Friday, August 8, 2025

ARC Opportunities August 8, 2025

 



If you are looking for a new author/your next read consider being an ARC reader/reviewer I have been doing a lot of ARC reads this year and finding a lot of new to me authors with amazing books that don't always get the hype that the more popular authors get.  

 

Leaving reviews matter especially for Indie authors the more reviews that a book has the more it gets shown to others as an option to read.  

 

Thank you for supporting Indie Authors 💓

 

If you are an author with an upcoming ARC opportunity and want me to place it in my next ARC opportunities blog post let me know!  

 

I've added good reads links for if you are interested in the book but can't commit to the ARC read and review timelines. 

 

1.      Luna K. Wicked  Play Dirty

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239189695-play-dirty?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=1HIgqlhWRm&rank=15

‼️𝑨𝒓𝒄 𝑺𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝑼𝒑𝒔 ‼️

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𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝙳𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚢

@luna.k.wicked

Cover by @theredfoxcreative

𝒥𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒹𝓇ℴ𝓅𝓅ℯ𝒹...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐂 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 𝐮𝐩𝐬....

𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒔. 𝑹𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓𝒔. 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞? 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞.

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟.

⚽️🔗: https://forms.gle/kQb1UQSMJ1Sweqk99

Pre-order now 🔗 https://a.co/d/7MgJbo7

✨𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℙ𝕌𝕃𝕊𝔼 𝕂ℕ𝕆𝕎𝕊 𝔸𝕃𝕃 ✨

🖤𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚊𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚊

⚽️ 𝙴𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜

💋𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚢 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝

🖤 𝙱𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚘𝚢𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍

⚽️𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚋𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎

💋𝙿𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢

🖤𝚃𝚘𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗

⚽️𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘

💋 𝙸𝚌𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚎

🖤𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚡𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚢

⚽️𝚁𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕/ 𝙿𝚘𝚘𝚛 𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝚍𝚢𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚜

💋𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝚂𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚢

🖤𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚕

⚽️ 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝙿𝚊𝚜𝚝

 

2.       Aria Devereaux  Ashes, Ashes

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228948141-ashes-ashes?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_21

📚Ashes, Ashes | A Supernatural Dark Romance

🔥November 2025 on KU & Paperback🔥

Pre-order now on Amazon: https://rb.gy/xeiwaf

Sign Up to ARC Read: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSfmbRlQuNXG.../viewform

🔥Multi POV

🔥Why Choose

🔥Slow Burn

🔥Morally Grey/ Black MMCs

🔥Secret Society

🔥Breath Play

🔥Hum@n Sacr!fice

🔥D€monic Po$$ession

 

3.      Rii Finley Craving Candy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234577645-craving-candy?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ZrACchZQKZ&rank=2

Author is looking for BETA readers for current WIP

Blurb:

He was her first love, and wanted her to be his last…but life got in the way.

Caroline:

Love had never been a box worth checking, attraction was non-existent for me…until I met Jude. For the first time, I felt things—a genuine connection. Broody and troubled, he was everything I shouldn't want, but I did. That is, until he broke my heart when I needed him most. Lesson learned; love only leads to pain. I’ll never make that mistake again.

Jude:

Young and in love, I had told myself Caroline was different; someone worth keeping. Only for her to ghost me when I pushed too hard. Years—and one prison sentence—later, our worlds unexpectedly collide. Resentment quickly transforms into renewed longing. I want her, now more than ever, but she won’t even look at me. If only I could get her to tell me why.

When the truth comes out, will they be able to overcome their past, or will their future be decided for them?

https://forms.gle/7kFQ3FH2J7KYmVt98

4.      Jac Franklin Her Dragon Prince

**don’t see on goodreads yet

Her Dragon Prince

Fated mates

Bonding

Plus Size FMC

Royal intrigue

Special Peen

Dragon Shifters

The British Royal family, The Plantagenets, have a mystic around them. Legend says that they have the ability to transform into dragons, and that they keep their hoard beneath the ancient walls of Windsor Castle.

Lily Stafford loves the story, but knows that’s all it is. Stories that keep millions of tourists heading to the castle in hopes of spotting one of the great beasts. Most of them leave with nothing more than a few memories and a stuffed toy.

