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The Devil’s Ride by KA Merikan

The Devil’s Ride by K.A. Merikan

Tooth. Vice President of the Coffin Nails Motorcycle Club. On a neverending quest for vengeance. The last thing he needs is becoming a permanent babysitter for a male hooker. Lucifer. Fallen. Lost. Alone After a childhood filled with neglect and abuse, followed by his mother’s suicide, Lucifer set out into the world alone. There was nothing for him out there other than taking it one day at a time. As the bastard son of the Coffin Nails club president, Lucifer never got much fatherly love. So when the Nails show up at the strip joint Lucifer works in, the last thing he expects is to be put in… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Transmisia
Coming out
Sex work
Sexual assault of a child by a teacher
Child abuse & neglect recounted
Organ harvesting
Death of a mother from suicide recounted
Murder of a partner recounted
Torture
Organised crime (motorcycle gang)
Blackmail
Attempted murder of a kitten mentioned

The Viking Queen’s Men by Holley Trent

The Viking Queen’s Men by Holley Trent

Contessa Dahl has spent most of her life in a haze. A rudderless orphan, most decisions involved her fists and feet: should she fight or should she run? At twenty-eight, she’s ready to clean up her act, but Tess might be a bit premature because she’s destined to be a special kind of leader. Born into a group of desert-dwelling telepathic descendants of Vikings, Tess was meant to become a link for them all—their queen and conduit. Her kidnapping and the subsequent death of her parents meant her people, the Afótama, have had… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Infidelity
Drugging
Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned
Death of spouse mentioned
Death of a parent mentioned
Kidnapping of a child

Pipe Dreams by Sarina Bowen

Pipe Dreams by Sarina Bowen

Mike Beacon is a champion at guarding the net, but off the ice, he’s not so lucky. A widower and a single father, he’s never gotten over Lauren Williams, the ex who gave him the best year of his life. When Lauren reappears in the Bruisers’ office during the play-offs, Beacon sees his chance to make things right. Lauren hates travelling with the team she used to manage and with the man who broke her heart. There’s still undeniable sexual tension running between her and Mike, but she won’t go there again. She’s focused on her plans for the future—she doesn’t need a man to make her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Spousal infidelity
Divorce
Death of a spouse from cancer, off-page

Two Man Station by Lisa Henry

Two Man Station by Lisa Henry

Gio Valeri is a big city police officer who’s been transferred to the small outback town of Richmond with his professional reputation in tatters. His transfer is a punishment, and Gio just wants to keep his head down and survive the next two years. No more mistakes. No more complications. Except Gio isn’t counting on Jason Quinn. Jason Quinn, officer in charge of Richmond Station, is a single dad struggling with balancing the demands of shift work with the challenges of raising his son. The last thing he needs is a new senior constable with a history of destroying other people’s careers. But like it or not, Jason has to work with Gio… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic violence
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a partner from cancer recounted
Bullying

My Perfect Mistake by Kelly Siskind

My Perfect Mistake by Kelly Siskind

What happens in Aspen is definitely not staying in Aspen. A girls’ trip to Aspen was exactly what Shay needed to forget about her toxic ex-boyfriend. She’s got her girls, pristine slopes for skiing, and hot guys everywhere. Of course, her epic self-rediscovery goes completely to hell when a wild (and deliciously hot) skier knocks Shay on her as–and war is declared. Kolton doesn’t know what it is about Shay that makes him lose it. Not just his cool—although she does have an unholy gift for that—but his restraint. When… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a girlfriend during childbirth recounted

Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas

Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas

Lady Merritt Sterling, a strong-willed young widow who’s running her late husband’s shipping company, knows London society is dying to catch her in a scandal. So far, she’s been too smart to provide them with one. But then she meets Keir MacRae, a rough-and-rugged Scottish whisky distiller, and all her sensible plans vanish like smoke. They couldn’t be more different, but their attraction is powerful, raw and irresistible. From the moment Keir MacRae arrives in London, he has two goals. One: don’t fall in love with the dazzling Lady Merritt Sterling. Two: avoid being killed…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Classism
Parental abandonment
Infertility
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a spouse recounted
Explosion

Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

In Regency London, Zacharias Wythe is England’s first African Sorcerer Royal. And that’s only the first of his problems. He must juggle the conflicting demands of a wayward Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, where a faction schemes to remove him from his position by fair means or foul. He must cope with the Fairy Court refusing to grant Britain the magical resources it needs. And now the British Government is avid to deploy this increasingly scare magic in its war with France. He must also contend with rumours that he murdered his predecessor and guardian… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Colourism
Misogyny
Classism
Slavery & indentured servitude
Hallucinations mentioned
Suicide recounted
Alcohol consumption
Burns
Dead bodies
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a husband
Death of a father
Murder discussed
Fire
Death by drowning recounted
War & colonialism themes
Workplace bullying

Scandalous Passions by Nicola Davidson

Scandalous Passions by Nicola Davidson

Lady Janet Fraser didn’t earn her reputation as Scotland’s most notorious sinner by following the rules. A former mistress of King James IV, she’s content to live her life from pleasure to pleasure. Even if those pleasures—and people—are forbidden. People like Sir Lachlan Ross, given the moniker The Highland Beast, a man as intimidating in battle as he is in size. A beast she discovers secretly wishes to be tamed and submit to her dominance. Or like her new ward, Lady Marjorie Hepburn, a convent-raised virgin with a desire to be taught all the sensual secrets of the marriage bed. Things that Janet is fully willing to teach… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Fatmisia
Sexual assault
Infertility
Death of a spouse recounted

Witchmark by CL Polk

Witchmark by C.L. Polk

Magic marked Miles Singer for suffering the day he was born, doomed either to be enslaved to his family’s interest or to be committed to a witches’ asylum. He went to war to escape his destiny and came home a different man, but he couldn’t leave his past behind. The war between Aeland and Laneer leaves men changed, strangers to their friends and family, but even after faking his own death and reinventing himself as a doctor at a cash-strapped veterans’ hospital, Miles can’t hide what he truly is. When a fatally poisoned patient exposes Miles’ healing gift and his witch… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Homophobia
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Dissociation & depersonalisation
Alcohol consumption
Blood depiction
Medical experimentation
Cancer
Death of a spouse
Poisoning
Strangulation
Torture
War themes

Merciless Hunter by Faith Summers and Khardine Gray

Merciless Hunter by Faith Summers and Khardine Gray

She should have run away from me when she had the chance… I was on a mission of retribution and vengeance: find my son then make my enemies pay for kidnapping him and killing my wife. Then I met her. Olivia made a big mistake when she tried to trick me.
I’m the leader of a blood-thirsty brotherhood. In the Bratva the rules are simple: An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. Enemies will always be enemies. Try to fool me, and you pay with your life. Except this beautiful angel managed to enchant me. So I make her my prisoner. A captive at the mercy of my desire. One taste and I don’t want to let her go. One taste… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape recounted
Murder of a wife recounted
Kidnapping & captivity