Tag Archives: Alcoholism

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. Jack Stapleton’s a household name—captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. But a few… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Familial estrangement
  • Domestic violence recounted
  • Physical injury (gunshot wound)
  • Parent with cancer mentioned
  • Death of a parent with alcoholism-related illness
  • Death of a sibling
  • Gun violence
  • Drowning
  • Car accident
  • Stalking
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You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno

You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno

Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the day after her family self-destructed. The day her father ruined her mother’s life. The day Eryn, Magpie’s sister, skipped town and left her to fend for herself. The day of Brandon Phipp’s party. Now Magpie is called a slut in the hallways of her high school, her former best friend won’t speak to her, and she spends her lunch period with a group of misfits who’ve all been as socially exiled as she has. And so, feeling trapped and forgotten, Magpie retreats to her notebook, dreaming up a magical place called Near. Near is perfect–a place… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Bimisia
  • Transmisia
  • Slut shaming
  • Victim blaming
  • Rape & date rape
  • Child neglect
  • Cheating
  • Anxiety & anxiety attacks
  • Suicide
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Alcoholism
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Drugging
  • Murder
  • Bullying

Dotted Lines by Devney Perry

Dotted Lines by Devney Perry

Clara Saint-James is completing a journey started by an old friend. She’ll return a Cadillac to California, a place she’s avoided for more than a decade. But it’s time for closure and to put old ghosts to rest. And it’s time to find out if the feelings she’s cherished for the boy from her past are just fanciful memories—or if there’s a chance they are real. Timing was never on her side, especially when it came to Karson Avery. The two of them lived in a junkyard as runaway teens, and though she wanted more than his friendship, he always belonged to another—until that one night… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child sexual abuse of a sibling, off-page
  • Alcoholism mentioned

Sweet Rome by Tillie Cole

Sweet Rome by Tillie Cole

It makes me laugh when I hear folks think Molly and I rushed into things too fast, spouting that we couldn’t possibly have felt what we did for each other in such a short space of time. I say, how the hell would they know? We made it, didn’t we? She became my whole life, didn’t she? And as for my folks not being real, being true? Tell that to me aged ten, eleven, twelve—damn, all my bastard life—when I was never enough when I was beaten until I bled for being too good at football and not being everything they’d dreamed: the perfectly dutiful son. Tell that to thousands of kids around the world getting wailed on by asshole parents for… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Parent with alcoholism
  • Suicide
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Miscarriage
  • Death of parents

Wild Invitation by Nalini Singh

Wild Invitation: A Psy-Changeling Collection by Nalini Singh

Wild Invitation is a collection of four astonishing novellas set in the Psy-Changeling world from New York Times bestseller Nalini Singh. Beat of Temptation – Tamsyn has always had a special place in her heart for the dominant leopard in her pack, Nate. He doesn’t want to trap her with the fierceness of a mating bond before she’s ready but Tamsyn has her heart set on him, and what she wants, she’s determined to get. Stroke of Enticement – meet Zach, an irresistable DarkRiver soldier, and Annie, the human woman who finds herself drawn into entanglement with this… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Beat of Temptation :

  • Parent with alcoholism recounted
  • Death of a father from suicide by car accident
  • Death of a mother from suicide recounted
  • Murder mentioned

Stroke of Enticement :

  • Ableism
  • Fatmisia
  • Chronic leg injury from a train accident recounted

Declaration of Courtship :

  • Facial scar
  • Nightmares
  • Murder of both parents recounted
  • Death of parents in a car accident recounted

Texture of Intimacy :

  • Suicide mentioned
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Pregnancy (secondary character)

Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh

Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh

When socialite Nina Rai disappeared without a trace, everyone wrote it off as another trophy wife tired of her wealthy husband. But now her bones have turned up in the shadowed green of the forest that surrounds her elite neighbourhood, a haven of privilege and secrets that’s housed the same influential families for decades. The rich live here, along with those whose job it is to make their lives easier. And somebody knows what happened to Nina one rainy night ten years ago. Her son Aarav heard a chilling scream that night, and he’s determined to uncover the ugly truth that lives beneath the moneyed elegance but no one is read… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental emotional abuse
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Statutory rape
  • Depression
  • Alcoholism
  • Suicide
  • Overdose
  • Hospitalisation
  • Murder

Allegiance of Honour by Nalini Singh

Allegiance of Honour by Nalini Singh

The Psy-Changeling world has undergone a staggering transformation and now stands at a crossroads. The Trinity Accord promises a new era of cooperation between disparate races and groups. It is a beacon of hope held together by many hands: Old enemies. New allies. Wary loners. But a century of distrust and suspicion can’t be so easily forgotten and threatens to shatter Trinity from within at any moment. As rival members vie for dominance, chaos and evil gather in the shadows and a kidnapped woman’s cry for help washes up in San Francisco, while the Consortium turns its murderous gaze toward a child who…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism & ableist language
  • Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Alcoholism & recovery
  • Chronic pain & leg injury
  • Physical injury, including broken bones & loss of vision
  • Torture mentioned
  • Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping
  • Car accident

The Finish Line by Kate Stewart

The Finish Line by Kate Stewart

I’ve lived the entirety of my life wrapped up in subterfuge for one purpose—revenge. Through the years, I lived more as an enigma than a man. For so long, I denied I had a beating heart of my own. Until her. Until she unearthed the starving vessel inside, forced me to acknowledge it, forced me to understand that I’m capable of bleeding the same as any other.⁣ For that, we paid. We’re still paying. Yet, she demands it still, the useless heart of the ruthless thief and shameless villain she fell for. My fear is, I’m no longer that⁣⁣⁣⁣… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Anxiety
  • Alcoholism
  • Murder
  • Gun violence

Drive by Kate Stewart

Drive by Kate Stewart

The average song is three and a half minutes long; those three and a half minutes could lead to a slow blink, a glimpse of the past, or catapult the soul into heart-shattering nostalgia. At the height of my career, I had the life I wanted, the life I’d always envisioned. I’d found my tempo, my rhythm. Then I received a phone call that left me off key.. You see, my favourite songs had a way of playing simultaneously. I was in love with one man’s beats and another’s lyrics. But when it came to the soundtrack of a life, how could anyone choose a favourite song? So, to erase any doubt, I ditched my first-class ticket and decided to take.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating, on-page
  • Parent with alcoholism mentioned
  • Drug use, on-page
  • Poverty

The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

Meet Ben Dane: brilliant, devastating, devoted, honest to a fault (truly, a fault). His Broadway theatre baron father is dead—but by purpose or accident? The question rips him apart. Unable to face alone his mother’s ghastly remarriage to his uncle, Ben turns to his dearest friend, Horatio Patel, whom he hasn’t seen since their relationship changed forever from platonic to something…other. Loyal to a fault (truly, a fault), Horatio is on the first flight to NYC when he finds himself next to a sly tailor who portends inevitable disaster. And who seems ominously like an architect of mayhem himself. Meanwhile, Ben’s… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcoholism
  • Attempted suicide & suicidal ideation
  • Drug use & abuse
  • Gun & knife violence
  • Arson