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April's ARCs

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  • Romance
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery
  • Thriller
  • Horror
  • Sci-Fi
  • Young Adult

He Falls First Romance

An estate sale find becomes a social media sensation, thanks to a kiss caught on camera. Masseuse Skyler Teague's spontaneous reaction to her painting's worth might have crossed a line, but you don't see the tall, handsome TV host complaining.

In appraiser Rusty Kerwin's mind, the painting is priceless. It's the missing link in the collection of his late mother's work, one he wants for the museum he plans to open. He hopes the art lessons he offers Skyler are enough to secure a loan, but neither expect their passions to bloom in full color.

M/M Romance

Love has no place in Baz Hadley’s life. He is too focused on working hard, winning big, and becoming the youngest partner yet at his elite law firm. Enter Sami Adam. Cocky, gorgeous, oh, and right-hand man to Chicago’s most dickish legal shark. Baz despises Sami and his stupid, intoxicating smirk on sight.

But when Sami shows up at Baz’s doorstep at the end of a grueling week, the sparks of loathing turn into something far more dangerous. As the two entangle in a secret affair that threatens to torch the career Baz has worked so hard for, Sami challenges every one of his snap judgments.

With the clash of prejudice and reality chipping away at his rock-solid views, Baz is forced to confront a life-changing choice: chase the prestige he’s always craved or embrace the one person who makes him feel truly alive.

Sports Romance

Avery

As the #1 WNBA draft pick, I expected to be embraced by sponsors and the media. Instead, I’m being told to act more ‘cheerful’ in front of the cameras, or it will cost me millions in endorsements. And I don’t want to use my father’s NBA legacy to be more popular either.

Now I’m being offered an opportunity to change the narrative on my own terms - pretend to date the other rookie in town, Orlando’s new wide receiver, and create a fresh story for the public to obsess over. Can this football party boy really be the answer to my problems?

Rawley

All I wanted for my first year in the NFL was a fresh start. Yet, the sports pundits are fixated on my so-called character issues and I can’t shake my bad reputation. Then I meet her, this smoking hot, raven hair goddess of basketball.

By some miracle, weeks later our teams concoct a fake dating arrangement to help improve our media coverage. But that’s not enough for me. How can I convince her to give me a chance, for real?

MM Relling Romance

I hated the world, and the world hated me, but that was the way I liked it.

Until Tristan Crutchens barged his way into my life.

With his constant smug grin and infectious happiness, he uncovered secrets I’d kept buried deep inside and made me confront them.

Slowly, I started seeing the world in a different light, and I opened my heart to him. But would love be enough to change the haunting future that awaited me, or was I destined to spend the rest of eternity plagued by the chains of my sins?

Romantasy

Navigating your late twenties is hard enough—but when your long-anticipated powers refuse to surface and the fate of an entire continent threatens to rest on your below-average-height shoulders, things get dramatically more complicated.

On the cusp of her twenty-sixth birthday, Kalina “Kit” Arden discovers that the third of the four sentient Books meant to reveal her Purpose has failed to appear. With her future still a mystery, she sets out across Tierannova with her two closest companions—a shifter and a healer—and Vandor, the infuriatingly charming male who seems determined to win her heart, whether she’s ready for him or not.

Their quest for answers turns treacherous almost immediately. Rogue shifter packs circle the forests, thieves haunt the trade routes, and the mere whisper of what Kit seeks is enough to spark trouble in places they least expect. Amid all the peril, Kit must also navigate her maddening, will-they-won’t-they tension with Vandor. Staying alive is difficult enough, but resisting him may prove harder.

As the truth of her delayed awakening begins to surface—and its possible connection to Islyon, the lost Fae realm whose queen and magic vanished centuries ago—Kit realizes that discovering her Purpose may be far more complicated than she anticipated.

Epic Fantasy

The strangers foretold the world would end in fire—and Logan would strike the match. Kalen and Logan grew up as brothers in all but blood. But when a secretive order recruits Kalen, he learns a devastating truth: Logan is destined to summon the dread fiend Astaroth and unmake the world.

The order wants Kalen to kill him before the prophecy comes to pass.

Driven by memories of their youth and visions of a burning future, Kalen refuses to believe Logan is lost. The path ahead is paved with betrayal and death. Reapers and a murderous shapeshifter trail Logan, guarding him with a devotion carved from fear. As fate tightens its grip, Kalen must face the truth he dreads most. Logan may be the world’s last hope… or its final curse.

Sapphic Romantasy

Xandria met the love of her life. It’s too bad the king just removed her head.

Years later, Xandria has finally figured out how to bring her back. Only to find out that their bonded love didn’t survive the afterlife. With a pissed off king on their heels and a kingdom falling to a cursed plague, one has to wonder if it was all worth it.

Xandria seems to think so, at least, because true love never dies.

Romantic Fantasy

Talia Salaren is a brilliant scholar and obedient eldest daughter with a bright future decided by everyone but her. Then she finds a dead god's salacious journal.

The secrets inside could unravel four centuries of empire. The gods were jerks, and their power was stolen, claimed by five families who built legacies on a lie. Families like hers.

With her life's work outlawed, Talia flees to Gateway, a frontier boomtown where divine magic is clawed from the earth like gold. She walks straight into a trap — a dangerous expedition led by a cult leader who is very good at making people want things they shouldn't. He has no interest in studying the gods. He plans to become one.

As their uneasy company pushes deeper into godforsaken territory, the myths she was raised to believe begin to fracture — along with the careful version of herself she's always performed.

