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Addicted for Now by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Addicted for Now by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

No. More. Sex. Those are the three words Lily Calloway fears the most. But Loren Hale is determined to be with Lily without enabling her dangerous compulsions. With their new living situation—sleeping in the same bed, for real, together—Lily has new battles. Like not jumping Lo’s bones every night. Not being consumed by sex and his body.

Loren plans to stay sober, to right all of his… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Fatmisia & body shaming
Rape mentioned
Sexual assault
Parental abuse & neglect
Abandonment
Disordered food & weight thoughts discussed
Sex addiction
Alcoholism
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Drug use
Drugging

Ricochet by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Ricochet by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

As a sex addict, Lily Calloway must do the impossible. Stay celibate for 90 days. Cravings and fantasies become her new routine, but while Loren Hale recovers from his alcohol addiction, Lily wonders if he’ll realize what a monster she really is. After all, her sexual compulsions begin to rule her life the longer she stays faithful to him. Progress. That’s what Lily’s striving for. But by trying to become closer to her family… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Fatmisia & body shaming
Rape mentioned
Sexual assault
Parental abuse & neglect
Abandonment
Disordered food & weight thoughts discussed
Sex addiction
Alcoholism
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Drug use
Drugging

Kiss the Sky by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Kiss the Sky by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

Rose Calloway thought she had everything under control. At twenty-three, she’s a Princeton graduate, an Academic Bowl champion, a fashion designer and the daughter of a Fortune 500 mogul. But with a sex addict as a sister and roommate, nothing comes easy.

After accepting help from a producer, Rose agrees to have her life filmed for a reality television show. The Hollywood exec is her last chance to rev…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia & body shaming
Slut-shaming
Adult-minor relationship
Paedophilia & grooming
Sexual assault
Abandonment
Parental abuse
Alcoholism
Sex addiction
Nightmares
Disordered food & weight thoughts
Cancer
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Wrongful incarceration
Bullying

Addicted to You by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Addicted to You by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway’s biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own.

Loren Hale’s best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Sexual assault
Child abuse
Parental abandonment
Sex addiction (theme)
Alcoholism

From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon

From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon

As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent, where Eva discovers she is just one of many Jews being sheltered by the Catholic Chu… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Loss of limb
World War Two (theme)

Making Faces by Amy Harmon

Making Faces by Amy Harmon

Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She’d been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have . . . until he wasn’t beautiful anymore. Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic violence mentioned
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, on-page
Disfigurement from a military injury
Death of a friend, on-page
Murder, on-page

Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain

Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain

Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She lives in San Diego with a husband she adores, and they are trying to adopt a baby because they can’t have a child on their own. But the process of adoption brings to light many questions about Molly’s past and her family—the family she left behind in North Carolina twenty years before. The mother she says is dead but who is very much alive. The father she adored and whose death sent her running from the small community of Morrison’s Ridge. Her own birth mother whose mysterious presence in her family raised so many… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Assisted suicide
Infertility

Ten Tiny Breaths by KA Tucker

Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A. Tucker

Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind—all but one. Her little sister, Livie. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle; she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a parent in a car accident

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella

Audrey can’t leave the house. she can’t even take off her dark glasses inside the house. Then her brother’s friend Linus stumbles into her life. With his friendly, orange-slice smile and his funny notes, he starts to entice Audrey out again – well, Starbucks is a start. And with Linus at her side, Audrey feels like she can do the things she’d thought were too scary. Suddenly, finding her way back to the real world seems achievable.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist slurs
Fatmisia
Social Anxiety & Generalised Anxiety Disorder
Depressive episodes

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Stockholm Syndrome (theme)
Suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Drugging
Kidnapping & captivity