Hello, team!
It's time for another batch of awesome books for you to read and review. These are October's offerings. I'm a little later with these than I wanted to be due to some work-related deadlines (one of my author clients released an audiobook, a new release ebook, AND a foreign language book in ONE WEEK!!). Oof!
There are a few books that are carrying over from last month's offering. They are still available for a couple of weeks. In addition, we have some exciting brand new offerings, including book 2 in a romantasy series which a lot of you enjoyed book one when it was offered a month ago. And for the paranormal romance lovers, there's an entire series of sexy shifter romance available to read and review too. Finally, there's a dark fantasty/erotic suspense that comes with a boatload of content warnings for those of you who like books with a large side of wild and dark.
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Now onto the fun stuff…
On Offer: Blood Wielder (Power Wielder Book 2)
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The Details:
- Genre: Slow-Burn Romantasy (Romantic Fantasy)
- Release Date: October 28, 2025 (Pre-Order)
- Review Deadline: November 30, 2025
- Format: EPUB via StoryOrigin
- POV: First Person
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Content warnings: (Click to view)
⚠️ High-stakes fantasy violence and dark themes.
The Blurb:
Two months after the explosive events in Paris, Drea Pierce is no longer running; she's fighting to belong. But in a world woven with ancient magic and dark, hidden forces, power always demands a price.
When a wave of artifact-fueled violence ignites the Bastion District, Drea is thrust into the heart of a mystery that forces her to confront the truth about what she is. As new enemies rise and shadows tighten their grip, Drea must decide who to trust, what to sacrifice, and how far she's willing to go to claim her place. And when the line between a devoted mentor and something more begins to blur, the most dangerous choice may be the one that could change everything.
Blood Wielder is the second book in the Power Wielder Series—a slow-burn romantasy filled with ancient artifacts, dangerous secrets, and a heroine discovering the limits of her power and her heart.
This book is perfect for readers who love:
- Slow-Burn Forbidden Romance woven into a high-stakes fantasy world
- Found Family tropes and morally grey mentors
- Heroes and heroines exploring their secret powers
- Complex worlds that feel genuinely real
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If this story calls to you, click the link below to claim your copy. This will take you to a quick, short form to confirm your spot.
Click Here to Claim Your ARC of Blood Wielder (Book 2)OPTIONAL: If you would like to read book 1 (The Prequel), click the link below:
Click Here to Claim Your ARC of Power Wielder (Book 1)Note: This is a pre-order/pre-release ARC. The first book in the series, Power Wielder, is also available upon request if you need to read it first to be ready for the deadline. If you would like to support the author, you can also read the first book for free if you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you claim the first book in the series, Power Wielder, please ensure you leave a review for it too.
🚩 A Quick Reminder: By requesting this ARC, you're agreeing to post an honest review on or around the book's release date, and on or before the deadline of November 30, 2025. If life gets in the way and you need an extension, just send me a quick message!
On Offer: Need Me (On The Prowl Book 3)
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The Details:
- Genre: Erotic Paranormal Romance (PNR)
- Release Date: October 3, 2026 (Re-release, revised & expanded)
- Review Deadline: November 30, 2025
- Format: eBook direct to your Kindle (EPUB)
- POV: Third person, Multiple Main Characters
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Content warnings: (Click to view)
⚠️ Contains sexually explicit content and themes of harassment/abuse (past).
The Blurb:
Ricardo and Diego Cruz are wild twin brothers who do absolutely everything together—and their women appreciate the teamwork. They know their fun and games will end when one of them finally finds their fated mate. A mate is the one thing they can't share. Until now.
Shy Isabel Rivera flees a life of harassment and abuse, seeking refuge with the North American Panther Pride. But as soon as she arrives in San Francisco, Isabel senses that not one, but both of the Cruz twins are her mates. No Panther has ever had two mates before, but she can't deny what her senses tell her, or that Ric and Diego bring out the most feral side of her feline nature...
Need Me is the revised and expanded third book in the On the Prowl series and can be read as a standalone. It is an erotic PNR that explores the rare dynamic of a fated triad and the passionate chaos it creates.
This book is perfect for readers who love:
- Erotic Paranormal Romance (PNR)
- Fated Mates and Why Choose/Threesome themes (f/m/m)
- Shifter romance with a focus on Panther Pride dynamics
- Standalone stories within a connected series (The entire series is available upon request)
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Click Here to Claim Your ARC of Need Me (Book 3)OPTIONAL: Claim the previous books in the series below:
Click Here to Claim Your ARC of Claim Me (Book 1) Click Here to Claim Your ARC of Take Me (Book 2)IMPORTANT NOTE: If you claim the first two books in the series, Claim Me and Take Me, please ensure you leave a review for them too.
