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Hi all. I'm looking for a few more reviewers for my sapphic spy erotic thriller. If you enjoy romance with a touch of smut and tension. I think you'll enjoy it.

Blurb: Agent Lydia Mercer has spent ten years using seduction as a weapon. She's never been the one who got played.

Sent into Venice alone, with no backup, she has one job: seduce the ADH's deadliest operative and walk away with a set of classified documents. It should be routine. Lydia has done this a hundred times.

Nothing about this woman is routine.

Before the night is over, Lydia is handcuffed, disarmed, and at the mercy of an agent who somehow knows secrets that were never in her file. She gets what she came for. She doesn't get out with her certainty, her control, or her heart intact.

And Venice isn't done with her yet. 

Triggers: explicit sapphic sex scenes including BDSM elements (restraints, impact play, power exchange), violence/captivity, strong language, and betrayal.

Date of Publication: September 1st 2026

ARCs sent: Immediately after approval

Requested review date: September 1st-September 5th

Format: EPUB + PDF

Availability: Worldwide

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Blurb:

The dead come to her. He chose to stay.

Amadella Vaelora is the warning mothers whisper. The last daughter of House Tanzanite lives alone in the haunted forest of Nytherra, breaking curses, tending spirits, and bearing the blame for a betrayal that destroyed her family three centuries ago. While the crown calls her bloodline cursed, the dead know the truth, and they have begun arriving with warnings that the darkness surrounding her forest is growing stronger.

Commander Theron Valseic has devoted his life to the crown, only to be repaid with a deadly assassin's curse hidden beneath his ribs. When he stumbles through Amadella's magical wards, saving him should be straightforward. Instead, they discover his curse bears the crown's seal, and the only way to heal him is through a magical bond that exposes every secret they carry.

As buried truths threaten to restore House Tanzanite or erase it forever, Amadella and Theron must decide whether to trust one another despite everything that stands between them. If they fail, the darkness consuming the forest will claim far more than either of them imagined.

The House of Tanzanite is a high-heat adult fantasy romance featuring a wounded commander, a forbidden healer, forced proximity, a consent-based magical bond, slow-burn romance, spirit magic, political intrigue, found family, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Triggers: Self-inflicted ritual wounds, attempted murder, grief, isolation, exile.

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon approval (EPUB download)

Date ARC readers should finish reading and submit reviews by: September 8, 2026

Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: Sign up through Pen Pinery to receive the EPUB ARC and leave an honest review on Goodreads.

Country availability: Worldwide (EPUB download).

Instant download: https://penpinery.com/u/2252/the-house-of-tanzanite/

Blurb:

Dr. Kyah Starling built her life around saving animals. Her emergency veterinary clinic is spotless, controlled, and entirely her own.

Then a stranger arrives at two in the morning carrying an injured pit bull and wearing blood, rain, and black leather like a warning.

Xoren is dangerous. He runs the Iron Veil Motorworks club and leaves flowers, anonymous donations, and evidence that he's been watching Kyah's life for far longer than she realized.

Kyah should be terrified of him. Instead, she can't stop being drawn to him.

When a rival gang running a dogfighting operation closes in on the clinic, Kyah is pulled into Xoren's world of motorcycles, secrets, loyalty, and violence. Wanting him doesn't make him safe, and she must decide whether Xoren is the danger she needs to escape or something she's been too afraid to choose.

Sutures & Sinners is a dark romance featuring forced proximity, an obsessive biker MMC, a strong FMC, rescue dogs, found family, stalking, trauma, and a standalone happily-ever-after.

Triggers: Graphic violence, dogfighting off page, animal injury details, torture, explicit sexual content, trauma, kidnapping, stalking, profanity, gang violence, betrayal.

Exact publication date: September 1, 2026

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon approval

Date ARC readers should finish reading and submit reviews by: August 29, 2026

ARC sign up: https://penpinery.com/u/2368/sutures-sinners/

Dark academia + hockey romance readers, this one is a little dangerous 🖤🏒

📚 dark academia
🏒 hockey star x scholarship student
🔥 grumpy/sunshine
👀 obsessive & possessive hero
🩸 stalker + thriller elements
🌑 tortured past + murder

Hellebore Fields by Rivkah Plume is for readers who like their campus romance dark, obsessive, and decidedly not wholesome.

ARC sign up: https://penpinery.com/aberstoat/hellebore-fields-a-dark-academia-hockey-romance/

Blurb:

She falls for the charming man who makes her feel safe.
She fears the killer hiding beneath his restraint.
The terrible truth is that they are the same man.

