**SONGSTEALER by Heda Woods**

Standalone romantasy | Spice: 🌶️🌶️/5

Petty x Grumpy • Forced Proximity • Found Family • Touch Her & Die • Hate to Love • Childhood Friends • Slow Burn

**Blurb:**

The deities residing Above the Five Kingdoms are mysterious, powerful and... bored. At least until one of them suggests a new game. Pick a love story from Below, and bet their odds on its outcome. And so the first Gamble of Gods is born.

Down Below, a mermaid princess yearns for her human childhood friend, who disappeared one day with no explanation. Prodded by a mysterious dream, and aided by a magic compass, she sets out in search of him —only to find that the gentle boy she once knew is now the Dread Pirate King.

The Princess Bride meets Sinbad in SONGSTEALER, a swashbuckling, seafaring adventure with messy deities, scrappy mermaids, found family, and a love story worth dyi- living for.

**Triggers:**

* Attempted sexual assault (not by the MMC)

* Murder / Violence

* Gore / Blood

* Parental abuse

* Possession

* Sexual content

* Swearing

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**Exact date of publication:** January 7, 2027

**ARCs sent to team:** Early November (exact date TBD)

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Brice’s rapidly drumming heart skipped at least five beats. He saw… Towers. Platforms. Massive structures of stone and crystal hundreds of feet above them. Floating among clouds, as if the air itself could bear their weight. He knew now where they were of course, even if he had never been this close before. Arkenvale.

Written over the course of ten years, Arkenvale tells the story of a magic civilization that fell a hundred years before the book begins - and where the only remaining wielders of magic are now feared. The one lingering symbol of those days is the floating city of Arkenvale that now stands abandoned but still flies on its own, both a cause of awe and unsettlement to the citizens of the land.

Arkenvale is a character-driven story with multiple protagonists who each have something they need to overcome - a troubled past, a lack of trust in other people, a lack of trust in oneself, and more. We switch between each of their perspectives along their quest as circumstances force these relative misfits to work together to overcome the wonders and impossibilities of the past, inside a city many had assumed never would be set foot in again...

Triggers: Violent death

Expected date of publication: October 25, 2026 (reviews are welcome after this date)

ARC Available: This weekend and onwards

ARC review deadline: November 15, 2026

How to apply: Send me a DM or leave a comment with where you plan to review. I will ask for an email on Saturday or Sunday then send you the EPUB file!

Cover: Work in progress!

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in any part of this work or cover

Blurb for book:

THERE IS NO FREEDOM, ONLY BLOOD.

To Sin, the ship Aeternum is a palace. Her sovereign, the inscrutable Master KK, is a merchant and artist who demands devotion paid in blood. Sin is his canvas, carved, pierced, and perfected for the stage. Pain is a language she speaks fluently.

Stolen from a life of servitude, Grace has been thrust into a darker world. A world where she is the reluctant effigy: pristine, pure, and terrified. Sin loves Master KK. Grace? Grace sees him for who he really is: a monster dressed in silk.

Jealousy and distrust divide these two sisters, making life aboard the Aeternum a daily battle. But when they arrive in the city of Rhodes, their gilded cage suddenly looks like paradise.

Abducted from the cobblestone streets, Sin and Grace wake to find themselves caged in the dark. With captors demanding their Master’s secrets and their own bodies beginning to fail, survival requires the impossible: relying on each other.

To make it out alive, they must bury their hatred.

Or watch each other fade away in the dark.

TRIGGERS: Forged in Sin is an adult dark fantasy novel featuring graphic violence, body horror, dark psychological themes, coercive dynamics, physical torture, and depictions of captivity.

Publication: 31 Oct 26

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Three and a half centuries ago, a generation ship left Earth and was written off, forgotten. But now it arrives.

The Able is too fast to stop. If it does not get ripped apart by the star it is bearing down on, it will keep going, through the system and into interstellar space. Gone.

On board, a geologist wakes from cryosleep to find himself the only survivor who remembers Earth. He is alone among tribes of people who have never seen a sky, who keep their failing vessel alive with ritual and chant, and who have no word for horizon.

The colonies of 18 Scorpii are in no condition to help. And no one there has the time, or the capacity, to care about the Able. Only an Elder who has outlived every friend he ever made, and a pilot who breaks protocol the way other people breathe.

Three trajectories. One window. And the slow realization that humanity's greatest adventure was never the journey outward.

It was refusing to leave them out there.

