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The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris

The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris

Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where he’s being held for murder.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Suicide mentioned
Gun violence

A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris

A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris

In this second thrilling instalment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straightforward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what’s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time..

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Slavery
Domestic violence
Lynching
Gun violence

An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris

An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris

In the southwestern country now known as Texoma, this is a world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico, gunslinger Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards.

She may be young, but Gunnie Rose has acquired a fearsome reputation and the wizards are at a desperate crossroads, even if they won’t admit it… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape & attempted rape
Kidnapping
Gun violence
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

Things between cocktail waitress Sookie and her vampire boyfriend Bill seem to be going excellently (apart from the small matter of him being undead) until he leaves town for a while. A long while. Bill’s sinister boss Eric has an idea of where to find him, whisking her off to Jackson, Mississippi to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead. When she finally catches up with the errant vampire, he is in big trouble and caught in an act of serious betrayal. This raises serious doubts as to whether she should save him or start sharpening a few stakes of her own…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Sexual assault

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out.

Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn’t such a bright idea.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child sexual abuse recounted
Blood depiction & blood-drinking
Death of a parent by drowning recounted
Murder of a grandmother
Physical assault
Death of a pet cat

Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King & Richard Chizmar and illustrated by Keith Minnion

The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told… until now.

There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974 twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zig-zag… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Suicide

Joyland by Stephen King

Joyland by Stephen King

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a child in a car accident

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless – mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death..

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Paedophilia & child sexual abuse recounted
Alcoholism recovery
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a child
Murder
Torture
Gun violence

Under the Dome by Stephen King

Under the Dome by Stephen King

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighbouring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Gang rape
Suicide
Drug use
Necrophilia
Dead bodies
Murder
Police brutality
Animal death

The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub

Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the only thing that can save Jack’s dying mother. But to reach his goal, Jack must make his way not only across the breadth of the United States but also through the wondrous and menacing parallel world of the Territories.

In the Territories, Jack finds another realm, where the air is so sweet and clear a man can smell a radish… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse