craving an intense and emotionally driven historical romance FULL of YEARNING? i have the ARC just for you! 📖ྀིྀིྀིྀིྀི spots are limited! https://forms.gle/nyKf6skAm7rXbULb8

trigger warning ⚠️

- anxiety
- ptsd
- violence
- parental loss

Your phone knows where you are right now. It knows what you searched last night. It knows how long you slept. Nobody asked if that was okay.

NØT NØW is set in 2063. Anaïs is State property — a synthetic hybrid built to obey an authoritarian surveillance system. When she starts to feel other people's pain, the Hive logs it as a glitch. It's not. It's reclamation.

For readers of Black Mirror, Severance, and Klara and the Sun.

• Content warnings: Violence, state-sanctioned executions, body horror, surveillance, coercive control, character death, medical experimentation.
• Publication date: September 1, 2026
• ARC send date: July 15, 2026
• Review deadline: August 25, 2026
• Sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfYyEZtQA1IuVve-jC17gmqcsOoHMboIvCx87Hc7utFwlYjIA/viewform
• Available worldwide. EPUB format.

In the gritty streets of Harmony City, vigilante Lethal continues his one-man war on crime. But when rival factions clash over territory and power, the city edges closer to all-out chaos. With Giovanni Davis locked away, his cousin Tommy fights to hold the remnants of their operation together against the aggressive Reynolds family. Mysterious Nicole Visser moves through the shadows, playing a dangerous game with her own hidden agenda. As Lethal hunts for answers and dismantles key threats, his path collides with larger forces at work. Personal ties and shifting loyalties add pressure as violence escalates and old wounds reopen. Lethal must navigate a web of secrets and enemies to keep the city from burning—before the curtains rise on something far worse.

If interested in signing, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) for a copy

Hoping to have the arcs back by Week of August 23rd if possible.

Available as doc or PDF

Trigger: Violence, Violence involving women

Blurb: They were Pirates. Space was an accident.

What happens when you take Eighteenth century pirates. One very unfortunate alien.

An interstellar vessel with inadequate security and a grudge.

The result is galactic history.

When a crew of Stuart-era pirates wake up aboard an alien spacecraft, they don’t have a crisis of identity. They have a ship. They take it. The universe, it turns out, is broadly unprepared for this.

A comedy series played completely straight. Nobody winks at the camera. The pirates think this is all perfectly reasonable. The galaxy disagrees and with mounting alarm.

Sinead "Sin the Bold" Boland has been called a thief, a traitor, a menace to shipping lanes. Nobody's ever called her a collectable — until an intergalactic smuggler hauls her crew off their own ship (along with the Royal Navy frigate chasing them) to sell to a dictator who collects sentient species like trading cards.

There's one problem: the smuggler stole the ship he's using, and never checked whether it had opinions about kidnapping. It does. As soon as it finishes a mandatory software update.

An ensemble-cast, comedic sci-fi adventure for anyone who thinks space pirates have gotten unfairly bad press. If you are fans of Science Fiction like Jamie McFarlane, or Julia Huni's Tales of a Space Janitor, this should be right in your lane. Warning! -> Not as funny as Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett.

TRIGGERS:

• Flashback to infant mortality. (Off screen).
• References to violence and killing - they are pirates after all with a different moral compass.
• Women in charge of a pirate ship full of men. (May trigger some!)

Exact date of publication: November 1st 2026

ARC is open now. ARCs will close by October 15th to allow time for me to review/amend any issues/suggestions.

Sign up for the ARC here: https://thespacepirates.net/
After sign up, you'll be brought to Book funnel where you can download the format you prefer. You'll also be able to download a copy of a Short Story set in the Space Pirates universe. (PLEASE NOTE: This is set AFTER the events of Book 1 and will contain a massive spoiler).

Once you sign up for the ARC, you'll be send 3 emails (sort of like Scrooge's ghosts, but friendlier) 3 days apart. These will have the links to Amazon and Goodreads if you wish to submit a review, and my personal email in case you have any concerns/ questions/ comments you wish to let me know about privately.

ARC is available in all countries.

Satirical Fiction / Dystopian Sci-Fi

Noir Detective | Moral Ambiguity

~133,000 words | EPUB or PDF

Publication date: October 31, 2026

ARC send date: Immediate upon sign-up

Reviews due by: November 5, 2026

Blade Runner visited Animal Farm but found Planet of the Apes.

