r/RomanceARCs

🌹 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 Torn from her mother's arms at eighteen and molded into the perfect servant by a merciless academy, Avyn Ashwood now serves a crown built on blood and darkness. Every day is a hollow march of duty, that is, until the prince returns from battle, his victory trailed by shadows that follow him through the halls and into her thoughts. Pulled beyond the life she knew, she uncovers a hidden world of ancient creatures, buried histories, and a mysterious voice that whispers from just beyond her reach. With every secret revealed, the boundary between rules and desire begins to fray. Hunted by the attention of the very many she's forbidden to want, she must choose between the safety of obedience and the dangerous truth stirring within her, because some secrets refuse to stay buried, and some hearts were never meant to be bound.

·        Trigger/Content Warning

Alcohol consumption
Death
Graphic Language
Graphic Violence
Blood/Gore
Battle Scenes
Slightly touches on sexual harassment, but no explicit scenes
Sexual Content 18+

• Image: Cover Uploaded
• Release Date: June 1, 2026
• ARC release date: THIS WEEK! By Sunday, May 3^(rd) at the latest.
• Expected Reviews: May 31^(st) for Goodreads, and Just after June 1^(st) for Amazon
• How to apply: Please fill out the following Google Doc form. Follow each step and provide social media links. Any missing information will result in the form not being approved. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17TKWy7QMBipiJZThMNdjCQcDSr7l2TIQMxFITFBYadw/edit ***I review each application and ensure all links and information provided are legitimate. This helps to eliminate scammers.***
• Publishers: Self-published.

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! ✦

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ARCS GOING OUT TODAY!!!!
🖤ARC Readers Wanted! Romantasy 🖤
Find out what early readers had to say!

Are you ready to step into a brand new world? My upcoming romantasy novel is releasing soon! I am assembling my ARC team and would love to find passionate ARC readers to join me on this journey. If you are interested, fill out the Google form (link below). If chosen, you will be contacted, and copies will be distributed via email. Book will be releasing on June 1, so I am hopeful for reviews before the 1st or just after.

Thank you for turning the pages before the rest of the world!

Torn from her mother's arms at eighteen and molded into the perfect servant by a merciless academy, Avyn Ashwood now serves a crown built on blood and darkness. Every day is a hollow march of duty, that is, until the prince returns from battle, his victory trailed by shadows that follow him through the halls and into her thoughts.

Pulled beyond the life she knew, she uncovers a hidden world of ancient creatures, buried histories, and a mysterious voice that whispers from just beyond her reach. With every secret revealed, the boundary between rules and desire begins to fray.

Hunted by the attention of the very many she's forbidden to want, she must choose between the safety of obedience and the dangerous truth stirring within her, because some secrets refuse to stay buried, and some hearts were never meant to be bound.

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