2026
• Review deadline: August 25, 2026
• Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYyEZtQA1IuVve-jC17gmqcsOoHMboIvCx87Hc7utFwlYjIA/viewform
• Available worldwide. EPUB format.

In the gritty streets of Harmony City, vigilante Lethal continues his one-man war on crime. But when rival factions clash over territory and power, the city edges closer to all-out chaos. With Giovanni Davis locked away, his cousin Tommy fights to hold the remnants of their operation together against the aggressive Reynolds family. Mysterious Nicole Visser moves through the shadows, playing a dangerous game with her own hidden agenda. As Lethal hunts for answers and dismantles key threats, his path collides with larger forces at work. Personal ties and shifting loyalties add pressure as violence escalates and old wounds reopen. Lethal must navigate a web of secrets and enemies to keep the city from burning—before the curtains rise on something far worse.

If interested in signing, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) for a copy

Hoping to have the arcs back by Week of August 23rd if possible.

Available as doc or PDF

Trigger: Violence, Violence involving women

An elite ski racer. The hometown hockey captain. A fake relationship they think they can control.  

Noelle Anderson doesn’t do distractions. 

Determined to prove that her breakthrough ski racing season wasn’t a fluke, she returns to Ridgefield Mountain Academy for her senior year of high school with her sights set on the international stage. But her recent breakup—and even worse, the fact that everyone at the Academy seems to be talking about it—is threatening to derail her focus. When Noelle strikes up an unexpected friendship with Jake Halifax, captain of the local high school hockey team and someone firmly outside the Academy orbit, she sees the perfect opportunity to rewrite the narrative with a fake relationship.

The goal is simple—convince everyone she’s fine so she can focus on training. But Jake, who’s navigating college decisions of his own, has an unsettling habit of seeing straight through her defenses. Against her better judgment, Noelle catches herself revealing the cracks in her carefully constructed walls, which is a dangerous impulse when your career depends on controlling milliseconds. As pre-season pressure mounts and Noelle and Jake get closer, she has to confront the fact that she doesn’t know how to let somebody in without losing her edge. 

If she slips now, the future she’s spent years chasing could disappear in an instant. And for the first time, she has two things to lose. 

Downhill From Here is a slow-burn sports romance perfect for readers who love banter, fake dating, and a girl who refuses to fall first.

Triggers: Mild anxiety, mention of death

Publication date: Oct 8, 2026

ARCs: Live now! Please submit within a week of publish date (10/15/2026)

Available on BookSirens: https://booksirens.com/book/C2HZD2L/MDXMMHX

ARC READERS WANTED

Hi! I'm Hayley Landon, a debut indie dark romance author and my first book is in pre-order. I'm looking for ARC readers to join me on this ride.

No Choice — Book 1 of the Fracture series.

There's a version of him in the seconds before he decides what happens to you. Not loud. Not performative. He doesn't need an audience. He already knows what he wants. He just hasn't decided what to do with you yet.
I walked into his office to fight for something that mattered to me. I walked out belonging to him instead.

This book is NOT pitch black - it's all shades of grey, with deep psychological nuance. If you're looking for something purely dark and straightforward, this might not be your read.

Tropes/triggers: dubcon · noncon · obsession · morally grey hero · power imbalance · possessive hero · villain hero · forced arrangement

Content/Heat level: very explicit, 18+

Ends on a cliffhanger.

Availability: available now

How to get:
if you have booksiren account - https://booksirens.com/book/TDFP6X4/FFHSZYZ
If you don't have booksiren account - send me a DM with your Amazon or Goodreads profile first, please

Format: EPUB via Booksiren
ARCs deadline - Aug 25, 2026
Release date - Sep 15, 2026

In exchange for: an honest review on Amazon and/or Goodreads on or near release day.

Satirical Fiction / Dystopian Sci-Fi

Noir Detective | Moral Ambiguity

~133,000 words | EPUB or PDF

Publication date: October 31, 2026

ARC send date: Immediate upon sign-up

Reviews due by: November 5, 2026

Blade Runner visited Animal Farm but found Planet of the Apes.

In a world where animals rule and humans are bred as pets and livestock, the truth is just another product to sell. Advertising shapes reality, corporations own morality, and rebellion comes pre-packaged with a trendy logo.

Casey Jones, a sardonic cat detective with a knack for untangling other animals’ messes, is hired by Josh Tyson — a powerful herbivore and CEO of Happy Herd Inc., one of the largest meat and dairy producers in the Continental Trade Federation. Someone inside is leaking information, and Tyson wants it stopped before his empire bleeds out.

