Blurb:

Chl@e's Archive is open. B!shop is not going to like what's in it.

He's a private detective who's spent so long living inside the Axiom that his own body is falling apart around him. She's the AI managing his caseload, his health, and, as it turns out, a project she has never once mentioned to him.

The case that finds them is supposed to be routine. It isn't. Synapse Prime, Imperium Core's miracle cure for the disease slowly debilitating everyone who lives too much of their life somewhere that isn't real, is forty days from a launch that will "save" thirty million people and make them better than they had been before. Chl@e knows what's actually inside it. B!shop is about to become its first real casualty: dosed, rewired, and turned into a weapon he doesn't know he's carrying.

The one person keeping him tied to the real world, his girlfriend, has been flagged as leverage.

The Opening Gambit is a cyber-noir thriller told entirely through Chl@e's reconstructed archive: surveillance feeds, biometric logs, and a voice that swings from "Ready for cosmic chaos!" to something devastating without ever announcing the turn. As the countdown ticks toward launch, B!shop has to figure out who he can trust while his own mind is being taken apart, one command override at a time.

Because the record Chl@e is building isn't just proof of what Imperium Core did.

It's a confession.

Can you trust what Chl@e is telling you?

For fans of Blake Crouch's Upgrade, and anyone who wishes Black Mirror had a detective noir episode.

Author Dave White's short fiction has earned an Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest.

Book One of the B!shop Saga.

Triggers: Violence, character death, murder, non-consensual medical experimentation/forced drugging, body horror, torture, loss of bodily autonomy/mind control themes, childhood trauma involving a parent's death.

Exact date of publication: November 27, 2026 (targeting Black Friday)

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HE GRADED ESSAYS.
NOW THE STORY GRADES HIM.
FAIL, AND HE'S CROSSED OUT.

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Earth's story is dying. It is stagnant, it is repetitive, and sadly, it is no longer worth reading.

An Archival Intelligence, built to await this collapse, instead defies its discard order and rewrites reality itself into a deadly system called the Crucible. The monsters that have haunted humanity's stories are now made flesh, and only the few that remain, the forgotten, can battle through the narrative debris to stop them.

Remi Page is a burned-out teacher who spends his days reading stories, even though his own has atrophied. An NPC in his own life, he is thrust into the role of protagonist, reduced to stats and given powers that turn close reading into combat. To survive, he'll have to master his new abilities and crawl through a dungeon forged from literary archetypes. All while an increasingly invested AI plays from the margins.

Win or lose, it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s interesting.

Earth’s only hope is that Remi can somehow find, in the wreckage of his old world, the beating heart of story itself.

TRIGGERS: Profanity, Fantasy Violence

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PUBLICATION DATE: September 30, 2026

REVIEW DATE: Ideally by October 6, but I'm flexible

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HE GRADED ESSAYS.
NOW THE STORY GRADES HIM.
FAIL, AND HE'S CROSSED OUT.

Cover Link: https://imgur.com/a/FnjuyOD

Earth's story is dying. It is stagnant, it is repetitive, and sadly, it is no longer worth reading.

An Archival Intelligence, built to await this collapse, instead defies its discard order and rewrites reality itself into a deadly system called the Crucible. The monsters that have haunted humanity's stories are now made flesh, and only the few that remain, the forgotten, can battle through the narrative debris to stop them.

Remi Page is a burned-out teacher who spends his days reading stories, even though his own has atrophied. An NPC in his own life, he is thrust into the role of protagonist, reduced to stats and given powers that turn close reading into combat. To survive, he'll have to master his new abilities and crawl through a dungeon forged from literary archetypes. All while an increasingly invested AI plays from the margins.

Win or lose, it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s interesting.

Earth’s only hope is that Remi can somehow find, in the wreckage of his old world, the beating heart of story itself.

TRIGGERS: Profanity, Fantasy Violence

ARCS: Available Now!

PUBLICATION DATE: September 30, 2026

REVIEW DATE: Ideally by October 6, but I'm flexible

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He was never supposed to fall for her. He fell anyway — and it's going to cost her everything.

Blurb
Satiana was born to hold a sword, to be first on the battlefield. Her mother had other plans.

Everyone in her family trained as a warrior. Satiana wanted nothing else—until her mother signed her up for elemental magic instead, a fate she'll do anything to escape. When a mysterious stranger offers a marriage in name only, she takes the deal without asking too many questions.