🚩 A Quick Reminder: By requesting this ARC, you're agreeing to post an honest review on or around the book's release date, and on or before the deadline of November 21, 2025. If life gets in the way and you need an extension, just send me a quick message!
On Offer: Falling For My Husband (Again)
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The Details:
- Genre: Emotional Second-Chance Romance, Contemporary Romance
- Release Date: Already Published (Released October 10, 2025)
- Review Deadline: November 30, 2025
- Format: eBook direct to your Kindle (EPUB) or Amazon Kindle Unlimited
- POV: Third person, alternating between Olivia and Ethan
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Content warnings: (Click to view)
⚠️ Emotional conflict and themes of broken marriage/divorce.
The Blurb:
Just a day before filing for divorce, Olivia Carter gets into a car accident that erases years of her memories—including the single, devastating reason she wanted to leave her husband.
When she wakes up, Ethan Carter is everything she remembers him to be—devoted, tender, and still desperately in love. He tells her their marriage is strong. What he doesn't tell her is that it was already irrevocably broken.
As Ethan tries desperately to win back the woman he lost, and Olivia rediscovers the love she once fought for, secrets, guilt, and forgiveness intertwine in a journey that asks: Can love begin again when the past refuses to stay buried? This is a standalone novel that explores love, loss, and redemption.
This book is perfect for readers who love:
- Second-Chance Romance with a heavy dose of emotion
- Amnesia and secrets in a marriage
- Redemptive love stories where forgiveness is key
- Standalone novels with deeply heartfelt narratives
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Click Here to Claim Your ARC of Falling For My Husband (Again)Alternatively, if you prefer and would like to support the author, you can read it directly on Kindle Unlimited:
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🚩 A Quick Reminder: By requesting this ARC, you're agreeing to post an honest review on or around the book's release date, and on or before the deadline of November 30, 2025. If life gets in the way and you need an extension, just send me a quick message!
On Offer: The Scent of Delilah
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The Details:
- Genre: Transgressive Erotica, Erotic Suspense/Dark Fantasy
- Release Date: November 12, 2025
- Review Deadline: November 30, 2025
- Format: eBook direct to your Kindle (EPUB)
- POV: Third person
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Content warnings: (Click to view full list)
⚠️ Extreme Erotic Content / Transgressive Erotica
⚠️ Sexual Assault/Rape (Mention of Past Event)
⚠️ Dubious Consent / Non-Consensual Sexual Acts
⚠️ Incestuous Undertones (Consensual Relationship)
⚠️ Substance Abuse and Addiction (Cocaine & Alcohol)
⚠️ Violence, Murder, and Body Horror
⚠️ Blasphemy and Anti-Religious Themes
⚠️ Suicide Ideation / Self-Harm
The Blurb:
Imagine you have a natural scent about you that makes others do your bidding while it fires their lust.
Imagine you have an MBA from Wharton, you are always the smartest one in the room, and all the men (and women) around the boardroom table hang on your every word.
Then imagine that all that power and all your heartaches turn you into a cocaine-fueled, power-hungry, hypersexual, bad little witch ready to take no prisoners as you take on the world.
From the back hills of Kentucky to the notorious cannabis capital of Humboldt County, California, and the Manhattan towers of corporate power, The Scent of Delilah catapults the reader into the world of Delilah Kirke. A scion of a family blessed (and cursed) with preternatural intelligence, very red hair, and a compulsion scent, Delilah charms everyone in her meteoric rise at Odysseus Corporation. But after ten years of trauma and five years of awakening, she returns to unleash a powerful, bad little witch on the world. When red-haired billionaire and CEO Ulysses Odets returns from a disastrous sea voyage, he encounters his brilliant employee. They see red—an attraction beyond inevitable lust. This is a tale where the Sensual and the Spiritual meet, filled with scheming, treachery, and sexual encounters more unreservedly depicted than you may be accustomed to.
This book is perfect for readers who love:
- Transgressive Erotica and Psychological Manipulation
- Witchy heroines with corporate power fantasies
- Stories with a blend of the Sensual and the Spiritual
- Narrative depth spanning from back hills to Manhattan boardrooms
Ready to Read and Review?
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Click Here to Claim Your ARC of The Scent of Delilah🚩 A Quick Reminder: By requesting this ARC, you're agreeing to post an honest review on or around the book's release date, and on or before the deadline of November 30, 2025. If life gets in the way and you need an extension, just send me a quick message!
