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King’s Man by Sally Malcolm

King’s Man by Sally Malcolm

Had there been no war, Sam Hutchinson and Nate Tanner would have lived their lives together as intimate friends, and secret lovers. But when the revolution convulsed America, it threw them down on opposite sides of history.

Five years later, Sam is a Loyalist refugee in London, penniless, bitter, and scrambling to survive amid the city’s shadowy underworld. It’s a far cry from his respectable life as a Rhode Island lawyer, and the last person he wants to witness his ruin is Nate Tanner— the man he… Read more.

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Anxiety
Alcohol consumption
Scars
Murder
Gun violence
Police violence & brutality
Imprisonment
Flogging recounted
Colonialism

Love Around the Corner by Sally Malcolm

Love Around the Corner by Sally Malcolm

Alfie Carter grew up in New Milton, caring for his sick father and keeping their auto repair shop on its feet. He’s touchy about his poor education and doesn’t take kindly to snide remarks from the town’s prickly bookstore owner—no matter how cute he looks in his skinny jeans. Left to run the family business alone, Alfie spends his lonely evenings indulging his secret passion for classic fiction and chatting online with witty, romantic ‘LLB’ as they fall in love over literature. Leo Novak’s new life as owner of Bayside Books is … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Cheating recounted
Death of a father from emphysema recounted

Perfect Day by Sally Malcolm

Perfect Day by Sally Malcolm

When Joshua Newton, prodigal son of one of New Milton’s elite, fell in love with ambitious young actor Finn Callaghan, his world finally made sense. With every stolen moment, soft touch and breathless kiss, they fell deeper in love. Finn was his future…until he wasn’t.

Eight years later, Finn has returned to the seaside town where it all began. He’s on the brink of stardom, a far cry from the poor mechanic who spent one gorgeous summer falling in love on the beach… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia

Half Lost by Sally Green

Half Lost by Sally Green

The Alliance is losing the war, and their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Byrn, is losing his mind. Nathan’s tally of kills is rising, and yet he’s no closer to ending the tyrannical rule of the Council of White Witches in England. Nor is Nathan any closer to his personal goal: getting revenge on Annalise, the girl he once loved before she committed an unthinkable crime. An amulet protected by the extremely powerful witch Ledger could be the tool Nathan needs to save himself and the Alliance, but this amulet is not so easily acq… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Bury Your Gays trope
Smoking, on-page
Medical experimentation
Blood & injury depiction, including amputation of a thumb and loss of an ear
Cannibalism recounted
Murder
Gun violence
Poisoning
Explosion & bombing

Half Wild by Sally Green

Half Wild by Sally Green

In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most powerful and violent witch. Nathan is hunted from all sides: nowhere is safe and no one can be trusted. Now, Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, and he’s on the run–but the Hunters are close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Coerced suicide of a mother recounted
Death of a mother from hanging mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Knife violence, including mentions of a knife being used to blind someone

Half Bad by Sally Green

Half Bad by Sally Green

Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus. Nathan’s only hope for survival is to escape his captors, track down Marcus, and receive the three gifts that will bring him into his own magical powers—before it’s too late. But how can Nathan find his father when there is no one safe to trust, not even family, not even the girl he loves?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse & neglect
Self-harm
Coerced suicide of a mother recounted
Smoking, on-page
Cannibalism mentioned
Involuntary body modifications including branding and tattoos
Mass murder & genocide discussed
Torture
Physical assault
Kidnapping & captivity

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magi… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Incest mentioned
Depression
Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
Suicidal ideation
Infertility
Pregnancy
Miscarriage
Blood & gore depiction
Amputation
Grief & loss depiction
Murder
Beheading
Imprisonment
Torture
Fire

They Belong Only to Themselves by Brandon Taylor

They Belong Only to Themselves by Brandon Taylor

In They Belong Only to Themselves, two strangers become entwined in each other’s lives during a potluck dinner and struggle with the consequences.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cheating
Depression
Attempted suicide recounted
Animal cruelty mentioned

Shadows You Left by Taylor Brooke and Jude Sierra

Shadows You Left by Taylor Brooke & Jude Sierra

The white picket fence. The happily-ever-after. That life was never meant for him. For years he’s been bouncing from city to city—from one cage fight to another. That’s his outlet. That’s pain Erik can control. But in Seattle, everything changed. River’s an artist. He’s a pretty boy. He does yoga. Someone so soft shouldn’t be intrigued by Erik’s rough edges… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Murder

Omen Operation by Taylor Brooke

Omen Operation by Taylor Brooke

An epidemic hits the country, and Brooklyn Harper is stolen from the life she knew.

Implanted in a rural camp, Brooklyn and her friends are severed from their families and the outside world. Each day is filled with combat training to assure their safety against a mysterious virus and the creatures it creates—violent humanoids with black blood… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Murder