Afterlife by Melissa Jennings

Afterlife is a collection of poetry about catharsis, self-love, and self-revolution. Afterlife is a journey from the darkness to the light again, and again, and again.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Depression & anxiety
  • Intrusive thoughts & trauma flashbacks
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Self-harm

Mixing Magics by Clare Edge

Bernadette Crowley feels like she’s finally getting a handle on her diabetes diagnosis. At least, she can finally manage to not summon a demon every time she checks her blood sugar. But without her Grandma Orla, who disappeared into the demon dimension while protecting their family’s coven, even big wins don’t seem to matter as much. Frustrated that no one is trying hard enough to rescue Grandma Orla, Ber takes matters into her own hands, using her growing powers to try to reach the demon dimension. But nothing can prepare her for the truth, a history that… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Diabetes (protagonist)
  • Needles & self-injury for blood (on-page)

Accidental Demons by Clare Edge

For the youngest in a long line of witches, demons used to be no big deal. A spell and a quick prick of the finger, and a witch like Ber could summon a demon to do anything she needed—clean a mess, send a message, you name it. But that was before Ber was diagnosed with diabetes. Now each time she tests her blood sugar, accidental demons are slipping into the human dimension…and causing absolute chaos. Good thing Ber and her older sister, Maeve, know that every magical problem has a magical solution. They’ll just conjur a low-order demon to monitor… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Diabetes (protagonist)
  • Needles & self-injury for blood (on-page, theme)
  • Animal death (sacrifices)

About That Night by Laura Brown

Izzy Fineberg can take on any challenge—and she’s had some big ones lately. After one fateful night with the hottest Deaf man she’d ever met, Izzy found she was pregnant with his child. And she never caught his name. She’s been doing the single mom thing for nine months now, and surely, nothing could be more challenging than that. But her first day at her new job, she meets her supervisor…and recognizes him immediately. Nolan Holtzman never expected to see Izzy again, and now, she’s the new hire at the agency he works in. He’d think things were finally going his way for once… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Unplanned pregnancy

Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton

Labor and delivery nurse Penelope is an expert at her job but a complete mess when it comes to her personal life. After her boyfriend dumps her in favor of saving his marriage, Penelope discovers she’s pregnant. Now Penelope must face motherhood, her greatest fear, or consider the alternatives. Jesenia, a first-generation American, made her mark as a model then quit the business in favor of a nine-to-five and wedded bliss. After three years of fertility treatments and pressure from her family, trying to become a mother is her full-time job. But when her past mistakes… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abandonment
  • Schizophrenia
  • Self-harm & suicidal ideation
  • Drug use & overdose
  • School shooting mentioned

Work for It by Talia Hibbert

In this village, I’m an outcast: Griffin Everett, the scowling giant who prefers plants to people. Then I meet Keynes, a stranger from the city who’s everything I’m not: sharp-tongued, sophisticated, beautiful. Free. For a few precious moments in a dark alleyway, he’s also mine, hot and sweet under the stars… until he crushes me like dirt beneath his designer boot. When the prettiest man I’ve ever hated shows up at my job the next day, I’m not sure if I want to strangle him or drag him into bed. Actually—I think I want both… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Disownment by homophobic parnets
  • Forced outing mentioned
  • Image-based sexual assault
  • Depression & anxiety (protagonist)
  • Death of a parent from suicide mentioned
  • Murder
  • Blackmail

Wrecked by Lauren Asher

Jax. Pills. Alcohol. Adrenaline. I’m addicted to destructive decisions that numb my pain. Until one night when I make a catastrophic mistake. To repair my broken reputation, my team hires Elena. An overpaid babysitter set on ruining my plans. She’s my damnation disguised as my salvation. And my newest addiction. Elena. I begged the universe to save me from my financial disaster. It answered my call with a Formula 1 team desperate for a PR miracle. One season. One job. One broody British racer. Except that Jax turns our hotel room into a battleground. To beat… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism mentioned
  • Drug & alcohol abuse
  • Alcoholism & substance addiction
  • Anxiety & panic attacks and nightmares
  • Relative with Huntington’s Disease & Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Emesis
  • Murder

The Wrong Marquess by Vivienne Lorret

Elodie Parrish can feel spinsterhood breathing down her neck. That’s the trouble with waiting for the marquess next door her entire life. But Ellie knows if she gives him one last Season, he’ll finally propose. The only problem is, her path keeps crossing with the arrogant Lord Hullworth, who is convinced she has designs on him. Brandon, Marquess of Hullworth, never wanted to be “London’s Most Elusive Bachelor,” or have a horde of hopeful debutantes and their scheming mamas follow him around. His past has left him too jaded to consider marrying any of them… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Anxiety, panic attacks & nightmares
  • Death of a parent

The Love Haters by Katherine Center

Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past—now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices: wait to get laid off from her job as a video producer or, at her co-worker Cole’s request, take a career-making gig profiling Tom “Hutch” Hutcheson, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Key West. The catch? Katie’s not exactly qualified. She can’t swim—but fakes it that she can. Plus: Cole is Hutch’s brother. And they don’t get along. Next stop paradise! But paradise is messier than it seems. As Katie gets entangled with Hutch (the most scientifically good… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment recounted
  • Infidelity (ex-partner)
  • Disordered eating & body dysmorphia, including mentions of past dieting & calorie counting
  • Panic attack
  • Emesis
  • Death of parents in a car accident (off-page)
  • Loved one with terminal heart condition
  • Hurricane mentioned
  • Cyberbullying & harassment

Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director—anything but scared and alone. Enter Gavin: charming, talented, adored. Controlling. Dangerous. When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it’s too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship will become a prison she’s unable to escape.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & slut-shaming
  • Physical, emotional psychological & verbal child abuse
  • Abusive relationship (theme)
  • Rape
  • Graphic attempted suicide & suicidal ideation
  • Self-harm