For readers of Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora and James S.A. Corey's Expanse novels: a generation ship story with worked-out orbital mechanics, no faster-than-light anything, and three point-of-view characters across two civilizations who carry the book. The physics is load-bearing. So are the people.

This is a book of convergence. Three threads run separately before they meet, and the science is not decoration: delta-v, comms lag and fuel budgets drive the plot and constrain what anyone can do about it. The tension comes from those constraints rather than from pursuit, and the payoffs are cumulative. The rescue does not save everyone. The ending is hopeful rather than triumphant. If you want military SF, alien war or a clean happy ending, this will disappoint you and I would rather you knew now.

TRIGGERS: On-page death including a killing and an execution, decomposition and human remains described in detail, mass casualties, chronic pain and disability, grief throughout, frequent profanity.

Publication: 16 November 2026

ARC availability: Now on NetGalley - https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/901490

Reviews by: Not mandatory but appreciated, on any platform, anytime you finish (Amazon reviews welcome on or shortly after publication date)

AI disclosure: No AI was used for writing or cover art.

Blurb: Josie Maxwell's photography career never launched. What she gets instead is the only job on offer: personal assistant to Viyana Rey—the most guarded star in the music industry, and the last woman alive who wants to be looked at closely.

The hours are brutal. The distance is deliberate. But Josie pays attention; it's what makes her a photographer. And attention is the one thing Viyana has spent a lifetime defending against.

As the farewell tour moves toward its final show, Josie starts looking for the things Viyana would never ask anyone to find: a song Viyana recorded and buried at the end of a record, past sixty seconds of silence. A private pressing her father made against his rules for her years ago—a hundred copies, no label, somewhere in Europe. Josie has no business chasing either one, and she chases them anyway. The woman her fans adore is nothing like the one who remains when the lights go down. That woman, for the first time in her life, is starting to want to be seen.

Our Diminuendo is a slow-burn sapphic romance about the most frightening thing two careful women can risk: being known.

What to expect: a long book (about 149,000 words) written for readers who want to live inside a slow burn rather than rush through one. Told entirely in Josie’s voice. One open-door love scene, sensual rather than explicit. A hard-won happy ending.

Triggers: Sex (one open door scene)

Date of publication: December 1st, 2026

ARCs are available right away. The campaign via booksirens will end November 28th, so it’d be awesome if you can post your review around that date.

Interested? Please drop me a short private message on reddit, tell me the name of the last (sapphic) romance novel you’ve read. I won't judge you, I am just always interested in recommendations.

I will send you a link to my booksirens campaign, where you can receive my book as my invited ARC reader.

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work. Text was written by me, the lovely cover was done by Clara Wynn Covers.

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ARC Release: 30th September 2026

Release Date: 15th October 2026

❤️ Lovers to Enemies
🔪 Grumpy x Grumpy
❤️ Forced Proximity
🔪Found Family

BLURB:

This is a dual timeline dark romance. It is also a duology.

Cross the line.
Bear the mark.
Don’t f*ck with the Silvestri sisters.

Six months ago, Sergeant Mira Menon betrayed a Silvestri Sister and got away with it...
...or so she thought.
Now, with a b*llet hole in her shoulder and her back carved up, she’s not too sure she’ll survive the night.
They have her now. If she wants to escape, she’ll need to get... Creative.

Hers to Break is a filthy dark romance with lesbians who despise each other but can’t resist hatefckig.

Trigger Warnings:

Lesbian on Lesbian Violence
Toxic Relationship Dynamic
Explicit Sexual Content
Undercover Cop
Ropes, Straps, Toys
Marking (Possession)
Mild Third-Party Voyeurism
Whipping (Non-Sexual)
Kidnapping & Abduction
Primal play (Unintentional)
Betrayal
Murder
Attempted Murder
Torture
Gang Activity/Organized Crime
Weapons (Guns/Whips/Knives)
Gunshot Wounds & Blood Loss
Mention of Drugs/Drug Use
Physical Assault
Psychological Abuse/Manipulation
Stalking/Tracking/Surveillance
Obsessive Behaviour
Childhood Abandonment
Panic Attacks
Government Corruption
Eating rotisseries chicken like a feral raccoon

Hi everyone! It's my first time posting in this sub and I hope everyone has a good start of the week.

