Genital Mutilation – Trigger Warning Database

Breaking Rosalind by Gigi Styx

I wove a deadly web, but it became my trap. Rosalind: I’m a cold-blooded killer, a femme fatale with a long list of victims. My latest target being Cesare Montesano. I must kill him and his brothers to protect my innocent young daughter. He catches me in the middle of the mission, but I’m not scared. I might be his prisoner yet I’m not without weapons. And I will use every trick in the book to disarm him and escape. Cesare: She tried to inject me with a poisonous syringe. Now, she’s my captive with a head full of secrets. Secrets that threaten my brother’s lives and rob our family’s power. She’s a betrayer, just like all the others, but I won’t… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Workplace sexual harassment
Child abuse & grooming recounted
Stockholm Syndrome & dubious consent (‘dubcon’)
Self-harm (cutting)
Drugging
Forced pregnancy & teen pregnancy recounted
Body modification, scars & branding, including tracker insertion
Genital mutilation (castration, stitching)
Dismemberment & evisceration
Murder & mass murder
Murder of a mother & father
Graphic torture, Russian roulette & sensory deprivation
Kidnapping
Blackmail
Animal cruelty recounted

Context : Depiction of BDSM & kink, including bondage, temperature play, pet play, breath play, candle play, gun play, hebephilia, knife play, and medical play

Snaring Emberly by Gigi Styx

Revenge was supposed to be simple, but love had other plans Emberly: When an abusive ex corners me in a nightclub, I cling to the first man I see for protection. Little do I know he’s a mafia Don, fresh out of prison and eager for a one-night stand. One night extends into two, then three. I’m beginning to suspect I can’t leave. But every time I raise questions, he answers with offers impossible to resist. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell if I’m just paranoid or a pawn in a much larger game. Roman: When a man gets jailed for a crime he didn’t commit, the first thing he wants after leaving death row is vengeance. The bastard who framed me… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Domestic violence mentioned
Elder abuse
Forced marriage
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & panic attacks
Attempted suicide, immolation & threats of suicide bombing
Drugging
Forced pregnancy due to birth control tampering
Male genital mutilation
Dismemberment, desecration of a corpse, and cremation of living people
Murder
Torture (waterboarding)
Organised crime (mafia)
Kidnapping & imprisonment

Context : Depiction of BDSM & kink, including voyeurism, exhibitionism, and mentions of urophilia

I Will Mend You by Gigi Styx

My worst nightmare finally stepped out of the mirror. And the only man who can save me is a ghost. I’m trapped in a forgotten nightmare with the monster I most fear. The key to my freedom lies behind a wall of memories. Xero’s specter invades my mind, whispering both vengeance and salvation. He insists he’s real, yet I can’t trust my shattered psyche. But as my tormentors draw close, I must rely on the phantom I betrayed for protection—and for revenge. She’s ensnared by darkness, and only I can set her free. To save her, I must become the vengeful spirit she fears. Amethyst’s mind is a maze of terror and confusion. Freeing… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child & organ trafficking
Elder abuse
Victim-blaming
Rape, dubious consent (‘dubcon’), sexual harassment, & attempted sexual assault
Paedophilia, grooming, & child sexual abuse
Underage sex work mentioned (secondary character)
Gang rape (secondary character)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Hallucinations & memory loss
Immolation
Abortion (forced) recounted
Medical misconduct (medication tampering)
Forced feeding
Cannibalism & dismemberment
Genital mutilation (castration)
Murder & murder of a child/infant
Graphic torture (on-page)
Car accident
Poisoning
Arson
Kidnapping & captivity
Imprisonment
Stalking & blackmail
Bullying & online harassment

I Will Break You by Gigi Styx

My prison pen pal got the electric chair. So how can he sext me from the grave? I see dead people, and not just the men I murdered. I’m in danger of being committed because I can’t tell what’s real from my hallucinations. Everyone thinks I’m crazy when the serial killer I jilted starts haunting my house. He assassinates any man who shows me interest, leaving their body parts under my pillow. During the day, his gaslighting destroys my peace of mind. But at night, he invades my nightmares and makes me crave the depravity. She ghosted me at the altar. Now, I’m aching for revenge. I want to break her, piece by delicious piece. Revel in her… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Teacher-student relationship recounted
Victim-blaming
Paedophilia, grooming & child sexual abuse recounted
Rape & sexual assault
Gang rape mentioned (secondary character)
Underage sex work mentioned (secondary character)
Hallucinations & memory loss
Suicide
Abortion (forced) & miscarriage recounted
Medical misconduct (medication tampering)
Dismemberment and desecration of a corpse & grave
Genital mutilation (castration)
Torture
Strangulation
Car accident
Imprisonment
Cults
Stalking
Bullying, online harassment & doxxing

Context : Depiction of BDSM & kink, including erotophonophilia, sadism, phrogging, collaring, spanking, osteophilia, fear play, mask play, knife play, gun play, and mentions of coprophilia,

Maeve Fly by CJ Leede

By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes. But when Gideon Green – her best friend’s brother – moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet. Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape
Drugging
Graphic genital mutilation
Dismemberment
Murder
Torture
Animal injury

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother’s identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Body dysmorphia
Rape
Graphic self-harm including burning and cutting
Dismemberment of hands and fingers, eye trauma, and mutilation like cutting out tongues
Murder
Torture including whipping, skinning and mentions of foot binding and boiling someone alive
Drowning

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misgendering
Slavery mentioned
Depression
Alcohol consumption
Plague
Nonconsensual castration recounted
Emesis mentioned
Starvation
Cannibalism mentioned
Death of children
Murder & mass murder
Torture, off-page
Bombings
War themes
Animal injury
Animal death

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar’s wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Protection. Desire. But Akaran has its own secrets… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Sexual assault by coercion
Child abuse
Domestic violence recounted
Arranged marriage
Forced attempted suicide
Stillbirth mentioned
Blood & genital mutilation mentioned
Death of a child
Death of a mother
Torture mentioned
Captivity
Bullying
War themes

Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon

Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon

The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart. John’s heritage gains them safe passage through… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism, on-page
Rape
Gun violence
Scalping
Animal death

All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry

All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry

Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years ago, only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by those who were once her friends and family.

Unable to speak, Judith lives like a ghost in her own home, silently pouring out her thoughts to the boy who’s owned her heart for as long as she… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Mutilation
Kidnapping & captivity