Tess is two beers into her third date with Greg at a local craft brewery when she confesses what she does in her spare time.

She writes absolute filth. Precise, wildly inventive, completely unashamed filth.

Instead of running, Greg reads every single word. Then he asks the question she has been fantasizing about: “Are you ready to meet your Master?”

If your answer is yes, or even a particularly interested maybe, this is your last chance to join the ARC team for Dirty Goddess by Selina James-Kyle. I’m sending advance copies through BookFunnel tomorrow.

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Tess and Greg begin exploring their own negotiated power exchange, while the story Tess is writing follows Frankie, a young submissive entering a two-year contract with a married couple inside a speculative kink society.

Book Details

Dirty Goddess

Release date: 22 August 2026
ARC sendout: 19 August 2026
Distribution: Kindle Unlimited
Format: Full-length standalone erotic romance

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Some stories are best read with one hand free. Others demand you surrender control entirely.

Tess is leaving her law firm to start her own practice. Five years post-divorce, she wants a lover who wants exactly what she wants. Greg is looking for something genuine. By their third date at a local craft brewery, the chemistry is undeniable. By their fourth, Tess confesses exactly what she does after dark.

She writes filth. Precise, wildly inventive, unashamed filth.

Her stories explore a world of licensed power, following Frankie, a brilliant young submissive who signs away two years of her life to a married couple. Frankie is collared, locked in chastity, and fed from a bowl on the kitchen floor. It is a fantasy of absolute submission, and Greg reads every single word.

Instead of running, he looks at Tess and asks the one question she never expected.

“Would you like to meet your Master?”

What begins as a game on the page becomes an intoxicating real-world arrangement. As Tess and Greg explore their own negotiated surrender, Frankie’s story moves with them. Her characters are falling in love, the rules are changing, and a fourth player is waiting at the end of a poker table with plans of his own.

Dirty Goddess is a full-length, standalone erotic romance featuring a dual narrative, intense dominance and submission, master/pet play, and polyamory. No cliffhangers. Just real contracts, working safewords, and characters who never apologize for what they desire.

Tropes You’ll Love

🐾 Human pet play

📜 Contracted ownership and collaring

🖤 Consensual non-consent

💞 Polyamory and why choose

✍️ Story within a story

🔒 Chastity and orgasm denial

🙌 Praise kink

✋ Corporal punishment

😈 Sadist and masochist

👁️ Voyeurism and public display

🔄 Switch, the submissive tops

💋 Bisexual heroine

🍸 Seasoned leads in their forties

🌍 Speculative kink society

🤝 Consent and aftercare on the page

😂 Genuinely funny

🏳️‍🌈 Queer and poly ensemble

💍 Happy ending

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Content Warnings

Dirty Goddess is open-door throughout, and the kink is central to the reading experience. It includes explicit f/f, m/f and group sexual content; consensual non-consent inside a signed-contract framework; human pet play; collaring, leashing, crawling, cages, muzzles, mittens and public display; watersports and bladder desperation; chastity, orgasm denial and prolonged edging; corporal punishment that leaves marks; crying; humiliation, objectification, verbal degradation and condescension; confinement in cages and locked, sound-proofed rooms; carceral themes, involuntary detention and tagging; emotional distress; remote monitoring; restrictions on speech; partner sharing; and sustained loss of bodily autonomy within the inner story.

One sequence involves a resisting character being chased, held down by four people, restrained, silenced and left in a cage overnight while others watch. The book also includes nipple clamps, spreader bars, armbinders, handcuffs, blindfolds and sensory restriction; cannabis and alcohol use; and a second-hand account of a male pet being feminised and mocked, which the story itself identifies as bullying. A cattle prod is mentioned as a trainer’s tool and appears in one character’s fantasy, but it is not used on the page.

Every participant is an adult. There is no underage content, incest or bestiality. The pet dynamic is roleplay between consenting adults from beginning to end, with contracts, advocates, safewords and exit provisions established inside the story’s speculative setting.

Please read these warnings carefully and make the decision that works for you. There is no expectation that every ARC opportunity will suit every reader.

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If you enjoy explicit erotic romance, are comfortable with the content warnings, and want to read a story where surrender is negotiated, safewords work, and humour survives the filth, I would love to have you join us.

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The ARC will arrive on 19 August 2026, with release following on 22 August 2026.

Don’t miss out on this tender, love story about two married women in a small Michigan town who become each other’s whole world, and about the quiet, terrifying question underneath it: what if the life you built is not the life you actually want, and what if it is not too late to change it.

It is warm and hopeful even as it holds heavy things. If you want to read it before release day and help set the tone for how this debut lands, this is the window.

Anna has spent twenty years being the person who notices everyone else. Who is tired, who has gone quiet, who needs a second cup of coffee before anyone speaks to them. Then Abbi moves into her orbit, and for the first time in longer than she can remember, someone notices her back.

They are both married. They are both mothers. They both live inside the same quiet arrangement so many women will recognise: a marriage that looks fine from the outside and has gone cold somewhere in the middle. And between the school runs and the grocery lists and the slow work of an ordinary life, the two of them become each other’s whole world.

Anna Pivato is a first-time author, and this is a story she wrote close to the bone. She wrote it, in her own words, to say that it is never too late to build the life you were meant to be living, no matter how impossible that feels from the inside of the one you already have. You can feel that conviction on every page.

The Details

Title: Kissing Abbi: An Unconventional Love Story

Author: Anna Pivato

Genre: WLW Contemporary / Women’s Fiction

ARC Sendout: 11 August 2026

Release Date: 25 August 2026

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The Tropes

🌈 WLW romance
📖 Women’s fiction
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+
🌱 Midlife reinvention
🪞 Narcissism
💔 Divorce
🔁 Second chances

The Blurb

The most unexpected love can be the hardest to deny.

Kissing Abbi: An Unconventional Love Story is an intimate, emotionally honest novel about two women whose growing friendship forces them to question the traditional lives they’re leading—married to men they no longer love. Set in a small town and shaped by emotional distance, narcissism, and a life-altering cancer diagnosis, the story follows Anna and Abbi as their unexpected connection deepens into something neither woman anticipated, nor feels prepared to embrace. Told through alternating perspectives, the novel blends domestic realism with emotional depth, capturing the quiet, powerful pull of unexpected love that arrives at the most complicated time.

As both women navigate marriage, motherhood, illness, and societal expectations, they are confronted with difficult truths about loyalty, authenticity, and the courage required to pursue a truer, happier version of themselves. Warm and confessional in tone—balancing Anna’s wry self-awareness with Abbi’s practical vulnerability—Kissing Abbi is a bittersweet exploration of love, loss, and midlife reinvention. Inspired by an unquestionably complicated, unexpectedly beautiful true story.

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Content Warnings

Kissing Abbi is emotionally heavy women’s fiction. It contains terminal illness and the on-page decline and death of a spouse from cancer, including hospice scenes; emotional abuse and narcissistic behaviour within a marriage; the strain of a failing long-term marriage, and divorce; references to a past spouse’s infidelity; the off-page death of a teenager in a car accident, and a serious car accident later in the story; grief, guilt, and the experience of no longer loving a dying spouse; the impact of parental divorce and remarriage on children; a midlife same-sex awakening and the fear of coming out to children, parents, and community; and brief explicit sexual content between two women, along with some strong language. The overall tone is warm and hopeful rather than bleak, but the illness, grief, and marital-abuse threads run throughout.

About the Author

Anna Pivato is a first-time author whose life took a few unexpected turns in leading to where she is now: happily married to the woman who quickly became her best friend. The middle-aged mother of three felt compelled to share her story in the hopes of convincing others that it’s never too late to pursue the life you’re meant to be living, no matter how impossible it may seem. Pivato’s honest, often humorous tone tugs at the reader’s heartstrings, as she celebrates the unexpected beauty of midlife reinvention, renewal, and recognizing one’s own worth at any stage of life.

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Saigon, 1943.

Cole Miller works for the OSS, which in this city means the Japanese occupation tolerates him, the Vichy officials running the colony pretend not to see him, and nobody trusts him. Then a café is shot to pieces, his boss dies in the attack, and the fastest way to close the case is to hang it on Cole.

