Nine rooms. One way out. A secret someone would kill to protect.

Daniel Mercer has spent years mastering escape rooms. He knows how to recognize patterns, solve puzzles, and find the way out.

But when he's brought to an isolated house containing nine interconnected rooms, he discovers that this challenge is anything but a game.

Every room hides another piece of a dangerous conspiracy. Every answer raises new questions.

And the people guiding him may be hiding the most important secrets of all.

What if escaping is only the beginning?

Hi everyone! I'm Netanel Dori, an independent thriller author, and I'm looking for ARC readers for my upcoming novel, THE PERFECT ESCAPE.

If you enjoy psychological mysteries, intricate puzzles, escape rooms, conspiracy thrillers, and stories filled with unexpected twists, I'd love to share an advance copy with you!

Book details:

• Genre: Psychological Mystery / Thriller
• Length: Approximately 135 manuscript pages
• Publication date: November 20, 2026
• ARC delivery: Starting October 30, 2026
• Suggested reading target: November 19, 2026
• Optional review date: November 20, 2026 or later
• Format: Free digital ARC (EPUB)
• Availability: Worldwide
• Content warnings: References to death, violence, forced displacement, threats to family members, and psychological distress
• AI disclosure: AI-assisted text is included in this work.

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Honest feedback is always appreciated, but reviews are entirely optional. There is no obligation to leave a review or provide a positive rating.

Thank you for supporting independent authors. I hope you'll enjoy the journey!

I’m looking for ARC readers to review my novel.

My novel Sisters will soon be out, and I’d love for a few people to read it and share their honest thoughts.

I’ll send you a free copy (print, ebook / pdf). In return, I’d be so grateful for a short review on Amazon / Goodreads, even just a few lines.

Interested?
You can sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/977a057ed62b/trcvnz0eb6

Blurb:
Betty is dying.

Her four daughters, four lives intertwined, will face a challenge that seems insurmountable to them: the sickness of their mother.

As each sister copes with their mother’s death in her own way, tensions begin to arise between the four sisters.

How will they manage to handle them? Why have they been avoiding them for so long?

Read Sisters and immerse yourself in a profound story navigating through the complexity of family life.

Triggers: death, parents' death

Exact date of publication: 1 Dec 2026
Date of sending ARCs: as soon as Amazon can get them to you.
Date for ARC team to finish reading and submit reviews: 30 Nov 2026

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

• Blurb for the book.

Humanity destroyed its own sex drive to survive a telepathic alien attack. The Batisseer Inquisition hunts down those in whom the drive still lives.

Vy works at an orbital hotel, far from the domes of Mars. She ends up in bed with an alien. Prrhan Anan, a young Inquisitor with a secret of his own and a very uncomfortable chastity belt, arrives to investigate a possible Carnal Crime.

Vy’s escape takes them both into space, toward a giant that has been calling to her since childhood.

A posthumanist dark comedy about sex, religion, and exploding space whales.

• TRIGGERS!! 
  • Explicit sexual content (human/alien)
  • Graphic violence
  • Body horror
  • Religious extremism and institutional torture
  • Self-flagellation / self-harm (religious context)
  • Genital injury
  • Asphyxiation
  • Death (including animal/creature death)
• Exact date of publication:
  • December 1, 2026
• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team.
  • November 1, 2026
• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by.
  • December 7, 2026
• Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC.
  • https://forms.gle/mcjgAvUMusSnC56C8
• AI disclosure: please choose
  • No AI was used in this work

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The Ghost's Truth is what happens when a cozy swords-and-sorcery Hallmark movie deconstructs into an apocalyptic cosmic horror, and then broadens further into a high fantasy adventure.

The infinite realms of Halbron are Beautiful and Terrible and Strange.

One such realm—a harsh, frozen place by the name of Spiramoote—is facing its doom. Perhaps if there was a hero among its citizens, Spiramoote’s fate could be changed. Instead, its tragic tale is centered around Si’Lanci Gnell, reclusive owner of the local soup shop with an infamous reputation. Deemed ‘too soft for Halbron’, Lanci is a simple mortal woman who has never held a weapon and faints at the sight of blood. Content with her life of solitude in the mountains, she dreams not of romance or glory, but of soup and her beloved pet geese.

