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Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris

Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris

Cilka Klein is 18 years old when Auschwitz-Birkenau is liberated by Soviet soldiers. But Cilka is one of the many women who is sentenced to a labour camp on charges of having helped the Nazis–with no consideration of the circumstances Cilka and women like her found themselves in as they struggled to survive. Once at the Vorkuta gulag in Sibera, where she is to serve her 15-year sentence, Cilka uses her wits, charm, and beauty to survive.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Paedophilia & sexual assault
Childbirth
Starvation
Physical illness
Torture
Word War Two (theme)
Concentration camps

The Deputy and His Enforcer by Kiki Clark

The Deputy and His Enforcer by Kiki Clark

Nothing is more important to Marcus Rivera than protecting his pack, so he doesn’t understand why he has the sudden urge to tell a nosy human deputy things he shouldn’t. Marcus follows the rules. Always. But something about Robson’s scent has him tempted to break them.

The gorgeous red-head Deputy Robson Medina has been following has a secret. He just knows it, and he won’t stop looking until he finds out everything he can about the alluring man. Even if the idea of Marcus… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse recounted
Pregnancy and childbirth of a secondary character mentioned

Warnings sourced from Alex @HEABookNerd.

Falling for Your Best Friend’s Twin by Emma St Clair

Falling for Your Best Friend’s Twin by Emma St. Clair

There are a million and one reasons why I shouldn’t fall for my BFF’s twin… Too bad love isn’t reasonable. Zane is my total opposite. He dates a steady string of women who are nothing like me. And there’s no way I would risk Zoey’s friendship over my teensy, tiny crush on her brother. But when Zane hires me to help fix a glitch with his startup’s software, I run into two pro… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Childbirth mentioned
Death of a parent in a car accident
Bullying

The Belle and the Beard by Kate Canterbary

The Belle and the Beard by Kate Canterbary

Jasper-Anne Cleary’s guide to salvaging your life when you find yourself publicly humiliated, out of work, and unemployable at 35—not to mention newly single:

1. Run away. Seriously, there’s no shame in disappearing. Go to that rustic old cottage your aunt left you. Look out for the colony of bats and the leaky roof. Oh, and the barrel-chested neighbour with shoulders like the broad side of a barn. Definitely look out for him… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Slut-shaming recounted
Alcohol consumption
Drug use mentioned
Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of aunt recounted
Death of a father from suicide recounted

Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon

Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon

In the walled city-state of Alu, Kammani wants nothing more than to become the accomplished healer her father used to be before her family was cast out of their privileged life in shame. When Alu’s ruler falls deathly ill, Kammani’s beautiful little sister, Nanaea, is chosen as one of three sacred maidens to join him in the afterlife. It’s an honour. A tradition. And Nanaea believes it is her chance to live an even grander life than the one that was stolen from her. But Kammani sees the selection for what it really is-a death sentence… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Suicide
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of an infant
Death of a mother during childbirth
Murder
Poisoning
Cults

Agent 355 by Marie Benedict

Agent 355 by Marie Benedict

The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted rape
Childbirth
Torture

A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer Armentrout

Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort.

However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania—she’s not the well-protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission—one target. Make the Primal of Death fall in love. … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Forced sex work mentioned
Sexual harassment
Child abuse
Arranged marriage
Depression
Anxiety & panic attacks
Suicide, off-page
Suicidal ideation
Self-mutilation
Death of a parent in childbirth
Blood & gore decapitation
Dead bodies
Decapitation
Amputation
Death of a father from suicide, off-page
Graphic murder & attempted murder
Torture, including restricted access to food
Whipping, on-page
Imprisonment
War themes & battle scenes
Animal abuse

The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout

The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Casteel Da’Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could’ve prepared for the staggering revelations. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable. Nothing will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the Blood Crown stands for.

With the strength of the Primal of Life’s guards behind her, and the support of the wolven, Poppy must convince the Atlantian generals to make war her way…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide mentioned
Ritualistic self-harm (cutting)
Alcohol consumption
Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned
Graphic blood & injury depiction, including amputation
Cannibalism mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent, on-page
Death of a child, off-page
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Imprisonment

No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple flying high on a whirlwind love, dreaming up a life in the country that brought them together. She had come to Boston years before chasing dreams of a bigger life; he’d landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, they are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi’s father dies suddenly in Jordan, the night before his visa appointment at the embassy. Hadi flies back for the funeral, promising his wife that he’ll only… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Pregnancy & childbirth
Death of a father
Imprisonment recounted
Refugee experiences

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge – and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Indentured servitude
Racism & racial slurs
Arranged marriage
Abusive relationship
Gambling addiction
Hallucinations & delusions
Suicide
Suicidal ideation
Pregnancy
Death from childbirth
Death from starvation
Desecration of a corpse
Captivity & confinement