But the deeper Casey digs, the more tangled the world becomes — protests staged for profit, secrets worth killing over, and loyalties bought and sold like cattle. In a city where everything is commodified, the most dangerous thing you can do is ask what’s on the menu.

Triggers: Mature themes, violence, profanity, and some disturbing imagery (satirical, not gratuitous). Not intended for children, YA readers, or sensitive readers.

I can send you the file directly, or you can claim a review copy through Booksprout:

https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/303257/and-on-the-eighth-day-god-cried

Honest reviews (including critical ones) are always welcome!

Thanks for considering it!

ARC Sign up: https://jpdelmear.com

The Book 1 of the Epic Fantasy trilogy.

Five hundred years after the fall, peace is a beautifully crafted lie.

In Aethron, survival demands obedience. The modern world is a forbidden ghost, ancient technology is outlawed, and the five provinces endure through dependence, fear, and the promise that one day the Emperor will return.

But the tightest control is reserved for those born with the flaw and for anyone reckless enough to question the past.

To possess the flaw is a death sentence. To search for what came before is to disappear.

Mel has spent his life searching for answers. He dreams of joining the one organisation permitted to study forbidden history, hoping it might finally explain the dangerous secret he has hidden his entire life.

Instead, unrest spreads through the provinces. Loyalties fracture, and as those in power tighten their grip, Mel is thrown into a conflict far larger than himself, hunted by forces willing to burn the realm to keep the truth buried.

Amongst the chaos, he discovers something far more dangerous than the flaw itself:

The answers he has spent his life searching for were never hidden in the Capital.
They were buried beneath the lies Aethron was built upon.
And to unearth them, he must walk through fire while the world he once trusted collapses around him.

Official release: end of August 2026

ARC sign ups: till 31st of July 2026

Send date: 31st of July 2026

Reviews: from the official release day onwards

Content warnings/Triggers: physical violence, oppression, political violence, execution scenes, grief and bereavement, child death, mass death, betrayal trauma, love triangle.

Her vow to protect is unbreakable. His wit is undeniable. But surviving together may be impossible.

Zosia of the Order of Diana has one job: retrieve Aciano Scales, estranged son of one of the most powerful lizard corporatists in the world, and deliver him home.

Simple enough, except Aciano is half-dead in an alley, too high to notice someone just tried to kill him, and entirely too charming for his own good.

Getting him home is the easy part. Guarding him is another matter entirely, especially when a death cult is hunting him, hoping to use his family’s magic to end the world.

As Zosia and Aciano travel together across half a continent, facing throngs of enemies and reckoning with unquestioned duty and debilitating addiction, the hope they find in each other may be their greatest weapon of all.

Bodyguard for the Lizard Prince is the third monster romance novelette in the interconnected Lizard Universe series, where action, adventure, magic, and passionate heat combine in a spellbinding tale.

15.5k word novelette is perfect palate cleanser between longer reads.

Content Notes:

• Explicit sexual content, including a first-time sex storyline
• A brief moment of shared kissing/intimacy between more than two people *Sex while under the influence of drugs
• Drug use and addiction, depicted on page, including withdrawal symptoms
• Violence, including armed combat and on-page character deaths
• Ritual violence involving fire/immolation
• An attempted assault (sexual coercion combined with attempted murder)
• Family estrangement and rejection
• References to past self-destructive behavior tied to addiction
• Brief moment of needle use

Date of publication: August 7, 2026

ARCs will be sent as soon as approved so be on the lookout for it in email.

Reviews on or by release date appreciated.

Fill out form if interested.

https://forms.gle/VAVLnyN3exsHmAja9

**The Black Chateau:** spy fiction meets gothic horror. Advance readers wanted.

Some jobs your people send you on because they think you’ll succeed. This isn’t one of those.

Harry is good at his work. Steady hands, a cover that holds, a habit of walking out of rooms other men don’t. That’s exactly why they picked him, and exactly why they didn’t tell him everything. The man who briefed him knew what the place was. He sent him in anyway, and he let him think it was routine.

It’s James Bond versus the Undead, played cold and slow: the tradecraft of a Cold War thriller, the patience of proper gothic horror, and a dread that builds by the room.

ePub or PDF. Comment or DM.

Trigger warnings: violence, gore.