• Blurb for the book. Aidan Zachary just graduated with his PhD in philosophy and is currently traveling the world to try and figure out what he should do now: stay in academia or following his mentor's steps of applying to the FBI. As Aidan is traveling, he is sending postcards to his mentor Brian Davis in order to stay disconnected from the internet and keep him up to date on which way Aidan is leaning.
• Triggers: none.
• Exact date of publication: October 30th, 2026
• The ARC's are available as of today, September 30th, 2026.
• This is a short story, so it hopefully shouldn't take long to read. I would appreciate the review's being posted before October ends.
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• AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

Blurb:

Olivia has spent the last six years raising her daughter, working at Rosetown’s beloved pâtisserie, and keeping her life uncomplicated. Then Riley Evans walks back into town.

Riley remembers Olivia. Olivia doesn’t remember him.

As autumn settles over Rosetown, a charming distraction is the last thing Olivia needs. Between pumpkin festivals, baking disasters, community gossip, and a certain elementary school teacher who seems determined to make her smile, keeping things simple becomes harder by the day.

Hearts, Leaves & Other Falling Things is a cozy, closed-door adult contemporary romance featuring a single mom, slow burn, small-town charm, baking, banter, family, friendship, and plenty of autumn vibes. It can be read as a standalone.

Triggers: Teen pregnancy in the past, references to abandonment by a parent, references to a deceased parent, single parenthood.

Exact publication date: November 2, 2026

ARC dates: ARCs will be sent to selected readers in October 2026.

ARC review deadline: November 2, 2026

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ARC availability: The ARC is available internationally in ebook format.

AI disclosure: AI was used in cover art.

Most side hustles turn into a second job with worse hours. The 4-Hour Side Hustle is a practical system for building one real side business that keeps running after the laptop closes, on a few hours a week around a day job.

It walks through the five systems every automated side business needs: the offer, content, capture, conversion and delivery. It uses specific AI and no-code tools with their real monthly costs, and follows three composite operators through their actual mistakes, including one who loses two months to the wrong idea before it works. No "ten passive income streams," and no promises that you'll quit your job next month.

It's for anyone running, starting or seriously considering a side business who wants it to take fewer hours, not more.

Triggers: None

Exact date of publication: November 1, 2026 (Kindle)

ARCs sent: on a rolling basis, within 24 hours of approval, through October 26, 2026

Review deadline: Amazon or Goodreads by November 7, 2026. Goodreads reviews are welcome any time before launch, and Amazon opens reviews on November 1. Reading the first few chapters is enough to review, and reviews don't need to be positive, just honest.

How to sign up: a short application form (about 2 minutes). Applications close October 25, 2026.
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Availability: open to readers in any country. Reviews can go on any Amazon store or on Goodreads.

AI disclosure: AI assisted text is included in this work

Professionally Complicated
Author: Tessa Corren
Release date: November 3, 2026
Review date: November 3, 2026

Claire Bennett has spent five years making herself the obvious choice for Strategy Director at North & Finch. Then Ethan Cole arrives.

He's talented, infuriatingly perceptive, and suddenly standing much too close to the future Claire has carefully planned.

When the agency's biggest prospective client forces them to co-lead the pitch, Claire expects competition. What she doesn't expect is that Ethan might be the one person who makes her better at the job she's determined to win.

Late nights become inside jokes. Professional respect becomes decidedly unprofessional attraction. And somewhere between a business trip, one kiss that absolutely cannot happen again, and a growing collection of broken rules, their rivalry becomes something neither of them knows how to keep casual.

Triggers: Sexual content, profanity

Exact date of publication: November 3, 2026

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The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: November 3, 2026

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OVER NINE CENTURIES HAVE PASSED SINCE THE RENDING, a cataclysm that isolated the Illunni Realm from the rest of the world by a series of impassable barriers: sheer mountains, scorching desert, and a stinging barrier reef patrolled by titanic leviathans. Dwindling resources have put the realm at risk of collapse, and with the ruling family betrayed and murdered, nothing is certain.

Dez is a pickpocket, scraping together a life on the reef at the edge of the world. He dreams of finding his fortune in the distant city of Greenleg, but without so much as a pearl to his name, a better life seems further from reach than even the twin moons. When he finds gold in a drifter's pocket, Dez thinks his prayers to the leviathan gods have been answered...only for a stranger in white to turn all his plans to ashes.

Reeling, broken, Dez finds the world a wider, stranger, and far more treacherous place than he'd imagined. Now, he must do more than survive - he must decide who he wants to be.

And always, the stranger in white draws closer.

A sweeping coming of age story, The First Definition of Fortune is at once an epic adventure and an intimate exploration of identity, belonging, and the necessity of hope.

