Blood to Dust by L.J. Shen

Blood to Dust by L.J. Shen

His name is Beat, and I should hate him. Bound, blindfolded and bruised, I’m tied in his basement, waiting for the men who stripped me from clothes and humanity to collect his debt to them. Me. His name is Nate and I should hate him, but I don’t. I’m not supposed to know his real name, even worse, I’m not supposed to care. He is nothing to me but means to an end. The plan is simple: break free, collect the pieces of my broken soul, kill the bastards and run away. His name is Nathaniel Thomas Vela, and I’ve never seen his face, though I hear that it’s beautiful… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Forced abortion
  • Graphic murder
  • Captivity
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The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She’ll be working in her family’s ice cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend—whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort—and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father—a man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his life—Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him, no matter how much he insists. While King’s… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Amisia
  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Rape recounted, off-page
  • Cheating mentioned, off-page
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Smoking
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Teen pregnancy recounted
  • Blackmail
  • Stalking
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The Legacy by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

The Legacy by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

The only person who might have the answers to a baffling murder case is the victim’s seven-year-old daughter, found hiding in the room where her mother died. And she’s not talking. Newly-promoted, out of his depth, detective Huldar turns to Freyja for her expertise with traumatized young people. Freyja, who distrusts the police in general and Huldar in particular, isn’t best pleased. But she’s determined to keep little Margret safe. It may prove tricky. The killer is leaving them strange clues, but can they crack the code? And if they do, will they be next?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating mentioned
  • Incestuous rape
  • Pregnancy from rape
  • Miscarriage mentioned
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Murder
  • Animal abuse
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One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner

One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner

Frankie Elkin, who readers first met in Before She Disappeared, learns of a young man who has gone missing in a national forest. Law enforcement has abandoned the search, but a crew of people led by the young man’s father are still looking. Sensing a father’s desperation, Frankie agrees to help–but soon sees that a missing person isn’t all that’s wrong here. And when more people start to vanish, Frankie realizes she’s up against something very dark–and she’s running out of time.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcoholism
  • Abortion
  • Blood depiction
  • Cancer
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Separation Games by CD Reiss

Separation Games by C.D. Reiss

These are the unbreakable rules in the game. Stay collected. Compartmentalize. Think your next move through. Never let your heart dictate your tactics. These are the unbreakable rules in the game. Stay collected. Compartmentalize. Think your next move through. Never let your heart dictate your tactics. Because the heart may have decided to get Adam back, but when the endgame comes, the heart’s going to be the first thing to break.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Abortion recounted

Mr Big Empty by Gregory Ashe

Mr Big Empty by Gregory Ashe

Vie Eliot arrives in the small town of Vehpese, Wyoming with little more than the clothes–and scars–on his back. Determined to make a new life for himself after escaping his abusive mother, he finds that living with his estranged father brings its own problems. Then Samantha Oates, the girl with blue hair, goes missing, and Vie might be the only one who can find her. His ability to read emotions and gain insight into other people’s darkest secrets makes him the perfect investigator, with only one small problem: he wants nothing to do with his gift. When the killer… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Suicide & attempted suicide
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Self-harm
  • Drug use
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Torture mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping

Nothing Personal by Larry Temple

Nothing Personal by Larry Temple

The ultimate predator kidnaps seven women for a sadistic game of his own design. The women must fight for their freedom while serving as this madman’s messenger to the outside world. FBI agent Laura Spencer is thrust into the center of the investigation as she attempts to decode the messages. Do the clues lead to a killer from a generation ago or are they just a ruse to throw off the investigation? Every day brings more harrowing danger and abuse for the women. Follow this journey into the mind of a madman as he uses the truth to serve his own purposes. Some truths are meant to remain hidden…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Conversion therapy
  • Slut-shaming
  • Rape
  • Cheating
  • Abortion
  • Miscarriage
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
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The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz

The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz

Owen Mann is charming, privileged, and chronically dissatisfied. Luna Grey is secretive, cautious, and pragmatic. Despite their differences, they begin forming a bond the moment they meet in college. Their names soon become indivisible–Owen and Luna, Luna and Owen–and stay that way even after an unexplained death rocks their social circle. Years later, they’re still best friends when Luna finds Owen’s wife brutally murdered. The police investigation sheds some light on long-hidden secrets, but it can’t penetrate the wall of mystery that surrounds Owen. To get to… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity
  • Depression
  • Abortion
  • Murder

The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali

The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali

Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr Fakhri’s neighbourhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-coloured ink. Then Mr Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favourite customer—handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi’s poetry—and she loses her heart at once. Their romance blossoms and the little stationery shop remains their favourite place in all of Tehran… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Self-induced abortion mentioned
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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
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