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Hellebore Fields: A Dark Academia Hockey Romance

by Rivkah Plume

Tropes: darkromance, newadult, grumpysunshine

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He says I'm his light. But loving him feels like drowning in shadows. At UC Wisteria, I'm supposed to be chasing my future: books, scholarship, and a life I've fought tooth and nail to earn. But instead, I'm being chased by Branwen Atthill, the campus hockey star with sharp edges, hidden scars, and ice-blue eyes that track my every move like I belong to him. When his obsession transforms into something that looks like love, I fall headfirst into the dark fairytale I always craved—until I start losing myself in its twisted pages. Branwen is dangerous. Possessive. Beautiful in ways that make me forget to breathe. When the violence starts, I convince myself I can fix him. That if I love him hard enough, my light will chase away his darkness. But as secrets unravel and the campus grows more dangerous, I'm forced to confront the question I've been too terrified to ask: if I survive loving him, will I still recognize the girl I was before he consumed me? He's everything I was warned about, and the only boy I've ever wanted to burn for. Trigger Warning & Tropes: Contemporary, Dark Romance, Erotic Thriller, Dark Academia, Hockey Romance, Stalker, Grumpy/Sunshine, Dubious Consent, Possessive, Tortured Past, Rags-to-Riches, Murder [Read More]

Between the Glass: A Steamy Off-Limits Hockey Romance

by H.A. Laine

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

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Off the record: they are not supposed to want each other. On the record: they have spent an entire season pretending otherwise. A slow-burn athlete/journalist romance where the thing they can't say out loud is the truest thing either of them has. Ben Kowalski has been the funniest person in every room since he was eleven. One contract year left, one shot at the deal that keeps him in Portland, and the absolute last thing he needs is the new beat reporter who is the only person in the press room who does not laugh at his material. Renee Lavoie has been watching the people around her perform for six years and writing down what she sees in notebooks she does not share. Now she is credentialed inside the Wolves season for access that could rebuild what she lost, and the alternate captain keeps offering her the version of himself that does not make it into the press conference. Between the Glass is Book 2 in the Ice and Instinct series. Each book follows a different couple on the Portland Wolves. Interconnected standalones. They all play dirty. Amazon review is required for this ARC. Private feedback in PenPinery is welcome, but it does not complete the campaign unless the Amazon review is posted. Please post your honest review on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0GRRC3NPY. If Amazon delays or rejects the review, save the text and note the Amazon status in PenPinery. [Read More]

Last Save: A Steamy Forbidden Hockey Romance

by H.A. Laine

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

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He notices everything. She was sent to find what the team is hiding. Neither of them planned for this. Milo Varga is twenty-four, the Portland Wolves' starting goaltender, and the most observant man in any room he walks into. He catalogs details the way other players read plays: quietly, completely, with nothing asked in return. He has spent his entire career being the youngest guy on the ice, the quiet one, the one nobody sees. Until a league attorney walks into the practice facility with a binder and a list of names, and Milo realizes she's the first person who has ever looked at him the way he looks at everyone else. Risa Kwon is thirty-seven, a senior league investigator, and the woman the Wolves hired her firm to bury. Her job is simple: trace the pattern of misconduct her predecessor refused to document, build a case that cannot be ignored, and protect the players who deserved better. She cannot be seen with anyone on the roster. She cannot let a twenty-four-year-old goalie rearrange her entire understanding of what she came to Portland to do. She definitely cannot fall for him. Last Save is Book 5, the series finale, of the Ice and Instinct series. Each book follows a different couple on the Portland Wolves. Interconnected standalones. They all play dirty. Amazon review is required for this ARC. Private feedback in PenPinery is welcome, but it does not complete the campaign unless the Amazon review is posted. Please post your honest review on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0GX2ZSP4T. If Amazon delays or rejects the review, save the text and note the Amazon status in PenPinery. [Read More]