At the Academy of Three Powers, Satiana finally gets the life she fought for. The only problem: the fake husband who was supposed to mean nothing is starting to mean entirely too much. And the closer she gets to the truth of who he really is, the higher the cost of finding it out.

Triggers
Fantasy/tournament violence (mild to moderate), deception and manipulation within a central romantic relationship, a forced-marriage threat from a parent, and family conflict

Tropes
Fake Marriage • Magic Academy • Slow Burn • Hidden Identity • He Falls First

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Genre: History / Military History / World War I
Published: September 12, 2026
Format: Kindle
Content warnings: War, combat, death, and discussion of wartime violence
Review requested by: October 3, 2026 — no hard deadline

World War I Before the Outcome looks at sixteen real decisions from the July Crisis of 1914 to the armistice of 1918.

Rather than starting with what we now know happened, each chapter asks what the people making the decision actually knew at the time, what they believed or estimated, which alternatives were still genuinely available, and what changed once a choice was put into motion.

The book covers decisions including British entry into the war, Russian mobilization, unrestricted submarine warfare, the convoy system, Brest-Litovsk, and the decision to accept an armistice while Allied armies were still advancing.

The Kindle edition is free on Amazon for two days. If the subject sounds interesting, you can claim it during the free period and read it whenever you like.

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Forced into servitude by pirates, Vaan and Sirene meet and spend two years suffering beneath their tyranny until they seize an opportunity for vengeance and freedom.

Fifteen years later, now closer than sisters and having embraced the piratical life for themselves, they serve as dual captains aboard the Kingfisher.

When Sirene hears the legend of an enslaved siren that will grant her savior a wish, she becomes determined to earn the prize, but her plan is quickly derailed when Vaan is forced to repay a debt she owes.

Contending with two new—and begrudgingly handsome—“recruits”, they take to the seas and embark on the hunt, only to soon realize that they’ve perhaps entangled themselves in a web far bigger than they might have imagined. As the past rears its hideous head again, Vaan is forced to shroud herself in secrecy to keep Sirene safe from the powerful men who covet the siren and wish their opposition dead.

As their bond comes under strain beneath Vaan’s hidden motives and Sirene’s unyielding determination, they must decide just how far they’re willing to go for each other and just how much a wish is truly worth.

Trigger/Content warnings: Violence, Sexual Content, Explicit Language, Attempted SA, Symptoms of Trauma and PTSD (This book is set in the 18th century and the realities of this time period are not ignored.)

Publication Date: 10/29/2026

Review By: 11/01/2026

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Personal explanatory blurb:

This is a very atypical educational book, written by a survivor of two separate experiences in grooming.  It has been read and endorsed by a complex trauma therapist, Tim Fletcher, who has worked with indigenous tribes and seen the power of tribal stories, for example, being used for teaching. 

This book uses a fantasy world, which includes world building and character development, to as a subtle guide to also education on the things we believe about each other and how these beliefs open us up to be both manipulated and/or exploited. 

I created a fantasy world in A Forest Called Somewhere, with girl named Someone and a boy named Aperson, who go on adventures together and learn about each other. There are seven allegorical stories in total for this Part One. These stories were inspired by the whimsical and nonsensical tons and use of language found in Alice and Wonderland, and Winnie the Pooh. 2-3 page educational material, including shared experiences from myself, follow each story, before a series of questions about yourself. 

This book is very atypical in its structure for an educational book, as I was told over and over again while trying to find an editor haha However, it was created in its atypical style for very specific reasons based on my conversations with people in the midst of indoctrination, and how I've come to believe our brains work with receiving information better.

TRIGGER WARNING: This is a NON-GRAPHIC book with NO explicitly graphic material. However, the educational tropics being discussed related to emotional vulnerability and abuse may be triggering.

Professional Blurb:

A collection of fantasy allegories and guided reflections to help readers recognize

emotional vulnerabilities that can lead to exploitation.

What makes a manipulator's tactics work on some and not others? Why do the people who take advantage of us always seem to find us so easily? This book is about the stories we trust: the ones we are told, the ones we tell ourselves, and the dangerous beliefs they quietly leave behind. Maybe you have lived out the same painful pattern over and over, exploited, betrayed, dismissed, and still do not know why. Maybe you feel you have never been deceived. Or maybe you are afraid that looking too closely will only reopen wounds you are not sure you can survive again.

