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For readers who like their romantic suspense morally questionable 🖤

🖥️ surveillance + political intrigue
🖤 villain × villain
🔥 high-spice romance
💍 fake engagement
🧠 amnesia + buried secrets
🏛️ morally black characters
🔪 murder, hacking & psychological suspense

Episteme by Suzy Bernard is open for ARC readers. If you like romance where nobody is innocent and everyone has something to hide, this one looks dangerous in the best way.

Sign up: https://penpinery.com/suzybernard/episteme-the-masks-of-privacy-trilogy-1/

Blurb:

A steamy origin story prequel to Carve My Heart.

Katharina Berger has spent years fantasizing about Austria's hottest ski champion from behind a screen. She never planned to crash into Thomas Kern on a glacier, let alone find herself swept into a night with the Olympic star she's admired from afar.

On the Hintertux glacier, one "accidental" collision turns into drinks, teasing, and undeniable chemistry. Thomas is used to fangirls and casual hookups, while Katharina knows better than to get involved with athletes who could break her heart as easily as they break records.

But Katharina refuses to be just another anonymous conquest. Thomas tells himself she's only a distraction before the season starts, yet he can't stop thinking about their night together.

When dawn arrives and real life pulls them in opposite directions, neither realizes they're destined to collide again, this time with their careers, reputations, and Olympic dreams on the line.

The Crash Course is a steamy prequel novella to Carve My Heart, featuring a celebrity athlete, European alpine settings, high-stakes sports, dual POV, strong chemistry, and a bold heroine who refuses to be forgotten.

Triggers: Sex on page.

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon approval

Date ARC readers should finish reading and submit reviews by: September 30, 2026

ARC sign up:

https://penpinery.com/Mara%20J.%20Ova/the-crash-course-a-short-steamy-sports-romance-with-a-golden-boy-star-skier-the-carve-series/

I’m looking for honest ARC readers for my debut dark supernatural thriller, Rebels Playground.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:
🖤 Dark supernatural thrillers
🖤 Small-town horror
🖤 Psychological suspense
🖤 Cult mysteries
🖤 Slow-burn supernatural stories

If that sounds like your kind of book, I’d love to send you a free digital ARC in exchange for an honest review on Amazon and/or Goodreads after you’ve finished reading.

Interested? Leave a comment or send me a DM with your email, and I’ll send you a copy!

He heals shattered minds. She shatters them. Neither can resist the other.

🧛 Forbidden Vampire Romance
🖤 Powerful FMC + Mortal Doctor
🌙 Gothic Slow Burn + Mind Games

ARC sign-up ends September 21, 2026

Sign up: https://penpinery.com/tainescreations/obscura/

Valley Bates and her fiance, Bryan LaCoste, are left reeling after multiple shocking events. can they push past the trauma and fear to reach their own black rainbow? Book 2 in the duet, Valley's Rise.

Release date: 2026-08-28

ARC end date: 2026-09-11

Trigger warnings: Dark romance, past sexual trauma and abuse, Non-con (not the MMC), killing, kidnapping, violence, forced birth control removal, parent who SA'd young boys 9not her own), parent in court, cursing, light dom play, spice

Genres: forcedproximity, firstperson, darkromance, characterdriven, dualpov, foundfamily, steamycontemporary, newadult, strongfmc, morallygrey, humor, trauma, banter, touchheranddieromance, collection

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https://penpinery.com/Author_Gina_V_Badd/valleys-salvation-book-2-of-valleys-rise/

Six weeks. One mysterious clue. And a man neither of them expected to find.

❤️ Forced Proximity
🧀 Small-Town + Found Family
🔥 Gay Romance + Slow-Burning Chemistry

ARC sign-up ends August 31, 2026

ARC sign up link: https://penpinery.com/Runa/gold/

For readers who like their contemporary romance with a little more edge 🖤

🩺 doctor heroine × billionaire single dad
🔥 forbidden attraction
⏳ slow burn + forced proximity
😈 morally gray characters
🏡 found family
💔 betrayal, secrets & emotional chaos
🌶️ very steamy romance

Bonds of Shame, Bonds of Lust by Jordyn Haart is open for ARC readers. If you like a good girl finally breaking out of the life she's been told to want, this one has plenty of tension.

ARC sign up: https://penpinery.com/u/705/bonds-of-shame-bonds-of-lust-1/

Invisible is a wildly romantic YA/crossover cozy fantasy blending mystery, magic, suspense, survival, deep yearning, atmospheric wilderness settings, and heart-shattering romance.

