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Road of No Return by KA Merikan

Road of No Return by K.A. Merikan

On the day of Stitch’s divorce, lust personified enters the biker bar he’s celebrating at. Tattooed all over, pierced, confident, and hot as hellfire, Zak is the bone Stitch has waited for life to throw him. All Stitch wants is a sniff, a taste, a lick. What follows instead is gluttony of the most carnal sort, and nothing will ever be the same. Forced to hide his new love affair from the whole world, Stitch juggles family, club life, and crime, but it’s only a matter of time until it becomes too hard… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Coming out
Hate crime
Domestic abuse
Organised crime (motorcycle club)

Milo by Lily Morton

Milo by Lily Morton

Milo has been burying himself at Chi an Mor, hiding from the wreckage of his once-promising career and running from a bad relationship that destroyed what little confidence he had. Niall, his big brother’s best friend, has been there for him that entire time. An arrogant and funny man, Niall couldn’t be any more different from the shy and occasionally stuttering Milo, which has never stopped Milo from crushing wildly on the man who saved him. However, just as Milo makes the decision to move on from his hopeless… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic abuse

Broken Vow by Stella Gray

Broken Vow by Stella Gray

My husband isn’t a gentle man. And God knows he isn’t the sharing type. Rico’s announcement has dropped a bomb into my marriage. I never thought I’d see Rico again. Never thought Dante would ever have to know.
Seeing the way he looks at me now, as though I’m just another problem to be handled? It’s breaking my heart. I thought I was in love once before. I swore I wouldn’t make the same mistake twice. But falling for a Bellanti was far worse than a simple mistake…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic abuse mentioned
Alcoholism mentioned
Gambling addiction mentioned
Blackmail

Gilded Agony by K.A. Merikan

Gilded Agony by K.A. Merikan

Deep in the Amazonian jungle, there is a mansion with a rose garden and a hen house where juicy tomatoes are the perfect shade of red, and marble countertops glisten. Inside, where even the shadows don’t reach, something is rotting, and the perfect facade can only hold the stench for so long. Domenico promised his husband that he would keep him safe, keep him away from the bloodshed and the brutal world of cartel violence. But when a guest arrives to help retrieve a stolen transport of guns, something sinister sneaks into his home, something more dangerous… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Bimisia
Rape mentioned
Sexual harassment
Domestic abuse
Organised crime (mafia, cartel)
Animal death

Spring of the Wolf by Iris Foxglove

Spring of the Wolf by Iris Foxglove

In the cold spring air of Lukos, a man wraps a cloak of fur around his shoulders and transforms into a sleek white wolf, racing across the countryside. Zephyr has always been cursed. The same fur that gives him the ability to shift between wolf and man allows others the power to control his will. Doomed to follow any order given by one who holds his cloak, Zephyr steals it from his tyrannical foster-father and takes off into the wilderness. He’s heard stories of the wolf-people of Lukos, the ones who don’t hide away in the caves Zephyr grew up in but build houses to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Sexual assault
Domestic abuse

Dirty Secret by Ki Brightly & MD Gregory

Dirty Secret by Ki Brightly & M.D. Gregory

Declan—hockey star for the New Gothenburg Blizzards—and tattoo artist, Jake, have been happily married for four years. As their anniversary approaches, Declan decides to give Jake a present he won’t forget—his favourite ASMR voice actor in their room during the romantic occasion. He offers the actor, Logan Indry, a deal he can’t refuse. Logan needs as much money as he can get. Recently fired and thrown out of his home by his abusive girlfriend, he has no job and no place to go. Declan’s message comes at exactly the right time, and Logan decides things can’t get any worse… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic abuse recounted
Death of a pet fish

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

Declination by Gregory Ashe

Declination by Gregory Ashe

Shaw and North are together. Finally. After eight years of knowing each other and loving each other and slipping past each other, they’ve finally told each other how they feel. Borealis Investigations is growing, and they have a major prospective client on the line. Everything is finally moving the way it should. Until the night Shaw receives a phone call telling him that Detective Jadon Reck, his former boyfriend, has been attacked. At the request of Jadon’s partner, Shaw and North begin an investigation into the attack. But nothing is as it seems. City police are …. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misgendering
Domestic abuse mentioned
Murder
Police corruption

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike

AD 573. Imprisoned in her chamber, Languoreth awaits news in torment. Her husband and son have ridden off to wage war against her brother, Lailoken. She doesn’t yet know that her young daughter, Angharad, who was training with Lailoken to become a Wisdom Keeper, has been lost in the chaos. As one of the bloodiest battles of early medieval Scottish history scatters its survivors to the wind, Lailoken and his men must flee to exile in the mountains of the Lowlands, while nine-year-old Angharad must summon all Lailoken has taught her and follow her own destiny through the…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape recounted
Domestic violence
Cheating mentioned
Sexual assault
Death of a son
Imprisonment
War themes & battle scenes

The Hidden Heart by Laura Kinsale

The Hidden Heart by Laura Kinsale

When her eccentric naturalist father dies on the upper reaches of the Amazon, young Lady Tess Collier sets out to follow his last wishes: return to England and marry well. But Tess, who had accompanied her father on his expeditions since childhood, is as unconventional as she is beautiful.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Intimate partner abuse