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Zenobia by Morten Dürr and Lars Horneman

Zenobia was once a great warrior queen of Syria. She was courageous. No one gave her orders. Once she even went to war against the emperor of Rome. When things feel overwhelming for Amina, her mother reminds her to think of Zenobia and be strong. Amina is a Syrian girl caught up in a war that reaches her village. To escape the war she boards a small boat crammed with other refugees. The boat is rickety and the turbulent seas send Amina overboard. In the dark water Amina remembers the journey she had to undertake with her uncle to escape. And she thinks of the brave warrior Zenobia.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Death of a child from drowning in a boating accident
War themes
Refugee experiences

Morgan Is My Name by Sophie Keetch

When King Uther Pendragon murders her father and tricks her mother into marriage, Morgan refuses to be crushed. Trapped amid the machinations of men in a world of isolated castles and gossiping courts, she discovers secret powers. Vengeful and brilliant, it’s not long before Morgan becomes a worthy adversary to Merlin, influential sorcerer to the king. But fighting for her freedom, she risks losing everything – her reputation, her loved ones and her life.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexism & slut-shaming
Rape by coercion and involuntary pregnancy*
Infidelity
Intimate partner violence & physical assault
Forced marriage
Self-injury (for magic)
Emesis
Childbirth (secondary character)
Infertility & stillbirth
Death of a step-father in battle
Near-drowning incident (secondary character)
Animal death & dead bodies

Context : The protagonist’s mother was raped by coercion as Merlin magically disguised Uther to look like someone else and he impregnated her. The protagonist sets her husband’s face on fire after he attacks her (and has been physically abusive). The protagonist’s father told her mother that her son was stillborn but he lied and gave the child away.

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.

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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

The Lotus Empire by Tasha Suri

Malini has claimed her rightful throne as the empress of Parijatdvipa, just as the nameless gods prophesied. Now, in order to gain the support of the priesthood who remain loyal to the fallen emperor, she must consider a terrible Claim her throne and burn in order to seal her legacy—or find another willing to take her place on the pyre. Priya has survived the deathless waters and now their magic runs in her veins. But a mysterious yaksa with flowering eyes and a mouth of thorns lies beneath the waters. The yaksa promises protection for Ahiranya. But in exchange, she needs a sacrifice. And she’s chosen Priya as the one to offer it… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misogyny & sexism
Intimate partner violence
Forced parent-child separation mentioned
Alcoholism
Suicidal ideation & self-sacrifice
Alcohol consumption & drug use (pipe & hookah smoking)
Blood & injury depiction including burns, broken bones, chronic pain, illness (which causes plants to grow through skin) and emesis
Death of a brother recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Fire
Drowning
Imprisonment
War themes & battle scenes
Animal death

My December Darling by Lauren Asher

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual assault of a child
Suicide
Disappearance of a wife (theme)
Drowning mentioned

Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur

When Everleigh Dangerfield’s baking disaster necessitates a call to 911, firefighter Griffin Brantley douses the flames in the kitchen, but the ones he stokes in Everleigh are an entirely different story. Unfortunately, Everleigh’s only visiting and doesn’t do casual hookups, no matter how smoldering the temptation. But Everleigh’s holiday mishaps have just begun. And Griffin is seemingly always on call. If Everleigh is game for a change of plans, he can give her the merriest Christmas of her life.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Fire (on-page)
Near-drowning incident

Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne

After the death of her mom, 17-year-old Cecelia Ellis goes to live with her estranged grandmother, a celebrated author whose Victorian mansion is as creepy as the murder mysteries she writes. On the surface, life is utterly ordinary until the homecoming queen is murdered. And she’s not Seaview’s first pretty dead queen. With a copycat killer on the loose, Cecelia throws herself into the investigation, determined to crack the case like the heroines in her grandmother’s books. But the more Cecelia digs into the town’s secrets, the more she worries that her own mystery might not have a storybook ending….

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Classism, racism & homophobia
Adult-minor relationship mentioned
Alcohol consumption & drug use mentioned
Minor blood & gore depiction including mentions of dead bodies & emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from cancer recounted & discussed
Murder & knife violence
Drowning
Animal death (rabbit, dog)

Clique Bait by Ann Valett

Chloe Whittaker is out for revenge Last year her best friend Monica’s life was unceremoniously ruined by the most popular students at their high school, so this year Chloe plans to take each and every one of them down. She’s traded in her jeans and T-shirts for the latest designer clothes, erased anything on social media that would tie her to Monica (and blow her cover), and carefully figured out how she will befriend the members of the clique, find out their deepest and darkest secrets, and reveal them to the world. Chloe has the perfect plan… but there’s on thing she didn’t… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Infidelity
Alcohol consumption & drugging
Emesis
Drowning
Blackmail
Bullying (theme)

The Old Place by Bobby Finger

Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few months into her retirement—or, district mandated exile as she calls it—Mary Alice does not know how to fill her days. The annual picnic is coming up, but that isn’t nearly enough since the menu never changes and she had the roles mentally assigned weeks ago. At least there’s Ellie, who stops by each morning for coffee and whose reemergence in Mary Alice’s life is the one thing soothing the sting of retirement… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Suicide
Alcohol consumption
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a husband from drowning recounted
Death of a son mentioned
Car accident

Stranger Skies by Pascale Lacelle

Opening locked doors has a price—even for those who hold a key. After going through the door that called to them both in dreams, Emory and Romie find themselves in the the same verdant world written of in Song of the Drowned Gods, albeit a twisted, rotting version of it. A sinister force has awoken with their arrival, intent on destruction as it spills across realms, and now Emory and Romie must stop it before it reaches their own shores. Meanwhile, Baz and Kai are desperate to follow their friends through the door to other worlds, but a mishap pulls them back in time instead—where they come face to face with Cornus Clover… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Pregnancy mentioned
Knife, sword & weapon violence including decapitation (monsters)
Blood, injury and minor body horror (necromancy, a secondary character being reborn after being buried alive, etc.)
Mentions of death from choking, strangulation, drowning, stabbing & explosions
Loss of autonomy (demonic possession)
Physical beating of a child recounted