The city Cole thought he knew has shifted beneath him, leaving him surrounded by people whose loyalties depend on who is asking and what they stand to gain.

ARC signups are now open for Songs of Saigon by Ed Teja, a wartime crime and espionage novel set in Japanese-occupied Saigon. Advance copies will be sent on 25 August, ahead of the book’s release on 8 September 2026.

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If you enjoy historical thrillers built around political intrigue, compromised alliances and investigations where the authorities may be as dangerous as the murderer, this may be one for your list.

Songs of Saigon

Release date: 08 September 2026
ARC Sendout: 25 August 2026
Distribution: Wide

An OSS officer in 1943 Saigon becomes the most convenient suspect in his own station chief’s murder.

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The bullets fired into the cafe changed his life forever.

1943 — Cole Miller, a young Chinese-American OSS agent, returns from a mission. His boss (and friend) is murdered during a terror attack on a cafe. Are they related?

Japanese occupation forces control the country, but the Vichy administration running the colony turns a blind eye to OSS operations. When the Minister of Security learns of Cole’s affair with his wife, he decides to pin the murder on Cole.

With no support from his new boss, who harbors hate for Asia, the OSS, and half-breed men, Cole must navigate the City’s intrigues and find the real killer before it’s too late. But with betrayal lurking in every shadow, can Cole uncover the truth and clear his name?

If you enjoy gripping tales of espionage and betrayal, love and war, you won’t want to miss this thrilling suspense novel.

“A compelling tale of international espionage set in the shadowy underworld of 1943 Saigon during WWII.”
Joanne Kormylo, author of The Resistance Daughter

Tropes You’ll Love

🕵️ Spy thriller

🔪 Murder investigation

🌏 WWII Southeast Asia setting

⚖️ Morally complex protagonist

🧨 Political intrigue

🩸 Wrong man accused

🕶️ Secret agendas and shifting loyalties

🔥 Dangerous affair

🎭 Corruption and divided allegiances

💣 Terrorist attack fallout

🃏 Underworld connections

🫥 Outsider protagonist

🧭 Identity and loyalty conflict

😰 High-stakes survival

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Content Warnings

Songs of Saigon is a crime novel set in 1940s Southeast Asia and does not soften the period in which it takes place. Readers should be aware of graphic violence, including an ambush with multiple deaths and a character being shot at close range, as well as a terrorist attack with fatalities, murder, strangulation, gun violence and arms smuggling.

The novel also contains period-accurate racial slurs and ethnic prejudice between Japanese, British, French, Chinese, American and Vietnamese characters. Additional content includes infidelity, heavy smoking and drinking, deliberately cruel characters, and sustained deception.

About Ed Teja

Ed Teja has been a boat bum, magazine editor, freelance writer, poet and musician, with travel remaining a constant throughout his life and work. Rather than writing traditional travel stories, he is drawn to the places he encounters along the way, particularly those that sit at the margins of the world and the complicated, unusual people who live there.

His fiction spans crime, mystery and thrillers, often placing characters inside communities where the official version of events tells only part of the story.

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Songs of Saigon is looking for early readers who are comfortable with its violence, historical prejudice and morally complicated characters, and who enjoy espionage stories in which almost every alliance carries conditions.

If Cole Miller’s investigation sounds like the kind of dangerous ground you enjoy following a character into, you are invited to apply.

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By then, Tess and Greg have already spent eight hours talking over lunch, shared a kiss against a brick wall after a live band, and reached the point where the polite versions of themselves are beginning to fall away.

Then Tess tells him what she does after dark.

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She writes filth. Greg reads every word she sends him and then asks, he asks the last thing Tess expects, “Would you like to meet your Master?”

ARC applications are now open for Dirty Goddess by Selina James-Kyle, a full-length standalone erotic romance told through two connected narratives.

Tess and Greg begin exploring their own negotiated power exchange, while the story Tess is writing follows Frankie, a young submissive entering a two-year contract with a married couple inside a speculative kink society.

What happens on the page begins changing what happens between Tess and Greg. Frankie’s arrangement also refuses to remain as simple as the contract that began it. Feelings deepen, rules shift, and another person is waiting at the edge of the story.

Book Details

Dirty Goddess

Release date: 22 August 2026
ARC sendout: 14 August 2026
Distribution: Kindle Unlimited
Format: Full-length standalone erotic romance

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Some stories are best read with one hand free. Others demand you surrender control entirely.

Tess is leaving her law firm to start her own practice. Five years post-divorce, she wants a lover who wants exactly what she wants. Greg is looking for something genuine. By their third date at a local craft brewery, the chemistry is undeniable. By their fourth, Tess confesses exactly what she does after dark.

She writes filth. Precise, wildly inventive, unashamed filth.

Her stories explore a world of licensed power, following Frankie, a brilliant young submissive who signs away two years of her life to a married couple. Frankie is collared, locked in chastity, and fed from a bowl on the kitchen floor. It is a fantasy of absolute submission, and Greg reads every single word.

Instead of running, he looks at Tess and asks the one question she never expected.

“Would you like to meet your Master?”

What begins as a game on the page becomes an intoxicating real-world arrangement. As Tess and Greg explore their own negotiated surrender, Frankie’s story moves with them. Her characters are falling in love, the rules are changing, and a fourth player is waiting at the end of a poker table with plans of his own.

Dirty Goddess is a full-length, standalone erotic romance featuring a dual narrative, intense dominance and submission, master/pet play, and polyamory. No cliffhangers. Just real contracts, working safewords, and characters who never apologize for what they desire.

Tropes You’ll Love

🐾 Human pet play

📜 Contracted ownership and collaring

🖤 Consensual non-consent

💞 Polyamory and why choose

✍️ Story within a story

🔒 Chastity and orgasm denial

🙌 Praise kink

✋ Corporal punishment

😈 Sadist and masochist

👁️ Voyeurism and public display

🔄 Switch, the submissive tops

💋 Bisexual heroine

🍸 Seasoned leads in their forties

🌍 Speculative kink society

🤝 Consent and aftercare on the page

😂 Genuinely funny

🏳️‍🌈 Queer and poly ensemble

💍 Happy ending

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Content Warnings

Dirty Goddess is open-door throughout, and the kink is central to the reading experience. It includes explicit f/f, m/f and group sexual content; consensual non-consent inside a signed-contract framework; human pet play; collaring, leashing, crawling, cages, muzzles, mittens and public display; watersports and bladder desperation; chastity, orgasm denial and prolonged edging; corporal punishment that leaves marks; crying; humiliation, objectification, verbal degradation and condescension; confinement in cages and locked, sound-proofed rooms; carceral themes, involuntary detention and tagging; emotional distress; remote monitoring; restrictions on speech; partner sharing; and sustained loss of bodily autonomy within the inner story.

One sequence involves a resisting character being chased, held down by four people, restrained, silenced and left in a cage overnight while others watch. The book also includes nipple clamps, spreader bars, armbinders, handcuffs, blindfolds and sensory restriction; cannabis and alcohol use; and a second-hand account of a male pet being feminised and mocked, which the story itself identifies as bullying. A cattle prod is mentioned as a trainer’s tool and appears in one character’s fantasy, but it is not used on the page.

Every participant is an adult. There is no underage content, incest or bestiality. The pet dynamic is roleplay between consenting adults from beginning to end, with contracts, advocates, safewords and exit provisions established inside the story’s speculative setting.

Please read these warnings carefully and make the decision that works for you. There is no expectation that every ARC opportunity will suit every reader.

About Selina James-Kyle

Selina James-Kyle is the author of Dirty Goddess, an erotic romance written for adult readers who want the kink to remain central rather than being softened into the background. The book brings explicit power exchange, humour, consent, aftercare and polyamorous relationships into the same story, while allowing its characters to be clear about what they want.

As Selina puts it, this book is best suited to filthy kinksters with loving hearts and a sense of humour, particularly readers who understand the difference between fantasy and reality.

You can find Selina on Instagram: https://instagram.com/selinajameskyle

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If you enjoy explicit erotic romance, are comfortable with the content warnings, and want to read a story where surrender is negotiated, safewords work, and humour survives the filth, I would love to have you join us.

