Tag Archives: Nightmares & Sleep Disorders

Kiss the Sky by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Kiss the Sky by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

Rose Calloway thought she had everything under control. At twenty-three, she’s a Princeton graduate, an Academic Bowl champion, a fashion designer and the daughter of a Fortune 500 mogul. But with a sex addict as a sister and roommate, nothing comes easy.

After accepting help from a producer, Rose agrees to have her life filmed for a reality television show. The Hollywood exec is her last chance to rev…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Slut-shaming
  • Adult-minor relationship
  • Paedophilia & grooming
  • Sexual assault
  • Abandonment
  • Parental abuse
  • Alcoholism
  • Sex addiction
  • Nightmares
  • Disordered food & weight thoughts
  • Cancer
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Wrongful incarceration
  • Bullying
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The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor 

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Ableism
  • Racism
  • Antiziganism
  • Homomisia
  • Graphic rape & statutory rape
  • Graphic sexual assault of a child
  • Adult-minor relationship
  • Trauma
  • Nightmares & night terrors
  • Graphic suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Smoking
  • Pregnancy from rape
  • Abortion (theme)
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries, including mutilation and eye trauma
  • Cancer
  • Emesis
  • Hospital
  • Dismemberment
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother & father
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of a brother
  • Death of a fiancé
  • Murder
  • Physical assault
  • Drowning
  • Rollercoaster accident
  • Car accident recounted
  • Graphic death of a pet dog
  • Bullying
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His Hollow Heart by Rachel Leigh 

His Hollow Heart by Rachel Leigh

Bella: A pact made. Two orphans who vowed to never part. I was selfish. For once, I had to be. The last time I saw Callum he was standing at the dormer window as I sat in the back seat of the car. His dark eyes foreign to me.
The hatred that radiated from his glare shot through me with more force than a silver bullet. In a matter of minutes, he had become a stranger. No longer my best friend.
He was now a boy with a hollow heart who was headed down a dark path. A path I knew I’d never cross again. Or, so I thought… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child abuse
  • Night terrors
  • Kidnapping
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Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan 

Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan

When a powerful viceroy arrives with a fleet of mechanical dragons and stops an attack on Anlei’s village, the villagers see him as a godsend. They agree to give him their sacred, enchanted River Pearl in exchange for permanent protection—if he’ll marry one of the village girls to solidify the alliance. Anlei is appalled when the viceroy selects her as a bride, but with the fate of her people at stake, she sees no choice but to consent. Anlei’s noble plans are sent into a tailspin, however, when a young thief steals the River Pearl for himself.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Attempted forced adult-minor marriage
  • Child neglect
  • Nightmares
  • Death of a father & mother recounted
  • Death of a wife recounted
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Gun & knife violence
  • Fire
  • War themes & military violence
  • Animal attack
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Waylaid by Sarina Bowen

Waylaid by Sarina Bowen

The first time I meet Rickie, I don’t know what to make of him. The second time we meet, he doesn’t remember the six hours we spent together. Or standing me up afterward.

I’m not the same, either. I’ve got secrets. I’ve told lies. Bad boys aren’t my type, anyway. Even the ones with troubled grey eyes… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sleeping disorder
  • Physical assault
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A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet

A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet

Catalia “Cat” Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a travelling circus. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the Gods-and her homicidal mother-have saddled her with. That is, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south, fixes her with his steely gaze and upsets her illusion of safety forever.

Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker, the woman who divines the truth through lies. He wants her as a powerful weapon for his newly conquered realm until he realizes he wants her for much more than her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Child abuse
  • Intimate partner abuse
  • Nightmares
  • Kidnapping
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture recounted
  • Immolation
  • Death of a pet (puppy)
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The Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson

The Witches of Echo Park by Amber Benson

When Lyse MacAllister’s great-aunt Eleanora, the woman who raised her, becomes deathly ill, Lyse puts her comfortable life in Georgia on hold to rush back to Los Angeles. And once she returns to Echo Park, Lyse discovers her great-aunt has been keeping secrets—extraordinary secrets—from her. Not only is Lyse heir to Eleanora’s Victorian estate; she is also expected to take her great-aunt’s place in the Echo Park coven of witches. But to accept her destiny means to place herself in deadly peril—for the world of magic is under siege, and the battle the witches now fight may be their last…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse by a grandmother (on-page)
  • Nightmares
  • Seizures
  • Great-aunt & guardian with terminal cancer

Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett 

Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett

Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, she’s cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel

In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer, and gregarious Daniel Aoki volunteers to be her guide… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Protagonist with narcolepsy and cataplexy
  • Depression
  • Attempted suicide recounted
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Death of a grandparent recounted
  • Animal death (goldfish)
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Goblin King by Kara Barbieri 

Janneke has survived the Hunt for the Stag but all good things come with a cost. Lydian might be dead, but he took the Stag with him. Janneke now holds the mantle, while Soren, now her equal in every way, has become the new Erlking. Janneke’s powers as the new Stag has brought along haunting visions of a world thrown into chaos and the ghost of Lydian taunts her with the riddles he spoke of when he was alive. When Janneke discovers the truth of Lydian and his madness, she’s forced to see her tormentor in a different light for the first time. The world they know is dying and Lydian may have been the only person with the key to saving it.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Abandonment
  • Disordered eating recounted
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Nightmares
  • Suicidal ideation & suicide (on-page)
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Graphic physical injuries, including on-page eyeball trauma & loss of vision
  • Death of a newborn son from exposure to the cold mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture (on-page & recounted)
  • Knife, arrow & axe violence
  • Drowning (on-page)
  • Kidnapping & captivity recounted
  • Animal attack (on-page)

The Bound Witch by Ivy Asher 

The Bound Witch by Ivy Asher 

I died. I looked into Rogan Kendrick’s eyes, told him I loved him…and then I died. So how the hell am I standing naked in the middle of a morgue, doing my best not to freak the fuck out?

I’m a Bone Witch, or at least I was before Rogan bound us together. Blood magic now flows through my veins too, and I think somehow the man I shouldn’t love, the one who betrayed me, who couldn’t choose me…has saved me… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Indentured servitude
  • Parental abuse & neglect
  • Panic attack
  • Alcoholism
  • Nightmares
  • Drugging
  • Physical injury
  • Dead bodies
  • Physical injuries, including eyeball trauma
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of friend
  • Torture
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Explosions
  • Electrocution
  • Physical assault
  • Home invasion
  • Captivity & confinement
  • Disappearance of a loved one
  • Fire
  • Loss of autonomy (mind control & possession)
  • War themes & military violence
  • Displacement