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The Copper Promise by Jen Williams

The Copper Promise by Jen Williams

There are some far-fetched rumours about the caverns beneath the Citadel. Some say the mages left their most dangerous secrets hidden there; others, that great riches are hidden there; even that gods have been imprisoned in its darkest depths.

For Lord Frith, the caverns hold the key to his vengeance. Against all the odds, he has survived torture and lived to see his home and his family taken from him … and now someone is going to pay. For Wydrin of Crosshaven and her faithful companion, Sir Sebastian Caverson… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Blood & gore depiction
Cannibalism
Torture

Somewhere to Belong by Maya Williams

Somewhere to Belong by Maya Williams

When one fateful accident ruins Samantha’s dreams of dancing in Barcelona, she finds herself kicked out of the only home she’s known for the last twelve years and sent back to live with her family. But her return comes with a devastating shock when she’s faced with hatred from her siblings and the discovery they’ve kept more than one secret from her.

Now, surrounded by a house of strangers, Samantha must learn to stand up for herself or risk being shipped off to another boarding school even farther away. With her dreams of a career in ballet on the line, Samantha is forced to fight the odds and dig out a place for herself among her new housemates and the secret world they live in.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Bullying

To Love While Black Is to Riot by Regina Williams

To Love While Black Is to Riot by Regina Williams

Fire is unstoppable. It is raw, godly in power, and spreads to everything it touches. It is inherently dangerous.

Fire lines the pages of this book like the road to perdition. It is lingering on every word, every phrase, every mention

of love or love lost. It is inescapable and raging.
It is the screaming call of a nation that has been beaten and abused. It is the swaying flame of a people with love flowing through their veins who have remained silent in the face of injustice. The Liberty Bell has gone up in flames and the world is watching. The matches have been lit and the fire is spreading. Are you ready to face the fire?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Cancer mentioned
Police violence

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York’s Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can’t deny their chemistry-or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Divorce recounted
Sexual harassment of a minor mentioned
Child neglect recounted
Chronic migraines (protagonist)
Alcoholism recovery (protagonist)
Self-harm recounted
Alcohol consumption (secondary characters)
Incarceration recounted (off-page)

Context : The protagonist has chronic migraines and her ex-husband divorced her because he didn’t want to be her caregiver. The protagonist was also harassed by her mother’s partner when she was a teenager.

The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar

The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar

Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey is leaving Constance Billard to attend Waverly Academy, an elite boarding school in New York horse country where glamorous rich kids don’t let the rules get in the way of an excellent time. Jenny’s determined to leave her crazy Manhattan past behind and become a sophisticated goddess on campus. But first she’ll have to contend with her self-absorbed roommates, Callie Vernon and Brett Messerschmidt. Hot guys, new intrigue, and more delicious gossip all add up to more trouble than ever for Jenny. But if getting caught with boys and going up against the Disciplinary Committee is what it takes, Jenny is ready. She’ll do all that and more to be The It Girl.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alcohol consumption

Glimpse by Carol Lynn Williams

Glimpse by Carol Lynn Williams

In one moment
it is over.
In one moment
it is gone.

Twelve-year-old Hope’s life is turned upside down when her older sister, Lizzie, becomes an elective mute and is institutionalized after trying to kill herself. Hope and Lizzie have relied on each other from a young age, ever since their dad died. Their mother, who turns tricks to support her family, is a reluctant and unreliable parent—at best.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexual assault
Forced sex work
Child abuse & neglect
Attempted suicide
Abortion
Hospitalisation
Death of a pet dog

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods

Violet is a smart, funny, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl in a family of blonds. Her mom is white, and her dad, who died before she was born, was black. She attends a mostly white school where she sometimes feels like a brown leaf on a pile of snow. She’s tired of people asking if she’s adopted. Now that Violet’s eleven, she decides it’s time to learn about her African American heritage. And despite getting off to a rocky start trying to reclaim her dad’s side of the family, she can feel her confidence growing as the puzzle pieces of her life finally start coming together.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a father in a car accident

The Girl King by Mimi Yu

The Girl King by Mimi Yu

Sisters Lu and Min have always understood their places as princesses of the Empire. Lu knows she is destined to become the dynasty’s first female ruler, while Min is resigned to a life in her shadow. Then their father declares their male cousin Set the heir instead—a betrayal that sends the sisters down two very different paths.

Determined to reclaim her birthright, Lu goes on the run. She needs an ally—and an army—if she is to succeed. Her quest leads her to Nokhai, the last surviving wolf shapeshifter. Nok wants to keep his identity secret, but finds himself forced into an uneasy alliance with the girl whose family killed everyone he ever loved… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Slavery
Sexual assault
Parental abuse
Domestic abuse
Alcohol consumption
Smoking mentioned
Blood depiction
Murder
Knife & sword violence
Animal death

Cinnamon Roll by Anna Zabo

Cinnamon Roll by Anna Zabo

Maxime Demers has had an eye on Tom Cedric for a while, watching him flit from one awful man to another. So when Tom pins an ad to the community cork board at Bold Brew, Max can’t resist reading it. Tom’s looking for a play partner—someone who’s not a jerk—and Max knows he could give Tom what he needs. But first he’ll have to get the man to talk to him.

Tom Cedric thinks Max is way out of his league. He’s handsome, intelligent, speaks a billion languages, and can make a person kneel with a single look—too damn good for someone like Tom… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Attempted sexual assault, off-page
Abusive relationship recounted
Alcohol consumption

Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner

Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner

One day Carver Briggs had it all—three best friends, a supportive family, and a reputation as a talented writer at his high school, Nashville Academy for the Arts.

The next day he lost it all when he sent a simple text to his friend Mars, right before Mars, Eli, and Blake were killed in a car crash.

Now Carver can’t stop blaming himself for the accident, and he’s not the only one. Eli’s twin sister is trying to freeze him out of school with her death-ray stare. And Mars’s father, a powerful judge, is pressuring the district attorney to open a criminal investigation into Carver’s actions… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alcohol consumption mentioned
Smoking mentioned
Death of a child
Death of a friend in a car accident