In a world where animals rule and humans are bred as pets and livestock, the truth is just another product to sell. Advertising shapes reality, corporations own morality, and rebellion comes pre-packaged with a trendy logo.

Casey Jones, a sardonic cat detective with a knack for untangling other animals’ messes, is hired by Josh Tyson — a powerful herbivore and CEO of Happy Herd Inc., one of the largest meat and dairy producers in the Continental Trade Federation. Someone inside is leaking information, and Tyson wants it stopped before his empire bleeds out.

But the deeper Casey digs, the more tangled the world becomes — protests staged for profit, secrets worth killing over, and loyalties bought and sold like cattle. In a city where everything is commodified, the most dangerous thing you can do is ask what’s on the menu.

Triggers: Mature themes, violence, profanity, and some disturbing imagery (satirical, not gratuitous). Not intended for children, YA readers, or sensitive readers.

I can send you the file directly, or you can claim a review copy through Booksprout:

https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/303257/and-on-the-eighth-day-god-cried

Honest reviews (including critical ones) are always welcome!

Thanks for considering it!

An elite ski racer. The hometown hockey captain. A fake relationship they think they can control.  

Noelle Anderson doesn’t do distractions. 

Determined to prove that her breakthrough ski racing season wasn’t a fluke, she returns to Ridgefield Mountain Academy for her senior year of high school with her sights set on the international stage. But her recent breakup—and even worse, the fact that everyone at the Academy seems to be talking about it—is threatening to derail her focus. When Noelle strikes up an unexpected friendship with Jake Halifax, captain of the local high school hockey team and someone firmly outside the Academy orbit, she sees the perfect opportunity to rewrite the narrative with a fake relationship.

The goal is simple—convince everyone she’s fine so she can focus on training. But Jake, who’s navigating college decisions of his own, has an unsettling habit of seeing straight through her defenses. Against her better judgment, Noelle catches herself revealing the cracks in her carefully constructed walls, which is a dangerous impulse when your career depends on controlling milliseconds. As pre-season pressure mounts and Noelle and Jake get closer, she has to confront the fact that she doesn’t know how to let somebody in without losing her edge. 

If she slips now, the future she’s spent years chasing could disappear in an instant. And for the first time, she has two things to lose. 

Downhill From Here is a slow-burn sports romance perfect for readers who love banter, fake dating, and a girl who refuses to fall first.

Triggers: Mild anxiety, mention of death

Publication date: Oct 8, 2026

ARCs: Live now! Please submit within a week of publish date (10/15/2026)

Available on BookSirens: https://booksirens.com/book/C2HZD2L/MDXMMHX

ARC Sign up: https://jpdelmear.com

The Book 1 of the Epic Fantasy trilogy.

Five hundred years after the fall, peace is a beautifully crafted lie.

In Aethron, survival demands obedience. The modern world is a forbidden ghost, ancient technology is outlawed, and the five provinces endure through dependence, fear, and the promise that one day the Emperor will return.

But the tightest control is reserved for those born with the flaw and for anyone reckless enough to question the past.

To possess the flaw is a death sentence. To search for what came before is to disappear.

Mel has spent his life searching for answers. He dreams of joining the one organisation permitted to study forbidden history, hoping it might finally explain the dangerous secret he has hidden his entire life.

Instead, unrest spreads through the provinces. Loyalties fracture, and as those in power tighten their grip, Mel is thrown into a conflict far larger than himself, hunted by forces willing to burn the realm to keep the truth buried.

Amongst the chaos, he discovers something far more dangerous than the flaw itself:

The answers he has spent his life searching for were never hidden in the Capital.
They were buried beneath the lies Aethron was built upon.
And to unearth them, he must walk through fire while the world he once trusted collapses around him.

Official release: end of August 2026

ARC sign ups: till 31st of July 2026

Send date: 31st of July 2026

Reviews: from the official release day onwards

Content warnings/Triggers: physical violence, oppression, political violence, execution scenes, grief and bereavement, child death, mass death, betrayal trauma, love triangle.

**The Black Chateau:** spy fiction meets gothic horror. Advance readers wanted.

Some jobs your people send you on because they think you’ll succeed. This isn’t one of those.

