Homecoming by Annabeth Albert
When Pike’s perfect homecoming for Zack is spoiled, the two must work together to ensure their future is bright.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Physical injury to a loved one
Homecoming by Annabeth Albert
Tag Archives: Physical Injuries & Illness
This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of physical illness and medical conditions and physical injuries, including burns, wounds, fractures, and scars.
Better Not Pout by Annabeth Albert
Better Not Pout by Annabeth Albert
One hard-nosed military police officer. One overly enthusiastic elf. One poorly timed snowstorm. Is it a recipe for disaster? Or a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for holiday romance?
Teddy MacNally loves Christmas and everything that goes along with it. When he plays an elf for his charity’s events, he never expects to be paired with a Scrooge masquerading as Santa Claus. His new mission: make the holiday-hating soldier believe he was born to say ho-ho-ho.
Sergeant Major Nicholas Nowicki doesn’t do Santa, but he’s army to his blood. When his CO asks an unusual favor, Nick of course obliges. The elf to his Kris Kringle? Tempting. Too tempting—Nick’s only in town for another month, and Teddy’s too young, too cheerful and too nice for a one-night stand.
The slow, sexy make-out sessions while Teddy and Nick are alone and snowbound, though, feel like anything but a quick hookup. As a stress-free holiday fling turns into Christmas all year round, Teddy can’t imagine his life without Nick. And Nick’s days on the base may be coming to a close, but he doesn’t plan on leaving anything, or anyone, behind.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Parent with alcoholism
- Heart attack (mentioned)
- Death of a sibling (recounted)
- Gun robbery
Arctic Wild by Annabeth Albert
Arctic Wild by Annabeth Albert
Hotshot attorney Reuben Graham has finally agreed to take a vacation, when his plane suddenly plunges into the Alaskan wilderness. Just his luck.
But his frustrations have only begun as he finds himself stranded with the injured, and superhot, pilot, a man who’s endearingly sociable—and much too young for Reuben to be wanting him this badly.
As the sole provider for his sisters and ailing father, Tobias Kooly is devastated to learn his injuries will prevent him from working or even making it back home. So when Reuben insists on giving him a place to recover, not even Toby’s pride can make him refuse. He’s never been tempted by a silver fox before, but something about Reuben is impossible to resist.
Recuperating in Reuben’s care is the last thing Toby expected, yet the closer they become, the more incredibly right it feels, prompting workaholic Reuben to question the life he’s been living. But when the pressure Toby’s under starts closing in, both men will have to decide if there’s room in their hearts for a love they never saw coming.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Physical injuries
- Phobia of flying
- Death of a parent/s
- Plane crash
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighbourhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyper-empathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Human trafficking
- Slavery
- Child sexual assault & abuse
- Rape, including statutory rape
- Abusive relationship
- Adult-minor relationships
- Arranged, forced & coerced marriage
- Domestic abuse
- Estrangement
- Physical child abuse & neglect
- Addiction
- Drug abuse
- Blood and gore depiction including dead bodies and body parts
- Cannibalism
- Physical injuries
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a child
- Death of a friend
- Death of a parent
- Death of a sibling
- Disappearance of a loved one
- Gun & knife violence
- Murder
- Police brutality
- Bushfire
- Earthquake
- Home invasion
- Homelessness
- Poverty themes
- Hunting
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Mila Flores and her best friend Riley have always been inseparable. There’s not much excitement in their small town of Cross Creek, so Mila and Riley make their own fun, devoting most of their time to Riley’s favorite activity: amateur witchcraft.
So when Riley and two Fairmont Academy mean girls die under suspicious circumstances, Mila refuses to believe everyone’s explanation that her BFF was involved in a suicide pact. Instead, armed with a tube of lip gloss and an ancient grimoire, Mila does the unthinkable to uncover the truth: she brings the girls back to life… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Fatmisia & body-shaming
- Racism
- Sexism
- Cheating
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Depression
- Suicide
- Blood and gore depiction
- Dead bodies
- Physical injuries
- Grief depiction
- Death of a friend
- Death of a sister
- Death of a child
- Death of a girlfriend
- Murder
- Gun violence
- Knife violence & stabbing
- Hanging
- Drowning
- Fire
- Home invasion
- Animal death and animal sacrifice
- Bullying
The Secret Sky by Atia Abawi
The Secret Sky by Atia Abawi
Fatima is a Hazara girl. She was raised to be obedient, to be dutiful, and to honour the traditions of her family, her village, and her religion. Samiullah is a Pashtun boy. He was raised to be a landowner, to increase his family’s power, and to defend the traditions of his tribe, his village, and his religion.
