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The Words by Ashley Jade

The Words by Ashley Jade

He was the talented bad boy everyone wanted. I was the irrelevant geek everyone hated. He was the sun, drawing all of us in. I was a black hole, taking up space. He was destined to be a star. I was destined to remain an insignificant no one. Until he made me believe I was special… And then he destroyed me. I never thought I’d see Phoenix Walker again after he broke my heart, but fate had other plans. One tour. Eight weeks. Forty shows. Countless opportunities to make him pay. The world thought he was a God… But I knew the truth.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia & body-shaming (theme)
Dubious consent scenario, on-page
Child abuse
Abusive & toxic relationship
Recovery from substance abuse issues
Parent with early-onset dementia
Disordered eating as a coping mechanism for grief mentioned
Alcohol consumption & abuse recounted
Drug abuse & use recounted
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother during childbirth recounted
Bullying*

*Context : The heroine is hired as the hero’s sober companion. The heroine was bullied for her weight in high school.

The Happy Family by Jackie Kabler

The Happy Family by Jackie Kabler

When Beth was 10 years old, her beautiful, wild mother Alice walked out and never came back. Beth’s life since hasn’t always been smooth sailing, but now she is happy and settled, with a successful career, a loving family and a beautiful home. Then one day there’s a knock at the door. Alice has returned. Overjoyed to have the chance to rebuild their relationship, Beth invites her mother to move in. At first, everything seems wonderful. But then Beth’s friends begin to drift away, strange things start to happen at home, and rumours begin to circle about her past… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment recounted
Divorce
Alcohol consumption

The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu

The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu

Rumour has it that Alice Franklin is a slut. It’s written all over the bathroom stall at Healy High for everyone to see. And after star quarterback Brandon Fitzsimmons dies in a car accident, the rumours start to spiral out of control. But exactly what is the truth about Alice? In the end there’s only one person to ask: Alice herself.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming (theme)
Alcohol consumption
Abortion
Bullying

After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis

After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis

Roxie Clark has seen more dead bodies than your average seventeen-year-old. As a member of the supposedly-cursed Clark family, most of her ancestors have met tragic ends, including her own mother. Instead of fearing the curse, however, Roxie has combined her flair for performance and her gruesome family history into a successful ghost tour. But her tour never covers the most recent body she’s seen-her sister Skylar’s boyfriend, Colin Riley, found murdered in a cornfield. A year after the murder, Roxie… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide, off-page
Alcohol consumption
Gun violence & armed robbery
Knife violence mentioned
Car accident mentioned
Death by choking

Names for the Dawn by CL Beaumont

Names for the Dawn by C.L. Beaumont

Seasoned Park Ranger Will Avery has found his home in the Denali wilderness, cherishing his solitary routines for the decade leading up to 1991. The trade-off that no one knows of his identity as a transgender man feels worth it for the comforting assurance he finds in the towering glaciers. Until Will discovers an unexpected passenger in his truck—the visiting wolf biologist everyone in the Park is ecstatic to meet—Nikhil Rajawat. Nikhil doesn’t return his new colleagues’ fervour. He’s dreamt of Denali for one reason: the pinnacle of his research, and it isn’t anyone’s business that this is the last year he’ll get to chase the wolves. He… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Homomisia discussed
Transmisia recounted*
Familial estrangement & disownment*
Physical child abuse recounted*
Anxiety & panic attacks
Insomnia
Nightmare
Parent with alcoholism recounted
Recovery from substance addiction including an off-page relapse
Suicidal ideation recounted
Alcohol consumption
Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned (sc)
Weight loss mentioned
Gender dysphoria & body dysmorphia
Scars from top surgery mentioned
Gun violence*
Bullying
Animal death, including a wolf cub & death of a pet dog

*Context : When the protagonist came out to his father, his father shot a gun at the barn near him. He has wondered for years if it was intentional or an accident. As a child, the protagonist’s mother physically abused him and burnt him with cigarettes.

Something Wild and Wonderful by Anita Kelly

Something Wild and Wonderful by Anita Kelly

When Alexei Lebedev finally comes out to his conservative community, it does not go well. That’s how he ended up on the rugged Pacific Crest Trail, hoping he can figure out a new life plan in the thousands of miles it’ll take to walk the famed hike. He’s prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he’s not prepared for is the ray of sunshine named Ben Caravalho. Charismatic and outgoing, Ben’s personality and infectious laughter are a stark opposite of Alexei’s quiet, reserved demeanour. But no matter how determined Alexei is to hike the trail alone, it seems he and Ben can’t avoid… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia & homomisic slurs
Familial estrangement due to religious-based queermisia
Coming out recounted
Emotionally abusive relationship recounted
Social anxiety
Alcohol consumption
Death of an aunt from Alzheimer’s Disease

Sweet Solitude by Sav Miller

Sweet Solitude by Sav R. Miller

In the wake of her father’s death, lonely Juliet Harrison struggles with the guilt over her loss. She deals with it the way she deals with everything: by burying her feelings beneath impulsive decisions and desecrating the local graveyard. But Juliet isn’t as invisible as she believes. Hiding out from the ghosts of his past, Kieran Ivers is known in King’s Trace as a homicidal hermit. But the rumours don’t stop him from visiting the cemetery to taunt his late brother’s remains. It’s there he first spots a woman engaging in lascivious acts on her father’s grave and becomes enraptured by… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Human trafficking
Sexual assault, voyeurism & dubious consent scenario
Parental abandonment recounted
Child abuse recounted
Alcohol abuse
Emesis
Death of a father recounted
Torture
Organised crime
Erotic asphyxiation

Little Lies by Helena Hunting

Little Lies by H. Hunting

I don’t want you. You mean nothing to me. I never loved you. I turned my words into swords. And I cut her down. Shoved the blade in and watched her fall. I said I’d never hurt her, and I did. Years later, I’m faced with all the little lies, the untruths, the false realities, the damage I inflicted, when all I wanted was to indulge my obsession. Lavender Waters is the princess in the tower. Even her name is the thing fairy tales are made of. I used to be the one who saved her. Over and over again. But I don’t want to save her anymore. I just want to pretend the lies are still the truth.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Anxiety & panic attacks
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption
Attempted kidnapping of a child recounted

Always Never Yours by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Always Never Yours by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Megan Harper is the girl before. All her exes find their one true love right after dating her. It’s not a curse or anything, it’s just the way things are. and Megan refuses to waste time feeling sorry for herself. Instead, she focuses on pursuing her next fling, directing theatre, and fulfilling her dream school’s acting requirement in the smallest role possible. But her plans quickly crumble when she’s cast as none other than Juliet–yes, that Juliet–in her high school’s production. It’s a nightmare. No–a disaster. Megan’s not an actress and she’s certainly not a Juliet. Then she meet… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Cheating
Alcohol consumption mentioned

Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe

Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O’Keefe

Sanda and Biran Greeve were siblings destined for greatness. A high-flying sergeant, Sanda has the skills to take down any enemy combatant. Biran is a savvy politician who aims to use his new political position to prevent conflict from escalating to total destruction. However, on a routine maneuver, Sanda loses consciousness when her gunship is blown out of the sky. Instead of finding herself in friendly hands, she awakens 230 years later on a deserted enemy warship controlled by an AI who calls himself Bero. The war is lost. The star system is dead. Ada Prime and its rival Icarion have wiped each other from the universe… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Drug use
Medical content, including confinement in a statis pool
Blood depiction
Emesis
Gun violence