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The ARC will arrive on 14 August 2026, with release following on 22 August 2026.

Evie Dixon left Oklahoma six years ago and built a life two thousand miles away, quiet enough that most days she could go without thinking about Buckie McAlester at all. Grief is patient. It waits for exactly the kind of disruption a wedding invitation brings.

Our Journey by H K Brown, is a second-chance romance for readers who want the reunion to cost something before it heals. Evie and Buckie do not get to skip the estrangement, the sudden loss, or the six years of unanswered questions sitting between them. It is a book about the difference between surviving a broken heart and learning to love with it again.

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The Details

Title: Our Journey
Author: H K Brown
Genre: Contemporary romance
ARC Sendout: 24 July 2026
Release Date: 7 August 2026

The Tropes

🌾 Small-town Oklahoma
💌 Childhood sweethearts
🔁 Second-chance romance
🤝 Friends-to-lovers
🕊️ Grief & healing
💫 Emotional slow burn
🏡 Found family
💍 Happily Ever After
🚪 Closed-door romance

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The Blurb

Evie Dixon thought she left her past behind when she fled her small Oklahoma hometown—and the boy she once planned to marry. Six years later, she’s built a quiet life in California, keeping her heart carefully withdrawn and her grief neatly boxed up. But her best friend Liv’s wedding drags everything back to the surface: the sudden loss that shattered Evie’s family, the betrayal that broke her first love, and the one name she still can’t say without flinching—Buckie McAlester, who’s now living a life she never imagined for him.

With Buckie back in her orbit, Evie must decide whether healing means keeping the door shut . . . or finally facing the truth of what happened and what it cost them both. As old vows echo and new choices demand courage, Evie is forced to confront the question she’s avoided for years: Is a broken heart something you survive, or something you learn to love with again?

A closed-door, emotional second-chance romance about grief, forgiveness, and finding your way back home.

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Content Warnings

Dear Reader,

Within these pages, you’ll find moments shaped by profound loss—both sudden and slow—as well as the lingering ache left by abandonment. I’ve approached these themes with as much care as I can, knowing how heavy they can feel. This story doesn’t shy away from the harder edges of grief, but I can promise you this: Beyond the shadows lies a hard-earned happily ever after, one I hope feels worth every difficult step along the way.

Our Journey follows a winding path from friendship to estrangement to love. The emotions run deep, but intimate moments remain behind closed doors—offering connection, vulnerability, and longing without explicit detail. It’s written for readers who crave emotional depth more than heat.

A gentle note: This book includes depictions of terminal illness, a house fire, manipulation, and unexpected loss, which may be challenging for some.

Thank you for choosing to walk this road toward healing with me.

H K Brown

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They are both married. They are both mothers. They both live inside the same quiet arrangement so many women will recognise: a marriage that looks fine from the outside and has gone cold somewhere in the middle. And between the school runs and the grocery lists and the slow work of an ordinary life, the two of them become each other’s whole world.

Anna Pivato is a first-time author, and this is a story she wrote close to the bone. She wrote it, in her own words, to say that it is never too late to build the life you were meant to be living, no matter how impossible that feels from the inside of the one you already have. You can feel that conviction on every page.

The Details

Title: Kissing Abbi: An Unconventional Love Story

Author: Anna Pivato

Genre: WLW Contemporary / Women’s Fiction

ARC Sendout: 11 August 2026

Release Date: 25 August 2026

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The Tropes

🌈 WLW romance
📖 Women’s fiction
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+
🌱 Midlife reinvention
🪞 Narcissism
💔 Divorce
🔁 Second chances

The Blurb

The most unexpected love can be the hardest to deny.

Kissing Abbi: An Unconventional Love Story is an intimate, emotionally honest novel about two women whose growing friendship forces them to question the traditional lives they’re leading—married to men they no longer love. Set in a small town and shaped by emotional distance, narcissism, and a life-altering cancer diagnosis, the story follows Anna and Abbi as their unexpected connection deepens into something neither woman anticipated, nor feels prepared to embrace. Told through alternating perspectives, the novel blends domestic realism with emotional depth, capturing the quiet, powerful pull of unexpected love that arrives at the most complicated time.

As both women navigate marriage, motherhood, illness, and societal expectations, they are confronted with difficult truths about loyalty, authenticity, and the courage required to pursue a truer, happier version of themselves. Warm and confessional in tone—balancing Anna’s wry self-awareness with Abbi’s practical vulnerability—Kissing Abbi is a bittersweet exploration of love, loss, and midlife reinvention. Inspired by an unquestionably complicated, unexpectedly beautiful true story.

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Content Warnings

Kissing Abbi is emotionally heavy women’s fiction. It contains terminal illness and the on-page decline and death of a spouse from cancer, including hospice scenes; emotional abuse and narcissistic behaviour within a marriage; the strain of a failing long-term marriage, and divorce; references to a past spouse’s infidelity; the off-page death of a teenager in a car accident, and a serious car accident later in the story; grief, guilt, and the experience of no longer loving a dying spouse; the impact of parental divorce and remarriage on children; a midlife same-sex awakening and the fear of coming out to children, parents, and community; and brief explicit sexual content between two women, along with some strong language. The overall tone is warm and hopeful rather than bleak, but the illness, grief, and marital-abuse threads run throughout.

About the Author

Anna Pivato is a first-time author whose life took a few unexpected turns in leading to where she is now: happily married to the woman who quickly became her best friend. The middle-aged mother of three felt compelled to share her story in the hopes of convincing others that it’s never too late to pursue the life you’re meant to be living, no matter how impossible it may seem. Pivato’s honest, often humorous tone tugs at the reader’s heartstrings, as she celebrates the unexpected beauty of midlife reinvention, renewal, and recognizing one’s own worth at any stage of life.

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Kissing Abbi is a love story for readers who want the ache more than the heat. It is told in alternating perspectives, which means you get both women’s private thoughts at once: you know Anna is thinking it about Abbi at the exact moment Abbi is thinking it about her, and neither of them knows the other is holding the same secret.

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Evie Dixon left Oklahoma six years ago and built a life two thousand miles away, quiet enough that most days she could go without thinking about Buckie McAlester at all. Grief is patient. It waits for exactly the kind of disruption a wedding invitation brings.

Our Journey by H K Brown, is a second-chance romance for readers who want the reunion to cost something before it heals. Evie and Buckie do not get to skip the estrangement, the sudden loss, or the six years of unanswered questions sitting between them. It is a book about the difference between surviving a broken heart and learning to love with it again.

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The Details

Title: Our Journey
Author: H K Brown
Genre: Contemporary romance
ARC Sendout: 24 July 2026
Release Date: 7 August 2026

The Tropes

🌾 Small-town Oklahoma
💌 Childhood sweethearts
🔁 Second-chance romance
🤝 Friends-to-lovers
🕊️ Grief & healing
💫 Emotional slow burn
🏡 Found family
💍 Happily Ever After
🚪 Closed-door romance

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The Blurb

Evie Dixon thought she left her past behind when she fled her small Oklahoma hometown—and the boy she once planned to marry. Six years later, she’s built a quiet life in California, keeping her heart carefully withdrawn and her grief neatly boxed up. But her best friend Liv’s wedding drags everything back to the surface: the sudden loss that shattered Evie’s family, the betrayal that broke her first love, and the one name she still can’t say without flinching—Buckie McAlester, who’s now living a life she never imagined for him.

With Buckie back in her orbit, Evie must decide whether healing means keeping the door shut . . . or finally facing the truth of what happened and what it cost them both. As old vows echo and new choices demand courage, Evie is forced to confront the question she’s avoided for years: Is a broken heart something you survive, or something you learn to love with again?

A closed-door, emotional second-chance romance about grief, forgiveness, and finding your way back home.

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Content Warnings

Dear Reader,

Within these pages, you’ll find moments shaped by profound loss—both sudden and slow—as well as the lingering ache left by abandonment. I’ve approached these themes with as much care as I can, knowing how heavy they can feel. This story doesn’t shy away from the harder edges of grief, but I can promise you this: Beyond the shadows lies a hard-earned happily ever after, one I hope feels worth every difficult step along the way.