They were not meant to fall in love.
But they do.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Racism, slut-shaming and terrorism
- Forced and arranged marriages
- Child abuse and physical abuse
- Physical injuries and graphic burns
- Murder
- Poverty themes
The Project by Courtney Summers
The Project by Courtney Summers
Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo’s sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there’s more to the group than meets the eye. She’s spent the last six years of her life trying—and failing—to prove it. When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming The Unity Project killed his son, Lo sees the perfect opportunity to expose the group and… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Abandonment
- Disfigurmisia
- Child abuse & neglect recounted, including emotional abuse & gaslighting
- Infidelity
- Trauma, panic attacks, nightmares & mentions of hallucinations
- Suicide by train (on-page) & mentions of suicidal ideation
- Pregnancy & pregnancy complications (on-page), including traumatic premature childbirth (on-page)
- Blood & injury depiction, including graphic burns, hospitalisation, comas, broken bones, and facial scars
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a mother & father in a car accident (off-page)
- Death of a mother in a fire mentioned
- Death of a guardian mentioned
- Death of a sister by drowning (off-page)
- Death of a son discussed
- Murder
- Torture (on-page)
- Disappearance of a sibling
- Car accident (on- & off-page)
- Blackmail mentioned and mentions of stalking & harassment
- Cults (theme)
- Homelessness mentioned
Every Single Lie by Rachel Vincent
Every Single Lie by Rachel Vincent
Nobody in Beckett’s life seems to be telling the whole story. Her boyfriend Jake keeps hiding texts and might be cheating on her. Her father lied about losing his job before his shocking death. And everyone in school seems to be whispering about her and her family behind her back.
But none of that compares to the day Beckett finds the body of a newborn baby in a gym bag-Jake’s gym bag -on the floor of her high school locker room. As word leaks out, rumors that Beckett’s the mother take off like wildfire in a town all too ready to believe the worst of her. And as the police investigation unfolds, she discovers that everyone has a secret to hide and the truth could alter everything she thought she knew.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Cheating
- PTSD & panic attacks
- Substance addiction & alcoholism
- Alcohol & drug abuse, including overdose
- Child pregnancy, childbirth & stillbirth
- Physical injuries
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of a father to suicide by a drug & alcohol overdose recounted
- Death of an infant*
- Bullying & cyberbullying, including death threats
*Note: the book’s plot centres around the protagonist discovering the dead body of a newborn in her school’s gym.
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.
Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Child abuse
- Suicide attempt, on-page
- Suicidal ideation
- Self-harm
- Blood and gore depiction
- Physical injuries, specifically gunshot wounds
- Nonconsensual hospitalisation
- Medical experiementation
- Death of a mentor
- Murder
- Gun violence
The King’s Men by Nora Sakavic
The King’s Men by Nora Sakavic
Neil Josten is out of time. He knew when he came to PSU he wouldn’t survive the year, but with his death right around the corner he’s got more reasons than ever to live.
Befriending the Foxes was inadvisable. Kissing one is unthinkable. Neil should know better than to get involved with anyone this close to the end, but Andrew’s never been the easiest person to walk away from. If they both say it doesn’t mean anything, maybe Neil won’t regret losing it, but the one person Neil can’t lie to is himself.
He’s got promises to keep and a team to get to championships if he can just outrun Riko a little longer, but Riko’s not the only monster in Neil’s life. The truth might get them all killed—or be Neil’s one shot at getting out of this alive.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Homomisia
- Ableism
- Rape
- Sexual assault
- Child abuse
- Physical & emotional abuse
- Self-harm
- Addiction
- Alcohol & drug use, consensual and non-consensual
- Graphic blood and gore depiction
- Physical injuries
- Knife violence
- Bullying
