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American Queen by Sierra Simone

American Queen by Sierra Simone

It starts with a stolen kiss under an English sky, and it ends with a walk down the aisle. It starts with the President sending his best friend to woo me on his behalf, and it ends with my heart split in two. It starts with buried secrets and dangerous desires…and ends with the three of us bound together with a hateful love sharper than any barbed wire. My name is Greer Galloway, and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States. This is the story of an American Queen.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Intimate partner abuse mentioned
Cheating mentioned
Adult-minor relationship*
Alcohol consumption
Death of a mother in childbirth recounted
Death of a parent in a train accident recounted
Death of a wife from cancer recounted
Kidnapping

* Context : The heroine is sixteen years old and the hero is twenty-six years old when they first meet, unbeknownst to the hero. They kiss and the hero fantasises about the herione but nothing ‘more’ happens until years later.

American Prince by Sierra Simone

American Prince by Sierra Simone

I’ve been many things. I’ve been a son and a stepbrother. An Army captain and a Vice President. But only with him am I a prince. His little prince. Only with Maxen and Greer does my world make sense, only between them can I find peace from the demons that haunt me. But men like me aren’t made to be happy. We don’t deserve it. And I should have known a love as sharp as ours could cut both ways. My name is Embry Moore and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States… for now. This is the story of an American Prince.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Deadnaming
Sexual assault
Date rape
Threats of rape
Alcohol consumption
Smoking
Drugging
Kidnapping
Physical assault
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a wife from cancer recounted
Death of a mother in childbirth recounted
Murder of a grandfather
Gun violence
Blackmail
Fire recounted

Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas

Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas

Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants. And from the moment he meets the shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, he is determined to possess her. If he must take her virtue to ensure she marries him, so much the better. Helen has had little contact with the glittering, cynical world of London society. Yet Rhys’s determined seduction awakens an intense mutual passion. Helen’s gentle upbringing belies a stubborn conviction that only she can tame her unruly husband. As Rhys’s enemies conspire against them, Helen must trust… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Sexism
Parental abandonment
Suicide mentioned
Death during childbirth

What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri

What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri

As the abandoned son of a Lascar—a sailor from India—Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an “outsider.” Now he’s been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father’s language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks gibberish. Catherine is the younger child of the estate’s owner, a daughter with light skin and brown curls and a mother that nobody talks about. Her father is grooming her for a place in proper society, and that’s all that matters. Catherine knows she… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Misogyny
Slavery mentioned
Child abuse
Starvation
Illness-related weight loss mentioned
Death of a sister-in-law from childbirth mentioned
Death of a parent
Gun violence

A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev

A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev

Mili Rathod hasn’t seen her husband in twenty years–not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be–if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood’s favourite director, Samir Rathod, has come to Michigan to secure a divorce for his older brother. Persuading a naive village girl to sign the papers should be easy for… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child marriage
Child abuse recounted
Parent with terminal cancer
Pregnancy & childbirth
Death of a parent mentioned

Six Goodbyes We Never Said by Candace Ganger

Six Goodbyes We Never Said by Candace Ganger

Naima Rodriguez doesn’t want your patronizing sympathy as she grieves her father, her hero—a fallen Marine. She’ll hate you forever if you ask her to open up and remember him “as he was,” though that’s all her loving family wants her to do in order to manage her complex OCD and GAD. She’d rather everyone back the-eff off while she separates her Lucky Charms marshmallows into six, always six, Ziploc bags, while she avoids friends and people and living the life her father so desperately wanted for her. Dew respectfully requests a little more time to process the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Racism
Fatmisia
Depression
Social anxiety
Panic attacks, on-page
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Intrusive thoughts
Attempted suicide recounted
Suicidal ideation recounted
Death during childbirth mentioned
Anaphylaxis mentioned
Hospitalisation recounted
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & father
Car accident recounted

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

Edinburgh, 1817. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr Beecham’s lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes that her new acquaintance might be more helpful than she first thought. Because Hazel has made a deal with Dr Beecham: if she can pass the medical examination on her own, the university will allow her to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Childbirth
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Plague
Dead bodies
Dismemberment
Hanging

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

We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza

We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza

Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young, and after years of trying, is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia. But the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen’s husband, a city police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Six month… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Pregnancy & childbirth
Infertility & IVF treatment
Miscarriage
Police brutality including the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager

Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. And yet their chemistry is undeniable. While her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. She’s fine with being a “mere” ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel and the tight-knit town where he lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. Yet letting their relationship… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Child abuse, including emotional abuse & gaslighting, on-page
Intimate partner violence & abuse, on-page
Cheating recounted
Suicidal ideation recounted
Depression & depressive episodes
Alcohol consumption
Smoking mentioned
Childbirth, on-page
Death of a grandfather from a heart attack recounted
Death of a grandmother
Death of a great-aunt
Death of a child mentioned
Drowning mentioned