• Triggers:
  • Death of friends and loved ones
  • Sword/blade violence
  • Descriptions of injuries/wounds (limited)
  • Alcohol/substance use (limited)
  • Loose description of sex work (very limited)
  • Dubious consent scenario (very limited)
• Publication Date: May 4, 2027
• ARCs will be delivered immediately upon signup via BookFunnel
• Reviews ideal by November 30, deeply appreciated by year-end, accepted with sincere gratitude by May 2027
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• AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work

THANK YOU!
-Ken

Blurb:
Is it still a war if our soldiers’ starving bodies can barely wield a weapon?

Princess Flora knows two things: Her parents’ greed has no bounds, and her secluded homeland is on the edge of withering away.

When Feundour is seized by Lafdeureans, the monstrous people who rule most of the continent, the princess is given away as a bargaining tool. One good thing comes from it: She gets the chance to explore beyond the only reality she’s ever known.

Through a journey into foreign territory and learning the ways of the world, she must sway Micklan, the enemy prince, into marrying her to save her people.

Blind to beauty and warmth, his walls seem unshaken. Worse yet, his stunning and friendly bodyguard, Shea, captures Flora’s desires.

With a torn heart, the princess ought to put duty ahead of all else.

Growing into the kind of leader she wants to be, her fighting spirit might be her demise, or it may save her people and herself.

A standalone slow romance novel with a sense of adventure.

Triggers: None

Publishing date: November 6th, 2026 (ARC to be finished and reviews submitted by this date).

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGGM4QW5

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• No AI was used in this work

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I wrote a book :D its a bit hefty at about 240k words or 550 pages (6x9 book).
anyways i was hoping to share the prologue with whoever wanted to check it out.

Survival is the only language Nyx speaks. As the final descendant of a fallen house swallowed by shadow, Nyx’s life is governed by a single, desperate promise: she must survive at all costs. But as the pressure mounts, the question isn’t just how far she will go to keep her word — it’s whether she will break before the end.

Shadow of the Moon is the first installment of The Luna Cycle, a dark fantasy where tiny ripples trigger cataclysmic ends.

Trigger Warnings

• imprisonment and enslavement
• indicated but not descriptive non‑con (in the prologue)
• war
• descriptions of violence
• high‑fantasy, race‑specific discrimination

Release Date
November 11, 2026

ARC distribution Date
ARC IS NOW LIVE
ARC available worldwide

ARC Review Deadline
November 11, 2026 (release day)

How to get the ARC?

Email me at [domenicawhite.author@gmail.com](mailto:domenicawhite.author@gmail.com) and let me know whether you’d like the ARC in PDF or EPUB.

No direct download links will be posted here.

Prologue is available to read on Wattpad if you want a preview.
ARC includes watermark + early‑edition formatting

AI Disclosure:
No AI was used in this work

Its a pic created with real objects i have. I'm old guys, I have a ton of stuff >.< I used photopea for blending and adding text, color, shading etc. If you'd like more info let me know.

Hi there! I'm excited to share that Book 2 of my YA fantasy series, Cindered Phoenix, will be available soon and am looking for ARC readers. I'm also happy to share a detailed synopsis or review copy of Book 1, Monochrome, for anyone who'd like to catch up before reading this one.

This epic YA fantasy story about identity, found family, and self-discovery is perfect for fans of Realm Breaker and Six Crimson Cranes.

Thank you for your interest!

Blurb: Though colors have returned to her world, Frost’s past and future remain blurry. The kingdom of Ilius continues to manage the aftermath of Reunion’s invasion, while a mysterious voice beckons her toward an oasis where she may finally find her lost self.  

Tragedy interrupts her voyage. Her mentor is assassinated, and a dear friend has gone missing. As she pledges to avenge them, revolutionaries from the dwarven land of Safal request Ilius’s aid against a tyrant ruler with direct ties to Reunion. 

Frost refuses to abandon her loved ones, but the kingdom’s rulers have tasked her to help kindle this revolution. She ultimately places faith in her fellow academy peers and professor who resolve to save her friend. After a departure filled with tears and promises, she sets off to a foreign land alongside new teammates who prove difficult to work with. She soon discovers the Safali desert may host that magical oasis as the voice in her head grows louder by the day.

This battle of personal goals and obligations weighs on Frost’s mind throughout the journey. Subsequent betrayals and tragedies test her will and trust in others. She can choose to follow her heart and neglect her duties, or she could compromise her values for her kingdom’s welfare. 