But when Lanci’s brother is struck by a lust to explore Halbron’s faraway realms, trouble comes to their boring little home. Desperate to restore peace to her fractured family, Lanci forms an unlikely alliance with Vamiro Kunhema, Spiramoote’s newly appointed magical protector who can’t stand pain, cold weather, or being sober. Together, Lanci and Vam must overcome the trials of a drunken ghost, a portal door that never opens to the same place twice, and, worst of all, their own crippling insecurities.

All the while, the doom of Spiramoote watches and waits. Taulslocke the Bonebark Devourer, a tree demon with an appetite for human flesh and bone, ravages the realm in the course of a single night. In his wake, he leaves a Last Survivor and an walk into his mouth, or live in despair under his rapidly growing shadow.

• ⁠TRIGGERS: violence, death, language, sex (not smut but not closed door either)
• ⁠Exact date of publication: December 21st, 2026
• ⁠ARC period underway; ARC copies available on request
⁠• ⁠Please submit reviews by December 15th if possible
⁠• ⁠ARC copies available via BookSirens: https://booksirens.com/book/KAGI38M/AGX0IVO
• ⁠AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

Blurb:

The lone survivor of a massacre. The genetically enhanced immortal who spared only him. 

On an isolated planet where unity is as engineered as its people, two human lines nearly drove each other to extinction rather than acknowledge their shared humanity. The empire that maintained peace for the last century cannot afford to show the cracks in its control. But when Jesse's mining town is slaughtered under mysterious circumstances, it's clear ancient bigotries linger, and rebels now have access to magic or tech capable of wide-scale genocide. But Jesse only sees the Red Demon fleeing the scene of the crime, a bio-engineered immortal who should protect the empire instead of killing her own kin. Lost and alone, Jesse sets out on a path for justice that will bring him face to face with both his misconceptions—and new enemies. 

Faruhar, the so-called Red Demon, is not the mastermind Jesse expects. Guilt ravages her fragmented mind over crimes she cannot remember committing, and a code impressed on her by a few kind people she cannot forget. And when she and Jesse face off, hatred quickly turns to hesitation, as they together uncover a mystery that might unravel their world’s fragile peace.

A twisty science fantasy with tense fight scenes and a spicy romantic subplot.

Triggers:  Depictions of death (including children), graphic violence, one chapter of graphic gore, bioengineered animal death (they aren’t cute), profanity, graphic sexual content (M/F), off-page rape references, threats of sexual violence, and inappropriate physical contact.  

Publication Date: 11/20/26. Note that print was released in 2025 and only the audio production is releasing at that date, but I'm happy to share ebooks if folks prefer.

Delivery: ongoing, immediately after approval on netgalley (audio only) or the google form (any format, delivery through bookfunnel)

Date Reviews Due: Immediately on Netgalley, within 48 hours on the form. A Review is a review! While release date is helpful, I'm happy to approve anyone who intends to leave an honest review. ESPECIALLY looking to approve those of you who post about books here on Reddit. While I'm getting mentions on IG and Threads I don't see many here yet.

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

Audiobooks on Netgalley - also includes links to booktrailers and things.
Request any format (Ebook or Audio via Bookfunnel, a few scratch and dent physicals availalble in the US) .

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Hello! I'm Irene Kora, an established sci-fi/fantasy author who pivoted to Erotica under a penname this year. Initial reviews of my debut 'Welcome to the Fairy Smut Hospital' were mixed, so I did a minor rewrite and I'm seeking a few more ARC readers before publication. This is a light-hearted, smutty read for fans of Grey's Anatomy and ACOTAR, meant to introduce you to a fairy world which will expand into multiple series, with new books coming every June and December. Ebooks and paperbacks will be widely available, and I have a plethora of erotic shorts and novellas available on Kindle Unlimited if you'd like to get a feel for my writing style.

Here's the blurb and all the info, and thanks for reading!

