Tag Archives: Imprisonment & Incarceration

Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard

Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard

High in a snowy mountain range, a monastery that holds more than just faith clings to the side of a cliff. Below, thwarted by a lake, a bloodthirsty horde of raiders await the coming of winter and the frozen path to destroy the sanctuary and its secrets. The Bloodwitch Aeduan has teamed up with the Threadwitch Iseult and the magical girl Owl to stop the destruction. But to do so, he must confront his own father, and his past.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Nightmares
  • Graphic blood & gore depiction including dead bodies
  • Graphic physical injuries & illness
  • Emesis
  • Death of a baby, on-page
  • Death of a wife & daughter mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Mass murder & massacres, on-page
  • Torture mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Fire
  • Explosions, on-page
  • Decapitation
  • Loss of autonomy (possession)
  • Kidnapping
  • Disappearance of a friend
  • Imprisonment mentioned
  • War & military violence (theme)

Moonlight on Nightingale Way by Samantha Young

Moonlight on Nightingale Way by Samantha Young

Logan spent two years paying for the mistakes he made. Now, he’s ready to start over. He has a great apartment, a good job, and plenty of women to distract him from his past. And one woman who is driving him to distraction. Grace escaped her manipulative family by moving to a new city. Her new life, made to suit her own needs, is almost perfect. All she needs to do is find her Mr. Right—or at least figure out a way to ignore her irresistible yet annoying womanizer of a neighbour. Grace is determined to have nothing to do with Logan until a life-changing surprise slowly begins turning the wild heartbreaker into exactly the kind of… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Incarceration recounted

How the Wallflower was Won by Eva Leigh

How the Wallflower was Won by Eva Leigh

Finn Ransome is an expert on Lady Luck, which is why he refuses to take a chance on love. Experience has taught him that he’s happier at a gaming table than around people he will, inevitably, disappoint. However, the clock is ticking on his father’s matrimonial demands. But the only woman to catch his eye is a bluestocking who would never consider a rogue like him. After a disastrous first Season, Tabitha Seaton decided to focus on books instead of ballrooms. She hopes to join the Sterling Society, a collective of the most brilliant, influential minds in London. Except, they will never admit an unmarried lady. Now… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse recounted
  • Bullying

Wait for Me by Caroline Leech

Wait for Me by Caroline Leech

It’s 1945, and Lorna Anderson’s life on her father’s farm in Scotland consists of endless chores and rationing, knitting Red Cross scarves, and praying for an Allied victory. So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country? But as Lorna reluctantly spends time with Paul, she feels herself changing. The more she learns about him—from his time in the war to his life back home in Germany—the more she sees the boy behind the soldier. Soon Lorna is battling her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • War camps & prisoners of war
  • World War Two (theme)

The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

In 1893, there was no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Sexism
  • Homomisia & internalised homomisia
  • Threats of sexual assault
  • Sexual harassment
  • Child abandonment
  • Physical & psychological child abuse
  • Pregnancy & childbirth
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Forced hospitalisation
  • Death of a parent
  • Attempted execution
  • Kidnapping
  • Torture, off-page
  • Imprisonment
  • Loss of autonomy (mind control)
  • Animal death & abuse
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A Mirror Mended by Alix Harrow

A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow

Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty, is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you’ve gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when Zinnia’s beginning to think she can’t handle one more princess, she glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her: the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for her help. Because there’s more than one person… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Terminal illness
  • Cannibalism
  • Torture
  • Imprisonment
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Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle’s estate… and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws… and the sword itself may prove to be the greatest threat of all.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment recounted
  • Suicide
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Death of a sister during childbirth recounted
  • Death of an uncle recounted
  • Death of a husband from fever recounted
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Sword violence
  • Imprisonment
  • Kidnapping
  • Attempted mugging
  • Animal death
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Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher

Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher

Stephen’s god died on the longest day of the year… Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Infidelity recounted
  • Depression
  • Panic attack, on-page
  • Suicide by poison
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Decapitation
  • Autopsy scene
  • Death of a mother from consumption mentioned
  • Murder
  • Home invasion
  • False imprisonment
  • Military service recounted
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Girls in Boys’ Cars by Felicity Castagna

Girls in Boys’ Cars by Felicity Castagna

A complicated friendship. A road trip in a stolen car. The stories that define us. And two funny, sharp, adventurous young women who refuse to be held back any longer. Rosa was never really trying to hurt anyone, no matter what they said in court. But she’s ended up in juvenile jail anyway, living her life through books and wondering why her best mate Asheeka disappeared.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Revenge pornography
  • Physical assault
  • Incarceration
  • Bushfire
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What Lies Between Us by John Marrs

What Lies Between Us by John Marrs

They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there. Because Maggie has done things to Nina that can’t ever be forgiven, and now she is paying the price. But there are many things about the past that Nina doesn’t know, and Maggie is going to keep it that way—even if it kills her…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Child sexual abuse mentioned
  • Drug use
  • Miscarriage
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of an infant (presumed)
  • Murder
  • Imprisonment
  • Fire