Tag Archives: Drugging

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she’s going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that’s no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust. Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After a few brief months with everything he ever wanted, he’s in the Asteri’s dungeons again, stripped of his freedom and without a clue as to Bryce’s fate. He’s desperate to help her, but until he can… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Threats of rape & forced breeding
  • Self-sacrifice & attempted self-sacrifice
  • Self-injury
  • Drugging
  • Blood & gore depiction including cannibalism, emesis & needles
  • Death of a sibling recounted
  • Graphic torture (on-page)

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved décor, and the photos on her phone, they’ve been together for years. As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drugging

When You’re Dying by M.Q. Webb

When you’re dying, a lot goes through your mind… A shock diagnosis forces Verity Casmere to consider how she wants to spend the time she has left. The question haunting Verity is what happened to her missing sister, Ashlee. Was she murdered, like the police suspect? How far will Verity go to learn the truth? Moved by her situation, Forensic Psychiatrist, Oscar de la Nuit, agrees to help Verity learn what happened, but with the truth comes consequences neither of them could predict. Can they resurface before a dark secret consumes them both?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Terminal cancer
  • Drugging
  • Hospitalisation for an injury sustained from a fall
  • Disappearance of a sibling

The Perfect Neighborhood by Liz Alterman

When actress and model Allison Langley leaves her former rockstar husband, Christopher, in the middle of the night, it’s all her Oak Hill neighbours can talk about. The gossip comes to an abrupt halt when five-year-old Billy Barnes goes missing on his walk home from kindergarten. Billy’s mother, Rachel, blames herself for being at work and letting her only child walk alone. Cassidy, Billy’s teenage babysitter, was also late to arrive on the afternoon he disappeared and blames herself for his disappearance. As the clock ticks down, police are unable to find any trace of Billy.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity
  • Teacher-student relationship
  • Infertility & miscarriage
  • Kidnapping & drugging of children

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she’s feeling bored and restless. Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationship & paedophilia
  • Rape
  • Cheating
  • Alcohol abuse & drugging
  • Pregnancy & abortion mentioned
  • Death of a child
  • Gun violence

Dark Corners by Megan Goldin

Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his freedom approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, and police suspect she’s been kidnapped—or worse. Is Maddison’s disappearance connected to her visit to Bailey? Why was she visiting him in the first place? When they hit a wall in the investigations have long suspected him in the murders of six… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Drugging
  • Heart attack
  • Hospitalisation
  • Murder
  • Strangulation
  • Kidnapping
  • Stalking

Treacherous by Chloe Walsh

When seventeen year old Teagan loses her mother in tragic circumstances, she is forced to move to America to live with her uncle. Worlds apart from her home in Ireland, Teagan struggles to find her feet in Colorado. Struggling to fit into her new high school, and warring with her troubled next-door neighbor, Teagan is in for a wild senior year.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault & drugged rape of a minor (on-page)
  • Incarceration recounted

The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang

In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor—but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they’ve met before. Across these seemingly unrelated timelines woven together only by the twists and turns of fate, two men are reborn, lifetime after lifetime. Within the treacherous walls of an ancient palace and the boundless forests of the… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drugging & drug use
  • Organised crime
  • Death of a father from cancer recounted
  • Loss of autonomy (mind control)
  • Animal death

An Evil Heart by Linda Castillo

On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish family. Who would commit such a heinous crime against a young man whose life was just beginning? The more Kate gets to know his devastated family and the people—both English and Amish—who loved him, the more determined she becomes to solve the case. Aden Karn was funny and hardworking and looking forward to marrying his sweet… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Drugging & sexual assault (theme)
  • Murder by crossbow

Through the Smoke by Brenda Novak

Riches. Power. An ancient heritage of pride. The Earl of Druridge wanted only for an heir. So when he learned that his wife was carrying another man’s child, he was filled with a thirst for vengeance. But he wasn’t the one who caused Katherine’s death. Or was he? To his horror, he remembers nothing of that dreadful night, when their last confrontation ended in scorching flame and cold blood. A forbidden love… But he wasn’t the one who caused Katherine’s death. Or was he? To his horror, he remembers nothing of that dreadful night, when their last confrontation ended in scorching flame and cold blood. Passionately drawn to the…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Drugging
  • Death of a mother
  • Death of a wife in a fire recounted