Tag Archives: Mental Illness

Vow of Deception by Rina Kent

Vow of Deception by Rina Kent

My husband. My tormentor. The most notorious man in the city offers me a job. Act as his dead wife. Adrian Volkov isn’t the type of person who takes no for an answer. He commands with an iron fist and all his orders are met. When he approaches me with the offer, I have two options. Go to prison or put myself under his wrath.
I choose to have a roof over my head. What’s so hard about acting, right? Wrong. The moment I step into his wife’s shoes, everything spirals out of control. My only way of survival is through Adrian. Or is it?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Graphic rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Child neglect
  • Agoraphobia
  • Insomnia & nightmares
  • Hallucinations
  • Stillborn
  • Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
  • Gun violence
  • Whipping
  • Kidnapping
  • Homelessness
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Black Deception by Rina Kent

Dark Deception by Rina Kent

Being born a leader taught me one thing. I take what I want. Including the lone rose who’s struggling to survive on the streets. Only I’m no knight and I won’t do any saving. If anything, I’m the nightmare she can’t wake up from. The monster she can’t escape. The devil she can’t fight. I’m the blood that’ll be coating her pure petals.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Alcoholism
  • Nonconsensual adoption
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Homelessness

Black Knight by Rina Kent

Black Knight by Rina Kent

Kimberly: He was once my best friend, now he’s my worst enemy. Xander Knight is heartbreakingly beautiful. Ridiculously popular. Brutally cruel. He’s a knight but won’t do any saving. Xander: We started as a dream, now we’re a nightmare. Kimberly Reed is pathetically fake. Terribly innocent, Secretly black. She can hide but never from me.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Incest
  • Eating disorder
  • Attempted suicide
  • Bullying

Tempted by Deception by Rina Kent

Tempted by Deception by Rina Kent

My husband. My villain. We started with death and blood. We started with games and carnal pleasure. Adrian and I shouldn’t have been together. He’s wrong.
I’m wrong. What we have is the epitome of disaster. Yet, it’s impossible to stop. My husband will either destroy me or I’ll destroy him.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Graphic rape & attempted rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Child abuse & neglect recounted
  • Cheating
  • Attempted suicide
  • Agoraphobia
  • Insomnia & nightmares
  • Hallucinations
  • Stillbirth
  • Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
  • Gun violence
  • Whipping
  • Kidnapping
  • Homelessness
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Helium by Rudy Francisco

Helium by Rudy Francisco

Helium is the debut poetry collection by internet phenom Rudy Francisco, whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers. Rudy’s poems and quotes have been viewed and shared millions of times as he has traveled the country and the world performing for sell-out crowds. Helium is filled with work that is simultaneously personal and political, blending love poems, self-reflection, and biting cultural critique on class, race and gender into an unforgettable whole.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Depression
  • Bullying
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This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills

This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills

Sloane isn’t expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida—especially not a group of friends so intense, so in love, so all-consuming. Yet that’s exactly what happens. Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room, and Gabe, Vera’s twin brother and the most serious person Sloane’s ever met. When a beloved painting by the twins’ late mother goes missing, Sloane takes on the responsibility of tracking it down, a journey that takes her across state lines—and ever deeper into the twins’ lives.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Depression
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Bullying
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Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

When Claudia accidentally eavesdrops on the epic breakup of Paige and Iris, the it-couple at her school, she finds herself in hot water with prickly, difficult Iris. Thrown together against their will in the class production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, along with the goofiest, cutest boy Claudia has ever known, Iris and Claudia are in for an eye-opening senior year.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Panic attacks
  • Prematute labour & childbirth
  • Seizures mentioned
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To Bleed a Crystal Bloom by Sarah Parker

To Bleed a Crystal Bloom by Sarah A. Parker

Nineteen years ago, I was plucked from the heart of a bloody massacre that spared nobody else. Small. Fragile. An enigma. Now ward to a powerful High Master who knows too much and says too little, I lead a simple life, never straying from the confines of an imaginary line I’ve drawn around the castle grounds. Stay within. Never leave. Out there, the monsters lurk. Inside, I’m safe … though at a cost far greater than the blood I drip into a goblet daily. Toxic, unreciprocated love for a man who’s utterly unavailable. My saviour. My protector. My almost executioner… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Arranged marriage
  • Abusive relationship
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Agoraphobia
  • Panic attacks
  • Nightmares & night terrors
  • Self-harm
  • Drug use
  • Blood and gore depiction
  • Scars
  • Dead bodies & body parts
  • Death of a sibling
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Not Your #Lovestory by Sonia Hartl

Not Your #Lovestory by Sonia Hartl

Macy Evans dreams of earning enough income from her YouTube channel, R3ntal Wor1d, to leave her small, Midwestern town. But when she meets a boy named Eric at a baseball game, and accidently dumps her hotdog in his lap, her disastrous “meet-cute” becomes the topic of a viral thread. Now it’s not loyal subscribers flocking to her channel, it’s Internet trolls. And they aren’t interested in her reviews of VHS tapes—they only care about her relationship with Eric. Eric is overly eager to stretch … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Child abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Anxiety
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Bullying
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The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight

The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight

Wylie hasn’t heard from her best friend, Cassie, since their fight. That doesn’t matter when she gets a text from her, asking for help. But as Cassie’s messages become increasingly strange, Wylie has a growing sense that something is REALLY wrong. What isn’t Cassie telling her? And could finding her be just the beginning?… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Anxiety
  • Agoraphobia
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Suicide
  • Death of a parent in a car accident
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Kidnapping & hostage situation
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