• Lucy Gentry is twenty-four. She’s bookish, unadventurous, and she has just graduated top of her class in Hospital Administration. A mysterious man named Jacob Brisbane II has offered her a job at a brand new hospital. The salary would be life-changing, but the position would leave her completely isolated; Brisbane is a tiny island between Canada and Greenland. It has no internet, no cell service, and it’s not on any maps.
• Something seems off, but Lucy takes the job, and is dropped off by bush plane on a snowy island populated exclusively by beautiful people. The doctors of Brisbane have no knack for budgets or protocol. The hospital is hemorrhaging money. Lucy —who loves solving problems—is like a kid in a candy store… Until a fateful ER visit shows her the truth.
• A man staggers in with wings protruding from his back, smoldering and oozing green goo. He’s a victim of FPV; it’s a brand new disease burning fairies alive. Hundreds have died. Thousands more will die, unless Lucy can whip the hospital into shape, find funding for research, keep her head down and keep the fairies out of her pants…
• Triggers: Sex, anal play, bondage, swearing, loss of virginity, mentioned loss of child, grief, death, disease.
• Date of publication: 12/1/2026
• ARCs are available immediately
• Reviews would be appreciated by release day 12/1.
• https://booksirens.com/book/MLK1N04/HF1CAXJ
• AI disclosure: No AI use EVER in my writing, nor the cover.

The bonds of the world are fraying. Every stone, brick, and boulder, even the great mountains
themselves, are crumbling away, and in a few years there will be nothing left but dust.

The Eight Cities, sealed for centuries, are ignorant of the decay that eats away at their vast and
ancient walls. Lyna Veraine, one of the Gifted whose powers sustain their closed society, spends her
days training for a future that may never come, and her nights using her Gift to leap across the
rooftops and gaze out at the mysterious and deadly Wilds. The people of the Cities believe that
there is nothing but death beyond their walls, that they are alone in the world, but they are
wrong.

The nomadic Clans, refugees of a fallen civilization, have forged a secret existence in the Wilds
through their own versions of the Gifted powers. It is those powers that allow Daen, scion of the
Green Walker clan, to sense the creeping decay of the Waning. Tasked with finding the cause,
Daen's path will lead him to the Cities, and to Lyna.

As two societies face the slow death of their world, one blind to the danger, one helpless to prevent
it, two young people must come together to save them both.

Triggers

• Violence
• Descriptions of injuries/wounds (limited)
• Substance abuse (very limited)
• Human experimentation (limited)
• Abduction (limited)

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work

ARC release date: November 9th 2026

Reviews Date: December 10th 2026

Publication Date: December 15th 2026

To get your ARC copy, follow this link and submit the form.

• https://jphiggsauthor.com/arcs

Thanks!

Hi all — I'm Jay, indie author. Looking for ARC readers for my cozy fantasy, out December 8.

Goblin glass never lies. Neither can the elf learning to make it.

Cael came to Korrvik with a mission, a hood, and a country that no longer exists. The elvish halls sent him to learn how the goblin glassmakers of Drovnik put a maker's true intention into glass, the craft that keeps an empire safe and that no elf is allowed to touch. By the time word reached him that his people had come apart, he was already behind a shop counter on Nettleway, wrapping decanters and keeping his ears covered.

Then Kazmir, the shop's master gaffer, nearly dies at the furnace, and Cael catches him without thinking. The glass rings. Cael has just done the one thing he was sent to steal and was never supposed to be able to do. Kazmir saw all of it. Instead of turning him in, he hands him a pipe.

Now Cael has a craft to learn, a retired orc patrolman who treats honesty as a courtesy, a delivery boy who is always right a little before anyone else, a salamander living in the furnace who is technically just a nuisance, and an apothecary down the street named Rinn, who keeps her notes in neat columns and whose compounds only hold in Kazmir's glass. For the first time since he left home, there is something he wants to keep.

But an elf teaching in a goblin shop is a crime for both of them, and someone from his old life has come looking. Sooner or later, Cael will have to decide what he owes the people who sent him, and what he owes the ones who took him in.

Forbidden Glass is a slow-burn cozy fantasy about found family, honest work, and the cost of telling the truth to people who have given you everything. Book one of The True Glass.

