Tag Archives: Disappearance

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of disappearance of a loved one or ‘missing persons’.

See also Kidnapping.

All the Missing Pieces by Catherine Cowles

Ridley Sawyer knows what it’s like to miss someone, to feel like a piece of her vanished—because it happened to her the night her twin sister disappeared. Now, Ridley channels that loss into hope, traveling the country covering cold cases for her true crime podcast. She might not have found justice for her sister but that doesn’t stop her from finding it for others. Until Sheriff Colter Brooks gets in her way. Colt knows what it’s like to have reporters descend on his town in the wake of a tragedy, and he’s not about to let a fiery podcaster stir up trouble. It doesn’t matter that her… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault mentioned (secondary character)
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder & flashbacks
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Kidnapping & disappearance of a sibling

Rules for Second Chances by Maggie North

Liz Lewis has tried everything to be what people want, but she’s always been labelled different in the boisterous world of wilderness expeditions. Her marriage to popular adventure guide Tobin Renner-Lewis is a sinkhole of toxic positivity where she’s the only one saying no. When she gets mistaken for a server at her own thirtieth birthday party, Liz vows to stop playing a minor character in her own life. The (incredibly well-researched and scientific) plan? A crash course in confidence . . . via an improv comedy class. The catch? She’s terrible at it, and the only person willing to practice with her is a certain… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment recounted
  • Parental infidelity mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned (epilogue)
  • Disappearance of a child mentioned

My December Darling by Lauren Asher

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault of a child
  • Suicide
  • Disappearance of a wife (theme)
  • Drowning mentioned

Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter

Hazel Davis is drifting: she’s stalled in her career, living in a city she hates, and less successful than her younger sister @evelyn, a lifestyle influencer. Evie came of age on the family YouTube channel after a viral video when she was five. Ten years older and spotlight-averse, Hazel managed to dodge the family business—so although she can barely afford her apartment, at least she made her own way. Evie is eighteen now, with a multimillion-dollar career, but Hazel is still protective of her little sister and skeptical of the way everyone seems to want a piece of her: Evie’s followers, her YouTuber boyfriend and influencer frenemies… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Eating disorder
  • Disappearance of a sibling
  • Cyberharassment

The Rivals of Casper Road by Roan Parrish

He’s in it to win it until he falls under his neighbor’s spell. Bram Larkspur’s rugged, sexy looks belie his fear of all things horrifying. But as Casper Road’s newest resident, he’s excited to join the annual Halloween decorating contest. The competition is keen, especially from six-time champion, architect Zachary Glass. But when enigmatic Zachary sparks a prank war, it’s game on – until one sizzling kiss turns these rivals into allies. Now only one thing scares Bram: how quickly he’s losing his heart to Zachary.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Antisemitism mentioned
  • Infidelity recounted
  • Nightmares & mentions of stress-induced weight loss
  • Emesis
  • Disappearance of a sibling
  • Bullying recounted

* Context : The protagonist’s ex-partner cheated on him with his best friend. The other protagonist’s sister went missing when she was 17-years-old and has never been found.

The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed

At the northern edge of a land ruled by a monstrous, foreign tyrant lies the wild forest known as the Elmever. The villagers know better than to let their children go near—once someone goes in, they never come back out. No one knows the strange and terrifying traps of the Elmever better than Veris Thorn, the only person to ever rescue a child from the forest many years ago. When the Tyrant’s two young children go missing, Veris is commanded to enter the forest once more and bring them home safe. If Veris fails, the Tyrant will kill her; if she remains in the forest for longer than a day, she will be trapped forevermore. So Veris will… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood, gore & illness depiction including emesis
  • Death of children & parents recounted
  • Disappearance of a children
  • Animal abuse (off-page)

PathFinder by Angie Sage

Tod has grown up a PathFinder, one of an ancient seafaring tribe. Her mother, who died when Tod was young, had a very different history. She was from a mysterious magykal desert-dwelling family. When Tod’s father disappears she is not only alone, but soon finds herself swept into the path of an evil sorcerer. Now Tod must choose which of her pasts will help her to survive: PathFinder or Magician. Magyk will allow her to fight like with like, but her PathFinder heritage gives Tod something special – the edge.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Threats of murder by drowning
  • Kidnapping
  • Disappearance of a parent
  • Fire

When You’re Dying by M.Q. Webb

When you’re dying, a lot goes through your mind… A shock diagnosis forces Verity Casmere to consider how she wants to spend the time she has left. The question haunting Verity is what happened to her missing sister, Ashlee. Was she murdered, like the police suspect? How far will Verity go to learn the truth? Moved by her situation, Forensic Psychiatrist, Oscar de la Nuit, agrees to help Verity learn what happened, but with the truth comes consequences neither of them could predict. Can they resurface before a dark secret consumes them both?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Terminal cancer
  • Drugging
  • Hospitalisation for an injury sustained from a fall
  • Disappearance of a sibling

Tumbleglass by Kate Constable

Thirteen-year-old Rowan is helping her older sister Ash paint her bedroom when she discovers a mysterious ring that transports them both back in time to 1999. To a party being held in the very same house! .While Ash dances, Rowan unwittingly disrupts the laws of time, and when she wakes up back in the present day, her sister is missing, and – even worse – everyone in their family seems to be forgetting she ever existed. With the help of her magical neighbour Verity, Rowan must find the courage to travel back through the history of the house. But can she find everything she needs to rescue Ash before her sister disappears forever?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Disappearance
  • Military violence & World War II

The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis

Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn’t ask to disappear. But she did disappear, and not only that, but when she vanished from our world, she materialized in a dark, twisted version of the night that changed her life forever: the night her older brother went missing. Just as Hylee realizes this moment could be the key to unraveling the truth about her brother, she’s yanked away from the dark place back to our world. Craving a sense of normalcy, she goes to a party with her best friend–where she meets Eilam Roads. Tall, handsome, and undeniably, inexplicably familiar, Hylee can’t help the pull she feels towards him. It’s a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Disappearance & presumed death of a brother