Our Journey follows a winding path from friendship to estrangement to love. The emotions run deep, but intimate moments remain behind closed doors—offering connection, vulnerability, and longing without explicit detail. It’s written for readers who crave emotional depth more than heat.

A gentle note: This book includes depictions of terminal illness, a house fire, manipulation, and unexpected loss, which may be challenging for some.

Thank you for choosing to walk this road toward healing with me.

H K Brown

If Evie and Buckie’s road back to each other is calling to you, sign up to the ARC team, and look out for your copy on 24 July.

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For today only, you can grab the first three books in the series for FREE on Amazon:

🔮 Book 1: Descended
💙 Book 2: Transcended
🌑 Book 3: Intended

All three are free today only, which means you can catch up before Ascended, the fourth and final book, releases on 7 July.

And if you are already with the series, or planning to binge fast, this is your final nudge to sign up for the Ascended ARC team.

ARCs go out tomorrow, 23 June. Once copies are delivered, signup closes.

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Book Details

Title: Ascended
Author: Ingrid J. Adams
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy / Paranormal Romance
Series: Book 4, finale of the Descended Series
Release Date: 7 July
Distribution: Kindle Unlimited

Tropes you’ll love

🔥 Twin flame soul mates
⏳ Spans time and space
💫 Side characters who’ll steal your heart
👑 Who will take the throne?
📼 Epic 90s nostalgia
🌀 Batshit crazy villain
🕯️ 1920s flashbacks
🌐 Alternative timeline
✨ Contemporary fantasy
🌪️ Massive twists and turns

Spice level: 🌶🌶🌶

About Ascended

The explosive ending of Intended left one question on everyone’s lips:

Is he… or isn’t he?

Everyone believes Indigo is gone. Everyone except Cordelia.

Alone and grieving, she refuses to let go of her soulmate. Because forever doesn’t exist without him. If there’s even the smallest chance he’s alive, she’ll find it, no matter the cost. To bring him back, she must delve into her past, unearth buried family secrets, and trace the hidden roots of her lineage.

Her search will carry her across time and continents, from the steamy streets of Bali to the red deserts of Sedona, from the vibrant, dangerous magick of 1920s New Orleans to the sun-drenched beaches of Sydney in the late 1990s.

But Indigo is more than a lost love.

He is the missing heir to the Wiccan throne.

With the crown unclaimed and its rightful successor presumed dead, the balance of power begins to fracture. Warlocks are closing in, alliances are shifting, and Reinenoir’s long-held dream of becoming Witch Queen is closer than ever.

As destinies collide, enemies will become allies, friends will become lovers, and lovers will become enemies.

Spanning time, space, and bloodlines, Ascended is a spellbinding finale of power, sacrifice, and the lengths we’ll go to for true love.

When the fate of the world hangs in the balance… who will take the throne?

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Before You Sign Up

This book sits at the heavier end of paranormal romance.

It contains depictions of mental health struggles, including suicidal ideation and the death of a loved one. It also addresses child abuse, racism, and the use of historical terminology that reflects the politically incorrect language of past eras.

Readers should also be aware of violence and death, terrorism, deadly natural disasters, domestic violence, torture, and sexual assault.

If those themes are not the right fit for you right now, please feel free to skip this one. ARC slots are about the right reader meeting the right book, not pressure.

ARCs are delivered via BookFunnel on 23 June. Reviews are requested on Amazon and Goodreads within one week of release day.

Today’s Reminder

If you want to start the series:

🔮 Grab Descended free today
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🌑 Grab Intended free today

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Everyone believes Indigo is gone. Everyone except Cordelia. She refuses to let go.

ARCs for Ascended, the closing book of Ingrid J. Adams’ Descended series, go out tomorrow. Once copies are delivered, signup closes.

This is the book the series has been building toward.

A twin flame separated by what everyone else has accepted as death. A Wiccan throne with no rightful heir and the wrong person circling it. A woman who will cross time itself to find the truth.

If you have been with the series from the beginning, you know the emotional weight of this world. If you are new, know that Ascended is a story where magic, destiny, and the personal are completely interwoven, and where the answer to one question reshapes everything that came before it.

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Book Details

Title: Ascended

Author: Ingrid J. Adams

Genre: Contemporary Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

Series: Book 4 (finale) of the Descended series

Release Date: 25 June 2026

Distribution: Kindle Unlimited

Tropes you’ll love

🔥 Twin flame soul mates

⏳ Spans time and space

💫 Side characters who’ll steal your heart

👑 Who will take the throne?

📼 Epic 90s nostalgia

🌀 Batshit crazy villain

🕯️ 1920s flashbacks

🌐 Alternative timeline

✨ Contemporary fantasy

🌪️ Massive twists and turns

Spice level: 🌶🌶🌶

Blurb

The explosive ending of Intended left one question on everyone’s lips: Is he… or isn’t he?

Everyone believes Indigo is gone. Everyone except Cordelia.

Alone and grieving, she refuses to let go of her soulmate. Because forever doesn’t exist without him. If there’s even the smallest chance he’s alive, she’ll find it, no matter the cost. To bring him back, she must delve into her past, unearth buried family secrets, and trace the hidden roots of her lineage.

Her search will carry her across time and continents, from the steamy streets of Bali to the red deserts of Sedona, from the vibrant, dangerous magick of 1920s New Orleans to the sun-drenched beaches of Sydney in the late 1990s.

But Indigo is more than a lost love. He is the missing heir to the Wiccan throne.

With the crown unclaimed and its rightful successor presumed dead, the balance of power begins to fracture. Warlocks are closing in, alliances are shifting, and Reinenoir’s long-held dream of becoming Witch Queen is closer than ever.

As destinies collide, enemies will become allies, friends will become lovers, and lovers will become enemies.

Spanning time, space, and bloodlines, Ascended is a spellbinding finale of power, sacrifice, and the lengths we’ll go to for true love.

When the fate of the world hangs in the balance… who will take the throne?

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Before You Sign Up

This book sits at the heavier end of paranormal romance. This book contains depictions of mental health struggles, including suicidal ideation and the death of a loved one. It also addresses child abuse, racism, and the use of historical terminology that reflects the politically incorrect language of past eras. Readers should be aware of violence and death, terrorism, deadly natural disasters, domestic violence, torture, and sexual assault.

If those themes are not the right fit for you right now, please feel free to skip this one. ARC slots are about the right reader meeting the right book, not pressure.

ARCs are delivered via BookFunnel on 11 June 2026, two weeks ahead of release. Reviews are requested on Amazon and Goodreads within one week of release day.

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ARCs for Hot Scot Summer go out tomorrow, so this is your friendly last nudge if you’ve been meaning to sign up.

This one is for readers who love their romance funny, messy, hot, and inconvenient in the best possible way. Cleo needs to finish her novel. Lucas needs to write an album. They both arrive at the same remote Highland cottage looking for peace, silence, and a creative breakthrough.

Instead, they find each other.

And when sleeping with your enemy starts looking suspiciously like the only way to save your career, things get complicated fast.

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Book Details

Hot Scot Summer
Release date: 23 June 2026
Distribution: Wide

A rockstar who lost his sound. A writer who lost the plot. Now they’re about to lose their minds, over each other.

Sleeping with your enemy is one thing. Needing him to write is another.

Cleo Sullivan is broke, blocked, and one missed deadline away from tanking her writing career. Her plan: pet-sit in a remote Highland cottage, finish her novel, and get back to the US.

Scottish singer/songwriter Lucas Kincaid has no address. He also hasn’t written a tune in years. But if he doesn’t finish an album in three months, his label is going to drop him. So he drives to his late gran’s cottage for peace, quiet, and inspiration.

Hard fail.

Cleo is already there. She chases him with a toilet brush. He throws her in the loch. It’s hell. But neither of them is willing to leave.

Crammed into the cottage for one summer, their hatred turns into reluctant attraction. A night by the bonfire leads to a hormonal error in judgment.

And a creative breakthrough.

