On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer 

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

Joel’s best friend Tony drowns while they are swimming in the forbidden, treacherous Vermilion River. Joel is terrified at having to tell of his disobedience and overwhelmed by his feelings of guilt.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a friend by drowning (theme)
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A Million Miles Away by Lara Avery

A Million Miles Away by Lara Avery

When high school senior Kelsey’s identical twin sister, Michelle, dies in a car crash, Kelsey is left without her other half. The only person who doesn’t know about the tragedy is Michelle’s boyfriend, Peter, recently deployed to Afghanistan. But when Kelsey finally connects with Peter online, she can’t bear to tell him the truth. Active duty has taken its toll, and Peter, thinking that Kelsey is Michelle, says that seeing her is the one thing keeping him alive. Caught up in the moment, Kelsey lets Peter believe that she is her sister. As Kelsey keeps up the act, she crosses the line. Kelsey can’t deny that she’s falling, hard, for the one boy she shouldn’t want.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a sister in a car accident
  • Military service
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Lease on Love by Falon Ballard

Lease on Love by Falon Ballard

After getting passed over for an overdue—and much needed—promotion, Sadie Green is in desperate need of three things: a stiff drink, a new place to live, and a one-night-stand. When one drink turns into one too many, Sadie mixes up a long-ignored dating app for a roommate-finding app and finds herself on the doorstep of Jack Thomas’s gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone. Too bad she’s more attracted to his impressive real estate than she is to the man himself… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Emotional & verbal parental abuse recounted
  • Anxiety
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
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Hello by Chandler Baker and Wesley King 

Hello (from Here) by Chandler Baker & Wesley King

Maxine and Jonah bump into each other in the canned goods aisle of the grocery store just as the state of California is going into lockdown, when everything changes completely. Could there be a worse time to meet? Max’s part-time job at a supermarket is about to transform into a hellish gauntlet. Jonah’s preexisting anxiety is about to become an epic daily struggle. As Max, Jonah, and their friends live together but apart through hijinks, humanity, and heartbreak,

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
  • Panic attacks
  • Emesis
  • AIDS
  • COVID-19 (theme)
  • Death of a parent
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Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truviv’s CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a different relationship with Ames, who has always been surrounded by whispers about how he treats women. Those whispers have been ignored, swept under the rug, hidden away by those in charge.

But the world has changed, and the women are watching this promotion differently. This time… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Workplace sexual harassment (theme)
  • Postpartum depression
  • Cyberbullying
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This Is Not the End by Chandler Baker

This Is Not the End by Chandler Baker

On one cloudless, radiant summer afternoon, Lake Devereaux lost everything. The car crash claimed the lives of her best friend and boyfriend, the people who had become her family after her own fell apart. But she doesn’t have to lose them both.

The development of resurrection technology has changed the world. Under the new laws regulating the process, each person gets one resurrection to be used or forfeited on their eighteenth birthday. Mere weeks away from turning eighteen, Lake faces an impossible choice… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide
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My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey

My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod—just me and my beloved brother—but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe I can be helpful, despite countless hours of true-crime podcast listening. Not to mention a fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders.

A brash bounty hunter and an energetic elementary schoolteacher: the murder-solving team… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment mentioned
  • Divorce recounted
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping mentioned
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Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey

Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey

Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. I’m standing alone in front of the famous Vivant department store, when a charming man named Aiden asks my opinion of the décor.

It’s a tragedy in tinsel, I say, unable to lie.
He asks for a better idea with a twinkle in his eye.
Did I know he owned the place? No. He put me on the spot. Now I’m working for that man, trying to ignore that he’s hot… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Toxic friendship discussed
  • Imprisonment for armed robbery recounted
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Disturbing His Peace by Tessa Bailey

Disturbing His Peace by Tessa Bailey

Danika Silva can’t stand Lt. Greer Burns. Her roommate’s older brother may be sexy as hell, but he’s also a cold, unfeeling robot. She just wants to graduate and forget about her scowling superior. But when a dangerous mistake lands Danika on probation—under Greer’s watch—she’s forced to interact with the big, hulking jerk. Call him daily to check-in? Done. Ride shotgun in his cruiser every night? Done. Try not to climb into his giant, muscular lap and kiss him? Umm…

Greer doesn’t let anything—or anyone—distract him from the job… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted robbery & assault
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Indecent Exposure by Tessa Bailey

Indecent Exposure by Tessa Bailey

Jack Garrett isn’t a police officer yet, but there’s already an emergency. His new firearms instructor—the one who just dropped every jaw in the academy gym—is the same sexy Irish stranger Jack locked lips with last night. The Olympic gold medalist and expert markswoman is now officially off-limits, but Jack’s never cared much for rules.

Katie McCoy’s been cooped up in a shooting range for too long. A wild love affair is just what she needs to let loose, though she never imagined it would be with her smokin’ hot traineeRead more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape recounted*
  • Alcoholism

* Explanation : At eighteen, the hero was coerced into having sex with one of his mother’s friends when he was drunk. The trauma developed into alcoholism.

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