Abortion – Page 3 – Trigger Warning Database

One Night by Lena Hendrix

Duke Sullivan is the oldest brother of my family’s hated rival. He also happens to be my good morning text and the man I have no right to have a secret crush on. Duke is strictly forbidden. After months of keeping our friendship hidden, the stars align, sparks ignite, and we finally give into temptation. Knowing our relationship could never be more than stolen glances and longing looks, we agree to stay secret friends––until two pink lines change everything. With our small town and both our families in an uproar, Duke does the unthinkable.
He packs up my belongings and moves me into his house. Despite agreeing to weather the storm together and to try to figure out how to co-parent,.. Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Parent with early onset dementia
Unplanned pregnancy discussed (on-page, protagonist)
Abortion discussed
Minor blood & injury depiction
Death of a parent mentioned (off-page)

Catch and Cradle by Katia Rose

The UNS Women’s Lacrosse team doesn’t have an official policy against inter-teammate relationships, but those words might as well be carved into stone tablets in the middle of the field. After witnessing way too much drama in the past, Captain Becca Moore is intent on keeping her players’ love lives out of the locker room. Becca has no time or tolerance for any distractions from the game. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what Hope Hastings has been since the day she showed up for tryouts: one walking, talking, charismatically dorky and way-too-kissable distraction. Hope knew… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism
Emotionally abusive relationship recounted
Forced outing mentioned
Abortion discussed & recounted

You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke

Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . . There’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows. Maybe it’s all in Elle’s mind? She’s a writer – her imagination, after all, is her strength. And yet every threat seems personal. As if someone has discovered the secrets that keep her awake at night. As fear and paranoia close in, Elle’s own home becomes a prison. Someone is unlocking her past – and she’s given them the key…

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape recounted
Abortion recounted
Death of a parent recounted
Stalking
Fire

All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

The students in Corbin College’s elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all—free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. When first-gen college student Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she doesn’t hesitate.? Except once she’s settled into the gorgeous Victorian dormitory, something strange starts to happen. She’s finally writing, but her stories are dark and twisted. Her dreams feel as if they could bury her alive. An unseen presence seems to stalk her through the halls. And a chilling secret awaits Tara at the heart of Magni Viri—one that just… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Transphobia & accidental misgendering
Self-harm & suicidal ideation
Attempted abortion mentioned
Hospitalisation
Loss of autonomy (possession)

Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert

Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent sister, but she’s finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her powerful family…and the ex who shattered her heart. Perhaps rough hands on soft skin are exactly what she needs to forget her heartbreak once and for all? Charon Ariti has been Hades’s right-hand man for years. He’s given everything to the lower city, but now he’s ready to take something for himself. He’s only too happy to give Eurydice a special kind of education…but is her heart really free enough to be claimed? Orpheus Makos will do whatever it takes to make… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Pregnancy & abortion, off-page (secondary character)
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence

Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

Eve Hatch is pretty content with her life. Her apartment in Brooklyn is cozy and close to her childhood best friend Willa, but far from her midwestern, traditional family who never really understood her. While her job is only dream- adjacent , she’s hoping her passion and hard work will soon help her land a more glamorous role. And sure, her most recent romantic history has consisted of not one but two disappointing men named Derek. At least she always knows what to expect… until she finds herself expecting after an uncharacteristic one-night stand. The unplanned… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Unplanned pregnancy & on-page childbirth (protagonist)
Infertility & abortion mentioned
Miscarriage (off-page, secondary character)
Emesis
Death of a parent from cancer & a car accident mentioned

Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

After Zoe Baxter loses her baby, the only way she can find of coping is to try again. But her husband Max disagrees – more than that, he wants a divorce. When they separate, there is no mention of the unborn children they created together, still waiting at the clinic. The Zoe falls in love again, out of the blue, and finds herself with an unexpected second chance to have a family. But Max has found a new life too – one with no place in it for people like Zoe. And he will stand up in court to say that her new choice of partner makes her an unfit mother.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia (theme)
Divorce
Panic attack
Secondary character with dementia
Suicidal ideation
Self-harm mentioned
Stillbirth, miscarriage & abortion
Infertility

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theatre world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym. In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

Misogyny
Sexual assault
Domestic violence
Abortion & miscarriage

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she’s feeling bored and restless. Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

Adult-minor relationship & paedophilia
Rape
Cheating
Alcohol abuse & drugging
Pregnancy & abortion mentioned
Death of a child
Gun violence

One Two Three by Laurie Frankel

Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed―tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her sock drawer. Mab’s job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne. For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green. The girls have come of age watching their mother’s endless fight for.. Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism discussed
Disability from factory pollution (theme)