PTSD & Trauma – Page 3 – Trigger Warning Database

Watch Me by Tahereh Mafi

James Anderson had a plan. Or half of one. All that matters is that he managed to do what his older brother, the famous Aaron Warner Anderson, never did: infiltrate Ark Island, the last refuge of The Reestablishment. In the past decade no outsider has breached the stronghold of the authoritarian regime, but James is in. In a prison cell, sure, but as far as James is concerned, a win is a win. It’s been ten years since the fall of The Reestablishment. Ten years since the notorious duo — Juliette Ferrars and… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Graphic murder
Blackmail

Children of Fallen Gods by Carissa Broadbent

No war can be fought with clean hands. Not even the ones waged for the right reasons. Not even the ones you win. Tisaanah bargained away her own freedom to save those she left behind in slavery. Now, bound by her blood pact, she must fight the Orders’ war — and Max is determined to protect her at all costs. But when a betrayal tears apart Ara, Max and Tisaanah are pushed into an even bloodier conflict. Tisaanah must gamble with Reshaye’s power to claim an impossible victory. And Max, forced into leadership, must confront everything he hoped to forget: his past… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Trauma & nightmares
Blood, gore & injury depiction
Emesis
Medical experimentation
Murder
Sword violence
Loss of autonomy (possession)
Kidnapping
War themes & mentions of genocide

Deep Down by Mia Hopkins

Resilient and disciplined, tsunami survivor Eve Ono moves to California from Japan looking for a position as a sushi chef. When she’s suddenly fired from her restaurant job, desperation drives her to find work on a fishing boat despite her fears of the ocean. To make matters worse, she’s stuck in close quarters with her new captain—a man whose raw physicality drives her out of her mind with lust. Free-spirited and roguish, Sam Lamont is a commercial fisherman aboard his own dive boat, the Bravado. When he makes a bad deal with a deadly loan shark who threatens to… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Hospitalisation
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
Panic attacks (on-page)
Death of grandparents in a tsunami recounted
Shark attack (on-page)

In the Wreckage by Hailey Turner

Captain Jamie Callahan got a new lease on life when he survived a chemical attack that turned him into a metahuman. Now he leads Alpha Team, the Metahuman Defense Force’s top strike group, a position that puts him at odds with his elite political family. Determined to do his duty, Jamie’s commitment to his team creates a loneliness that is increasingly difficult to ignore. Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan is a sniper with secrets. Seconded to Alpha Team, he finds himself torn between his desire for Jamie and his desperate need to fly under the radar. But Jamie is everything Kyle… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Drugging
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
Vivisepulture (being buried alive)
Terrorism
Military warfare

In the Blood by Hailey Turner

Captain Jamie Callahan is running out of time in his efforts to outsmart an enemy metahuman. His father’s presidential campaign is ramping up, and Jamie’s top secret identity as a metahuman himself is at risk of being revealed by the enemy, to say nothing of his secret relationship with Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan. As Alpha Team’s long-running mission gets derailed in the worst way possible, Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin discovers the enemy is playing for keeps, and neither he nor Agent Sean Delaney are in any… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Threats of rape
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
Graphic torture, including waterboarding, dental torture, skinning, and beating
Erotic asphyxia
Chemical bombing
Terrorism

In Your Dreams by Sarah Adams

Madison Walker left Rome, Kentucky, determined to prove she could make it in the culinary world. But after years of chasing success in New York, all she has to show for it is a shattered confidence and a desperate need for a fresh start. Coming home isn’t part of the plan—until an unexpected job offer lands in her lap, giving her a chance to rebuild everything she’s lost: the head chef position at a new farm-to-table restaurant in her hometown. The only catch? It comes from James Huxley, owner of Huxley Farm, her brother’s best friend… and the last person she wants… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Drug use (smoking)
Death of a parent mentioned

Freeing the Wild by Paisley Hope

Rising country star Cassie Spencer, otherwise known as the Princess of Bluegrass, is just kicking off her music career when tragedy strikes during her tour. Seeking solace, she retreats to Kentucky to visit her sister Ivy. Haden Westbrook, the charming heartthrob of Laurel Creek, only wants one a peaceful life tending to the Silver Pines ranch and his beloved horses. So when the stunning, free-spirited Cassie arrives in town causing chaos, his world is turned upside down. At first, Cassie and Haden seem worlds apart. Yet, as they… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder & anxiety attacks (on-page)
Animal death mentioned

Mind Games by Nancy Mehl

Kaely Quinn’s talents as an FBI behavior analyst are impossible to ignore, no matter how unorthodox her methods. But when a reporter outs her as the daughter of an infamous serial killer, she’s demoted to field agent and transferred to St. Louis. When the same reporter who ruined her career claims to have received an anonymous poem predicting a string of murders, ending with Kaely’s, the reporter’s ulterior motives bring his claim into question. But when a body is found that fits the poem’s predictions, the threat is undeniable, and the FBI sends Special Agent Noah Hunter to St. Louis. Initially resentful of… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Parental infidelity mentioned
Suicide by overdose
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & nightmares (protagonist)
Murder & attempted murder

Taming Seraphine by Gigi Styx

They captured me, broke me. Molded me into their perfect weapon. They made me murder and seduce strangers. Until a hitman killed my captors and set me free. Leroi: I rescued a girl from a basement thinking she was innocent, but I brought home a serial killer whose darkness borders on insanity. Now, I need to tame her murderous instincts before I become her next victim. Seraphine is reckless, unstable, and likely to get us both destroyed. Every instinct says I should end her, but she’s too captivating to resist.Each day, she draws me deeper into her web, her allure stripping my self-control. But I’m harboring secrets treach… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape, sexual assault & dubious consent (‘dubcon’)
Paedophilia & child sexual abuse
Child abandonment
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Drugging
Blood & gore depiction
Cannibalism
Gential mutilation (castration) & dismemberment
Grief & loss depiction
Murder
Torture
Knife play
Electrocution
Organised crime
Car accident
Kidnapping
Human & organ trafficking

Snaring Emberly by Gigi Styx

Revenge was supposed to be simple, but love had other plans Emberly: When an abusive ex corners me in a nightclub, I cling to the first man I see for protection. Little do I know he’s a mafia Don, fresh out of prison and eager for a one-night stand. One night extends into two, then three. I’m beginning to suspect I can’t leave. But every time I raise questions, he answers with offers impossible to resist. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell if I’m just paranoid or a pawn in a much larger game. Roman: When a man gets jailed for a crime he didn’t commit, the first thing he wants after leaving death row is vengeance. The bastard who framed me… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Domestic violence mentioned
Elder abuse
Forced marriage
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & panic attacks
Attempted suicide, immolation & threats of suicide bombing
Drugging
Forced pregnancy due to birth control tampering
Male genital mutilation
Dismemberment, desecration of a corpse, and cremation of living people
Murder
Torture (waterboarding)
Organised crime (mafia)
Kidnapping & imprisonment

Context : Depiction of BDSM & kink, including voyeurism, exhibitionism, and mentions of urophilia