Visiting the castle, Lily can’t help but sneak off to take a peek at the collection of artwork depicting the legends. She meets a handsome stranger there, only to be embarrassed to discover that he is none other than the reclusive grandson of the King, Prince Alexander Plantagenet.

Alex, as he prefers to be called, is resisting his family’s demands for him to marry. Almost forty, he sees no reason. It’s not as if he doesn’t have enough siblings and cousins who are more than willing to do their duty.

Right up until he meets Lily.

The draw to her should be impossible.

She’s a commoner with no noble blood.

But his dragon has spoken. She will be his and he will be Her Dragon Prince.

https://forms.gle/eGQJrp4mRf5oYrqR9

 

5.       E.D. Crowe  The Crown of Shadows and Distrust

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232864562-the-crown-of-shadows-and-distrust?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=1vxi5VPnE3&rank=1

✨Arcs OPEN for✨

The Crown of Shadows and Distrust 👑

Releasing October 28th, 2025!

A dark romantasy, inspired by the original Beauty and the Beast fairytale meets the political court intrigue of Reign, reinvents the tale as old as time, with a cursed Dark Fae Prince, an imprisoned Blood Witch, and a love intertwined with fate. Will they be able to overcome past betrayals to break the curse, or will their love perish? And therefore, the world?

If you like these tropes…

🥀 He heals her

🔥 She saves him

🥀 Ancient curses

🔥Shadow Daddy

🥀 Evil magic

🔥 He kneels only for her

🥀 Primal play

🔥 Found family

🥀 Nothing is what it seems

🔥 Powerful FMC

🥀 Obsessed MMC

🔥 Arrange marriage

🥀 Forced Proximity

https://airtable.com/appidlUzLLtoN4q3S/shrW92AwAANBDnhsz

 

6.      Michelle Elizabeth  Falling Too Soon

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228775159-falling-too-soon?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=giDZHAKQC0&rank=1

debut novel is is short and spicy and is releasing September 3rd!

Why you will love this book:

🔥Forced proximity

🔥Protective MMC

🔥Autumn vibes

🔥He falls first

🔥Insta lust

🔥Emotionally unavailable FMC

🔥Fast Burn

🔥Cinnamon roll MMC

🔥One night stand turns into more

🔥Pining hero

🔥Nurse FMC

🔥Author MMC

🔥Double booked vacation rental

🍂🍂🍂🍂

She wanted a quiet place to put her life back together. He was looking for inspiration. What they found was each other.

Daphne

I just left my narcissistic ass-hat of a boyfriend and decide to take myself on a basic bitch's dream vacation to clear my head. Imagine my surprise when I arrive at my vacation rental to find it’s been double booked. The other occupant? Nathan— A charming, infuriatingly attractive, bestselling romance author with his own emotional baggage and a tendency to strut around in nothing but gray sweatpants.

Nathan

After my fiancé cheated and I broke off our engagement, I needed space. Hoping to find inspiration for my next novel, I head out of town, but when Daphne comes crashing into my life, things take a rather abrupt turn. She’s beautiful, funny, and kind. She’s the last thing I expected but may end up being exactly what I need.

⚠️Content Warnings:

Death of a parent (mentioned)

Cheating mentioned (not between MCs)

Emotional/verbal abuse

Light physical abuse

Light bullying

🍁 Sound interesting?? Sign up to be an ARC reader here:

https://bit.ly/fallingtoosoonsignup

 

7.       Mercedes Koefoed  When the Portals Open

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236740222-when-the-portals-open?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=EOlU6s3Aew&rank=1

Calling all fantasy readers! 📣ARC Applications for When the Portals Open are open!

ARCs go out next week!

Release Date: September 19

You’ll love this story if you’re into:

✨Found Family

🐉“There’s a dragon in my living room”

💜Slow-burn romance (x2!) 💜

🔥All the beings 🧙‍♀️🐻🧜‍♀️🧛🐉🧚‍♂️

Blurb:

A Human woman, a vengeful Mage, and a prophecy that changed everything.

