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Breathless by Beverly Jenkins

Breathless by Beverly Jenkins

As manager of one of the finest hotels in Arizona Territory, Portia Carmichael has respect and stability—qualities sorely missing from her harsh childhood. She refuses to jeopardize that by hitching herself to the wrong man. Suitors are plentiful, but none of them has ever looked quite as tempting as the family friend who just rode into town…and none have looked at her with such intensity and heat. Duchess. That’s the nickname Kent Randolph gave Portia when she was a young girl. Now she’s a stunning, intelligent woman… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Parental abandonment recounted
Murder
Kidnapping

Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy

Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels and excited to say goodbye to New York and start a life together in Sam’s sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist’s wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Abandonment
Cheating
Overdose
Kidnapping

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

Lane Roanoke is fifteen when she comes to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin at the Roanoke family’s rural estate following the suicide of her mother. Over one long, hot summer, Lane experiences the benefits of being one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But what she doesn’t know is being a Roanoke girl carries a terrible legacy: either the girls run, or they die. For there is darkness at the heart of Roanoke, and when Lane discovers its insidious pull, she must make her choice…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Statutory rape
Incest
Physical child abuse
Graphic suicide recounted
Teen pregnancy
Childbirth
Abortion mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Death of an infant mentioned
Death of a mother
Murder
Drowning
Hanging recounted
Death from a fall mentioned
Disappearnace of a loved one

Lola & the Millionaires: Part Two by Kathryn Moon

Lola & the Millionaires: Part Two by Kathryn Moon

Lola is being hunted by her past, stalked with every step she takes. Sheltered with the pack of her dreams, at first it seems like the hardest challenge isn’t even staying safe from Indy. Tensions at work are at a tipping point and after taking the role of management’s spy, Lola’s in the crossfire if anything goes wrong. As romances between Lola and the pack members are developing left and right, the woman who swore she wanted nothing to do with alpha is turning to them like a bloom to the sun. If only it weren’t just one monstrous alpha that twisted her own thoughts. Lola… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Parental abandonment recounted
Abusive relationship recounted
Alcohol consumption
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Anxiety & panic attacks
Nightmares
Death of a mother from lung cancer recounted
Murder
Physical assault
Kidnapping
Home invasion

The Company of Fiends by Kathryn Moon

The Company of Fiends by Kathryn Moon

After eight years on the stage with The Company of Fiends, the glow of the spotlight is starting to wear thin for Hazel Nix. The theatre is perfect for a girl like her—one with a secret she keeps even from her more monstrous peers—but playing pretend is only exciting for so long. After so many lovers, on stage and otherwise, Hazel has yet to make a lasting connection with anyone and considers taking her last bow at the company. Just as Hazel encounters a new and intriguing patron, disaster strikes the theatre. Girls are going missing… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Human trafficking mentioned
Parental abandonment recounted
Child abuse recounted
Attempted sexual assault
Involuntary body modifications recounted
Cannibalism mentioned
Death of a father recounted
Murder
Torture, off-page
Strangulation
Home invasion
Physical assault (mugging)

Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett

Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett

Kamzin has always dreamed of becoming one of the emperor’s royal explorers, the elite climbers tasked with mapping the wintry, mountainous Empire and spying on its enemies. She knows she could be the best in the world if only someone would give her a chance. But everything changes when the mysterious and eccentric River Shara, the greatest explorer ever known, arrives in her village and demands to hire Kamzin—not her older sister, Lusha, as everyone had expected—for his next expedition. This is Kamzin’s chance to prove herself—even though River’s mission to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Abandonment
Alcohol consumption
Physical injuries
Animal death & death of a pet

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

Miss Lillian Hargrove has lived much of her life alone in a gilded cage, longing for love and companionship. When an artist offers her pretty promises and begs her to pose for a scandalous portrait, Lily doesn’t hesitate…until the lying libertine leaves her in disgrace. With the painting now public, Lily has no choice but to turn to the one man who might save her from ruin. The Duke of Warnick loathes all things English, none more so than the aristocracy. It does not matter that the imposing Scotsman has inherited one of.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Abandonment recounted
Death of a parent recounted

Icebreaker by AL Graziadei

Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei

Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is a college freshman, a brother to five sisters, and a hockey legacy. With a father and a grandfather who have gone down in NHL history, Mickey is almost guaranteed the league’s top draft spot. Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is a college freshman, a brother to five sisters, and a hockey legacy. With a father and a grandfather who have gone down in NHL history, Mickey is almost guaranteed the league’s top draft spot. This is a story about falling in love, finding your team (on and off the ice), and choosing your own path.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Abandonment
Anxiety
Depression
Tricholillomania
Alcohol consumption
Drug use mentioned

American Betiya by Anuradha Rajurkar

American Betiya by Anuradha D. Rajurkar

Rani Kelkar has never lied to her parents until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in–his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art–make him her mother’s worst nightmare. They begin dating in secret, but when Oliver’s troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give, desperately trying to fit into her world, no matter how high the cost. When a twist of fate leads Rani from Evanston, Illinois to Pune, India for a summer, she has a reckoning with herself–and what’s really brewing beneath the surface of her first love… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Misogyny
Child abandonment & neglect
Substance addiction
Alcohol consumption
Drug use
Unplanned pregnancy
Suicide & attempted suicide
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend
Death of a grandparent

Bend Toward the Sun by Jen Devon

Bend Toward the Sun by Jen Devon

Rowan McKinnon doesn’t believe in love. With a botany PhD, two best friends who embrace her social quirkiness, and some occasional no-strings sex, she has everything she needs. But she hides deep wounds from the past—from a negligent mother, and a fiancé who treated her like a pawn in a game. When an academic setback leads Rowan to take on the restoration of an abandoned vineyard, she relishes the opportunity to restore the grapes to their former glory… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child neglect & abandonment recounted
Emotionally abusive relationship recounted
Cheating recounted*
Divorce
Depression
Anxiety & panic attacks
Sibling with a chronic leg injury sustained during a car accident
Alcohol consumption
Smoking mentioned
Death of a grandmother recounted
Weight loss recounted

* Context : The heroine broke up with her ex-fiancé when she realised he was married with kids.