Tag Archives: Paedophilia, Grooming & CSA

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of paedophilia, hebephilia, grooming, and child sexual abuse, including the sexual assault and rape of minors (people under the age of eighteen).

See also Child abuse & neglect, Rape, and Sexual assault.

He Is Mine by K.A. Merikan

A wedding should be a joyful affair, but it is far from that for Seth Villani. Thrust into an arranged marriage, back under the same roof with serpents and wolves who are his family, Seth has to watch his back if he is to survive until the despised event. Though with his love affair with Domenico Acerbi slipping out of his grasp, and his father forcing blood on his hands, sometimes Seth wishes the dark waves of the sea nearby could swallow him whole. Coming back home to Italy is full of bitterness and regret for Domenico. He knows he will have to see Seth, the first man who’s… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Homophobia
  • Rape & sexual assault of a teenager
  • Torture mentioned

He Is Poison by K.A. Merikan

Domenico Acerbi. The Villani Family’s best assassin. Ruthless. Vicious. With no patience for weakness. Seth Villani. The Don’s son. Clueless. Stubborn. In dire need of someone to keep him in line. Domenico Acerbi grew up ready to give his life for the Family. Ready to follow orders and exceed expectations. A proud man of honor. The last thing he wants to deal with is training the Don’s son for his future role within the organization. Lazy, annoying, spoiled, and as hot as a Sicilian summer, Seth Villani is no mafia material. But a man who could never become a threat might just be what Domenico needs. Seth Villani wants… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Transphobia & misogyny

Skies Over Caledonia by Samantha Young

It’s been five years since Jared McCulloch’s grandfather Collum passed away and he inherited his farm in the Scottish Highlands. After his grandad saved him from his past life, Jared is determined to honour Collum’s legacy. But not only has a series of bad luck put him in danger of losing the farm, his estranged father is disputing the will. In a desperate situation, Jared realizes he’ll do just about anything to save the land. Even marrying Allegra Howard, a woman he’s avoided at all costs. A woman who tempts him… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity
  • Child sexual abuse mentuioned
  • Suicide mentioned
  • Hospitalisation
  • Alcohol consumption & drug use mentioned
  • Car accident
  • Stalking

Among the Heather by Samantha Young

North Hunter has worked hard to step out of the shadows of his orphaned upbringing into the limelight of Hollywood. He never imagined a dark moment from his childhood returning to destroy everything he’d built. Devastated, he finds comfort in the isolation of an exclusive members-only club in the Scottish Highlands, even if the club comes with a prickly estate manager who sets his blood on fire. As the eldest daughter of a Hollywood legend, Aria Howard has learned the hard way that people will use her to get to her father. When her last relationship ended badly, Aria fled… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Physical & sexual child abuse mentioned
  • Infidelity mentioned
  • Death of parents mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
  • Blackmail

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill

When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother’s doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. Will her brother support her ambition or send her back to finish her degree? What will her parents say when they learn of her decision? Does she even have what it takes to be a successful writer? What Theo never expects is to be drawn into a hidden literary world in which identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of an audience. When her mentor, a highly successful… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Attempted paedophilia & child sexual assault recounted
  • Attempted sexual assault by a teacher recounted
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Murder & attempted murder by gun & knife violence
  • Police violence (shooting)

Context : The protagonist was nearly assaulted by a paedophile when she was 10 years old, but her brother stabbed her attacker and saved her.

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn’t pan out. The program is a who’s who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (mc!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal thriller, the literary writer, the psychological suspense writer. But when one of us is murdered, the remaining authors quick… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child sexual abuse, implied
  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Murder
  • Poisoning
  • Death of children and spouse in a fatal car accident

The Institution by Helen Sarah Fields

On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital for the criminally insane, a nurse has been murdered and her newborn baby kidnapped. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking. Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth, and use her unique skills to find the baby – before it’s too late. She has five days to catch the killer. But with the walls of The Institution closing in on her, will her sanity last that long?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Ableism & mentions of homophobia
  • Suicide
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Murder & foetal abduction
  • Physical & child sexual abuse

Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena

Welcome to Stanhope! A safe neighbourhood. A place for families. William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery’s family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn’t feel so safe. And William isn’t the only one on his street who’s hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child abuse & neglect
  • False accusation of rape and kidnapping of a child

No Ordinary Life by Suzanne Redfearn

Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and her three children or that she’d have to struggle every day to make ends meet. So when her four-year-old daughter is discovered through a YouTube video and offered a starring role on a television series, it seems like her prayers have been answered. But when the reality of their new life settles in, Faye realizes that fame and fortune don’t come without a price. And in a world where everyone is an actor and every move is scrutinized by millions, it’s impossible to know who to trust, and Faye finds herself utterly alone in her struggle to save her family.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape of a child
  • Spousal & parental abandonment
  • Alcohol consumption

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

Sophie O’Neill left behind an envy-inspiring career and the stressful, competitive life of big-city Chicago to settle down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. It seems like the perfect life with a beautiful home in an idyllic rural community. But Sophie soon realizes that life is now too quiet, and she’s feeling bored and restless. Then she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie finds herself completely drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor relationship & paedophilia
  • Rape
  • Cheating
  • Alcohol abuse & drugging
  • Pregnancy & abortion mentioned
  • Death of a child
  • Gun violence