Tag Archives: Queerphobia

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of queerphobia (any form of bigotry toward the queer and/or trans community).

Cascade Hunger by Gregory Ashe

Cascade Hunger by Gregory Ashe

Eli and Dag survived a monster. Two monsters, in fact. A year later, though, they’re still trying to settle into a ‘regular’ life. Dag is working hard in school. It’s not going great. Eli is working hard at…being a better Eli. He’s eating right. Most of the time. He’s thinking about exercise in healthy ways. He’s ok with how he looks, as long as he doesn’t walk past any mirrors. He goes out some nights, though. He goes across the lake, back to Bragg, where the monsters were. And he’s not sure why. He’s not sure what keeps calling him back… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Murder
  • Body dysmorphia

Prince of Killers by Layla Reyne

Prince of Killers by Layla Reyne

No indiscriminate killing. No collateral damage. No unvetted targets. These are the rules Hawes Madigan lives by. Rules that make being Fog City’s Prince of Killers bearable. Soon, he’ll be king—of an organization of assassins— and the crown has never felt heavier. Until the mysterious Dante Perry swaggers into his life. Dante looks like a rock god and carries himself like one too, all loose-limbed and casually confident. He also carries a concealed weapon, a private investigator’s license, and a message for the prince. Someone inside Hawes’s organization is out to kill the future king… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Human trafficking mentioned
  • Paedophilia & child sexual abuse mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drugging
  • Overdose mentioned
  • Grandparent in hospice care for Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Death of a parent recounted*
  • Death of a grandfather
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Explosion

*Context : The protagonist made the decision to take his parents off of life support.

Stripped Raw by Miss Merikan

Stripped Raw by Miss Merikan

As a patched member of the Coffin Nails MC, Sam is finally living the life he was destined for. A life of Harleys, guns, drugs, and eating pussy. A life of brotherhood above all. When he goes to pick up some pot brownies for the club president’s old lady, he meets a girl so sweet, his inner wolf wants to eat her there and then. What is supposed to be a typical fling, gets damn more complicated when the Coffin Nails decide to involve the pretty blonde baker in their drugs operation. Jolie has a knack for baking delicious… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Misogyny
  • Transmisia
  • Homomisia
  • Deadnaming
  • Workplace sexual harassment
  • Child abuse mentioned
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Organised crime (motorcycle club)

The Same End by Gregory Ashe

The Same End by Gregory Ashe

Teancum Leon is pretty sure that if he plays his cards right, he can have it all: his childhood friend and former lover, Ammon Young; his best friend (although Tean is loath to admit it), Jem Berger; and his family. A boyfriend might even be in his future, although he’s having a heck of a time getting a second date with the guys he meets on Prowler. hen the key suspect in a murder investigation asks to speak with Jem, overturning the precarious balance Tean has worked to maintain. A girl Jem knew in childhood is dead, and the man believed to have killed her was one of Jem’s tormentors at Decker Lake Juvenile… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Homomisia
  • Graphic rape
  • Sexual harassment
  • Depression
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Police corruption
  • Animal cruelty mentioned

Custody Battles by Gregory Ashe

Custody Battles by Gregory Ashe

Emery Hazard and his husband, John-Henry Somerset, are settling into their new normal—at home, with the latest addition to their family, and at work, as Somers adapts to his new role and Hazard manages his expanding agency. The only thing Hazard is worried about is getting through dinner with his in-laws. When his father-in-law requests that Hazard and Somers join him for a weekend deer hunting, it sounds simple enough: spend a night camping, give their foster son a chance to spend time with his friend, and—possibly—prevent a parental kidnapping. But nothing is ever as simple as it sounds. At deer camp, Hazard… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia
  • Racism
  • Sexual harassment
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Blackmail

The Hourglass Throne by KD Edwards

The Hourglass Throne by K.D. Edwards

As Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appears around New Atlantis’s famed rejuvenation center. But who could have created such formidable magic . . . what do they want from the immortality clinic . . . and what remains of the dozens trapped inside? Though Rune and his lifelong bodyguard Brand are tasked with investigating the mysterious barrier, Rune is also busy settling into his new life at court. Claiming his father’s throne has irrevocably thrown him into the precarious world of political deception, and he …. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape & sexual assault of a minor recounted
  • Misgendering
  • Suicide bombing
  • COVID-19 pandemic mentioned
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Vivisepulture (being buried alive) mentioned
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal death

Declination by Gregory Ashe

Declination by Gregory Ashe

Shaw and North are together. Finally. After eight years of knowing each other and loving each other and slipping past each other, they’ve finally told each other how they feel. Borealis Investigations is growing, and they have a major prospective client on the line. Everything is finally moving the way it should. Until the night Shaw receives a phone call telling him that Detective Jadon Reck, his former boyfriend, has been attacked. At the request of Jadon’s partner, Shaw and North begin an investigation into the attack. But nothing is as it seems. City police are …. Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Misgendering
  • Domestic abuse mentioned
  • Murder
  • Police corruption

Follow the River by CE Ricci

Follow the River by C.E. Ricci

I’ve never been one to back down from a challenge.
Rather than shy away, I grit my teeth and use it as an opportunity to prove myself. Not just in football, but also in life. Even when I was thrown through a loop in discovering I was bisexual, I embraced it. Owning it so no one can use it as ammunition against me. But when Ciaráin Grady comes barreling into my life with his venomous tongue and amber eyes brimming with disdain, I realize every test of my character and strength could never have prepared me for the trial he holds. One that toes the line of love and … Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Bimisia
  • Graphic rape of a child, on-page
  • Child sexual abuse by a step-parent

Love Forged by Nicole Pyland

Love Forged by Nicole Pyland

Tate Antonio has been without her father for nearly thirteen years. He left one day and never came back. Tate had given up on hearing from her father ever again when a strange letter arrives in the mailbox of her apartment that she shares with her best friend since birth, Flynn McEntire. Born just two weeks apart, the two girls grew into women with a plan. They would attend the same university and later, medical school. They would be in the other’s wedding party when they married the men of their dreams. The problem with that plan? Tate has no idea that Flynn’s dream… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Bimisia
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Smoking
  • Cancer

Take Me Home by Lorelie Brown

Take Me Home by Lorelie Brown

I didn’t know what I was looking for until I saw her Craigslist ad. I love my family. I’m lucky to have them — well, most of them. But my aunt? I’m so tired of her giving my mom crap because I happen to be a lesbian. So one pink-haired tattoo artist pretending to be my girlfriend will annoy my Christian fundamentalist aunt right back and make my Thanksgiving perfect. Only Brooke turns out to be cuter and more complicated than I expected. And before you can say “yorkiepoo,” we kiss . . . and abduct a dog together. I want to keep them both — but Brooke isn’t the kind to be kept.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Ableism
  • Lesbomisia
  • Misogyny
  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Rape mentioned
  • Recreational drug use
  • Overdose mentioned
  • Animal abuse
  • Animal injury
  • Poverty mentioned
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