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Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker–she thinks nothing can scare her. But when her father is brutally attacked in their New York apartment, she’s quickly packed off to live with a grandmother she’s never met in Harrow Lake, the eerie town where her father’s most iconic horror movie was shot. The locals are weirdly obsessed with the film that put their town on the map–and there are strange disappearances, which the police seem determined to explain away. And there’s someone… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse
Domestic abuse
Suicide discussed
Cannibalism mentioned
Hospitalisation of a parent
Blood depiction
Knife violence & stabbing

The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen

The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen

Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She’s an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial killer Francis Michael Coben. The only one who lived. When three people disappear from her town in three years―all around her birthday―Ellery fears someone knows her secret. Someone very dangerous. Her superiors dismiss her concerns, but Ellery knows the vanishing season is coming and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Homomisia
Adult-minor relationship
Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
Sexual assault
Trichotillomania
Self-harm
Bullying & hazing

Belly Up by Eva Darrows

Belly Up by Eva Darrows

I’d planned to spend senior year with my bestie-slash-wifey, Devi Abrams, graduating at the top of my class and getting into an Ivy League college. Instead, Mom and I are moving in with my battle-ax of a grandmother and I’m about to start a new school and a whole new life. Know what’s more fun than being the new girl for your senior year? Being the pregnant new girl. It isn’t awesome. There is one upside, though—a boy named Leaf Leon. He’s cute, an amazing cook and he’s flirting me up, hard-core. Too bad I’m knocked up with a stranger’s baby.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Domestic abuse mentioned
Unplanned teen pregnancy (theme)
Childbirth

Baker and the Geek by Chelsea Millen

Baker and the Geek by Chelsea Millen

Jax Austin has savior syndrome. When he crosses paths with down-on-her-luck baker Bekah Murphy, he feels the need to help her out of a hard situation. He should’ve put two and two together when the gorgeous cake connoisseur smashed a frosted cupcake in his face, but Jax has always had a sweet tooth… especially for an independent and sexy woman like Bekah. Besides, Jax knows he can convince her to trust him over a plate of his family’s famous sugar cookies and with the help of his adorable cousin…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Fatmisia
Physical, emotional & verbal domestic abuse
Cheating, off-page
Unplanned pregnancy
Allergic reaction
Stalking & cyberstalking

Nothing in My Heart by Peri Elizabeth Scott

Nothing in My Heart by Peri Elizabeth Scott

Feeling trapped in marriage, Beckett Kilmer doesn’t hide his disdain for his young wife, although he certainly wants her physically. Grace didn’t deliberately trap the man she loves, but ignorance is no defence, neither in a court of law nor the law according to Beckett. When she loses their baby, he’s kind and supportive but remains distant. Grace despairs, also trapped—but by the skeins of love that bind her. Mysteriously finding herself capable of resisting him, she plans to assert her independence when Beckett comes to his senses, recognizing his reprehensible behaviour… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Abusive relationship
Miscarriage

The Book of Ivy by Amy Engel

The Book of Ivy by Amy Engel

After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation. The Westfalls lost. Fifty years later, peace and control are maintained by marrying the daughters of the losing side to the sons of the winning group in a yearly ritual. This year, it is my turn. My name is Ivy Westfall, and my mission is simple: to kill the president’s son—my soon-to-be husband—and restore the Westfall family to power… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Paedophilia & child sexual assault
Rape
Domestic abuse
Suicide
Murder
Torture

Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater

Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater

Effie has most inconveniently fallen in love with the dashing Mr Benedict Ashbrooke. There’s only one problem; Effie is a housemaid, and a housemaid cannot marry a gentleman. It seems that Effie is out of luck until she stumbles into the faerie realm of Lord Blackthorn, who is only too eager to help Effie win Mr Ashbrooke’s heart. All he asks in return is that Effie sew ten thousand stitches onto his favourite jacket. Effie has heard rumours about what happens to those who accept help from faeries, but life as a maid… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic abuse

The Girl in Red by John Nicholl

The Girl in Red by John Nicholl

Kathy thought she’d met her soulmate. But Police Inspector Michael Conner’s behaviour changes on the day of their wedding. Showing his true colours for the first time, Conner becomes increasingly manipulative, controlling and cruel as the months’ pass. When Kathy tries to escape, Connor does his best to convince everyone that she is mentally ill. But Anna, Kathy’s identical twin sister, doesn’t believe it. After a tragic event, Kathy decides enough is enough and elicits Anna’s help to rid herself of Connor for good. But will Connor simply let Kathy walk away or have the sisters bitten off more than they can chew?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic violence

Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

When I fell for Dario Volpe, I thought he was Prince Charming, and I was the luckiest girl alive. He didn’t care about my past. The talk. The stain on my family’s reputation. Then he saw something I never wanted anyone to see. He cares now. This isn’t a breakup, it’s a warning shot, and if I want to get out of this bad romance alive, I have to run and never look back.
Dario Volpe is no storybook hero. He’s a psychopath, and he can’t decide–kiss me? Or kill me?… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Threats of sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Revenge porn
Cheating
Intimate partner abuse recounted
Voluntary euthanasia mentioned
Pregnancy & childbirth, on-page
Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Alcohol consumption
Death of a parent from cancer recounted
Death of a daughter in a car accident mentioned
Murder
Kidnapping

Violeta by Isabel Allende

Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Told in the form of a letter to someone Violeta loves above all others, this is the story of a hundred-year life – of devastating heartbreak and passionate affairs, poverty and wealth, terrible loss and immense joy.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misogyny & racism
Adult-minor relationship
Domestic abuse
Suicide
Murder
War themes