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Game Changer by Rachel Reid

Game Changer by Rachel Reid

Pro hockey star Scott Hunter knows a good thing when he sees it. So, when a smoothie made by juice bar barista Kip Grady precedes Scott breaking his on-ice slump, he’s desperate to recreate the magic…and to get to know the sexy, funny guy behind the counter, Kip knew there was more to Scott’s frequent visits than blended fruit, but he never let himself imagine being invited back to Scott’s penthouse .Or kissed with reckless abandon, never mind touched everywhere all at once. When it happens it’s red-hot, incredible and frequent, but also only on Scott’s terms and always behind his closed apartment doors…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism mentioned
Homophobia & slurs
Alcohol consumption
Sports injury depiction
Death of a mother recounted

Axiom: The Last Hope by Rachel Marie Pearcy

Axiom: The Last Hope by Rachel Marie Pearcy

Finally, all parts of the Axiom Series come together in one book. Generations ago, the human species was driven to the brink of extinction, forcing those who remained to flee to the city of Axiom; a utopian paradise where all your decisions are made for you. The house you live in, your occupation, and even your marriage arrangement are all regulated by the Assembly, leaving the pressures of free will far behind you. As Annabella Bower enters her last year of schooling, and the final step to adulthood, she’s blissfully unaware of the horrors her perfect… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Physical abuse
Suicidal ideation
Death of a parent

Dallas by Rachelle Mills

Dallas by Rachelle Mills

My bones still hold the gouges of rejection. It still hurts, watching Clayton love the one he rejected me for, and it probably always will. My body still yearns for my destined mate, the Moon refusing to set us free from the bond that stems from the marrow of our existence.

Anguish and heartache with unbearable pain is the life I thought I was destined to live… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cheating
Death during childbirth
Pregnancy
Attempted suicide mentioned

Clayton by Rachelle Mills

Clayton by Rachelle Mills

He is my mate, and she is his everything. But he chose her, against every single instinct that we both know. For that, I have been whipped, shunned, shamed, disgraced, and broken. All for one moment of madness I could not control… After two years, I left, unable to bear the pain and loneliness anymore. That was then.

I am back, and I am not the juvenile I was. I am now a full-grown female. I feel his eyes on me, but I can’t. I won’t. Time has healed my wounds, but not… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted suicide mentioned
Unplanned pregnancy of a minor mentioned
Whipping

Saturdays at Noon by Rachel Marks

Saturdays at Noon by Rachel Marks

Emily just wants to keep the world away. She doesn’t want anyone to know all the ways her life is messed up. Going to anger management every Saturday, talking to strangers, was not part of the plan.

Jake just wants to keep his family together. He’s also messed everything up. Going to anger management is now his best hope for bonding with his six-year-old Alfie. Emily can’t understand why Jake… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
Sexual assault
Physical child abuse
Alcoholism
Substance addiction
Blood depiction

His Hollow Heart by Rachel Leigh

His Hollow Heart by Rachel Leigh

Bella: A pact made. Two orphans who vowed to never part. I was selfish. For once, I had to be. The last time I saw Callum he was standing at the dormer window as I sat in the back seat of the car. His dark eyes foreign to me.
The hatred that radiated from his glare shot through me with more force than a silver bullet. In a matter of minutes, he had become a stranger. No longer my best friend.
He was now a boy with a hollow heart who was headed down a dark path. A path I knew I’d never cross again. Or, so I thought… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Night terrors
Kidnapping

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

2017: 19-year-old Tallulah is going out on a date, leaving her baby with her mother, Kim.

Kim watches her daughter leave and, as late evening turns into night, which turns into early morning, she waits for her return. And waits. The next morning, Kim phones Tallulah’s friends who tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a party at a house in the nearby woods called Dark Place. She never returns… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Drugging
Murder
Kidnapping

Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner

Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner

Brynn Haper’s life has one steadying force–Rachel Maddow. She watches her daily, and after writing to Rachel for a school project–and actually getting a response–Brynn starts drafting e-mails to Rachel but never sending them. Brynn tells Rachel about breaking up with her first serious girlfriend, about her brother Nick’s death, about her passive mother and even worse stepfather, about how she’s stuck in remedial courses at school and is considering dropping out… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Child abuse
Suicidal ideation
Alcohol abuse
Death of a brother from a drug overdose

The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale

The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg––taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now 36 years old, Delphine has returned to her former home and to the legendary Palais Garnier Opera House, to choreograph the ballet that will kickstart the next phase of her career––and, she hopes, finally make things right with her former friends. But Delphine quickly discovers that things have changed while she’s been away…and some secrets can’t stay buried… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual harassment
Revenge porn, including revenge porn involving minors
Infidelity
Eating disorder
Discussions of weight & body image
Alcoholism
Miscarriage
Abortion
Cancer
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Murder

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation. Enlisting the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Homomisia
Antisemitism
Chronic illness
Plague
Death of a parent
Murder
Exile
Forced conversion