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Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare

Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare

After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year of college back in Philadelphia should be safe and comparatively easy. All Quinn wants is to forget what happened and be normal again. But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of a host of online conspiracy theories that claim to prove that the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth — not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room. So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Substance addiction mentioned
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Serious physical injury of a parent
Death of a parent & sibling recounted
Murder
Gun violence

The Proposal by Mary Balogh

The Proposal by Mary Balogh

Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy, especially since a freak accident took her husband much too soon. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoops her up in his arms after a fall, she feels a sensation that both shocks and emboldens her. Hugo never intends to kiss Lady Muir, and frankly, he judges her to be a spoiled, frivolous–if beautiful–aristocrat. He is a gentleman in name only: a soldier whose bravery earned him a title; a merchant’s son who inherited his wealth. He is happiest when working the land, but duty and title… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Panic attacks
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Bipolar Disorder
Suicide
Infertility
Miscarriage
Death of a husband recounted
Military service in the Napoleonic Wars recounted

Creatures Most Vile by Chelsea Lauren

Creatures Most Vile by Chelsea Lauren

It’s another ordinary day when she’s sent to a Guardian assessment designed to unleash rare supernatural abilities until she blasts a tunnel of water across the room. Her coach calls her gift a blessing, but Anora knows it’s a death sentence. Now she must train as a Guardian and battle the very monsters that have tormented her entire life. It’s another ordinary day when she’s sent to a Guardian assessment designed to unleash rare supernatural abilities until she blasts a tunnel of water across the room. Her coach calls her gift a blessing, but Anora knows it’s a death… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
Torture, implied
Kidnapping

The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas

The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas

Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parent abandonment mentioned, off-page
PTSD & trauma
Panic attack, off-page
Nightmares

Mutually Beneficial by Ava Guerre

Mutually Beneficial by Ava Guerre

Annalise Teague is dead broke. Her life has become a highwire act, trying to balance too many obligations to too many people. When she can’t scrape together the money for rent, she has no choice but to beg her landlord for mercy. But Jason Andreas isn’t known for his bleeding heart. Instead of mercy, he offers her a deal. She won’t owe him a penny if she gives him… herself. She knows it’s wrong to accept but, is it even worse if she likes it? … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Anxiety & panic attacks
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Substance addiction
Attempted suicide
Chronic injury

The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard

Ava, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Julie, and Parker are all driven to be perfect—no matter the cost. At first, the girls think they have nothing in common until they discover that they all hate the same person: handsome womanizer Nolan Hotchkiss, who’s done things to hurt each of them. They come up with the perfect plan to murder Nolan—jokingly, of course. They’d never actually go through with it. But when Nolan turns up dead in the exact way they’d discussed, the girls suddenly become prime suspects in his murder. Only, they… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse
Sexual assault
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Suicide
Drug use
Grief & loss depiction
Bullying

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? As a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured. And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she’s the lucky one… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Medical experimentation
Chronic illness & pain
Body horror, including eyeball trauma
Murder
Torture
Kidnapping

Die, Volume One by Kieron Gillen

Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Stephanie Hans

The Wicked + The Divine writer Kieron Gillen teams up with artist supernova Stephanie Hans (WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. Die is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron’s in a rush, he describes it as “Goth Jumanji”, but that’s only the tip of this obsidian iceberg. Collects issues #1-5 of Die.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Body & eye horror
Death of a parent

Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden

Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden

Nearly a thousand years removed from Earth, the remnants of humanity cling to existence inside giant, space-faring creatures known as the Zenzee. Abused and exploited by humans for generations, these majestic animals nearly went extinct, but under the command of its newly minted ruler, Doka Kaleigh, life in the Parados I has flourished. Thanks to careful oversight and sacrifice by all of its crew, they are now on the brink of utopia, and yet Doka’s rivals feel threatened by that success. The Senate allowed Doka to lead their people believing he’d fail spectacularly—a disaster that would cement the legitimacy of their long … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Cheating
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Panic attack
Abortion
Body horror
Genocide

The Ever Cruel Kingdom by Rin Chupeco

The Ever Cruel Kingdom by Rin Chupeco

After a treacherous journey and a life-shattering meeting with a twin neither knew they had, Haidee and Odessa expected to emerge from the Great Abyss to a world set right. But though the planet is turning once again, the creatures of the abyss will not rest until they have tasted another goddess’s sacrifice. To break the cycle, Haidee and Odessa need answers that lie beyond the seven gates of the underworld, within the Cruel Kingdom itself. The shadows of the underworld may hunger to tear them apart, but these two sisters are determined to heal their world—together.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Emotional abuse & gaslighting
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Self harm
Blood depiction
Cannibalism
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Murder
Animal death