Tag Archives: Fire & Arson

Feel My Pain by K.A. Merikan

wo years ago, the Rabid Hyenas MC ripped Zane apart like a pack of starving wolves. But he’s not only a survivor, he took revenge that same night. Turns out, one of the bikers is still alive, and as long as that’s the case, Zane will not know peace. Especially since Roach is the dirtbag who caused all the mayhem in the first place. When an act of revenge meant to close that chapter of Zane’s life takes a shocking turn, all hell breaks loose. Roach’s pain is his. When Roach bleeds, he does. When Zane suffers, Roach screams. So until Zane can figure out how to lift the curse and… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Forced outing
  • Rape, statutory rape & sexual assault
  • Sex work mentioned
  • Attempted suicide & self-harm
  • Overdose
  • Arson
  • Torture mentioned

The Demigod Complex by Abigail Owen

When Lyleia Naiad was head-hunted by Brimstone, Inc., for her job as Executive Assistant to a high-powered billionaire demigod, she was given one directive—do NOT fall in love with Castor Dioskouri. Doesn’t matter if he’s the son of Zeus and can electrify a room with a single glance. As an ex-nymph, she possesses a unique ability—a gift from the goddesses to protect nymphs from the randy gods—to resist her boss’s charms. Or so she thought. He insists she accompany him to an alpha wolf shifter mating ceremony, an event where the pheromones fly, and so do clothes… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault recounted
  • Sexual harassment
  • Boss-employee relationship
  • Infideity recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Murder of a pregnant wife by being burning to death recounted
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Drowning
  • Stalking

The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen

Every hundred years, the gods toy with us mere mortals. And we let them. The gods of myth are alive and well. Once every century, they select a new ruler in a cutthroat competition, pushing mortal players to the limit. But this year, Hades is done sitting on the sidelines. And he’s picking a champion no one expects—in this modern mythic romantasy, she’ll fight for her life… for the god of Death.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Murder
  • Fire
  • Bullying

Fire in the Heart by Hailey Turner

Alexei Dvorkin has come a long way since being turned into a metahuman, and all he wants to do is marry the man he loves. A wedding is easy, but it’s the honeymoon where his and Sean’s past unexpectedly catches up with them. All Sean Delaney wanted was a romantic honeymoon with his new husband. When he and Alexei stumble into a fellow operative’s mission on a luxury gambling resort island, they get more than they bargained for in their newly-minted civilian lives. Forced to choose between staying and joining the mission or leaving to stay safe and postpone their… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Torture
  • Fire
  • Electrocution
  • Hostage situation
  • Terrorism

The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

Miss Frederica “Free” Marshall has put her heart and soul into her newspaper, known for its outspoken support of women’s rights. Naturally, her enemies are intent on destroying her business and silencing her for good. Free refuses to be at the end of her rope… but she needs more rope, and she needs it now. Edward Clark’s aristocratic family abandoned him to die in a war-torn land, so he survived the only way he could: by becoming a rogue and a first-class forger. When the same family that left him for dead vows to ruin Miss Marshall, he offers his help. So what if he… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Nightmares
  • Torture recounted, including the involuntary amputation of fingers
  • Fire
  • Blackmail
  • Whipping recounted

Holly by Adalyn Grace

Something strange is happening at Wisteria Gardens, the magical manor that Blythe and Aris call home. All they want is a peaceful holiday season with their family, but a group of restless spirits is determined to threaten their festivities. With a new mystery to solve, Signa, Death, Blythe, and Fate must uncover what happened to Wisteria’s ghostly inhabitants and help the spirits move on before it’s too late.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fire & related injury depiction

The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie

Who do you become when you have nothing left to lose? There is something Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost’s last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous waters of the Serpentine and realizes there might be a traitor among her crew, she must also reckon with who she has become, who she wants to be, and the ways love can change and shape you. Even – and especially – when you think all is lost.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Graphic physical injuries including burns & gunshot wounds
  • Battle scenes including violent takeovers by raiders and knife & gun violence
  • Fire

Fire Storm by Nancy Mehl

When FBI profiler Kaely Quinn’s mother is diagnosed with cancer, Kaely takes time off work to go to Dark Water, Nebraska, to help her brother care for their mother. Upon her arrival, she learns of a series of fires in the small town, attributed by the fire chief to misuse of space heaters in the frigid winter. But Kaely is skeptical, and a search for a pattern in the locations of the fires bolsters her suspicions. After yet another blaze devastates a local family, Kaely is certain a serial arsonist is on the loose. Calling upon her partner from St. Louis, Noah Hunter, and her brother’s firefighter neighbor who backs Kaely’s suspicions… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Parent with cancer, including mentions of hospitalisation
  • Suicide mentioned (brief)
  • Gun violence
  • Fire & arson (theme), including murder by arson recounted, mentions of death in a fire, and hospitalisation for smoke inhalation/burns
  • Explosion (grain elevator) mentioned

The Alpha of Grave Hills by Kathryn Moon

Broken hearted and rejected by her beta, Brigid Grant has spent the last five years in self-imposed exile. When her former lover comes sniffing at her door, demanding she take her place back in his bed or lose her sanctuary, Brigid knows it would break more than her heart to agree. There’s only one person powerful enough to keep her out of another man’s reach. A new alpha has risen. With the death of his father, it’s time for Torion to step into his rightful place, as Alpha of Grave Hills. Young, determined to do better for his home and his people, Torion needs to focus on the work ahead… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationship mentioned
  • Infidelity recounted
  • Pregnancy & childbirth
  • Miscarriage recounted
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Fire
  • Imprisonment (secondary character)

Rising Storm by Erin Hunter

Fireheart’s traitorous enemy Tigerclaw has been vanquished and exiled from Thunder Clan — but Fireheart can’t shake the feeling that he’s lurking in the forest, waiting for his chance to strike. That’s not the only problem facing the young warrior in these blazing summer months, as he struggles to handle sinister omens, an apprentice with a shocking secret, and a devastated Clan leader who is a shell of her former self. Meanwhile the forest gets hotter and hotter … and everyone braces for the coming storm…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Car accident
  • Fire
  • War themes
  • Animal death