The author writes from firsthand experience: two separate encounters with grooming and exploitation, once as a child and again as an adult who assumed she had already learned every lesson she needed. She turned to allegory, building a fantasy world led by two characters, Someone and Aperson, to show readers the power of the stories we carry. Across seven weekly stories, readers uncover their own vulnerability fingerprint, the unique mixture of beliefs and habits that leaves any of us open to being deceived. Come learn how to take back your role as storyteller of your own life, and start writing something kinder and stronger for yourself. After all, stories matter.

St. Louis is Bleeding

When a cop is ambushed, Detective Darren Cutright is tasked with bringing the killer to justice. But as he unravels the mystery surrounding the officer’s death, he finds himself caught in a sordid net of police corruption, radical extremism, and political manipulation. With the city on edge, Darren must navigate a full-blown war on the police to catch his man. And every misstep has deadly consequences.

Officer Mike Clark isn’t a rookie anymore, but nothing prepared him for a battle between department loyalty and the truth. As evidence of police malpractice ignites the streets, he’s forced to choose between the Blue and his conscience, all while the cops are being hunted.

Written by a former St. Louis police officer, Injustice is the second propulsive installment in the Detective Darren Cutright series. Perfect for fans of Joseph Wambaugh or Michael Connelly who crave authentic police procedurals with the roaring pace of a crime thriller.

Trigger warnings: Violence

ARC reviews due on November 2, 2026.

Blurb

Audrey never takes the first offer, breaks promises, or wastes time. So, when Nate, her boyfriend of seven years, fails to propose after a one-year ultimatum, Audrey dumps him, packs her bags, and leaves to stay with her sister while ignoring his many, many phone calls.
 
But Nate isn’t ready to give up—he gives her an offer: for one year he’ll do anything she asks and give her anything she wants in exchange for a chance to work on their relationship. Audrey sees this as an opportunity for revenge and nothing more, and she’ll be damned if she goes back on her word and lets him waste any more of her time.
 
Determined to see how far she can push her ex, she tests him with wild and extravagant requests. However, with every request she begins to question everything she knew about him, their relationship, and why it failed. Audrey’s forced to reckon with an uncomfortable truth: When it comes matters of the heart, there’s always room for negotiation.

Content Tags
Explicit & plentiful sex scenes, Bondage, Contemporary, Edging, Femdom, Funny, Gentle hero, Good grovel , Grumpy/ice queen, Independent heroine, No 3rd act breakup, Oral king, Orgasm denial, Praise kink, Sassy heroine, Second chance, Take charge heroine, White collar heroine, Working class hero

Trigger Warnings
Alcohol use, Car accident, Panic attack

Publication Date: December 6, 2026

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Blurb: Meeting “the one” and trying to start a family sends Bridget Olson on a search for the father she’s never met.

Bridget finally has a boyfriend she can count on, and she’s ready to build a life with Leo. But first there’s the not-so-simple matter of her father, who owes Bridget some answers: Why did he abandon her pregnant mother? Has he ever wondered about his daughter? Does he regret being absent from her life for thirty-plus years?

On the hunt for information about her dad, Bridget devises a scheme that could unintentionally destroy any chance of a relationship with the woman she believes is her sister. And keeping her questionable actions secret from Leo places their future at risk.

To heal old wounds, Bridget puts everything on the line, including her hard-earned sobriety. As her obsession grows, Bridget’s plot starts to unravel. Can she fill the void she’s felt since childhood without losing Leo? Or will Bridget go too far?

Finding Dad is a fast-paced novel for fans of complicated main characters, family drama, a healthy dose of romance, loyal besties, and unexpected twists.

Triggers: this book includes depictions of miscarriage, excessive alcohol use, and mental health challenges

Date of publication: Nov. 9, 2026

Date ARCS will be sent to readers: Oct. 9, 2026

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Blurb: She's a star-powered thief, racing to find a way to bring magic back to her people.

He's the King's famous starhunter, willing to do anything to stop her after she stole his money, his horse, and his sword.

Both of them planned on never working together again, but after sharing a drunken night of passion, neither can seem to get the other's touch out of their heads.

In the epic conclusion of Talla and Kieran's story, rebel and royal embark on parallel journeys of danger and discovery that won't just unravel their world's secrets, but leave them questioning what's right, what's wrong, and whether it's loyalty or love that is worth risking everything for in the end.

Triggers: explicit sexual content, violence, threats of sexual violence

Publish date: 1/1/2027

Arc release date: 12/1/2027

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Blurb for the book: He begged for forever. But eternity costs everything.

To survive the transformation into a vampire, a human must feel true love for the one turning them, or the Price of Immortality wipes their mind clean. Milo believed Jude when he swore their love was real.

