Tag Archives: Knife, Sword & Axe Violence

Beyond Jealousy by Kit Rocha

Beyond Jealousy by Kit Rocha

When Rachel Riley sacrificed a life in Eden to protect the O’Kanes, she earned her place in the powerful Sector Four gang. But the former crime princess is tired of being everyone’s sweet little sister. It’s time for her to get wild, to embrace her fantasies as only an O’Kane can—with a delicious exiled soldier and the gang’s wickedly sinful tattoo artist. Lorenzo Cruz is a warrior, taught by his commanding officers in Eden that involvement equals distraction. Emotion is a liability, and desire is a sin. In Sector Four, he finds… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sex work
  • Substance addiction
  • Stabbing

A Thousand Doors edited by JT Ellison

A Thousand Doors edited by J.T. Ellison

with contributions from Kimberly Belle, Laura Benedict, A.F. Brady, Patti Callahan Henry, Paige Crutcher, Rebecca Drake, Heather Gudenkauf, Joy Jordan-Lake, Alisha Klapheke, Ariel Lawhon, Kerry Lonsdale, Catherine McKenzie, Kate Moretti, Lisa Patton and Kaira Rouda

We’ve all played the “what if” game. For forty-year-old Mia Jensen, “what if” is a fact of life. Dissatisfied with her choices, she often dreams about what could have been. Now she has the chance to know. But that knowledge will cost her dearly. Only through death can she fully realize the value of her life. After a terrible day, trying to figure out how she’s come to this point—alone, on the cusp of divorce––Mia hears a strange noise in her kitchen. When she investigates, she is attacked and left for dead. As Mia dies, she experiences some of the lives that could have been hers had she only… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Knife violence

After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis

After Dark with Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis

Roxie Clark has seen more dead bodies than your average seventeen-year-old. As a member of the supposedly-cursed Clark family, most of her ancestors have met tragic ends, including her own mother. Instead of fearing the curse, however, Roxie has combined her flair for performance and her gruesome family history into a successful ghost tour. But her tour never covers the most recent body she’s seen-her sister Skylar’s boyfriend, Colin Riley, found murdered in a cornfield. A year after the murder, Roxie… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide, off-page
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Gun violence & armed robbery
  • Knife violence mentioned
  • Car accident mentioned
  • Death by choking

Sweet Surrender by Sav Miller

Sweet Surrender by Sav R. Miller

After his father’s retirement, Elia Montalto took over organized crime in King’s Trace, Maine. His pragmatic nature makes him popular and allows alliances with government officials, which keeps prying eyes off his business. But even a town as small as theirs is not without risk or envy, and Elia has only ever really wanted one thing: Senator Harrison’s daughter. As the eldest daughter of a corrupt politician, survival was Caroline Harrison’s only hope at one day being granted freedom. But her father has other plans, and when negotiations for her hand in marriage begin, all her dreams shatter. That is, until she makes… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Arranged marriage
  • Cheating
  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Sex work mentioned
  • Physical child abuse
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Knife play
  • Organised crime

Sweet Sin by Sav R. Miller

Sweet Sin by Sav R. Miller

My obsession tastes like pomegranates. I’m not supposed to know that. Her skin is soft. Supple. I’m not supposed to know that, either. Now that I’ve plucked the delicate little flower, there’s no way I can ever forget. None of my other sins ever tasted so sweet.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Cheating mentioned (scs)
  • Blood & knife play
  • Murder
  • Torture

*Note : This is an age-gap romance with a heroine who is twenty years old and a hero who is thirty-two years old.

Promises and Pomegranates by Sav R. Miller

Promises and Pomegranates by Sav R. Miller

Elena. To most, Kal Anderson is a villain. Harbinger of death, keeper of souls, frequenter of nightmares. Doctor Death. Hades incarnate. They say he stole me. Usurped my fiancé and filled the cracks in my heart with empty promises. Imprinted his crimson fingerprints on my psyche and tried to set me free. They’re not wrong, per see. Except it was my choice to stay. Kal. To most, Elena Ricci is an innocent. Goddess of springtime, lover of poetry, angel of my nightmares. Little one. Persephone personified. They say I ruined her. Shattered her virtue and devoured her soul like a succulent pomegranate.
Embedded my evil as deep as I could… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & knife play
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping

*Note : This is an age-gap romance with a heroine who is twenty years old and a hero who is thirty-two years old.

The Swifts by Beth Lincoln

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln

On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred family dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, one it’s assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift doesn’t much like being told what to do. Troublemaker and mischief enthusiast Shenanigan rattles around the grand old Swift house rehearsing Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude’s funeral with her older sisters Phenomena and Felicity, plotting future crimes, and wondering whether she is herself by choice or design. When the Family Reunion floods the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Murder recounted
  • Gun, crossbow & knife violence

Tiger’s Quest by Colleen Houck

Tiger’s Quest by Colleen Houck

Back in Oregon, Kelsey tries to pick up the pieces of her life and push aside her feelings for Ren. Kelsey Hayes’s eighteenth summer was crazy. The kind of crazy nobody would ever believe. Aside From battling immortal sea monkeys and trekking the jungles of India, she fell in love with Ren, a 300-year-old prince. When danger suddenly forces Kelsey on another Indian quest, with Ren’s bad-boy brother, Kishan, the unlikely duo begins to question their true destiny. Ren’s life hangs in the balance–so does the truth within Kelsey’s heart.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Blood & injury depiction including bloodletting and broken bones
  • Gun, knife & arrow violence
  • Torture
  • Physical assault
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal attack

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu

Meet Winter Young – International pop sensation, with a voice like velvet and looks that could kill. His star power has smashed records, selling out stadiums from LA to London. His rabid fans would move heaven and earth for even a glimpse of him – just imagine what they’d do to become his latest fling. Meet Sydney Cossette – Part of an elite covert ops group, Sydney joined their ranks as their youngest spy with plans to become the best agent they’ve ever had. An ice queen with moves as dangerous as her comebacks, Sydney picks up languages just as quickly as she breaks… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Physical child abuse
  • Parent with alcoholism
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Dismemberment
  • Murder
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Graphic death from poisoning
  • Gun & knife violence
  • Kidnapping

Hush by Dylan Farrow

Hush by Dylan Farrow

Seventeen-year-old Shae has led a seemingly quiet life, joking with her best friend Fiona, and chatting with Mads, the neighborhood boy who always knows how to make her smile. All while secretly keeping her fears at bay… Of the disease that took her brother’s life. Of how her dreams seem to bleed into reality around her. Of a group of justice seekers called the Bards who claim to use the magic of Telling to keep her community safe. When her mother is murdered, she can no longer pretend. Not knowing who to trust, Shae… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Medical experimentation
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Fire