Tag Archives: Domestic Abuse & Violence

Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon

Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, Georgia. Known for being their peers’ queer awakening, Gem leans hard on charm to disguise the anxious mess they are beneath. The only person privy to their authentic self is another trans kid, Enzo, who’s a thousand long, painful miles away in Brooklyn. But even Enzo doesn’t know about Gem’s dreams, haunting visions of magic and violence that have always felt too real. So how the hell does Willa Mae Hardy? The strange new girl in town acts like she and Gem are old companions, and seems to know things about them they’ve never told anyone.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism, slavery & genoicde mentioned
  • Transphobia
  • Child abuse
  • Domestic abuse, off-page
  • Hallucinations
  • Self-harm recounted
  • Blood, gore & body horror
  • Emesis
  • Torture
  • Animal death

Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung

In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking after her sisters. Headstrong Di, who is just a year younger, learns to hide in plain sight, and their mother—abused by the family for failing to birth a boy—finds her own small acts of rebellion in the kitchen. As the Communist army closes in on their town, the rest of the prosperous household flees, leaving behind the girls and their mother because they view them as useless mouths to feed. Without an Ang male to punish, the…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Graphic misogyny (theme)
  • Spousal & parental abandonment
  • Physical & verbal domestic by parent-in-law
  • Torture

The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss

Bast knows how to bargain. The give-and-take of a negotiation is as familiar to him as the in-and-out of breathing; to watch him trade is to watch an artist at work. But even a master’s brush can slip. When he accepts a gift, taking something for nothing, Bast’s whole world is knocked askew, for he knows how to bargain—but not how to owe. From dawn to midnight over the course of a single day, follow the Kingkiller Chronicle’s most charming fae as he schemes and sneaks, dancing into trouble and back out again with uncanny grace.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse & domestic abuse, off-page
  • Alcoholism discussed
  • Self-harm for magic
  • Blood depiction

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

Five attendees are selected for a month-long writing retreat at the remote estate of Roza Vallo, the controversial high priestess of feminist horror. Alex, a struggling writer, is thrilled. Upon arrival, they discover they must complete an entire novel from scratch, and the best one will receive a seven-figure publishing deal. Alex’s long-extinguished dream now seems within reach. But then the women begin to die. Trapped, terrified yet still desperately writing, it is clear there is more than a publishing deal at stake at Blackbriar Estate. Alex must confront her own demons – and finish her novel – to save herself.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Nazism mentioned
  • Homomisia mentioned
  • Child abuse & neglect recounted
  • Domestic abuse recounted
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Drugging
  • Gun violence
  • Bullying mentioned

Beyond Pain by Kit Rocha

Live fast, die young–anything else is a fantasy for Six. She’s endured the worst the sectors had to throw at her, but falling in with Dallas O’Kane’s Sector Four gang lands her in a whole new world of danger. They’re completely open about everything, including their sexuality–but she hasn’t survived this long by making herself vulnerable. Especially not to men as dominant as Brendan Donnelly. Bren is a killer, trained in Eden and thrown to the sectors. His one outlet is pain, in the cage and in the bedroom, and emotion is a luxury he can’t afford–until he meets Six. Protecting her soothes him, but it isn’t enough. Her hunger for… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Intimate partner violence mentioned
  • Murder

Sabotage by Shantel Tessier

Colton: Raylee Lexington Adams is my stepsister and the one woman in the world who can make my blood boil. She’s vindictive, a lot of crazy, and absolutely stunning. I hate everything about her except for when she’s on her knees begging me to use her as my own personal toy. We’ve been playing a game of cat and mouse for far too long. We have used each other for our own sick pleasure. I’ve ruined every relationship my little princess has ever had. A sure way that she’ll come crawling back to me, begging me for what only I can give her when another man fails her. But I’m tired of watching others get a piece of what is… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misogyny & slut-shaming
  • Rape by an ex-partner, on-page
  • Sexual assault
  • Intimate partner violence & emotional abuse
  • Parental abandonment recounted
  • Infidelity
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug use (cigarettes, marijuana)
  • Involuntary body modifications
  • Consensual blood & knife play
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Physical assault
  • Attempted strangulation
  • Car accident & car fire (arson)
  • Whipping

*Context : The female protagonist (FMC) is kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend to be raped, mutilated, and killed; she murders him after being raped. The male protagonist (MMC) kidnaps the FMC’s boyfriend, forces him to watch him have sex with the FMC, and orchestrates his friends to sexually assault him. The MMC also has these friends tape him having sex with the FMC without her consent and releases the video, again, without her consent. The FMC cheats on her boyfriend with MMC. The MMC carves his name into FMC’s skin without her consent.

