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Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

After a shout-out from one of the Internet’s superstar vloggers, Natasha “Tash” Zelenka suddenly finds herself and her obscure, amateur web series, Unhappy Families, thrust in the limelight: She’s gone viral. Her show is a modern adaption of Anna Karenina—written by Tash’s literary love Count Lev Nikolayevich “Leo” Tolstoy. Tash is a fan of the 40,000 new subscribers, their gushing tweets, and flashy Tumblr gifs. Not so much the pressure to deliver the best web series ever. And when Unhappy Families is nominated for a Golden Tuba award, Tash’s cyber-flirtation with a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Aphobia & arophobia
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Parent with cancer
  • Death of a grandparent in a car accident recounted

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

Lane Roanoke is fifteen when she comes to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin at the Roanoke family’s rural estate following the suicide of her mother. Over one long, hot summer, Lane experiences the benefits of being one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But what she doesn’t know is being a Roanoke girl carries a terrible legacy: either the girls run, or they die. For there is darkness at the heart of Roanoke, and when Lane discovers its insidious pull, she must make her choice…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment
  • Statutory rape
  • Incest
  • Physical child abuse
  • Graphic suicide recounted
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Childbirth
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of an infant mentioned
  • Death of a mother
  • Murder
  • Drowning
  • Hanging recounted
  • Death from a fall mentioned
  • Disappearnace of a loved one
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The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misogyny
  • Queermisia
  • Transmisia
  • Outing
  • Slut shaming
  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Statutory rape mentioned
  • Sexual assault, on-page
  • Sexual harassment
  • Forced sex work mentioned
  • Forced adult-minor marriage
  • Hallucinations & delusions
  • Suicide by drowning, on-page
  • Childbirth & death from childbirth
  • Pregnancy & teenage pregnancy
  • Infertility mentioned
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Dead bodies
  • Scalping & skinning, off-page
  • Mutilation & dismemberment mentioned
  • Cannibalism mentioned
  • Starvation
  • Nonconsensual branding
  • Scars
  • Death of a wife
  • Knife & axe violence
  • Whipping recounted
  • Lynching, on-page
  • Animal attack
  • Animal death, on-page
  • Animal cruelty mentioned
  • Bullying
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Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

Run Posy Run by Cate C. Wells

When I fell for Dario Volpe, I thought he was Prince Charming, and I was the luckiest girl alive. He didn’t care about my past. The talk. The stain on my family’s reputation. Then he saw something I never wanted anyone to see. He cares now. This isn’t a breakup, it’s a warning shot, and if I want to get out of this bad romance alive, I have to run and never look back.
Dario Volpe is no storybook hero. He’s a psychopath, and he can’t decide–kiss me? Or kill me?… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut shaming
  • Threats of sexual assault
  • Sexual harassment
  • Revenge porn
  • Cheating
  • Intimate partner abuse recounted
  • Voluntary euthanasia mentioned
  • Pregnancy & childbirth, on-page
  • Anti-Social Personality Disorder
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of a parent from cancer recounted
  • Death of a daughter in a car accident mentioned
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping
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The Hush by Sara Foster

The Hush by Sara Foster

Six months ago, in an English hospital, a healthy baby wouldn’t take a breath at birth. Since then there have been more tragedies, and now the country is in turmoil. The government is clamping down on people’s freedoms. The prime minister has passed new laws granting authorities sweeping powers to monitor all citizens. And young pregnant women have started going missing. As a midwife, Emma is determined to be there for those who need her. But when her seventeen-year-old daughter… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Pregnancy & childbirth
  • Teen pregnancy
  • Stillbirth
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American Betiya by Anuradha Rajurkar

American Betiya by Anuradha D. Rajurkar

Rani Kelkar has never lied to her parents until she meets Oliver. The same qualities that draw her in–his tattoos, his charisma, his passion for art–make him her mother’s worst nightmare. They begin dating in secret, but when Oliver’s troubled home life unravels, he starts to ask more of Rani than she knows how to give, desperately trying to fit into her world, no matter how high the cost. When a twist of fate leads Rani from Evanston, Illinois to Pune, India for a summer, she has a reckoning with herself–and what’s really brewing beneath the surface of her first love… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Misogyny
  • Child abandonment & neglect
  • Substance addiction
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug use
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Suicide & attempted suicide
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of a grandparent
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The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian

Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous man deserved what was coming to him, but now she must flee to the countryside. Unfortunately, the only person she can ask for help is the charismatic criminal who is blackmailing her–and who she may have left tied up a few hours before. A highwayman, con artist, and all-around cheerful villain, Rob Brooks is no stranger to the wrong side of the law or the right side of anybody’s bed. He never meant to fall for the woman… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Parental abandonment
  • Domestic abuse recounted
  • Parent with Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Postpartum depression
  • Traumatic pregnancy & childbirth
  • Blood depiction
  • Death of a spouse
  • Murder, off-page
  • Gun violence
  • Incarceration recounted
  • Blackmail
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A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian

A Gentleman Never Keeps Score by Cat Sebastian

Once beloved by London’s fashionable elite, Hartley Sedgwick has become a recluse after a spate of salacious gossip exposed his most-private secrets. Rarely venturing from the house whose inheritance is a daily reminder of his downfall, he’s captivated by the exceedingly handsome man who seeks to rob him. Since retiring from the boxing ring, Sam Fox has made his pub, The Bell, into a haven for those in his Free Black community. But when his best friend Kate implores him to find and destroy a scandalously revealing painting of her, he agrees. Sam would do anything to protect those he loves, even if it means… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Child sex work mentioned
  • Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned
  • Concussion
  • Death of a father mentioned
  • Death of a friend recounted
  • Animal fighting rings mentioned
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Dark Fire by Ruby Dixon

Dark Fire by Ruby Dixon

Azar has taken over Fort Dallas. He rules with complete authority, and everyone bows down to him. Everyone except one woman. Melina, the fort’s medic. No matter what he offers, she refuses to give in. A good man would know to stop asking. Unfortunately for Melina, Azar is not a good man.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slavery mentioned
  • Dubious consent scenario
  • Pregnancy
  • Pandemic
  • Murder of a spouse
  • Physical assault
  • Loss of autonomy (mind control)
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Barbarian Mine by Ruby Dixon

Barbarian Mine by Ruby Dixon

Harlow receives the shock of her life when she wakes up to see Rukh, a stranger who has clearly been on his own his whole life, but she soon learns that there is much more to this gruff, barbaric alien than the savage he appears to be. The ice planet has given me a second lease on life, so I’m thrilled to be here. Sure, there are no cheeseburgers, but I’m healthy and ready to be a productive member of the small tribe. What I didn’t anticipate? That there’d be a savage stranger waiting nearby, watching me. And when he takes me captive, the unthinkable happens. I resonate … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Pregnancy & childbirth
  • Cancer recounted
  • Kidnapping
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