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Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class—and the nobles who destroyed their home. When Sal steals a flyer for an audition to become a member of The Left Hand—the Queen’s personal assassins, named after the rings she wears—Sal jumps at the chance to infiltrate the court and get revenge. But the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. A childhood as a common crim… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misgendering
Self harm
Blood & injury depiction
Death of a parent mentioned
Death of a sibling mentioned
Murder & mass murder
Poisoning
Skinning

Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller

Belle Révolte by Linsey Miller

Emilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work. Annette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. So when a strange noble girl offers Annette the chance of a lifetime, she accepts. Emilie and Annette swap lives—Annette attends finishing school as a noble lady to be trained in the ways of divination… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Classism
Amisia
Blood & gore depiction
Graphic physical injuries
Body horror
Medical procedures & treatment
Beheading
Starvation & food insecurity mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a sibling, on- & off-page
Execution
Drowning mentioned
War & military themes

Ruin of Stars by Linsey Miller

Ruin of Stars by Linsey Miller

As one of the Queen’s elite assassins, Sal finally has the power, prestige, and permission to hunt down the lords who killed their family. But Sal still has to figure out who the culprits are. They must enlist the help of some old friends and enemies while ignoring a growing distaste for the queen and that the charming Elise is being held prisoner by her father. But there’s something terribly wrong in the north. Talk of the return of shadows, missing children, and magic abounds. As Sal takes out the people responsible for their ruined homeland, Sal learns secrets and truths that can’t be forgotten.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misgendering
Misogyny
Child abuse mentioned
Graphic dead bodies
Medical experimentation
Panic attack
Death of a friend mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Skinning
Torture
Physical assault
Immolation
Kidnapping

The Deed by Lynsay Sands

The Deed by Lynsay Sands

An innocent young beauty finds herself the fulcrum of a struggle for feudal power. Along with her ample dowry, Emma finds herself promised to Amaury de Aneford, a landless knight whose able sword has preserved the King’s crown-and whose rugged good looks make her heart skip a beat. But on the wedding day, as a rival knight gallops toward the bridal chamber, Amaury will find that making love to his naive new bride will take consummate skill. For in the conjugal bed, Emma is astonished to learn there is more to a wedding night than just a sound sleep-and more to true love than she’s ever imagined.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child neglect
Drugging
Murder
Kidnapping

The Exile’s Gift by Iris Foxglove

The Exile’s Gift by Iris Foxglove

All Laurent de Rue wants to do is live a peaceful life with his husband, Sabre, and support his little sister Rose’s rise to stardom on the Starian stage. But learning the truth of his heritage, and rediscovering his magic, brings a whole new set of problems…most notably the Archmage of Mislia, who is determined to find the apostates who fled his wrath all those years ago. He’s willing to use any means necessary to track down Laurent, and that includes cursing his own son and heir, Hektor Drakos, who fled Mislia with Prince Adrien and is now all alone in a city that bears no love… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery mentioned
Murder

Meme by Aaron Starmer

Meme by Aaron Starmer

No one is going to miss Cole Weston. A loner without friends or family and an unhealthy obsession with the darker corners of the internet, Cole had become increasingly violent toward his ex-girlfriend and threated to do so much worse. So it was only logical–only right, really–that his former friends took it upon themselves to rid the world of Cole Weston. Now, Logan, Meeka, Holly, and Grayson are forever bound by Cole’s body, buried under the cold Vermont earth. The failsafe should any one of them consider betrayal: their old phones, buried with Cole, disconnected… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Victim blaming
Alcoholism mentioned
Substance addiction mentioned
Murder

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn’t get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the… Read more,

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Physical injuries
Murder

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains. Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. A story of legendary battles and… Read more,

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Misogyny & sexism
Child abuse
Drug use
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Alcoholism
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Death of a child
Death of a friend
Murder & torture
Fire
Animal death

Fever by Deon Meyer

Fever by Deon Meyer

Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa–and the world, as far as they know–to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father’s protector, even though he is still only a boy. But Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is both a thinker and a leader, a wise and compassionate man with a vision for a new community that survivors will rebuild from the ruins. And so Amanzi is founded… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse
Suicide
Medical epidemic
Death of a parent
Murder
Gun violence
War themes
Animal cruelty

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s Sound, she instantly realizes there’s more to the place than meets the eye. Descended from witches, Nadia can sense that a spell has been cast over the tiny Rhode Island town—a sickness infecting everyone and everything in it. The magic at work is darker and more powerful than anything she’s come across and has sunk its claws most deeply into Mateo, her rescuer, her friend, and the guy she yearns to get closer to even as he pushes her away. Mateo has lived in Captive’s Sound his entire life, shadowed by small-town gossip and his family’s tormented past. Every generation… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language,
Racist microaggressions
Sexual assault (by coercion)
Sexual harassment
Parental abandonment
Parental divorce
Nightmares
Hospitalisation
Coma
Facial scars mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from suicide by drowning recounted
Death of a grandfather in a fire mentioned
Death of a mother & father from viral pneumonia mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Near-drowning
Car accident, on-page
Loss of autonomy (memory manipulation and mind control)
Sinkholes, on-page
Bullying