Triggers: None

Publication date: December 8, 2026
ARCs sent: November 1, 2026
Reviews due by: December 15, 2026

ARCs go out November 1 — sign up here: https://thetrueglass.com/arc/

AI disclosure: The writing is AI-assisted with heavy human editing; the cover's background image was AI-created, with human editing adding all other visual elements including text. Cover art: Jay D. Anderson.

Hi everyone! I’m Eli Phillips. My passion is working with our youth (specifically middle schoolers!), helping them wrestle honestly with their faith, and of course, I love writing! This whole asking people to read something I’ve written is the part I’m still getting used to!

I’m looking for advance readers for The Outlaws, Book 3 in my Roots & Mirrors devotional series for ages 11–17. I'm not looking for anyone to read all 48 devotionals! I'd be happy with 5, so that way you can share which ones hit and which ones didn't. Considering each chapter is about a 5 minute read, I'm asking for less than 30 minutes!

About the book

How do you keep your faith when you are under pressure? Speaking up will cost you something. And if your faith isn't your own, stored up within, what comes out when you are under pressure might not be the 'you' you are proud of.

The Outlaws follows the book of Acts through 48 devotional chapters. Each pairs a biblical account with a real modern story, exploring courage, failure, forgiveness, belonging, and faith under pressure.

Every chapter includes a biblical Root, a modern Mirror, The Parallel Unpacked, and a Your Move section with one concrete action for today. My hope is to help teens see the people in Scripture as people facing difficult choices and think honestly about their own.

I’d love to hear from readers of Christian nonfiction, parents, youth leaders, and anyone who cares about helping teens engage with Scripture.

Triggers/content notes: Religious persecution, imprisonment, physical violence, execution and martyrdom, terrorism/bombings, death and grief, wrongful conviction, slavery, and human trafficking.

(Aspiring) Publication date: November 17, 2026.

ARC delivery: Access is available immediately after signup, in PDF and online reading formats.

Reading/review target: November 24, 2026. Reviews are voluntary; this is the date I’m hoping for if you choose to leave one.

Signup: https://rootsandmirrors.com/arc

Availability: Worldwide.

AI disclosure: AI contributed to research. It was not used to write the book’s text or create the cover art.

Thank you for giving the book, and the heart behind it, a look.

Elias Phillips

• Blurb:

Death becomes her and revenge never looked so good on a monster.

Fiz finally knows why the Chaos God insisted she was mortal…and why she has a habit of 'accidentally' killing anyone who steps in her way. She isn’t a demigod. She’s a monster, the likes of which the sacred halls of Order Academy have never seen. A creature that thrives where death walks.

She was designed for revenge.

Driven by a dark urge and learning to navigate the new bodies at her disposal, Fiz must decide whether to reveal the true horror of what she is to the Kings of the Academy, or if it’s safer to hide behind other people’s eyes. But walking in their footsteps makes her finally see the real problem at the school: the men and the list they put themselves on.

The best part about being dead? No one sees her coming.

Eternity Euphoric is Book 4 in the Chaos God Apophis series and cannot be read as a standalone. It is a revenge-fueled expression of feminine rage set in a portal romantasy world, diving deep into what romance becomes when you realize you were the monster all along.

Because this is not a standalone, books 1-3 will be free briefly on amazon on Nov 3rd and 4th and can currently be read in KU.

• TRIGGERS!! Suicide attempt (no suicidal ideation), SA leading to murder, non-vegan food, institutionalized homophobia, institutionalized transphobia, institutionalized racism, monster torture, sex trafficking, mass murder, unrepentant evil women, magical intoxicants.
• The cover👍
• Exact date of publication: November 19, 2026
• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: November 4th & 5th.
• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Nov 19th is preferred, but with all my arcs this is my policy:  Advanced reader copies are provided for free and without obligation. Leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads is completely voluntary and greatly appreciated, but never required.
• Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: Google form signup! https://forms.gle/fQKycyrafxCB2VVR8
• Publishers: ARC is epub and will be delivered via bookfunnel. Book will launch on Kindle Unlimited and in paperback.
• AI disclosure:
  • No AI was used in this work - see my website for my strict no AI policy. Every word written in my books are written by me. Cover art is by Rydia Mun and a video of her chaotic process can be seen on my tiktok.

