Apply Here
Love Notes PR is delighted to invite you to participate in the release of The Bear and the Lamb by Halle Oak. This will be a digital ARC release. Love Notes PR and Halle Oak have final decisions over ARC allocations.
Please fill out this form with all the required information, any forms submitted which are incomplete will not be accepted. Only successful candidates will receive an email confirming they were selected.
The Bear and the Lamb by Halle Oak
Cover Reveal: December 15th 2025
Release Day: January 20th 2026
Tropes: Protector x Innocent Heroine, Wanted Man, Soft Dom Outlaw, Forced Proximity, Captive x Caretaker, Touch-her-and-Die, Discipline, Trapped Wife, Forbidden love, Morally Gray, Fierce Protector, Fate Written in the Stars, On the run from the law, 1890s American Frontier, Western / Cowboy Vibes.
Series: This is Book One of the Fated Outlaws Series. No cliffhanger.
POV: Dual POV.
Content Warnings: Married SA, Murder, Robbery, Alcohol and Tobacco Use, Light Discipline, Horse Death (natural causes/non violent), fertility Issues, Pregnancy, Childbirth, References to religion. For readers aged 18+.
Expected Page Count: 300.
BLURB:
She prayed for a protector. The stars sent her an outlaw.
She's the obedient wife of a powerful man.
He's the bloodied stranger chained in her guest room.
Alice Sherman has spent years silencing herself in a marriage that rewards her loyalty with bruises and cold indifference. By day, she manages her husband's country inn. By night, she gazes at the stars, dreaming of freedom. She never expected that dream to arrive in the form of a wounded outlaw dumped at her doorstep, shackled to the bed and barely alive.
He's dangerous. He's defiant. And when Alice touches him-for bandages, for broth-he looks at her like she's the one with the power. Like he sees the woman no one else has ever bothered to.
As secrets unravel and passions ignite, Alice must choose: the life she was forced into-or the man who could burn it all down just to set her free.
Steamy, suspenseful, and irresistibly dangerous, The Bear and the Lamb is a forbidden historical romance for readers who love scarred antiheroes, slow-burn tension, and heroines who discover their fire.