Consumed of Deception by Rina Kent

Consumed by Deception by Rina Kent

My husband. My monster. The truth isn’t always what it seems. Lia doesn’t realize that, but she will. Soon. I chose this life. This road. This twisted arrangement. For her, I made a deal with the devil. For her, I toyed with fate and death. There’s no going back. I stole her and like any thief, I won’t return her. Lia is my addiction. My obsession. My love. Mine.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault & attempted rape
  • Child neglect recounted
  • Attempted suicide
  • Insomnia
  • Hallucinations
  • Stillbirth
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Whipping
  • Homelessness
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Vow of Deception by Rina Kent

Vow of Deception by Rina Kent

My husband. My tormentor. The most notorious man in the city offers me a job. Act as his dead wife. Adrian Volkov isn’t the type of person who takes no for an answer. He commands with an iron fist and all his orders are met. When he approaches me with the offer, I have two options. Go to prison or put myself under his wrath.
I choose to have a roof over my head. What’s so hard about acting, right? Wrong. The moment I step into his wife’s shoes, everything spirals out of control. My only way of survival is through Adrian. Or is it?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Graphic rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Child neglect
  • Agoraphobia
  • Insomnia & nightmares
  • Hallucinations
  • Stillborn
  • Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
  • Gun violence
  • Whipping
  • Kidnapping
  • Homelessness
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Black Deception by Rina Kent

Dark Deception by Rina Kent

Being born a leader taught me one thing. I take what I want. Including the lone rose who’s struggling to survive on the streets. Only I’m no knight and I won’t do any saving. If anything, I’m the nightmare she can’t wake up from. The monster she can’t escape. The devil she can’t fight. I’m the blood that’ll be coating her pure petals.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Alcoholism
  • Nonconsensual adoption
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Homelessness

Black Knight by Rina Kent

Black Knight by Rina Kent

Kimberly: He was once my best friend, now he’s my worst enemy. Xander Knight is heartbreakingly beautiful. Ridiculously popular. Brutally cruel. He’s a knight but won’t do any saving. Xander: We started as a dream, now we’re a nightmare. Kimberly Reed is pathetically fake. Terribly innocent, Secretly black. She can hide but never from me.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Incest
  • Eating disorder
  • Attempted suicide
  • Bullying

Tempted by Deception by Rina Kent

Tempted by Deception by Rina Kent

My husband. My villain. We started with death and blood. We started with games and carnal pleasure. Adrian and I shouldn’t have been together. He’s wrong.
I’m wrong. What we have is the epitome of disaster. Yet, it’s impossible to stop. My husband will either destroy me or I’ll destroy him.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Graphic rape & attempted rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Child abuse & neglect recounted
  • Cheating
  • Attempted suicide
  • Agoraphobia
  • Insomnia & nightmares
  • Hallucinations
  • Stillbirth
  • Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
  • Gun violence
  • Whipping
  • Kidnapping
  • Homelessness
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Helium by Rudy Francisco

Helium by Rudy Francisco

Helium is the debut poetry collection by internet phenom Rudy Francisco, whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers. Rudy’s poems and quotes have been viewed and shared millions of times as he has traveled the country and the world performing for sell-out crowds. Helium is filled with work that is simultaneously personal and political, blending love poems, self-reflection, and biting cultural critique on class, race and gender into an unforgettable whole.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Depression
  • Bullying
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Luster by Raven Leilani

Luster by Raven Leilani

Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. And then she meets Eric, a white middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Toxic relationship
  • Suicide discussed
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Lucky Caller by Emma Mills

Lucky Caller by Emma Mills

When Nina decides to take a radio broadcasting class her senior year, she expects it to be a walk in the park. Instead, it’s a complete disaster. The members of Nina’s haphazardly formed radio team have approximately nothing in common. And to maximize the awkwardness her group includes Jamie, a childhood friend she’d hoped to basically avoid for the rest of her life. The show is a mess, internet rumors threaten to bring the wrath of two fandoms down on their heads, and to top it all off Nina’s family is on the brink of some major upheaval. Everything feels like it’s spiraling out of control―but maybe control is overrated?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Coerced kiss*
  • Recreational drug use mentioned
  • Stroke (sc)
  • Hospitalization of a grandparent & guardian mentioned

*Context : The protagonist’s best friend plays a ‘kiss cam’ game where she tells her friends a person they have to try and kiss. Nina recounts purposefully coercing a kiss out of Jamie, her love interest, while her friends ‘spy’ from an adjourning room.

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Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills

Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills

For Sophie, small-town life has never felt small. With her four best friends—loving, infuriating, and all she could ever ask for—she can weather any storm. But when Sophie’s beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it’s her job to get them all the way to LA. Her plan? To persuade country singer Megan Pleasant, their Midwestern town’s only claim to fame, to come back to Acadia to headline a fundraising festival. The only problem is that Megan has very publicly sworn never to return.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide mentioned
  • Death of a sibling recounted
  • Car accident mentioned
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This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills

This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills

Sloane isn’t expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida—especially not a group of friends so intense, so in love, so all-consuming. Yet that’s exactly what happens. Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room, and Gabe, Vera’s twin brother and the most serious person Sloane’s ever met. When a beloved painting by the twins’ late mother goes missing, Sloane takes on the responsibility of tracking it down, a journey that takes her across state lines—and ever deeper into the twins’ lives.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Depression
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Bullying
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