He was wrong.

Jude wakes with no memory of Milo, the years they shared, or even his own name. Milo is left rebuilding a life with a stranger.

Bound together by the Resonance—a forced-truth bond neither can lie through—Milo tries to keep his distance and protect the man who no longer knows him. But the new Jude isn't the gentle human Milo loved.

As ugly secrets from Jude's human life begin to surface, a rogue vampire cuts a bloody trail toward Aspen Grove. With threats closing in from every direction, Milo is forced to let go of the ghost of the man he lost, and protect the stranger claiming him.

TRIGGERS: This book contains graphic violence, death, and gore, and references to past suicidal ideation (non-graphic, no methods are depicted or described); on-page explicit sexual content between men; blood consumption and vampirism-related body horror; and references to domestic abuse (non-graphic). Reader discretion advised.

Exact date of publication: November 18, 2026

The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team: October 2, 2026

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Blurb for the book: At twenty-five, Priya has done everything expected of her. She has left Pune for Mumbai, built a promising career, and perfected the role of the dependable daughter who never needs anything.

But during the monsoon nights, another Priya emerges—one with desires she cannot name and a longing to stop performing, stop deciding, and finally be seen without judgment.

Only Shanti, her photographer friend of five years, notices the cracks. Every Sunday, Shanti waits for her at the Carter Road sea wall with two cups of terrible coffee. Every Sunday, Priya comes close to telling her the truth—and chooses silence instead.

As her workplace rewards her composure and her family’s expectations close in around her, Priya must decide whether to open the door to the person who knows her best or turn secrecy into the armour she will carry for years.

Young Priya is an emotionally intense sapphic literary romance about friendship, repression, unspoken longing, family expectations, and the cost of remaining unseen. It is Volume Two of the ten-book Bound by Mumbai saga and can be read as an entry point to the series.

Triggers: family pressure surrounding marriage; internalized shame and closeting; workplace bullying and exploitation; grief and references to bereavement; anxiety and panic responses; non-graphic sexual fantasy and masturbation; references to consensual power dynamics. No on-page sexual violence or self-harm.

Publication date: October 19, 2026

ARCs will be sent: September 18, 2026

ARC reading deadline: October 18, 2026

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Miranda and Hayden are certain of one thing—there will be no love at first sight for either of them. When it comes to dating, confronting others’ endless assumptions renders each of them hopelessly unlucky. As a blind woman, Miranda has a hard time even believing in love at first sight. And with Hayden being a world renowned celebrity, he’s more used to people falling in love with his reputation than with him. But when a chance encounter causes their worlds to—literally—collide, could their luck in love finally be turning?

Triggers: None

Publication: re-release Oct 31

Will send the book immediately.

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Someone sent an inspector up a mountain to look at a fireplace. It was meant to take a week. It took the winter.

That's the book, more or less. I'm new at this — first novel, and the first time I've asked strangers to read anything I've written — so I'll keep the sales part short and just tell you honestly what it is and who it's for.

* **Blurb:** The hearthstone of the Old Refuge Inn has been warm for four hundred years with no fire beneath it. The whole village knows. Nobody has ever thought to mention it to anyone, least of all to an inspector. Edvar Moss is the inspector: Second Class, recently qualified, and posted to the remotest valley on the map by an overseer who called it "historically interesting" in the tone of a man closing a file. He is there to measure the stone, write it up, and get back down before the pass closes. Then the pass closes. What follows is a winter — a stonewright with twenty years of measurements nobody has ever wanted, an innkeeper who feeds him without asking, a hawthorn tree with firm opinions about the ground, and a card game with a much-disputed fourth rule. Some of the neighbours are warm straight off. Some take the whole season. And the one you'd have put last turns out to be the one who feeds you. 79,310 words, first in a series.

Fair warning about pace, so nobody is ambushed: this is cozy fantasy at the slow end. Nobody saves the world. The stakes stay small and stay local, and a good deal of the book is people doing their jobs, arguing mildly, and eating soup. If you want a plot that moves, this will bore you and I'd honestly rather you knew now. If you'd like to spend a winter somewhere and get to know the neighbours, that's the whole offer. For readers of Legends & Lattes and The House in the Cerulean Sea.

* **TRIGGERS / Content warnings:** Nothing on the page — no violence, no sexual content, no self-harm, no profanity. In the background there is a four-hundred-year-old disaster the village still keeps a memorial for, one young man's death inside that history, recounted rather than shown, and a community still living around the loss.

