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With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt

With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt

Stella is a nurse who has long suppressed her own needs and desires to nurture the dreams of her partner, Simon, the bass player for a rock band that has started to lose its edge. But when Stella gets unexpectedly ill and falls into a coma just as Simon is preparing to fly with his band to Los Angeles for a gig that could revive his career, Simon must learn the meaning of sacrifice, while Stella’s best friend, Libby, a doctor who treats Stella, must also make a difficult choice as the coma wears on. When Stella, at last, awakes from her two-month sleep, she emerges into a striking… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Anxiety
  • Dementia
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug abuse
  • Pregnancy
  • Hospitalisation
  • Stroke mentioned
  • Death of parents mentioned
  • Death of a sibling mentioned

We’ll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean

We’ll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean

Murder. Fire. Revenge. That’s all seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe thinks about. Committed to a mental ward at Savage Isle, Alice is haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, Jason. A blaze her twin sister Cellie set. But when Chase, a mysterious, charismatic patient, agrees to help her seek vengeance, Alice begins to rethink everything. Writing out the story of her troubled past in a journal, she must confront hidden truths. Is the one person she trusts only telling her half the story?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Psychiatric hospitalisation
  • Death of a partner
  • Murder
  • Fire

The Roommate Risk by Talia Hibbert

Jasmine Allen believes in bad luck, great wine, and the seductive power of a stiletto heel. What she doesn’t believe in is love. Her life is perfect without all that romance rubbish—until a plumbing disaster screws everything up and leaves Jas homeless. Luckily, she has someone to turn to: her best friend Rahul. For seven years, Rahul Khan has followed three simple rules: 1) Don’t touch Jasmine if you can help it; 2) Don’t look at her arse in that skirt.; and, 3) And don’t ever—ever—tell her you love her. He should’ve added another rule: Do not, under any circumstances, let Jas… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment recounted
  • Emotional child abuse recounted
  • Alcohol consumption & dependency
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Emesis mentioned
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Hospitalisation
  • Scars from a knife injury

Firestarter by Tara Sim

Firestarter by Tara Sim

The crew of the Prometheus is intent on taking down the world’s clock towers so that time can run freely. Now captives, Colton, Daphne, and the others have a stark choice: join the Prometheus’s cause, or fight back in any small way they can and face the consequences. But Zavier, leader of the terrorists, has a bigger plan—to bring back the lost god of time. As new threats emerge, loyalties must shift. No matter where the Prometheus goes—Prague, Austria, India—nowhere is safe, and every second ticks closer toward the eleventh hour. Walking the line between villainy and heroism… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Self-sacrifice
  • Self-harm
  • Psychiatric hospitalisation of a parent
  • Amputation (loss of limb)
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
  • Physical assault
  • Electrocution
  • Kidnapping

The Sisters by John Nicholl

The Sisters by John Nicholl

Nineteen-year-old Sally is battered and bruised, and lying in the hospital once again. It’s nothing new, it’s happened before and it’ll happen again. But when DI Laura Kesey introduces Sally to a new social worker, she finds hope at a local women’s domestic violence refuge, where she’s surrounded by women just like her. But then a man is mowed down in a hit-and-run. Soon a second suspicious death follows. Both deaths link back to the refuge. Has Sally found a safe place or a new danger?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic abuse
  • Hospitalisation
  • Murder by car accident

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s Sound, she instantly realizes there’s more to the place than meets the eye. Descended from witches, Nadia can sense that a spell has been cast over the tiny Rhode Island town—a sickness infecting everyone and everything in it. The magic at work is darker and more powerful than anything she’s come across and has sunk its claws most deeply into Mateo, her rescuer, her friend, and the guy she yearns to get closer to even as he pushes her away. Mateo has lived in Captive’s Sound his entire life, shadowed by small-town gossip and his family’s tormented past. Every generation… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism & ableist language,
  • Racist microaggressions
  • Sexual assault (by coercion)
  • Sexual harassment
  • Parental abandonment
  • Parental divorce
  • Nightmares
  • Hospitalisation
  • Coma
  • Facial scars mentioned
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother from suicide by drowning recounted
  • Death of a grandfather in a fire mentioned
  • Death of a mother & father from viral pneumonia mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Near-drowning
  • Car accident, on-page
  • Loss of autonomy (memory manipulation and mind control)
  • Sinkholes, on-page
  • Bullying
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Love Flushed by Evie Mitchell

Love Flushed by Evie Mitchell

I sell toilet paper for a living. It doesn’t seem glamorous but S#!T HAPPENS is going places. We’re the fastest growing eco-toilet paper subscription service around. We’re amazing—and I should know, I’m my own best customer. After years of hard work, I have everything I need to take my business to the next level—well, everything except the paper. When my competition swoops in and offers my supplier a better deal, I’m left up a certain creek without a paddle. I must have done something truly crappy in a previous life because the only person willing to help is my ex-boyfriend, Lincoln ‘Linc’ Garrett… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Cheating recounted
  • Depression
  • Parent with alcoholism
  • Pregnancy
  • Chronic illness (Chron’s Disease)
  • Hospitalisation of a sibling recounted
  • Car accident recounted
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His Royal Highness by R.S. Grey

His Royal Highness by R.S. Grey

I’ve spent eight years wishing I’d fall out of love with Derek Knightley. Blowing out birthday candles, chasing after shooting stars, making it rain spare change into mall fountains—every time it’s the same wish: forget about Derek. But the day he walks back into my life, I realize there are two things time has yet to soften: my feelings for him and his chiseled jawline. It’s infuriating that my heart still races when he walks into a room. I refuse to fall prey to old unrequited love, so I decide the less I’m around him, the better. Avoidance… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sibling with cancer
  • Hospitalisation
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Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh

Slightly Dangerous by Mary Balogh

All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. Some whisper of a tragic love affair. Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not even the greatest beauty could capture his attention. But on this dazzling afternoon, one woman did catch the duke’s eye—and she was the only female in the room who wasn’t even trying. Christine Derrick is intrigued by the handsome duke, all the more so when he invites her to become his mistress. What a red-blooded woman… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Suicide
  • Forced institutionalisation
  • Pregnancy from rape recounted
  • Blackmail
  • War themes
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Slightly Scandalous by Mary Balogh

Slightly Scandalous by Mary Balogh

Meet the Bedwyns…six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Freyja Bedwyn, the wild-hearted daughter, meets her match in a man as passionate, reckless, and scandalous as she. Growing up with four unruly brothers has made Freyja Bedwyn far bolder than most society ladies. From feisty manner to long, tumbling hair, Lady Freyja is pure fire, a woman who seeks both adventure and freedom. Growing up with four unruly brothers has made Freyja Bedwyn far bolder than most society lady… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Suicide
  • Forced institutionalisation
  • Pregnancy from rape recounted
  • Blackmail
  • War themes
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