The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions – including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons. Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she’s not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different direct… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicidal ideation
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Infertility
  • Miscarriage
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
  • Kidnapping
  • House fire recounted
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Hush by Dylan Farrow

The Butcher’s Hook by Janet Ellis

Anne Jaccob is coming of age, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. When she is taken advantage of by her tutor — a great friend of her father’s — and is set up to marry a squeamish snob named Simeon Onions, she begins to realize just how powerless she is in Georgian society. Anne is watchful, cunning, and bored. Her saviour appears in the form of Fub, the butcher’s boy. Their romance is both a great spur and an excitement. Anne knows she is doomed to a loveless marriage to Onions and she is determined to escape with Fub and be his mistress. But will Fub ultimately be… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Miscarriage
  • Death of a child
  • Murder
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Nothing Personal by Larry Temple

Nothing Personal by Larry Temple

The ultimate predator kidnaps seven women for a sadistic game of his own design. The women must fight for their freedom while serving as this madman’s messenger to the outside world. FBI agent Laura Spencer is thrust into the center of the investigation as she attempts to decode the messages. Do the clues lead to a killer from a generation ago or are they just a ruse to throw off the investigation? Every day brings more harrowing danger and abuse for the women. Follow this journey into the mind of a madman as he uses the truth to serve his own purposes. Some truths are meant to remain hidden…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Conversion therapy
  • Slut-shaming
  • Rape
  • Cheating
  • Abortion
  • Miscarriage
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
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The Untouchables by JJ McAvoy

The Untouchables by J.J. McAvoy

Everything Melody Callahan has ever been told about her past is a lie. Her father lied. Her husband lied. But like all secrets…they come out. Not only is her mother, Aviela, alive but she won’t stop until she tears down everything Liam and Melody have spent the past year building. With a new target on their back and the media now focused on their family as the Presidential election approaches, Liam and Melody must fight on two battlefronts. Melody is torn between being in love with Liam and wanting to kill him for lying to her. Being in love and showing love are two different… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Arranged marriage
  • Parental abandonment
  • Child abuse & neglect mentioned
  • Nyctophobia
  • Substance addiction
  • Drugging
  • Miscarriage
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Hospitalisation
  • Needles mentioned
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture
  • Gun & knife violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Plane crash
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A Dance of Lies by Rebecca Crunden

A Dance of Lies by Rebecca Crunden

A year into the Outlands and life has only become more dangerous and complex for Kitty and her friends. Not only are the Outcasts hunting them, but Charles and Ciara are adamant about returning to the Kingdom to help, forcing everyone to take a side. To make matters worse, the leader of the Outcasts, Quen, has an unrelenting fascination with Thom and Nate that soon reaches horrific heights As tensions mount and the group begins to splinter, Riddle comes to Kitty with an unexpected request. A secret. One that makes them inseparable… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned
  • Panic attacks
  • Miscarriage, implied
  • Cannibalism mentioned
  • Torture mentioned
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The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Misogyny
  • Persecution for witchcraft
  • Martial rape & sexual assault
  • Arranged marriage
  • Miscarriage
  • Murder
  • Immolation
  • Drowning
  • Torture
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Nothing in My Heart by Peri Elizabeth Scott

Nothing in My Heart by Peri Elizabeth Scott

Feeling trapped in marriage, Beckett Kilmer doesn’t hide his disdain for his young wife, although he certainly wants her physically. Grace didn’t deliberately trap the man she loves, but ignorance is no defence, neither in a court of law nor the law according to Beckett. When she loses their baby, he’s kind and supportive but remains distant. Grace despairs, also trapped—but by the skeins of love that bind her. Mysteriously finding herself capable of resisting him, she plans to assert her independence when Beckett comes to his senses, recognizing his reprehensible behaviour… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Abusive relationship
  • Miscarriage
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Blood Fury by JR Ward

Blood Fury by J.R. Ward

A vampire aristocrat, Peyton is well aware of his duty to his bloodline: mate with an appropriate female of his class and carry on his family’s traditions. And he thought he’d found his perfect match—until she fell in love with someone else. Yet when his split-second decision in a battle with the enemy endangers the life of another trainee, Peyton has to face the idea that his future, and his heart, actually lie with another. Novo, as a female in the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training program, feels like… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicidal ideation
  • Miscarriage
  • Abortion
  • Death of a child
  • Murder
  • War themes
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To Con a Gentleman by Sarah Adams

To Con a Gentleman by Sarah Adams

He was her target. She was his diversion. Falling in love was never something they wanted. As a con woman who has spent her entire life fending for herself on the streets of London, Rose Wakefield knows how to scam a gentleman out of his money without ever getting caught. That’s until she knocks on the wrong earl’s door and is faced with Carver Ashburn Earl of Kensworth and not the notorious rake she thinks she is approaching. Carver is a good man, but even a good man will not pass up an opportunity to escape his grief. What better way to avoid his feelings than to play into… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Miscarriage recounted
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The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers

The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers

Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina—the tobacco capital of the South—where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a prosperous wonderland in full technicolour bloom, and Maddie is dazzled by the bustle of the crisply uniformed female factory workers, the palatial homes, and, most of all, her aunt’s glossiest clientele: the wives of the powerful tobacco executives…Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Sexism
  • Parental abandonment
  • Death of a parent on deployment in World War Two
  • Infertility
  • Miscarriage
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