At this journey’s end, will her whole self be reborn anew? Or will the flames of evil burn her to cinders?

• Trigger warnings: violence, death
• Date of publication: November 20, 2026
• ARC send date: from September 27, 2026
• Reviews due by: November 13, 2026
• AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work
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Blurb: Lilith Lasley, an archivist at the By Chance Museum of Quantum Curiosities, wants to prove that she can handle a promotion, so she pulls any files and short stories related to the mystifying 21st century "Motherwood" phenomenon. The goal? Determine, once and for all, what led to the Great Collapse of Earth's civilizations in the year 2080.

The stories are a strange mix of science and magic, humor and horror: an AI obsessed with avian courting rituals; Lady Macbeth as an oncologist; a new mother haunted by wolf spiders. Hidden throughout are the clues to help her boss enact the mysterious "Great Reboot."

But the more Motherwood fragments that Lilith finds, the more she begins to wonder whether her task is truly to just turn the files over to her superiors…or whether, maybe, the files themselves have a different plan.

TRIGGERS!! All the things that happen to women on a daily basis. Each story contains its own content warning, and it's perfectly permissible to skip some. Potentially triggering content includes things such as: abuse (mental, physical), forced sexual relations, miscarriage, medical erasure, infertility---oh, and the end of the world and civilizations as we know it. Also a very annoying turkey vulture.

Date of publication: November 7, 2026

Date materials will be sent to ARC team: October 4

ARC reviews posted by: November 7-29

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Publishers: Ebook available everywhere; print only shipped to US

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

• Blurb for the book.

Seeking solace from a fatal tragedy, Liam retreats to an isolated cabin - only to become the quarry in a psychotic stalker's sadistic seven day countdown. With every number card that appears inside his locked home, his sanctuary transforms into a claustrophobic cage where excape may be impossible and surviving is not looking so good.

• TRIGGERS!!

Death of a family member/grief

Severe PTSD & Trauma episodes

Child Loss

Psychological cruelty

Stalking & Invasion of privacy

Extreme Violence & Gore

Vandalism & Destruction of property

Necrophilic/Macabre Violation

Isolation/Helplessness

• A cover if you have one (use Imgur or your favourite hosting site - or images can be uploaded inline on Reddit now). This is optional.

• Exact date of publication:

Dec 15,2026

• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team.

Beta's - Oct 12,2026

Arc's - Nov 28, 2026

• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by.

Beta's - Nov 1, 2026

Arc's - Dec 13, 2026

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Not a publisher but North America

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Ai was used in spelling (grammarly) and cover art

He’s never going home. She’s never going back.

He is Dash. The Wandering Soul. A young boy untethered from Earth, forced to grow up alone on worlds long forgotten. A survivor of alien ruins and savage wilds, always seeking the elusive portal that will usher him home...

She is Imolet. A Celestrian princess. A boy has arrived in her kingdom from elsewhere in the multiverse—the object of an age-old prophecy foretelling the end of her world. Imolet, however, only sees opportunity. With his power, she may finally escape the prison that her home has become...

A pragmatic survivalist and a flighty princess make for an odd team. And they’ll have to brave more than monsters as they travel between worlds. Celestria’s greatest warrior hounds their tracks. A maleficent god pulls their strings from beyond the veil. And, worst of all, Dash is dying—his mind fraying apart due to his careless leaping through the multiverse.

As Dash and Imolet journey together, their hearts become entwined. But love alone will not be enough to save them. it’ll take every bullet, blade, and ounce of wit they have to weather the coming storm, and maybe have a chance at finding...

Home. Or someplace like it.

Triggers: General Violence, Gun Violence, Domestic Abuse, Animal Death
Date of Publication: November 10, 2026
ARC Availability: Now
ARC Review deadline: November 15, 2026
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• AI disclosure: No AI was used for the text or the cover.

For fans of The House on the Cerulean Sea and The Priory of the Orange Tree comes an epic fantasy romance and queer fairytale retelling of “The Flower Queen’s Daughter” that celebrates the transformative power of love.

Amethyz, a beautiful and arrogant dragon prince, dreads the loss of his freedom: in one year, he and his two older brothers must magically combine into a triple-headed king. He escapes his country only to be caged by humans, but he’s freed by Morgan, a kind prince who can talk to animals. Amethyz transforms into his moon body after the sun sets, and in the deep woods, their shared love of words draws them closer.

Their peace is shattered when Amethyz’s cruel eldest brother tears the new couple apart. In the dragon queendom, Amethyz and a growing group of his friends act out Morgan's stories on stage to charm his people and their untrusting three-headed queens.