Last Change: A Steamy Single Parent Hockey Romance

by H.A. Laine

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

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He has been carrying her words for seven years. She does not remember saying them. Her seven-year-old sees everything they refuse to say out loud. A slow-burn, single parent hockey romance where a veteran who edits himself to survive and a producer who stages herself to stay safe discover that the person watching most carefully is seven years old and entirely unimpressed with their systems. Vince Mercer is thirty-four, a Portland Wolves veteran defenseman approaching his thousandth game, and a man who has learned to compress every true thing into the minimum viable sentence. Elara Vasquez is thirty-three, owner of Vasquez and Associates, and a single mother whose marriage taught her what happens when you disappear into someone else's schedule. She has spent three years building a life she controls entirely: color-coded binders, precise timelines, and a production vocabulary she uses on her own feelings. The Heritage Season is a celebration and an excavation. As Elara digs into the archive, she finds a memo proving the organization suppressed Vince's career-threatening shoulder injury for seven years. Last Change is Book 4 in the Ice and Instinct series. Each book follows a different couple on the Portland Wolves. Interconnected standalones. They all play dirty. Amazon review is required for this ARC. Private feedback in PenPinery is welcome, but it does not complete the campaign unless the Amazon review is posted. Please post your honest review on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0GKHCX5NF. If Amazon delays or rejects the review, save the text and note the Amazon status in PenPinery. [Read More]

Unassisted: A Forbidden Slow-Burn Hockey Romance

by H.A. Laine

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

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She speaks in diagnoses. He's learning her language. They call it the Translation Game. A slow-burn, forbidden hockey romance where two guarded professionals can only tell each other the truth in code. Declan Rourke has spent a decade being the man everyone on the Portland Wolves can count on. The captain who never misses a shift, never shows weakness, never lets anyone close enough to see what holding it all together actually costs. He learned the price of being seen as a rookie, when a teammate sold his story to the press. So when a torn shoulder threatens to end everything, the last thing he needs is a therapist who treats his silence like a symptom. The trouble is, he doesn't want to flinch from her. He wants to learn her words. Elena Marlowe doesn't trust athletes, institutions, or men who smile like they're hiding something. She weaponizes clinical terminology the way other people use small talk. Posterior capsule. Capsular adhesion. Safe, precise words for things she refuses to feel, the armor she built the year an institution decided she was the problem. The captain is the one variable she cannot diagnose. He doesn't back away from her vocabulary. He leans in, asks what each term means, and turns her defenses into a private language only the two of them speak. Amazon review is required for this ARC. Private feedback in PenPinery is welcome, but it does not complete the campaign unless the Amazon review is posted. Please post your honest review on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0GRNLLZ3L. If Amazon delays or rejects the review, save the text and note the Amazon status in PenPinery. [Read More]

From Planet #817 With Love

by Chad Morris

Tropes: firstperson, newadult, suspense

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SHOULD HE FIGHT FOR HIS COUNTRY... OR FOR LOVE? That’s the question 23-year-old Jax Martin will eventually have to consider. You see, right now his life is rather idyllic. He’s an android technician with a good job, an exceptional family, and a charming fiancée. He couldn’t ask for more. But there’s just one problem: he lives on a tumultuous exoplanet. Orbiting a giant blue star, the world is home to oversized scorpions, defective AI, flying reptiles, and corporate monopolies. Unknown to Jax, an explosive war looms on the horizon—one that threatens to upend his tranquil life completely. Everything will be on the line, including his relationship with his fiancée. Can they survive the approaching calamity? From Planet #817 With Love is their incredible story. [Read More]

Blue Sky Black

by Lea Vale

Tropes: slowburn, firstperson, newadult

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Zelda never stopped loving Ari. She just got better at pretending she was over him. Then she ran into him again on the last normal morning in America. By the end of the day, he was missing. Now Zelda is searching the wreckage of September 11th for two people: her best friend, Charlie, and the man she thought she'd lost long before the towers fell. *** As teenagers, Zelda and her best friend Charlie had been trying to escape Philadelphia for as long as they could remember. Ari was never part of that plan—until he walked into the pawn shop where Zelda worked and refused to leave her alone. They fell in love too young. They fell apart too fast. Six years later, September 11th puts them face to face on a Manhattan street, hours before the world changes forever. When the towers fall, Zelda survives and realizes Charlie and Ari were both inside and are missing. She has to find them both. Blue Sky Black moves between Zelda's desperate search through the aftermath of September 11th and the years that made her: a lonely, furious girl learning the value of things in a back-room pawn shop, falling in love for the first time, and losing everything she wasn't ready to hold. Perfect for readers who love: - Emotionally devastating love stories - Second chance romance - Slow burn with heat - Dual timeline - Found family - Female ambition Steam: Open door emotionally driven intimacy with explicit detail. Content Warning: Depictions of September 11, 2001, Grief, Loss [Read More]

