The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she’s in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child sexual abuse resulting in pregnancy recounted
  • Suicide
  • Sibling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
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Everything Within and In Between by Nikki Barthelmess

Everything Within and In Between by Nikki Barthelmess

For Ri Fernández’s entire life, she’s been told, “We live in America and we speak English.” Raised by her strict Mexican grandma, Ri has never been allowed to learn Spanish. What’s more, her grandma has always pushed Ri away from the neighbourhood they call home and toward her best friend’s world of mansions and country clubs in the hopes that it’ll bring Ri closer to achieving the “American Dream.” In her most private thoughts, Ri has always believed that her mother, who disappeared… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Slut shaming
  • Child abandonment
  • Recreational drug use
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Alcoholism
  • Teen pregnancy mentioned
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Clayton by Rachelle Mills  

Clayton by Rachelle Mills

He is my mate, and she is his everything. But he chose her, against every single instinct that we both know. For that, I have been whipped, shunned, shamed, disgraced, and broken. All for one moment of madness I could not control… After two years, I left, unable to bear the pain and loneliness anymore. That was then.

I am back, and I am not the juvenile I was. I am now a full-grown female. I feel his eyes on me, but I can’t. I won’t. Time has healed my wounds, but not… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted suicide mentioned
  • Unplanned pregnancy of a minor mentioned
  • Whipping
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Wither by Lauren DeStefano 

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationships included forced polygamy
  • Rape of a minor, off-page
  • Child pregnancy
  • Kidnapping
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Fever by Lauren DeStefano 

Fever by Lauren DeStefano

unning away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago – surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness.. .

The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Forced sex work
  • Forced polygamy recounted
  • Child pregnancy mentioned
  • Kidnapping & captivity
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I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin 

I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin

Each summer the girls of Deck Five come back to Marshall Naval School. They sail on jewel-blue waters; they march on green drill fields; they earn sunburns and honours. They push until they break apart and heal again, stronger.

Each summer Margaret and Rose and Flor and Nisreen come back to the place where they are girls, safe away from the world: sisters bound by something more than blood… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexism
  • Slut shaming
  • Rape, on-page
  • Unplanned teen pregnancy
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Murder, on-page
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Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert

Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert

Since she was seven years old, Yvonne has had her trusted violin to keep her company, especially in those lonely days after her mother walked out on their family. But with graduation just around the corner, she is forced to face the hard truth that she just might not be good enough to attend a conservatory after high school.

Full of doubt about her future, and increasingly frustrated by her strained relationship with her successful but emotionally closed-off father… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racist microaggressions discussed
  • Adult-minor relationship*
  • Parental abandonment & child neglect (theme)
  • Cheating
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Recreational drug use
  • Unplanned teen pregnancy
  • Abortion discussed, off-page
  • Homelessness mentioned
  • Financial struggles & poverty mentioned

* Note : Yvonne, the main character, turns eighteen during the story and her love interests are both adult men; one is a 21-year-old man and the sous chef at her father’s restaurant. She does not have penetrative sex with either of them until after her birthday but she was dating one of them when she was seventeen at the beginning of the book.

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Sidelined by Kara Bietz

Sidelined by Kara Bietz

Julian Jackson has a short to-do list for his senior year at Crenshaw County High School in Meridian, Texas: football, football, and more football. He knows he’s only got one chance to earn a college scholarship and make it out of his small town, and keeping his head down, his grades up, and his cleats on the field is that one chance. And then Elijah Vance walks back into his life, throwing all of his carefully-laid plans into a tailspin.

Elijah and Julian used to be best friends, maybe even on their way to something… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Teen pregnancy
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Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including—

Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Lesbomisia mentioned
  • Slut shaming
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Adoption (theme)
  • Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
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Fall Hard by Zoe York

Fall Hard by Zoe York

Jared Sutter has a simple rule when it comes to women: keep ’em happy and keep ’em at a distance. He’s got his reasons, and they all make sense until he falls for his neighbour and Cassie Bronson makes him want things he’s always kept off-limits.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Infertility
  • Teen pregnancy
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