The Last Star by Rick Yancey

The Last Star by Rick Yancey

They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. In these last days, Earth’s remaining survivors will need to decide what’s more important: saving themselves…or saving what makes us human.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a child
  • Gun violence
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Love in a Small Town by Zoe York

Love in a Small Town by Zoe York

Rafe Minelli knows he won’t get a second chance with his ex-wife. The demands of his double career—as a police officer and military reservist—were a dealbreaker when they were together. And he’s thrilled for her when she lands a new job with a film company, but it comes with a deadline: when she finishes this project, she’s leaving town for good. Olivia has no reason to stay in Rafe’s tiny hometown, where the only job she could find was waiting tables in the local diner. But she couldn’t move on until she figured out what she wanted next in life. Now she’s been tasked with the… Read more.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Divorce
  • Gun violence
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Double or Nothing by Cari Z and LA Witt

Double or Nothing by Cari Z. and L.A. Witt

Rich Cody joined the U.S. Marshals to hunt down bad guys, not babysit witnesses. Orders are orders, though, and now he’s protecting a hacker with ties to the Albanian and Sicilian mobs. It’s just another exciting day in WITSEC. Leotrim Nicolosi was born into a world of crime and bloodshed. When that bloodshed hits too close to home, taking down Leo’s boyfriend—the son of a notorious mob boss—Leo is determined to destroy the Grimaldi family. He’s got evidence that will send every last Grimaldi to prison, he’s got the family’s wealth in an electronic… Read more.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
  • Military service recounted

Under Locke by Mariana Zapata 

He was my boss, my brother’s friend, a Widower, an ex-felon, and a man I’d seen casually with a handful of women. But he was everything that gripped me, both the good and the bad. Worst case scenario if things turned awkward between us, I could go somewhere else. I’d gotten over epic heartbreak before, one more wouldn’t kill me. After moving to Austin following six months of unemployment back home, Iris Taylor knows she should be glad to have landed a job so quickly… even if the business is owned by a member of the same motorcycle club her estranged father… Read more.

Goodreads

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Slut-shaming
  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Emesis
  • Death of a mother from breast cancer recounted
  • Murder by gun violence
  • Physical assault
  • Car accident recounted

Simply Love by Catherine Anderson

Simply Love by Catherine Anderson

Cassandra Zerek is a true innocent in a wild and dangerous place — but her indomitable spirit and gentle soul make her stronger than anyone suspects. The owner of a Colorado mining empire, Luke Taggart’s wealth and position can buy him anything, yet he has grown bored with a life of saloons and gambling. Nothing soothes his restless inner yearning — until he spies Cassandra, as fresh and pure as a spring morning, and vows he will possess her. The radiant, charmingly beauty seems blind to the depth of Luke’s desire or the lengths he is willing to go to seduce her. But the lady is wise, with unwavering faith in the magical powers of love. And she’s determined to awaken the good man hiding in Luke’s tormented heart, for only one precious gift will truly win her: his deep, passionate, and unsullied love

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut shaming
  • Child sexual abuse & rape
  • Dubious consent scenario
  • Wrongful imprisonment
  • Gun violence
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Uncharted by Adriana Anders

Uncharted by Adriana Anders

Hotshot pilot Leo Eddowes is afraid of nothing and no one. So when she’s asked to evacuate a man from the wilds of Alaska, she doesn’t hesitate. But with enemies in close pursuit and the weather turning sour, what should have been a simple mission quickly shifts to disaster. And there’s only one way out.

When Elias Thorne disappeared, he was America’s most wanted. Now he’s spent more than a decade in one of the most remote places on earth, guarding a dangerous secret. Leo’s arrival, quickly followed by a team of expert hunters, leaves him no choice but to join forces with her—and run. Neither is prepared… Read more.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Gun violence
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent from suicide
  • Murder of a parent
  • Torture
  • Plane crash, on-page
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Darling by K Ancrum

Darling by K. Ancrum

On Wendy Darling’s first night in Chicago, a boy called Peter appears at her window. He’s dizzying, captivating, beautiful—so she agrees to join him for a night on the town.

Wendy thinks they’re heading to a party, but instead they’re soon running in the city’s underground. She makes friends—a punk girl named Tinkerbelle and the lost boys Peter watches over. And she makes enemies—the terrifying Detective Hook, and maybe Peter himself, as his sinister secrets start coming to light. Can Wendy find the courage to survive this night—and make sure everyone else does, too?

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationships
  • Grooming
  • Child abuse & neglect
  • Anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • PTSD & trauma
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of a child
  • Murder, off-page
  • Gun violence
  • Police brutality
  • Stalking
  • Kidnapping
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

‘Are you happy in your life?’ Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before the man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, ‘Welcome back.’ In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it… Read more.

Goodreads  •  The Story Graph

  • Grey-area cheating
  • Drug use
  • Death of a child
  • Contagion
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert

Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert

In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighbourhood known as America’s Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives.

In a few short hours, they’d razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today?

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & racial profiling
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a brother in a gang shooting recounted
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com

The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

Marva Sheridan was born ready for this day. She’s always been driven to make a difference in the world, and what better way than to vote in her first election? Duke Crenshaw is so done with this election. He just wants to get voting over with so he can prepare for his band’s first paying gig tonight. Only problem? Duke can’t vote.

When Marva sees Duke turned away from their polling place, she takes it upon herself to make sure his vote is counted. She hasn’t spent months doorbelling and registering voters just to see someone denied their right. And that’s how their whirlwind day begins, rushing from precinct to precinct, cutting school, waiting in endless lines, turned away time and again, trying to do one simple thing: vote. They may have started out as strangers, but as Duke and Marva team up to beat a rigged system (and find Marva’s missing cat), it’s clear that there’s more to their connection than a shared mission for democracy.

GoodreadsThe Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & racial profiling
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a brother in a gang shooting recounted
Support Us at Ko-Fi at ko-fi.com