Tag Archives: Child Abuse & Neglect

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of child abuse and neglect, including emotional, verbal, psychological and physical abuse, and gaslighting.

For child sexual abuse, see Paedophilia & CSA.

The Deck of Omens by Christine Lynn Herman

The Deck of Omens by Christine Lynn Herman

Though the Beast is seemingly subdued for now, a new threat looms in Four Paths: a corruption seeping from the Gray into the forest. And with the other Founders preoccupied by their tangled alliances and fraying relationships, only May Hawthorne seems to realize the danger. But saving the town she loves means seeking aid from the person her family despises most–her and Justin’s father. May’s father isn’t the only newcomer in town–Isaac Sullivan’s older brother has also returned, seeking forgiveness for the role he played in Isaac’s troubled past. But Isaac isn’t ready to let… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Coming out themes, on-page
  • Emotional & physical child abuse
  • Parental abandonment
  • Domestic violence recounted
  • Memory loss (memory manipulation magic)
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Graphic body horror
  • Physical injury & illness
  • Emesis
  • Scars
  • Death of a mother, off-page
  • Death of a brother & sister recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Attempted filicide recounted
  • Knife violence, including the attempted murder of a child by slitting his throat
  • Strangulation, on-page & recounted
  • Imprisonment mentioned
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The Furies by Katie Lowe

The Furies by Katie Lowe

In 1998, a sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on school property, dressed in white and posed on a swing, with no known cause of death. The novel opens with this image, as related to us by the narrator, Violet, looking back on the night it happened from the present day, before returning to relate the series of events leading up to the girl’s murder. After an accident involving her Dad and sister, Violet joins Elm Hollow Academy, a private girls school in a quiet coastal town, which has an unpleasant history as the site of famous… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Child abuse
  • Domestic abuse
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Drug use
  • Blood depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of a sibling
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Car accident
  • Animal death
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Split by KA Merikan

Split by K.A. Merikan

Hunter knew he was in deep shit when a patchover went sideways, ending up with his prez dead, and him and his cousin becoming live-in hostages at the Coffin Nails MC clubhouse. What he didn’t know though, was that the girl he fucked just a few days before was the Coffin Nails club president’s daughter, set on having nothing to do with him after a creepy one-night stand in an abandoned church. Tough luck, because Hunter is not a quitter, even if getting involved with the prez’s hot daughter could get him killed. Astaroth is devastated after losing the two people closest to her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Sexual harassment
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Cancer mentioned
  • Death of a sibling & parent
  • Torture
  • Organised crime (motorcycle gang)

The Devil’s Ride by KA Merikan

The Devil’s Ride by K.A. Merikan

Tooth. Vice President of the Coffin Nails Motorcycle Club. On a neverending quest for vengeance. The last thing he needs is becoming a permanent babysitter for a male hooker. Lucifer. Fallen. Lost. Alone After a childhood filled with neglect and abuse, followed by his mother’s suicide, Lucifer set out into the world alone. There was nothing for him out there other than taking it one day at a time. As the bastard son of the Coffin Nails club president, Lucifer never got much fatherly love. So when the Nails show up at the strip joint Lucifer works in, the last thing he expects is to be put in… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Transmisia
  • Coming out
  • Sex work
  • Sexual assault of a child by a teacher
  • Child abuse & neglect recounted
  • Organ harvesting
  • Death of a mother from suicide recounted
  • Murder of a partner recounted
  • Torture
  • Organised crime (motorcycle gang)
  • Blackmail
  • Attempted murder of a kitten mentioned

Beyond Possession by Kit Rocha

Beyond Possession by Kit Rocha

Tatiana Stone has worked hard to establish herself as one of Sector Four’s most skilled crafters. All she wants is peace–but the sins of her father haunt her. He ruled the sector as a petty tyrant before the O’Kane takeover, and plenty of people harbour bitter memories of his cruelty. Especially now that Tatiana’s beloved baby sister has fallen in with a man who wants to start a revolution. Zan failed his boss once, and it won’t happen again. So when Dallas O’Kane asks him to defuse the rebellion brewing in the sector, he’ll do… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Child abuse & neglect mentioned
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Fire
  • Kidnapping

Oz by Lily Morton

Oz by Lily Morton

Oz Gallagher does not do relationships well. Bored and jobless after another disastrous hookup, he decides to leave London for a temporary job in the wilds of Cornwall. Surely managing a stately home on a country estate will be easier than navigating the detritus of his relationships at home. Six months there will alleviate a bit of his wanderlust and then he can come back to London as footloose and fancy-free as the day he left it. However, when he gets there he finds a house in danger of crumbling to the ground and a man who is completely unlike anyone he’s ever met… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse recounted
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Silk and Steel by Ariana Nash and Pippa DaCosta

Silk & Steel by Ariana Nash & Pippa DaCosta

Eroan, one of the last elven assassins, lives for one purpose: kill the queen. He would have succeeded if not for her last line of defense: Prince Lysander. Now, captured and forced into the queen’s harem, Eroan sees another opportunity. Why kill just the queen when he can kill them all? It would be simple, if not for the troubled and alluring prince. A warrior, a killer, and something else…, something Eroan finds himself inexplicably drawn to. Trapped in a life he despises, Lysander knows his time is running out… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Slavery
  • Rape, on-page
  • Child sexual abuse recounted
  • Incest
  • Child abuse
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Drugging
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Imprisonment

The Debt by Molly O’Keefe

The Debt by Molly O’Keefe

For the five kids who live at St. Jude’s Home for Court Placed Juveniles, life is a nightmare. Carissa, the youngest, has been there the longest. And barely speaks. Rosa is sixteen and pregnant. Simon keeps his head down and studies, hoping to get back the life he lost. Beth and Tommy, in the middle of the darkness, have found each other, and all they want is to be together. But when they get caught making out at school, it puts everyone in danger. Tommy is used to the beatings from their foster father, but when Beth is singled out for punishment, Tommy can’t.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Abuse in the foster care system
  • Teen pregnancy

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

When Viola Caroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. Only when their families reconnect, years after the war does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. Shattered without her, Gracewood has retreated so far into grief that Viola barely recognises her old friend in the lonely, brooding man he has beco… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Deadnaming
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug use
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Dreamer’s Pool by Juliet Marillier

Dreamer’s Pool by Juliet Marillier

In exchange for help escaping her long and wrongful imprisonment, embittered magical healer Blackthorn has vowed to set aside her bid for vengeance against the man who destroyed all that she once held dear. Followed by a former prison mate, a silent hulk of a man named Grim, she travels north to Dalriada. There she’ll live on the fringe of a mysterious forest, duty bound for seven years to assist anyone who asks for her help Oran, crown prince of Dalriada, has waited anxiously for the arrival of his future bride, Lady Flidais. He knows her only from a portrait and sweetly poetic… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Rape, off-page
  • Child abuse
  • House fire
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