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The Make-Up Test by Jenny Howe

The Make-Up Test by Jenny L. Howe

Allison Avery loves to win. After acing every academic challenge she’s come up against, she’s finally been accepted into her dream Ph.D. program at Claymore University, studying medieval literature under a professor she’s admired for years. Sure, grad school isn’t easy—the classes are intense, her best friend is drifting away, and her students would rather pull all-nighters than discuss The Knight’s Tale—but she’s got this. Until she discovers her ex-boyfriend has also been accepted. Colin Benjamin might be the only person who loves winning more than Allison does, and when they’re both assigned to TA for the same profess… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia & body shaming
Anxiety
Death of a parent

Runebinder by Alex Kahler

Runebinder by Alex R. Kahler

When magic returned to the world, it could have saved humanity, but greed and thirst for power caused mankind’s downfall instead. Now once-human monsters called Howls prowl abandoned streets, their hunger guided by corrupt necromancers and the all-powerful Kin. Only Hunters have the power to fight back in the unending war, using the same magic that ended civilization in the first place. But they are losing. Tenn is a Hunter, resigned to fight even though hope is nearly lost. When he is singled out by a seductive Kin named Tomás and the enigmatic Hunter Jarrett…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Homomisia
Dubious consent scenarios
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Death of a friend
Graphic murder
Torture
Animal death & hunting

The Godparent Trap by Rachel Van Dyken

The Godparent Trap by Rachel Van Dyken

Colby’s living her best life: as a popular food blogger, she gets to fulfill her dreams of exploring the globe. But her world comes crashing down when a tragic accident leaves her co-guardian of her best friend’s two adorable children. Not only does she need to put down roots—fast—but she’ll be sharing custody with the one man she can’t stand sharing a continent with, let alone a house. Accountant-extraordinaire Rip values rules and plans. But when he loses his sister and his best friend and becomes an insta-guardian all in one night, Rip sees his organized life imploding. What he really doesn’t need is his sister’s irresponsible, flighty… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Hospitalisation
Grief & loss depiction
Death of parents and sibling in a car accident, off-page
Death of a friend, off-page

Hard to Find by Chace Verity

Hard to Find by Chace Verity

Hard to Find by Chace Verity. Unexpected Friendship: Kelsey makes a new friend when she is dragged into a haunted house one night. Pearls: Once friends, now enemies, two princesses start a tense correspondence. One Last Game: The night before high school graduation, Court wants to get their friends back together to recreate a part of their childhood hide’n’seek games, even if that means seeing their ex-BFF again. A Place To Rest: The afterlife isn’t quite what Sam expected, but at least it has great people.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Amnesia
Recreational drug use
Death of a parent mentioned

Grin and Beard It by Penny Reid

Sienna Diaz is everyone’s favorite “fat” funny lady. The movie studio executives can’t explain it, but her films are out-grossing all the fit and trim headliners and Hollywood’s most beautiful elite. The simple truth is, everyone loves plus-sized Sienna. But she has a problem, she can’t read maps and her sense of direction is almost as bad as her comedic timing is stellar. Therefore, when Sienna’s latest starring role takes her to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park she finds herself continually lost while trying to navigate the backroads of Green Valley, Tennessee. Much to her consternation, Sienna’s most frequent… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent recounted
Incarceration of a parent

Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy

Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy

Mackenzie “Mac” Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It’s exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first, she must get a college degree at her parent’s insistence. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College. Mac’s had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abandonment
Cheating, recounted & in-page
Death of a parent, off-page

Dream by Garrett Leigh

Dream by Garrett Leigh

When unrequited love leaves Dylan Hart sleepless and nursing his wounds, instinct draws him to the one place he’s found mindless respite in the past—Lovato’s. It’s a place for every fantasy — for crazy-hot encounters — where a night of insane NSA sex brings relief to Dylan’s fragile feelings. It should be a perfect escape, and for one magical night it seems that way, but then worlds collide, and reality bites when his hookup desperately needs a friend. Surely Dylan can’t trust his instincts when friendship has bruised his heart so badly before? The deck is stacked against former ballet… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Parental abandonment
Anxiety
Chronic fatigue
Pneumonia
Death of a father

The Resolutions by Mia Garcia

The Resolutions by Mia Garcia

New Years are for fresh starts, but Jess just wants everything to go back to the way it was. From hiking trips, to four-person birthday parties, to never-ending group texts, Jess, Lee, Ryan, and Nora have always been inseparable—and unstoppable. But now, with senior year on the horizon, they’ve been splintering off and growing apart. And so, as always, Jess makes a plan. Reinstating their usual tradition of making resolutions together on New Year’s Eve, Jess adds a new twist: instead of making their own resolutions, the four friends assign them for each other—dares like kiss someone you know is wrong for you, show… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Panic attack
Hospital
Death of a parent recounted
Car accident

The Heiress Hunt by Joanna Shupe

The Heiress Hunt by Joanna Shupe

Knickerbocker scoundrel Harrison Archer returns to New York to discover that his deceased father has bankrupted his estranged family. To save them from ruin, he’s forced to quickly find and marry an heiress. For a matchmaker, Harrison turns to the one woman he wishes he could marry: his childhood friend and true love, Maddie, who once broke his heart and is now engaged to a duke. When her best friend Harrison left for Paris without a word, Maddie Webster took refuge in her infatuation with tennis. Now Harrison is back and needs her help in finding a bride… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a parent recounted

Crux by Moira Rogers

Crux by Moira Rogers

Jackson Holt makes a decent living as a private investigator in New Orleans, home of one of the largest underground supernatural populations in the United States. He and his partners have never met a case they couldn’t crack…until a local bar owner asks him to do a little digging on her newest hire. New Orleans is the fourth destination in as many months for Mackenzie Brooks, a woman on the run from a deranged stalker. After all, any man who shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her destined lover has more than a few screws loose. But crazy doesn’t explain… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Nonconsensual pregnancy
Murder
Kidnapping
Stalking
Death of a parent from cancer
Murder of a wife recounted