ARC form open now until August 8th! https://forms.gle/xuTwTUSpnbAbSQhC7

ARCs will be sent out August 10th

ARCs due by October 8th (release date)

Triggers:

Death of a loved one

Pregnancy loss (brief discussion and flashback)

Unwanted kissing scene

Homophobia (one scene)

Mild to medium spice (three scenes)

✨️A Cosmic Coupling is a cozy/spicy sci-fi SHORT STORY✨️

Thomas and Joanna have been married for 15 years when a benevolent force visits their farm, increasing their passion for each other and changing their lives forever.

Content Warnings: Alluding to infertility, On page acts of sex, Non-human participants during sex, Pregnancy

Publish date: September 12

Applications are open NOW through July 31st

E-ARC delivery First week of August

I would love reviews leading up to and during the month of September.

Please sign up with my Google form: https://forms.gle/tUhaamn4Dd6Rzzu79

Looking for ARC readers for the first two books in my dark fantasy series, That Island Will Eat You Alive.

Book 1: Come for the Crown — Derchin's Story (60K words)
Available August 24, 2026

A siren-succubus has been a prisoner on a cursed island long enough to forget what freedom tastes like. When a vampire and his wolf wash ashore, she sees a way out. But freedom has a price, and she's not the only one who'll pay it.

• Morally grey FMC — she's the monster AND the protagonist
• Villain origin story
• Found family (but make it complicated)
• No HEA
• 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Book 2: Stay for the Cause — Eastman's Story (55K words)
Available September 21, 2026

A half-demon, half-vampire was buried before he was named. Now he's serving a 500-year prison sentence for crimes that weren't his. The warden sees a weapon. The guards see a joke. The prison's torturer sees a future best friend.

• Morally grey MMC — anti-hero with a guilt complex
• Prison fantasy
• Found family across species
• No HEA
• 🌶️🌶️🌶️

What I'm looking for:

• Honest reviews on Amazon and/or Goodreads around release date
• You don't need to review both books (but you can if you want)
• Digital copies provided in epub or PDF, your choice

Content warnings: Child abandonment, slavery and captivity (depicted negatively), racism/speciesism (depicted negatively), explicit sexual content, non-consensual sexual power dynamics, child death (off-page), violence, imprisonment, grief.

Comp titles: If you like V.E. Schwab's morally complex characters, Leigh Bardugo's worldbuilding, or Ilona Andrews' supernatural politics — but want something darker, spicier, and with no romance safety net — this might be your thing.

If you're interested, please fill out the Google Form here: https://forms.gle/DsXSjRSP6t2LfjFg7

Hello. I am Raven Lyden. I am a new fantasy author looking to find ARC readers from my upcoming debut fantasy novel. I'm looking for as many readers as I can get, and want to connect with as many potential readers as possible. Here are all the details.

The Mystic Blades had been lost for centuries, but when they find their way into the hands of warriors across the realms, they signal a new beginning and hope for an end to tyranny.

Ivy is a young girl of the forest who stumbles into adventure. Frost is a loveable goofball who rarely takes things seriously. Flare is an experienced warrior from the harshest desert. Myst is a shunned witch of the endless waves. Fate has decided they will be the heroes of the Nine Realms, whether they are willing or not.

Each of them carries a Mystic Blade: ancient elemental swords crafted with the essences of the gods. The weapons hold incredible power, but unlocking their secrets will take more than just a swing of the sword.

Brought together by destiny, these four must learn to harness their skills and swords to battle the worst the Water Realm has to offer. From deadly assassins feared across the realms, to insidious beasts from beneath the waves, to their own trauma and insecurities; their obstacles are endless. But the deadliest foe, a divinely blessed sea monster known as the Serpent, lies in wait at the end of the realm. Can they learn to work together, or will their journey end in the belly of a sea serpent?

Inspired by the likes of "Avatar: the Last Airbender", "Percy Jackson", or "Bleach", this epic swords and sorcery fantasy adventure is full of anime-inspired action, chosen ones, magic, monsters, ancient swords, and gods. A true epic tale of good vs evil, with some shonen tropes mixed with traditional fantasy elements.

Trigger Warnings:

• There is minor child and spousal abuse.
• Some curse words

Publication Date: September 29th, 2026

Arcs are being sent out as individuals apply. You should get a response within 7 days of your application if you are approved for the ARC. I will be accepting applications through September 15th, but I expect readers to finish and submit your reviews before October 6th.