Blurb:

World Cup hero Gianluigi Romano can save any penalty, but when his doctor wife walks out after years of broken promises, he'll have to prove he can be the husband she deserves without asking her to sacrifice her dreams.

Expect marriage in crisis, a strong career-driven heroine, two daughters, plenty of longing, a husband determined to earn back his wife, and high-heat second-chance romance. No cheating.

Triggers: Marital conflict (no violence), separation, explicit sexual content.

Publication date: November 10, 2026

ARC distribution date: after you sign up, I manually review the application and send you the copy (the next day at the latest)

Review deadline: November 10, 2026

Length: 165 pages

Format: ePub / PDF

Availability: International

Preferred review platform: Amazon (other platforms welcome)

ARC sign-up:
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Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260770229

AI disclosure: AI was used in the process of writing and editing and creating the book cover

• Blurb for the book.

At the Marigold House orphanage, Kavya had learned what rejection looked like: couples who smiled, promised to call, and never did. So when the Hans finally said yes, she let herself feel something she had long avoided: hope.

The Hans seemed gentle, even kind. But their house came with rules, and the rules grew stranger with time. For one, the kimchi was not optional.

The lavish mansion that was meant to shelter her began, slowly, to feel like a prison. Its silences felt deliberate. The smiles always arrived a moment too late, and dreams carried memories that weren’t hers.

Beneath the house lay a basement she had never been told about, yet somehow knew. Its shelves were heavy with occult manuals, and its floor was thick with dust. One book lay overturned there, and on its page, in faded ink and old Hanja, someone had left a warning:

Beware the house that keeps its mourning by lamplight, for its grief is a window, and every window looks both ways. Where fear is left to fester, the veil frays like old silk, and what waits behind it will find its way through: the Eodukshini.

• TRIGGERS: None
• Exact date of publication: Dec 1, 2026
• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: Available now
• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Ideally 10th Dec, but no worries if life gets in way
• Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: https://forms.gle/ojRbPQwJvH87mfKr9
• AI disclosure:
  • No AI was used in this work

• BLURB: Dragged into the realm of the fae by a monster that stole her brother and her real name, Alys finds herself in the company of a mysterious stranger who takes the form of both a raven and a male faerie by the name of Luthias, who has a binding that restricts his ability to share his past and use the full extent of his magic. As for the monster, it is rumored to dwell in the heart of an enigmatic force slowly spreading across the land, known as the Quiet. Luthias offers her a deal: he will help her slay the beast and regain her identity, if she helps him in return — but before she can do that, she is tasked with carving herself out a place in a realm to which she does not belong, with no way through other than staining her hands with blood.
• TRIGGERS: Blood and gore, graphic violence, acts of self-injury, body horror, forced drugging, mind control, physical assault, attempted suicide, sibling death/loss, harm to animals, implied sexual activity, complex PTSD, survivor's guilt, allusions to SA.
• PUBLICATION DATE: ~November 20th, 2026
• ARC DELIVERY DATE: Immediately upon approval.
• EXPECTED REVIEW DATE: On or around the publication date.
• SIGNUP FORM: Here
• AI DISCLOSURE: No AI was used in this work

Two astronauts. One small robot. A mystery that spans centuries.

Blurb:
IT’S 1989: Two astronauts become the first humans to walk on the moon.

Then the world goes silent. Commander Finn Strause and Laura Fraser were meant to plant a flag and come home heroes. Instead, they find something waiting in the dust, something that shouldn’t exist, and the journey home becomes a journey they were never prepared for.

Something is coming for everyone. Not a war. Not a weapon. An ending. And an unlikely crew is tasked with stopping it, helped by a robot named Lumo, who holds answers they can’t yet fathom.

From a quiet base in the Karoo to the surface of Mars, from forgotten corners of history to the edge of everything, Not Hollow is a story about the people we lose, the people we find again, and a question older than the stars: Is it hollow?

TRIGGERS: Grief and loss of family, violence, isolation and mental health themes, character deaths.

Exact date of publication: 29 October 2026

ARCs are available now:

Booksirens

Booksprout

ARCReaderHub

Reviews by: 29 Oct 2026, but within 30 days of release is fine.

Publisher: Wordhaven Press WordhavenPress

AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work.

Book is for readers who like:
- Space exploration
- A robot companion
- Alternate History
- A Mystery across centuries
- An answer to a question older than the stars.

Similar books:
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Also for fans of the TV series For All Mankind.

• Blurb:

Cal was never meant to be famous.

He was created to be a gag character for his movie and then move on. He was supposed to find work elsewhere in Renderville, the grand digital world that characters like him called home. After his online popularity explodes though, Cal has to navigate the celebrity thrust upon him. Co-stars are growing jealous. Dark secrets lurk beneath the server's facade. And he also must navigate his family life, which is easy since they were literally made to be together.

Right?

• TRIGGERS: Mild language, nothing above a PG-13 level. Moderate drama. No other triggers.
• Exact date of publication: December 5, 2026
• The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: Immediately!
• The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: December 5, 2026.
• Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: Email me at [DanielGoldhornTheGoat@gmail.com](mailto:DanielGoldhornTheGoat@gmail.com) and I can get you all set up!
• AI disclosure: No AI was used in this work

TO SAVE HER REPUTATION, SHE HIRES A CERTIFIED LOVE DOCTOR. BUT REAL FEELINGS ARE FAR MORE TOXIC THAN THE LIE.

Twenty-year-old Angelique Davis has always lived in a charmed bubble. Until her perfect boyfriend bursts it with a brutal campus scandal. Left in the social gutter and desperate to reclaim her status, she needs a miracle to win her ex back.

Cue Maxwell Rogov. He monetized his demons, transforming past trauma into hard cash. Rumor has it he’s a certified fake boyfriend who mends broken relationships using unconventional methods far more toxic than Cupid intended. For the right price, desired results are guaranteed.

With Angelique’s deep pockets and Maxwell’s fake-dating artillery, they are two wrongs making a spectacular right. But the line blurs when genuine feelings leak into their perfectly curated plan. When a sudden act of sabotage shatters their fragile trust, Angelique gets exactly what she wanted—her ex back. But it costs her the only real connection she’s ever had. Trapped in a life with the wrong guy, she must decide if saving her status is worth losing her real future with Maxwell.

Triggers:

• Off-page child abuse
• Explicit language
• Mild violence

Publication date: November 26, 2026

ARC Delivery Date: Oct 20, 2026

Finish Reading/Submit Review (on Amazon) by: Nov 26, 2026 (if unable to, 1 week grace period after release)

Brief ARC Sign-Up Form below (kindly click, fill and submit):

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Ai disclosure:

• No Ai was used in this work

Blurb:
In the riverside metropolis of DeCoa, South Dakota—two centuries after a catastrophic Quake reshaped the nation—powerful criminal rings battle for control of serums, ranging from cosmetic enhancements to lethal weapons. On the city’s neglected North Side, siblings Vieve and Vail Durant survive by their wits, relying on scams, theft, and each other.

After one mistake too many, they’re given an ultimatum by a serum regulator from the capital in Oklahoma City: juvie, or go undercover for the very system they distrust. Together, they are tasked with infiltrating DeCoa’s elite Lordsdale Prep and uncovering the mayor's serum production secrets through his daughter.

Immersed in a school supposedly filled with the polished and proper youth of DeCoa, the sibling duo quickly discovers that their peers have alliances slithering around in even the most unsuspected corners of the city. Vail is forced to confront a destructive past he can’t escape, while Vieve struggles to maintain their cover—and control her erratic behavior. As priorities shift and familial loyalties fracture, the siblings realize they’re not just playing a game—they’re trapped in one, manipulated by preternatural forces created by the very serum once known only for destruction.

Triggers:
Violence, profanity.

Publication Date:
November 16th, 2026.

Expected ARC Team Completion Date:
November 14th, 2026.

Date That First Round of ARCs Will Be Sent:
October 22rd, 2026. (Will be as needed afterwards)

Available in all countries!

Link To Signup:

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AI Disclosure:
No Ai was used in this work!!!

Blurb

Five stages, five senses: from the first sight of that person, to the sound of rejection, to the ache of a touch withheld, to the bitter taste of dismay, to the quiet exhale of letting go and healing. Love unreturned is its own kind of loss.