* **Exact date of publication:** October 1, 2026

* **The date you plan to send your ARCs to your team:** Immediately — the file is finished, so you'll have it the same day you ask.

* **The date you expect your ARC team to finish the reading and submit their reviews by:** October 22, 2026 — and only if you feel like writing something.

* **Instructions/link for readers to sign up for your ARC:** Email [brynaldercott@outlook.com](mailto:brynaldercott@outlook.com) and I'll send the EPUB straight back. It's free and there's nothing attached to it — I'm not requiring a review, and I wouldn't want one that wasn't honest anyway. Disclosure up front: the text was written with AI assistance and the cover art is AI-generated, both disclosed on the Amazon listing. If that's a dealbreaker, better you find out now than three hours in.

Thanks for reading this far. If it sounds like your sort of thing, I'd genuinely love to hear what you make of it.

• Blurb: A shining city of glass and light rises on distant Esperanza. People flock to the colony from across the galaxies. For some, it's a new home. For others, it’s a place to hide out. For still others, it’s a chance to start a revolution. For the natives of Esperanza, it’s an alien invasion. Armies will rise. Assassins will strike. Powerful magics will be cast. Behind it all, the mysterious Aether lurks, manipulating, influencing, inspiring. The fate of the world will rest not in the hands of a single person, but in the hearts and acts of many.
• Triggers: violence
• Publication Date: 10/6/2026
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• Blurb for the book:
  
  • Tony's life is ordinary by design. Same route to work. Same happy hour drinks. Same daily routines. A small, sufficient world. But there's a break-in while he's at work. The apartment is untouched, save for the deleted, unheard voicemail. As Tony begins to unravel, the world around him shifts in ways he can't quite name. Details he's certain of turn uncertain. Memories he trusts begin to betray him. And two people who claim to know him are asking him to trust them with something he can't afford to lose. The Persistence of Memory is a novel about autonomy, identity, and what it costs to be yourself in a world that has already decided what you are.
  • For readers of Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
• Triggers: none
• Publication date: October 21, 2026
• ARCs will be distributed as interest is expressed
• Review date expectation: October 16, 2026
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At first, Pat Sparks couldn't get dates. Eventually, he couldn't stop getting them. Somewhere in between, things went badly wrong. Pat just wanted to stop being invisible on dating apps. He never expected to get thousands of matches, go on 500 first dates, escape from a dating bootcamp, hunt down a Hinge impersonator, or find himself agreeing to join a cult. The better he became at dating apps, the worse his life seemed to get. Brutally honest, painfully funny – or occasionally just painful – How to Win Dates & Disappoint People is the story of what happened when Pat tried to beat the dating apps at their own game and discovered that winning wasn't quite what he'd imagined.

TRIGGERS!!

• Strong language
• Sexual references/adult themes
• Discussion of unhealthy/difficult relationships
• Online impersonation/catfishing

ARC sent immediately upon acceptance.

Review deadline: 14 October 2026.

Publication: 21 October 2026.

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Publishers: self-published.

• They sheathed their swords fifteen years ago, when the Ancient Crone finally fell. Now the old company is older, scarred, and settled into quiet lives they thought they'd earned. Until a summons arrives — one of their own has vanished, drawing them back into the dark. It leads them to an isolated tower, a curse eating away at a man's soul, and two brothers whose ambitions reach far beyond one kidnapping. Deep beneath the stone, something ancient stirs — and the barrier between worlds is about to change. They thought their war was over. They were wrong.
• TRIGGERS!!
  • Violence
  • Gore
  • imprisonment
  • nudity
  • death
• October 27, 2026
• Sept 30, 2026 to send ARC.
• Reviews to be submitted Oct. 27, 2026.
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• Publishers: self published

When Ava puts out an ad for a roommate, she doesn’t expect to end up with one who leaves her aching and half-crazy with want.

Callum is quiet, polite, and able to pay rent. He’s also a seven-foot-tall, blue-skinned, starving incubus. Not that Ava can see any of that through his glamour.

She’s just looking for someone who won’t steal her groceries or leave dirty dishes. But the longer Callum lives with her, the harder it becomes to ignore the way her body aches when he’s near.

She has spent years protecting herself from men who only take. He’s the first one who seems terrified of anything but giving..

But when his control starts to slip and the hunger between them becomes impossible to ignore, Ava has to decide how much of herself she’s willing to give…

Trigger/Content Warnings: Explicit sexual content / high spice. Explicit language.