A Human woman…

Sage just wanted a quiet evening reading with a glass of wine. When a dragon and a merman fall through her roof, she assumes she is in a dream. She agrees to escort them out of the city and deep into the forest to find what they are looking for. Why not? It’s a dream, after all. When they open a portal to another realm, Sage must decide whether she will stay in her normal life and wake up without the full story, or secretly follow them on an adventure that will change everything.

Walking into a realm with beings from legend was not on her to-do list.

A vengeful Mage…

Willow has spent the last twenty years of her life searching for a way into the Human realm. They have her mother, and she will do anything to get her back. When the Humans attempt to break through a portal, she sees it as an opportunity. After being assigned to lead a mission to gather recon, Willow must decide whether she will stick to the plan, or put her entire realm in danger by breaking off to find her missing mother.

An ancient prophecy awakens, threatening to plunge both worlds into chaos. Loyalties are tested, and unexpected alliances form, including a charming Mer and a giant Were with a complicated history.

Step into a realm where portals, dragons, and forbidden magic collide in a breathtaking journey across intertwined worlds. This epic fantasy adventure features spellbinding characters and mysterious realms waiting to be explored.

 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOljF0vPW8oHSi5V4h2C6OfUkDMkLc9xZzI0V7xy0CEuSbeA/viewform?fbclid=IwY2xjawMB8QRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFETFV3WmNwU2twY0xneHZiAR7ai9AsB96TgIg7Ej-cmoue6d-3xFXdCpnMLoK0ya4CIPcqfrpH2sn5ZNV1SA_aem_zHnbt3jxFYCW3isAa5wGrQ


Monday, August 4, 2025

Rachel Anthony: Blocked Shot


 Skate Me Home Book 1

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237718224-blocked-shot

We meet our FMC Natalie when she is helping her younger brother (Jesse) move he has just been drafted to play on a professional hockey team's farm league it's an exciting time for him and she is so happy that his dreams are coming true.  Natalie has been watching over her younger brother for several years at this point after their parents passed away in an accident, she gained full custody and had to change her role of loving sister to sister/guardian and things were not always easy, she often worked multiple jobs to keep his hockey dreams alive.  

Natalie had to grow up quick everything happened so fast and while she has a job she enjoys now she did have to drop out of school in order to take care of Jesse she is just now going back to school taking a few classes at a time.  We as the reader see that Jesse still has some growing up to do while Natalie continues to sacrifice her own dreams and goals for him.  When her saucy friend (Mila) talks her into going out for an evening while she is staying with Jesse she decides to let down her guard a bit and runs into our MMC Jake at the local bar he is handsome and charming he also neglects to tell her that he is a hockey star (and happens to be on her brother's team) but only because he wants her to like him for himself and not for his history as an enforcer with the NHL.

Jake our MMC is pretty down about things he has been moved down from the NHL team to the farm team and if he doesn't get moved back up or traded to another NHL team by the end of the year his career could potentially be at an end and this is what he knows he has been a career athlete for all of his adult life what else would he even do and he still has some more good years left in him... it isn't over yet.

Jake and Natalie have instant chemistry but once she finds out that he is not only on her brother's team but also assigned to be his mentor she does what she always does and pulls back from what she wants due to not wanting it to cause problems for Jesse and his place on his new team.  

But no matter how hard they try to stay away from each other they keep ending up back together it's like the universe is saying yes even though Natalie knows it could potentially lead to heart break and she doesn't know how her brother would react if he found out about their "secret relationship." We all know how the brother is going to react and it's badly so there is drama with that of course and heartbreak for our couple.  

What was frustrating for me was that sacrificing her own wants/dreams to focus on her brother was so ingrained at that point that our FMC spent a lot of the book trying to avoid/stay away from our MMC and leading him on when they did have contact... unintentionally but still hurtful when he began to believe in those moments that they could try to make a relationship work.  Our MMC was a sweet guy who told her what he wanted right in the beginning, she just needed to say yes already and tell her brother to deal with it she was in a relationship with a great guy (who is also his team mate) and doing something for herself for once.    