Bohemian Girl in Ruins

by Aneta Cruz

Tropes: forcedproximity, forbiddenlove, firstperson

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Kara has always dreamed of her own happily-ever-after. Buying a crumbling castle and restoring it sounds like the perfect fairy tale beginning, until reality turns her into a modern-day Cinderella instead of a princess. Even her hopes for a Prince Charming shatter like a glass slipper when she falls for her employee: an infuriatingly attractive historian, Sean, who would rather feed her to a dragon than reciprocate her feelings. And as if things couldn't get any worse, he moves right next door! Since all fairy tale trials come in threes, Kara braces for the inevitable. Just as the bank threatens to seize the castle, Ethan-a charming new love interest-appears while Sean's icy exterior begins to thaw. How can she focus on saving the castle from the greedy bank's snare when her heart is split between Sean and Ethan? The one thing Kara has learned from fairy tales is that a ball solves it all. So, to reveal everyone's true intentions, she plans a masquerade. *A romantic comedy set in the late 90s Prague, Czech Republic, with all the nostalgia, laugh-out-loud scenes, and spice to hot that it actually burns. *Opposites attract *Forced proximity *Small town romance in a big city [Read More]

Paparazzi Perfect

by Abby Harris

Tropes: forbiddenlove, multipov, newadult

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KARSON WELLS has the life—and the looks—people would kill for. But his world is ruled by his ruthless billionaire father. Targeted for his wealth and hounded by paparazzi, he has little chance of finding anything real in a life built on power, control, and manipulation. He had accepted the future chosen for him. Until IVY LAWRENCE. Fearless. Independent. Unshakeable. For the first time in his life, he wants the one thing he’s never had. Freedom. But in his world . . . the people he loves could pay the price. IVY LAWRENCE is fiercely independent and determined to make it as a model on her own terms. She’s spent her life chasing waves and surviving wipeouts, and risk has never scared her. Until a stranger steps up to help her one unforgettable night, the spark between them is instant, and she soon finds herself out of her depth. He’s the best thing that ever happened to her. He’s the worst thing that ever happened to her. Their worlds were never meant to collide . . . could loving him destroy everything she’s built? [Read More]

Talk to Me at Midnight

by Stephanie Harina

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, firstperson

The voice that once saved her nights is now her trainer at work. Forced out of Bangkok by her dad, Yannie finds comfort in one thing: a mysterious voice who calls her every midnight. He doesn’t know her. She doesn’t know him. And that’s exactly why it works. Until she moves to Manila. And the voice gets a face. Now a teaching intern navigating office politics and Manila slang, Yannie is assigned to Ash Anderson, her serious, exacting English curriculum trainer—who is nothing like the man she talks to every midnight. Except he is that man. To protect her secret, Yannie makes one rule: Ash must never recognize her. Not when he texts her under the table with that ridiculous grin. Not when he stands far too close while demonstrating materials. And definitely not when he singles her out to present in front of everyone… where she’s now a walking disaster in heels. But when her fake deep voice slips, his smirks sharpen, and Ash starts calling her at work, Yannie realizes midnight secrets don’t survive daylight... especially when trouble wears a suit and knows all her confessions. [Read More]

Shattered Edges

by Marion Thomas

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, forbiddenlove

A contemporary dark romance about forbidden love and ambition in elite competitive figure skating and what happens when survival leaves no safe choices. (warning: contains graphic, explicit language and mature themes) Richard Hale has spent his life on the ice, chasing precision, relevance, and a career that refuses to wait for anyone. When his skating partner walks away he’s left staring down the quiet, humiliating end of everything he’s built. His younger sister Holly faces the same erasure when her partner’s injury ends her season overnight, leaving her suddenly expendable. The solution is obvious, dangerous and unthinkable. Forced to skate together by circumstance and desperation, Richard and Holly form a partnership that some think shouldn’t exist. On the ice, their connection is undeniable. Off it, the pressure fractures restraint, blurring lines they were never meant to cross and leaving them scrutinized by a world eager to judge what it doesn’t understand. As Nationals loom, obsession threatens to eclipse reason, and desire threatens to destroy the very thing they’re fighting to save. [Read More]

