Romance – Page 3 – Trigger Warning Database

The Missed Connection by Tia Williams

Sasha Cruz knows types. As a booked-and-busy casting agent, she’s always casting — at happy hour, the post office, the grocery store, everywhere. She’s all about finding the perfect person to slot into the perfect role. What she doesn’t do, however, are relationships. Too much energy, not enough time. Men find her intimidating, and she likes it that way. But when Sasha’s seated next to a mysterious, broodingly handsome Italian man on the way to a work trip in Paris, sparks fly – but they miss the chance to exchange contact information. Now, convinced that she’s… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Stalking

For the Bride by Becca Grischow

On the surface, Alice has her life together. She’s got a job in music she loves; she’s firmly sober; and she’s grateful to be back in the good graces of her ex-girlfriend-once-best-friend-now-literal-only-friend Gin. Just in time, too, because Gin’s getting married this summer! And Alice gets to be a bridesmaid. If only the maid-of-honor wasn’t Renee Type-A, the opposite of her in every way, and a long-time Alice-hater who’s clung to her animosity like a leech. Every second Alice spends around Renee makes her feel like who she used to be, rather than the person she’s spent… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol abuse discussed & recounted
Death of a father from alcoholism

Student Union by Julie Murphy

CLOVER ROWAN WALSH knows The Plan™. Say goodbye to the paycheck-to-paycheck life she and her mom have known for years. Get a full ride to her dream school, Wexley University. Conquer the school of business. There’s just one hiccup. With the first semester rapidly approaching, Clover learns her housing grant has fallen through. But a loophole presents Married couples can live in the dorms for the price of one student. Clover is willing to sacrifice the sanctity of marriage . . . even if it means proposing to the one person she swore she’d never… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Attempted sexual assault
Bullying & catfishing recounted

Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by Lev A.C. Rosen

Meet Jack Rothman. He’s seventeen and loves partying, makeup and boys – sometimes all at the same time. His sex life makes him the hot topic for the high school gossip machine. But who cares? Like Jack always says, ‘it could be worse’. He doesn’t actually expect that to come true. But after Jack starts writing an online sex advice column, the mysterious love letters he’s been getting take a turn for the creepy. Jack’s secret admirer knows everything: where he’s hanging out, who he’s sleeping with, who his mum is dating. They claim they love Jack, but not his unashamedly queer…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slut-shaming (theme) & victim-blaming
Homophobia & coming out themes
Hate crimes mentioned
Dubious consent scenarios discussed
Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use
Bombings mentioned
Stalking & blackmail
Bullying

Puck by Samantha Allen

Meet Puck: the nonbinary, thirty-year-old mastermind behind “Homewreckers”, a dating show that puts troubled couples through hell—with a little help from their exes. Used to being the one pulling the strings, it shocks Puck when their life undergoes a plot twist of its own and their college roommate Mia announces her engagement to her ex’s best friend, Damon. Having only recently broken up with longtime-boyfriend Zander, and never having had much in common with Damon (who lovesick Lena has always pined after), Mia’s news leaves her friend group reeling—and Puck’s mind whirling. When they arrive for a week… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Anxiety & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Beauty and the Baller by Ilsa Madden-Mills

An NFL quarterback turned small-town coach gets sacked by a Texas beauty queen in this swoony, passionate romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills. Gorgeous, talented, and brilliant, NFL quarterback Ronan Smith has the world in his hands. But after losing his career and his fiancée in a car accident, he falls into a pit of grief and bad choices. When a mysterious girl shows up to his party, he feels drawn to her and makes her his…for one night. Former beauty queen Nova Morgan is on a mission. Scantily clad as a princess from a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Death of a fiancé in a car accident

Strikeout by Millie Perez

Mateo Martínez is many things. The starting pitcher of the New York Monarchs, a devoted single father, and most recently, my new boss. When the opportunity to finally move out of my parent’s cramped apartment and into his swanky home to nanny for his daughter arose, I simply couldn’t pass it up. Until I made the silly suggestion for him to keep me on a three strikes system, and I’m racking them up at lightning speed. I should know better than to fantasize about silly things like love, but curiosity is getting the best of me, and our stolen touches don’t feel so innocent anymore. When the three strikes are up, I wonder… will I… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Image-based sexual assault recounted
Alcohol consumption
Pregnancy (epilogue)
Death of a parents recounted

His Tesoro by Emilia Rossi

Sofiya: I’ve spent years hidden away to protect my father from the shame of having a defective daughter. The head of the Bratva can’t be associated with weakness—and to him, that’s all I am. That is, until a marriage alliance gives him the opportunity to finally be rid of me. As I head down the aisle towards my mysterious husband, I hope I’m moving towards love and freedom. But Matteo makes it clear he wants nothing to do with me. I wish I could return his coldness, but the dangerous Don sets my body ablaze whenever he’s near. Matteo: My life has been defined… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism & misogyny
Threats of sexual assault
Arranged marriage
Child abuse
Infertility mentioned (secondary character) & unplanned pregnancy
Medical marijuana use
Chronic illness (protagonist with hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome)
Grief & loss depiction
Murder & torture
Gun violence
Kidnapping
Animal cruelty mentioned (secondary character)

The Maidenheads by Benny B. Peterson

Jamie is bad at endings, which is why she’s stuck at a dead-end Baltimore newspaper job, continuing to have break-up sex with her first-ever hetero partner, and haunted by the what-ifs of her ex-girlfriend Mari—a charismatic and brilliant musician—and their former band together, the Maidenheads. Since they (and their band) broke up a decade ago, Jamie hasn’t been able to sing. Then an unexpected opportunity to perform in DC with Mari’s successful new band arises, and Jamie jumps at it. What begins as a return to music becomes a reckoning—with the weight of unfinished… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Infidelity
Pregnancy
Murder
Stalking & blackmail

Breaking His Ice by Klastella

I have one rule: I don’t do relationships. Hookups? Sure. Love? Hell no. Love doesn’t fix anything—it just screws you up. I know. I watched it ruin my family. As captain of the Ridgewater Warriors, my game plan is simple: keep it casual, stay focused, win games. Repeat. And it’s been working just fine—until Samantha Westbrook showed up. My best friend’s pesky little sister. The girl who’s had a crush on me since she was ten. Now she’s a freshman at Ridgewater U, and she’s everywhere I go, cockblocking every girl who so much as breathes near me. I spent years brushing her off, telling her to stay… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment & neglect
Parental infidelity
Parent with alcoholism, gambling issues & depression
Suicidal ideation
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Drug use & smoking
Sports injury
Death of a parent from cancer (acute myeloid leukemia)
Animal death mentioned (pet)