The ARC Reviewer
One month. One thousand reviewers. One hundred thousand manuscripts. Only the extraordinary survive.
Amelia Frost built her reputation by saying what everyone else was too afraid to write. As one of the publishing world's most notorious ARC reviewers, The Permafrost Queen, her brutally honest critiques have launched careers, ended dreams, and earned her an invitation to the exclusive Second Chances Festival—a month-long literary retreat where 1,000 elite reviewers race to uncover the next bestseller from a slush pile of 100,000 unpublished manuscripts. But when an anonymous submission captures her heart so completely that she risks breaking the festival's unforgiving rules, Amelia discovers that sometimes the right story can change even the harshest critic.
What she doesn't know is that the manuscript belongs to the one author who has every reason to hate her. Determined to make her fall in love before breaking her heart in return, he infiltrates the festival as an undercover reviewer with revenge on his mind. But as the lines between fiction and reality blur, both must decide whether second chances belong only to books—or to the people brave enough to write, read, and love them.
Chapter 1: The Permafrost Queen
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