So they make sleeping together a professional arrangement. Just to save their careers. Strict boundaries. No feelings.

But as summer is ending, Cleo and Lucas must decide: is this love, or just the best work they’ve ever produced?

Tropes You’ll Love

🏡 Forced proximity in a Highland cottage
⚔️ Enemies to lovers
🎸 Rockstar hero
💘 He falls first
☀️ Summer romance
🌊 Fish out of water
🧠 ADHD representation
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found family
🐐 Bonus: goat, cat, and treehouse

Content Warnings

Hot Scot Summer contains explicit sexual content and on-page grief processing. ADHD is represented on the page. The book also includes references to cancer as a backstory element, along with themes of abandonment and self-worth.

If you want to read Hot Scot Summer before release day and help support the book with an honest early review, we would love to have you on the ARC team.

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This is your chance to step into the Highland cottage early, meet Cleo and Lucas before everyone else does, and find out exactly what happens when two people who desperately need peace end up becoming each other’s biggest distraction.

Just a quick nudge!

ARCs for Wretched Wrath land tomorrow, and if you’ve been meaning to sign up, this is your moment to do it. Once they’re sent, the door closes.

This is a dark fantasy romance built around obsession, power, and a bond that should never have been formed in the first place. Early readers have already called it intense, uncomfortable in the best way, and impossible to stop once you start.

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Wretched Wrath, A Dark Fantasy Romance
Release date: 30 June 2026
Distribution: Kindle Unlimited

Hel’s henchman, come to reclaim his obsession.
An elf newly free, desperate to find her dragon.
A mate bond he’ll exploit to feed his twisted desires—if she lets him.

Wregen gave himself to Hel, the queen of the dead, centuries ago. She trained him to be like her, to covet the dark pleasures she permits. He keeps only one secret from his cruel mistress: his fixation on Finaan, a living elf he helped trap in Helheim. Even Finaan doesn’t know the things Wregen has done to her while she slept or how much he needs her. But then she escapes, and Wregen is sent to retrieve her or suffer Hel’s wrath.

Finaan has no idea why she craves Wregen, why he filled her depraved dreams in Helheim. Those unwelcome desires don’t matter now, though. She’s free, trying to put Hel’s realm behind her and find the dragon she thought dead. So when Wregen appears and abducts her, Finaan fights him and her traitorous body, as she searches for a way to return to the land of the living.

Will Wregen drag Finaan to Helheim, or can she dig out the remnants of a soul that Hel thinks she destroyed?

Wretched Wrath is the provocative first book of The Helheim Duet, a dark fantasy romance set in the same universe as Tales of the Vanir (TOTV). Expect a slow burn that won’t be satisfied in this book and a cliffhanger ending. If you’re craving an unhinged MMC, a fierce FMC, enemies-to-lovers, fated mates, forced proximity, and he falls first, along with plenty of banter and tension, you’ve found your next obsession.

If you haven’t read TOTV yet, that series is available in Kindle Unlimited, and it’s best read first. Wretched Wrath contains spoilers, particularly for Books III and IV.

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Tropes You’ll Love:

💘 Fated mates
⚔️ Enemies to lovers
💔 Forbidden love
🐉 Dragon riders
☀️ Grumpy/Sunshine dynamic
⚖️ Morally black MMC
☠️ Unhinged, obsessive MMC
🧝‍♀️ Badass elf FMC
🛡️ “Touch her and die” protector
❤️ He falls first
🏡 Found family
🎭 Quirky sidekicks

Content Warnings:

This book contains explicit sexual content, including dubious consent and non-consent (involving fingers), as well as the MMC’s recollection of non-consensual acts (including rape) while the FMC slept. It also includes emotional manipulation, graphic violence and torture, psychological and emotional abuse, self-loathing and trauma, stalking, gaslighting, and significant power imbalances across magical, emotional, and institutional dynamics.

If you’ve been watching this one and waiting to decide, this is the last chance to get in before ARCs go out.

Join the ARC team today so your copy lands in your inbox tomorrow.

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There are a few problems that cannot be solved with a quiet cottage, a change of scenery, and the deeply optimistic belief that isolation will magically fix your creative block.

Especially when someone else has booked the exact same cottage for the exact same reason.

Hot Scot Summer brings together a broke, blocked writer, a Scottish rockstar who has lost his sound, one remote Highland cottage, and the kind of hostile first meeting that involves a toilet brush, a loch, and absolutely no intention of making peace. It is messy, funny, intimate, and full of the kind of creative desperation that makes two stubborn people do questionable things in the name of saving their careers.

ARC signups are officially open, and we are inviting early readers to join the ARC team ahead of release.

If you love forced proximity with actual friction, enemies who have every reason to stay enemies, and a romance that turns creative chaos into something far more complicated, this one belongs on your list.

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Book Details

Hot Scot Summer
Release date: 23 June 2026
Distribution: Wide

A rockstar who lost his sound. A writer who lost the plot. Now they’re about to lose their minds, over each other.

Sleeping with your enemy is one thing. Needing him to write is another.

Cleo Sullivan is broke, blocked, and one missed deadline away from tanking her writing career. Her plan: pet-sit in a remote Highland cottage, finish her novel, and get back to the US.

Scottish singer/songwriter Lucas Kincaid has no address. He also hasn’t written a tune in years. But if he doesn’t finish an album in three months, his label is going to drop him. So he drives to his late gran’s cottage for peace, quiet, and inspiration.

Hard fail.

Cleo is already there. She chases him with a toilet brush. He throws her in the loch. It’s hell. But neither of them is willing to leave.

Crammed into the cottage for one summer, their hatred turns into reluctant attraction. A night by the bonfire leads to a hormonal error in judgment.

And a creative breakthrough.

So they make sleeping together a professional arrangement. Just to save their careers. Strict boundaries. No feelings.

But as summer is ending, Cleo and Lucas must decide: is this love, or just the best work they’ve ever produced?

Tropes You’ll Love

🏡 Forced proximity in a Highland cottage
⚔️ Enemies to lovers
🎸 Rockstar hero
💘 He falls first
☀️ Summer romance
🌊 Fish out of water
🧠 ADHD representation
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found family
🐐 Bonus: goat, cat, and treehouse

Content Warnings

Hot Scot Summer contains explicit sexual content and on-page grief processing. ADHD is represented on the page. The book also includes references to cancer as a backstory element, along with themes of abandonment and self-worth.

About the Author

Beatrice Bradshaw is a translator for HarperCollins Germany, a journalist, and Scottish historian who writes spicy contemporary romances set across Scotland. She traded Berlin for the Scottish Highlands in 2018 and hasn’t looked back since. Her heroines are fierce, funny, and delightfully flawed. Her heroes are charming, filthy, and capable of finding both the G-spot and the grocery store without assistance.

If you want to read Hot Scot Summer before release day and help support the book with an honest early review, we would love to have you on the ARC team.

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This is your chance to step into the Highland cottage early, meet Cleo and Lucas before everyone else does, and find out exactly what happens when two people who desperately need peace end up becoming each other’s biggest distraction.

Today is the last day to download Descended, Book 1 in Ingrid J. Adams’s award-nominated paranormal romance series, for free on Amazon.

The promo window closes tonight, so if you already know you want the book, go grab it before you forget.

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Descended begins with Indigo Wolfe, a golden-boy surfer in 1990s Sydney who looks like he should have everything figured out. He is loved easily, noticed constantly, and mythologised by almost everyone around him.

But being adored is not the same thing as being known.

Indigo is quietly coming apart under the weight of powers he does not understand. He absorbs the pain, grief, and fear of the people around him, but cannot recognise what someone genuinely feels for him. He is surrounded by love and still starving for something real.

Then Cordelia Carlisle walks into his life.

And somehow, impossibly, he knows her.

Not just likes her. Not just wants her. Knows her.

Because their love has happened before, across other lifetimes.

This is for readers who like their paranormal romance with reincarnation, fated love, wounded heroes, found family, spiritual depth, and a supernatural world that is built around emotional consequence rather than decoration.

The series has also earned three award nominations, including the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the Aurealis Award, and the State Library of Queensland Literary Award.

