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The Danger You Know by Lily White

The Danger You Know by Lily White

You’ll judge me. Hate me and tell me I’m wrong. Refuse to see how my darkness is what she needs. While I don’t particularly care about your feelings in the matter, and while I pursue her despite the wedding bells that rang for another, only I can see how she is drowning beneath mediocrity. How many times must I remind her? It can’t matter that I am the person who ruined her life. The man who killed her father. The constant shadow that watches her sleep. The lover who prefers dirty alleyways to freshly laundered sheets… Read morehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51180445-the-danger-you-know.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Martial rape
Domestic violence
Infidelity
Murder

Hard to Find by Chace Verity

Hard to Find by Chace Verity

Hard to Find by Chace Verity. Unexpected Friendship: Kelsey makes a new friend when she is dragged into a haunted house one night. Pearls: Once friends, now enemies, two princesses start a tense correspondence. One Last Game: The night before high school graduation, Court wants to get their friends back together to recreate a part of their childhood hide’n’seek games, even if that means seeing their ex-BFF again. A Place To Rest: The afterlife isn’t quite what Sam expected, but at least it has great people.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Amnesia
Recreational drug use
Death of a parent mentioned

Dark Horses by Susan Mihalic

Dark Horses by Susan Mihalic

Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all areas of her life. The warped power dynamic of coach and rider extends far beyond the stables, and Roan’s relationship with her father has long been inappropriate. She has been able to compartmentalize that dark aspect of her life, ruthlessly focusing on her ambitions as a rider heading for the Olympics, just as her father had… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Incest
Rape
Paedophilia
Child abuse
Adult-minor relationship
Panic attack
Emesis (purging)
Car accident

Beard in Mind by Penny Reid

Beard in Mind by Penny Reid

Beau Winston is the nicest, most accommodating guy in the world. Usually. Handsome as the devil and twice as charismatic, Beau lives a charmed life as everyone’s favourite Winston Brother. But since his twin decided to leave town, and his other brother hired a stunning human-porcupine hybrid as a replacement mechanic for their auto shop, Beau Winston’s charmed life has gone to hell in a handbasket. Shelly Sullivan is not nice and is never accommodating. Ever. She mumbles to herself, but won’t respond when asked a question. She glares at everyone, especially babies. She… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic violence recounted
Depression
Self-harm (cutting)

The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle

The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle

We’ve been waiting for an hour. That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That’s the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed. At one point or another, we’ve all been asked to name five people, living or dead, with whom we’d like to have dinner. Why do we choose the people we do? And what if that dinner was to actually happen? When Sabrina arrives at her thirtieth birthday dinner she finds at the table not just her best friend, but also three significant people from her … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Miscarriage
Cancer

Virals by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

Virals by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage “sci-philes” who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing on a nearby island, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever. As the friends discover their heightened senses and animal-quick reflexes, they must combine their… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Murder
Kidnapping
Bullying
Animal cruelty

Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy

Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy

Mackenzie “Mac” Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It’s exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first, she must get a college degree at her parent’s insistence. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College. Mac’s had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abandonment
Cheating, recounted & in-page
Death of a parent, off-page

Lady Helena Investigates by Jane Steen

Lady Helena Investigates by Jane Steen

A reluctant lady sleuth finds she’s investigating her own family. Step into Lady Helena Whitcombe’s world with the first novel in a series that will blend family saga and mystery-driven action with a slow-burn romance in seven unputdownable investigations. 1881, Sussex. Lady Helena Scott-De Quincy’s marriage to Sir Justin Whitcombe, three years before, gave new purpose to a life almost destroyed by the death of Lady Helena’s first love. After all, shouldn’t the preoccupations of a wife and hostess be sufficient to fulfill any aristocratic female’s dreams? Such a shame their union wasn’t blessed by children but Lady Helena is content with her quiet country life until Sir Justin is found… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Death of a husband
Murder

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