Each stage takes you deeper into the psyche, but also closer to a Mediterranean pine forest, an island alley, a swallow returning to the nest: Love, even unfulfilled, pulls toward both the inner and outer world.

Place more than space
built by Love for someone
where's the Love now? long gone
yet remains the Place

—from the poem "Place"

AI disclosure

No AI was used in this work.

Triggers

Love, heartbreak, loss, grief, letting go, healing, Nature, and themes of rejection and alienation, minor metaphorical references to wounds/blades/arrows, and dark/existential imagery.

Publication date

November 30, 2026.

ARC distribution date

October 31, 2026.

Expected review date

December 15, 2026. Reviews posted around the November 30 launch are especially welcome.

ARC format

PDF and EPUB.

ARC request

Fill in the request form on my website: https://danisdedes.com/arc/request/

Her birthright was stolen. Tonight, she takes it back.

Ash has spent years invisible — a servant in the palace that should have been her inheritance. But when a mysterious figure known as the Godmother offers her one chance to reclaim her legacy, Ash takes it.

The job: Infiltrate the Sovereign's Ball. Crack an impossible vault. Steal a century-old crown. Escape before the midnight bell rings.

In this kingdom, nothing is earned — it's stolen.

But she can't do it alone.

To pull it off, she needs a crew:

• A stepsister who knows too much.
• A con artist with her own agenda.
• An inside man whose heart — and future — she is terrified to break.
• A getaway driver who'll leave her behind before he gets caught.
• A magical stranger who claims they share more than a face.
• And a prince who threatens to expose her.

Some girls wait to be saved. Ash came to steal her kingdom back.

• TRIGGERS!!: mild violence, blood, off page murder, off page alcohol use, mild manipulation, death
• Exact date of publication: Nov. 12, 2026.
• ARC Available from Oct. 20 through Nov 2, 2026.
• Reviews Due by Nov 26, 2026.
• Sign up link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdp-8hr80k2Qsgq7a31R8kTNdjxM60dqjBMGGs_4tG3SwlZMw/viewform?usp=dialog
• AI disclosure: AI assisted cover. Cover is a custom blend of author's digital illustrative skill combined with AI elements.

Hello!

I'm looking for a few advance readers for my illustrated novel, Project Collision, releasing this November.

Blurb:

Juliette is a former alien military commander sent to Earth to retrieve an ancient codex.

Eric is a federal agent assigned to determine whether Juliette is an alien.

They are both spectacularly bad at their jobs.

Project Collision is a character-driven, illustrated science-fiction novel about two deeply flawed people, questionable decisions, and the rather unfortunate consequences of falling in love.

It includes original illustrations and comics throughout the story. I'm looking for readers who enjoy morally complicated characters, unconventional romance, science fiction, and a little absurdist humor.

Triggers!!: Strong language, violence and blood/gore (including illustrated violence), murder and death, traumatic descriptions of deceased family members, grief, psychological distress, references to suicidal thoughts, smoking, alcohol consumption, sexual situations, and complicated consent/boundary issues.

If you want to read it, apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfb_p5e-hFVNhXQPS9GA2knpr7QSqui93u-Yf6TXdQUqT4Prg/viewform?usp=publish-editor

I plan on releasing ARC’s on October 27th; the book will be published as an e-book on November 15th, and the paperback on the 20th. You can leave reviews on Amazon or Goodreads. 

AI disclosure:

• No AI was used in writing this book.

Thank you for considering my book!

In a post-apocalyptic world, two unlikely allies must cross a thousand miles of treacherous Alaskan tundra to retrieve a medicine that could save their people from the sentient fungal parasite slowly corrupting their memories and colonizing their bodies.

June Campbell knows exactly how her life will end. The sentient fungal parasite slowly spreading through her muscle tissue will eventually overpower her and seize control of her mind and body. But every day from now until then, it’ll make her a little bit stronger, faster, sharper. She’s already the best supply runner in Nome, Alaska. And sometimes, when she and her sled dogs are speeding across the snowbound plains surrounding the city, she can almost forget about the horrific death that awaits her and everyone she loves. Almost.

