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Here are 4 ROMANCE ARCs you wont be able to keep your hands off:

• Blue Sky Black by Lea Vale (slowburn)
• What He'd Burn by Ella Mitchelltree (paranormal)
• Love Twists and Knots by Jo-Anne Carriere (adventure)
• Siren's Hunt by Ciera (C.M.) Miller (adventure)

What is the Thursday Spotlight?

Every Thursday, Pen Pinery features 4 standout romance ARCs in our weekly Thursday Spotlight. This promotion highlights indie romance books to a wider audience of ARC readers. We share these featured romance ARCs across social media, our email newsletter, and Reddit to help readers discover the best new romance releases before anyone else.

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she goes to the South of France for a reset and accidentally proposes instead:

🌊 accidental engagement in Antibes
⛵ Mediterranean yacht romance
💔 fresh start that turns into a runaway love story
⚓ forced proximity at sea
🖤 secrets, ex drama, and shifting trust

South of France → Caribbean fallout energy where one impulsive moment turns into a life she didn’t plan for and can’t easily undo.

Read the ARC here: https://penpinery.com/u/1517/love-twists-and-knots/

if your favorite romance setup is “they have to pretend to be married and accidentally catch feelings,” this ARC may be your thing:

🔎 undercover mission romance
🔥 restrained slow-burn chemistry
🥂 rich people behaving badly
🖤 emotionally guarded MMC
⚔️ high-stakes romantic suspense

Earned by Lilly Manning is building its early reader team now for readers who like tension, danger, and characters trying very hard not to fall for each other.

Read the ARC: https://penpinery.com/u/1659/earned/

🌹 Pen Pinery's Thursday Spotlight is here!

Here are 4 ROMANCE ARCs you wont be able to keep your hands off:

• SLOW BURN by Dani Skye (slowburn)
• The Witch's Broken Crown by Calla Robin (slowburn)
• The Price of Traveling Light by S. E. Morris (suspense)
• Freedom to Me - An M/M Romance by Sidney Quinn (suspense)

What is the Thursday Spotlight?

Every Thursday, Pen Pinery features 4 standout romance ARCs in our weekly Thursday Spotlight. This promotion highlights indie romance books to a wider audience of ARC readers. We share these featured romance ARCs across social media, our email newsletter, and Reddit to help readers discover the best new romance releases before anyone else.

Learn more about Pen Pinery's Thursday Spotlight.

Blurb:

In an unprecedented turn of events, Bastion emerges from his Trial of Knighthood a failure.

Certain the gods have abandoned him, he travels down the coast on a leave of absence, looking for solitude. Instead, he walks into trouble in the wake of a series of pirate attacks on seaside villages, where he meets Ulla, a deaf dragon-kin healer with secrets of her own. 

Despite their initial, disastrous meeting, they’re drawn together by their shared compassion for others and mutual loneliness. Then, they discover the attacks aren’t random - they’re coordinated. The pirates are planning a large-scale attack on Moonwatch, the kingdom’s naval base, with the intent of stealing an ancient secret.

Together, Bastion and Ulla race to Moonwatch only to learn the commander has been drawn away by the attacks. Unable to deny his duty or his very nature, Bastion takes command of their diminished forces in the face of a pirate fleet armed with a mysterious weapon. 

When Ulla is wounded, the world comes crashing down on Bastion and he must reveal his darkest secret to save her, even though it may mean losing her, after all.

Trigger Warnings:

Torture scene, threat of SA, a sprinkling of strong language

Publishing Date: 06/21/2026

Review By Date: 06/21/2026

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Blurb:

In an unprecedented turn of events, Bastion emerges from his Trial of Knighthood a failure.

Certain the gods have abandoned him, he travels down the coast on a leave of absence, looking for solitude. Instead, he walks into trouble in the wake of a series of pirate attacks on seaside villages, where he meets Ulla, a deaf dragon-kin healer with secrets of her own. 

Despite their initial, disastrous meeting, they’re drawn together by their shared compassion for others and mutual loneliness. Then, they discover the attacks aren’t random - they’re coordinated. The pirates are planning a large-scale attack on Moonwatch, the kingdom’s naval base, with the intent of stealing an ancient secret.