The cult leader is wrong. She knows it. For once, she wants to be wrong too. If Talia doesn't choose what she stands for — and who she's willing to lose — she won't just have her heart broken. She'll become someone else's weapon.

Urban Fantasy Novella

In Ravenholt, the rain never cleanses the streets. It drowns them.

Detective Selene Rowan walks the city with a badge on her belt and a sharp pain behind her eyes. When a retired pit fighter is found dead with a shredded heart and veins filled with "Scorch," the police dismiss it as a standard overdose. Selene knows better. Standing over the body, she feels the cold, sharp static of an execution.

The man on the pavement carried a fortune in his pocket and a lifetime of secrets in his scars. He was the only shield standing between the predatory crime lord Anthony Graves and two brothers with nowhere left to hide.

With Dane—a wolf-shifter partner who treats police procedure as a suggestion—Selene must descend into the city’s gut to break Graves’s grip. But in a place built on blood and broken promises, saving the boys requires more than police work. It requires stepping back into the shadows she knows too well.

Horror

When rumours of a monstrous black hound begin to spread through rural Suffolk, Edward Tanner — a government agent investigating heresy — is drawn into a village ruled by fear, secrecy, and buried belief. His search for the truth brings him into conflict with Abraham Fleming, a young man desperate to matter, and Samuel Fleming, Abraham’s estranged brother and a reluctant member of a secret order tasked with containing supernatural threats.

As the legend of Black Shuck proves to be more than folklore, the three men uncover a cult, forbidden rites, and an ancient power that was never truly defeated, only buried. Briony, a healer living on the margins of society, is pulled into their struggle when survival forces her into the heart of events she never sought to understand.

Their attempt to control the situation culminates in the release of something far older and more dangerous than the beast they feared. In a desperate bid to save Abraham, Samuel breaks his oath to the Order of the Veiled Flame and summons the banished god Herne, unleashing consequences that devastate the village and erase any hope of a clean ending.

In the aftermath, the Order arrives to contain the damage and judge those responsible. Samuel is placed on trial for violating his vows, while Edward, Briony, and Abraham are drawn into the Order’s hidden world. The surviving characters are left to reckon with what they have done, what they have lost, and the cost of disturbing powers that should never have been named again.

Romantic Thriller Suspense

Juniper and Bridge miraculously find their dream house. It's on the beach! The house is eerily perfect, and the couple can't help but be drawn to its charm and the allure of its famous previous owner, a best-selling author, world-renowned. It seems to be the ideal place for them to start a new chapter in their lives and maybe make a top-notch nursery for that baby they've so desperately been trying for.

During their tour of the beachfront home, Juniper finds a mysterious object in the kitchen, a hidden key in an odd place, hinting that there may be more to this picture-perfect place than meets the eye. Blinded by the gorgeous scenery and happiness with her husband, she doesn’t have a clue about the shocking secret the key holds.

Mysteries pop up that make it undeniable that something odd could be lurking in the house. Their world crumbles when they find the beach views they didn't want. The terrifying fixation spirals into a dark twisted fantasy, shattering their illusion of safety. The nightmare violates their freedom as his chilling plan is revealed.

Sci-Fi Thriller

In the robotic city of Cuniculum, notorious for its underground tunnels and violent crime, Laeli, a shy tech-genius and Javeer, an outgoing and ambitious mechanic, cross paths. Both broken and bruised from their past, they grow close and form a strong connection.

However, when a mysterious friend from Laeli’s childhood suddenly returns, and Javeer begins to challenge Malin, a corrupt-gambler who runs Cuniculum’s largest casino, they both realize they are surrounded by enemies.

As the city's gang life closes in around them, Laeli must figure out who she is, while Javeer must make the decisions necessary to protect both himself and the girl he loves. And so a race begins: a race that not only strives for power and control of Cuniculum’s streets, but also includes a need to discover the dark secret hovering over Laeli.

Can she unveil the shadows of her confusing past in time or will she be too late?

YA Rivals to Lovers Romance

The list of things Lebo Khuto cannot afford is short, but failure is definitely at the top. So, when her rival and co-class rep, Enzo Langa, proposes an alliance after someone else beats them for the number one spot, she shakes hands with the enemy.

Determined to maintain her perfect record and tick off all the things on her list of goals, she's willing to spend every second it takes with the person she most hates.

The problem comes, of course, when she's no longer sure if it's still a pain to spend every morning and evening with Enzo—if their rivalry is taking on a more complex shape. As she struggles to keep up, to be her always perfect self, she decides to push away anything that goes against her plans.

Unfortunately, she comes to realise that her feelings aren't a Bio paper she can ace her way through without effort.

YA Fantasy Romance

Eden is a kind but lonely young lifeguard whose world comes to a sudden halt when he encounters something impossible in the tide pools along the coast—an injured mermaid. She's beautiful but she's bitter and wants nothing to do with humans after what they've done to forced her and her pod to move out into deep and dangerous waters in order to survive. Now, after narrowly escaping death, Capri must rely on the human kindness of Eden for protection until she can recover.

Eden takes her in, providing refuge for her in his secluded saltwater pool. As the two spend time together in secret, Capri begins to see a different side of humanity… and Eden finds himself reluctantly falling for someone he can never truly have. But Eden is hiding something—a secret from his past that, if revealed, could shatter the fragile trust he's developed with the mermaid.

To express her gratitude for saving her life, Capri offers Eden the gift of a lifetime—a wish! Eden's unexpected choice could forever change his life and hers, binding their worlds together in a way neither of them anticipated, and reveal more than either he or Capri ever bargained for.

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