Tag Archives: Death of a Parent & Guardian

The Last Paper Crane by Kerry Drewery

The Last Paper Crane by Kerry Drewery

1945, Hiroshima: Ichiro is a teenage boy relaxing at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later there is a blinding flash as the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped. With great bravery, the two boys find Hiro’s five-year-old sister Keiko in the devastated and blasted landscape. With Hiro succumbing to his wounds, Ichiro is now the only one who can take care of Keiko. But in the chaos, Ichiro loses her when he sets off to find help. Seventy years later, the loss of Keiko and his broken promise to his dying friend are… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Radiation poisoning
  • Death of a child
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of a grandparent recounted
  • World War Two
  • Nuclear bombing

Wild Invitation by Nalini Singh

Wild Invitation: A Psy-Changeling Collection by Nalini Singh

Wild Invitation is a collection of four astonishing novellas set in the Psy-Changeling world from New York Times bestseller Nalini Singh. Beat of Temptation – Tamsyn has always had a special place in her heart for the dominant leopard in her pack, Nate. He doesn’t want to trap her with the fierceness of a mating bond before she’s ready but Tamsyn has her heart set on him, and what she wants, she’s determined to get. Stroke of Enticement – meet Zach, an irresistable DarkRiver soldier, and Annie, the human woman who finds herself drawn into entanglement with this… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Beat of Temptation :

  • Parent with alcoholism recounted
  • Death of a father from suicide by car accident
  • Death of a mother from suicide recounted
  • Murder mentioned

Stroke of Enticement :

  • Ableism
  • Fatmisia
  • Chronic leg injury from a train accident recounted

Declaration of Courtship :

  • Facial scar
  • Nightmares
  • Murder of both parents recounted
  • Death of parents in a car accident recounted

Texture of Intimacy :

  • Suicide mentioned
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Pregnancy (secondary character)

Tangle of Need by Nalini Singh

Tangle of Need by Nalini Singh

Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past. Now comes a new territory, and a devastating new complication: Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutenant already sworn to someone else. For Riaz, the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria, his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It consumes her. It terrifies her. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle. Their coming together is an inferno… and a melding of two wound… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a mother by suicide mentioned
  • Fertility discussed
  • Pregnancy mentioned
  • Murder
  • Near drowning recounted
  • War themes & battle scenes

Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of “rehabilitation”—the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was. Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy co-existence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several Changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Murder
  • Torture mentioned
  • Kidnapping

Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh

Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh

Awakening wounded in a darkened cell, their psychic abilities blocked, Aden and Zaira know they must escape. But when the lethal soldiers break free from their mysterious prison, they find themselves in a harsh, inhospitable landscape far from civilization. Their only hope for survival is to make it to the hidden home of a predatory changeling pack that doesn’t welcome outsiders. And they must survive. A shadowy enemy has put a target on the back of the Arrow squad, an enemy that cannot be permitted to succeed in its deadly campaign. Aden will cross any line to keep his people safe for this new future, where even an… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Threats of sexual assault
  • Child physical abuse
  • Drugging
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Brain damage mentioned
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping of a child

Rock Wedding by Nalini Singh

Rock Wedding by Nalini Singh

After a lifetime of longing for a real family, Sarah Smith thought she’d finally found her home with rock star Abe Bellamy, even if she knew Abe didn’t love her the way she loved him. But their brief relationship, filled with tragedy and heartache, nearly destroyed her. Alone, emotions in turmoil and already shaky self-esteem shattered, Sarah struggles to pick up the pieces in the wake of their divorce. Abe knows he’s to blame for the end of his marriage. Caught in a web of painful memories, he pushed away the best thing in his life – the sexy, smart woman he adores – breaking them both in the process. Then fate throws him a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Divorce recounted
  • Grey-area cheating
  • Stillbirth recounted
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a sister recounted
  • Death of a father recounted

Rock Hard by Nalini Singh

Rock Hard by Nalini Singh

Wealthy businessman Gabriel Bishop rules the boardroom with the same determination and ruthlessness that made him a rock star on the rugby field. He knows what he wants, and he’ll go after it no-holds-barred. And what he wants is Charlotte Baird. Charlotte knows she’s a mouse. Emotionally scarred and painfully shy, she just wants to do her job and remain as invisible as possible. But the new CEO—a brilliant, broad-shouldered T-Rex of a man who growls and storms through the office, leaving carnage in his wake—clearly has other plans. Plans that… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child & spousal abandonment recounted
  • Emotional & physical intimate partner abuse recounted
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Parent with terminal cancer
  • Death of a parent, off-page

Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh

Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh

Molly Webster has always followed the rules. After an ugly scandal tore apart her childhood and made her the focus of the media’s harsh spotlight, she vowed to live an ordinary life. No fame. No impropriety. No pain. Then she meets Zachary Fox, a tattooed bad boy rocker with a voice like whiskey and sin, and a touch that could become an addiction. Fox promises scorching heat and dangerous pleasure, coaxing Molly to extend their one-night stand into a one-month fling. After that, he’ll be gone forever, his life never again intersecting with her own. Sex and sin and sensual indulgence, all with an expiration date. No ties, no regrets. Too… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abandonment recounted
  • Statutory rape mentioned*
  • Death of a parent recounted, off-page

*Context : Heroine’s father was convicted for statutory rape in the past.

Ocean Light by Nalini Singh

Ocean Light by Nalini Singh

Security specialist Bowen Knight has come back from the dead. But there’s a ticking time bomb in his head: a chip implanted to block telepathic interference that could fail at any moment—taking his brain along with it. With no time to waste, he should be back on land helping the Human Alliance. Instead, he’s at the bottom of the ocean, consumed with an enigmatic changeling. Kaia Luna may have traded in science for being a chef, but she won’t hide the facts of Bo’s condition from him or herself. She’s suffered too much loss in her life to fall prey to the dangerous charm of a human who is a dead man walking. And she carries a devast… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Anxiety & panic attack
  • Attempted suicide mentioned
  • Miscarriage mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Hospitalisation in a present vegetative state recounted
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping

Night Shift by Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Lisa Shearin, and Milla Vane

Night Shift by Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Lisa Shearin, and Milla Vane

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh delivers a smouldering story with Secrets at Midnight, as the scent of Bastien Smith’s elusive lover ignites a possessiveness in him that’s as feral as it is ecstatic. And now that he’s found his mate, he’ll do anything to keep her. In #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews’ novella, Magic Steals, when people start going missing, shapeshifting tigress Dali Harimau and jaguar shifter Jim Shrapshire must uncover the truth about the mysterious creatures responsible. From Milla Vane—a warrior princess must tame. The Beast of .. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Secrets at Midnight:

  • Foster care
  • Pregnancy mentioned (sc)
  • Death of both parents in a house fire

Magic Steals:

  • Racism recounted
  • Disappearance

The Beast of Blackmoor:

  • Slavery & sex slavery recounted
  • Rape of a child recounted
  • Rape by a prison guard, on-page
  • Facial & body scars