STILL AVAILABLE On Offer: How We Are (Choosing Us series #1)
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The Details:
- Genre: MFM New Adult Romance, Menage, Why Choose, Reverse Harem
- Release Date: September 30, 2025
- Review Deadline: October 27, 2025
- Format: BookFunnel, eBook direct to your Kindle (upon request)
- POV: First person present tense - 2 POVs
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Content warnings: (Click to view)
⚠️ Kink, light BDSM, parent illness, manipulative mother, past physical parental abuse
The Blurb:
Five years is a long time to love someone from a distance.
But I’ve finally finished my degree, broken free from my Kentucky momma and her pageant dreams, and moved to Chicago to be with my soulmate.
Step one: move in and make up for lost time with Darius. Intimately.
Step two: land my dream job and start fresh.
Easy enough… until my mom starts scheming to drag me home and slap a crown back on my head.
And then there’s Arlo--Darius’s best friend and frustratingly hot roommate. He’s moody, brash, and impossible to ignore.
When I find out he and Darius have shared women before, everything shifts.
I shouldn’t want both of them. Good girls don’t get tangled in fantasies that include two men. They don't wonder, what if. They definitely don’t tempt a man like Arlo… Right?
This book is perfect for readers who love:
- High-spice, emotional MFM romance
- Soulmate reunions and second chances
- Roommates-to-lovers tension
- Heroines learning to overcome guilt and expectations
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➡️ Claim on BookFunnel (Instant Download) ➡️ Request Direct-to-Kindle Copy🚩 A Quick Reminder: By requesting this ARC, you're agreeing to post an honest review on or before the deadline of October 27, 2025. If life gets in the way, just send me a quick message!
STILL AVAILABLE On Offer: The Ties That Bind Them
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The Details:
- Genre: Dark Fantasy Romance
- Release Date: October 12, 2025 (Physical), October 28, 2025 (Digital)
- Review Deadline: October 30, 2025
- Format: eBook direct to your Kindle
- POV: First-person single POV
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Content warnings: (Click to view)
⚠️ Death of animals, side characters, and main characters. Drug and alcohol use, abuse, and fatal drug overdose. SA, both implied and recounted, and implied to be interrupted on-screen. Grooming/child predation as part of a main character’s backstory and conflict. Torture of main characters, both recounted and explicit. Gaslighting, psychological manipulation, and mind games. Suicide. Implied religious themes. Graphic violence and gore. Explicit open-door spice, including blood, S&M, and light BDSM themes.
The Blurb:
“I pledge myself to you. Until the darkness kills the light, until the heavens cease to burn, I will be yours…”
That was the promise she made in life. Now that Lillia Sparre is dead, those words have become a chilling curse. War is raging in the underworld. Her soul is forfeit. And if she wants to outrun her fate, she must trust a monster more devious than the one who hunts her.
In a mansion atop the hill dwells Sitri, a cold-hearted demon Prince who deals in secrets and subservience. He knows an enigma when he sees one. The magic seal Lillia wears, and her mountain of secrets, mark her as his enemy’s property. Sitri simply must have her. He will become her shield, and her warden, if that’s what it takes to keep his crown.
He doesn’t see her resolve. She spent her whole life breaking chains, and his are no different. She would dare to lie to the Prince of Lies himself, and cast Hell’s hierarchy into chaos, if that’s what it takes to escape.
But when Lillia’s past creeps in to claim her, she finds her back against the wall. The Prince she despises is all that remains between her and the demon who owns her soul, and Sitri’s facing dangers of his own. Surrounded by enemies and uncertain of their allies, there’s only one place left to turn; each other.
This book is perfect for readers who love:
- Dark fantasy with demon princes and underworld politics
- Enemies-to-allies romance
- Heroines determined to break their chains
- Stories of secrets, lies, and dangerous choices
Ready to Read and Review?
If this story calls to you, click the link below to claim your copy. This will take you to a quick, short form to confirm your spot.
Click Here to Claim Your ARC of The Ties That Bind Them🚩 A Quick Reminder: By requesting this ARC, you're agreeing to post an honest review on or before the deadline of October 30, 2025. If life gets in the way, just send me a quick message!
That's It!
Thank you again for being such an amazing part of this Advance Readers team. I appreciate all you do to support authors and spread the love of reading.
I'm can't wait to hear what you think of these books! Happy reading, and I look forward to sharing the next round of stories with you.
xoxo,
Deanna
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