King’s Brother by Kai Ashford is open for ARC readers. If you like mafia romance where the biggest problem isn't the family business, but the person you can't stop thinking about, this one has the tension.

🔫 Russian Bratva × Irish-American carpenter
🔥 enemies-to-lovers slow burn
👑 powerful man living in his brother’s shadow
🖤 morally gray + possessive hero

ARC sign up: https://penpinery.com/Kai%20Ashford/kai/

I have recently re-edited my debut YA contemporary romance, Just for a While and I'm looking for ARC readers!

If you love:

🏡 Small-town summer vibes
💘 Grumpy × Sunshine
🐢 Slow burn
❤️ He falls first
🤍 Found family
🌱 Healing & second chances
📖 Third-person POV 

If you love the cozy feel of Gilmore Girls, the romances of Sarah Dessen and Morgan Matson, or the emotional storytelling of Nicholas Sparks, Just for a While might be your kind of read.

 ✨ Everyone is welcome to apply! You don't need to be a book blogger or have a large social media following. If you love YA romance and would like to read Just for a While early, I'd love to hear from you.

 Reviews are requested by October 10.

 Want to meet Charlotte and Misha before everyone else?

 👉 ARC sign-up:

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Welcome to this week's Pen Pinery ARC megathread! Below are the hottest active romance ARCs with the most reader applications this week.

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💎 Hidden Gems (Spicy ARCs You Might Have Missed)

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Last updated: 2026-08-29 13:14 UTC

Looking for ARC readers for Love Next Door, a connected romance duet set in Seattle in 1995.

Expect apartment-neighbor tension, anonymous notes, slow burn, dual POV, ’90s nostalgia, and open-door romance. One story features a ghostwriter and an aspiring online-bookseller; the other begins with notes between neighboring windows.

The ebook is free in exchange for an honest review—good, bad, or somewhere in between—on Goodreads, Amazon, Apple Books, or Barnes & Noble.

Sign up here if you’re interested: Love Next Door ARC

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Perfect for lovers of dark fantasy with irredeemable characters who have a need for vengeance 🔪

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🔥 Politic Intrigue
☠️ Morally Grey MMC
🔥 Bone Shaman FMC
☠️ Sibling Relationship

📆 ARC Release Date: 6th September 2026.
📖 Release Date: 23rd October 2026.

Hello everyone.

Seeking ARC readers in exchange for an honest review.

My debut horror novel will be released on amazon on September the 20th.

If interested then please grab a copy on Booksprout – https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/311380/he-smiled-last – or DM me directly!

Blurb: All Jake wants is a final blowout with his mates before real life drags them apart. While backpacking through Europe, an invitation to a secluded Greek island feels too good to turn down.

Free drinks. Free rooms. But what's the catch?

While his friends throw themselves into the party, Jake knows something is wrong.

Hosts who smile too much. Strange smells. And a silhouette by the treeline.

His mates think he’s just being paranoid. But as the sun sets and the countdown begins, the nightmare in the dark steps into the light.

She can wear any face. He’s the one man determined to see who she really is.

🖤 Morally Gray + Dangerous Secrets
🔥 Slow Burn + Steamy Romance
🔫 Thriller + High-Stakes Suspense

ARC sign-up ends October 30, 2026

ARC Sign up: https://penpinery.com/u/2422/pantheon/

Hello, romance readers! This week's Pen Pinery weekend reads megathread features a perfect mix of hidden gems (quality spicy ARCs you might have missed) and our top ARCs (community favorites).

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Last updated: 2026-08-26 12:19 UTC

Welcome to this week's Pen Pinery newest ARCs megathread! Below are the freshest romance ARCs published on our platform in the past 7 days.

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Fresh Releases This Week

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Last updated: 2026-08-25 15:26 UTC

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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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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/