The Wicche Glass Tavern by Seana Kelly

The Wicche Glass Tavern by Seana Kelly

I’m Sam Quinn, the werewolf book nerd owner of the Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore and Bar. Clive, my vampire gentleman caller, has asked me to marry him. His nocturne is less than celebratory. Unfortunately, for them and the sexy vamp doing her best to seduce him, his cold, dead heart beats only for me. As much as my love life feels like a minefield, it has to take a backseat to a far more pressing problem. The time has come. I need to deal with my aunt, the woman who’s been trying to kill me for as long as I can remember. She’s learned a new trick. She’s figured out how to weaponize my friends against me. To have any hope… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Blood and gore depiction
  • Torture mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Kidnapping
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Claimed by Fate by Aiden Bates and Jill Haven

Claimed by Fate by Aiden Bates & Jill Haven

I don’t believe in fate, but this dragon makes me burn. I want to be a playwright, not a trophy husband to whatever powerful alpha my family chooses. And when they go too far, I can’t take it any more. I’d rather be poor than their pawn. But when my past catches up to me, I do what I do best, make something up. Markus Montlale isn’t my fiancé, but my family doesn’t need to know that. A dragon as powerful as Markys shouldn’t be happy to play along, and a part of me is worried that he’s just as concerned with his status in society as my family. But if that’s true, why does he kiss… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Abandonment
  • Arranged marriage
  • Adult-minor relationship
  • Kidnapping
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Fighting Conviction by Greer Rivers

Fighting Conviction by Greer Rivers

BlackStone Securities Agent Devil Ray Vos needs control, and around his best friend’s younger sister, Ellie Stone? He knows he can’t keep it. The BlackStone team saved her a year ago, and Devil hasn’t been able to get his angel off his mind since. She’s in college and still healing, so he’s kept his distance. That resolve vanishes when her brother asks Devil to train her in self-defense. His head tells him to stay away, but no one can protect her better than he can. Ellie survived the worst trauma of her life a year ago. Her best friend didn’t, and Ellie has fought survivor’s guilt and PTSD ever since. Only Devil seems to understand her. He sees her as a survivor and his best friend’s kid sister… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sex trafficking
  • Drug use
  • Disordered eating
  • PTSD & trauma
  • Panic attacks
  • Suicide
  • Cancer
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
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How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It by KJ Parker

How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It by K.J. Parker

This is the story of how the City was saved, by Notker the professional liar, written down because eventually the truth always seeps through. The City may be under siege, but everyone still has to make a living. Take Notker, the acclaimed playwright, actor and impresario. Nobody works harder, even when he’s not working. Thankfully, the good citizens of Classis appreciate an evening at the theatre even when there are large rocks falling out of the sky. But Notker is a man of many talents, and all the world is, apparently, a stage. It seems that the Empire needs him or some… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Genocide
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
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Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay

Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay

Everything’s changing for our friendly neighbourhood serial killer. As if getting married wasn’t enough to complete his nice-guy persona, Dexter is now the proud father of a baby girl. And disconcertingly, he actually seems to care. But even if fatherhood is distracting Dexter from his midnight excursions to rid Miami of a few more lowlifes, there’s no let-up at work. Two young girls are missing – and it’s not long before one of the bodies turns up, partially eaten. But as Dexter and Miami PD’s finest investigate, Dexter can’t shake the feeling that somebody’s watching him…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Antiziganism
  • Rape
  • Drugging
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Cannibalism
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping
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Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay

Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay

In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds. . .particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter’s happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an unusually disturbing crime scene at the university campus. Dexter’s Dark Passenger—mastermind of his homicidal prowess—immediately senses something chillingly recognizable and goes into hiding. Dexter is alone for the first time in his life, and he realizes he’s being hunted by a truly sinister adversary. Meanwhile he’s planning a wedding and trying to learn how to be a stepfather… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Kidnapping of a child
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Double Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Double Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

A witness. Such a simple concept – and yet for Dexter Morgan, the perfectly well-disguised monster, the possibility of a witness is unthinkable. But when Dexter is on a very private, very satisfying excursion one evening with a wretchedly deserving playmate, the unthinkable happens: someone sees him. Dexter is not at all pleased. As an upstanding blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he has always managed to keep the darker side of his life out of the spotlight…the fun part, where he finds truly bad people – murderers who have escaped the reach of the justice system – and quietly gives them his very… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism & ableist language
  • Victim blaming
  • Child sexual abuse mentioned
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping
  • Death from a shark attack
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The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer

The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer

Enola Holmes’s landlady, Mrs. Tupper, is the closest thing Enola has to family these days, besides her occasional run-ins with her brother Sherlock. Even though Mrs. Tupper is nearly deaf and can barely cook, she’s an endearing presence as Enola longs for her absent mother. So imagine her horror when Enola comes home to find Mrs. Tupper kidnapped! Who would take her, and why? And what does Florence Nightingale have to do with it?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Parental abandonment
  • Kidnapping
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Blood Veil by Megan Erickson

Blood Veil by Megan Erickson

Celia: Having never known my parents, I’ve always felt like an orphan. All I want is a normal life. But after I’m attacked in my bedroom by one vampire—and rescued by another—it’s about time to give up on “normal” once and for all. Idris, the second in command of the Gregorie vampire clan, has come to my aid, but his motives for saving me are unclear. And what surprises me most is my attraction to his heated gaze. Idris: Terror. Curiosity. Arousal. These are the natural impulses of a human female, not the spawn of the ruthless Valarian king. Is it possible that Celia is unaware of her bloodline—and the power coursing through her veins? As… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Kidnapping
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The Danger Dance by Caro Soles

The Danger Dance by Caro Soles

A startling command from the dreaded Praetan brings chaos into the tranquil lives of hermaphrodites Eulio and his lover Orosin. Using the tour of the Merculian National Dance Company where Eulio is a star as cover, they board the Wellington, a militaristic starship that values nothing they believe in. Someone is passing secrets about fleet movements and weaponry to the enemies in the Troia, but the efforts of the two Merculians to unmask the spy only stir up a toxic mix of hatred and violence. Who will have to die before the Praetan is satisfied? The Danger Dance is… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Racism
  • Rape
  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Drugging & drug use
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Abortion
  • Nonconsensual body modifications (piercings)
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Organised crime
  • Kidnapping
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