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Police Brutality by Gregory Ashe

Police Brutality by Gregory Ashe

For the first time in a long while, Emery Hazard’s life is good. His new business as a private detective is taking off. Things are good at home. He loves his boyfriend, John-Henry Somerset; he loves their daughter. He might even love the new friends they’ve found. There’s only one problem: Somers has been talking about marriage.

When a former colleague, Walter Hoffmeister, comes to Hazard and hires him to look into a series of anonymous death threats, Hazard eagerly jumps on the distraction. Hoffmeister might be a jerk… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Misogyny
Racism
Homomisia
Transmisia
Rape mentioned
Suicide mentioned

Triangulation by Gregory Ashe

Triangulation by Gregory Ashe

After a recent case with a treacherous client, North and Shaw are ready to go back to work building Borealis Investigations. They’re also ready to go back to dodging their feelings for each other, with neither man ready to deal with the powerful emotions the Matty Fennmore case stirred up. Everything is getting back to normal when their secretary asks for help: her girlfriend’s boss has gone missing.

Shep Collins runs a halfway house for LGBTQ kids… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Conversion therapy recounted
Attempted suicide

Orientation by Gregory Ashe

Orientation by Gregory Ashe

Shaw and North are best friends, private detectives, and in danger of losing their agency. A single bad case, followed by crippling lawsuits, has put them on the brink of closing shop. Until that is, a client walks into their Benton Park office.

Matty Fennmore is young, blond, and beautiful, and he’s in danger. When he asks for Shaw and North’s help foiling a blackmail scheme, the detectives are quick to accept… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Domestic abuse
Suicidal ideation
Blood depiction
Emesis
Murder
Blackmail
Torture

The Mortal Sleep by Gregory Ashe

The Mortal Sleep by Gregory Ashe

Months have passed since the events at Belshazzar’s Feast. Vie Eliot, reluctant psychic and self-appointed defender of the small Wyoming town called Vehpese, knows that trouble is coming, but for the time being, he wants to spend as many happy days as he can with his boyfriend.

Until one night, two men arrive and blow up a car. They threaten to do more damage unless Vie leaves town. Immediately… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Depression
Attempted suicide
Suicidal ideation
Drug use
Kidnapping
Loss of autonomy (mind control)
Animal torture mentioned

The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

Only days have passed since Vie Eliot’s murderous half-brother—a dangerous, out-of-control psychic—was stopped from killing the people Vie loves most, but Vie is ready for his life to return to normal. He has plans. Big plans. Make the cross country team, pick up his grades, and spend a lot of time with his boyfriend.

On the day of cross country tryouts, though, Vie finds one of the teachers dead—and Vie refuses to believe that the death was a suicide. As he searches for the killer or killers, he discovers that a conspiracy… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Homomisia
Human trafficking
Rape of a child mentioned
Suicide
Self-harm (cutting)
Murder
Torture mentioned
Kidnapping

All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

Vie Eliot has survived a new high school, an abusive father, and the murderous Mr. Big Empty. Now, as Vie searches for Mr. Big Empty, he also finds himself facing an unexpected complication: how to be a good boyfriend.

When a mysterious drifter named River disappears, though, Vie finds himself dragged into finding the missing boy. Vie’s psychic abilities have proved useful in the past, and once again they set him on the trail of a gruesome murderer… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Racism
Child sexual abuse mentioned
Domestic abuse
Depression
Drug use mentioned
Self-harm (cutting)

Moonlight Sins by Jennifer Armentrout

Moonlight Sins by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Julia Hughes has always played it safe until she learned a very painful lesson. Now Julia’s starting over with a job in the Louisiana bayou—and a scorching encounter with a stranger, only to discover he’s Lucian de Vincent… her new employer. The de Vincent brothers share a massive fortune and a dark reputation. Julia cares for their troubled sister, but a menacing presence in the mansion—and the ever-present temptation of Lucian—prove dangerously distracting… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide
Murder
Stalking

The Life You Stole by Jewel Ann

The Life You Stole by Jewel E. Ann

Sex. Lies. Revenge. On the heels of a devastating loss, Evelyn fights to put her life back together. Only … part of her husband belongs to another woman, and the devil owns her soul.

When her best friend goes to great lengths to protect Evelyn from destruction and devastation, mistakes are made, lines are crossed, and all trust is shattered.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cheating

End of Day by Jewel Ann

End of Day by Jewel E. Ann

Behind tinted windows a few yards from mourning family and friends, Jessica and Jude Day witness their parents’ funeral—and their own. Stripped of the only life they’ve ever known, the Days say goodbye to San Francisco forever.

Six months and two new identities later, the thirty-year-old misfits with elite self-defence skills and penchants for alcohol, sex, and trouble arrive like an earthquake to Peaceful Woods, a retirement community in Omaha, Nebraska, that thrives on rules and gossip… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic violence
Blood depiction
Murder
Kidnapping mentioned

What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

This is Magda’s last chance. Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school that threw life into a tailspin, she is shipped off to live with her grandparents in the Pacific Northwest for the summer.

Medicated and uninspired, Magda spends her days in a fog wandering the forest behind the house. But then she stumbles upon Bo. He’s wild and free, and he can see the real her. Magda starts believing she might be able to move on from her past and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental neglect
Suicide
Psychiatric hospitalisation
Murder
Bullying