When June learns that a scientist is developing a serum that could eradicate the parasite, she volunteers to trek across a thousand miles of treacherous tundra to retrieve the materials needed to make it. Unfortunately, a blizzard soon blows her off-course, right into the arms of Overlander Rafael Morales, who offers to help her in exchange for a share of the serum. June doesn’t want to rely on him. But after fending off an attack from a band of parasite-worshiping zealots, she realizes she’ll need all the help she can get if she wants to make it home alive.

Loosely inspired by the real-life events of the 1925 serum run to Nome, Winter at World’s End will appeal to anyone who loves the heartwarming story of Balto but wishes it were set in a world teeming with parasitic fungi, à la The Last of Us.

Instructions for signup: You can sign up through this Netgalley link: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/870899

Note about signup: Because this book is being traditionally published by Penguin Random House, I can't control who the publisher approves for ARCs, but I believe they're likely to approve anyone with a history of posting reviews on their own website/social media account or on popular review sites like Goodreads and StoryGraph

Triggers: Violence (stab wounds, gunshot wounds being stitched up without anesthetic, mild gore), a disease that corrupts memories and is somewhat reminiscent of dementia, grief, death

Minor spoiler about the puppers: NO sled dogs are harmed over the course of the story!

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work

Release Date: April 6, 2027 (USA)

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She was raised to believe desire was something to fear. Bethelbrier will teach her otherwise.

Penelope has always known the life waiting for her: obedience, marriage, children, and the quiet satisfaction of becoming the woman her rigid homeland expects her to be.

Then she is sent across the sea to Bethelbrier.

There, silk barely conceals skin, pleasure carries no shame, and princes are as likely to be found in taverns and fighting clubs as on their thrones. Penelope has come to marry into the royal family. Instead, she finds herself drawn into a kingdom where almost everything she was taught about power, virtue, and desire is being challenged.

And then there is Corin.

Warrior, prince, and unapologetic libertine, Corin embodies nearly everything Penelope has been taught to distrust. He is crude where she is proper, experienced where she is innocent, and dangerously comfortable with appetites she has spent her life denying. But the more Penelope discovers about him—and herself—the harder it becomes to tell the difference between temptation and freedom.

Beyond the palace walls, Bethelbrier is changing too. Old resentments are stirring in the North. The royal family is beginning to fracture. And the pleasures Penelope once found shocking are becoming tangled with questions of loyalty, power, and who gets to decide the shape of another person's life.

Penelope came to Bethelbrier prepared to accept her destiny.

She may leave it wanting something entirely her own.

Desire or Destiny is a lush, provocative fantasy of sexual awakening, dangerous intimacy, political unrest, and the intoxicating discovery that a life can be chosen rather than inherited. Perfect for readers who crave morally complicated characters, queer-normalized worlds, slow-burning desire, court intrigue, and fantasy unafraid to be genuinely adult.

Triggers: None

AI Disclosure: No AI was used in this work

Release Date: December 1, 2026

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Blurb for the book.

When maps stop matching the world, how do you find your way through the unknown?

When a merchant caravan returns from the western frontier with half its wagons missing, the city of Haut-Fer is left searching for answers.

Calen is nineteen, a porter by trade, and hardly anyone's idea of a hero. Yet he finds himself drawn into an expedition beyond the familiar roads, toward forgotten ruins and places where maps can no longer be trusted.

As the mysteries deepen, survival will depend on more than courage. It will depend on what the expedition's members can observe, understand, and carry together.

What to expect: Adult fantasy, immersive worldbuilding, ancient mysteries, dangerous exploration, flawed characters, gradual discoveries, and a slow-building supernatural mystery.

TRIGGERS!!: Violence, physical injuries, character death, peril, and grief.

Exact date of publication: November 22, 2026.

The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: October 17, 2026 — digital copies are available immediately upon acceptance.

The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: November 29, 2026. Later reviews are welcome.

Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: Please comment below, send me a Reddit private message, or contact me at [gabrielvarel.author@gmail.com](mailto:gabrielvarel.author@gmail.com).

The ARC is a free English-language EPUB, available internationally. All honest opinions are welcome, including critical ones. There is no obligation to provide a positive review or to publish a review.

AI disclosure: AI was used in writing and cover art

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