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Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer

Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer

Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy. Her mother sacrificed everything to bring peace to the quadrant, and her uncle has successfully ruled as emperor for decades. But the last thing Alyssa wants is to follow in their footsteps as the next in line for the throne. Why would she choose to be trapped in a palace when she could be having wild adventures exploring a thousand-and-one planet in her own ship?… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Dead bodies
Physical injuries
Medical treatment
Grief & loss depiction (theme)
Death of a mother recounted
Death of an uncle
Death of a friend
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Explosions & bombings
Plane crash
War themes discussed

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

Dev Deshpande has always believed in fairy tales. So it’s no wonder then that he’s spent his career crafting them on the long-running reality dating show Ever After. As the most successful producer in the franchise’s history, Dev always scripts the perfect love story for his contestants, even as his own love life crashes and burns. But then the show casts disgraced tech wunderkind Charlie Winshaw as its star. Charlie is far from the romantic Prince Charming Ever After expects. He doesn’t believe in true love, and only agreed to the show as a last-ditch effort to rehabilitate his image. In front of the cameras, he’s a stiff, anxious.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism, racism, homophobia & biphobia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Anxiety & panic attacks
Depression
Alcohol consumption
Alcoholism mentioned
Emesis

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Ableism
Bimisia
Homomisia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Alcohol consumption
Alcoholism mentioned
Emesis

The Haunting of Gillespie House by Darcy Coates

The Haunting of Gillespie House by Darcy Coates

Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie property. More than an hour’s drive from the nearest town and surrounded by forests, the aging mansion is ideal for someone seeking solitude. But things start to go very wrong, very quickly.

Elle discovers a crumbling graveyard nestled in the woods. It contains a generation of the house’s residents, all with an identical year of death. Scratching in the walls. Slamming doors. Whispers in the night. A locked room… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Body horror
Physical injuries
Dead body
Death of a child, off-page
Disappearance of a child mentioned
Cults

Willa of the Wood by Robert Beatty

Willa of the Wood by Robert Beatty

Willa, a young night-spirit, is her clan’s best thief. She creeps into the cabins of the day-folk under cover of darkness and takes what they won’t miss. It’s dangerous work–the day-folk kill whatever they don’t understand–but Willa will do anything to win the approval of the padaran, the charismatic leader of the Faeran people.

Willa, a young night-spirit, is her clan’s best thief. She creeps into the cabins of the day-folk under cover of darkness and takes what they… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Kidnapping of children
Fire, including displacement from the destruction of houses
Death of a pet

Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of the Biltmore estate. There’s plenty to explore in her grand home, although she must take care to never be seen. None of the rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists; she and her pa, the estate’s maintenance man, have secretly lived in the basement for as long as Serafina can remember.

But when children at the estate start disappearing, only Serafina knows who the culprit is: a terrifying man in a black cloak who stalks Biltmore’s… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Kidnapping of children (theme)

Willa of Dark Hollow by Robert Beatty

Willa of Dark Hollow by Robert Beatty

The Great Smoky Mountains. 1901. Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have lived in the mountains for as long as the trees have grown there. But as crews of newly arrived humans start cutting down great swaths of the forest she loves, Willa is helpless to stop them. How can she fight the destroyers of the forest and their powerful machines? When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful creatures, she comes to realize that it contains a terrifying force. Is unleashing these dangerous spirits the key to stopping the loggers? … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Gun violence
Animal death & hunting
Animal attack (snake)

City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong

City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong

Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey’s best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana’s husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it’s time for the two of them to disappear again.

Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic violence recounted
Sex work
Murder
Physical assault

A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong

Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it’s the natural flux of things, but Casey’s not so sure. Something bigger is happening in the small town they call home.

When an injured hiker stumbles from the woods, the sole survivor of a hostile attack, it’s all hands on deck. Even a member of the elusive Rockton council comes in to help. This council member also… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Drug use mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Animal attack (bear)

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The Alexandrian Society is a secret society of magical academicians, the best in the world. Their members are caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity. And those who earn a place among their number will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams. Each decade, the world’s six most uniquely talented magicians are selected for initiation – and here are the chosen few… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse & neglect recounted
Cheating
Suicide, on-page
Alcohol consumption
Blood depiction
Death of a sibling from a terminal illness recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Cheating
Anxiety
Depression
Alcoholism
Attempted suicide
Terrorism