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A Good Duke Is Hard to Find by Christina Britton

A Good Duke Is Hard to Find by Christina Britton

After her third fiancé leaves her at the altar, Lenora Hartley is beginning to think she’s cursed. One thing’s for certain: she needs to escape London and her father’s tyrannical attempts to find her yet another suitor. The Isle of Synne, an isolated and idyllic retreat off Britain’s northern coast, is blessedly far from society’s gossip, but it also carries haunting reminders of her first fiancé. Letting go of the past to find happiness seems impossible—until Lenora is thrown in the path of a gruff, mysterious blue-eyed man who makes her pulse race…Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Grief & loss depiction
Death of a fiance recounted
Death of a mother from illness recounted

This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron

Briseis has one chance to save her mother, but she’ll need to do the impossible: find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtus Heart. If she is to locate the missing piece, she must turn to the blood relatives she’s never known, learn about their secret powers, and take her place in their ancient lineage. Briseis is not the only one who wants the Heart, and her enemies will stop at nothing to fulfil their own ruthless plans. The fates tell of a truly dangerous journey that could… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Emesis
Death of a mother recounted
Murder recounted
Knife & sword violence
Kidnapping

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is go back home.

But then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s un… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can’t escape. Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart. But when he’s forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he starts to feel something in his chest: A crack. A melt. A fire that could end his world as he knew it. Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can’t remember… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a mother
Murder
Kidnapping
Near-drowning

The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Ableism
Racism
Antiziganism
Homomisia
Graphic rape & statutory rape
Graphic sexual assault of a child
Adult-minor relationship
Trauma
Nightmares & night terrors
Graphic suicide
Self-harm
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Smoking
Pregnancy from rape
Abortion (theme)
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries, including mutilation and eye trauma
Cancer
Emesis
Hospital
Dismemberment
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & father
Death of a friend
Death of a brother
Death of a fiancé
Murder
Physical assault
Drowning
Rollercoaster accident
Car accident recounted
Graphic death of a pet dog
Bullying

The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett

The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett

Amy will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, including hiring a former reality-show finalist with good connections and a lot to prove. But her hopes that Sophie’s skills and celebrity status would bring her restaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning to wane.

Sophie just wants to cook. She doesn’t want to constantly post on social media for her dead-in-the-water reality TV career, she doesn’t want… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Bimisia
Coming out
Parental abandonment
Alcohol consumption
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from cancer, off-page

Game Changer by Rachel Reid

Game Changer by Rachel Reid

Pro hockey star Scott Hunter knows a good thing when he sees it. So, when a smoothie made by juice bar barista Kip Grady precedes Scott breaking his on-ice slump, he’s desperate to recreate the magic…and to get to know the sexy, funny guy behind the counter, Kip knew there was more to Scott’s frequent visits than blended fruit, but he never let himself imagine being invited back to Scott’s penthouse .Or kissed with reckless abandon, never mind touched everywhere all at once. When it happens it’s red-hot, incredible and frequent, but also only on Scott’s terms and always behind his closed apartment doors…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism mentioned
Homophobia & slurs
Alcohol consumption
Sports injury depiction
Death of a mother recounted

Half Wild by Sally Green

Half Wild by Sally Green

In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most powerful and violent witch. Nathan is hunted from all sides: nowhere is safe and no one can be trusted. Now, Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, and he’s on the run–but the Hunters are close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Coerced suicide of a mother recounted
Death of a mother from hanging mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Knife violence, including mentions of a knife being used to blind someone

Half Bad by Sally Green

Half Bad by Sally Green

Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus. Nathan’s only hope for survival is to escape his captors, track down Marcus, and receive the three gifts that will bring him into his own magical powers—before it’s too late. But how can Nathan find his father when there is no one safe to trust, not even family, not even the girl he loves?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse & neglect
Self-harm
Coerced suicide of a mother recounted
Smoking, on-page
Cannibalism mentioned
Involuntary body modifications including branding and tattoos
Mass murder & genocide discussed
Torture
Physical assault
Kidnapping & captivity

The Island by CL Taylor

The Island by C.L. Taylor

It was supposed to be the perfect holiday: a week-long trip for six teenage friends on a remote tropical island. But when their guide dies of a stroke leaving them stranded, the trip of a lifetime quickly turns into a nightmare. Because someone on the island knows each of the group’s worst fears. And one by one, they’re coming true.

Seven days in paradise. A deadly secret. Who will make it off the island alive?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual harassment
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Panic attacks
Phobias discussed
Burn scars
Death of a brother in a fire
Death of a mother in a car accident