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Never a Hero by Vanessa Len

Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She alone remembers what happened. Now, Aaron, her hard-won friend – and maybe more – is an enemy, trying to kill her. And Nick, the boy she loved, is a stranger who doesn’t even know her name. Only Joan remembers that there is a ruthless and dangerous enemy still out there. When a deadly attack forces Joan back into the monster world as a fugitive, she finds herself on the run with Nick as Aaron close… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Emotional parental abuse
Panic attack
Nightmare
Emesis
Death of a friend
Death of a parent from a heart attack recounted
Execution of a parent recounted
Torture recounted
Attempted kidnapping
Imprisonment
Loss of autonomy (mind control)

Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert

He was my enemy. My lover. My husband.

And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy.

Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she’s not about to start now—even if that means marrying Olympus’s enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse recounted
Attempted sexual assault, off-page
Blood depiction
Death of parents mentioned
Murder & attempted murder

The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor’s soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job.

Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away.

Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall who will stop at nothing to see her dead, Lin Chong is recruited by the Bandits of Liangshan… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misogyny
Attempted rape, on-page
Nonconsensual body modifications (tattoos)
Decapitation
Cannibalism
Murder
Torture

The Midnight Kingdom by Tara Sim

A cataclysmic battle to save the city of Nexus has left the four noble heirs scattered across the four realms.

Taesia, the shadow-wielding rebel of House Lastrider, and Nikolas, the solider son of House Cyr, have been cast into Noctus, the realm of night. But they are not alone. The dangerous and unpredictable god of light has traveled with them, and he will do anything in his power to destroy Noctus once and for all… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Eye trauma
Murder
Torture

Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

With ailing family to support, Evie Sage’s employment status isn’t just important, it’s vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn’s most infamous Villain results in a job offer—naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don’t find evil so attractive, Evie.

But just when she’s getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel, Evie suspects this dungeon has a huge rat… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Attempted sexual assault & sexual harassment
Blood & injury depiction
Death of a brother recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Kidnapping & captivity
Sword violence

*Context: The protagonist’s mother abandoned her after she accidentally killed her son, the protgaonist’s brother.

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.
Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misogyny
Poverty themes
Racism, specifically Nazis, mentioned
Prejudice against Indigenous peoples mentioned
Attempted suicide mentioned
Suicidal ideations
Alcohol consumption
Substance abuse
Blood depiction
Cancer discussed
Grief depiction
Fire
Murder

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes.
On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three ‘saints’ who control them… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Miscarriage
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Cannibalism
Dismemberment
Death of a child
Murder
Torture
Animal death

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

After Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, betrays her, Evangeline Fox swears she’ll never trust him again. Now that she’s discovered her own magic, Evangeline believes she can use it to restore the chance at happily ever after that Jacks stole away.

But when a new terrifying curse is revealed, Evangeline finds herself entering into a tenuous partnership with the Prince of Hearts again. Only this time, the rules have changed. Jacks isn’t the only force Evangeline needs to be wary of… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption (on-page, protagonist)
Blood, gore & injury depiction, including mentions of decapitation, blood-drinking and death from a vampire bite
Murder by stabbing during a knife fight
Near-strangulation
Loss of autonomy (magical curse)

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

Evangeline Fox was raised in her beloved father’s curiosity shop, where she grew up on legends about immortals, like the tragic Prince of Hearts. She knows his powers are mythic, his kiss is worth dying for, and that bargains with him rarely end well.

But when Evangeline learns that the love of her life is about to marry another, she becomes desperate enough to offer the Prince of Hearts whatever he wants in exchange for his help to stop the wedding. The prince only asks for three kisses… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Blood depiction & mentions of blood-drinking
Death of a parents mentioned (off-page)
Murder
Blackmail
Forced starvation (magical, vampires caged without blood)
Alcohol consumption
Animal attack (wolf)

The Stolen Heir by Holly Black

Eight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. There, she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge.

Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world. There, she lives feral in the woods. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse recounted
Suicide mentioned
Drugging
Death during childbirth
Emesis
Blood & Gore depiction
Captivity
Kidnapping
Murder
Torture