Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center

Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center

A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It’s supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother’s even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can’t imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen’s well-behaved life: three weeks in the remotest wilderness of a mountain range in Wyoming where she will survive mosquito infestations, a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Divorce recounted
  • Miscarriage recounted
  • Attempted suicide
  • Death of a sibling
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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

Last First Kiss by Lia Riley

Last First Kiss by Lia Riley

Pinterest Perfect. Or so Annie Carson’s life appears on her popular blog. Reality is… messier. Especially when it lands her back in one-cow town, Brightwater, California, and back in the path of the gorgeous six-foot-four reason she left. Sawyer Kane may fill out those wranglers, but she won’t be distracted from her task. Annie just needs the summer to spruce up and sell her family’s farm so she and her young son can start a new life in the big city. Simple, easy, perfect. Sawyer has always regretted letting the first girl he loved slip away. He won’t make the same mistake twice… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Divorce recounted
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We Own Tonight by Corinne Michaels

We Own Tonight by Corinne Michaels

I’m not a one-night stand kind of woman. I’m especially not the woman who has a few drinks at a concert and ends up in bed with my childhood celebrity crush, Eli Walsh. However, that’s exactly where I find myself. What’s a girl to do after a drunken mistake? Run. I grab my clothes and get away from the powerful, irresistible, and best-sex-of-my-life superstar as fast as I can. His gorgeous green eyes, rock-hard body, and cocky smile have no place in my world. My life is complicated enough. Someone forgot to tell him that… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Divorce recounted
  • Sibling with Huntington’s Disease

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

Pisces Hooks Taurus by Anyta Sunday

Pisces Hooks Taurus by Anyta Sunday

Zane has it all planned out: land the perfect Meet Cute, fall in love, and live happily ever after. Should be simple enough if he put his mind to it. A little creativity and some thinking outside of the box, and voila, he’d be married to the woman of his dreams. It would be perfect. And it would be before his visa ran out. But why are his feelings running wild now that the pressure’s on? Why is his picture-perfect plan turning into a muddled mess of morphed metaphors he can’t make sense of anymore? Just as well he’s met an English professor to help. And even though their first meet is… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Divorce recounted
  • Bullying recount

The Suite Spot by Trish Doller

The Suite Spot by Trish Doller

Rachel Beck has hit a brick wall. She’s a single mom, still living at home and trying to keep a dying relationship alive. Aside from her daughter, the one bright light in Rachel’s life is her job as the night reservations manager at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach—until the night she is fired for something she didn’t do. On impulse, Rachel inquires about a management position at a brewery hotel on an island in Lake Erie called Kelleys Island. When she’s offered the job, Rachel packs up her daughter and makes the cross-country move. What she finds on Kelleys Island is… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Sexual assault, on-page
  • Divorce recounted
  • Panic attack
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a child recounted
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Full Flight by Ashley Schumacher

Full Flight by Ashley Schumacher

Everyone else in the tiny town of Enfield, Texas calls fall football season, but for the forty-three members of the Fighting Enfield Marching Band, it’s contest season. And for new saxophonist Anna James, it’s her first chance to prove herself as the great musician she’s trying hard to be. When she’s assigned a duet with mellophone player Weston Ryan, the boy her small-minded town thinks of as nothing but trouble, she’s equal parts thrilled and intimidated. But as he helps her with the duet, and she sees the smile he seems to save just for her, she can’t help but feel like she’s helping him with… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental divorce
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Bullying
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Anna K Away by Jenny Lee

Anna K: Away by Jenny Lee

How the mighty have fallen. Anna K, once the golden girl of Greenwich, CT, and New York City, has been brought low by a scandalous sex tape and the tragic death of her first love, Alexia Vronsky. At the beginning of the summer, her father takes her to the other side of the world, to connect with his family in South Korea and hide her away. Is Anna in exile? Or could this be her chance to figure out who she really is? Back in the U.S., Lolly has forgiven Steven for cheating on her, and their relationship feels stronger than ever. But when Lolly meets a boy at her beloved theatre camp, she has to ask herself how well Steven will ever reall… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexism
  • Sexual harassment
  • Cheating
  • Parental divorce mentioned
  • Substance addiction
  • Drug use
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Overdose discussed
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Gun violence
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Bend Toward the Sun by Jen Devon

Bend Toward the Sun by Jen Devon

Rowan McKinnon doesn’t believe in love. With a botany PhD, two best friends who embrace her social quirkiness, and some occasional no-strings sex, she has everything she needs. But she hides deep wounds from the past—from a negligent mother, and a fiancé who treated her like a pawn in a game. When an academic setback leads Rowan to take on the restoration of an abandoned vineyard, she relishes the opportunity to restore the grapes to their former glory… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child neglect & abandonment recounted
  • Emotionally abusive relationship recounted
  • Cheating recounted*
  • Divorce
  • Depression
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Sibling with a chronic leg injury sustained during a car accident
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Smoking mentioned
  • Death of a grandmother recounted
  • Weight loss recounted

* Context : The heroine broke up with her ex-fiancé when she realised he was married with kids.

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