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The Marked Prince by MA Grant

The Marked Prince by M.A. Grant

The Summer Court is nothing like Sebastian remembers. The oppressed lower classes are drained of their magick, and around every corner political intrigues threaten an already unstable regime. Sebastian’s only hope of surviving the Court and bringing home Prince Lyne’s traitorous brother lies with Duine, a magickless Unseelie servant desperate to win his freedom. A servant for whom Sebastian, an estranged Seelie royal himself, is developing a dangerous and deepening affection… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injury
Dead bodies
Death of a mother from suicide by drowning recounted
Murder
Torture recounted
Kidnapping & captivity
War themes

Longshadow by Olivia Atwater

Longshadow by Olivia Atwater

The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail’s father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved – but while Abigail is willing to match her magic against Lord Longshadow, neither her father nor high society believes that she is capable of doing so. Thankfully, Abigail is not the only one investigating the terrible events in London. Mercy, a street rat and self-taught magician insists on joining Abigail to unravel the mystery… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Kidnapping

Not After Everything by Michelle Levy

Not After Everything by Michelle Levy

Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then his mom kills herself. And Tyler lets it all go. Now he needs to dodge what his dad is offering (verbal tirades and abuse) and earn what his dad isn’t (money). Tyler finds a job that crashes him into Jordyn, his former childhood friend turned angry-loner goth-girl. She brings Tyler an unexpected reprieve from the never-ending pity party his life has become. How could he not fall for her? But with his dad more brutally unpredictable than ever, Tyler knows he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a mother from suicide

The Language of Ghosts by Heather Fawcett

The Language of Ghosts by Heather Fawcett

Forced into exile on an enchanted, moving island, ex-princess Noa Marchena has two missions: reclaim her family’s stolen throne and ensure that the dark powers her older brother, Julian, possesses don’t go to his head in the process. But between babysitting her annoying little sister, Mite, and keeping an eye on the cake-loving sea monster that guards the moving island, Noa has her hands full. When the siblings learn that their enemies are searching for a weapon capable of defeating Julian—whose legendary spell weaving is feared throughout the kingdom—once and for all, they vow to… Read more.

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Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Human medical experimentation
Murder

How to Spell Catastrophe by Fiona Wood

How to Spell Catastrophe by Fiona Wood

Nell McPherson is a catastrophe expert, but nothing has prepared her for the impending catastrophe of her mum’s plans to merge families with boyfriend, Ted and his annoying daughter, Amelia. As if that’s not dire enough, grade six is turning into an emotional obstacle course as Nell moves away from her old spelling bee friends and into some rule-bending with new girl, Plum. When Nell decides to tackle the biggest catastrophe of them all, climate change, and campaigns for grade six to attend the School Strike 4 Climate, old friends and new will come together, and along the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a father recounted

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Panic attacks
Death of a parent from cancer mentioned

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

Miss Lillian Hargrove has lived much of her life alone in a gilded cage, longing for love and companionship. When an artist offers her pretty promises and begs her to pose for a scandalous portrait, Lily doesn’t hesitate…until the lying libertine leaves her in disgrace. With the painting now public, Lily has no choice but to turn to the one man who might save her from ruin. The Duke of Warnick loathes all things English, none more so than the aristocracy. It does not matter that the imposing Scotsman has inherited one of.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Abandonment recounted
Death of a parent recounted

The Geography of Lost Things by Jessica Brody

The Geography of Lost Things by Jessica Brody

After Ali’s father passes away, he leaves his one and only prized possession—a 1968 Firebird convertible—to his daughter. But Ali doesn’t plan on keeping it. Not when it reminds her too much of all her father’s unfulfilled promises. So when she finds a buyer three hundred miles up the Pacific coast willing to pay enough money for the car to save her childhood home, Ali can’t wait to get going. Except Ali has no idea how to drive a stick shift. But guess who does? Ali’s ex-boyfriend, Nico. And Nico has other plans… Read more.

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Death of a father
Poverty

Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

When I fell for Dario Volpe, I thought he was Prince Charming, and I was the luckiest girl alive. He didn’t care about my past. The talk. The stain on my family’s reputation. Then he saw something I never wanted anyone to see. He cares now. This isn’t a breakup, it’s a warning shot, and if I want to get out of this bad romance alive, I have to run and never look back.
Dario Volpe is no storybook hero. He’s a psychopath, and he can’t decide–kiss me? Or kill me?… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Threats of sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Revenge porn
Cheating
Intimate partner abuse recounted
Voluntary euthanasia mentioned
Pregnancy & childbirth, on-page
Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Alcohol consumption
Death of a parent from cancer recounted
Death of a daughter in a car accident mentioned
Murder
Kidnapping

Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger

Girls Like Us by Cristina Alger

FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn’t been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was brutally murdered when Nell was just seven. When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her father’s ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father’s partner, Detective Lee Davis, Nell becomes involved in an investigation into the murders of two young women in Suffolk County… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a father
Murder of a mother recounted