Titan by Shantel Tessier

I know I have a black soul. Bloodshed and danger are what I live for. A King is supposed to rule his Kingdom using any means necessary to demand respect. I’m not a weak man. A King kneels to no one. I’ve only ever cared about one other person in my life, but the thing is, she never belonged to me. And before I could tell her how I felt, she left. Now she’s returned, needing someone to save her. Emilee York was always meant to be mine, and I’ll see to it that happens. I always get what I want, even if that means I have to take it. And she’s no different. She’ll be my queen, on…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Misogyny & slut-shaming
  • Sex work & sex work shaming
  • Rape by coercion*
  • Sexual harassment
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Infidelity*
  • Parental divorce recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Involuntary body modifications (forced branding)
  • Death of a mother from cancer (lymphoma), on-page
  • Death of a grandparent in a car accident
  • Faked death of a father from a heart attack
  • Murder
  • Torture including waterboarding and strangulation
  • Arson
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping*
  • Plane crash recounted

*Context : A secondary character kidnaps the female protagonist (FMC)’s mother and withdraws her medical care until she has sex with him. There are multiple mentions of secondary characters having affair or their infidelity.

The Sacrifice by Shantel Tessier

A Lord is to marry after he graduates from Barrington University, an elite college for the rich. A Lady’s job is to help him fit into a world unaware of his secret society. The Lord does not get to choose who he spends the rest of his life with. But there is always an exception to the rule. And I just so happen to be his. I was to wed a Lord of my parents’ choosing. Wealth can’t buy you everything, or I would have had freedom years ago. Instead, my strict parents made sure I lived a dull life in a mansion resembling a prison. But on my wedding day, I was handed over to another man-an even more ruthless Lord that my family hatred. Tyson… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Human trafficking
  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Slut-shaming
  • Adult-minor relationship mentioned
  • Forced marriage
  • Parental infidelity
  • Rape & attempted rape
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Emotional & physical child abuse
  • Parent with alcoholism
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drugging
  • Unplanned pregnancy due to reproductive assault and medical abuse
  • Involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation
  • Body modifications including branding and involuntary implantation of a tracker
  • Needles
  • Emesis
  • Dieting & weight loss recounted
  • Faked death of a pregnant sister and girlfriend recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping
  • Arson & immolation

*Context : The female protagonist (FMC) is raped while sedated and involuntarily instituitionalised by a secondary character. The FMC’s fiancé intended to drug and rape her. The FMC’s doctor administers a hormone injection to aid with ovulation under the disguise of birth control; she becomes pregnant as a result. The FMC’s mother was married to a 23-year-old man when she was only 17-years-old. The MMC threatens to kill the FMC’s brother if she doesn’t marry him. The FMC’s father installed cameras without the FMC or MMC’s consent and watched them have sex.

The Sinner by Shantel Tessier

I was raised in a world where money and power are at your fingertips. My father is a LORD, a very respected member of a secret society that knows no bounds. When tragedy struck my family, we discovered we weren’t untouchable. Just when I thought life couldn’t get any worse, I was shown what hell is really like. Then he came and saved me. The devil disguised as my personal hero. But of course, nothing is for free. Not when a soul is up for grabs. Easton Bradley Sinnett—Sin—uses his power for his own sick pleasure. Like a typical Lord, he never thought about the consequences of his actions. I grew up with him, obsessed over… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Slut-shaming & victim-blaming
  • Rape, including rape of a minor and rape by coercion, on-page & recounted
  • Sexual assault including reproductive assault
  • Involuntary voyeurism
  • Intimate partner violence & abuse
  • Forced marriage
  • Professor-student relationship
  • Infidelity recounted
  • Panic attack & nightmare
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Substance abuse & overdose
  • Attempted forced miscarriage (secondary character)
  • Emesis
  • Voluntary & involuntary body modifications including tattoos, nipple piercings and branding
  • Murder & staged suicide of a father recounted
  • Kidnapping & captivity mentioned
  • Torture
  • Stalking

*Context : The male protagonist (MMC) sexually assaults the female protagonist (FMC) with his body and an object (gun). The MMC also rapes the FMC by pretending to be someone else while she is blindfolded and tied up. The FMC was drugged and raped in the past by her professor. She was also raped by the MMC’s father when she was a minor. The MMC tampers with the FMC’s birth control, their condoms, and later forgoes a condom without consent. Secondary character hide cameras in the FMCs rooms to record sex without consent. The MMC is physically and emotionally abusive to the FMC, threatens to kill her, and tricked her into signing a marriage license. The FMC slaps the MMC. The MMC slept with a married woman in the past.

Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

All of us knew him. One of us killed him… Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a man’s severed head sits in the centre of the floor. Each of the women – the wife, the teenager, the ex, the journalist, the colleague, the friend, and the woman who raised him – has a very good reason to have done it, yet each swears she did not. In order to protect each other, they must figure out who is responsible, all while staying one step ahead of the police. Against the ticking clock of a murder investigation, each woman’s secret is brought to light as the connections between them converge to reveal a killer.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Transmisia & misgendering
  • Outing
  • Rape discussed
  • Adult-minor relationship & grooming
  • Domestic abuse
  • Infidelity
  • Suicide