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Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver

Welcome to Cape Carnage! Visit Once, Stay Forever. Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colourful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. But with tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won’t let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper protects her sanctuary at any cost—especially for her aging mentor with a fading memory. Troublesome tourists don’t check out of Carnage. They compost beneath Harper’s award-winning flowerbeds. But Nolan Rhodes isn’t your average tourist. Devilishly handsome… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault recounted (secondary character), including mentions of image-based sexual abuse and attempted paedophilia
  • Nonconsensual voyeurism of protagonist by secondary character
  • Self-harm (secondary character)
  • Panic attack, nightmares, and survivor’s guilt
  • Alzheimer’s Disease (secondary character)
  • Alcohol consumption & drugging
  • Blood & gore depiction including emesis, decapitation, body parts, and dead bodies
  • Physical injury, including scars, burns, and previous rehabilitation after severe injuries sustained in a car accident (protagonist)
  • Needles (piercing)
  • Death of a brother in a hit-and-run car accident recounted
  • Death of a mother & father in a car accident
  • Murder of a boyfriend recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder (theme)
  • Torture recounted, including food deprivation
  • Physical assault
  • Near-drowning incident
  • Kidnapping & captivity recounted
  • Golf cart and go-cart accidents (secondary characters)
  • Stalking & home invasion
  • Animal injury & death (horse)

The Alpha of Bleake Isle by Kathryn Moon

Lord Ronson Cadogan can stall no longer. He needs an omega and he needs an heir. Settled on the obvious perfect choice, and determined to see his fate through, Ronson can’t afford to wait for the next ceremony to claim what he is owed. If only he was more excited about the match. Mairwen Posy knows precisely who the Alpha of Bleake Isle will choose, and it certainly isn’t her. In fact, it’s so predictable it’s almost boring. Resigned to her fate of disappearing into the background, Mairwen takes the role of observer, distracting the ache of being left out with… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Indentured servitude discussed
  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Sexual assault (forced kiss, on-page)
  • Pregnancy & death during childbirth mentioned (secondary characters)
  • Emesis (on-page)
  • Death of a father recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Physical assault
  • Fire
  • Bullying

The Master by Kresley Cole

Rich, irresistible politician/Mafya boss Maksimilian Sevastyan prefers tall, obedient blondes to fulfill his… complicated desires. That is, until the icy Russian encounters a disobedient brunette whose exquisite little body threatens his legendary restraint. Catarina Marín was a well-off young wife until her world fell apart. Now she’s hiding out, forced to start working as an escort in Miami. Her very first client is beyond gorgeous, but when he tells her what he plans to do to her, Cat almost walks out of the door… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned & dubious consent (‘dubcon’)
  • Sex work (protagonist, on-page)
  • Intimate partner violence & attempted murder
  • Infidelity (by husband)
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of parents in a car accident
  • Murder
  • Death of a mother from murder
  • Whipping & resulting scars discussed
  • Organised crime (mafia)

Context : The heroine’s husband is a serial killer & con man who marries women for their money and then murders them. He is also cheating on her with his real partner. When the heroine accidentally kills his partner, he tries to kill her in revenge.

Fire and Ice by Erin Hunter

Deep in the heart of the forest, four Clans of warrior cats coexist in uneasy harmony-but uncertain times are upon them, and dangers threaten the precarious balance of the forest. Fireheart is a ThunderClan warrior now, but his troubles are far from over. The cats of rival RiverClan grow restless, while WindClan is weak and faces threats from all sides. Now Fireheart faces not only imminent battle, but betrayal from within his own Clan.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Car accident
  • Animal death
  • Bullying

Rising Storm by Erin Hunter

Fireheart’s traitorous enemy Tigerclaw has been vanquished and exiled from Thunder Clan — but Fireheart can’t shake the feeling that he’s lurking in the forest, waiting for his chance to strike. That’s not the only problem facing the young warrior in these blazing summer months, as he struggles to handle sinister omens, an apprentice with a shocking secret, and a devastated Clan leader who is a shell of her former self. Meanwhile the forest gets hotter and hotter … and everyone braces for the coming storm…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Car accident
  • Fire
  • War themes
  • Animal death