What you are reading into:

🔮 Reincarnation romance
💙 Twin flame soul mates
⏳ Love that spans time and space
📼 Epic 90s nostalgia
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found family
🖤 A villain whose obsession escalates across every book
🌑 Genuine supernatural stakes

Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Ingrid has set up free days across the first three books in the lead-up to Ascended, the fourth and final book in the series. The point is simple: she wants new readers to have enough time to fall into the world properly before the finale arrives.

These are real KDP free days, not discounts, and you do not need Kindle Unlimited to claim them.

Here is the full schedule:

Freebie Dates:

• Book 1 (Descended) — 25–26 May : Grab Your Copy

• Book 2 (Transcended) — 8–9 June : Grab Your Copy

• Book 3 (Intended) — 22–23 June : Grab Your Copy

• Book 4 (Ascended) — Releasing July: Sign up to the ARC Team

All three books are also available in Kindle Unlimited, if that is how you prefer to read.

If you are already caught up on the series, or planning to binge before the finale, ARC signups for Ascended are open now.

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About Ascended - SPOILERS AHEAD!

Ascended is the fourth and final book in the Descended Series.

It is an a contemporary fantasy / paranormal romance finale, and after the ending of Intended, it begins with the question everyone has been left holding:

Is he… or isn’t he?

Everyone believes Indigo is gone.

Everyone except Cordelia.

Alone and grieving, she refuses to let go of her soulmate, because forever does not exist without him. If there is even the smallest chance he is alive, she will find it, no matter the cost.

Her search pulls her into buried family secrets, hidden bloodlines, and a past that is much larger than she understood. It carries her across time and continents, from Bali to Sedona, from the dangerous magick of 1920s New Orleans to the sun-drenched beaches of Sydney in the late 1990s.

But Indigo is more than a lost love.

He is the missing heir to the Wiccan throne.

With the crown unclaimed and its rightful successor presumed dead, the balance of power begins to fracture. Warlocks are closing in, alliances are shifting, and Reinenoir’s long-held dream of becoming Witch Queen is closer than ever.

As destinies collide, enemies will become allies, friends will become lovers, and lovers will become enemies.

If you have been waiting for the series to go bigger, stranger, darker, and more emotionally tangled, this is the finale.

You can expect:

🔥 Twin flame soul mates
⏳ A story that spans time and space
💫 Side characters who will steal your heart
👑 A fight for the throne
📼 Epic 90s nostalgia
🌀 A completely unhinged villain
🕯️ 1920s flashbacks
🌐 Alternative timelines
✨ Contemporary fantasy
🌪️ Massive twists and turns

Spice level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

A note before you sign up for the ARC

This book sits at the heavier end of paranormal romance.

It contains depictions of mental health struggles, including suicidal ideation and the death of a loved one. It also addresses child abuse, racism, and the use of historical terminology that reflects the politically incorrect language of past eras.

Readers should also be aware of violence and death, terrorism, deadly natural disasters, domestic violence, torture, and sexual assault.

If those themes are not the right fit for you right now, please feel free to skip this one. ARC slots are about the right reader meeting the right book, not pressure.

ARCs are delivered via BookFunnel on 11 June 2026, ahead of release. Reviews are requested on Amazon and Goodreads within one week of release day.

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About Ingrid J. Adams

Ingrid J. Adams writes epic contemporary fantasy where magic collides with destiny, and true love shapes who we become. Her debut series, Descended, has earned multiple award nominations.

With degrees spanning business tourism, journalism, kinesiology and nutrition, and a professional background in media, psychotherapy, and energetic healing, her path to authorship was gloriously unconventional. That background gives her stories a blend of grounded realism, spiritual depth, and emotional intensity that readers can feel on the page.

Ingrid lives by the beach in beautiful Manly in a house full of boys: four sons, one husband, and a cavoodle pup. She loves travel, yoga, meditation, farmers’ markets, ocean swims, snowy mountain skiing, cooking up feasts, and stories in all their forms.

She believes magic exists.

Sometimes you just have to write it into the world.

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Melisandra was never going to be the girl the story chose. She knows this. She stopped waiting for anyone to choose her a long time ago, somewhere between her mother’s last bad decision and the prince picking someone else.

Sky Sommers’ Your Heart to Seek is the first book in the Cursed Hearts trilogy. It has been out on Kindle Unlimited, and from today through the end of 14 May it is also free to download on Amazon. f this one has been on your radar and you have not picked it up yet, this is the moment.

Review Tour Details:

This is a review tour rather than a standard ARC campaign.

The book is already published and enrolled in Kindle Unlimited, which means Amazon’s platform terms do not allow the ebook to be distributed through BookFunnel or any other third-party tool. The free promo window gives readers without a KU subscription a no-cost way to grab a copy. KU subscribers can read it any time through the subscription, free window or not.

Either way, anyone who joins the review team gets the toolkit. Captions to copy or adapt, hashtags, links, content warnings, and the publication details.

Sky has written a villain origin story and you’ll either LOVE Mellie, or HATE her. Your Heart to Seek is also the entry point into the Cursed Hearts trilogy, which means readers who show up on this tour are the same readers who will be first in line for the Book 2 ARC team when that opens later this year. If you want that early access, this is the door.

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The ask is honest.

Read the book and if you enjoyed it, leave a review on Amazon and Goodreads. Reviews on a KU title shape who finds it next, and the goal right now is to build a real review foundation under Book 1 before Book 2 lands.

Three days left on the free window. The review team form is open below.

In case you missed it… Here’s the details

She was never meant to be the hero of this story. She was never trying to be.

Melisandra is the girl without a father, without a future, and without the patience to wait for anyone to hand her one. Tamerlin is a cursed prince traveling incognito, looking for the girl who might save him. He finds her. She is not what he expected.

Your Heart to Seek is the first book in the Cursed Hearts trilogy, a Wonderland-inspired dark romantasy published 3 April 2026 and available now on Kindle Unlimited. This review tour supports the upcoming release of Book 2 in the trilogy. The first book in the series will be made FREE from May 10th-14th for readers to grab directly from Amazon.

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Book Details

Your Heart to Seek
Release date: 03 April 2026 (already published)
Distribution: Kindle Unlimited

Villains are not born. They’re made.
Melisandra was never meant for polite society. As the fatherless daughter of a witch, she has learned to beg, borrow, and steal her way toward respectability, because no one hands girls like her a future.
So the prince chose another girl. Fine. Mellie never planned on letting anyone into her frozen heart anyway.
At seventeen, she has a far simpler dream: escape Borough village and save enough coin to open her own beauty shop. How hard can it be to find a decent apothecary who needs an apprentice?

Tamerlin knows better than most how words spoken in anger can become an unbreakable curse. Traveling the neighboring lands incognito, he is searching for the one girl who might help him break his own. But what if the girl of his dreams isn’t the innocent she pretends to be?

Some choices shape monsters.
Because survival always demands a price.

What would you do to make sure you never went hungry again?

Tropes You’ll Love

🖤 Morally grey female villain (bordering on black)
💘 Cinnamon-roll hero who falls first and turns into a bad boy
🔺 Love triangle
🔮 Fated mates
🎭 Hidden identity
💬 Miscommunication
🪄 Multiple curses
🌀 Damsel distressing others
🦹‍♀️ Villain origin story
🤫 Secret identity
🪄 Dark fractured fairytale
🥀 Beauty and the Beast elements
🧊 Frozen heart
🔮 Prophecy
🥘 Subverted damsel in distress
🧙‍♀️ Witch’s apprentice
💋 True love’s kiss
✨ Hidden royalty

Content Warnings

This story features a morally grey female villain bordering on black, with elements of bullying, mental cruelty toward a child, and themes of abandonment. It also includes a hinted potential rape scenario involving a nearly 18 year old who is still a minor.

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If you’re the kind of reader who doesn’t need your characters to be good, only understandable, this is one worth stepping into now.

You can read Your Heart to Seek through Kindle Unlimited, or during the free promotion running 11 to 14 May. This review tour is part of building an ARC team ahead of Book 2, so if you want to be part of that early momentum, now is the time to join in.

Cordelia will not accept what everyone else already has.

