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The Baby Dragon Café by Aamna Qureshi

When Saphira opens her cafe welcoming pet baby dragons, she isn’t expecting it to be quite so hard to keep the fires burning. But her young dragon patrons keep incinerating her furniture, which means selling coffee isn’t covering all her costs. Local heart-throb Aiden is a gardener, though his disobedient baby dragon is a major distraction from his beloved plants. However, Saphira’s café gives him an idea – he’ll ask Saphira to train his dragon, and pay her enough to keep the cafe afloat. They know they’re the answer to each other’s problems, but happy-go-lucky… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Physical injury & medical treatment
Death of a parent & sibling
Fire

The Launch Date by Annabelle Slator

Grace Hastings’s dream job at the popular “true love” dating app, Fate, has turned into a nightmare. Her boss is a leech, her career is stagnating, and her fiancé has just brutally dumped her. Her hope for finding her own love story is waning, and she feels like a fraud for promoting a concept she no longer believes in. When the company’s CEO offers her an opportunity to earn a big promotion, she resolves to fight her imposter syndrome to show she deserves a seat at the table. The opportunity? To launch a brand-new app focusing on IRL dating and genuine connection… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Parental infidelity mnetuoned
Depression
Workplace bullying & mentions of childhood bullying

There’s Always Next Year by Leah Johnson and George M. Johnson

Andy was supposed to shed her too-serious student journalist persona and reinvent herself on New Year’s Eve. Instead, she puked on her crush, dropped her phone in a fish tank, and managed to get her car stolen. Now, she only has the first day of the year to stop the gentrification that’s threatening her family’s business right her wrongs from the night before, and figure out why she feels so drawn to the electric new-girl-next-door. . How can Andy find her voice when everything’s being turned upside down? Dominique is an influencer on the verge of securing a major brand deal that will ensure his future and family legacy. But… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & classism
Gentrification

Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd

1954: When her former novice’s dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows. Haunted by a line in Frieda’s letter, Nora arrives at Gulls Nest, a charming hotel in Gore-on-Sea in Kent. A seaside town, a place of fresh air and relaxed constraints, is the perfect place for a new start. Nora hides her identity and pries into the lives of her fellow guests—but when a series of bizarre murders rattles the occupants of Gulls Nest it’s time to ask if a dark past can ever really be left behind.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape of a minor
Teen pregnancy

The Shadow Bride by Shelby Mahurin

Célie’s life is over. She took her final breath trying to save the people she loves—including the powerful and enigmatic vampire king, Michal, who refused to let her go. When Célie wakes, she cannot walk in the sun; she can hear her friends’ heartbeats and she craves their blood. Michal has cursed her to the eternal existence of a vampire. But Célie isn’t the only dead roaming the earth. Her sister, Filippa, has returned as a shadow of her former self, and other revenants are rising from their graves intent on revenge. The fragile… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Graphic blood & gore depiction including blood-drinking, dead bodies, body horror & decapitation
Sword & spear violence
Torture

Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez

There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes—all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong…unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date—possibly the best in living history—Samantha is forced to admit the truth… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Infidelity (secondary character, on-page)
Physical & emotional child abuse recounted & discussed (off-page)
Parent with dementia (on-page)
Animal abuse & neglect mentioned

Enchantra by Kaylie Smith

Genevieve Grimm has felt adrift ever since her sister became the head of the family. So when a mysterious friend of their mother’s invites her to Italy, she accepts. She arrives at his grand palace, expecting passion and magic, decadence and luxury… perhaps even a midnight ball. She doesn’t expect the owner’s ruthlessly handsome son to slam the door in her face. Rowin Silver is tall, dark, and exceptionally rude, and invitation or not, he demands Genevieve leave and never come back. But Genevieve follows nobody’s orders, especially those of arrogant rich boys. She slips inside…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slut-shaming recounted
Child neglect
Self-harm (secondary character)
Panic attack
Alcohol consumption & drugging (drink spiking)
Blood & gore depiction including the depiction of dead bodies, emesis & graphic injuries
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence

Inferno by Luna Mason

Are you prepared to participate in the decadence experience? Where your inhibitions must be left at the gates. The rules are simple. You SUBMIT to the challenges in five rooms. Only the surviving contestant shall win a golden ticket to lead them to the Master of Inferno. Be warned, one must be prepared to step into hell to explore both their desires and nightmares. Good luck and may all your erotic dreams come true.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Domestic violence & abuse including martial rape & sexual assault*
Forced marriage*
Alcohol consumption
Pregnancy
Murder & torture
Kidnapping of a minor*
Organised crime (mafia)
Fire, blood & knife play (consensual, on-page)

Context : The female protagonist is kidnapped when she is 18-years-old and forced to marry a man who physically & sexually abuses her.

Wild and Wrangled by Lyla Sage

Camille Ashwood had always loved a plan. Her latest was her best yet. She was going to get married so she could secure her daughter’s future, get her overbearing parents off her back, and finally start building her own life in small town Meadowlark, Wyoming. Easy, right? But when her groom doesn’t show up to the wedding, Cam’s life is turned upside down—she doesn’t even have a place to live. That is, until she finds out the house she’s loved since high school is available to rent. There’s only one problem: the neighbour. Dusty Tucker has spent nearly all of his adult life running. Running from what, though? More like who: Cam… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Toxic parental relationship including financial abuse
Alcohol consumption
Unplanned pregnancy recounted
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years–or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century. When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Infidelity mentioned (secondary characters)
Alcohol consumption
Health-related anxiety discussed
Body image & weight discussed
Pregnancy & miscarriage
Serious childhood illness discussed
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent in a car accident mentioned
Blackmail
Bullying recounted