Tag Archives: Divorce

The Alpha of Bleake Isle by Kathryn Moon

Lord Ronson Cadogan can stall no longer. He needs an omega and he needs an heir. Settled on the obvious perfect choice, and determined to see his fate through, Ronson can’t afford to wait for the next ceremony to claim what he is owed. If only he was more excited about the match. Mairwen Posy knows precisely who the Alpha of Bleake Isle will choose, and it certainly isn’t her. In fact, it’s so predictable it’s almost boring. Resigned to her fate of disappearing into the background, Mairwen takes the role of observer, distracting the ache of being left out with… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Indentured servitude discussed
  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Sexual assault (forced kiss, on-page)
  • Pregnancy & death during childbirth mentioned (secondary characters)
  • Emesis (on-page)
  • Death of a father recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Physical assault
  • Fire
  • Bullying

The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by Donna Freitas

Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she’d take them, but didn’t. He promised before they got married that he’d never want children, but now he’s changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She’s never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage. But then, Rose has a fight with Luke about the vitamins–again. This time the fight goes slightly differently, and so does Rose’s future as she grapples with whether she can indeed... Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity
  • Divorce
  • Pregnancy & pregnancy coercion discussed (theme), including death from childbirth
  • Miscarriage & abortion
  • Death of a mother from cancer

A Duke Worth Falling For by Sarah MacLean

Her career in tatters, celebrity photographer Lilah Rose needs somewhere to regroup and start fresh, outside of the spotlight. There’s nowhere better to hide than the English countryside, complete with fluffy sheep, rolling hills… and Max, the stern, sexy farmer who tends to them. But the lazy days and lush nights with Max aren’t as far from the spotlight as Lilah thinks. He isn’t simply a farmer—he’s also a duke: young, handsome and powerful… and too aware of how a title can dazzle, making the man inside invisible. What’s the harm in playing the farmer for a while? After all, Lilah isn’t staying… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Divorce recounted

Halfway Normal by Barbara Dee

Norah Levy has just completed two years of treatment for leukemia and is ready to go back to the “real world” of middle school. She knows it’ll be tricky—but like the Greek mythological characters she read about while she was sick, Norah’s up for any challenge. But seventh grade turns out to be harder than she thought. Norah’s classmates don’t know what to make of her. Her best friend, Harper, tries to be there for her, but she doesn’t get it, really—and is hanging out with a new group of girls. Norah’s other good friend, Silas, is avoiding her. What’s that about, anyway? When Norah… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Parental divorce
  • Protagonist is in remission for leukemia
  • Discussions of past hospitalisation & medical treatment

Violets Are Blue by Barbara Dee

Twelve-year-old Wren loves makeup—special effect makeup, to be exact. When she is experimenting with new looks, Wren can create a different version of herself. A girl who isn’t in a sort-of-best friendship with someone who seems like she hates her. A girl whose parents aren’t divorced and doesn’t have to learn to like her new stepmom. So, when Wren and her mom move to a new town for a fresh start, she is cautiously optimistic. And things seem to fall into place when Wren meets potential friends and gets selected as the makeup artist for her school’s upcoming production of Wicked. Only, Wren’s mom isn’t doing so well. She’s… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Parental divorce

Vanquish by Pam Godwin

Her life is like a prison cell. A self-made, to-hell-with-the-free-world existence that locks from the inside. Stop judging. Her agoraphobia doesn’t define her. It simply keeps her safe. He belongs in a prison cell. The 6×8, make-me-your-bitch variety that locks from the outside. But he’s free. To hunt. To take. To break. And he just found a sexy new toy. Capturing her is the easy part. Her fucked-up mind, however, makes him question everything he does next. But he’s a determined bastard. If all goes his way, this will hurt like hell.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Internalised fatphobia & body dysmorphia
  • Rape, sexual slavery & nonconsensual BDSM (on-page)
  • Sex trafficking (on-page & recounted)
  • Sex work recounted
  • Intimate partner violence (on-page)
  • Emotional & verbal intimate partner abuse recounted
  • Forced child abandonment
  • Divorce recounted
  • Agoraphobia, bulimia & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (protagonist)
  • Psychiatric institutionalisation of a parent mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug abuse recounted (protagonists)
  • Death of a mother from an overdose recounted
  • Murder by gun violence mentioned (secondary character)
  • Kidnapping (on-page)

Context : The male protagonist kidnaps, rapes, and abuses the female protagonist, his love interest. He is a former stalker and sex trafficker who has raped others in the past. He has a child with a different secondary character who was forcibly taken away. The female protagonist is divorced.

Just Might Work by Katia Rose

Dane Marner’s aunt is obsessed with soul mates. As a self-proclaimed ‘cosmically guided matchmaker,’ she’s played every card in the deck trying to set Dane up with the perfect match she’s found. The problem? The ‘perfect’ match is Evangeline Hudson. Dane and Evangeline rent rooms in Dane’s eccentric aunt’s house, but that’s where their similarities end. Dane is a drifter who freewheels from one odd job to the next, and Evangeline is an overachieving undergrad with a ten year plan so detailed it reads like an… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misgendering & deadnaming mentioned
  • Parental divorce
  • Bullying mentioned

Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn

Meg Mackworth’s hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing beautiful custom journals for New York City’s elite. She has another skill too: reading signs that other people miss. Like the time she sat across from Reid Sutherland and his gorgeous fiancée, and knew their upcoming marriage was doomed to fail. Weaving a secret word into their wedding program was a little unprofessional, but she was sure no one else would spot it. She hadn’t counted on sharp-eyed, pattern-obsessed… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Emotionally abusive relationship (secondary character)
  • Parental divorce recounted
  • Psoriasis (protagonist)
  • Bullying recounted

The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn

Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her younger half-sister, Tegan—and keeping a shocking secret. Ever since their reckless mother ran off with a boyfriend she’d known only a few months, Jess has been aware that he’s the same accomplished con man who was the subject of a wildly popular podcast, The Last Con of Lynton Baltimore. Now thirty-one, Jess didn’t bargain on Tegan eventually piecing together the connection for herself. But Tegan plans to do exactly what Jess has always feared—leave their safe, stable home to search for their mother… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Homophobic bullying mentioned
  • Parental abandonment & divorce recounted
  • Minor physical injuries of a child mentioned (secondary character)
  • Death of a friend from suicide by drowning recounted
  • Death of an uncle in a car accident mentioned
  • Death of a mother from heart disease mentioned (secondary character)
  • Death of a secondary character from lung cancer mentioned

Under the Mistletoe with You by Lizzie Huxley-Jones

Ready to spend a quiet Christmas with his nearest and dearest, Christopher has closed up shop in his bakery, he’s wrapped up and packed up his presents, and he’s found someone to stay in his flat over the festive period. Everything is under control. That is until the mysterious person he’s rented his flat to turns out to be none other than… Nash Nadeau, an actor – and the star of all Christopher’s favourite Christmas movies. In fact, he’s the guy Christopher’s been crushing on for the whole past year. Since last Christmas… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Anxiety
  • Divorce mentioned (secondary character)
  • Diet culture mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption & mentions of past drug use (marijuana)
  • Seizure (on-page, protagonist)
  • Death of a spouse mentioned (secondary character)
  • Blizzard
  • Death of a pet cat mentioned (secondary character)