Harry is good at his work. Steady hands, a cover that holds, a habit of walking out of rooms other men don’t. That’s exactly why they picked him, and exactly why they didn’t tell him everything. The man who briefed him knew what the place was. He sent him in anyway, and he let him think it was routine.

It’s James Bond versus the Undead, played cold and slow: the tradecraft of a Cold War thriller, the patience of proper gothic horror, and a dread that builds by the room.

ePub or PDF. Comment or DM.

Trigger warnings: violence, gore.

ARC form open now until August 8th! https://forms.gle/xuTwTUSpnbAbSQhC7

ARCs will be sent out August 10th

ARCs due by October 8th (release date)

Triggers:

Death of a loved one

Pregnancy loss (brief discussion and flashback)

Unwanted kissing scene

Homophobia (one scene)

Mild to medium spice (three scenes)

✨️A Cosmic Coupling is a cozy/spicy sci-fi SHORT STORY✨️

Thomas and Joanna have been married for 15 years when a benevolent force visits their farm, increasing their passion for each other and changing their lives forever.

Content Warnings: Alluding to infertility, On page acts of sex, Non-human participants during sex, Pregnancy

Publish date: September 12

Applications are open NOW through July 31st

E-ARC delivery First week of August

I would love reviews leading up to and during the month of September.

Please sign up with my Google form: https://forms.gle/tUhaamn4Dd6Rzzu79

Hello. I am Raven Lyden. I am a new fantasy author looking to find ARC readers from my upcoming debut fantasy novel. I'm looking for as many readers as I can get, and want to connect with as many potential readers as possible. Here are all the details.

The Mystic Blades had been lost for centuries, but when they find their way into the hands of warriors across the realms, they signal a new beginning and hope for an end to tyranny.

Ivy is a young girl of the forest who stumbles into adventure. Frost is a loveable goofball who rarely takes things seriously. Flare is an experienced warrior from the harshest desert. Myst is a shunned witch of the endless waves. Fate has decided they will be the heroes of the Nine Realms, whether they are willing or not.

Each of them carries a Mystic Blade: ancient elemental swords crafted with the essences of the gods. The weapons hold incredible power, but unlocking their secrets will take more than just a swing of the sword.

Brought together by destiny, these four must learn to harness their skills and swords to battle the worst the Water Realm has to offer. From deadly assassins feared across the realms, to insidious beasts from beneath the waves, to their own trauma and insecurities; their obstacles are endless. But the deadliest foe, a divinely blessed sea monster known as the Serpent, lies in wait at the end of the realm. Can they learn to work together, or will their journey end in the belly of a sea serpent?

Inspired by the likes of "Avatar: the Last Airbender", "Percy Jackson", or "Bleach", this epic swords and sorcery fantasy adventure is full of anime-inspired action, chosen ones, magic, monsters, ancient swords, and gods. A true epic tale of good vs evil, with some shonen tropes mixed with traditional fantasy elements.

Trigger Warnings:

• There is minor child and spousal abuse.
• Some curse words

Publication Date: September 29th, 2026

Arcs are being sent out as individuals apply. You should get a response within 7 days of your application if you are approved for the ARC. I will be accepting applications through September 15th, but I expect readers to finish and submit your reviews before October 6th.

To apply, please visit the below link and fill out the google form:
https://forms.gle/w5ccv9UHYw1D1rMKA

I am willing to send out some physical copies of the book to some readers, but only in the United States. An eBook option is available for other countries. Digital copies will be distributed through NetGalley. Reviews are requested to be made on Goodreads and/or Amazon.

I would like to share ARC applications for

✧ STEELBLOOD ✧

my dark academia fantasy debut

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SUMMARY:

When the iron-and-steam Republic conquers her homeland, deposed Princess Airya Shah is sent to Arete Academy, the elite institution that trains the future rulers of the empire that destroyed her kingdom.

Determined to survive, Airya keeps her head down and guards a secret that could cost her life until Vanilott Hallotat, the Republic’s most feared heir, discovers it.

Now, she must strike a bargain with the last person she would ever trust.

His price for silence?

Styling his infuriatingly long, silky, night-blue hair every single morning.

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⤷ Expect:

⟡ New Adult crossover (spice-free, but he yearns like HELL)

⟡ He falls first

⟡ Grumpy × Grumpy

⟡ Dark academia

⟡ Steampunk & gaslamp vibes

⟡ Found family and friendship shenanigans

⟡ A painfully slow burn

If this sounds like your kind of chaos, I'd love to have you on the ARC team!