Together, Bastion and Ulla race to Moonwatch only to learn the commander has been drawn away by the attacks. Unable to deny his duty or his very nature, Bastion takes command of their diminished forces in the face of a pirate fleet armed with a mysterious weapon. 

When Ulla is wounded, the world comes crashing down on Bastion and he must reveal his darkest secret to save her, even though it may mean losing her, after all.

Trigger Warnings:

Torture scene, threat of SA, a sprinkling of strong language

Publishing Date: 06/21/2026

Review By Date: 06/21/2026

✦ ARC NOW AVAILABLE TO READ! ✦

APPLY TO READ: https://penpinery.com/u/1042/to-drown-among-the-stars/

One brilliant student. One professor who should know better. And the kind of tension that turns tutorials, problem sets, and quiet conversations into something unbearably personal.

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Gaia’s Dawn is a spicy reverse harem dark fantasy mythology retelling. The Earth Goddess becomes human to restore balance to a corrupt world. She feeds on the essence of men to maintain her powers.

Gaia’s Dawn is a bingeable 47K fast burn novella unlike anything you’ve read before.

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She’s an alchemist with a ruined career and nothing left to lose. He’s an immortal Executioner who counts corpses like paperwork. Neither of them expected obsession to be the thing that finally breaks their control.

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The fake dating rules were simple: look convincing, keep it professional, walk away clean. But Carter keeps touching her like he means it, and Wren keeps capturing moments that don’t feel fake at all.

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She made everything up to impress him. The problem is she accidentally fell for him too.

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Full Blurb:

My best friend ropes me into some pretty outlandish shenanigans, but tonight’s one for the record books. Up to her usual mischief, she dares me to hit up a random stranger at a bar--and tell him only lies.

I’d rather hide behind a book than flirt, but inventing a fictional narrative gives me the nerve to saunter up to a magazine-gorgeous blond and say, “Hey!”

When he turns his pretty green eyes on me, eyes framed by dark bookish glasses--my kryptonite--I panic.

“I was in your class with, uh--” I snap my fingers, hoping he’ll play along with some vague long-lost connection, out of politeness if nothing else.

At first, the sexy librarian only squints at me, then his camera-ready smile widens. “Lizzy Graham?”

Oh, my god. He’s not supposed to believe me. I want to bail, but a dare’s a dare.

As we catch up, I suspect Evan’s pranking me right back. I tell him I’m a zoologist who speaks Latin to pigs. He claims to be a TV weatherman from Indiana. Sure.

He’s funny and cute, and I wish I hadn’t promised to lie to him. I want him to know me. The real me. So when the bar closes, I come clean and, assuming we’re on the same page, invite him to my place.

When he doesn’t contact me for weeks afterwards, I feel like the dupe.

Just as I’m getting over the mortification, who should show up at my workplace as the new face of weather at six and eleven?

I might be frosty, but he’s even icier because somehow he’s only just discovered I’m not the person I said I was.

Everyone falls for his charm. She’s the only one who notices the sadness underneath it.

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A possessive hockey star obsessed with the one girl who still believes she can save him.

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He was raised to rule the mafia. She was trained to kill men like him. This was always going to end badly when the moment he sees her he is obsessed.

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Read now: https://penpinery.com/u/1545/power-of-shadow/

She’s America’s secret weapon. He’s the storm sent to destroy it. They’re supposed to be on opposite sides. But the closer they get, the harder it becomes to remember why.

Operation Black Horse by N.J. Gervasi

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🌹 Pen Pinery's Thursday Spotlight is here!

Here are 4 ROMANCE ARCs you wont be able to keep your hands off:

• 🧊 Carve Me Golden by Mara J. Ova (Sports romance)
• 🐺 The Alpha's Healer: Rebirth and Revelation by Marina Belle (monster romance)
• 🃏 Goddess and the Geek by Lisa S. Gayle (opposites-attract)
• ❤️ Almost Honest by Ava Ardyne (forced proximity)

Grab a copy of these ARCs today only on Pen Pinery!

What is the Thursday Spotlight?

Every Thursday, Pen Pinery features 4 standout romance ARCs in our weekly Thursday Spotlight. This promotion highlights indie romance books to a wider audience of ARC readers. We share these featured romance ARCs across social media, our email newsletter, and Reddit to help readers discover the best new romance releases before anyone else.

Learn more about Pen Pinery's Thursday Spotlight.