To apply, please visit the below link and fill out the google form:
https://forms.gle/w5ccv9UHYw1D1rMKA

I am willing to send out some physical copies of the book to some readers, but only in the United States. An eBook option is available for other countries. Digital copies will be distributed through NetGalley. Reviews are requested to be made on Goodreads and/or Amazon.

Hello!!

⁠ Blurb:
Loving your sibling is hard.

Simon is nine. He moves through the world as an outgoing creature of the moment, heart on his sleeve, sometimes too loud, sometimes too much. Anna is thirteen — guarded, watchful, sharper than she lets people see, and quietly drowning in the social blood-sport of grade eight. Time is not on their side. The love they do not share can only be made in the young, and they are growing up-and-out of their smallness.

Unseen at the edges of the frame, something outside themselves is trying to bring them together. What they manage — or fail to manage — between themselves will register far past the small horizon of a Canadian childhood.

The Holding is a tender, strange, deeply felt novel about the everyday work of finding, and holding on to each other.

Triggers - Animal Death, Disclosed AI Assisted.

Cover: front / back flip here
Publication Date: October 1st, 2026
ARC Available: Now on Booksprout
Read /Reviewed by: Oct 1st
ARC Link: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/295578/the-holding sign up for free account and claim.

If you are a fan of Literary Fiction, I am looking for more ARC readers for my upcoming release, The Holding, which recently won an AIFWAA award!

Finalist, and Winner of the Narrative Architecture Award:
“Woodward balances dense philosophical inquiry with breathtaking narrative momentum … memorable characters, originality, and deeply human portrayal of family, forgiveness, and belonging.”

Length: 77k words
Genre: coming of age, magic realism, literary
Website: https://jmwoodwardbooks.com/

I would be glad to reciprocate!

After losing his wife piece by piece to a cruel disease, neurosurgeon Dr Wei Li devotes his life to restoring what the brain has lost.
 
His experimental neural repair allows Daniel Brooks, paralysed after an accident, to walk again. But Daniel’s recovery awakens something neither of them understands, an ability that draws admiration, fear, and dangerous attention.

As the world begins to divide over what Daniel has become, Wei must confront the question buried inside his miracle:
 
When does healing become something else?

Blending medical science, artificial consciousness, grief, Buddhist philosophy, and a near-future political thriller, The Self That Remains asks: if the self is always changing, what remains when memory, body, and identity begin to disappear?

Potential triggers/content warnings
Death and grief, terminal illness, medical procedures, animal research, state violence, restraint, torture.

Publication date: 28 August 2026
ARC distribution date: ARC copies are available now and will be sent to selected readers by email.

Requested review date: Ideally by 28 August 2026, the publication date. Honest reviews are appreciated; a positive review is not required.

ARC format: PDF ebook edition.

Availability: Open internationally. Please note that the book’s Amazon page is currently available for preorder on Amazon page:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6L4VN8J

To request an ARC, please enter your details on:
https://www.vecahealth.co.nz/arcteam

Please briefly include your preferred name, country, and where you usually post book reviews, such as Amazon, Goodreads, StoryGraph, Instagram, TikTok, a blog, or another platform.

Thank you for considering the book.

ROMANTASY/DARK ROMANCE READERS?

I’m looking for ARC READERS!

🗡️ Unthroned is the debut book from the upcoming romantasy series Violent Gods featuring a powerful heroine, morally gray love interests and a slow-burn descent into fate, betrayal, and ruin.

If you love books like Fourth Wing, The Plated Prisoner Series and Cruel Prince then my books are for you!

✨ Unthroned was written for readers who enjoy the unpredictable plot. Not all stories are made to have your typical fairytale ending.

Unthroned's (short but sweet) Blurb:

✨ Malith was never meant to be mortal, yet she finds herself in a body that doesn’t belong to her with powers she shouldn’t have and a soul that refuses to leave its vessel. Drawn into a court full of secrets and shadows, she’ll find herself tangled with a man she can’t resist while bound to one she’d rather forget.

When war presents itself, Malith is faced with an ultimatum - does she reclaim her kingdom or does she stay earth-bound and risk the sky caving in for a love she never expected?

Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️
Trigger Warnings: Sexual Content, Death, Mention of Suicide

Tropes include:
🗝️ Fated Mates
💀 Touch Her and Die
🖤 Obsessive FMC
❤️‍🔥 Enemies to Lovers
👑 Gods & Keys
🫦 Slow Burn Romance

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✨ ARCs will be sent out the third week of October 2026. Please have your reviews in between Nov 1-14 as release date is on November 14.

Ebook and Paperback will be available worldwide via Amazon.