Tag Archives: Death of a Parent & Guardian

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

I Dare You by Ilsa Madden-Mills

I Dare You by Ilsa Madden-Mills

Badass Athlete: I dare you to… Delaney Shaw: Who is this? The late-night text is random, but “Badass Athlete” sure seems to know who she is. Delaney Shaw. Good girl. Lover of fluffy kitties and Star Wars. Curious. His dare? Spend one night in his bed—a night he promises will be unforgettable—and she can solve the mystery of who he is. She knows she shouldn’t, but what else is she going to do with her boring Valentine’s Day? One sexy hook-up later, her mind is blown and the secret’s out.. Maverick Monroe. Bad boy… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sibling with a traumatic brain injury
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother in a car accident recounted
  • Death of a father mentioned
  • Death of a grandmother recounted
  • Physical assault, on-page

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

Falling Fast by Aurora Rose Reynolds

Falling Fast by Aurora Rose Reynolds

Colton Allyster is relieved to be back home. After a year of rehabilitation, losing his career as a Marine along with his fiancé, he’s had to learn quickly what’s really important. Colton grew up wanting to serve his country. Managing his parents’ biker bar was never part of his plan, but after meeting Gia Caro, he’s beginning to think that’s exactly where he’s meant to be. Ever since Gia Caro arrived in the small, sleepy town of Ruby Falls, Tennessee, her life has spiralled out of control. Between losing her grandmother a little more each day to dementia, and her hot boss’s constant… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grandparent with dementia
  • Death of parents
  • House fire
  • Blackmail
  • Military service recounted

The Awakening Storm by Jaimal Yogis and Vivian Truong

City of Dragons: The Awakening Storm by Jaimal Yogis and illustrated by Vivian Truong

When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real–especially when the egg hatches overnight. The dragon has immense powers that Grace has yet to understand. And that puts them both in danger from mysterious forces intent on abusing the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Death of a father from cancer in hospital, on-page
  • Bullying

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

Too Hot to Handle by Tessa Bailey

Too Hot to Handle by Tessa Bailey

The road trip was definitely a bad idea. Having already flambéed her culinary career beyond recognition, Rita Clarkson is now stranded in God-Knows-Where, New Mexico, with a busted car and her three temperamental siblings, who she hasn’t seen in years. When rescue shows up—six-feet-plus of charming hotness on a motorcycle—Rita’s pretty certain she’s gone from the frying pan right into the fire. Jasper Ellis has a bad boy reputation in this town, and he loathes it. The moment he sees Rita, though, Jasper knows he’s… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Anxiety attacks
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Physical assault
  • Arson

A Thousand Doors edited by JT Ellison

A Thousand Doors edited by J.T. Ellison

with contributions from Kimberly Belle, Laura Benedict, A.F. Brady, Patti Callahan Henry, Paige Crutcher, Rebecca Drake, Heather Gudenkauf, Joy Jordan-Lake, Alisha Klapheke, Ariel Lawhon, Kerry Lonsdale, Catherine McKenzie, Kate Moretti, Lisa Patton and Kaira Rouda

We’ve all played the “what if” game. For forty-year-old Mia Jensen, “what if” is a fact of life. Dissatisfied with her choices, she often dreams about what could have been. Now she has the chance to know. But that knowledge will cost her dearly. Only through death can she fully realize the value of her life. After a terrible day, trying to figure out how she’s come to this point—alone, on the cusp of divorce––Mia hears a strange noise in her kitchen. When she investigates, she is attacked and left for dead. As Mia dies, she experiences some of the lives that could have been hers had she only… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Knife violence

The Lady of Galway Manor by Jennifer Deibel

The Lady of Galway Manor by Jennifer Deibel

In 1920, Annabeth De Lacy’s father is appointed landlord of Galway Parish in Ireland. Bored without all the trappings of the British Court, Annabeth convinces her father to arrange an apprenticeship for her with the Jennings family–descendants of the creator of the famed Claddagh Ring. Stephen Jennings longs to do anything other than run his family’s jewellery shop. Having had his heart broken, he no longer believes in love and is weary of peddling the ÒliesÓ the Claddagh Ring promises. Meanwhile, as the war for… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Gambling addiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Arson