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Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it’s her job. But when her too-good-to work husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns her marriage’s collapse into cash and writes the best script of her life. No one is more surprised than her when it’s picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her 100-year-old-home. When former Sexiest Man Alive, Leo Vance, is cast as her ne’er-do-well husband Nora’s life will never be the same. The morning after shooting wraps and the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Spousal & child abandonment
Alcoholism

Braving the Storm by Elliott Rose

I’m not supposed to feel this way… I never wanted to disappear more than while around my family. Briar Lane, the girl only useful for one thing: my surname. A business handshake and pawn to be traded. My father’s chess piece shuffled between empires. That was my life back in L.A. but all it took was finding the dirty secret stuffed in a jacket pocket, and my entire world unraveled. So, I fled to the one place I knew they could never find me. Crimson Ridge. Arriving in this snowy, harsh world, I thought I’d be starting over on my own, but it turns out I couldn’t have been… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Statutory assault & rape, child prostitution & grooming mentioned (secondary characters)
Internalised victim-blaming by a rape survivor mentioned (secondary character)
Child abandonment & foster care system experiences mentioned (secondary character)
Verbal & emotional intimate partner abuse & gaslighting by ex-partner mentioned
Forced arranged marriage mentioned
Threats of disownment recounted
Infidelity by ex-partner discussed
Anxiety (protagonist) & nightmares recounted
Restrictive eating mentioned
Alcohol consumption & mentions of alcoholism
Suicide of a pregnant side character by overdose mentioned
Infertility
Physical head injury (on-page) & mentions of past bull-riding injuries
Death of parents mentioned including death during childbirth (off-page)
Home invasion (off-page)
Blackmail & nonconsensual surveillance
Animal abuse mentioned

*Context : A romance between an adopted uncle and his estranged niece.

Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet by Barbara Dee

Twelve-year-old Haven Jacobs can’t stop thinking about the climate crisis. In fact, her anxiety about the state of the planet is starting to interfere with her schoolwork, her friendships, even her sleep. She can’t stop wondering why grownups aren’t even trying to solve the earth’s problem—and if there’s anything meaningful that she, as a seventh grader, can contribute. When Haven’s social studies teacher urges her to find a specific, manageable way to make a difference to the planet, Haven focuses on… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Anxiety & panic attacks (protagonist)
Bullying

Everything I Know About You by Barbara Dee

During a class trip to DC, twelve-year-old Tally and her best friends, Sonnet and Caleb (a.k.a. Spider) are less than thrilled when they are assigned roommates and are paired with kids who are essentially their sworn enemies. For Tally, rooming with “clonegirl” Ava Seely feels like punishment, rather than potential for fun. But the trip is full of surprises. Despite a pact to stick together as much as they can, Sonnet pulls away, and spider befriends Marco, the boy who tormented him last year. And Marco just might “like” Tally—what’s that about? But the uneasy peace in Ava and… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Secondary character with anorexia (theme)

Passion Project by London Sperry

If your twenties are supposed to be the best years of your life, Bennet Taylor is failing miserably . . . with a big emphasis on the miserable. Where’s that zest she keeps hearing about? She’s a temp worker in New York City with no direction, no future, and no social life. And at the painful center of this listlessness is grief over the death of her first love. When Bennet runs into Henry Adams just hours after standing him up for a first date, she makes an alcohol-fueled confession: She’s not ready to date. In fact, it’s been years since she felt passion for something. Not even pottery, or organized sports—not anything. Rather than leaving… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Depression (protagonist)
Parent with Alzheimer’s’ Disease mentioned (secondary character)
Death of a boyfriend mentioned

Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake

Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any one of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne. Or at least, so they like to think. Meredith, textbook accomplished eldest daughter and the head of her own groundbreaking biotech company, has recently cured mental illness. You’re welcome! If only her father’s fortune wasn’t her last hope for keeping her journalist ex-boyfriend from exposing what she really is: a total fraud. Arthur, second… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parent with an eating disorder

Heart of Frost and Scars by Pam Godwin

A sinister threat lurks in the shadows, hunting her with a dark obsession as her savage protectors battle the rules of society. Thrust into the civilized world, they spiral into violence and refuse to conform, their wild natures threatening to tear apart their bond. Amid these struggles, her seductive billionaire husband fights to reclaim her love. Caught between possessive men, a deadly stalker, and a legacy of pain, she must decide her fate. Choose wrongly, and she’ll lose everything to a monster with a heart of frost and scars.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Paedophilia & child sexual abuse recounted
Drugging
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
Kidnapping & stalking

Vanquish by Pam Godwin

Her life is like a prison cell. A self-made, to-hell-with-the-free-world existence that locks from the inside. Stop judging. Her agoraphobia doesn’t define her. It simply keeps her safe. He belongs in a prison cell. The 6×8, make-me-your-bitch variety that locks from the outside. But he’s free. To hunt. To take. To break. And he just found a sexy new toy. Capturing her is the easy part. Her fucked-up mind, however, makes him question everything he does next. But he’s a determined bastard. If all goes his way, this will hurt like hell.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Internalised fatphobia & body dysmorphia
Rape, sexual slavery & nonconsensual BDSM (on-page)
Sex trafficking (on-page & recounted)
Sex work recounted
Intimate partner violence (on-page)
Emotional & verbal intimate partner abuse recounted
Forced child abandonment
Divorce recounted
Agoraphobia, bulimia & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (protagonist)
Psychiatric institutionalisation of a parent mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Drug abuse recounted (protagonists)
Death of a mother from an overdose recounted
Murder by gun violence mentioned (secondary character)
Kidnapping (on-page)

Context : The male protagonist kidnaps, rapes, and abuses the female protagonist, his love interest. He is a former stalker and sex trafficker who has raped others in the past. He has a child with a different secondary character who was forcibly taken away. The female protagonist is divorced.

Training the Heart by Paisley Hope

Wade Ashby is a closed book. With the weight of the family business on his shoulders, and his ongoing battle to escape a failed marriage, he only has time for one looking after his ranch. Life has dealt Ivy Spencer some tough blows. So when the opportunity to work on the Silver Pines ranch presents itself, she grabs it by the horns. Nothing will stand in the way of her dream of training a racehorse on route to the Kentucky Derby. Wade might be determined to keep his heart under lock and key, but Ivy’s constant presence soon ignites a passion he thought he’d lost long ago… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Emotionally abusive relationship recounted & gaslighting
Parent with alcoholism
Infertility discussed

Protect by Paisley Hope

Imagine coming into the town pub with my crew, dirty and exhausted, only to walk right into my biggest regret. The twin sister of my lost best friend and the one who got away. I haven’t seen Violette Taylor in years but I haven’t forgotten her either. I used to be Rowan to her. Now, I’m just King, the guy who broke her heart, but not for the reasons she thinks. Violette is back in town for good, she’s a single mom and a nurse in the burn unit I accidentally wind up in. Can you call that fate? Maybe, if she wasn’t doing her best to stay far away from anyone who reminded her of her past, especially… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Anxiety & panic attacks
Burn injury from fire
Grief & loss depiction