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White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig

White Rabbit by Caleb Roehrig

Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian—the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just as Rufus is getting ready to move on, Sebastian turns up out of the blue, saying they need to “talk.” Things couldn’t get much worse, right? But then Rufus gets a call from his sister April, begging for help. And then he and Sebastian find her, drenched in blood and holding a knife, beside the dead body of her boyfriend, Fox Whitney… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia & slurs
Racism
Rape
Drug use
Blood depiction
Murder
Gun violence
Physical assault
Arson
Bullying

The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee

Welcome back to New York, 2119. A skyscraper city, fueled by impossible dreams, where the lives of five teenagers have become intertwined in ways that no one could have imagined. Leda just wants to move on from what happened in Dubai. Until a new investigation forces her to seek help—from the person she’s spent all year trying to forget. Rylin is back in her old life, reunited with an old flame. But when she starts seeing Cord again, she finds herself torn: between two worlds, and two very different boys. Rylin is back in her old life, reunited with an old flame. But when she… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Substance addiction recovery
Alcohol consumption mentioned
Death of a friend recounted
Murder
Drowning

When You Look Like Us by Pamela Harris

When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris

When you look like us—brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades—people think you’re trouble. No one looks twice at a missing black girl from the projects because she must’ve brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister, Nicole, got too caught up with her boyfriend—a drug dealer—and his friends. But she’s been gone too long now. If I hadn’t hung up on her that night, she’d be spending time with our grandma. If I was a better brother, she’d be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Substance addiction
Parent with alcoholism
Death of a husband recounted
Murder
Physical assault

Twelve Nights at Rotter House by JW Ocker

Twelve Nights at Rotter House by J.W. Ocker

Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he’s carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country’s most haunted places, after haunting them himself. Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he’s carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country’s most haunted places, after haunting them himself. When Thomas Ruth, Felix’s oldest… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Suicide mentioned
Blood depiction
Body horror
Murder

The Safe Place by Anna Downes

The Safe Place by Anna Downes

Emily Proudman just lost her acting agent, her job, and her apartment in one miserable day. Scott Denny, a successful and charismatic CEO, has a problem that neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can fix. Until he meets Emily. Scott offers Emily a summer job as a housekeeper on his remote, beautiful French estate. Enchanted by his lovely wife Nina, and his eccentric young daughter, Aurelia, Emily falls headlong into this oasis of wine-soaked days by the pool. But soon Emily realizes that Scott and Nina are hiding dangerous secrets, and if she doesn’t play along, the consequences could be deadly.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse, implied
Alcohol consumption
Drug use
Kidnapping

Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels and excited to say goodbye to New York and start a life together in Sam’s sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist’s wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Abandonment
Cheating
Overdose
Kidnapping

Indelible by Adelia Saunders

Indelible by Adelia Saunders

Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees writing on the body of everyone she meets – names, dates, details both banal and profound – and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank. Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees writing on the body of everyone she meets – names, dates, details both banal and profound – and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide & attempted suicide
Sexual harassment

Black Lies by KA Merikan

Black Lies by K.A. Merikan

Griffith has spent two of the most amazing years with his boyfriend Mark, who is undoubtedly The One. Mark is everything Griffith could want in a man. Sexy, kind, always there for him, showering him with gifts and anticipating his needs. Until one wrong turn sends them crashing into Mark’s past, and suddenly Griff doesn’t even know who his boyfriend is anymore. A spy? A mafioso? Or a ruthless criminal who has lied to Griff about his identity all along, hiding his brutality under charming smiles… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Rape mentioned
Sexual assault mentioned
Murder
Organised crime (mafia)

First Class Murder by Robin Stevens

First Class Murder by Robin Stevens

aisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday on the famous Orient Express. From the moment the girls step aboard, it’s clear that everyone in the first-class carriages has something to hide. Then there is a scream from one of the cabins, and a wealthy heiress is found dead, But the killer has vanished – as if into thin air Daisy and Hazel are faced with their first locked-room mystery – and with competition from several other sleuths, who are just as determined to crack the case.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racist language
Antisemitism
Misogyny
Cheating, on-page
Blood & gore depiction
Dead body, on-page
Emesis
Murder by knife violence, off-page

The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel

The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel

Eve Taggert, desperate with grief over losing her daughter, takes it upon herself to find out the truth about what happened. Eve is no stranger to the dark side of life, having been raised by a hard-edged mother whose lessons Eve tried not to pass on to her own daughter. But Eve may need her mother’s cruel brand of strength if she’s going to face the reality about her daughter’s death and about her own true nature. Her quest for justice takes her from the seedy underbelly of town to the quiet woods and, most frighteningly, back to her mother’s trailer for a final lesson.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Paedophilia
Sexual assault
Infidelity
Alcoholism
Suicide
Drug abuse
Death of a child