Tag Archives: Imprisonment & Incarceration

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of imprisonment and incarceration (which is separated from Captivity‎ and confinement but may overlap).

See also Police brutality & violence, Racism, Organised crime, and Murder & attempted murder.

Delivery to the Lost City by PG Bell

Delivery to the Lost City by P.G. Bell

When the Impossible Postal Express is charged with returning an overdue library book, Suzy Smith looks forward to a nice, simple delivery–just the thing she needs to convince her anxious parents to let her keep her job on the train. So she’s less than thrilled to discover that not only is the book alive, it’s full of a growing and dangerous magic. Worse still, the world to which it belongs is missing, and Suzy and her friends will have to use all their ingenuity to find it. Suzy must help a fledgling rebellion seize power, return the book, and get home before her parents ground her for life.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Earthquake recounted
  • Displacement discussed
  • Flooding
  • Imprisonment mentioned
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The Great Brain Robbery by PG Bell

The Great Brain Robbery by P.G. Bell

Suzy Smith and her friends have gathered again for the re-launch of The Impossible Postal Express. The celebrations don’t last long though, before Trollville is rocked by a violent tremor—one of a series growing more powerful by the day. It’s clear something sinister is underfoot. Nevertheless Suzy’s got a long overdue package that the Express must deliver, and it may just lead her to some answers.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Child abuse
  • Earthquakes (theme)
  • Imprisonment mentioned
  • Building collapse
  • Loss of autonomy (mind control)
  • Displacement
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The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews 

The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews

Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at 18; married the boss’s son at 20; and was only 25 when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken-hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small house in a gentrifying neighbourhood, flips it, and then puts the money into her next project… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Statutory rape
  • Abandonment
  • Cheating
  • Murder
  • Incarcerated parent
  • Motorcycle accident
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Thrive by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Thrive by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

When rumours spread like wildfire—like having three-ways with her boyfriend’s rock climbing brother—Lily Calloway spirals into a dark place. Her bedroom. Loren Hale is more confident and determined to keep their sex life private, even from their friends, and he helps Lily in the only way he knows how. But how much love is too much? Their lives are filmed, watched, and criticised. And through it all, Lily and Loren have to face enemies they never thought they’d see, demons they don’t know if they should bury, and setba… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Slut-shaming
  • Adult-minor relationship
  • Paedophilia & grooming
  • Sexual assault
  • Abandonment
  • Parental abuse
  • Alcoholism
  • Sex addiction
  • Nightmares
  • Disordered food & weight thoughts
  • Cancer
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Wrongful incarceration
  • Bullying
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Addicted After All by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Addicted After All by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

Prepare for the worst. That’s what Lily and Lo try to do when Jonathan Hale schedules an “important” meeting. The problem: after being swept into the public eye and battling their addictions, they’re not sure what the worst is anymore. In a sea of many changes—including Ryke & Daisy living with them—Lily realizes that the best part of her fluctuating hormones might just be the worst. Her sex drive is out of control. Loren knows that she’s insatiable, but he’s not giving up on her. She’s too much a part of him. And as he carries more and more responsibility, some of the people that… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut shaming
  • Paedophilia & grooming
  • Sexual assault
  • Parental abuse & neglect
  • Sex addiction
  • Alcoholism
  • Cancer
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • PTSD & trauma
  • Social anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • Nightmares
  • Car accident
  • Wrongful imprisonment
  • Bullying
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Kiss the Sky by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Kiss the Sky by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

Rose Calloway thought she had everything under control. At twenty-three, she’s a Princeton graduate, an Academic Bowl champion, a fashion designer and the daughter of a Fortune 500 mogul. But with a sex addict as a sister and roommate, nothing comes easy.

After accepting help from a producer, Rose agrees to have her life filmed for a reality television show. The Hollywood exec is her last chance to rev…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Slut-shaming
  • Adult-minor relationship
  • Paedophilia & grooming
  • Sexual assault
  • Abandonment
  • Parental abuse
  • Alcoholism
  • Sex addiction
  • Nightmares
  • Disordered food & weight thoughts
  • Cancer
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Wrongful incarceration
  • Bullying
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The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori

The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori

Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. Nobody can crack Gianna’s facade . . . no one anyway, until he comes along. Most see a paragon of morality; a special agent upholding the law. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Christian Allister has always followed… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut shaming
  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Sex work
  • Cheating
  • Child neglect recounted
  • Antisocial Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Panic attacks
  • Drug use
  • Overdose
  • Imprisonment
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The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of the millions trapped by a secretive and brutal totalitarian regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and realise that she had been brainwashed her entire life. Given the repression, poverty and starvation she witnessed surely her country could not be, as she had been told “the best on the planet”?… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Human trafficking
  • Forced sex work
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Famine & starvation
  • Executions
  • Imprisonment
  • Fire
  • Refugee experience
  • Death of a pet
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The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige 

The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige

To make Oz a free land again, Amy Gumm was given a mission: remove the Tin Woodman’s heart, steal the Scarecrow’s brain, take the Lion’s courage, and then Dorothy must die… But Dorothy still lives. Now the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked has vanished, and mysterious Princess Ozma might be Amy’s only ally. As Amy learns the truth about her mission, she realizes that she’s only just scratched the surface of Oz’s past—and that Kansas, the home she couldn’t wait to leave behind, may also be in danger. In a place where the line between good and evil shifts with just a strong gust of wind, who can Amy trust—and who is really Wicked? 

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Knife & sword violence
  • Physical assault
  • Imprisonment
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We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss

We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss

Uniquely told through letters from death row and third-person narrative, Bryan Bliss’s hard-hitting third novel expertly unravels the string of events that landed a teenager in jail. Luke feels like he’s been looking after Toby his entire life. He patches Toby up when Toby’s father, a drunk and a petty criminal, beats on him, he gives him a place to stay, and he diffuses the situation at school when wise-cracking Toby inevitably gets into fights. Someday, Luke and Toby will leave this small town, riding the tails of Luke’s wrestling scholarship, and never look back… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Physical child abuse
  • Parent with alcoholism
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Smoking
  • Emesis
  • Murder
  • Physical assault
  • Imprisonment
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