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Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she’s just inherited — to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement — Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family’s property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can’t really live, either. Not while he’s bound to the farm, locked in a cycle of grisly deaths and painful rebirths. There’s only one way for him to break free. He needs to end the Westlock line… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Self-injury
Suicide by cutting throat
Alcohol consumption mentioned
Minor body horror
Torture recounted
Physical assault (fistfights) & stabbing
Drowning mentioned
Choking
Cult
Fire & arson
Animal death (chicken)

I Am Made of Death by Kelly Andrew

Following the death of his father, Thomas Walsh had to grow up quickly, taking on odd-jobs to keep food on the table and help pay his gravely ill mother’s medical bills. When he’s offered a highly paid position as an interpreter for an heiress who exclusively signs, Thomas — the hearing child of a Deaf adult — jumps at the opportunity. But the job is not without its challenges. Thomas is expected to accompany Vivienne wherever she goes, but from the start, she seems determined to shake him. To make matters worse, her parents keep her on an extremely short leash. She is not to go anywhere without express permission… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption mentioned
Body horror
Nonconsensual surgery
Murder & ritual human sacrifice
Kidnapping
Gun violence
Choking
Fistfights resulting in hospitalisation

Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli

Rune Winters is on the run. Ever since the boy she loved, Gideon Sharpe, revealed who she was and delivered her into enemy hands, everyone wants her dead. If Rune hopes to survive, she must ally herself with the cruel and dangerous Cressida Roseblood, who’s planning to take back the Republic and reinstate a Reign of Witches—something Cressida needs Rune to accomplish. Apparently it wasn’t enough for Rune to deceive Gideon; she’s now betrayed him by allying herself with the witch who made his life a living hell. Gideon won’t allow the Republic to fall to the witches and be plunged back into the nightmare… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Blood & injury depiction including mentions of a secondary character getting their ear removed without consent (on-page)
Execution of a grandmother recounted
Murder of a brother from gun violence
Gun & cannon violence
Physical assault & strangulation
Kidnapping of an infant mentioned
Near-fatal whipping
Alcohol consumption (on-page)

The Restless Dark by Erica Waters

The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones. Lucy was almost the serial killer’s final victim. Carolina is a true-crime fan who fears her own rage. Maggie is a psychology student with a little too much to hide. All of them are looking for answers, for a new identity, for a place to bury their secrets. But there are more than bones hiding in the shadows…sometimes the darkness inside is more frightening than anything the dead leave behind.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Fatphobia & body-shaming
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) including violent intrusive thoughts
Abusive relationship
Suicide
Alcohol consumption
Blood and gore depiction, emesis & body horror
Murder & attempted murder (theme)
Strangulation
Knife violence
Mugging recounted
Kidnapping recounted
Arson (off-page)

Stranger Skies by Pascale Lacelle

Opening locked doors has a price—even for those who hold a key. After going through the door that called to them both in dreams, Emory and Romie find themselves in the the same verdant world written of in Song of the Drowned Gods, albeit a twisted, rotting version of it. A sinister force has awoken with their arrival, intent on destruction as it spills across realms, and now Emory and Romie must stop it before it reaches their own shores. Meanwhile, Baz and Kai are desperate to follow their friends through the door to other worlds, but a mishap pulls them back in time instead—where they come face to face with Cornus Clover… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Pregnancy mentioned
Knife, sword & weapon violence including decapitation (monsters)
Blood, injury and minor body horror (necromancy, a secondary character being reborn after being buried alive, etc.)
Mentions of death from choking, strangulation, drowning, stabbing & explosions
Loss of autonomy (demonic possession)
Physical beating of a child recounted

A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles in search of a fabled spring. The magical spring promises untold power, which the king wants to harness to secure his reign of the embattled country of Brunnestaad. Lorelei is determined to use this opportunity to prove herself and make her wildest, most impossible dream come to become a naturalist, able to travel freely to lands she’s only ever read about. The expedition gets off to a harrowing start when its leader—Lorelei’s beloved mentor—is murdered in her quarters aboard their ship. The suspects are her… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Antisemitism discussed
Alcohol consumption
Drugging
Blood, gore & injury depiction including dead body and emesis
Strangulation
Drowning
Fire

The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

In the course of a single winter’s night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town. Nora’s estranged best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca’s disappearance, she discovers a darkness in her town’s past, as well as a string of coded messages Becca left for her to unravel. These clues lead Nora to a piece of local folklore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca’s own childhood games…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual assault mentioned
Self-injury
Car accident
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent (off-page)
Murder by suffocation

Twilight Hauntings by Angie Sage

Alex has a set of Enchanted cards. When she flutters her fingers above them, something magical happens: the cards come alive and create moving pictures of what is now and what is yet to come. But Enchantment is illegal in the city of Luma, and those who practice it are imprisoned forever in the Vaults—dark dungeons deep below the city. When Alex is betrayed by her foster sister Zerra, she knows she is in great danger. With the help of her little foster brother, Louie, she makes a daring escape. But Alex is betrayed by her… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Death of a mother in incarceration
Attempted murder by strangulation
Near-drowning incident
Animal death by gunshot (bird)
Animal attack (hawk, eel)

The Serial Killer’s Wife by Alice Hunter

Beth and Tom Hardcastle are the envy of their neighbourhood – they have the perfect marriage, the perfect house, the perfect family. When the police knock on their door one evening, Beth panics. Tom should be back from work by now – what if he’s crashed his car? She fears the worst. But the worst is beyond imagining. As the interrogation begins, Beth will find herself questioning everything she believed about her husband. They’re husband and wife – till death do them part…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Domestic abuse
Murder
Strangulation

Never Die by Rob J. Hayes

Ein is on a mission from God. A God of Death. Time is up for the Emperor of Ten Kings and it falls to a murdered eight year old boy to render the judgement of a God. Ein knows he can’t do it alone, but the empire is rife with heroes. The only problem; in order to serve, they must first die. Ein has four legendary heroes in mind, names from story books read to him by his father. Now he must find them and kill them, so he can bring them back to fight the Reaper’s war.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Fatphobia and body-shaming
Alcohol consumption (multiple on-page scenes)
A secondary character is dying of leprosy with some mentions of his symptoms including loss of fingers and teeth
Graphic fight scenes, including battle scenes/raids, destruction and pillaging of villages, hand-to-hand combat, and gun- & sword violence (on-page)
Murder by gunshot, poisoning, and stabbing (on page)
Attempted murder by strangulation