The Vatican Princess by C.W. Gortner

The Vatican Princess by C.W. Gortner

Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias became Italy’s most ruthless and powerful family, electrifying and terrorizing their 15th-century Renaissance world. To this day, Lucrezia Borgia is known as one of history’s most notorious villainesses, accused of incest and luring men to doom with her arsenal of poison.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating
  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Incest

Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann

Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann

When Amber runs, it’s the only time she feels completely free – far away from her claustrophobic home life. Her father wants her to be a dutiful daughter, waiting for an arranged marriage like her sister Ruby. Running is a quiet rebellion. But Amber wants so much more – and she’s ready to fight for it. It’s time for a revolution.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Domestic abuse
  • Alcoholism
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Emesis
  • Dieting mentioned
  • Bullying

Cursed Wolf by Brogan Thomas

Cursed Wolf by Brogan Thomas

Loathed by those who should love her, can one fierce woman discover the secrets of her unique blood in time to be her own rescuer? Forrest Hesketh desperately clings to humanity. Trapped in an infuriatingly inept wolf form since she was nine years old, the traumatised girl’s hope of regaining her ability to shift is slowly fading. But as her abusive pack plots to kill her, her desperate act to help her kind stepbrother finally triggers the broken young woman’s transformation. Stunned that suddenly everyone wants her after fourteen years of horrific treatment, Forrest struggles to,… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Suicide
  • Drugging
  • Death of parents
  • Death of a sibling

Betrayal of the Court by Heather Harris

Betrayal of the Court by Heather G. Harris

Death. Theft. Marriage. It’s an average day in the Other Realm. Someone keeps bludgeoning people in the Other realm to death. A couple of the murders were virtually in our back garden, so Emory has asked me to try and find the culprit. I’d feel better if I didn’t have Shirdal along with me, cracking jokes and on the verge of a deadly killing spree of his own. Plus, there’s the small matter of the missing multi-million pound Eye of Ebrell that I still need to locate. Having overcome the damned challenges, you’d think I’d be welcomed by the dragons with open arms – but no, the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Disappearance of a child

Bad Medicine by Laken Cane

Bad Medicine by Laken Cane

Do you know what’s stronger than a wolf shifter? A shapeshifter. A shapeshifter is stronger than a wolf shifter. When I discover a shapeshifting serial killer is targeting human women in my city, I have to go after him. Even though he’s more powerful than me. Even though he says we’re exactly the same. Even though there’s a connection between us. He believes he’s only taking out the trash, that the women he slaughters deserve their punishment. Too bad for him no one else agrees. They want him stopped. And too bad for us that stopping him is nearly impossible. The council sends me after him and tells me to bring him to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Serial murder of women

The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu

The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu

Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. They’re living together in a fabulous loft, their warlock son, Max, has started learning to walk, and the streets of New York are peaceful and quiet—as peaceful and quiet as they ever are, anyway. Until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus’s apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to get it back. They need to follow the thieves to Shanghai, they need to call some backup to accompany them, and they need a babysitter. Also, someone has stabbed… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a child mentioned
  • Torture
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping

The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu

The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu

All Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation—a lavish trip across Europe with Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter who against all odds is finally his boyfriend. But as soon as the pair settles in Paris, an old friend arrives with news about a demon-worshipping cult called the Crimson Hand that is bent on causing chaos around the world. A cult that was apparently founded by Magnus himself. Years ago. As a joke. Now Magnus and Alec must race across Europe to track down the Crimson Hand and its elusive new leader before the cult can cause any more damage. As if it wasn’t… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Physical child abuse recounted
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Death of a friend mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder of a child
  • Torture
  • Explosion
  • Poisoning
  • Imprisonment
  • Near-drowning incident
  • Cults
  • War themes

Challenge of the Court by Heather Harris

Challenge of the Court by Heather G. Harris

I’m supposed to be meeting with Emory’s dragon Court and amazing them with my suave wit and shining intellect. Instead, I’m on the trail of a kidnapper. Someone has stolen away a centaur teenager, Alfie, from a magical circus. The circus master has hired me and Gato to find out who took him – hopefully, before Alfie swims with the fishes. The problem is, no one in the circus is who they say they are. The Other Circus is a front for a magical underground, helping those that want to leave their magical lives far behind. They’ve spent years keeping their heads down and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic violence
  • Disappearance of a child

Death’s Captive by GK DeRosa

Death’s Captive by G.K. DeRosa

The god of death is coming for me.. He watches me through the eyes of a violent wolf—one who believes I’m his fated mate. He’s cruel and vicious… to everyone other than me. I know I should run, but I can’t deny the longing for him stirring deep within me. Just when I allow myself to trust him, he reveals his true nature. Enveloping me in his deadly embrace, he seeks to claim my soul. Despite my aching desire for him, I’ve made a vow to myself. Only I will be the one to determine my fate.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned

Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas

Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas

Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. And from the moment he meets the shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, he is determined to possess her. If he must take her virtue to ensure she marries him, so much the better. Helen has had little contact with the glittering, cynical world of London society. Yet Rhys’s determined seduction awakens an intense mutual passion. Helen’s gentle upbringing belies a stubborn conviction that only she can tame her unruly husband. As Rhys’s enemies conspire against them, Helen must trust… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Classism
  • Sexism
  • Parental abandonment
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Death during childbirth