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Better Than People by Roan Parrish

Better Than People by Roan Parrish

Simon Burke has always preferred animals to people. When the countdown to adopting his own dog is unexpectedly put on hold, Simon turns to the PetShare app to find the fluffy TLC he’s been missing. Meeting a grumpy children’s book illustrator who needs a dog walker isn’t easy for the man whose persistent anxiety has coloured his whole life, but Jack Matheson’s menagerie is just what Simon needs. Four dogs, three cats and counting. Jack’s pack of rescue pets is the only company he needs. But when a bad fall leaves him with a broken leg, Jack is forced to admit… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & ableism
Social anxiety & anxiety attack
Alcohol consumption
Physical injury, including broken bones & concussion
Emesis
Death of a parent recounted
Death of a grandparent (off-page)
Animal abuse
Bullying mentioned

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In the Middle of Somewhere by Roan Parrish

In the Middle of Somewhere by Roan Parrish

Daniel Mulligan is tough, snarky, and tattooed, hiding his self-consciousness behind sarcasm. Daniel has never fit in—not at home in Philadelphia with his auto mechanic father and brothers, and not at school where his Ivy League classmates looked down on him. Now, Daniel’s relieved to have a job at a small college in Holiday, Northern Michigan, but he’s a city boy through and through, and it’s clear that this small town is one more place he won’t fit in. Rex Vale clings to routine to keep loneliness at bay: honing his muscular body, perfecting his recipes, and making custom furniture. Rex has lived in Holiday for years, but his… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & outing
Hate crime (‘gay bashing’) leading to the death of the protagonist’s ex-partner and his hospitalisation for injuries
Nightmares
Protagonists with a speech impediment & chronic migraines
Attempted suicide recounted
Death of a father from a heart attack
Death of a mother from pancreatic cancer
Death of a brother from suicide mentioned (secondary character)
Car accident resulting an injured dog (no death)

Skin by Aveda Vice

Skin by Aveda Vice

The last time Harbinger felt someone’s touch was seven years ago. Cursed with the ability to soak up information through her skin, she focuses on loaning out her services and keeping the world at arm’s length. Easier said than done when she’s partnered with the gargoyle Jasper Flint. But when a routine mission turns into an ambush, Flint shields her from a spray of bullets…and brushes against her in the process. Now, she can feel everything he does – including his growing attraction to her. Flint tries to keep things professional, but Harbin doesn’t want to miss the chance to finally feel someone against her skin. And if Flint… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood depiction
Emesis
Murder mentioned
Gun violence

In a Badger Way by Shelly Laurenston

In a Badger Way by Shelly Laurenston

Petite, kind, brilliant, and young, Stevie is nothing like the usual women bodyguard Shen Li is interested in. Even more surprising, the youngest of the lethal, ball-busting, and beautiful MacKilligan sisters is terrified of bears. But she’s not terrified of pandas. She loves pandas. Which means that whether Shen wants her to or not, she simply won’t stop cuddling him. He isn’t some stuffed Giant Panda, ya know! He is a Giant Panda shifter. He deserves respect and personal space. Something that little hybrid is completely ignoring. But Stevie has a way of finding trouble. Like… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Ableism
Sexual harassment
Panic attacks
Discussions of weight
Alcohol consumption
Physical injury, including broken bones
Emesis
Needles & syringes
Medical human experimentation
Kidnapping of a child
Explosion
Physical assault
Car accident
Injury of a dog

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

Vanja Schmidt knows that no gift is freely given, not even a mother’s love–and she’s on the hook for one hell of a debt. Vanja, the adopted goddaughter of Death and Fortune, was Princess Gisele’s dutiful servant up until a year ago. That was when Vanja’s otherworldly mothers demanded a terrible price for their care, and Vanja decided to steal her future back… by stealing Gisele’s life for herself. The real Gisele is left a penniless nobody while Vanja uses an enchanted string of pearls to take her place. Now, Vanja leads a lonely but lucrative double life as princess and jewel thief… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Physical & emotional child abuse
Attempted rape, off-page
Blood depiction
Emesis
Poisoning
Whipping

Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake by Mazey Eddings

Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake by Mazey Eddings

Lizzie has made endless mistakes. Kitchen fires, pyramid schemes, bangs (of the hair and human variety), you name it, she’s done it… and made a mess of it too. One mistake she’s never made is letting anyone get closer to her than a single hook-up. But after losing yet another bakery job due to her uncontrolled ADHD, she breaks her cardinal rule and has a two-night stand that changes everything. Once burned, twice shy, Rake has given up on relationships. And feelings. And any form of intimacy for that matter. Yet something about charming, chaotic Lizzie has him lowering his guard. For two nights, that is… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Internalised ableism
Sexual assault, on-page
Cheating recounted
Unplanned pregnancy
Abortion discussed
Emesis

Wicked by Sara Shepard

Wicked by Sara Shepard

In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can’t help but be bad. Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood’s queen bee. Spencer’s digging up her family’s secrets. Emily can’t stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom’s taste in men. The girls think they’re in the clear now that Ali’s killer is finally behind bars. But someone new is mimicking “A’s” blackmailing ways with wicked and mysterious messages. And it’s only a matter of time before they let some secrets slip.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Classism & homophobia
Fatphobia & body shaming
Sexism, slut-shaming & victim-blaming
Adult-minor relationship
Eating disorder including bingeing and purging and disordered weight & body thoughts
Alcohol consumption
Cancer mentioned
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a grandmother
Death of a friend recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Stalking & blackmail
Bullying

Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee

Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee

How to save a dragon: 1) Assemble equipment. Water, Weet-Bix, sugar, syringe, sticky tape, scissors. 2) Believe in everything. Pip never wants to go home. She likes to sit at the waterhole at dusk and remember Mika, her best friend. At home her mother’s not the same since her boyfriend moved in. They don’t laugh anymore and Pip has to go to bed early, turn off her light and pretend she doesn’t exist. When she finds a half-dead creature at the waterhole, everything changes. She knows she has to save this small dragon and return it to where it comes from. But how?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic abuse
Grief & loss depiction
Emesis

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault & attempted rape recounted, on-page
Familial estrangement
Hallucinations & delusions
Self-injury mentioned
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Recreational drug use
Miscarriage mentioned
Psychiatric hospitalisation of a parent mentioned
Graphic body horror
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injuries, including gunshot wounds
Graphic dead bodies
Emesis
Skinning mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a sister by drowning recounted
Death of a father from suicide mentioned
Death of a child, off-page
Gun violence
Knife violence & stabbing
Strangulation
Physical assault
Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping recounted
Disappearance of a sister
Fire
Bullying
Animal dead bodies mentioned

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple who live in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is rich; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and… Read more,

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Domestic violence
Graphic alcohol consumption & abuse (on-age, theme)
Alcoholism & recovery discussed (protagonist & secondary character)
Recreational drug use mentioned (off-page)
Self-sacrifice (on-page)
Minor injury & illness, including emesis & fainting spells
Grief & loss depiction
Murder by drowning & near-drowning incidents (on-page)
Death of a husband by accidental drowning discussed
Death of a wife from suicide by throwing herself down a set of stars discussed (disguised as an accidental death)
Poisoning
Physical assault
Kidnapping & captivity
Home invasion & stalking
Disappearance of a friend & missing person cases discussed (on-page)
Loss of autonomy (ghost possession)

Context: The protagonist is an alcoholic and her love interest is in recovery for alcoholism after losing his wife. The protagonist drugs her husband and dumps him in the lake to drown after she discovers he’s a serial killer. The protagonist’s neighbour is attempting to kill his wife by poisoning (and she almost drowns due to muscle weakness caused by the poison). The protagonist witnesses the wife punch the husband after a fight.