Catherine Lynwood ARC Reader Application

For The Alpha Flame: Discovery – Advance Reader Copy (ARC)

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Fancy reading The Alpha Flame: Discovery before anyone else? I'm looking for a handful of passionate early readers to receive a free digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

Content Warning: This novel is raw, emotional, and occasionally graphic. Please read the themes below before signing up.

Major Themes and Topics

  • Death, trauma, and grief through the eyes of a teenage girl
  • Physical and sexual abuse (non-graphic, but deeply affecting)
  • Mental health, including suicidal thoughts and PTSD
  • Grooming, manipulation, and gaslighting
  • Prostitution, exploitation, and coercion
  • Violence against women (threats, assaults, murder)
  • Love, trust, tenderness, and emotional recovery
  • Consensual sex, female desire, and intimacy
  • Sexuality, orientation, and identity discovery
  • Found family, sisterhood, and female empowerment
  • Family secrets, loss, and emotional inheritance
  • Corruption, manipulation, and cover-ups
  • Justice, revenge, and difficult moral choices
  • Music and fashion as creative expression and survival
  • Repeated phrase: “Some questions don’t need answers.”

If you're still interested after reading the list above, I’d love to have you on board. ARC readers help spread the word and offer early feedback that truly matters.

All I ask: read the book and leave a review on Goodreads, Amazon, or wherever you normally post.

That’s it. No catch. No strings. Just you, the story, and a chance to be part of something from the very beginning.

The Alpha Flame book cover — gritty 1980s Birmingham crime novel about twin sisters uncovering secrets and surviving abuse
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My chosen method for sending out ARC copies is usually via Kindle. You do not need a physical Kindle device to do this. You can download the Kindle app from Amazon and this works just as well. Occasionally for reviewers in the UK, US, Canada, or Austrailia, I will send out a limited number of physical copies.

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