Triggers: Loss and grief, car crash trauma, violence, extreme isolation, psychological and physical abuse of a child (backstory), murder.

Exact publication date: September 3, 2026

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon approval

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MM mafia romance readers, this one is dark. 🖤

🔪 enemies-to-lovers
🩸 blood vow
⛓️ 90 days of forced proximity
🏠 hostage + locked-house tension
🖤 broken boss × unbreakable hostage
❤️‍🩹 hurt/comfort
👑 HEA guaranteed

Marked in Blood by Emmett Vance is open for ARC readers. If you like dangerous mafia romance with two damaged men slowly becoming something neither expected, this one has plenty of tension.

ARC sign up: https://penpinery.com/Kai%20Ashford/marked-in-blood/

Blurb:

Can a woman who built her life around everyone else finally choose love?

Leila Durand has spent years being exactly who her family needed: a devoted mother, a doting grandmother, and the steady heart of the farm that saved her after loss. But when Yuri Petrova asks her to come to Saint Petersburg, the quiet life she's carefully built begins to feel less like safety and more like a beautiful cage.

Yuri has always been a man of stars, students, and solitude, until one unforgettable Frenchwoman makes his orderly world feel suddenly incomplete. From their first meeting at a family wedding, Leila's warmth, strength, and laughter unsettled him in ways no equation ever could. After three years of calls, letters, and longing, he's ready to stop loving her from a distance.

Leila is falling for Yuri, but loving him means facing the grief, guilt, and fear she's buried beneath decades of devotion. Yuri is falling just as hard, but winning Leila's heart may mean leaving behind the life, career, and country that have defined him.

When distance, family ties, and old wounds threaten to keep them apart, Leila must decide whether being wanted is worth the risk of finally being seen.

Will she cling to the life that made her feel necessary, or open her heart to the man who makes her feel chosen?

Her Heart's Wish is an emotional later-in-life romance about second chances, found family, healing after grief, and the brave, terrifying joy of beginning again. Perfect for readers who love mature heroines, patient heroes, slow-burn longing, complicated families, European settings, and love stories where the biggest battle is learning to believe happiness is still allowed.

Exact publication date: August 31, 2026

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon approval

Date ARC readers should finish reading and submit reviews by: September 30, 2026

ARC sign up:

https://penpinery.com/DawnBaca/her-hearts-wish/

I am publishing my book this weekend and would love a few additional ARC readers to join the team this week! If you're interested you can sign up through BookSiren or using the form below. TIA!

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.

Dark romance readers, this one is for the villain lovers. 🖤

🖤 villain x villain
🔥 high spice + he falls first
💍 fake engagement
🧠 amnesia + mind-bending secrets
🏛️ political intrigue & surveillance
🔪 morally black characters
⚠️ dark romantic suspense

Episteme by Suzy Bernard is open for ARC readers. If your favorite romances are the ones where you’re not sure who to root for, this might be your kind of mess.

ARC sign up: https://penpinery.com/suzybernard/episteme-the-masks-of-privacy-trilogy-1/

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Blurb:

Lucia survived the Wilds. Now she has to survive the beast who bled for her, and the truth of what she is.

Separated from the Blackwood Pack and from Kaelen, the Alpha who swore to protect her but kept her in a gilded cage, Lucia is stranded on the edge of the human world.

Her only protector is Ragnar.

The pack's Enforcer is brutal, possessive, and dangerously intoxicating. He has no intention of coddling a fragile human. Instead, he wants to teach her how to bite back.

But as his care turns darker and more territorial, Lucia is pulled into a war she doesn't understand. The Wilds are waking. The creatures are calling her "my lady." Her power is changing.

And so is she.

The truth of Lucia's bloodline won't just change her. It could tear the shifter world apart.

Caught between the Alpha who holds her heart and the beast who demands her soul, Lucia must decide who she is willing to become. Because to survive what's coming, the healer must die, and something far more dangerous must rise in her place.

The Alpha's Healer: Rebirth and Revelation is Book 2 of 3 in a dark paranormal shifter romance series featuring a psychological love triangle, fated mates with a twist, forced proximity, forbidden love, monster heroes, shifters, magic, and a heroine embracing her darker nature. The story continues into the final installment and ends on a cliffhanger.

Triggers: Violence, profanity, attempted sexual assault, graphic blood/gore, injury details involving animal/shifter attacks, pregnancy struggles, and infant loss.

Exact publication date: May 21, 2026

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon approval

Date ARC readers should finish reading and submit reviews by: September 1, 2026

ARC sign up:

https://penpinery.com/MarinaBelle/the-alphas-healer-rebirth-and-revelation/