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Work for It by Talia Hibbert

In this village, I’m an outcast: Griffin Everett, the scowling giant who prefers plants to people. Then I meet Keynes, a stranger from the city who’s everything I’m not: sharp-tongued, sophisticated, beautiful. Free. For a few precious moments in a dark alleyway, he’s also mine, hot and sweet under the stars… until he crushes me like dirt beneath his designer boot. When the prettiest man I’ve ever hated shows up at my job the next day, I’m not sure if I want to strangle him or drag him into bed. Actually—I think I want both… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Disownment by homophobic parnets
Forced outing mentioned
Image-based sexual assault
Depression & anxiety (protagonist)
Death of a parent from suicide mentioned
Murder
Blackmail

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the “prince” Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman’s body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and, most importantly, a child born of her own body. Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles sets out to war with a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Homophobia
Transphobia, deadnaming & misgendering
Rape mentioned
Infidelity
Self-sacrifice
Pregnancy & childbirth
Blood depiction & blood-drinking
Ritualistic cannibalism
Murder
Immolation
Drowning
Physical assault
Animal sacrifice

We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado

Sol Reyes has had a rough year. After a series of workplace incidents at her university lab culminates in a plagiarism accusation, Sol is put on probation. Dutiful visits to her homophobic father aren’t helping her mental health, and she finds her nightly glass of wine becoming more of an all-day—and all-bottle—event. Her wife, Alice Song, is far more optimistic. After all, the two finally managed to buy a house in the beautiful, gated community of Maneless Grove. However, the neighbors are a little too friendly in Sol’s opinion. She has no interest in the pushy Homeowners Associ… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & homophobia
Child abuse & neglect, including mentions of a parent slashing her child with a knife after they came out
Anxiety & alcoholism
Suicide
Death of a child
Blood & gore depiction, including minor body horror & depiction of dead bodies
Car accident
Fire

Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone except for the prickly, proud musical prodigy Suwa, who doesn’t think Santi has what it takes to be in the band.But Santi and Suwa share painful pasts, and when they open up to each other, a tentative friendship begins. And soon, that friendship turns into something more… Will their fresh start rip at the seams as Suwa seeks out a solo spotlight, and both boys come to terms with what it’ll take, and what they’ll have to let go, to realize their dreams?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & transphobia. including deadnaming (off-page) & forced outing recounted
Physical & emotional child abuse & abandonment
Anxiety & panic attacks
Gender dysphoria & body dysmorphia discussed (on-page)
Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use
Grief & loss depiction
Deth of a parent recounted
Near-drowning incident recounted
Bullying

Seven Dirty Secrets by Natalie D. Richards

I know seven secrets: One caused the fall. One did nothing. One saw it all. One didn’t care. One used their head. One played the hero. One was left for dead. On her eighteenth birthday, Cleo receives a mysterious invitation to a scavenger hunt. She’s sure her best friend Hope or her brother Connor is behind it, but no one confesses. And as Cleo and Hope embark on the hunt, the seemingly random locations and clues begin to feel familiar. In fact, all of the clues seem to be about Cleo’s dead boyfriend, Cyrus, who drowned on a group rafting trip exactly a year ago. A bracelet… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Abusive relationship
Strangulation
Drowning

Whidbey by T. Kira Madden

Birdie Chang didn’t know anything about Whidbey Island when she chose it, only that it was about as far away as she could get from her own life. She’s a woman on the run, desperate for an escape from the headlines back home and the look of concern in her girlfriend’s eyes—and from Calvin Boyer, the man who abused her as a child and who’s now resurfaced. On her way, she has an unnerving encounter with a stranger on the ferry who offers her a proposition, a sinister solution, a plan for revenge…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & racism
Paedophilia, grooming, sexual assault & sexual harassment
Incest mentioned
Child abuse
Anxiety & trichotillomania
Alcoholism mentioned
Murder
Car accident (hit-and-run)
Stalking mentioned

Mrs. Nash’s Ashes by Sarah Adler

Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she’d reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D.C. to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash’s remains in her backpack. But Millie’s determined to give her friend a symbolic happily-ever-after, before it’s (really) too late—and hopefully reassure herself of love’s lasting power in the process. She just didn’t expect to have a living travel companion. After a computer glitch grounds flights, Millie is… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Lesbophobia discussed
Sexism & sexual harassment
Familial estrangement
Parental infidelity
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend
Death of a parent recounted (off-page)
Animal death in a car accident (deer)

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid

Nothing interferes with Shane Hollander’s game—definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate. Pro hockey star Shane Hollander isn’t just crazy talented, he’s got a spotless reputation. Hockey is his life. Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that, especially the sexy Russian whose hard body keeps him awake at night. Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane’s not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he’s as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat him—except Shane. They’ve made a career on their legendary rivalry… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & homophobic slurs, including discussions of anti-queer legislation & culture in Russia
Parent with Alzheimer’s Disease (off-page but discussed)
Smoking
Pregnancy mentioned (secondary character)
Hospitalisation for concussion & suspected spinal cord injury
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from suicide recounted

Love, Misha by Askel Aden

Can this road trip get any worse? Yes, Mom (Audrey) wanted to spend time with Misha. And yes, she’s never around and they don’t even live together, so this is a rare opportunity. But Audrey still thinks of Misha as her daughter, despite Misha being non-binary and trying to talk to her openly about it. Misha even tries to write how they feel in a letter, but that isn’t going well either. Then a wrong turn down a forest road leads the mother-child duo straight into the Realm of Spirits! Suddenly in peril and without a clue how to return to their… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misgendering

This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki & Nicole Goux

At Wilberton Academy, few students are more revered than the members of the elite Wilberton Theatrical Society—a.k.a. the WTS—and no one represents that exclusive club better than Elizabeth Woodward. Breathtakingly beautiful, beloved by all, and a talented thespian, it’s no surprise she’s starring as Juliet in the WTS’s performance of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy. But when she’s found dead the morning after opening night, the whole school is thrown into chaos. Transfer student Abby Kita was one of the last people to see Elizabeth alive, and when local authorities… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Sexual assault of a minor & grooming
Suicide
Bullying