The Alpha's Healer: Rebirth and Revelation

by Marina Belle

Tropes: forcedproximity, forbiddenlove, paranormal

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Lucia survived the Wilds. Now she has to survive the beast who bled for her—and the truth of what she is. Separated from the Blackwood Pack, and from Kaelen, the Alpha who swore to protect her but kept her in a gilded cage, Lucia is stranded on the edge of the human world. Her only protector is Ragnar. The pack’s Enforcer is brutal, possessive, and dangerously intoxicating—and he has no intention of coddling a fragile human. He wants to teach her how to bite back. But as care turns into something darker, something territorial, Lucia is pulled into a war she doesn’t understand. The Wilds are waking. The creatures are calling her my lady. Her power is changing. And so is she. Because the truth of Lucia’s bloodline won’t just change her… it will tear the shifter world apart. Caught between the Alpha who holds her heart and the beast who demands her soul, Lucia must decide who she is willing to become. Because to survive what’s coming, the healer must die— and something far more dangerous must rise in her place. ------------------------------------- Series: Book II of III (continues into final installment/ cliffhanger) Genre: Dark Paranormal Shifter Romance / Dark Fantasy Tropes: Dark psychological love triangle • Fated mates (twist) • “Who did this to you?” Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (light–medium, high-heat moments, intense intimacy) Darkness: Medium — this is a dark PNR Content Warnings: Attempted SA • Graphic violence • Blood/gore • Injury detail (animal/shifter attacks) • Pregnancy struggles/infant loss POV: Alternating third person (Lucia, Kaelen, Ragnar) Vibe: Dark, gothic, wintery For readers who love monster heroes and heroines who embrace their darkness [Read More]

The Rival Hearts

by Anne Nikolaiken

Tropes: forcedproximity, firstperson, newadult

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A steamy Married in Vegas Formula One romance featuring Rivals to Lovers. The race weekend plan didn’t include waking up married to the rival rookie driver. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, right? Ethan Ethan St-Pierre is used to living in his brother’s shadow, but now he has no other option but to shine on the racetrack...and keep the St-Pierre legacy alive. Sharing his rookie season with his biggest rival shouldn’t be that difficult. They only have to interact on racetracks–and that’s plenty, thank you very much–but now sponsors are suggesting joint photoshoots with Maggie. Their rivalry is fuelling sales, sparks are flying, and Ethan wonders if there’s something more behind their shared, sizzling glances captured in photographs. Maggie Maggie Hoffsommer is the first female race car driver with a chance to win the Drivers’ Championship and prove her critics wrong. Her surprise debut at Kestrel Racing caused a media frenzy; her repeated pole positions and podium finishes created turmoil in the paddock, but the greatest shock is the one Maggie experiences when she wakes up married to Ethan St-Pierre in Vegas… and he suggests they give it a go? He’s the steamy distraction on track, putting everything she’s worked for in jeopardy. How can she consider staying married to him? This season, they have nothing left to lose but their hearts. Will Maggie and Ethan’s competitiveness put what they desire most at risk? [Read More]

Ese Gran Leviatán

by Tyler Kimball

Tropes: newadult, monsterromance, character-driven

Cuando el puerto ártico se descongeló, tanto cirujanos como conspiradores afilaron sus cuchillos. La ciudad renegada del Más Norte se marchita bajo el peso de una maldición centenaria y la tiranía real, muriendo lentamente... hasta que las fuerzas del progreso asaltan sus heladas costas. Un caballero errante llega en alas veloces, buscando redención en medio de la crisis. Un anatomista prodigioso incursiona en las artes arcanas para desentrañar el origen de la maldición. Un doctor extranjero y un chamán de las tierras remotas combinan ritos antiguos con la medicina moderna. Una banda de mercenarios busca a una devoradora de dragones sellado en un árbol solitario. Y la última descendiente de la nobleza del Más Norte lucha contra el legado de un dios que encalló en su dominio. Es una regla sencilla de la alquimia: no hay momento más peligroso y decisivo que un instante de cambio. «Ese Gran Leviatán» por Tyler Kimball es una mezcla fantástica de romance caballeresco, intriga política y un thriller médico alquímico, ambientado en el mundo neoclásico de Thier. [Read More]

That Great Leviathan

by Tyler Kimball

Tropes: newadult, monsterromance, character-driven

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When the arctic port thawed, surgeons and conspirators alike sharpened their knives. The renegade city of Northernmost withers under a century-old curse and royal tyranny, dying slowly – until the forces of progress storm its icy shores. A questing knight arrives on swift wings, seeking redemption in this crisis. A gifted anatomist dabbles in arcane arts to divine the cause of the curse. A foreign doctor and a hinterland shaman blend ancient rites with modern medicine. A band of mercenaries search for a barbaric dragon-eater sealed away in a lonely tree. And the last scion of Northernmost's nobility struggles against the legacy of a god that beached itself in her domain. It is a simple rule of alchemy – there is no time more dangerous and fateful than a moment of change. “That Great Leviathan” by Tyler Kimball is a fantastical blend of chivalric romance, political intrigue, and alchemical medical thriller, set in the neoclassical world of Thier. [Read More]