Tag Archives: Nightmares & Sleep Disorders

Black Hearts by Karina Halle

For Vicente Bernal, truth is all he’s known. The son of an infamous drug lord, Vicente was born to help run the family business, which means he’s been raised on a throne of sordid pasts and dirty laundry, violence and pride. But when Vicente stumbles across someone he’s not supposed to know about – a woman from his father’s checkered past – he sets out to California to find her behind his father’s back. What Vicente doesn’t expect to find in San Francisco is Violet McQueen, the woman’s twenty-year-old daughter. Beautiful and edgy with vulnerability he can’t resist, Violet…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Infidelity recounted
  • Nightmares
  • Alcohol consumption & drug use (cigarettes)
  • Death of a grandfather from cancer
  • Death of an aunt from a car bomb recounted
  • Murder
  • Physical assault
  • Organised crime
  • Attempted kidnapping

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him—is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin’s family announces a contest to redesign the late author’s estate, Effy feels certain it’s her destiny. But musty, decrepit Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task, and its residents are far from welcoming. Including Preston Héloury, a stodgy young literature scholar determined to expose Myrddin as a fraud. As the two rivals piece together… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism & internalised ableism
  • Sexual harassment & sexual assault mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Drug use (smoking)
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Anxiety, panic attacks & nightmares
  • Amputation (protagonist is missing her finger)
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Torture recounted
  • Car accident recounted
  • Drowning & attempted drowning
  • Flood recounted
  • Animal death mentioned

*Context : A secondary character is kissed without consent and has plans to kidnap and hold her captive.

The Leopard King by Ann Aguirre

Until three years ago, those words applied to Dominic Asher, the leader of Ash Valley. His family has ruled the feline branch of the Animari for hundreds of years, guiding the pride through perilous times. Unspeakable loss drove him into seclusion, a feral beast nobody can tame. Now he’s wrecked, a leopard king in exile, and he wants nothing more than to die. Fortunately for Dom, those words still apply to Pru Bristow, his dead mate’s best friend. She’s had her heart broken too, but she never quits. With the conclave approaching, alliances with the Pine Ridge pack and Burnt Amber clans on the verge of collapse, she’s prepared to do… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Nightmares
  • Suicidal ideation recounted
  • Self harm
  • Blood depiction & scars
  • Starvation
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping

The Other Side of Perfect by Mariko Turk

Alina Keeler was destined to dance, but then a terrifying fall shatters her leg and her dreams of a professional ballet career along with it. After a summer healing (translation: eating vast amounts of Cool Ranch Doritos and bingeing ballet videos on YouTube), she is forced to trade her pre-professional dance classes for normal high school, where she reluctantly joins the school musical. However, rehearsals offer more than she expected — namely Jude, her annoyingly attractive cast-mate she just might be falling for…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Parental abandonment discussed
  • Nightmares & sleep difficulty
  • Chronic leg injury (theme)
  • Medical treatment, rehabilitation & surgery for a severely broken leg discussed
  • Bullying

The Confidence of Wildflowers by Micalea Smeltzer

My future is a big ‘what if’ at the moment and I’m fine with that. For the most part. When Thayer Holmes moves in next door, the grumpy landscaper both fascinates and amuses me. When he asks me to nanny his kid, it’s a great way to make some extra money. It’s impossible not to fall in love with Thayer and his adorable son. There’s a big problem though. I’m eighteen. He’s thirty-one. Falling for someone almost fifteen years older than me wasn’t part of my plans, but sometimes things happen when you least expect them.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault of a child mentioned
  • Cheating
  • Child abuse recounted
  • Anxiety, panic attacks & night terrors
  • Emesis
  • Death of a parent from cancer recounted
  • Death of a child

1:35AM by Scott Cawthorn, Andrea Waggener and Elley Cooper

From twisted toys to gut-wrenching games, this collection of terrifying tales is unsettling enough to mess with even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy’s fans. In this volume, horror master Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of FNAF’s canon. Each story comes complete with accompanying artwork from a fan-favorite game artist to bring the horror to life in a whole new way. Readers beware: In this startling world, desperate wishes have an unexpected cost, beautiful trinkets reveal appalling powers, and harmless pranks can go awry in ghastly ways.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism & ableist slurs
  • Parental abandonment recounted
  • Domestic abuse recounted
  • Foster care recounted
  • Insomnia
  • Dieting
  • Cancer
  • Murder
  • Death of a parent recounted

Heartless Heathens by Santana Knox

Hey, Over here. No, look up. Yeah, I’m the one they talk about. The headmaster’s prized possession, locked away in the bell tower of NotreDame Parochial College. To most of the students I was just a myth. An urban legend. The girl who rings the bells up in the tower, the one who talks to gargoyles. Frollo’s secret. Then they showed up, those heartless heathens. Outcasts, just like me. But these men aren’t just dangerous, they’re heartless. They won’t abide or bend to the rules of this deranged school and the secrets it keeps from the world. But now that they’ve found me, they may never let me go. And maybe I wouldn’t want.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Physical, psychological & emotional child abuse
  • Nightmares & flashbacks
  • Epilepsy
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Starvation
  • Emesis
  • Death of a mother in childbirth recounted
  • Execution of a mother for being an abortion provider
  • Disappearance of a parent recounted
  • Captivity

A Holly Jolly Ever After by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

Kallum Lieberman is an ex-boyband member now known exclusively for hooking up with bridesmaids at weddings. He’s even considered a lucky he’s such a fail-safe one-before-you-find-the-one that people have started seeking him out. Winnie Baker’s reputation is the exact she married her childhood sweetheart and became a star of many popular – although very reserved – Hope Channel movies, while still avoiding the downfalls of adolescent fame. Except neither of them want these lives anymore. And what better way to change their reputations and bring them both back into the spotlight than to star in a steamier… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity (cheating ex-partner)
  • Narcolepsy
  • Unplanned pregnancy and miscarriage scare
  • Fire and destruction of property

Tough Luck by Annabeth Albert

I’m a SEAL. Or rather, I was. Retired at the grand old age of thirty-eight, I’m at loose ends. My best friend wants me to join his security team. I’m not sure I’m bodyguard material, but he needs someone to protect his kid brother. How hard can spoiled brat duty be?

Somehow, I missed the part where former child star Danny Love went from dorky TV darling to all grown up and disturbingly attractive. All the gossip about his wild ways fails to mention that he’s trying hard to clean up his act. But now he’s got a stalker… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Anxiety
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Night terrors
  • Addiction recovery discussed
  • Physical assault with a knife
  • Home invasion
  • Naval service recounted
  • Stalking

The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

Sylah dreams of days growing up in the resistance, being told she would spark a revolution that would free the empire from the red-blooded ruling classes’ tyranny. That spark was extinguished the day she watched her family murdered before her eyes.

Anoor has been told she’s nothing, no one, a disappointment, by the only person who matters: her mother, the most powerful ruler in the empire. But when Sylah and Anoor meet a fire burns between them … Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Classism
  • Slavery
  • Child abuse
  • Nightmares
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug use
  • Emesis
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Torture