Content warning: ⚠️: just profanity. family friendly 🩶

*Comment below or DM me if you'd like the application link!*

Hello!!

⁠ Blurb:
Loving your sibling is hard.

Simon is nine. He moves through the world as an outgoing creature of the moment, heart on his sleeve, sometimes too loud, sometimes too much. Anna is thirteen — guarded, watchful, sharper than she lets people see, and quietly drowning in the social blood-sport of grade eight. Time is not on their side. The love they do not share can only be made in the young, and they are growing up-and-out of their smallness.

Unseen at the edges of the frame, something outside themselves is trying to bring them together. What they manage — or fail to manage — between themselves will register far past the small horizon of a Canadian childhood.

The Holding is a tender, strange, deeply felt novel about the everyday work of finding, and holding on to each other.

Triggers - Animal Death, Disclosed AI Assisted.

Cover: front / back flip here
Publication Date: October 1st, 2026
ARC Available: Now on Booksprout
Read /Reviewed by: Oct 1st
ARC Link: https://booksprout.co/reviewer/review-copy/view/295578/the-holding sign up for free account and claim.

If you are a fan of Literary Fiction, I am looking for more ARC readers for my upcoming release, The Holding, which recently won an AIFWAA award!

Finalist, and Winner of the Narrative Architecture Award:
“Woodward balances dense philosophical inquiry with breathtaking narrative momentum … memorable characters, originality, and deeply human portrayal of family, forgiveness, and belonging.”

Length: 77k words
Genre: coming of age, magic realism, literary
Website: https://jmwoodwardbooks.com/

I would be glad to reciprocate!

After losing his wife piece by piece to a cruel disease, neurosurgeon Dr Wei Li devotes his life to restoring what the brain has lost.
 
His experimental neural repair allows Daniel Brooks, paralysed after an accident, to walk again. But Daniel’s recovery awakens something neither of them understands, an ability that draws admiration, fear, and dangerous attention.

As the world begins to divide over what Daniel has become, Wei must confront the question buried inside his miracle:
 
When does healing become something else?

Blending medical science, artificial consciousness, grief, Buddhist philosophy, and a near-future political thriller, The Self That Remains asks: if the self is always changing, what remains when memory, body, and identity begin to disappear?

Potential triggers/content warnings
Death and grief, terminal illness, medical procedures, animal research, state violence, restraint, torture.

Publication date: 28 August 2026
ARC distribution date: ARC copies are available now and will be sent to selected readers by email.

Requested review date: Ideally by 28 August 2026, the publication date. Honest reviews are appreciated; a positive review is not required.

ARC format: PDF ebook edition.

Availability: Open internationally. Please note that the book’s Amazon page is currently available for preorder on Amazon page:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6L4VN8J

To request an ARC, please enter your details on:
https://www.vecahealth.co.nz/arcteam

Please briefly include your preferred name, country, and where you usually post book reviews, such as Amazon, Goodreads, StoryGraph, Instagram, TikTok, a blog, or another platform.

Thank you for considering the book.

ROMANTASY/DARK ROMANCE READERS?

I’m looking for ARC READERS!

🗡️ Unthroned is the debut book from the upcoming romantasy series Violent Gods featuring a powerful heroine, morally gray love interests and a slow-burn descent into fate, betrayal, and ruin.

If you love books like Fourth Wing, The Plated Prisoner Series and Cruel Prince then my books are for you!

✨ Unthroned was written for readers who enjoy the unpredictable plot. Not all stories are made to have your typical fairytale ending.

Unthroned's (short but sweet) Blurb:

✨ Malith was never meant to be mortal, yet she finds herself in a body that doesn’t belong to her with powers she shouldn’t have and a soul that refuses to leave its vessel. Drawn into a court full of secrets and shadows, she’ll find herself tangled with a man she can’t resist while bound to one she’d rather forget.

When war presents itself, Malith is faced with an ultimatum - does she reclaim her kingdom or does she stay earth-bound and risk the sky caving in for a love she never expected?

Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️
Trigger Warnings: Sexual Content, Death, Mention of Suicide

Tropes include:
🗝️ Fated Mates
💀 Touch Her and Die
🖤 Obsessive FMC
❤️‍🔥 Enemies to Lovers
👑 Gods & Keys
🫦 Slow Burn Romance

If this sounds like your cup of coffee or tea, I’d love you to join my arc team!