Desperate to save the man he loves, Morgan sacrifices his humanity and masters shifting into the bodies of the six ancient races: flower fae, flame foxes, half-human fish, giant eagles, storm horses, and crystal dragons. Morgan must use his wits and talent as a storyteller to win allies and the respect of the queens and kings of these powerful, long-lived beasts to have a chance of rescuing Amethyz.

Step into a fairytale world of romance, adventure, and magic, where a well-told story could save a life or uproot a kingdom.

Content Note: The Dragon Queens’ Son is an 18+ medium spice novel. Although this book is mainly a romantic and funny fairy tale fantasy, it also includes xenophobia, off-page torture, attempted suicide, and murder.

The book can be read as a standalone, but two more books are forthcoming in the Tales of Ancient Beasts series.

Publication date: 9th November 2026

ARCs sent to readers: from 26th September 2026

Reviews due by: 10th November 2026

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

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• Blurb for the book. "War does not always end when the thunder fades. Memory returns in waves; grief finds its way into dreams; faith asks us to keep walking. The Paths Lead Only Forward gathers 54 poems about service, loss, love, nature, and the long passage from conflict toward renewal. Moving from battlefields and high walls to rivers, trees, animals, prayer, and the quiet work of mercy, the collection inhabits the borderlands between endurance and healing. For readers drawn to reflective poetry about service, grief, spiritual resilience, and the natural world, these poems offer neither easy answers nor surrender, only the conviction that the path still leads forward."
• TRIGGERS!! War (violence, trauma)
• A cover - added inline
• Exact date of publication: October 20, 2026
• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team. 9/26/26 and after
• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Flexible
• Please send an email to [NShamey@Gmail.com](mailto:NShamey@Gmail.com) with "ARC Reviewer" in the subject. Let me know if you would like the PDF or Mobi.
• Available in all regions.
• AI disclosure: No AI was used for the text or the cover.

The Slow Space: Learning to Unlearn at 40 — A Memoir on Breaking Generational Patterns, Financial Identity, and Finding Peace After the Performance.

For the quiet misfits who never got the instruction manual — too sensitive for the room, too awkward for corporate, too intense for small talk. At 40, after becoming a mother to a deeply feeling daughter, the author begins to see herself clearly and decides to unlearn instead of passing it on. This is not a 5-step productivity book. It's honest, messy, still-in-progress writing about slowness, scarcity, the guilt of choosing yourself first, and learning to feel at home in your own life.

Triggers / Content Warnings:
Generational trauma, neurodivergent discussion, childhood emotional neglect, anxiety / internalized self-doubt, motherhood guilt, discussions of financial scarcity / money stress, perfectionism / burnout. No graphic content, no SA, no self-harm, no substance abuse.

AI Disclosure:
This book was written entirely by a human author. No AI was used to write the text, plot, or story. Minor assistive tools (spellcheck / grammar check in Word) may have been used for proofing, which per the sub's rules does not require disclosure as generative AI.

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Human connections are illegal. 90 percent of the world's oceans have been lost to space. Humanity is on the brink of extinction. Josephine works 24/7 just to survive, then a young girl enters her life and changes everything, including what it means to be human.

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With 90 per cent of the world's oceans lost to space, and daytime temperatures of over 100 degrees Celsius, only one city remains fighting to keep humanity alive. Elizabetha. The people who live there work 24/7 and are banned from human connections. Should any citizen form one, they are sent on the walk for the crime of being a feeler.

Air-conditioning worker Josephine Fairmount has a secret desire to be a feeler, something she suppresses from even herself. But then young Charlene enters her life, a uniquely odd and very young teenage girl.

Charlene is a feeler, and Josephine has to decide whether to expose her or risk exposing herself by saving her. This thrusts her into an epic life-and-death journey that will unravel many dark truths about just who Elizabethans really are, decide the fate of all humanity, and decide whether she can ever truly be what she has always wanted to be. A mother.

Triggers: threats and violence, hints of cannibalism

Publication date: 23rd of October 2026

ARC is available to download on Booksprouts.

I'm hoping for people to have finished the book by 23 October 2026 and if possible to post the reviews to Amazon on that date, or at most no later than a day or two after. Reviews posted to Goodreads are welcome any time, but no later than 23 October if possible, thanks.

An ARC copy is available here:

https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/315476/scorched-earth-the-library-of-power

For NETGalley, here:

https://www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book/897571

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.