The world has moved on, the way the world does. Those who knew Indigo have begun grieving him the way you grieve someone whose absence is permanent. But Cordelia has not. Cannot. And what that grief is driving her toward is not stillness or acceptance. It is action, across time, across continents, through buried family lineages and doors she was never meant to open.

Ingrid J. Adams returns with the finale of her Descended series, a contemporary fantasy and paranormal romance that has earned award nominations and built a loyal readership.

With Indigo presumed dead and the Wiccan throne unclaimed, the balance of power is fracturing. Warlocks are closing in. Reinenoir’s ambition is no longer contained. And the truth of Cordelia’s own bloodline is older and stranger than she ever knew.

This book spans time and space in the truest sense: 1920s New Orleans, late 1990s Sydney, Bali, Sedona. Each location holds a piece of what Cordelia is looking for. The search is not linear and it is not clean, and that is exactly what makes it so consuming.

ARC signups are now open, and I wanted to get this in front of the right readers before copies go out.

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Book Details

Title: Ascended

Author: Ingrid J. Adams

Genre: Contemporary Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

Series: Book 4 (finale) of the Descended series

Release Date: 25 June 2026

Distribution: Kindle Unlimited

Tropes you’ll love

🔥 Twin flame soul mates

⏳ Spans time and space

💫 Side characters who’ll steal your heart

👑 Who will take the throne?

📼 Epic 90s nostalgia

🌀 Batshit crazy villain

🕯️ 1920s flashbacks

🌐 Alternative timeline

✨ Contemporary fantasy

🌪️ Massive twists and turns

Spice level: 🌶🌶🌶

Blurb

The explosive ending of Intended left one question on everyone’s lips: Is he… or isn’t he?

Everyone believes Indigo is gone. Everyone except Cordelia.

Alone and grieving, she refuses to let go of her soulmate. Because forever doesn’t exist without him. If there’s even the smallest chance he’s alive, she’ll find it, no matter the cost. To bring him back, she must delve into her past, unearth buried family secrets, and trace the hidden roots of her lineage.

Her search will carry her across time and continents, from the steamy streets of Bali to the red deserts of Sedona, from the vibrant, dangerous magick of 1920s New Orleans to the sun-drenched beaches of Sydney in the late 1990s.

But Indigo is more than a lost love. He is the missing heir to the Wiccan throne.

With the crown unclaimed and its rightful successor presumed dead, the balance of power begins to fracture. Warlocks are closing in, alliances are shifting, and Reinenoir’s long-held dream of becoming Witch Queen is closer than ever.

As destinies collide, enemies will become allies, friends will become lovers, and lovers will become enemies.

Spanning time, space, and bloodlines, Ascended is a spellbinding finale of power, sacrifice, and the lengths we’ll go to for true love.

When the fate of the world hangs in the balance… who will take the throne?

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Before You Sign Up

This book sits at the heavier end of paranormal romance. This book contains depictions of mental health struggles, including suicidal ideation and the death of a loved one. It also addresses child abuse, racism, and the use of historical terminology that reflects the politically incorrect language of past eras. Readers should be aware of violence and death, terrorism, deadly natural disasters, domestic violence, torture, and sexual assault.

If those themes are not the right fit for you right now, please feel free to skip this one. ARC slots are about the right reader meeting the right book, not pressure.

ARCs are delivered via BookFunnel on 11 June 2026, two weeks ahead of release. Reviews are requested on Amazon and Goodreads within one week of release day.

About the Author

Ingrid J. Adams writes epic contemporary fantasy where magic collides with destiny, and true love shapes who we become. Her debut series, Descended, has earned multiple award nominations.

With degrees spanning business tourism, journalism, kinesiology and nutrition, and a professional background in media, psychotherapy, and energetic healing, her journey to authorship was gloriously unconventional. This richly varied background has infused her storytelling with grounded realism and spiritual depth in ways she never could have imagined.

Ingrid lives by the beach in beautiful Manly in a house full of boys, four sons, one husband, and a cavoodle pup. A lover of travel, yoga, meditation, farmers’ markets, ocean swims, snowy mountain skiing, cooking up feasts, and stories in all their forms, Ingrid believes magic exists, sometimes you just have to write it into the world.

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Caged by Fallen Crows, Part Two is the third book in the Of Crows and Thorns saga, and it is where two years of slow-burn tension stops being background.

The court is out of patience. The Crowther family is out of room. The soul bond between Nelle and Graysen is the axis everything else turns on now, and the only arena with enough leverage to change any of it is the Emporium.

This installment is claustrophobic and politically volatile in ways the saga has been earning. ARC signups are open.

NOTE: ARC copies go out on 27 May. If you received the ARC for Part 1 from me, there is no need to signup again.

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Caged by Fallen Crows, Part Two

A Dark Romantasy

Release date: 10 June 2026

Distribution: Kindle Unlimited

A heroine two weeks from her twentieth birthday.

A soul bond she never asked for, leading her into the man she cannot afford to need.

A macabre underrealm bordello where outwitting a Horned God is the only way out.

Nelle’s twentieth birthday is fast approaching.

She has two weeks left to find everything she needs to escape the Keep and Graysen Crowther, the man intrinsically tied to her soul. And one of those keys is finally within reach, if she can outwit a Horned God.

But the Crowthers are running out of time, too. They must secure a Horned God’s demand for a Goods Appraisal, and claim the god-forged weapon Byron refuses to surrender, a crucial piece in their relentless path toward the Blacksmith.

Two problems. One answer. There’s only one place certain to draw a Horned God’s interest. The Emporium: a sinister, macabre bordello. An underrealm of ruthless power, dark secrets, and decadent desire. And the perfect arena to weaponize their leverage and force Byron’s hand.

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Tropes You’ll Love

🌑 Dark Romantasy

⚔️ Enemies to Lovers

🔗 Forced Proximity

🚫 Forbidden Love

🔥 Slow Burn Romance

🛡️ “Touch her and die” protective MMC

🏹 Strong Heroine

👑 Morally Gray Fallen Prince

✨ Magical Bond

🌀 The Sway Reversed

⛓️ Weaponised Leverage

♟️ Daughter as Pawn

Content Warnings

This book contains dark romance and a dash of horror, featuring violence, captivity, and magical coercion. It includes fear of the dark panic episodes, near-death experiences for the FMC and others, and themes of grief, loss, and emotional trauma. Readers should be aware of family manipulation, memories of attempted sexual assault (not between the FMC and MMC), torture, strangulation, and attempted sexual exploitation. The story also contains strong language and depictions of alcohol and drug use.

About the Author

Ava is best known for her rather wicked romantasy love stories full of darkness, mayhem, and kissing. When not writing or reading, she’s watching apartment tours and attempting to tame her wild backyard into a charming kitchen garden. Settled on the rugged coast of Aotearoa, Ava lives with her partner, two boys, a wild cat, and chickens who refuse to believe they don’t live in the house.

If you are looking for dark romantasy that commits fully to its tone and its characters, this is one to step into early.

ARC spots are now open, and based on where Part One ended, this is not a book you will want to walk into late.

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She was never meant to be the hero of this story. She was never trying to be.

Melisandra is the girl without a father, without a future, and without the patience to wait for anyone to hand her one. Tamerlin is a cursed prince traveling incognito, looking for the girl who might save him. He finds her. She is not what he expected.

Your Heart to Seek is the first book in the Cursed Hearts trilogy, a Wonderland-inspired dark romantasy published 3 April 2026 and available now on Kindle Unlimited. This review tour supports the upcoming release of Book 2 in the trilogy. The first book in the series will be made FREE from May 10th-14th for readers to grab directly from Amazon.

Book Details

Your Heart to Seek
Release date: 03 April 2026 (already published)
Distribution: Kindle Unlimited

Villains are not born. They’re made.
Melisandra was never meant for polite society. As the fatherless daughter of a witch, she has learned to beg, borrow, and steal her way toward respectability, because no one hands girls like her a future.
So the prince chose another girl. Fine. Mellie never planned on letting anyone into her frozen heart anyway.
At seventeen, she has a far simpler dream: escape Borough village and save enough coin to open her own beauty shop. How hard can it be to find a decent apothecary who needs an apprentice?

