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The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved–plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Before her passing, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon was indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison Ford. With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Infidelity
  • Parent with substance abuse issues
  • Drug use & abuse
  • Weight loss discussed

The Right Move by Liz Tomforde

The Right Move by Liz Tomforde

Ryan. She’s a distraction, that’s what she is. I’m the newest Captain of the Devils, Chicago’s NBA team, and the last thing I needed this year was for Indy Ivers, my sister’s best friend, to move into my apartment. She’s messy, emotional, and way too tempting. But when the team’s General Manager vocalizes his blatant disapproval of my promotion to Captain, referring to me as an unapproachable lone wolf with no work-life balance, I can’t think of a better way to convince him otherwise than pretending to date my outgoing roommate. The only problem? Faking it… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating recounted, off-page
  • Infertility mentioned

Sweet Sacrifice by Sav Miller

Sweet Sacrifice by Sav R. Miller

Fiona Ivers has been in love with her brother’s best friend since she was a kid. He’s older and oblivious to her existence—which only makes her want him more. She’s always believed he was disinterested until a charity gala pushes them together. There, she realizes maybe he pays more attention than he’s ever let on. Broody, tattooed loner Boyd Kelly has a low tolerance for distractions and has no issues letting those around him know. His best friend’s younger sister doesn’t seem to care, though. Each time the high-strung… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Human & sex trafficking
  • Parental infidelity
  • Sexual assault
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Drug abuse
  • Hospitalisation for anaphylaxis (deliberate self-exposure)
  • Parent with chronic illness
  • Death of a mother
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Organised crime

Sweet Surrender by Sav Miller

Sweet Surrender by Sav R. Miller

After his father’s retirement, Elia Montalto took over organized crime in King’s Trace, Maine. His pragmatic nature makes him popular and allows alliances with government officials, which keeps prying eyes off his business. But even a town as small as theirs is not without risk or envy, and Elia has only ever really wanted one thing: Senator Harrison’s daughter. As the eldest daughter of a corrupt politician, survival was Caroline Harrison’s only hope at one day being granted freedom. But her father has other plans, and when negotiations for her hand in marriage begin, all her dreams shatter. That is, until she makes… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Arranged marriage
  • Infidelity
  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Sex work mentioned
  • Physical child abuse
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Knife play
  • Organised crime

Sweet Sin by Sav R. Miller

Sweet Sin by Sav R. Miller

My obsession tastes like pomegranates. I’m not supposed to know that. Her skin is soft. Supple. I’m not supposed to know that, either. Now that I’ve plucked the delicate little flower, there’s no way I can ever forget. None of my other sins ever tasted so sweet.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Cheating mentioned (secondary characters)
  • Blood & knife play
  • Murder
  • Torture

*Context : This is an age-gap romance with a heroine who is twenty-years-old and a hero who is thirty-two-years-old.

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

The Headmaster’s List by Melissa de la Cruz

The Headmaster’s List by Melissa de la Cruz

One of them was driving. One of them was high. One of them screamed. And one of them died. When fifteen-year-old Chris Moore is tragically killed in a car crash, Argyle Prep is full of questions. Who was at the wheel? And more importantly, who was at fault? Eighteen-year-old Spencer Sandoval wishes she knew. As rumours swirl that her ex, Ethan, was the driver that fateful night, she can’t bring herself to defend him. And their messy breakup has nothing to do with it – she can’t remember anything from that night, not even what put her in that car with Ethan, Chris, and Tabby Hill, the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating*
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Drugging (‘roofie’)
  • Medicinal and recreational drug use & abuse discussed
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Car accident (theme)

*Context : A narrrator catchers her boyfriend cheating on her.

The Fashion Committee by Susan Juby

The Fashion Committee by Susan Juby

What if one contest could change the course of your entire life? Charlie Dean is a style-obsessed girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes fashion. John Thomas-Smith is a boy who forges metal sculptures in his garage and couldn’t care less about clothes. Both are gunning for a scholarship to the private art high school that could make all their dreams come true. And whoever wins the fashion competition will win the scholarship.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic violence
  • Cheating
  • Substance addiction

Flawless by Elsie Silver

Flawless by Elsie Silver

The rules were simple. Keep my hands off his daughter and stay out of trouble. But now I’m stuck with her. There’s only one bed. And well, rules are made to be broken. I’m the face of professional bull riding—the golden boy. Or at least I was, until it all blew up in my face. Now my agent says I have to clean up my image, so I’m stuck with his ball-busting daughter for the rest of the season as my “full-time supervision.” But I don’t need a goddamn babysitter, especially one with skin-tight jeans, a sexy smirk, and a mouth she can’t stop running. A mouth I can’t stop thinking… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Parental infidelity recounted
  • Toxic relationship & grooming*
  • Child abuse
  • Divorce
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Congenital heart defect recovery including heart surgery mentioned
  • Heart attack of a parent
  • A bull-riding accident resulting in broken ribs and a severe concussion
  • Dieting & food shaming mentioned
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother in childbirth recounted
  • Stalking*

*Context : The heroine was in a secret relationship with her surgeon, at age eighteen, for two years until he became engaged to her sister. There were elements of grooming and manipulation that advance to stalkerish behaviour in the current plotline. The protagonist is also her love interest’s sports agent

The Bosun by Harlow Layne

The Bosun by Harlow Layne

Fresh off her divorce, Stella needed to get far away from her lying ex-husband, the pitying looks and hometown gossip. With the help of her best friend, they embark on an epic girl’s trip. Let the “Get Stella’s groove back,” plan begin. Breathtaking waters of Spain, check. Chartered yacht, check. Steamy ex-Marine, check. One forbidden night under the stars leaves Stella wanting what she shouldn’t… The Bosun.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Cheating recounted
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Death of a friend
  • Fire