Alexander Vale kills the monsters the law cannot stop. Anna works beside the next one on his list.

Anna has survived by trusting no one. Then Alexander walks into her office and gives her a reason to lower her defenses. What she doesn't know is that their meeting was carefully planned.

Anna was supposed to be a shortcut to Alexander's target. Instead, one meeting becomes coffee, coffee becomes dates, and the woman he intended to use becomes the only person capable of making him question the violent life he has chosen.

But while Alex struggles to hide his true identity, the predator working beside Anna begins watching her. Soon, she must decide whether to fear the killer behind Alexander's charm or accept that the velvet glove and the iron knuckles belong to the same hand she has fallen in love with.

Fatal Revelation is Book 1 in the Anna and Alexander dark-romance series. Expect a vigilante serial-killer hero, morally gray and fiercely protective MMC, a guarded FMC, hidden identities, dangerous secrets, psychological suspense, dual POV, love built on lies, graphic violence, and mature themes. Their story continues in Book 2.

Triggers: Graphic violence, murder, crime, serial-killer themes, psychological suspense, dangerous situations, and mature themes.

Exact publication date: 08/31/2026

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately upon sign up

Date ARC readers should finish reading and submit reviews by: August 31, 2026

ARC Sign up link: https://penpinery.com/main/fatal-revelation/

Blurb:

Hunter Valentine is a junior at North Chicago University. Between playing ice hockey, spending time with his best friend, and enduring constant torment from his team captain, college life isn't going the way he imagined.

Once a promising prodigy, Hunter is now a bench-warming, insecure center who struggles with self-doubt. For reasons he can't understand, his captain seems determined to make Hunter hate the game even more than he hates himself.

When a devastating lapse in judgment leads to a brutal fight with serious consequences, Hunter is finally forced to confront the truth behind his teammate's behavior. Now he must decide whether to let years of insecurity control his future or take a risk on a forbidden attraction that could change everything.

Changing on the Fly is a queer M/M hockey romance about trusting yourself, following your heart, and having the courage to pursue what you want, even when the risks are high. Expect enemies-to-lovers tension, banter, humor, college sports, and a forbidden romance.

Triggers: Anxiety, internalized homophobia, minor violence, drinking, smoking.

Exact publication date: September 1, 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/Em%20Maddax/changing-on-the-fly/

Blurb:

Five years ago, the mysterious masked musician known as Il Cigno disappeared. Her disappearance has haunted him ever since.

Matteo Rossi lives two dangerous lives: mercenary assassin and guardian to his spirited thirteen-year-old niece, Alessandra. He knows how to track enemies, eliminate threats, and vanish without a trace. What he doesn't know how to handle is a rebellious teenager pushing boundaries or the determined music teacher encouraging her to follow her dreams.

Mia Mills came to the Italian lakeside town of Lacustria to start over. As a music teacher, she promised herself she would stay out of trouble and keep her distance from people who could get hurt because of her. But when Alessandra secretly applies to a prestigious music summer camp, Mia refuses to let fear stop her from helping a talented young musician.

As Mia becomes part of the Rossi household, she finds herself drawn to a family and a future she never expected. Matteo and Mia both know that getting close comes with risks, but the secrets they've hidden could destroy everything they've built.

Some truths can set you free. Others can get you killed.

The Sniper and the Swan is a slow-burn romantic suspense featuring a morally gray hero, a strong heroine, dual POV, found family, small-town atmosphere, banter, trauma, and a touch-her-and-die protective romance.

Triggers: Violence, murder, grief, kidnapping, threats, sexual content, consensual breath play. Full trigger list available on the author's website.

Exact publication date: October 8, 2026

Date ARCs will be sent: Immediately (EPUB download)

Date ARC readers should finish reading and submit reviews by: September 15, 2026

Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: Sign up through Pen Pinery to receive the EPUB ARC and leave an honest review on Goodreads.

Country availability: Worldwide (EPUB download).

Apply here: https://penpinery.com/u/2278/the-sniper-and-the-swan/

Hockey romance readers, this one brings the rivalry straight onto the ice 🏒

🥅 college hockey
🔥 enemies-to-lovers tension
💙 MM romance
😂 banter + team dynamics
🖤 self-doubt, growth & learning to trust yourself
⚡ forbidden attraction

Changing on the Fly by Em Maddax is for readers who like their sports romance with messy feelings, sharp banter, and a rivalry that starts changing into something neither of them expected.

ARC sign up: https://penpinery.com/Em%20Maddax/changing-on-the-fly/