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Crux by Moira Rogers

Crux by Moira Rogers

Jackson Holt makes a decent living as a private investigator in New Orleans, home of one of the largest underground supernatural populations in the United States. He and his partners have never met a case they couldn’t crack…until a local bar owner asks him to do a little digging on her newest hire. New Orleans is the fourth destination in as many months for Mackenzie Brooks, a woman on the run from a deranged stalker. After all, any man who shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her destined lover has more than a few screws loose. But crazy doesn’t explain… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Nonconsensual pregnancy
Murder
Kidnapping
Stalking
Death of a parent from cancer
Murder of a wife recounted

Hostile Ground by LA Witt and Aleksandr Voino

Hostile Ground by L.A. Witt & Aleksandr Voino

After the deaths of three undercover cops investigating a drug ring in a seedy strip club in Seattle, Detective Mahir Hussain has been sent to finish the job. He joins the club’s security team in the hopes of finding enough evidence to bust the operation before the men in charge find a reason to put him in a shallow grave. To protect the strippers, only gay men can work the club. Ridley, the cold and intimidating head of security, knows exactly how to test potential new hires-including Mahir. From the minute they meet, Mahir and Ridley engage in a dangerous dance of sex and mind games. Mahir needs to find his evidence before Ridley figures… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Homomisia
Human trafficking
Child abuse
Nonconsensual recreational drug use
Murder

The Kinder Poison by Natalie Mae

The Kinder Poison by Natalie Mae

Zahru has long dreamed of leaving the kingdom of Orkena and having the kinds of adventures she’s only ever heard about in stories. But as a lowly Whisperer, her power to commune with animals means that her place is serving in the royal stables until the day her magic runs dry. All that changes when the ailing ruler invokes the Crossing: a death-defying race across the desert, in which the first of his heirs to finish—and take the life of a human sacrifice at the journey’s end—will ascend to the throne and be granted unparalleled abilities. With all the kingdoms… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcoholism
Murder

Desolation Road by Christine Feehan

Desolation Road by Christine Feehan

Torpedo Ink is Aleksei “Absinthe” Solokov’s whole life. They’re his brothers, his family—his everything. But that doesn’t stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That’s why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet Foley has been fantasizing about the handsome, tattooed man whose eyes follow her every move. She senses he’s dangerous. She wants him to get close enough to touch. She wishes she… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Sexual assault
Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
Emotional & physical child abuse
PTSD & trauma
Suicide
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Gun violence
Physical assault

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia & homomisic slurs
Coming out themes
Ableism & ableist language
Racism
Attempted sexual assault of a child by an uncle, on-page
Parental abandonment & neglect
Physical, verbal & emotional child abuse
Domestic violence recounted, off-page
Cheating mentioned
Nightmares
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Hospitalisation for attempted suicide recounted
Suicidal ideation
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Graphic body horror
Emesis
Murder & attempted murder
School shooting
Gun & knife violence
Car accident
Loss of autonomy (ghost possession)
Animal death (insects)
Animal abuse & torture (insects)
Bullying

Into the Heartless Wood by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Into the Heartless Wood by Joanna Ruth Meyer

The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centuries, a witch has harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow her domain. When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters, Seren, saves his life instead of ending it. Every night, he climbs over the garden wall to see her, and every night her longing to become human deepens. But a shift in the stars foretells a dangerous curse, and Seren’s quest to become human will lead them into an ancient war raging between the witch and the king… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Suicide
Blood & injury depiction including broken bones, skinning, and secondary characters ripping out their own hearts
Murder & sword violence
Torture

Shadows and Dreams by Alexis Hall

Shadows & Dreams by Alexis Hall

The two parts of being a paranormal private investigator I could really do without are being forced to eat bananas by an animated statue with a potassium fixation, and being put on trial for murder by a self-appointed council of vampire oligarchs. To be fair, I did kind of do it (the murder, not the bananas). But I was kind of saving my girlfriend, who is kind of one of them. On top of this, I’ve also wound up with a primordial queen of the damned trying to strangle me in my dreams. And the conspiracy of undead… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableist language & Islamophobia
Slut-shaming
Adult-minor relationship
Attempted suicide mentioned
Alcoholism
Smoking
Murder & attempted murder
Torture mentioned
Kidnapping

The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

They say the thirst of blood is like a madness – they must sate it. Even with their own kin. On the eve of her divining, the day she’ll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured and enslaved by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community. Forced to work in the harsh and unwelcoming castle kitchens, Lil is comforted when she meets Mira, a fellow slave who she feels drawn to in a way she doesn’t understand. But she also learns about the Dragon, a mysterious and terrifying figure of myth and legend who takes girls… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Antiziganism
Attempted sexual assault
Blood depiction
Murder
Kidnapping

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

Jasper “Jazz” Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he’s also the son of the world’s most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal’s point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo’s Nod. In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret—could he be more like his father than anyone knows?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction
Graphic dismemberment
Drugging
Hospitalisation of a friend
Death of a parent recounted
Murder
Torture
Animal death

She Who Rides the Storm by Caitlin Sangster

She Who Rides the Storm by Caitlin Sangster

Long ago, shapeshifting monsters ruled the Commonwealth using blasphemous magic that fed on the souls of their subjects. Now, hundreds of years later, a new tomb has been uncovered, and despite the legends that disturbing a shapeshifter’s final resting place will wake them once again, the Warlord is determined to dig it up. But it isn’t just the Warlord who means to brave the traps and pitfalls guarding the crypt.⁠… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted sexual assault
Murder & attempted murder of a child
Fire
Branding