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The Second and His Bonded by Kiki Clark

The Second and His Bonded by Kiki Clark

After barely escaping his abusive family, wolf shifter Kieran McAllister struggles to find his place in the Kincaid Pack. Especially with the pushy but gorgeous second-in-command showing up every time Kieran turns around… and making him want things he shouldn’t.

The traumatized wolf who continuously refuses Bennett Young’s help has begun to haunt his dreams. But if there’s one thing he knows, it’s that tiger shifters don’t have mates. So why can’t Bennett get Kieran’s sad… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse recounted

Warnings sourced from Alex @HEABookNerd.

The Alpha and His King by Kiki Clark

The Alpha and His King by Kiki Clark

As alpha, Rick’s dedication to his pack has never wavered—until Kai. The pull he feels toward the younger man is more than a simple distraction, but Rick won’t let himself lose focus. Not while a hidden enemy is drawing near.

Moving in with the grumpy alpha who saved him is a big change for Kai, and it isn’t long before he begins to ache for something he can’t have. As a half-human shifter responsible for his three younger siblings, he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse & neglect recounted

Warnings sourced from Alex @HEABookNerd.

Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare

Go Hex Yourself by Jessica Clare

When Reggie Johnson answers a job ad in the paper, she’s astonished to find that she’s not applying to work at her favourite card game, Spellcraft: The Magicking. Instead, she’s applying to be an actual familiar for an actual witch. As in, real magic.

The new job has a few perks – great room and board, excellent pay, and she’s apprenticing to a powerful witch. Sure, the witch is a bit eccentric. And sure… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment & abuse
Abusive relationship mentioned
Suicide mentioned

King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St Clair

King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair

Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry the vampire king, Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him.

But her assassination attempt is thwarted and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries to kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a parent recounted

Lucifer’s Daughter by Kel Carpenter

Lucifer’s Daughter by Kel Carpenter

We’ve all heard the story of the Four Horsemen. Harbingers of the apocalypse. Destruction given form. Four of the sexiest—wait no—forget that. You get my point. So imagine my surprise when I find out everything I’ve ever been told, is a lie. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here. Let’s start from the beginning.

My name is Ruby Morningstar. I run a tattoo parlour in Portland with my best friend, have a pet raccoon, a crazy ex that stalks me, not to mention this one… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted rape

Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron

Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron

Brody Fair feels like nobody gets him: not his overworked parents, not his genius older brother, and definitely not the girls in the projects set on making his life miserable. Then he meets Nico, an art student who takes Brody to Everland, a “knock-off Narnia” that opens its door at 11:21pm each Thursday for Nico and his band of present-day misfits and miscreants.

Here Brody finds his tribe and a weekly respite from a world where he feels out of place… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Eating disorder
Agoraphobia
Panic attacks
Suicide discussed

The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse when each person’s memories – of parents, children, love, life, and self – are lost. Unless they have been written.

It is 1943, and for four years, sIn Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Self-harm
Suicide mentioned
Blood depiction
Murder
Torture
Knife violence & stabbing
Poisoning
Kidnapping
Flogging mentioned

The Brilliant Death by AR Capetta

The Brilliant Death by A.R. Capetta

For Teodora DiSangro, a mafia don’s daughter, family is fate. All her life, Teodora has hidden the fact that she secretly turns her family’s enemies into music boxes, mirrors, and other decorative objects. After all, everyone in Vinalia knows that stregas—wielders of magic—are figures out of fairytales. Nobody believes they’re real.

Then the Capo, the land’s new ruler, sends poisoned letters to the heads of the Five Families that have… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Transmisia
Arranged marriage
Death of a parent mentioned
Organised crime (mafia)

The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta

The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin. And everyone who eats Syd’s breakup brownies . . . breaks up. Even Vin and Alec, who own the Proud Muffin. And their breakup might take the bakery down with it. Being dumped is one thing; causing ripples of queer heartbreak through the community is another. But the cute bike delivery person, Harley (he or they, check the pronoun pin, it’s probably on the messenger bag), believes… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Dysphoria

The Storm of Life by Amy Rose Capetta

The Storm of Life by A.R. Capetta

By turns thrilling, witty, and heartbreaking, this dramatic conclusion to the Brilliant Death duet transports us to a Vinalia on the verge of transformation and radiates with the electric power of love.

With her power over magic finally in hand, and her love for Cielo, at last, confessed, Teodora di Sangro should be on top of the world. But the country of Vinalia is in chaos as the dictator-like Capo threatens to plunge them all into war and capture every strega in the land… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Infanticide
Attempted kidnapping