Taming Seraphine by Gigi Styx

They captured me, broke me. Molded me into their perfect weapon. They made me murder and seduce strangers. Until a hitman killed my captors and set me free. Leroi: I rescued a girl from a basement thinking she was innocent, but I brought home a serial killer whose darkness borders on insanity. Now, I need to tame her murderous instincts before I become her next victim. Seraphine is reckless, unstable, and likely to get us both destroyed. Every instinct says I should end her, but she’s too captivating to resist.Each day, she draws me deeper into her web, her allure stripping my self-control. But I’m harboring secrets treach… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape, sexual assault & dubious consent (‘dubcon’)
  • Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
  • Child abandonment
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Drugging
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Cannibalism
  • Gential mutilation (castration) & dismemberment
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Knife play
  • Electrocution
  • Organised crime
  • Car accident
  • Kidnapping
  • Human & organ trafficking

I Will Mend You by Gigi Styx

My worst nightmare finally stepped out of the mirror. And the only man who can save me is a ghost. I’m trapped in a forgotten nightmare with the monster I most fear. The key to my freedom lies behind a wall of memories. Xero’s specter invades my mind, whispering both vengeance and salvation. He insists he’s real, yet I can’t trust my shattered psyche. But as my tormentors draw close, I must rely on the phantom I betrayed for protection—and for revenge. She’s ensnared by darkness, and only I can set her free. To save her, I must become the vengeful spirit she fears. Amethyst’s mind is a maze of terror and confusion. Freeing… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child & organ trafficking
  • Elder abuse
  • Victim-blaming
  • Rape, dubious consent (‘dubcon’), sexual harassment, & attempted sexual assault
  • Paedophilia, grooming, & child sexual abuse
  • Underage sex work mentioned (secondary character)
  • Gang rape (secondary character)
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Hallucinations & memory loss
  • Immolation
  • Abortion (forced) recounted
  • Medical misconduct (medication tampering)
  • Forced feeding
  • Cannibalism & dismemberment
  • Genital mutilation (castration)
  • Murder & murder of a child/infant
  • Graphic torture (on-page)
  • Car accident
  • Poisoning
  • Arson
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Imprisonment
  • Stalking & blackmail
  • Bullying & online harassment

I Will Break You by Gigi Styx

My prison pen pal got the electric chair. So how can he sext me from the grave? I see dead people, and not just the men I murdered. I’m in danger of being committed because I can’t tell what’s real from my hallucinations. Everyone thinks I’m crazy when the serial killer I jilted starts haunting my house. He assassinates any man who shows me interest, leaving their body parts under my pillow. During the day, his gaslighting destroys my peace of mind. But at night, he invades my nightmares and makes me crave the depravity. She ghosted me at the altar. Now, I’m aching for revenge. I want to break her, piece by delicious piece. Revel in her… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Teacher-student relationship recounted
  • Victim-blaming
  • Paedophilia, grooming & child sexual abuse recounted
  • Rape & sexual assault
  • Gang rape mentioned (secondary character)
  • Underage sex work mentioned (secondary character)
  • Hallucinations & memory loss
  • Suicide
  • Abortion (forced) & miscarriage recounted
  • Medical misconduct (medication tampering)
  • Dismemberment and desecration of a corpse & grave
  • Genital mutilation (castration)
  • Torture
  • Strangulation
  • Car accident
  • Imprisonment
  • Cults
  • Stalking
  • Bullying, online harassment & doxxing

Context : Depiction of BDSM & kink, including erotophonophilia, sadism, phrogging, collaring, spanking, osteophilia, fear play, mask play, knife play, gun play, and mentions of coprophilia,

Leo by Mia Sheridan

Evie and Leo met in foster care as children and formed a bond of friendship. As they grew, their bond turned to love, and they vowed to make a life together when they turned 18 and were no longer a part of the system. When Leo unexpectedly gets adopted as a teen and moves to another city, he promises Evie that he will contact her as soon as he gets there and come back for her in a few short years. She never hears from him again. Now eight years later, in spite of the odds, Evie has made a life for herself. She has a job. She has friends. She’s content. Then a man shows up out of the blue, claiming that her long lost love, Leo,… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Paedophilia recounted
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Experiences in the foster care system recounted
  • Car accident

The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean

The youngest of the infamous Talbot sisters scandalized society at the Liverpool Summer Soiree, striking her sister’s notoriously philandering husband and landing him backside-first in a goldfish pond. And we thought Sophie was the quiet one… When she finds herself the target of very public aristocratic scorn, Sophie Talbot does what she must to escape the city and its judgment—she flees on the back of a carriage, vowing never to return to London…or to society. But the carriage isn’t saving her from ruin. It’s filled with it. The marquess of Eversley was espied desc… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Period-typical slut-shaming
  • Physical child abuse recounted
  • Cheating (secondary characters)
  • Death of a partner in a coach accident
  • Gun violence