Tamerlin knows better than most how words spoken in anger can become an unbreakable curse. Traveling the neighboring lands incognito, he is searching for the one girl who might help him break his own. But what if the girl of his dreams isn’t the innocent she pretends to be?

Some choices shape monsters.
Because survival always demands a price.

What would you do to make sure you never went hungry again?

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Tropes You’ll Love

🖤 Morally grey female villain (bordering on black)
💘 Cinnamon-roll hero who falls first and turns into a bad boy
🔺 Love triangle
🔮 Fated mates
🎭 Hidden identity
💬 Miscommunication
🪄 Multiple curses
🌀 Damsel distressing others
🦹‍♀️ Villain origin story
🤫 Secret identity
🪄 Dark fractured fairytale
🥀 Beauty and the Beast elements
🧊 Frozen heart
🔮 Prophecy
🥘 Subverted damsel in distress
🧙‍♀️ Witch’s apprentice
💋 True love’s kiss
✨ Hidden royalty

Content Warnings

This story features a morally grey female villain bordering on black, with elements of bullying, mental cruelty toward a child, and themes of abandonment. It also includes a hinted potential rape scenario involving a nearly 18 year old who is still a minor.

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If you’re the kind of reader who doesn’t need your characters to be good, only understandable, this is one worth stepping into now.

You can read Your Heart to Seek through Kindle Unlimited, or during the free promotion running 11 to 14 May. This review tour is part of building an ARC team ahead of Book 2, so if you want to be part of that early momentum, now is the time to join in.

Mills and Cal are no longer just trying to survive time travel. They are trying to protect a family that could be torn apart if the portal closes at the wrong moment. Rival clans are closing in, the past is starting to push back, and something deeper is at play that they do not fully understand.

This is where the series tightens. The choices get harder. The cost of getting it wrong gets real.

ARC signups are now open for The Love Curse by Heather Grace Stewart, and if you’ve been following this series, you already know this is where the stakes are higher than ever. Every decision carries weight, and every step forward risks closing the only way back.

If you want early access to a story that blends Highland danger, found family, and a slow burn that finally has something real to lose, this is your moment to step in before release day.

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Book Details

• Title: The Love Curse

• Author: Heather Grace Stewart

• Series: Timeless Love Chronicles, Book 3 (continuation)

• Genre: Time Travel Romance / Women’s Fiction / Time Travel Science Fiction & Fantasy

• Pages: 470

• Distribution: Kindle Unlimited

• ARC Sendout: 8 May 2026

• Release Date: 22 May 2026

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  This time, they’re all in.
  
  They thought the portal was their biggest threat. But the curse,real or imagined, might be what tears their family apart.
  Thrown into 1646 Scotland, Amelia “Mills” Sutherland and Callum MacDowell have finally built a fragile peace with their growing family and the MacDowell clan. But when a rival clan threatens that hard‑won safety, the entire group is forced into a dangerous journey across the Highlands: Alistair’s sheepdog at their side, loyal hounds guiding the way, swords ready. And all the while, a portal that may close forever.
  As old grudges ignite and new alliances form, Mills and Cal must protect their clan and each other. Along the way, they face whispers of a curse, a brooch that glows when danger nears, and a mysterious newcomer who speaks of quantum entanglement, time loops, and a portal that’s alive.
  The deeper they travel into the Highlands, the clearer it becomes: they’re not just fighting enemies. They’re fighting time itself.
  If the portal closes, Mills, Cal, Loch, Cam, and Lila could be trapped on the wrong side forever. But Mills and Cal will tear through every clan and every curse to bring their family home.
  
  Perfect for fans of Outlander, The Seven Year Slip, The Time Traveler’s Wife, and Bridget Jones’s Diary, The Love Curse is a sweeping time‑travel romantic adventure filled with danger, devotion, found family, and a love that refuses to break.

Tropes

💍 Married, but make it sexy
🏡 Found family
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highlander hero
✨ Portal fantasy
🔥 Slow burn with high stakes
🗡️ Clan conflict
🗡️ "We fight side by side" energy
🌙 "Sneaking into your tent at night"
💫 Love vs. destiny
🌡️ Heat Scale: Level 3. Full steam ahead.

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When Helena Torres finds a cryptic message on her father’s phone, she follows it straight into a world of family secrets, control, manipulation, and long-buried truths that were never meant to come to light.

Along the way, she meets Jay Sterling, and what unfolds between them only deepens the questions rather than answering them.

If you’re drawn to women’s fiction that explores power, autonomy, emotional complexity, and the damage people learn to survive inside, this is one worth reading early. ARCs go out tomorrow, so this is your final reminder to sign up before the list closes.

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Book Details

Never Everything
Release date: 18/05/2026
Distribution: Wide

Choice is a luxury many women are never given. And Helena Torres is no exception.

She didn’t choose her future occupation as a lawyer, nor current job as her father’s glorified assistant. As a New York City DA, he’s mastered the art of control and secrets, both in the courtroom and at home.

But when Helena finds a cryptic text from her estranged uncle, Michael Silva, while snooping on her father’s phone, she decides it’s time for her to start making her own choices.

She follows the thread right into a world full of deception, manipulation, power, and at the other end? A woman named Jay Sterling.

Jay, a confident, charismatic dancer lives life on her own terms. Or so it would seem. She tells herself she’s with Michael because she chooses to be. She’s dancing because it’s what she wants to do. And when a gorgeous man who says all the right things waltzes into her club, she’s all too happy to string him along—even when it starts to feel like she’s the one being pulled in.

As Helena and Jay search for answers, their paths entwine further, revealing only more questions, ones they’re likely better off not asking at all. Because the answers reveal a hard truth: we’re rarely in control of the choices we make.

Never Everything is a women’s literature novel about love, loss, family, friendship, and most importantly, choice.

Tropes You’ll Love:

🏡 Found family
🖤 Morally gray characters
⚔️ Strong heroines
🔥 Slow burn
💞 Female friendships
🌈 LGBTQ+ representation
💔 Love triangle / square
👨‍👩‍👧 Family drama
🩹 Dealing with abuse
🥀 Tragic romance
🔍 Family secrets

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Content Warnings:

This book contains themes of alcohol abuse, colorism, graphic violence, domestic violence, emotional manipulation, and infidelity. It also includes references to the death of a spouse and children, non-consensual situations, gun violence, panic attacks, past sexual exploitation of a minor, neglectful and abusive parents, attempted rape, and attempted assault.

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If that sounds like exactly the kind of emotionally messy, high-stakes romantic suspense you want to sink into, this is your last little nudge, because ARCs for The River Runs Silent go out tomorrow.

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Book Details

The River Runs Silent
Release date: 7/5/2026
Distribution: Kindle Unlimited

What happens when the life she left behind refuses to stay buried?

Private Investigator Devanie Hutchins defines her life by what she used to be. Former homicide detective, former foster kid, former mother. And former college sweetheart of Texas Congressman Jackson Everett.

When Jack’s sister is brutally murdered, Dev and Jack are forced to set their painful history aside and work together to find the killer. Jack may be driven by justice, but Dev is haunted by something far more dangerous: her need for absolution from a past that could destroy them both.

The investigation points to a shadowy boyfriend and a deeply personal crime scene, yet Dev’s gut warns that a critical piece of the truth remains hidden. With time running out and the past tightening its grip, Dev must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice to uncover the truth.

Some secrets don’t just ruin careers. They can take everything that matters, including the man she still loves.

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Tropes You’ll Love

💔 Second chance romance
✨ Found family
🖤 Morally gray protagonist
💞 Former lovers reunited
⚖️ Love vs duty
🌧️ Angsty romance
🔪 Personal stakes murder
🕯️ Secrets from the past
👤 Shadowy suspect
🌫️ Haunted heroine
🩶 Broken heroine seeking redemption
🔒 Dark secrets

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ARCs are being delivered tomorrow, and this is your final chance to join the reader team and get early access to The River Runs Silent before release. If you’re in the mood for tension, secrets, emotional fallout, and a romance that still has teeth, come join us.

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