Tag Archives: Death of a Parent & Guardian

Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden

Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden

Luca is ready to audition for the Australian Ballet School. All it takes to crush his dreams is one missed step . . . and a broken foot. Jordan is the gorgeous rowing star and school captain of Luca’s new school. Everyone says he’s straight – but Luca’s not so sure . . . As their unlikely bond grows stronger, Luca starts to wonder: who is he without ballet? And is he setting himself up for another heartbreak?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia & homomisic slurs
  • Outing
  • Racism
  • Islamomisia
  • Hate crimes
  • Toxic friendships
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Bullying

A Cowboy to Remember by Rebekah Weatherspoon

A Cowboy to Remember by Rebekah Weatherspoon

With a headline spot on a hit morning show and truly mouth-watering culinary skills, chef Evie Buchanan is perched on the edge of stardom. But at an industry party, a fall lands Evie in the hospital—with no memory of who she is. Scrambling to help, Evie’s assistant contacts the only “family” Evie has left, close friends who run the luxury dude ranch in California where Evie grew up. Evie has no recollection of them—until former rodeo champion Zach Pleasant walks into her hospital room, and she realizes his handsome face has been haunting her dreams. Zach hasn’t seen Evie in years, not since their families conducted a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Fatmisia
  • Amnesia
  • Panic attack
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Hospital
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a grandmother from a heart attack
  • Death of a parent in a car accident
  • Physical assault

Cursed Wolf by Brogan Thomas

Cursed Wolf by Brogan Thomas

Loathed by those who should love her, can one fierce woman discover the secrets of her unique blood in time to be her own rescuer? Forrest Hesketh desperately clings to humanity. Trapped in an infuriatingly inept wolf form since she was nine years old, the traumatised girl’s hope of regaining her ability to shift is slowly fading. But as her abusive pack plots to kill her, her desperate act to help her kind stepbrother finally triggers the broken young woman’s transformation. Stunned that suddenly everyone wants her after fourteen years of horrific treatment, Forrest struggles to,… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Suicide
  • Drugging
  • Death of parents
  • Death of a sibling

Filthy Gods by Michelle Hercules

Filthy Gods by Michelle Hercules

Finn Novak is one of the filthy gods who rule this town and wreaks havoc wherever he goes. He’s above everything, even the law. I never thought I’d be thrust into his world of depraved privilege until tragedy strikes, and I’m forced to attend Maverick Prep, his domain. I vow to keep hating him but quickly become trapped by his web of twisted mind games. I yearn for his barbed words as much as I hunger for his touch. Getting close to Finn means unveiling secrets that should stay hidden. But like bodies buried in shallow graves, skeletons never remain in the closet… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned
  • Suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder

Dr Grant by Catharina Maura

Dr Grant by Catharina Maura

Dr. Noah Grant’s dream job came with three rules: Don’t sleep with the students, don’t sleep with a patient, and stay away from Harold Astor’s granddaughter. Seems easy, right? It was. Right until Amara Astor walks into his office with one of her own inventions – an adult toy – stuck inside her. She’s a patient, a PhD student, and she’s Harold Astor’s granddaughter. She’s entirely off-limits. Getting involved with her puts his promising future at risk, yet he can’t turn her away. Not when doing so means she’ll find someone else to test her crazy inventions with.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Doctor-patient relationship
  • Murder of both parents recounted

The Attack by Catherine Jinks

The Attack by Catherine Jinks

Robyn Ayres works as the camp caretaker on Finch Island, a former leper colony off the coast of Queensland. Her current clients are a group of ex-military men who run a tough-love program for troubled teens. The latest crop looks like the usual mix of bad boys and sad boys. Then Robyn takes a second look at a kid called Darren. Last time she saw him his name was Aaron, and Robyn was his primary school teacher. And she was somehow at the centre of a vicious small-town custody battle involving his terrifying grandmother. Bruising classroom dynamics, manipulative parents and carers and horrendous small-town politics… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Lesbomisia mentioned
  • Child abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption mentioned
  • Drug abuse mentioned
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Police corruption

The Words by Ashley Jade

The Words by Ashley Jade

He was the talented bad boy everyone wanted. I was the irrelevant geek everyone hated. He was the sun, drawing all of us in. I was a black hole, taking up space. He was destined to be a star. I was destined to remain an insignificant no one. Until he made me believe I was special… And then he destroyed me. I never thought I’d see Phoenix Walker again after he broke my heart, but fate had other plans. One tour. Eight weeks. Forty shows. Countless opportunities to make him pay. The world thought he was a God… But I knew the truth.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia & body-shaming (theme)
  • Dubious consent scenario, on-page
  • Child abuse
  • Abusive & toxic relationship
  • Recovery from substance abuse issues
  • Parent with early-onset dementia
  • Disordered eating as a coping mechanism for grief mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse recounted
  • Drug abuse & use recounted
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother during childbirth recounted
  • Bullying*

*Context : The heroine is hired as the hero’s sober companion. The heroine was bullied for her weight in high school.

Bloodied Hands by Adelaide Forrest

Bloodied Hands by Adelaide Forrest

Ivory: Caught in a bank robbery and staring down the barrel of a gun was not the way I intended to start my day. When the masked man takes one look at my face and mutters my name in shock, my world stops.. And then he follows it with a plea for forgiveness from the devil himself. Matteo uses the opportunity to invade my life, reclaiming me as if the past twelve years never happened. The boy I loved is gone, replaced by hardened cruelty and a dangerous reputation. But Matteo isn’t the only one who wants to make me a pawn in a game I never… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a father recounted
  • Bank robbery
  • Organised crime (mafia)

The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas

The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas

In 1903, fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, who has been badly beaten, and a young girl. An ambulance is sent for, and the two survivors are taken to All Hallows, the imposing asylum, hidden deep on Dartmoor. The woman remains in a coma, but the little girl, who the staff name Harriet, awakens and is taken to an attic room, far away from the noise of the asylum, and is put in the care of Nurse Emma Everdeen. In 1993, All Hallows is now a boarding school. Following his mother’s death and his father’s hasty remarriage, Lewis Tyler is banished to Dartmoor… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Psychiatric hospitalisation including unethical treatment of patients involving being tied down and drugged
  • Physical injuries & illness
  • Parent in a coma
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Fire

The Serial Killer’s Girl by LH Stacey

The Serial Killer’s Girl by L.H. Stacey

Lexi Jakes thought she could run from her past. But when her biological mother is found dead, strangled with a red silk scarf and holding a chess piece, Lexi knows that her worst nightmare has come true. Because the murder has all the hallmarks of her own serial killer father, renown strangler Peter Graves. Now with her own precious daughter’s life in danger, Lexi will do anything to keep her child safe…she is her father’s daughter after all.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Murder of a mother by strangulation
  • Imprisonment of a parent for serial murders
  • Animal abuse