Tag Archives: Kidnapping

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran 

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran

When teenage queen Lia inherits her corrupt uncle’s bankrupt kingdom, she brings a new spymaster into the fold … Xania, who takes the job to avenge her murdered father. Faced with dangerous plots and hidden enemies, can Lia and Xania learn to rely on each another, as they discover that all is not fair in love and treason? In a world where the throne means both power and duty, they must decide what to sacrifice for their country and for each other … 

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drugging
  • Miscarriage mentioned
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Dead body
  • Emesis
  • Death of a father mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture
  • Poisoning
  • Near-drowning incident mentioned
  • Kidnapping
  • Solitary confinement & sensory deprivation, off-page
  • Animal death
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Souls Unfractured It by Tillie Cole 

Souls Unfractured by Tillie Cole

Labeled a ‘Cursed’ woman of Eve from birth, Maddie has endured nothing but pain and repression at the hands of The Order’s most abusive elder, Moses. Now living with her sister in The Hangmen’s secluded compound, finally, Maddie, is free. Free from the suffocating faith she no longer believes in. Free from endless years of physical and mental torment.

At age twenty-one, the timid and shy Maddie is content to live within the confines of her new home—safe from the outside world, safe from harm and, strangely, protected by the Hangmen’s most… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape of a child
  • Domestic abuse
  • Child abuse & neglect
  • Suicide
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Self-harm
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
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It Ain’t Me, Babe by Tillie Cole 

It Ain’t Me, Babe by Tillie Cole

Many years ago, two children from completely different worlds forged a connection, a fateful connection, an unbreakable bond that would change their lives forever. Many years ago, two children from completely different worlds forged a connection, a fateful connection, an unbreakable bond that would change their lives forever…

Salome knows only one way to live—under Prophet David’s rule. In the commune she calls home, Salome knows nothing of life beyond her strict faith, nor of life beyond the Fence… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Child abuse
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping
  • Cult
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Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole

Wicked Abyss by Kresley Cole

As a boy, Abyssian “Sian” Infernas had his heart shattered by a treacherous fey beauty who died before he could exact vengeance. Millennia later, a curse has transformed him into a demonic monster–just as she’s been reincarnated. Sian captures the delicate but bold female, forcing her back to hell. Princess Calliope “Lila” Barbot’s people have hated and feared Abyssian and his alliance of monsters for eons. When the beastly demon imprisons her in his mystical castle, vowing revenge for betrayals… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Beheading recounted
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Kidnapping

Dark Skye by Kresley Cole

Dark Skye by Kresley Cole

As a boy, Thronos, prince of Skye Hall, loved Lanthe, a mischievous Sorceri girl who made him question everything about his Vrekener clan. But when the two got caught in the middle of their families’ war, tragedy struck, leaving Thronos and Lanthe bitter enemies. Though centuries have passed, nothing can cool his seething need for the beautiful enchantress who scarred his body—and left an even deeper impression on his soul. Lanthe, a once-formidable sorceress… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Murder
  • Torture mentioned
  • Physical assault mentioned
  • Kidnapping

The Professional by Kresley Cole

The Professional by Kresley Cole

Mafiya enforcer Aleksei “The Siberian” Sevastyan’s loyalty to his boss knows no bounds, until he meets the boss’s long-lost daughter, a curvy, feisty redhead who haunts his mind and heats his blood like no other. Ordered to protect her, Aleksei will do anything to possess her as well—on his own wicked terms. Grad student Natalie Porter had barely recovered from her first sight of the dark and breathtaking Sevastyan before the professional enforcer whisks her away to Russia, thrusting… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Abandonment
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Stalking
  • Kidnapping

Lothaire by Kresley Cole

Lothaire by Kresley Cole

Driven by his insatiable need for revenge, Lothaire, the Lore’s most ruthless vampire, plots to seize the Horde’s crown. But bloodlust and torture have left him on the brink of madness—until he finds Elizabeth Peirce, the key to his victory. He captures the unique young mortal, intending to offer up her very soul in exchange for power, yet Elizabeth soothes his tormented mind and awakens within him emotions Lothaire believed he could no longer experience. Growing up in desperate poverty… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
  • Torture mentioned
  • Kidnapping

Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole

Dreams of a Dark Warrior by Kresley Cole

Murdered before he could wed Regin the Radiant, warlord Aidan the Fierce seeks his beloved through eternity, reborn again and again into new identities, yet with no memory of his past lives. Murdered before he could wed Regin the Radiant, warlord Aidan the Fierce seeks his beloved through eternity, reborn again and again into new identities, yet with no memory of his past lives. When Regin encounters Declan Chase, a brutal Celtic soldier, she recognizes her proud warlord reincarnated. But Declan takes her captive, intending retribution against all immortals—unaware that he belongs to their world. Yet every… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned
  • Murder
  • Substance addiction
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping

Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole

Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole

Sabine, Sorceress of Illusions: the evil beauty who surrenders her body, but not her heart. Rydstrom Woede: the ruthless warrior who vows to keep her at all costs. With each smoldering encounter, their shared hunger only increases. If they can defeat the sinister enemy that stands between them, will Sabine make the ultimate sacrifice for her demon? Or will the proud king lay down his crown and arms to save his sorceress?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Threats of sexual assault
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping

Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole

Dark Needs at Night’s Edge by Kresley Cole

Néomi Laress, a famous ballerina from a past century, became a phantom the night she was murdered. Imbued with otherworldly powers but invisible to the living, she haunts her beloved home, scaring away trespassers — until she encounters a ruthless immortal even more terrifying than Néomi herself. To prevent him from harming others, Conrad Wroth’s brothers imprison him in an abandoned manor. But there, a female-only he can see seems determined to drive him further into madness… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Murder
  • Kidnapping