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Love Flushed by Evie Mitchell

Love Flushed by Evie Mitchell

I sell toilet paper for a living. It doesn’t seem glamorous but S#!T HAPPENS is going places. We’re the fastest growing eco-toilet paper subscription service around. We’re amazing—and I should know, I’m my own best customer. After years of hard work, I have everything I need to take my business to the next level—well, everything except the paper. When my competition swoops in and offers my supplier a better deal, I’m left up a certain creek without a paddle. I must have done something truly crappy in a previous life because the only person willing to help is my ex-boyfriend, Lincoln ‘Linc’ Garrett… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Cheating recounted
Depression
Parent with alcoholism
Pregnancy
Chronic illness (Chron’s Disease)
Hospitalisation of a sibling recounted
Car accident recounted

Need S’More Time by Nellie Wilson

Need S’More Time by Nellie Wilson

June Lehrer needs to shut off her brain for a week to make a huge decision. Having taught middle school through a global pandemic, she is reconsidering the career she spent years working towards just in time to accompany 150 students to their annual retreat at Camp Peek-n-See. The last thing she needs is to make out with the new camp director Colin on the first night of camp, but when have the last three years ever gone according to plan? Tucked away in the aspens, June and Colin find a connection that neither of them expected to burn as bright as it does. But camp is … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Anxiety & panic attacks
COVID-19 pandemic
Death of a parent recounted

Here for the Right Reasons by Jodi McAlister

Here for the Right Reasons by Jodi McAlister

When Cece James agrees to be cast as a ‘Juliet’ on the next season of the hit television show Marry Me Juliet, it’s certainly not for the right reasons. She’s knee-deep in debt and desperate for the associated paycheck. The last thing on her mind is the hunky ‘Romeo’ waiting for her at the end of the gravel driveway. But Dylan Jayasinghe Mellor isn’t your usual fame-hungry TV star. An Olympic gold medallist with calloused hands, kind eyes and a propensity for panic attacks, it turns out he’s not here for the right reasons either. As spokesperson for a men’s mental health foundation, and the franchise’s first non-white male lead… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Foster care system
Panic attacks
COVID-19 pandemic
Poverty
Bullying

Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews

Emerald Blaze by Ilona Andrews

As Prime magic users, Catalina Baylor and her sisters have extraordinary powers—powers their ruthless grandmother would love to control. Catalina can earn her family some protection working as deputy to the Warden of Texas, overseeing breaches of magic law in the state, but that has risks as well. When House Baylor is under attack and monsters haunt her every step, Catalina is forced to rely on handsome, dangerous Alessandro Sagredo, the Prime who crushed her heart. The nightmare that Alessandro has fought since childhood has come roaring back to life, but now Catalina is under threat. Not even his life…Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny & slut-shaming
Panic attacks
ALcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction including body horror
Emesis
Needles
Death of a father from cancer recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Nonfatal poisoning of a grandparent
Stalking

Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

Amy Curry is not looking forward to her summer. Her mother decided to move across the country and now it’s Amy’s responsibility to get their car from California to Connecticut. The only problem is, since her father died in a car accident, she isn’t ready to get behind the wheel. Enter Roger. An old family friend, he also has to make the cross-country trip – and has plenty of baggage of his own. The road home may be unfamiliar – especially with their friendship venturing into uncharted territory – but together, Amy and Roger will figure out how to map their way.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sibling with substance addiction
Institutionalisation of a sibling
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent in a car accident, off-page

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

Francesca battles her mother, Mia, constantly over what’s best for her. All Francesca wants is her old friends and her old school, but instead, Mia sends her to St. Sebastian’s, an all-boys school that has just opened its doors to girls. Now Francesca’s surrounded by hundreds of boys, with only a few other girls for company. All of them weirdos or worse. Then one day, Mia is too depressed to get out of bed. One day turns into months, and as her family begins to fall apart, Francesca realises that without her mother’s high spirits, she hardly knows who she is. But she doesn’t yet realise that she’s more like Mia than she … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Cheating
Depression
Miscarriage recounted
Grief & loss depiction

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it ‘the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels’. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre, including a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the ‘Scotland Yard bungler’ and the skilled, professional detective.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Substance addiction
Suicide
Recreational drug use
Murder
Colonialism

Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee

Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee

India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he’s seen this before. Last night, in a drug-addled haze, he stumbled across a corpse with the same ritualistic injuries. It seems like there’s a deranged killer on the loose. Unfortunately for Sam, the corpse was in an opium den, and revealing his presence there could cost him his career… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Substance addiction
Eye trauma
Death of a spouse recounted
Murder
Gun violence
War & colonialism theme

Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare

Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare

After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year of college back in Philadelphia should be safe and comparatively easy. All Quinn wants is to forget what happened and be normal again. But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of a host of online conspiracy theories that claim to prove that the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth — not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room. So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Substance addiction mentioned
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Serious physical injury of a parent
Death of a parent & sibling recounted
Murder
Gun violence

It’s Always Been You by Elin Annalise

It’s Always Been You by Elin Annalise

Twenty-six-year-old Courtney Davenport is loud, fun, and always the heart of a party. She’s also asexual and runs a talking service for other aces who are worried about coming out. But when her sworn enemy Sophie Sway phones the helpline, Courtney is thrown. Courtney and Sophie have been enemies forever. Growing up at an expensive boarding school that pitted them against each other has ensured their rivalry lasted way beyond graduation. And now Sophie’s not just coming out to her unknowing that it is Courtney at the end of the line but worse! In the coincidence of the century, Sophie’s also moving next door. Furious, Courtney… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Amisia
Eating disorder mentioned
Death of a parent recounted
Stalking
Bullying