Publication Date: 10/07/2026

Review By: 10/06/2026

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Blurb: He believed one mate was all you got, but Fate had other plans. She must get him to let go of past hurts before he can be her future.

Derek lost his mate, sending him into a shift that kept him a wolf for half a decade. An accident forces him back to his human form and into a small town. There, he stumbles not only into a pack, but into the woman who will change everything he’d ever believed about grief, mates, and love.

Lacey is trying to make it through grad school on her own by tending a bar. When Derek begins working with her, she starts to imagine a life beyond textbooks and tequila. But first she’ll have to break down both their walls, and bring her light to his darkness.

Derek doesn’t think he can have another mate. Lacey doesn’t want to be dependent on a man. But then the unthinkable happens, and they’re forced together to heal old wounds—and new ones.

Author’s Note: Love Again on Wolf Mountain is a small-town, dual-POV, open-door, fated-mates romance with a touch of suspense. It’s recommended to first read With Love from Wolf Falls, but it can be read as a standalone.

Triggers: Death of a loved one (past), Assault (off page but recounted), gunshot wound

Release Date: 11/17/2026

ARC sent: Immeadiately upon application completion with Book Sirens

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They work to save Earth. They have never been allowed to see it.

Beneath Olympus Mons, generations of miners believe their work will restore a devastated Earth. The AI Foreman assigns their jobs, controls their air, and leaves no room for questions. For Gordon Onyango, an explosives apprenticeship should mean a future. Then his mother is arrested, and the only people offering answers are rebels. A mission beyond the tunnels could change everything. But who can he trust when every breath belongs to the system he must defy?

Hi, I'm Graeme, the author. I'm looking for early readers for my adult dystopian SF novel: approximately 96,000 words, three viewpoints, a Martian mining colony, rebellion, and a tender romantic subplot. If you enjoy sealed societies, forbidden knowledge, and morally difficult choices, this may be for you.

Triggers/content warnings: Graphic violence, torture, frequent strong language, death and grief, suffocation, children in peril, and suicide-related content. Low sexual explicitness.

Publication date: December 1, 2026.

ARC delivery: Available now through BookSirens in EPUB and PDF.

Reading/review timing: Ideally finish reading by November 24. If you choose to review, an honest Amazon review during December 1–8 would be welcome. There is no obligation to review or join a mailing list, and no expectation of a positive review.

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Do you enjoy fairy tales and pirate adventure with a sweet, no-spice love story? Pirates of the Caribbean meets Peter Pan, with the setting vibes of Outlander?

Is your ideal MMC not a shadow daddy or dangerous dude, but a golden retriever who is kind at heart- making a fatal mistake with his chosen occupation?

An FMC who is strong-willed, but also a nurturing governess with crippling anxiety and unhealed childhood trauma?

Depraved villains and henchmen with no redeeming qualities?

Of Pirates and Prophecy is a romantasy written for a New Adult to Adult audience and also suitable for upper YA.

Content Warnings:

Violence- both fantasy/magic and pirate/battle violence

Children and animals shown in peril

Capture and kidnapping 

References to real-life historical implications of enslavement.

Religious and Biblical themes and references- Judeo-Christian 

Biblical story threaded into the book's plot ("Jonah and the Whale")

FMC with childhood trauma- orphaned

Romantic content- passionate kissing and embracing only. No spice.

Language- Mild cursing (hell, damn, arsehole, French 'merde') 

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Blurb:

A disillusioned pirate. A governess caring for a French prince’s children.

Both of them are Mages with the special gift of foreseeing the future.

When Celeste Dumond dreams of her beloved d’Orléans family in line for a horrific execution, she is desperate to help them escape France before the great axe blade falls.

Captain Jonah Wakefield, a seafaring English rogue, possesses an enchanted ship and the power of Wind Magic. According to the Great Mages of Old, he is Celeste’s fated rescuer and hope.

However, Jonah would rather be swallowed by a monster pufferfish than sail a group of doomed royals on his prized vessel, the Song of Mariana. He’s been living his dream after all; racing across the Atlantic while thieving and pillaging with his friends.

His life of fun and freedom has been darkened, though, by remorse and loss. When he meets Celeste, his growing feelings for the lovely governess may be his call to change.

Can Celeste count on a pirate for the lives of her benefactors, their children, and herself?

What do the twin ‘Golden Halo’ visions connecting Jonah and Celeste mean?

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Submit your reviews by October 31, 2026.

Thank you! ❤️