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The Dare by Elle Kennedy

College was supposed to be my chance to get over my ugly-duckling complex and spread my wings. Instead, I wound up in a sorority full of mean girls. I already have a hard time fitting in, so when my Kappa Chi sisters issue the challenge, I can’t say no. The dare: seduce the hottest new hockey player in the junior class. Conor Edwards is a regular at Greek Row parties…and in Greek Row sorority beds. He’s the one you fall for before you learn that guys like him don’t give girls like me a second glance. Except Mr. Popular throws me for a loop—rather than laughing in my face, he does me a solid by letting me take him upstairs to pretend… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Body-shaming & weight gain discussed
Homophobia discussed
Blackmail & revenge pornography
Bullying

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar… in Washington.

Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Medical emergency (fishing boat injury)
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a spouse recounted
Death of a parent recounted
Drowning

From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata

From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata

If someone were to ask Jasmine Santos to describe the last few years of her life with a single word, it would definitely be a four-letter one. After seventeen years—and countless broken bones and broken promises—she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close. But when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she’s spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, Jasmine might have to reconsider everything. Including Ivan Lukov.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism from parent
Parental abandonment recounted
Fatphobia & body shaming including mentions of dieting
Stalking & cyberharassment including online sexual harassment
Car accident mentioned

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

For Bella Swan there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning….

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Toxic relationship
Suicidal ideation & attempted suicide
Blood depiction & blood-drinking
Motorcycle accident
Near-drowning incident
Torture & stalking

Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer

Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer

Chronic overachiever Prudence Barnett is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her. Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from public vandals to mean gossips, but there is one person on whom her powers consistently backfire… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption mentioned
Animal injury

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. When she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s Upper East… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Misogyny
Bimisia
Homomisia
Lesbomisia
Forced outing
Paedophilia
Rape & statutory rape
Sexual assault & harassment
Child abuse
Domestic abuse
Cheating
Alcoholism, secondary character
Drug use
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Abortion
Miscarriage mentioned
Physical injury
Hospitalisation
Terminal breast cancer
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a partner
Death of a child
Death of a friend
Death of parents in a car accident
Blackmail

The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer Armentrout

The Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she’s found with Prince Casteel. She wants to revel in her happiness but first, they must free his brother and find hers. It’s a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true ruler of Atlantia. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers. Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Death of a sibling
Death of a child mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Kidnapping & captivity
War themes
Animal death

Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

Ruthie Midona has worked the front desk at the Providence Luxury Retirement Villa for six years, dedicating her life to caring for the Villa’s residents, and guarding the endangered tortoises that live in the Villa’s gardens. Somewhere along the way, she’s forgotten there’s a world outside of work—until she meets the son of the property developer who just acquired the retirement centre. Teddy Prescott has spent the last few years not taking life too seriously… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Fatphobia & body-shaming
Dieting
Death of a friend
Animal injury

All That Has Flown Beyond by Marina Vivancos

All that Has Flown Beyond by Marina Vivancos

Kaiyo’s bloodline has been part of the Garrow pack for generations. He has been destined to be shaman, to anchor the werewolves to the land, and lend aid with the force of his Ousía. When Kaiyo is fourteen, however, an attacking group kills all of the adults in the pack, leaving young Ahmik, only fifteen, as leader.

Kaiyo grows increasingly reckless in his desperation to defend his pack, to finally grow into his shaman powers, and to protect Ahmik: the boy he loves. In the end, Kaiyo loses his pack anyway… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Depression

Honeythorn by Marina Vivancos

Honeythorn by Marina Vivancos

Omega Milan Pryor knows his duty. He must travel North through the continent towards the snow, the cold, and his new betrothed. They say that Lord Alpha Raphael Ledford, the man he is to marry, is as artic as the weather of his land. But Milan has always been an optimist. Perhaps he might find friendship in the arranged marriage. Even love.

It doesn’t take long for Milan to realize that all the rumours about Lord Raphael are true. Reclusive, distant, frigid. Milan finds himself unwelcome in what he must now call his new home… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Arranged marriage
Rape mentioned
PTSD & trauma