Tag Archives: Nightmares & Sleep Disorders

Right Where We Left Us by Jen Devon

Temperance Jean Madigan and Duncan Brady have never gotten it right. After one radiant, secret summer together when they were eighteen, they’ve been on-again off-again ever since. Now, despite red-hot chemistry and TJ’s closeness with Duncan’s family, they’re virtually strangers, only capable of adversarial banter, awkward small talk―and the occasional messy hookup. .When a wedding at the Brady’s vineyard lands TJ there for the summer, their mutual avoidance strategies prove impossible. The last thing TJ wants is to be under those angsty, heated glances Duncan thinks he hides. And for Duncan.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Nightmares
  • Alcohol consumption mentioned
  • Minor injury depiction (mild concussion, sprained wrist)
  • Chronic illness (vertigo & a blood platelet disorder)
  • Death of a pet dog mentioned

The Fae Princes by Nikki St. Crowe

I thought Peter Pan was a myth and Neverland a fairytale. A story spun by my mother who had lost her mind a long time ago. But there was no denying the overwhelming shadow cast by Peter Pan when he was standing in my house. Pan took me captive to Neverland and I somehow found my place among him and the Lost Boys. I’ve never looked back. Now I’m entangled right alongside him in a war we can’t seem to escape. We thought we had defeated our enemies. We thought we could finally have our happily ever after. But there was one enemy we never saw… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Child abandonment recounted
  • Alcohol consumption & smoking (cigarettes)
  • Weight gain mentioned
  • Blood & injury depiction including vision impairment
  • Murder and rape of a sister recounted
  • Death of a father & grandmother recounted
  • Death & resurrection of a mother
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Attempted murder by vivisepulture (buried alive)
  • Physical assault & knife violence
  • Drowning
  • Loss of autonomy by possession & mind control (secondary character)

Devourer of Men by Nikki St. Crowe

I have few friends and fewer allies. What I do have on the island of Everland is a lot of people who want me gone. So when the Crocodile and Captain Hook reappear in my life, I am in no mood. And worse, they’re unknowingly endangering themselves by asking for me by a name I long considered dead. Now, not only do I have to save myself, I have to save the two men who I swore I would murder with my bare hands if I ever set eyes on them again considering they abandoned me. Unfortunately for me, Roc and Hook have other plans, and when I find myself caught between them, I have to make a decision: risk my heart or risk my life?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abandonment recounted
  • Physical & emotional child abuse recounted
  • Forced marriage recounted
  • Anxiety & nightmares
  • Alcohol consumption & smoking (cigarettes)
  • Blood & injury depiction including cannibalism, blood-drinking, amputation (hand), and needles
  • Death of a mother from suicide recounted
  • Death of a sister mentioned
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Physical assault (mugging) & stabbing
  • Imprisonment recounted

Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss’s biggest client, Lachlan knows he’ll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she’ll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first.  And they can’t stand each other. Indie singer-songwriter Lark is the sunshine and glitter that burns through every cloud and clings to every crevice that Lachlan Kane tries to… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child sexual abuse recounted
  • Physical child abuse & parental neglect recounted
  • Infidelty recounted
  • Panic attack, insomnia & claustrophobia
  • Blood, injury & gore depiction including concussion, gunshot wounds, the use of needles to sew mouths shut, and the removal of fingers and eyes from dead bodies
  • Death of a mother & father mentioned
  • Murder of a father in a home invasion
  • Murder of a terminally ill great-aunt from injection
  • Murder (theme) including the use of a car accident to kill someone
  • Torture
  • Home invasion, stalking & kidnapping discussed
  • Animal attack & injury

*Context : The female protagonist’s ex-partner cheated on her and messaged underage girls. A secondary character is also cheating on his partner with his children’s nanny. The female protagonist is a serial killer her targets rapists and paedophilias; the male protagonist is a contract killer. A dog bites the antagonist and recovers from an injury sustained when the antagonist kicks it in retaliation.

The Rivals of Casper Road by Roan Parrish

He’s in it to win it until he falls under his neighbor’s spell. Bram Larkspur’s rugged, sexy looks belie his fear of all things horrifying. But as Casper Road’s newest resident, he’s excited to join the annual Halloween decorating contest. The competition is keen, especially from six-time champion, architect Zachary Glass. But when enigmatic Zachary sparks a prank war, it’s game on – until one sizzling kiss turns these rivals into allies. Now only one thing scares Bram: how quickly he’s losing his heart to Zachary.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Antisemitism mentioned
  • Infidelity recounted
  • Nightmares & mentions of stress-induced weight loss
  • Emesis
  • Disappearance of a sibling
  • Bullying recounted

* Context : The protagonist’s ex-partner cheated on him with his best friend. The other protagonist’s sister went missing when she was 17-years-old and has never been found.

Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Evie Sage has never been happier to be the assistant to The Villain. Who would have thought that working for an outrageously handsome (shhh, bad for his brand) evil overlord would be so rewarding? Still, the business of being bad is demanding, the forces of good are annoyingly persistent, and said forbidding boss is somewhat… er, out-of-evil-office. But Rennedawn is in grave trouble, and all signs—Kingsley’s included—point to catastrophe. Something peculiar is happening with the kingdom’s magic, and it’s made The Villain’s manor vulnerable to their enemies… including… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Nightmares
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood, gore & injury depiction including emesis, decapitation & severed body parts
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Physcial assault
  • Kidnapping & imprisonment
  • Incarceration of an abusive parent
  • Disappearance & presumed death of a mother
  • Animal harm

Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps. When she’s not listening to her favourite true crime podcasts on a loop, she’s serially dating a rotation of women from dating apps. At the same time, she’s trying to forge a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of her absent father. When she unwittingly plunges into her first serious romantic entanglement, Enid starts to believe that someone is following her As her paranoia spirals out of control, Enid… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Infidelity recounted
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Anxiety & panic attacks including nightmare & peladophobia
  • Parent with depression
  • Self-harm & attempted suicide of a parent recounted

Context : The protagonist’s high school boyfriend cheated on his girlfriend with her. She also did not realise some of her previous lovers were married. A secondary character is divorcing his wife for infidelity

To Die in Vienna by Kevin Wignall

Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why—until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this—or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past? As he’s forced into a lethal dance across… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) including flashbacks, nightmares & sleeping difficulties
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Gun violence
  • Stalking

Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree

Viv’s career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she’s packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it. What’s a thwarted soldier of fortune to do? Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn’t possibly imagine. Still, adventure isn’t all that far away… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Anxiety & nightmares
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Physical injury recovery (leg)
  • Murder (off-page)
  • Stalking
  • Animal injury & death (sheep)

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

Chicago, 1893. For Alter Rosen, this is the land of opportunity, and he dreams of the day he’ll have enough money to bring his mother and sisters to America, freeing them from the oppression they face in his native Romania. But when Alter’s best friend, Yakov, becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, his dream begins to slip away. While the rest of the city is busy celebrating the World’s Fair, Alter is now living a nightmare: possessed by Yakov’s dybbuk, he is plunged into a world of corruption and deceit, and thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past. A boy who means more to Alter than… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Antisemitism
  • Hate crime
  • Rape & paedophilia recounted
  • Sexual assault
  • Nightmares
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction and body horror
  • Hospitalisation & emesis
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a child
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Drowning & consensual near-drowning
  • Fire & immolation