Tag Archives: Death of a Parent & Guardian

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of death of a parent or guardian.

See also Death of a mother, Death of a father, and Grief & loss depiction.

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s Sound, she instantly realizes there’s more to the place than meets the eye. Descended from witches, Nadia can sense that a spell has been cast over the tiny Rhode Island town—a sickness infecting everyone and everything in it. The magic at work is darker and more powerful than anything she’s come across and has sunk its claws most deeply into Mateo, her rescuer, her friend, and the guy she yearns to get closer to even as he pushes her away. Mateo has lived in Captive’s Sound his entire life, shadowed by small-town gossip and his family’s tormented past. Every generation… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism & ableist language,
  • Racist microaggressions
  • Sexual assault (by coercion)
  • Sexual harassment
  • Parental abandonment
  • Parental divorce
  • Nightmares
  • Hospitalisation
  • Coma
  • Facial scars mentioned
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother from suicide by drowning recounted
  • Death of a grandfather in a fire mentioned
  • Death of a mother & father from viral pneumonia mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Near-drowning
  • Car accident, on-page
  • Loss of autonomy (memory manipulation and mind control)
  • Sinkholes, on-page
  • Bullying
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Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand

Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand

When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake, the group’s lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen or heard from again. Now, years later, the surviving musicians, along with their friends and lovers—including a psychic, a photographer, and the band’s manager—meet with a young documentary filmmaker to tell the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Cheating
  • Suicide
  • Drug use
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Cancer
  • Death of a child
  • Death of a parent
  • Car accident
  • Animal death & cruelty
  • Bullying
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The Last Time I Saw Her by Amber Garza

The Last Time I Saw Her by Amber Garza

Two weeks ago, Dylan DiMarco and his sister Claire discovered Lauren Pascal’s body lying in a creek near his home. Murdered. Dead. Lifeless. Today she is standing in the middle of the store where he works. Alive. Breathing. It’s not the first time he’s seen her lurking around. Following him. In life, Lauren had wanted nothing to do with him. In death, she won’t leave him alone. He knows what she wants. What he has to do so he can finally be free. With the help of the school’s bad girl loner Harley, Dylan sets out to solve Lauren’s murder. But when the lines begin to blur… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Hallucinations
  • Nightmares
  • Blood depiction
  • Dead bodies
  • Death of a child
  • Death of a mother
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Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn

Caterpillar Summer by Gillian McDunn

Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond–Cat is one of the few people who can keep Chicken happy. When he has a “meltdown” she’s the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She’s the one who knows what Chicken needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep their family afloat after their father passed away, Cat has been the glue holding her family together. But even the strongest glue sometimes struggles to hold. When a summer trip doesn’t go according to plan, Cat and Chicken end up spending three week… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a father from cancer
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Fighting Conviction by Greer Rivers

Fighting Conviction by Greer Rivers

BlackStone Securities Agent Devil Ray Vos needs control, and around his best friend’s younger sister, Ellie Stone? He knows he can’t keep it. The BlackStone team saved her a year ago, and Devil hasn’t been able to get his angel off his mind since. She’s in college and still healing, so he’s kept his distance. That resolve vanishes when her brother asks Devil to train her in self-defense. His head tells him to stay away, but no one can protect her better than he can. Ellie survived the worst trauma of her life a year ago. Her best friend didn’t, and Ellie has fought survivor’s guilt and PTSD ever since. Only Devil seems to understand her. He sees her as a survivor and his best friend’s kid sister… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sex trafficking
  • Drug use
  • Disordered eating
  • PTSD & trauma
  • Panic attacks
  • Suicide
  • Cancer
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
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Red Thread of Fate by Lyn Liao Butler

Red Thread of Fate by Lyn Liao Butler

There are only two reasons why Nina would come back home to Cincamarre-one, if Auntie Delia promises to stop butting into her business, and two, if her father died and she was made to ascend the throne to be queen. Unfortunately for her, it was the second thing that brought her home. As a princess who’s sunk a yacht and been caught kissing popstars, it’s easy for her aunt, the regent, to think she’s ill-prepared for the throne. But Nina doesn’t think that having to fake date Felipe, the handsome, squeaky clean Prince of Concordia was the best solution for that… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
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The Queen’s Game by Carla de Guzman

The Queen’s Game by Carla de Guzman

There are only two reasons why Nina would come back home to Cincamarre-one, if Auntie Delia promises to stop butting into her business, and two, if her father died and she was made to ascend the throne to be queen. Unfortunately for her, it was the second thing that brought her home. As a princess who’s sunk a yacht and been caught kissing popstars, it’s easy for her aunt, the regent, to think she’s ill-prepared for the throne. But Nina doesn’t think that having to fake date Felipe, the handsome, squeaky clean Prince of Concordia was the best solution for that… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
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How to Be a Wallflower by Eloisa James

How to Be a Wallflower by Eloisa James

Miss Cleopatra Lewis is about to be launched in society by her aristocratic grandfather. But since she has no intention of marrying, she visits a costume emporium specifically to order unflattering dresses guaranteed to put off any prospective suitors. Powerful and charismatic Jacob Astor Addison is in London, acquiring businesses to add to his theatrical holdings in America—as well as buying an emerald for a young lady back in Boston. He’s furious when a she-devil masquerading as an English lady steals Quimby’s Costume Emporium from under his nose. ake strikes a devil’s… Read more,

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Classism
  • Substance addiction mentioned
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of parents recounted
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The Danger Dance by Caro Soles

The Danger Dance by Caro Soles

A startling command from the dreaded Praetan brings chaos into the tranquil lives of hermaphrodites Eulio and his lover Orosin. Using the tour of the Merculian National Dance Company where Eulio is a star as cover, they board the Wellington, a militaristic starship that values nothing they believe in. Someone is passing secrets about fleet movements and weaponry to the enemies in the Troia, but the efforts of the two Merculians to unmask the spy only stir up a toxic mix of hatred and violence. Who will have to die before the Praetan is satisfied? The Danger Dance is… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Racism
  • Rape
  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Drugging & drug use
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Abortion
  • Nonconsensual body modifications (piercings)
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Organised crime
  • Kidnapping
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With You Forever by Chloe Liese

With You Forever by Chloe Liese

Rooney Sullivan is sunshine incarnate. Warm, bright, always smiling, she’s everything I’m not and the last person I have any business desiring. Desperate to hide a hopeless attraction, I’ve done everything possible to keep my distance until a charades game gone wrong brought that to a grinding halt. Since then, steering clear of Rooney has been impossible. In a matter of months, she’s kissed me speechless, commandeered my art career, and infiltrated not only my dreams but my home. The woman who was once avoidable has become the last thing I needed: temptingly within reach. Axel Bergman is a gorgeous… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Parental divorce recounted
  • Anxiety
  • Medical procedures & needles
  • Unplanned pregnancy recounted
  • Chronic illness (ulcerative colitis)
  • Death of a parent from cancer recounted
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