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Rebound by LA Witt

Rebound by L.A. Witt

Officer Geoff Logan has his plate full. His cop’s salary and Marine retirement aren’t enough to make ends meet. He’s got war wounds and demons that are in it for the long haul. His teenagers are, well, teenagers, plus they’re pissed that he left the boyfriend they loved. Can’t a guy catch a break?

Seattle Steelheads center Asher Crowe has it all. A seven figure salary. A literal house on a hill. A stable, loving relationship with an amazing boyfriend. At least, that’s what the world sees. Behind closed doors, he’s been living in a private hell, and when he finally works up the courage to end things, his boyfriend refuses to go quietly… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Intimate partner violence & abuse recounted
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott

Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott

A novel in verse, Paper Hearts is the story of survival, defiance, and friendship. Based on historical events about a group of girls who were slave laborers at the munitions factory in Auschwitz.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Slavery
Executions
Concentration camps
World War Two

Under His Heel by Adara Wolf

Under His Heel by Adara Wolf

Alex is trapped. His life has been one bad decision after the other, and now he’s forced to work off his debt with a spaceship captain or risk a fate worse than death.

Captain Tracht is respected and well-connected. Unfortunately, he also has some very questionable private interests, and makes no secret that he intends Alex to participate in them, whether he likes it or not.

It’s an experience of pain, humiliation, and tears, but somehow Alex finds himself growing less and less interested in his eventual release…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Torture
Kidnapping

The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio by Hubert Wolf

The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio by Hubert Wolf

A true, never-before-told story-discovered in a secret Vatican archive-of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.

In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of SantAmbrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent investigation by the Churchs Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of SantAmbrogio and the illicit behavior of the convents beautiful young mistress, Maria Luisa. Having convinced those under her charge that she was having regular visions and heavenly visitations… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Sexual abuse

Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

Allie lost everything the night her boyfriend, Trip, died in a horrible car accident—including her memory of the event. As their small town mourns his death, Allie is afraid to remember because doing so means delving into what she’s kept hidden for so long: the horrible reality of their abusive relationship.

When the police reopen the investigation, it casts suspicion on Allie and her best friend, Blake, especially as their budding romance raises eyebrows around town. Allie knows she must tell the truth. Can she reach deep enough to remember that night so she can finally break free?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Abusive relationship
Memory loss
Death of a boyfriend
Car accident

Covet by Tracy Wolff

Covet by Tracy Wolff

I may have reached my breaking point. As if trying to graduate from a school for supernaturals isn’t stressful enough, my relationship status has gone from complicated to a straight-up dumpster fire. Oh, and the Bloodletter has decided to drop a bomb of epic proportions on us all… Then again, when has anything at Katmere Academy not been intense?

And the hits just keep coming. Jaxon’s turned colder than an Alaskan winter. The Circle is splintered over my upcoming coronation. As if things couldn’t get worse, now there’s an arrest warrant for Hudson’s and my supposed crimes—which apparently means a lifetime prison sentence with a deadly unbreakable curse.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Parental abandonment mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Blood-drinking
Loss of limb
Death of a friend
Death of a parent in a car accident mentioned
Knife violence & stabbing
Strangulation
Vivisepulture (being buried alive)
Loss of autonomy (possession)

Crush by Tracy Wolff

Crush by Tracy Wolff

Everything feels off—especially me. I’ve returned to Katmere Academy, but I’m haunted by fragments of days I have no recollection of living and struggling to understand who, or what, I really am.

Just when I start to feel safe again, Hudson is back with a vengeance. He insists there are secrets I don’t know about, threatening to drive a wedge between Jaxon and me forever. But far worse enemies are at our doorstep… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Physical & emotional parental abuse recounted
Blood & gore depiction
Blood-drinking
Death of a parent in a car accident recounted
Knife violence & stabbing
Strangulation
Vivisepulture (being buried alive)
Loss of autonomy (possession)

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Crave by Tracy Wolff

My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods…or monsters. I still can’t decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me.

Then there’s Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn’t felt anything for a hundred years. But there’s something about him that calls to me, something broken in him that somehow fits with what’s broken in me… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Nonconsensual drugging
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Blood-drinking
Death from exsanguination
Dead bodies mentioned
Death of a parent in a car accident recounted
Gun violence
Knife violence & stabbing
Strangulation
Hanging mentioned
Kidnapping

A Hundred Hours of Night by Anna Woltz

A Hundred Hours of Night by Anna Woltz

When Emilia de Wit ran away to New York City, she planned everything to a T. Plane ticket, purchased. Cute apartment, rented online. Subway map, printed and highlighted. This was no ordinary trip — this was Emilia’s declaration of independence. Her chance to escape the life her parents were ruining. To get away from the horrible scandal that had rocked Amsterdam, the scandal that was all her dad’s fault. To see if her mom, the glamorous, world-famous artist, would even notice.

New York steals Emilia’s heart at first sight — even though absolutely nothing goes to plan. She didn’t plan to end up homeless on a stranger’s doorstep… Read morez.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Anxiety
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Bullying

Fake by Stephanie Wood

Fake by Stephanie Wood

Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a sweet man who owns a farm and property, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about the future with her. She falls in love. She also becomes increasingly beset by anxiety at the lavish three-act plays he offers her in the form of excuses for frequent cancellations and no-shows. She begins to wonder, who is this man? … Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

Cheating
Emotional abuse
Domestic abuse mentioned
Toxic relationships