👉🏻 Arc signup link: https://forms.gle/Mz118S7rw5SLxfcJ9

✨ ARCs will be sent out the third week of October 2026. Please have your reviews in between Nov 1-14 as release date is on November 14.

Ebook and Paperback will be available worldwide via Amazon.

Trigger Warnings: death and dying, explicit sexual scenes, violence, war, implied sexual assault, blood, torture, kidnapping and abduction

Between Honor and Glory is book one of the Book of Aloysius trilogy, a tragic dark fantasy epic. Perfect for fans of Interview with the Vampire and Song of Achilles.

Loyalty is earned, but what happens when loyalty is misguided?

For four years, the continent of Phimora has been under siege by the Scuxian royal army. Every country beset has fallen at the hands of the army under the strategic brillance of the young General Aloysius Mossard.
When Aloysius returns home from his latest conquest, he learns his family has been accused of treason. The King offers him a deal: be executed with his parents or embark on a dangerous mission to procure a mysterious, divine artifact and conquer more land. He chose the latter.

Assisted by a small army, and a dreamer untested by combat he traverses across tumultuous seas to uncharted land. He believes he’s capable—his freedom rides on it—but between unfamiliar fauna, myths come to life, and mutant flora, Aloysius will find his loyalty tested and will need to decide if he is a loyal man… or a good one.

Publication date is not set, but planned for Summer 2027. ARCs will be sent out a couple months in advance!

Form: https://forms.gle/bZgULzXVhGD9iQtj9

Her mother sold her, a psychotic prince tried to break her, and an alpha wolf shifter is fated to protect her…if they can just stop fighting.

On the run from the most savage prison in her world, Solitair finds a shifter wolf pup caught in a brutal trap in a Scottish forest. His (much) bigger brother, the alpha, thinks she is the hunter and attacks her. Big mistake. If there's one thing this girl knows, it's how to fight back.

Alpha wolf shifter Mac, living under the radar with humans, is intrigued by the mysterious girl. She has secrets—almost as many as he has.

When Mac gets close to figuring out Sol’s secrets, a couple of gods on the sacred plane think he’s right. Which is a big problem.

Some secrets can blow lives apart.

Set in a three-realm world, this slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance has fated mates, dragons, fae and dark fae, wildewitches…

TRIGGERS: the death of friends, killing and torture are mentioned but not graphically on-page.

Publication date: 16 August 2026.

Send to ARC team: within 24 hours of them filling in the Google form.

Please submit reviews on or by: 16 August 2026.

Link to Google ARC form, which leads to download link:

https://forms.gle/GBzfukYXhtQaGZ648

A classic British absurdist space romp for anyone who's worn out their copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide - with a dash of Red Dwarf and a healthy dose of The Office (in space).

An incompetent crew, captained by the paranoid ego of Arbuckle, is set on a course to find a mythical planet that no one thinks exists (and soon won't). Along for the ride are Lily, the actual brains of the operation, who has more history with this part of the galaxy than she's letting on, and Steve, a super-anxious cat-pig-humanoid creature who becomes a biological weapon whenever his anxiety wins out (which, naturally, makes him even more anxious).

Together, this crew battles space pirates, space rats, alcoholism, a corporate spy literally named [REDACTED], and mostly Arbuckle's ego. Along the way, they evolve into a found family of misfits, high-class French fashionistas, and Arbuckle himself somehow becomes the favoured wife of a space harem. All while fleeing their employer and being watched over by the greatest threat to them all:

Glen from HR.

A comedy built to spring back on itself. Read it once for the laugh, and again for everything you missed.

“Vibes of a cult classic!"

"Charming. Wiity. Clever."

“Imaginative.”

“Hilarious.”

A couple of the reviews from my Beta readers. And I couldn't be happier!

Triggers: Complete planetary destruction. Megalomania. Alcoholism.

Word Count: 45,000

Publish Date: Aug 7th 2026

ARCs will be sent out 24-48 hours after successful submission of the Google Form.

Reading and reviews to be completed by Aug 6th.

Please complete this ARC form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7sLTNokvPHrwNgC3Sef-NDeQgF3W3uXha51x1aTyzKwoedA/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=103364542995671365902

Thanks all. I hope you enjoy the read. I’m looking forward to hearing your feedback.

