The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

Lane Roanoke is fifteen when she comes to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin at the Roanoke family’s rural estate following the suicide of her mother. Over one long, hot summer, Lane experiences the benefits of being one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But what she doesn’t know is being a Roanoke girl carries a terrible legacy: either the girls run, or they die. For there is darkness at the heart of Roanoke, and when Lane discovers its insidious pull, she must make her choice…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Statutory rape
  • Incest
  • Physical child abuse
  • Graphic suicide recounted
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Childbirth
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of an infant mentioned
  • Death of a mother
  • Murder
  • Drowning
  • Hanging recounted
  • Death from a fall mentioned
  • Disappearnace of a loved one
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Black Knight by Rina Kent

Black Knight by Rina Kent

Kimberly: He was once my best friend, now he’s my worst enemy. Xander Knight is heartbreakingly beautiful. Ridiculously popular. Brutally cruel. He’s a knight but won’t do any saving. Xander: We started as a dream, now we’re a nightmare. Kimberly Reed is pathetically fake. Terribly innocent, Secretly black. She can hide but never from me.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Incest
  • Eating disorder
  • Attempted suicide
  • Bullying

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Carolyn’s not so different from the other human beings around her. She’s sure of it. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. She even remembers what clothes are for. After all, she was a normal American herself, once. That was a long time ago, of course—before the time she calls “adoption day,” when she and a dozen other children found themselves being raised by a man they learned to call Father. That was a long time ago, of course—before the time she calls “adoption day,” when she and a dozen other children found themselves being… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Incest
  • Claustrophobia
  • Cannibalism
  • Eye trauma
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Fire
  • Animal attack (dog)
  • Animal death & hunting
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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbour clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are – for different reasons – simmering with resentment. Who are, whether they know it or not, burning to right the wrongs… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Fatmisia
  • Incest
  • Alcoholism
  • Infertility mentioned
  • Physical injury
  • Death of a child
  • Murder
  • Car accident
  • Animal death
  • Animal cruelty
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The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magi… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Incest mentioned
  • Depression
  • Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Infertility
  • Pregnancy
  • Miscarriage
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Amputation
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Murder
  • Beheading
  • Imprisonment
  • Torture
  • Fire
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Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy 

Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy

For the past two years, Lee has been laser-focused on two things: her job as a sound tech at a local coffee shop and her podcast Artists in Love, which she cohosts with her boyfriend Vincent. Until he breaks up with her on the air right after graduation.

When their unexpected split, the loss of her job, and her parent’s announcement that they’re separating coincide, Lee’s plans, her art, and her life are thrown in… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating
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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert

Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert’s poetry is a beacon to anyone who’s ever been knocked down–and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert’s Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Incest
  • Self-harm
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The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson 

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art. Their children called it mischief.

Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist’s work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents’ madcap pieces. But now that… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Incest mentioned
  • Animal death mentioned
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Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly 

Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly

It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanov’s. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia’s Imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. In need of domestic help, they hire. …. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Incestuous sexual assault of a minor (half-siblings)
  • Sexual harassment
  • Death of a child
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • World War I
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Later by Stephen King

Later by Stephen King

The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Incest
  • Rape
  • Drug use
  • Torture
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