I enjoyed this book and will be not so patiently waiting for the 2nd in the series and hope it's about her funny friend Mila and shy hockey player Theo who had some flirty interactions throughout the book.  

*Hockey Romance  *Forbidden romance  *Brother's team mate  *spice  *Book Sirens 2025 ARC

*first book for this author *slow burn  *forced proximity *banter  *MMC with a soft side for our FMC

*happy ending 

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Mila Olsen: A Princess, Stolen


ARC Read 2025: A kiss of revenge, blood and love book 1 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235073519-a-princess-stolen

Willa has lived a very sheltered life as the only daughter of a billionaire, she had a touch of freedom once as a child when she met a boy (Nathan) from the streets who took her out of the bounds of her fenced in space she felt free with him they went to a broken down home and danced under the shimmering lights from broken glass, he left her shortly after returning her home and even though she never saw him again he left a lasting impression on her by giving her a first kiss and a special bracelet that she even to this day keeps hidden in her hair. 

Willa's father has kept her so sheltered that she is not even allowed to have contact with her maternal grandmother who has managed to get a letter to her through her house keeper, her grandma says she has things she wants to say about her mother and father and would like to see her but will her dad let her go? 

Fast forward to later that evening at Willa's 19th birthday party where she still rarely leaves the safety of her home, at her party while looking like a beautiful princess she receives the worst phone call anyone would ever receive... there is a sharp shooter in the area with their aim on her father and if she doesn't do exactly as asked they will kill her father immediately.  

Willa not wanting any harm to come to her father or anyone else at the party leaves the safety of everything she knows to venture alone and disguised where a true nightmare situation begins she is now being held hostage on a clipper ship with an unknown amount of dangerous men (who all hate her father for a reason unknown to her) in the ocean... on top of this she struggles with PTSD flash backs from when she was a little girl and the day that she lost her mother.  

Willa frightened and alone is unsure of how she will get out of the worst situation she has ever been in and wonders what will happen to her along the way will she be released?  especially when she was able to get the blindfold off and now she has seen her captors what is to stop any one of them from just getting rid of her at sea once they get the ransom?  One of her captors is so familiar she has thought of him often and the freedom she felt briefly while she was with him as children why would her Nathan take her hostage?  Her father is a good man why does the crew hate him so much?   

This is a story of survival but also a story of growth Willa with nowhere else to go begins to get to know the crew better and also discovers that her life as she knows it might not be the way it seems.  This book kept me turning pages wanting to find out what would happen to Willa and even the rest of the crew who seemed to not be as bad as they initially seem.  

There really isn't much romance to this book it is more of a suspense with wondering how our girl will get out of this situation and if her dad is going to come through with meeting the demands the crew has given to him for her release, as to what the demands are the readers are just in the dark about them as Willa.  I had to take some breaks while reading this book as it had some tough subject matter to read about (including PTSD, abduction/being held hostage, starvation, discussions of death of a loved one) if you are sensitive to any of these topics consider this prior to reading the book.    

The original story is in German and has been translated to English it did lead to some awkward sentences at times but I didn't feel it took away from the story.  Sometimes the story got a little bit too detailed with certain things (like how much things cost)... like I didn't really need to know she was wearing $1,000 dollar panties when she had been taken captive.  

I picked this up as an ARC read but I wish that I had realized beforehand that there was going to be a cliffhanger I would have rather read the book once the second one was out already so I could finish the story and find out what happens with Willa, Nathan and the rest of the crew.  The second book appears to be out on 9/6/25 so it looks like I won't have to wait too long. 

*FMC Heiress  *Billionaire father  *Sheltered FMC  *Life on the streets MMC  *good girl/bad boy 

*Family secrets + Lost memories  *PTSD  *ARC read  *only kisses (slow burn) *forced proximity  

* Enemies to more *forbidden romance  *survival *morally gray MMC + crew  *cliffhanger 


Content
This story may not be suitable for readers with PTSD or a history of trauma. It contains scenes and themes that could act as emotional triggers 

Lucy Score: The Heist Before Christmas

  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252375097-the-heist-before-christmas Book Blurb: 'Tis the season for mayhem, mistletoe, and one ve...