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Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven

Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven

Every year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire’s capital – her fate: to be burned alive for the entertainment of the masses. For the last five years, one small village’s tithe has been the same woman. Gilene’s sacrifice protects all the other young women of her village, and her secret to staying alive lies in the magic only she possesses. But this year is different. Azarion, the Empire’s most famous gladiator, has somehow seen through her illusion and is set on blackmailing Gilene into using her abilities to help him escape his life of slavery. And unknown to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Rape & attempted rape, on-page
  • Self-harm
  • Infertility
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Fire & immolation
  • War themes
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Tragic by Devney Perry

Tragic by Devney Perry

Kaine Reynolds wants nothing more than solitude. After an unthinkable tragedy destroys his family, he’s cut off all ties to his former life so he can battle his grief the only way he knows how. Alone So when Piper Campbell knocks on his door, rambling on about being his new neighbour, he slams the door in her face. But Kaine’s gruff demeanor doesn’t scare her. She’s set on living in Montana and starting over after a terrible divorce. And she wouldn’t mind having a fling to chase away the pain of her husband’s betrayal. Her handsome, albeit rude, neighbour is the perfect candidate… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Infertility issues
  • Death of a child

Sick Fux by Tillie Cole

Sick Fux by Tillie Cole

When Ellis Earnshaw and Heathan James met as children, they couldn’t have been more different. Ellis was loud and beautiful – all blond hair, bright laughs and smiles. Heathan was dark and brooding and obsessed with watching things die. The pair forged an unlikely friendship, unique and strange. Until they were ripped apart by the sick cruelty of others, separated for years, both locked in a perpetual hell. Eleven years later, Heathan is back for his girl. Back from a place from which he thought there was no return. Back to seek revenge on those who wronged them. Tim.⁣⁣⁣.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Paedophilia
  • Sexual assault
  • Non-consensual abortion
  • Infertility & forced sterilizsation
  • Blood & knife play
  • Torture

Tangle of Need by Nalini Singh

Tangle of Need by Nalini Singh

Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past. Now comes a new territory, and a devastating new complication: Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutenant already sworn to someone else. For Riaz, the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria, his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual. It consumes her. It terrifies her. It threatens to undermine everything she has built of her new life. But fighting their wild compulsion toward one another proves a losing battle. Their coming together is an inferno… and a melding of two wound… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a mother by suicide mentioned
  • Fertility discussed
  • Pregnancy mentioned
  • Murder
  • Near drowning recounted
  • War themes & battle scenes

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

London, 1887. At the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task–saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Ramsforth, accused of the brutal murder of his mistress, Artemisia, will face the hangman’s noose in a week’s time if the real killer is not found. But Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems, and unmasking her true identity is only the first of many secrets Veronica must uncover. Together with her natural… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Racism mentioned
  • Homomisia mentioned
  • Cheating discussed
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Recreational drug use
  • Infertility & miscarriage mentioned
  • Death of a sister in childbirth mentioned
  • Mild blood & injury depiction
  • Exsanguination
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Gun violence
  • Knife violence
  • False incarceration
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This Is How I Lied by Heather Gudenkauf

This Is How I Lied by Heather Gudenkauf

Twenty-five years ago, the body of sixteen-year-old Eve Knox was found in the caves near her home in small-town Grotto, Iowa—discovered by her best friend, Maggie, and her sister, Nola. There were a handful of suspects, including her boyfriend, Nick, but without sufficient evidence, the case ultimately went cold. For decades Maggie was haunted by Eve’s death and that horrible night. Now a detective in Grotto, and seven months pregnant, she is thrust back into the past when a new piece of evidence surfaces and the case is reopened. As Maggie investigates and reexamines the clues and secrets about what really… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Victim-blaming
  • Sexual assault
  • Statutory rape
  • Abusive relationship
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Infertility & pregnancy loss
  • Murder of a friend recounted
  • Death of a parent
  • Animal death & cruelty
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The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James

The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James

Lowrie and Shen are the youngest people on the planet after a virus caused global infertility. Closeted in a pocket of London and doted upon by a small, ageing community, the pair spend their days mudlarking for artefacts from history and looking for treasure in their once-opulent mansion. Their idyllic life is torn apart when a secret is uncovered that threatens not only their family but humanity’s entire existence. Lowrie and Shen face an impossible choice: in the quiet at the end of the world, they must decide who to save and who to sacrifice.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Infertility (theme)
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Hospitalisation
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of parents recounted
  • Helicopter accident
  • Building collapse
  • Drowning
  • Cave collapse
  • Fire
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Fire and Blood by George RR Martin

Fire and Blood by George R.R. Martin

Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon flame and saw the Seven Kingdoms turned to ash. So began the Targaryens’ bloody rule, with fire and blood. Setting brother against brother, mother against daughter, and dragon against dragon. Chronicled by a learned maester of the Citadel, this thrilling and bloody history of Westeros tells the story of where the battle for the Iron Throne began…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Rape & gang rape
  • Paedophilia & child sexual assault
  • Domestic violence
  • Alcoholism
  • Drug abuse
  • Suicide
  • Self harm
  • Infertility
  • Miscarriage
  • Infanticide
  • Lynching
  • Torture
  • Immolation
  • Kidnapping
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The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions – including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons. Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she’s not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different direct… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicidal ideation
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Infertility
  • Miscarriage
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
  • Kidnapping
  • House fire recounted
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Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas

Devil in Disguise by Lisa Kleypas

Lady Merritt Sterling, a strong-willed young widow who’s running her late husband’s shipping company, knows London society is dying to catch her in a scandal. So far, she’s been too smart to provide them with one. But then she meets Keir MacRae, a rough-and-rugged Scottish whisky distiller, and all her sensible plans vanish like smoke. They couldn’t be more different, but their attraction is powerful, raw and irresistible. From the moment Keir MacRae arrives in London, he has two goals. One: don’t fall in love with the dazzling Lady Merritt Sterling. Two: avoid being killed…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexism
  • Classism
  • Parental abandonment
  • Infertility
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a spouse recounted
  • Explosion
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