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📖 dreadful: a dark why choose heist romance

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one of my fav scenes from Dreadful 🤭😜

Can you guess who?

Dreadful is book three in Hollow Beach, available on kindle unlimited and paperback 🫶🏻

Hollow Beach is a dark why choose heist romance featuring four obsessive morally gray MMCs and one badass fmc who won’t choose just one Calloway brother.

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6 days ago

need to fill your tbr? I have 10 Before the End recs for you!! 🤭🥰

Coincidentally, they happen to be my last 10 releases! How many have you read already? What’s your favorite?

Is this a good time to hint that hollow beach book four will be here before you know it? 😜🤭

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8 days ago

what’s your dreadful reading status?

And maybe the better question is: are you ready for more yet? 🤭🤭

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13 days ago

take a peak at some of the playlist for Dreadful!

Do you like seeing the playlists in books? Do you ever listen to them?
Idk if you know this about me or not, but all the songs that make it to a book’s playlist are played on repeat while I’m writing (some more than others)! Can you guess which ones were played the most? 🤭🤭

dreadful is book three in my dark whychoose heist romance series, Hollow Beach.
❤️‍🔥 comment NEED HOLLOW BEACH to start bingereading the series today!

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14 days ago

Since Dreadful is officially out in the world, I’ve decided to drop some of my favorite quotes 🤭🙂‍↕️

And if you’ve ever read any of my books, you KNOW I love a down-bad, protective, OBSESSIVE mmc 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🫠

Dreadful is book three in Hollow Beach, a dark why choose heist romance, available on kindle unlimited today! by @authorpenelopeblack

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15 days ago

DREADFUL is officially live, friends!!

This release feels extra emotional to me because these character worked through some big emotions in this one—and maybe I did too? 🤔🤭 hollow beach has wrung me out, besties, and I’m so obsessed with them and their story!!

The yearning and slow unraveling of men 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

I hope you love it!!

Book three is more volatile, emotionally raw, and intimate—and somehow even more consuming!—than Wrathful, and I’m so excited that you get to fall deeper into Hollow Beach with me!!

If you love:
🖤 dark romance
❤️‍🔥 obsessive men who yearn
🖤 why choose dynamic
❤️‍🔥 forced proximity
🖤 when the slow burn starts burning
❤️‍🔥 crime, loyalty, questionable morals

Then DREADFUL is waiting for you on kindle unlimited!!
Than you for being here. For reading these books and loving these characters. And for giving me so much grace and support while getting this one across the finish line 🫶🏻

Now, please slide into my DMs when you hit that ending 🤭🤭

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16 days ago

please enjoy my notes for sassy marketing for hollow beach 🤭🤪

What one is your favorite?
What would you add to the list?

Dreadful hits kindles September 30!! And I’m so, so excited for you to go back to Hollow Beach!!

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a month ago

✨🖤 dreadful cover reveal 🖤✨

BESTIES!! I’m so, so excited to reveal the title and covers for book three in Hollow Beach!! I’ve been sitting on these covers for WAY too long, and tbh I feel like I deserve a sweet treat for keeping all the secrets 🤭🙂‍↕️

Don’t tell the others, but this alt cover might be my favorite of the series 🤫🤭

Any guesses on which Calloway brother is on this cover?

The vibes of Hollow Beach continue to be *unmatched* and I hope you love it as much as I do!! I can’t wait for everyone to dive back in at the end of the month!!

penelope black books, bookstagram, booktok, dark romance, kindle unlimited romance, book recs, cover reveal, why choose romance, reverse harem, heists, yearning, one bed trope, grumpy x sunshine, boy obsessed, hurt/comfort trope by @authorpenelopeblack

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a month ago

I’m so excited to see everyone in Vegas next month!!

I may or may not have another special edition waiting in the wings for Vegas too 🤭🤭

Y’all know I can never pick a favorite cover (I love them all 🥺) but there’s something about the red foil that hits *just right* 🙂‍↕️🥰

These are all limited, exclusive editions—meaning you can only get them at a signing or through my online store!

🫶🏻 comment 2026 SIGNING to get a dm to place your preorder for Vegas!

I’m a bit of a last-minute addition to the incredible lineup, so let me know if you’ll be there too! 😘

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2 months ago

💚 ATTENDING AUTHOR 💜

Book Besties & Co. is excited to announce Penelope Black for our #AMAGC2027 lineup in Knoxville, TN.

🎟 Tickets on sale September 5, 2026 at 12pm EST | bookbestiesandco.com

To stay up to date - join our IG channel, FB group, and as always follow here! #ameetandgreetcute2027 taken in Knoxville, Tennessee by @authorpenelopeblack

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reasons to (un)follow me ✨

Anyone else relate to any of these? 🤭 if so, then we’re def besties now 🙂‍↕️ I don’t make the rules but I do like to follow them (maybe I should’ve mentioned that I’m an eldest daughter rule-follower too? 🤔😂)

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