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Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli

On the night Rune’s life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what she is. Spending her days pretending to be nothing more than a vapid young socialite, Rune spends her nights as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged. When a rescue goes wrong, she decides to throw the witch hunters off her scent and gain the intel she desperately needs by courting the handsome Gideon Sharpe, a notorious and unforgive….Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Persecution for witchcraft including mass murder of witches recounted
Enslavement recounted
Rape recounted (multiple, forced sexual relationship)
Substance addiction & alcoholism recovery (laudanum, opium)
Murder by gun violence and explosion
Torture
Gun & knife violence

We Can Be Heroes by Kyrie McCauley

Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. After the town moves on from Cassie’s murder too fast, Beck and Vivian finally find common ground: vengeance. They memorialize Cassie by secretly painting murals of her around town, a message to the world that Cassie won’t be forgotten. But Beck and Vivian are keeping secrets, like the third passenger riding in Beck’s VW bus with them—Cassie’s ghost. When their murals catch the attention of a podcaster covering Cassie’s case, they become the catalyst,,, Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Statutory rape mentioned
Child abuse & neglect
Domestic abuse
Parent with alcoholism
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Lung cancer
Gun violence
School shooting
Car accident mentioned

Wrath by Ella James

Josh Miller. That’s his name, but I just call him DG for Do Gooder. This guy is relentless. All-American, baby-faced, blue-eyed band dork who’s not a band dork at all, because you can’t be a dork when you’re getting scouted to play college soccer. When he’s not doing music or sports, DG is counting up his Boy Scout badges or front-rowing it at the First Baptist church. DG is my new stepbrother. Little brother. I’m a whole year older, not that he knows. I don’t think he knows I’m starting senior year a whole year late. And he definitely doesn’t know why. I’ve got secrets I’m taking with me to the grave. Everyone thinks I came into… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Rape recounted (on-page)
Conversion therapy recounted
Amnesia & depression
Alcoholism
Attempted suicide & suicidal ideation
Drug use & abuse
Overdose (on-page)
Car accident

Final Offer by Lauren Asher

Callahan. I’m the Kane brother everyone gossips about behind closed doors. Trust fund brat. Washed-up athlete. High-functioning alcoholic. No one knows the real me but her. Lana Castillo—my childhood best friend and the only woman I ever loved. When I broke her heart six years ago, I promised to never return to Lake Wisteria. I kept my word until my grandfather’s will changed everything. To receive my inheritance, I was tasked with spending a summer at the family lake house before selling it. The request was simple in theory until my entire plan blew up on the very first day. Turns out Lana doesn’t just live at the house, but… Read mor e.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Emotional & verbal child abuse
Substance addiction & alcoholism
Anxiety & panic attacks
Drug use (smoking)
Overdose recounted
Infertility
Cancer
Death of a grandfather
Animal abuse

Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins

For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare — poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world’s top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him “The Fittest (Real) Man in America.”

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Child abuse
Alcoholism
Military enlistment & deployment (theme)

The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss

Bast knows how to bargain. The give-and-take of a negotiation is as familiar to him as the in-and-out of breathing; to watch him trade is to watch an artist at work. But even a master’s brush can slip. When he accepts a gift, taking something for nothing, Bast’s whole world is knocked askew, for he knows how to bargain—but not how to owe. From dawn to midnight over the course of a single day, follow the Kingkiller Chronicle’s most charming fae as he schemes and sneaks, dancing into trouble and back out again with uncanny grace.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse & domestic abuse, off-page
Alcoholism discussed
Self-harm for magic
Blood depiction

King of Country by CW Farnsworth

Kyle Spencer is the king of country music. She’s the city girl, sent to talk him into returning to the stage. Piper Egan landed her dream job straight out of college—working at Empire Records. But instead of discovering new talent and changing lives, like she’d hoped, her time is spent taking meeting notes and catering to spoiled celebrities. When the chance to change that finally appears, she should be thrilled. Unfortunately, Piper’s promotion involves the charming cowboy she’s spent years attempting to avoid. And flying to middle of nowhere, Texas, in a desperate attempt to talk the king of country music into returning to the… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Infidelity recounted
Parent in alcoholism recounted
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Death of a mother in a self-inflicted drunk-driving accident recounted
Death of a stepfather recounted

*Context : The female protagonist’s ex-partner cheated on her in the past.

The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier

A Lord is to marry after he graduates from Barrington University, an elite college for the rich. A Lady’s job is to help him fit into a world unaware of his secret society. The Lord does not get to choose who he spends the rest of his life with. But there is always an exception to the rule. And I just so happen to be his. I was to wed a Lord of my parents’ choosing. Wealth can’t buy you everything, or I would have had freedom years ago. Instead, my strict parents made sure I lived a dull life in a mansion resembling a prison. But on my wedding day, I was handed over to another man-an even more ruthless Lord that my family hatred. Tyson… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Human trafficking
Fatphobia & body-shaming
Slut-shaming
Adult-minor relationship mentioned
Forced marriage
Parental infidelity
Rape & attempted rape
Intimate partner violence
Emotional & physical child abuse
Parent with alcoholism
Alcohol consumption
Drugging
Unplanned pregnancy due to reproductive assault and medical abuse
Involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation
Body modifications including branding and involuntary implantation of a tracker
Needles
Emesis
Dieting & weight loss recounted
Faked death of a pregnant sister and girlfriend recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Knife violence & stabbing
Physical assault
Kidnapping
Arson & immolation

*Context : The female protagonist (FMC) is raped while sedated and involuntarily instituitionalised by a secondary character. The FMC’s fiancé intended to drug and rape her. The FMC’s doctor administers a hormone injection to aid with ovulation under the disguise of birth control; she becomes pregnant as a result. The FMC’s mother was married to a 23-year-old man when she was only 17-years-old. The MMC threatens to kill the FMC’s brother if she doesn’t marry him. The FMC’s father installed cameras without the FMC or MMC’s consent and watched them have sex.

Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander

Eli Ward hasn’t been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he’s a completely different person from the one who left years ago. But when a scandal threatens his career as a TV writer and comedian, he has no choice but to return home for the holidays. He can only hope he’ll survive his boisterous, loving, but often misguided family and hide the fact that his dream of comedy success has become a nightmare. ust when he thinks this trip couldn’t get any worse, Eli bumps into his high school ex, Nick Wu, who’s somehow hotter than ever. Divorced and in his forties, Nick’s… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Homomisia & transmisia
Divorce recounted
Alcoholism recounted
Death of a parent recounted
Car accident recounted

Evocation by S.T. Gibson

As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father’s death and rapidly approaching his thirtieth birthday, he is content with the high-powered life he’s curated as a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a powerful medium for his secret society. But with power comes a price, and the Devil has come to collect on an ancestral deal. David’s days are numbered, and death looms at his door. Reluctantly, he reaches out to the only person he’s ever trusted, his ex-boyfriend and secret Society rival Rhys, for help. However, the only way to get to Rhys is… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Physical & emotional child abuse discussed
Infidelity mentioned
Alcoholism discussed & depicted
Drug use (smoking)