A Treacherous Trade by Kerrigan Byrne

A Treacherous Trade by Kerrigan Byrne

Fiona Mahoney stands in the ashes of her hopes facing her tempting adversary, Inspector Grayson Croft. Her sins are about to spill from her lips, when he says the one thing that could dispel all thoughts of revelation or redemption. Someone is leaving the corpses of sex workers in the streets, and a name is being whispered in the fearful shadows. The name against which Fiona would sell her very soul for vengeance. Jack the Ripper.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Sexual assault
  • Necrophilia mentioned
  • Violence against and death of sex workers
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Death of a child recounted
  • Death of a friend recounted
  • Murder
  • Poisoning
  • Kidnapping & captivity
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Murder on Mustique by Anne Glenconner

Murder on Mustique by Anne Glenconner

Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer’s partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker – until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn’t return. Detective Sergeant Solomon Nile is just 28 years old and the island’s only fully trained police officer. He quickly realises he needs to contact Lord and Lady Blake, who bought the island decades ago and have invested time, money and love creating a paradise. Jasper is in St Lucia… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug use mentioned
  • Graphic dead bodies
  • Death of a friend
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Fire
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Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed

Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she’s learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist’s job is to find the facts and not let personal biases affect the story. But all that changes the day she finds the body of a murdered boy. Jawad Ali was fourteen years old when he built a cosplay jetpack that a teacher mistook for a bomb. A jetpack that got him arrested, labeled a terrorist—and eventually killed. But he’s more than a dead body, and more than “Bomb Boy.” He was a person with a life worth… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism & white supremacy
  • Islamomisia
  • Antisemitism mentioned
  • Hate crime
  • Blood depiction
  • Emesis
  • Death of a child
  • Murder
  • Police brutality
  • Kidnapping
  • Car accident
  • Terrorism
  • Bullying
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Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean

Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean

Raised among London’s most notorious criminals, a twist of fate landed Adelaide Frampton in the bright ballrooms of Mayfair, where she masquerades as a quiet wallflower—so plain and unassuming that no one realizes she’s the Matchbreaker…using her superior skills as a thief to help brides avoid the altar. Henry, Duke of Clayborn, has spent a lifetime living in perfection. He has no time for the salacious gossip that arises every time the Matchbreaker ends another groom. His own reputation is impeccable—and the last thing he needs is a frustrating, fascinating woman discovering the truth of his past, or the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Slut-shaming
  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Blood depiction
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Gun violence, on-page
  • Stabbing
  • Kidnapping
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The Girl in the White Van by April Henry

The Girl in the White Van by April Henry

When Savannah disappears soon after arguing with her mom’s boyfriend, everyone assumes she’s run away. The truth is much worse. She’s been kidnapped by a man in a white van who locks her in an old trailer home, far from prying eyes. And worse yet, Savannah’s not alone: ten months earlier, Jenny met the same fate and nearly died trying to escape. Now as the two girls wonder if he will hold them captive forever or kill them, they must join forces to break out—even if it means they die trying.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic violence
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Animal attack (dog)
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Desperate Measures by Katee Robert

Desperate Measures by Katee Robert

One night, and my entire life went up in flames. All because of him. Jafar. As my world burned down around me, he offered me a choice. Walk away with nothing but my freedom… Or rise to his challenge and win my fortune back. I bargained. I lost. Now Jafar owns me, and even as my mind rails against his rules, my body loves the punishments he deals out when I break them. But a gilded cage is still a prison, I’ll do anything to obtain my freedom. Even betray the man I’m falling for.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Consensual nonconsensual sex scenes (rape play)
  • Threats of rape
  • Child abuse
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder, off-page
  • Kidnapping
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The Bastard’s Betrayal by Katee Robert

The Bastard’s Bargain by Katee Robert

Rose Romanov is a mafia princess and everything that entails. Violently over-protective parents. A giant extended family, all ready to kill anyone who looks at her wrong. Learning to run a business that isn’t exactly on the right side of the law. So, naturally, when she meets a nice guy who isn’t in the life, she falls hard. Right up until she discovers her new boyfriend isn’t a civilian at all. When Dante Verducci was sent on an undercover mission to evaluate the Romanov family for weakness, he never expected to have an instant connection with their unlikely heir. There’s something fierce and feral about Rose that calls to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Kidnapping
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The Bastard’s Bargain by Katee Robert

When Keira O’Malley was a child, she used to picture her perfect wedding. The flowers. The dress. Her husband. But nothing could have prepared her for saying “I do” to Dmitri Romanov—cold, domineering and always one step ahead of everyone else in the ever-shifting power plays of New York City. She agreed to his bargain to secure peace for her family, and she may want the bastard more than she’d ever admit, but she’ll be damned if she’ll make this marriage easy for him. Dmitri knows better than to underestimate Keira for one second. Molten desire smolders between… goodreads.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcoholism
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping

Creatures Most Vile by Chelsea Lauren

Creatures Most Vile by Chelsea Lauren

It’s another ordinary day when she’s sent to a Guardian assessment designed to unleash rare supernatural abilities until she blasts a tunnel of water across the room. Her coach calls her gift a blessing, but Anora knows it’s a death sentence. Now she must train as a Guardian and battle the very monsters that have tormented her entire life. It’s another ordinary day when she’s sent to a Guardian assessment designed to unleash rare supernatural abilities until she blasts a tunnel of water across the room. Her coach calls her gift a blessing, but Anora knows it’s a death… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
  • Torture, implied
  • Kidnapping
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Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester 

There’s something out there that’s killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers; those who refuse to conform, to know their place. Girls who don’t know when to shut up. 2019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has secrets she can’t share with anyone. Not the school psychologist she’s seeing. Not her father, who has a new wife, and a new baby. And not her mother—the infamous Caroline Sawyer, a unique artist whose eerie… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Attempted statutory rape
  • Hallucinations (auditory & visual)
  • Body horror
  • Graphic murder
  • Kidnapping of a child
  • Animal death