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Asking for Trouble by Tessa Bailey

Brent Mason and Hayden Winstead can’t stand each other. She plans exclusive parties for her rich family’s charities. He’s a rough and tumble cop who rigs explosives for a living. Could two people be any less suited for conversation? They think not and prefer to keep it that way. Unfortunately, their two best friends are deeply, disgustingly in love. Forced together, the mutual attraction simmering beneath the surface of Brent and Hayden’s non-relationship grows with every argument until it explodes into a scintillating night of mind-blowing sex. And it wont be the last, as far as Brent’s concerned. Hayden has a secret… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexism
Sexual harassment
Death of a father from overdose recounted

A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

After many lonely years, Abby’s just gotten married. She met her new husband―a recently widowed dentist―when he arrived in town with his young daughter, seeking a new start. Although it’s strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother. But the more she learns about her new husband’s first wife, the more things don’t add up. And Abby starts to wonder . . . was Sheila’s death really by natural causes? As Abby sinks deeper into confusion, Sheila’s memory seems to become a force all its own, ensnaring… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Suicide mentioned
Cancer mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Murder

Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban

After being jilted by her ex-boyfriend and best friend, Jade couldn’t be more ready to embark on the adventure of a lifetime—11 countries in 4 months, all from the luxurious Campus on Board ship—and to wedge an entire globe between her and the people who broke her heart. But when Jade discovers the backstabbing couple are also setting sail, her obsession with them grows and festers, leading to a shocking murder. And as their friends begin to drop like flies, Jade and her new crush must race to clear her name and find the killer they’re trapped at sea with….before anyone else winds up in body bags.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Infidelity
Alcohol consumption
Overdose mentioned (opiates)
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a friend
Death of a parent recounted
Murder
Death from hanging
Gun & knife violence
Car accident

Heartless Heathens by Santana Knox

Hey, Over here. No, look up. Yeah, I’m the one they talk about. The headmaster’s prized possession, locked away in the bell tower of NotreDame Parochial College. To most of the students I was just a myth. An urban legend. The girl who rings the bells up in the tower, the one who talks to gargoyles. Frollo’s secret. Then they showed up, those heartless heathens. Outcasts, just like me. But these men aren’t just dangerous, they’re heartless. They won’t abide or bend to the rules of this deranged school and the secrets it keeps from the world. But now that they’ve found me, they may never let me go. And maybe I wouldn’t want.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Physical, psychological & emotional child abuse
Nightmares & flashbacks
Epilepsy
Alcohol consumption
Starvation
Emesis
Death of a mother in childbirth recounted
Execution of a mother for being an abortion provider
Disappearance of a parent recounted
Captivity

Rouge by Mona Awad

For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Cannibalism
Murder

The Lighthouse Witches by CJ Cooke

When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it’s an opportunity to start over with her three daughters–Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she’s frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Cancer
Murder of a child

The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

1978: at her renowned treatment centre in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she’s home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she’s just Gran—teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris—silent, hollow-eyed, skittish, and feral—does not behave like a normal girl. Still, Violet is thrilled to have a new playmate. She and Eric invite Iris to join their Monster Club… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse
Human experimentation

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of his childhood summer companions and the killer that stalked the small New England town. Of the body they found, and the horror of that discovery echoing down the decades. And of Sky, Wilder’s one-time best friend, who stole his unfinished memoir and turned it into a lurid bestselling novel, Looking Glass Sound. But as Wilder writes, the lines between memory and fiction blur. He fears he’s losing his grip on reality when he finds notes hidden around the cottage written in Sky’s… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Cheating mentioned
Conversion therapy mentioned
Depression
Panic attack
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Drug use mentioned
Abortion
Emesis
Murder
Gun violence
Poisoning
Kindapping of a child
Drowning mentioned
Stalking

Holly by Stephen King

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Homomisia
Rape
Sexual harassment
Abortion
Cancer
Cannibalism
COVID-19 pandemic
School shooting

Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

Rory Morris isn’t thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby’s father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she’d put in her rearview. After a night out at a bar where she runs into an old almost-flame, she hits a large animal with her car. And when she gets out to investigate, she’s attacked. Rory survives, miraculously, but life begins to look and feel different. She’s unnaturally strong, with an aversion to silver–and suddenly the moon has her in its thrall. She’s changing into someone else… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual assault mentioned
Physical child abuse & neglect recounted
Infidelity recounted
Smoking
Alcohol consumption
Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned (secondary character)
Emesis
Hospitalisation
Blood, gore & injury depiction
Animal death & attack