Category Archives: Representation

Reality Check by Evie Mitchell

Liv: Unemployed, homeless and pregnant – not how I intended to spend this Thanksgiving. To be fair, I quit my job, and no one could have predicted the flood in my apartment. The baby? Well, that’s on me. A tipsy hook-up at my brother’s wedding, a failed condom, and suddenly I’m stuck with my nemesis, Ian Campbell. The man is infuriating – he looks like a red-haired Big Foot, is built like a lumberjack, and acts like a refined laird of some crumbling castle. He’s confusing, irritating and… kissable? No, no way. There is absolutely no possible universe in which I’m falling for the Sasquatch… right? Ian Liv ‘ The Harpy’ is pregnancy with… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homelessness (protagonist)
  • Unplanned pregnancy (protagonist)

Darn Knit All by Evie Mitchell

Theo: You might be asking yourself how a guy like me ended up on a fashion reality TV show. You may also be asking why I agreed to be a designer’s apprentice with no intelligible sewing skills. Cake. Delicious, fluffy, flour-laden, sugary cake—the beginning of my downfall. If it weren’t for that cake, I’d have never bribed Mai Sakamoto for more. We’d have never developed a friendship. I wouldn’t know of her dreams to become a fashion designer. And I’d sure as hell would never have ended up on a reality TV show to help her chase those dreams. Real knight in shining armor… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Anxiety & panic attacks (on-page)
  • Alcohol consumption and
  • Parent with drug & alcohol abuse issues recounted
  • Pregnancy (secondary character)
  • Car accident resulting in loss of limb recounted
  • Blackmail
  • Bullying

The X-list by Evie Mitchell

Rune: What kind of crazy person doesn’t read? Apparently my new neighbour. She’s loud, sassy, flirty and infuriatingly, annoyingly cheerful. And a non-reader. The worst kind of human. So why is that when I dare her to enter the charity read-a-thon, I suddenly find myself carefully curating her list? And those books… they’re definitely not your momma’s romance. Gabby: I’m used to people underestimating me. Normally I can brush it off with a laugh. But Rune? He gets under my skin. So when he make an off-handed comment that a non-reader like me shouldn’t bother with the town’s charity event, I can’t help… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia recounted
  • Foster care system experiences recounted
  • Breast cancer recounted

Double the D by Evie Mitchell

I’d always watched Drake Andrews and Dane Butler from a distance. My own personal double D’s, I’d kept track of them through friends, maintaining my space. I couldn’t let them get close, couldn’t let them see how much I wanted them. Both of them. Together. Only now they’re back. And that unfortunate fantasy? It’s returned, bigger and dirtier than ever. Bluebell McKenney was ours since the moment we’d stepping into the group home over a decade ago. Her shy glances couldn’t hide the heat in her gaze. To have the kind of future we wanted, the kind that involved all three of us, we had to leave – had to… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Foster care experiences recounted
  • Military enlistment recounted

New Year Knew You by Evie Mitchell

Emily: The doctors told me I have amnesia. They’ve said it’s a result of the concussion I sustained on New Year’s Eve, but I know the truth. I’ve been transported to a parallel universe, it’s the only plausible explanation as to why I’m now living five years in the future where I’ve morphed into some kind of body-conscious diet addict who has a better relationship with my mother-in-law than my husband. Or should I say, ex-husband. How is it that Calvin Jameson and I have gone from hopelessly devoted to separated and on the cusp of divorce? I can’t remember, but I’m damned sure I’m going… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobic bullying recounted
  • Hospitalisation for a coma & amnesia sustained in a car accident
  • Eating disorder & body dysmorphia (protagonist), including discussions of dieting, restrictive eating, and weight loss

Knot My Type by Evie Mitchell

Frankie: When you say you’re a sexologist, people imagine Marilyn Monroe. They don’t expect a woman who uses a wheelchair. As the host of the All Access Podcast, I’m breaking barriers, crushing stigmas, and creating sexual connections that are fulfilling for my fans. I’m like cupid, but with pink hair and fewer diapers.
Only, I’ve hit a snag. A lovely listener wants some advice about accessible rope play and I’m drawing a big fat blank. Which leaves me with no option but to get out there and give it a go. Which is how I meet Jay Wood—rigger, carpenter, and all-round hottie… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Abusive relationship recounted
  • Cheating recounted
  • Parent with addiction mentioned
  • Emesis
  • Cancer recounted
  • Bullying

The Tapestry of Fate by S.A. Chakraborty

Amina al-Sirafi thinks she’s struck gold. Tasked with hunting down arcane artifacts for the council of immortal peris, she can savor the occasional rollicking adventure on the high seas with her cherished criminal companions while still returning home to raise her beloved daughter, Marjana. But when Raksh, the spirit of discord with whom she is reluctantly wed, provokes the council’s wrath, Amina is charged with a seemingly impossible quest: steal a spindle capable of rewriting fate from a mysterious sorceress on an island no one can escape. Forced to leave Marjana–who… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Death of a child
  • Murder

If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come by Jen St. Jude

Avery Byrne has secrets. She’s queer; she’s in love with her best friend, Cass; and she’s suffering from undiagnosed clinical depression. But on the morning Avery plans to jump into the river near her college campus, the world discovers there are only nine days left to an asteroid is headed for Earth, and no one can stop it. Trying to spare her family and Cass additional pain, Avery does her best to make it through just nine more days. As time runs out and secrets slowly come to light, Avery would do anything to save the ones she loves. But most importantly, she learns… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia & religious bigotry
  • Depression & suicidal ideation
  • Suicide of a secondary character (discussed, off-page)
  • Attempted suicide discussed (protagonist)
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Gun violence
  • Home invasion

You’re No Better by Andrew Joseph White

Morgan Slaughter, a seventeen-year-old trans boy with autism, put his serial killer father in prison years ago. Despite that, everyone thinks Morgan will grow up to be just like his dad: including his volatile mother, the documentary crew following their family, and maybe himself. Desperately, Morgan latches onto his father’s final victim—the only one who was never identified—hoping that if he unravels the mystery, he’ll finally prove he’s better than the man who hurt him. But this puts Morgan in the crosshairs of classmate Felicity Keating, who knows the truth about Morgan’s… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Transphobia, queerphobia & misgendering and forced closeting (on-page)
  • Rape recounted, sexual harassment, sexual assault & grooming
  • Physical & emotional child abuse (theme)
  • Suicidal ideation & intrusive thoughts
  • Self-harm
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse, including forced alcohol consumption
  • Hospitalisation (on-page)
  • Graphic murder & torture recounted
  • Kidnapping recounted & confinement (on-page)
  • Blackmail

Painted Scars by Neva Altaj

Nina: Charming, captivating, and seductive, and a cold-blooded killer. But I married the Pakhan of the Russian Bratva anyway. I had to. It was part of the deal. Now, I’m faking marital bliss, As I tremble with fear, And I cannot wait to be out of the clutches of this ruthless man. Roman: I get anything I desire. And I want this perfectly imperfect little manipulator. The way she can deceive anyone into believing she’s crazy in love with me, just makes me want her even more. She doesn’t know it yet, but I am not letting her go. The deal – is off.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault recounted (off-page)
  • Arranged marriage
  • Organised crime (bratva/mafia)
  • Severe physical injury (leg)*
  • Murder & attempted murder

*Context: The protagonist uses a wheelchair while he is in physical therapy/recovery for a severe leg injury sustained during an attempted assassination.