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Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas

Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas

Four young ladies at the side of the ballroom make a pact to help each other find husbands… no matter what it takes. Proud and beautiful Annabelle Peyton could have her pick of suitors—if only she had a dowry. Her family is on the brink of disaster, and the only way Annabelle can save them is to marry a wealthy man. Unfortunately, her most persistent admirer is the brash Simon Hunt, a handsome and ambitious entrepreneur who wants her as his mistress. Annabelle is determined to resist Simon’s wicked propositions… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault

No Place Like Here by Christina June

No Place Like Here by Christina June

Ashlyn Zanotti has big plans for the summer. She’s just spent a year at boarding school and can’t wait to get home. But when Ashlyn’s father is arrested for tax evasion and her mother enters a rehab facility for “exhaustion,” a.k.a. depression, her life is turned upside down. The cherry on top? Ashlyn’s father sends her to work with a cousin she doesn’t even know at a rustic team-building retreat centre in the middle of nowhere. A self-proclaimed “indoor girl,” not even Ash’s habit of leaving breadcrumb quotes—inspirational sayings she scribbles everywhere—can help her cope… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Incarcerated parent
Depression
Anaphylaxis
Near-drowning

Dead Famous by Ben Elton

Dead Famous by Ben Elton

One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest. Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex with whom? Who will the public love and who will they hate? All the usual questions. And then suddenly, there are some new ones… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Graphic sexual assault
Child sexual abuse
Incest

A Game of Fate by Scarlett St Clair

A Game of Fate by Scarlett St. Clair

Hades, God of the Underworld, is known for his inflexible rule, luxurious night clubs, and impossible bargains. Use to control, he is not prepared to discover the Fates have chosen his future wife and Queen—Persephone, Goddess of Spring. Despite her attraction to the god, Persephone, an ambitious journalism student, is determined to expose Hades for his cruel and ruthless ways. Hades finds himself faced with the impossible—proving his future bride wrong. Despite his efforts, there are forces who wish to keep the two apart and Hades comes to realize he will do anything for his forbidden love, even defy Fate.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Drugging

Heir by Katee Robert

Heir by Katee Robert

My father’s trap failed, but I’m no closer to freedom than when he declared me sacrifice. Now, thanks to the seraphim blood running through my veins, I’m bonded to Malachi, Rylan, and Wolf. Our connection forces us into intimacy that none of us want, but the price of resisting will cost us our very lives. There’s only one path out of this. I have to get pregnant so I can become my father’s heir, and kill him before he assassinates me. I need time. Time to figure out things with my men. Time to come up with a better plan. Just flat-out time. I’ve spent my entire life avoiding confrontation and running instead of fighting… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Pregnancy
Scars

A Rose for the ANZAC Boys by Jackie French

A Rose for the ANZAC Boys by Jackie French

It is 1915. War is being fought on a horrific scale in the trenches of France, but it might as well be a world away from sixteen–year–old New Zealander Midge Macpherson, at school in England learning to be a young lady. But the war is coming closer: Midge’s brothers are in the army, and her twin, Tim, is listed as ‘missing’ in the devastating defeat of the ANZAC forces at Gallipoli. Desperate to do their bit and avoid the boredom of school and the restrictions of Society. Midge and her friends Ethel and Anne start a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & injury depiction
Military enlistment & deployment (scs)
World War I (theme)

Dream by Garrett Leigh

Dream by Garrett Leigh

When unrequited love leaves Dylan Hart sleepless and nursing his wounds, instinct draws him to the one place he’s found mindless respite in the past—Lovato’s. It’s a place for every fantasy — for crazy-hot encounters — where a night of insane NSA sex brings relief to Dylan’s fragile feelings. It should be a perfect escape, and for one magical night it seems that way, but then worlds collide, and reality bites when his hookup desperately needs a friend. Surely Dylan can’t trust his instincts when friendship has bruised his heart so badly before? The deck is stacked against former ballet… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Parental abandonment
Anxiety
Chronic fatigue
Pneumonia
Death of a father

Defekt by Nino Cipri

Defekt by Nino Cipri

Derek is LitenVärld’s most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later. But after taking his first ever sick day, his manager calls that loyalty into question. An excellent employee like Derek, an employee made to work at LitenVärld, shouldn’t need time off. To test his commitment to the job, Derek is assigned to a special inventory shift. hunting through the store to find defective products. Toy chests with pincers and eye stalks… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries
Emesis

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

Daisy Darker is arriving at her grandmother’s house for her eightieth birthday. It is Halloween, and Seaglass – the crumbling Cornish house perched upon its own tiny private island – is at one with the granite rocks it sits on. The Darker family haven’t all been in the same place for over a decade, and when the tide comes in they’ll be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. When the tide goes back out, nothing will ever be the same again, because one of them is a killer . . .

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Animal death

Royally Betrayed by Lea Jade

Royally Betrayed by Lea Jade

As a trained assassin, my mission is simple: Find the evidence. Kill the King. Only, I didn’t expect there to be complications. Or a fearless lioness on my trail. An angelic warrior with an intoxicating scent and powerful energy I can’t ignore. My beast craves to take her and make her mine. She is everything I want and more. To hell with orders. But claiming her was a mistake. Hurting her even more so. Despite the beast inside giving me no choice. I need to capture her and make her mine once and for all… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault mentioned
Murder
Bullying