**Synopsis:**

What if quantum physics isn't the limit of God's presence, but the very language He uses to write the universe?

In "The Code of the Invisible", I attempt to bridge the gap between cutting-edge science and Catholic theology. This essay is a deep passion project of mine where we will explore:

• How quantum entanglement and the double-slit experiment challenge old-school materialism.

• The hard problem of consciousness (specifically looking at Federico Faggin's "Seity" theory and why AI will never truly "feel").

• Biological quantum sanctuaries in the mind (microtubules and the Orch-OR theory).

• How miracles, near-death experiences, and even the Shroud of Turin might reveal an invisible quantum structure of reality.

To be completely transparent with this community: I’m Italian, so I wrote the original book in my native language. Because of this, I used AI as a translation and editing assistant to make sure the English version reads smoothly and professionally for native readers. Every single word, the research, the philosophy, and the theology behind it are 100% mine.

**Triggers:** None

**Exact Publication Date:** August 15, 2026

**Date ARCs will be sent:** July 20, 2026 (immediately upon request)

**Date reviews are expected:** August 30, 2026

**How to sign up:**

I have free review copies available in both ePUB (for Kindle) and PDF.

If you are interested, please:

1. Leave a comment below with your preferred format, or

2. Send me a Direct Message (DM) here on Reddit with your email address and preferred format.

Hey all! This is a short sci-fi novella and my very first publication, so I'm really excited but also slightly nervous, but I'm pretty proud of it! Little Nightmares/Miyazaki vibes!

Blurb:

Automation has its place in the world. The eerie thing about it is that it doesn't stop, even when we do.

He has been here for sixty three years. He knows the ship the way you know a room you have never left. The pressure gauge in the aft chamber. The clock that needs winding at noon. The table that needs setting at eight, for people who no longer come.

When his duties fall quiet for the first time, he descends into the ship below his deck — and discovers a world he never knew existed.

He has never thought to wonder why.

He wasn't programmed to.

Room after room. Machine after machine. Each one doing their job in perfect silence. Each one completely alone.

A novella about what lives at the bottom of things. And what happens when, after sixty three years, something finally looks up.

• Triggers: None
• Publication Date: 08/31/2026
• Will send ARCs upon form completion
• Reviews in by 08/15/2026 if possible!
• ARC Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeq7fCK5Q2_m2BFAAXsgDHHNGO5XQ8t6b31Cd1F2_JnKyghkA/viewform?usp=header
• Publishers: Amazon/Kindle

Blurb for the book:

Fifteen thousand years of failed endings. One woman’s journal knows them all.

If you have this book and can read it, you are almost certainly Evelyn. Ask the question anyway: Am I Evelyn? Get into the habit of verifying what you are told. It matters. [2.1]

The characters have never seen it. You have.

Eighteen-year-old Zaphiel is sent to deliver a sealed scroll to Wellvale's Water Master. He finds the man murdered, the town's ancient well stone stolen, and a red-black fog killing crops and anyone caught inside it.

He can go home and admit he failed. Or go after the thieves.

He goes.

The fog nearly kills him, but a dog, no ordinary dog, leads him out alive and takes up the thieves' trail. Zaphiel follows.

Strays join them on the road:

• a guarded young woman who reads ancient runes and shares less than she knows;
• a “master swordsman” whose hat betrays his every bluff;
• a mute girl whose trances reach beyond the mortal world;
• a Liminal, whose power obeys strange and costly rules.

Chance throws them together. They choose to stay.

Because the stone is Tidestep, one of five Anchor Stones that hold the world of Arthios in balance. And the ones who took it believe mortals ruin every world they're given.

The journal says they might be right.

And its writer has spent ages planning for what comes next.

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Epic fantasy, ~97,000 words (about 430 pages with blanks removed)

Book 1 of a series, but the first quest resolves in this volume — no cliffhanger. More of a "to be continued..."

TRIGGERS!! Minimal violence and death, typical for NA fantasy, no graphic descriptions.

Exact date of publication: Aug. 16, 2026

The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: Free ARCS available now!

The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by: Aug. 16, 2026.

Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC: EPUB and PDF available, go to https://forms.gle/ZCxnf6YpakkPa6D28 or if you prefer BookSirens, https://booksirens.com/book/S8W25QR/EN1N5KQ