Tag Archives: Miscarriage

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of miscarriage.

See also Pregnancy, Childbirth and Stillbirth.

When You Disappeared by John Marrs

When You Disappeared by John Marrs

Also known as The Wronged Sons.

When Catherine wakes up alone one morning, she thinks her husband has gone for a run before work. But Simon never makes it to the office. His running shoes are by the front door. Nothing is missing – except him. Catherine knows Simon must be in trouble. He wouldn’t just leave her. He wouldn’t leave the children. But Simon knows the truth – about why he left and what he’s done. He knows things about his marriage that it would kill Catherine to find out. The memories she holds onto are lies. While Catherine faces a dark new reality at home, Simon’s halfway around the … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape
  • Domestic violence
  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Alcohol abuse
  • Attempted suicide
  • Miscarriage
  • Cancer
  • Death of a child recounted
  • Murder
  • Car accident

What Lies Between Us by John Marrs

What Lies Between Us by John Marrs

They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there. Because Maggie has done things to Nina that can’t ever be forgiven, and now she is paying the price. But there are many things about the past that Nina doesn’t know, and Maggie is going to keep it that way—even if it kills her…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Child sexual abuse mentioned
  • Drug use
  • Miscarriage
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of an infant (presumed)
  • Murder
  • Imprisonment
  • Fire

Runaway Road by Devney Perry

Runaway Road by Devney Perry

Londyn McCormack didn’t have a typical childhood. She ran away from home at sixteen, escaping parents more interested in drugs than their daughter. She doesn’t have loving siblings or an adorable pet. Her only family is the five other runaway kids who shared her junkyard home. Life pulled them all in separate directions, taking her to Boston. For a short time, she thought she’d found something permanent. But after a devastating divorce, she’s running away again, this time to find a lost friend.
She’s driving across the country in her convertible. As a teenager, the rusty car was her shelter. As… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Miscarriage mentioned

All the Acorns on the Forest Floor by Kim Hooper

All the Acorns on the Forest Floor by Kim Hooper

A couple brimming with the hope of a new pregnancy. A woman coming to terms with the truth behind her adoption. A husband trying to save his marriage from the despair of infertility. These are just a few of the stories in All the Acorns on the Forest Floor, a book about the lengths we go to for the love of our children, our spouses, our mothers, our daughters. All the Acorns on the Forest Floor is a book of connections between people, connections lost and found, across time and space. There are stories of women who never became mothers (by choice or by fate), women who became mothers in unexpected or nontraditional…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Miscarriage
  • Terminal illness

Sweet Rome by Tillie Cole

Sweet Rome by Tillie Cole

It makes me laugh when I hear folks think Molly and I rushed into things too fast, spouting that we couldn’t possibly have felt what we did for each other in such a short space of time. I say, how the hell would they know? We made it, didn’t we? She became my whole life, didn’t she? And as for my folks not being real, being true? Tell that to me aged ten, eleven, twelve—damn, all my bastard life—when I was never enough when I was beaten until I bled for being too good at football and not being everything they’d dreamed: the perfectly dutiful son. Tell that to thousands of kids around the world getting wailed on by asshole parents for… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Domestic violence
  • Parent with alcoholism
  • Suicide
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Miscarriage
  • Death of parents

Sweet Home by Tillie Cole

Sweet Home by Tillie Cole

At age twenty, Molly Shakespeare knows a lot. She knows Descartes and Kant. She knows academia and Oxford. She knows that the people who love you leave you. ⁣⁣⁣She knows how to be alone. But when Molly leaves England’s grey skies behind to start a new life at the University of Alabama, she finds that she has a lot to learn — she didn’t know a summer could be so hot, she didn’t know students could be so intimidating, and she certainly didn’t know just how much the folks of Alabama love their football. When a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic violence
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Miscarriage, on-page
  • Death of parents, off-page
  • Death of a grandparent, off-page

The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian

The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian

Daria Esfandyar is Iranian-American and proud of her heritage, unlike some of the “Nose Jobs” in the clique led by her former best friend, Heidi Javadi. Daria and her friends call themselves the Authentics, because they pride themselves on always keeping it real. But in the course of researching a school project, Daria learns something shocking about her past, which launches her on a journey of self-discovery. It seems everyone is keeping secrets. And it’s getting harder to know who she even is any longer. With infighting among the Authentics, her mother planning an over… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Miscarriage
  • Stillbirth

Ocean Light by Nalini Singh

Ocean Light by Nalini Singh

Security specialist Bowen Knight has come back from the dead. But there’s a ticking time bomb in his head: a chip implanted to block telepathic interference that could fail at any moment—taking his brain along with it. With no time to waste, he should be back on land helping the Human Alliance. Instead, he’s at the bottom of the ocean, consumed with an enigmatic changeling. Kaia Luna may have traded in science for being a chef, but she won’t hide the facts of Bo’s condition from him or herself. She’s suffered too much loss in her life to fall prey to the dangerous charm of a human who is a dead man walking. And she carries a devast… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Anxiety & panic attack
  • Attempted suicide mentioned
  • Miscarriage mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Hospitalisation in a present vegetative state recounted
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping

A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh

A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh

Anahera Rawiri left New Zealand at twenty-one, fleeing small-town poverty and the ghosts of her childhood with no plans to look back. But eight years later, she returns, seeking familiarity as respite from the shattered remains of her new life. And despite the changes brought on by a bump in tourism–the shiny new welcome sign at the town line and a decidedly less shiny new police presence–Golden Cove appears much as it ever was: a small settlement on the savage West Coast of the South Island, populated by all the remembered faces and set against a back… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape recounted
  • Child physical & sexual abuse recounted
  • Domestic violence recounted
  • Cheating recounted
  • Pregnancy mentioned
  • Miscarriage recounted
  • Murder
  • Arson
  • Animal cruelty

Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh

Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh

Since the moment of her defection from the PsyNet and into the SnowDancer wolf pack, Sienna Lauren has had one weakness. Hawke. Alpha and dangerous, he compels her to madness. Hawke is used to walking alone, having lost the woman who would’ve been his mate long ago. But Sienna fascinates the primal heart of him, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf. Then Sienna changes the rules and suddenly, there is no more distance, only the most intimate of battles between two people who were never meant to meet. Yet as they… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicidal ideation
  • Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned
  • Miscarriage, off-page
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother from suicide recounted
  • Fire