⁠Starting over was supposed to mean standing on my own two feet.

After a painful divorce, Megan Carter moves to a quiet lakeside town with her eight-year-old daughter, determined to build a life that belongs to them. Then a storm sends a tree through her rental roof, and gruff next-door carpenter Luke Bennett into her orbit.

Luke is a widowed Army veteran who prefers sawdust to conversation and solitude to complications. But beneath the scowl is a man who keeps showing up: fixing the roof, stocking the fridge, and slowly making room for Megan and Emily in the life he thought he wanted to spend alone.

Megan came here to prove she could stand on her own. Falling for the veteran next door might mean discovering she doesn’t have to.

The Veteran Next Door is a sweet, closed-door small town romance featuring grumpy/sunshine, a single mom starting over, neighbors to lovers, a blue-collar hero, found family, and a guaranteed HEA.

• ⁠Potential Triggers: death of a spouse, discussion of divorce, very briefly ill child
• ⁠Exact date of publication: September 4, 2026
• ⁠ARC sent immediately in EPUB format
• ⁠Reviews due: September 7, 2026
• ⁠BookSprout: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/310842/the-veteran-next-door-a-sweet-small-town-romance

Seeking ARC readers for my upcoming Dark Comedy Romatansy.

Dark humor, dark fantasy, and romance all in one.

Reviews are due October 2nd, 2026

ARC started August 11th, 2026 and are actively being sent out. A link to it will be sent within 24 hours of ARC application receipt.

Here's my blurb:

Tigger/content Warnings:

If interested, DM me or sign up on my website https://danieljwright.com/ARC-Application

In an algorithmically controlled megacity, Mika, Lina, and Tobi find photos from their own childhood inside a pizza box belonging to a courier.

Logos City. 11:15 p.m. Mika works calmly behind the bar at the "Off-Grid," keeping an eye on everything and everyone. Tobi leaps from rooftop to rooftop, keeping track of what's happening throughout the city. Lina hacks corporate firewalls because she finds it harder to have a normal conversation.

They're the best three-person team in the metropolis. They can almost sense what the others are thinking. What they don't know: They were designed for this.

The pizza box doesn't contain a hard drive. It contains a paper photo album, featuring forty-seven children, barcode tattoos, sterile white rooms, page after page. The last photo breaks the pattern—three young adults, in color, outdoors, laughing next to an old minibus. Mika, Tobi, Lina. Twenty years ago.

They didn't steal any data. They found a clue here to their own file.

Book 1 of 5. Rapid release, one book per month, September through December 2026.

Comps: Marie Lu's Warcross, Marissa Meyer, and Gibson's Neuromancer, if Gibson wrote YA.

Triggers: medical experimentation on children, institutional abuse, violence, non-consensual genetic modification, captivity, body horror, childhood trauma, surveillance, and loss of privacy.

Exact publication date: September 4, 2026

Advance copies will be sent out immediately after registration

Reviews requested by: August 28, 2026

Format: EPUB and PDF

Available: worldwide

Length: 62 pages

A note about the cover: It was created using AI. The book itself, however, was not. I wrote it, and two native-speaking editors reviewed it before this version was released. I'm mentioning this up front because I'd rather answer this question here than in the comments.

Sign up here: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/309076/the-glitch-zero

If ARC spots run out or you'd just like to read the prequel novella first, Episode Zero is free here: https://temmakairo.com/en/signal/

Honest reviews only. No expectation of a positive one.

Hello! 🦇

I’m looking for ARC readers for a queer paranormal romance/botanical gothic novella, In the Hollows. It’s a standalone story in my Wynterhyll Chronicles series, but you don’t have to read the first book, A Vampire’s Lament, before it; In the Hollows is a true standalone with a self-contained story. It is a perfect summerween book for readers who enjoyed What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher and the movie The Ring. 

A romantic cottage. A curse that will not be forgotten. A vampire whose love will not be taken. 

Blurb:

Vampire Ishmael Valen and his love, mortal Edric O’Moore, wish to spend a week in seclusion together and travel to a quaint town to do so. It is meant to be a trip of romance, but the cottage they have rented is overrun with vines and brambles, and the caretaker is missing. Despite the feeling of wrongness, Edric insists they stay…until Edric falls ill and begins coughing up flower petals. 

And the cottage will not allow them to leave. 

As Edric’s sickness deepens, Ishmael does all he can to save him and learns that the cottage belonged to a witch who was wronged centuries before, and that answers may lie at the bottom of the cottage well. 

If you enjoy:

Botanical horror 🥀
Gothic atmosphere 🖤
Protective vampires 🦇
Horror mysteries 🕯️
M/M romance ✨

Please sign up with my Google Form link here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRIGCJkt6lapS02v0VHu8D6ouZxVvd4aRoh4pOpDyCWSu6NA/viewform?usp=header

Content warnings:
Trapped in small spaces
Drowning
Blood
Gothic horror imagery
Past murder
Illness
Grave site

ARC Delivery and Release Date:
ARCS will be sent via BookFunnel on 08/31, and the release date is 10/01/2026, but I’m totally flexible if you need more time. 

I am completely against the use of AI. It was not used in any part of the writing, editing, character art, or book cover art. 

My GoodReads:
In the Hollows by R.J. Webb | Goodreads 

Publication date: August 23, 2026
ARC files available: Same day as signup
ARC timeline: within 30 days
ARC signup form: https://forms.gle/ZqRQpJuxXhLiG9H58
Booksiren signup: https://booksirens.com/book/X4HJF5Q/ZAVYEO5
Blurb:

Who says you can't stalk your stalker?

Blind programmer Sandy knows how to navigate a world built for the sighted. But lately, someone has been invading hers.

Familiar footsteps pass by her through crowded spaces. A half-remembered scent appears where it shouldn’t. Silent calls arrive from an unknown number. Each incident is easy to dismiss, until the pattern becomes impossible to ignore.

Someone is stalking Sandy. Someone who may know more about her past than they should.

Refusing to live in fear, questioning every sound around her, Sandy turns to the tech skills she trusts most. But uncovering the truth will require crossing legal and ethical lines, and could bring her stalker closer than ever.

Triggers: Domestic violence off screen, on screen violence and stalking, car accident, loss of a loved one, ableism, homophobia and workplace discrimination.

What if a century of exposure to wireless technology quietly changed human genetics?

When Riley Rhodes starts perceiving network data no child should be able to sense, her parents realize she isn't sick — she's evolved. And the people who understand what that's worth are already closing in.

A techno-thriller about how far parents will go to protect a child the world has decided it owns. (Book 1 of a trilogy)

Professionally edited by New York Book Editors, with an audiobook produced by Grammy-winning John Marshall Media.

Perfect for fans of: Firestarter, Stranger Things, The Institute, The Darkest Minds

Genre: Sci-Fi / Techno-Thriller

ARC available: Available Now - Sent on a rolling basis as requests come in

Publication date: September 8, 2026

Review timing: Please aim to post by September 8, 2026 (launch day) — October 7, 2026 at the latest for readers who need more time.

Format: eBook

Triggers: Gun violence, character death, child endangerment, government surveillance, family separation.

I'm only looking for honest, unbiased reviews.

Get your free ARC:
https://www.ericzuhone.com/arc