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Killing Floor by Lee Child

Killing Floor by Lee Child

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he’s about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Hate crime
Military service recounted
Murder
Torture

Echo Burning by Lee Child

Echo Burning by Lee Child

Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That’s Jack Reacher’s conclusion. He’s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The last thing he’s worried about is exactly who picks him up. He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She’s alone, driving a Cadillac. She’s beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Sexism
Hate crime
Sexual assault
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Gun violence

A Quick Bite by Lynsay Sands

A Quick Bite by Lynsay Sands

Lissianna has been spending her centuries pining for Mr. Right, not just a quick snack, and this sexy guy she finds in her bed looks like he might be a candidate. But there’s another, more pressing issue: her tendency to faint at the sight of blood…an especially annoying quirk for a vampire. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that this man has a delicious-looking neck. What kind of cold-blooded vampire woman could resist a bite of that? Dr. Gregory Hewitt recovers from the shock of waking up in a stranger’s bedroom pretty quickly – once he sees a gorgeous woman about to treat him to a… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Child abuse mentioned
Parent with alcoholism mentioned
Death of a parent in a fire
Blood depiction & blood drinking
Kidnapping

Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans

Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans

Jalen, lover of B-grade sci-fi movies, meets the far-too-handsome P in a cafe while deciding whether or not to skip uni again. When P invites them along to a double feature of Robot Monster and Cat Women of the Moon, Jalen can hardly believe that hot boys like bad sci-fi, too. But as their relationship progresses, Jalen realizes P leaves him wondering if they’re on the same page about what dating means, and if that’s what they’re doing.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism mentioned
Misgendering, off-page
Deadnaming, off-page

Shauna’s Great Expectations by Kathleen Loughnan

Shauna’s Great Expectations by Kathleen Loughnan

Shauna is in her final year at an elite private school and has great expectations. She holds an Indigenous scholarship and is determined to be the first member of her family to go to university, no matter what. The year is off to an excellent start and she and her friends are dreaming big about life after school and planning a trip to Paris. But suddenly she finds she must make a choice that threatens to throw all her plans into disarray. As pressure builds from every corner of her world, Shauna wonders what she’ll have to sacrifice to… Read more,

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Anti-abortion rhetoric (theme)

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s Sound, she instantly realizes there’s more to the place than meets the eye. Descended from witches, Nadia can sense that a spell has been cast over the tiny Rhode Island town—a sickness infecting everyone and everything in it. The magic at work is darker and more powerful than anything she’s come across and has sunk its claws most deeply into Mateo, her rescuer, her friend, and the guy she yearns to get closer to even as he pushes her away. Mateo has lived in Captive’s Sound his entire life, shadowed by small-town gossip and his family’s tormented past. Every generation… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language,
Racist microaggressions
Sexual assault (by coercion)
Sexual harassment
Parental abandonment
Parental divorce
Nightmares
Hospitalisation
Coma
Facial scars mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from suicide by drowning recounted
Death of a grandfather in a fire mentioned
Death of a mother & father from viral pneumonia mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Near-drowning
Car accident, on-page
Loss of autonomy (memory manipulation and mind control)
Sinkholes, on-page
Bullying

Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Suicide
Self-harm
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Graphic physical injuries
Murder
Gun violence
Torture
Whipping
Physical assault

Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters

Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters

School’s out, senior year is over, and Isaac Martin is ready to kick off summer. His last before heading off to college in the fall where he won’t have his best friend, Diego. Where—despite his social anxiety—he’ll be left to make friends on his own. Knowing his time with Diego is limited, Isaac enacts a foolproof plan: snatch up a pair of badges for the epic comic convention, Legends Con, and attend his first ever Teen Pride. Just him and Diego. The way it should be. But when an unexpected run-in with Davi—Isaac’s old crush—distracts him the day tickets go on sale, suddenly he’s two badges short of a perfect summer. Even worse, now he’s left… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Homomisia
Parental abandonment
Divorce mentioned
Infidelity mentioned
Anxiety

If the Dress Fits by Carla de Guzman

If the Dress Fits by Carla de Guzman

Martha Aguas kind of has it all–she’s an accountant who loves numbers, an accident-prone puppy that loves her, and the perfect wardrobe. Yes, she wears a dress size 24, her bras don’t fit and she’s never had a boyfriend, but so what? It becomes a big deal when her perfect cousin Regina announces her engagement to Enzo, the only boy she’s ever loved (he doesn’t know, so don’t tell him!) Suddenly Aguases from all corners of the globe are coming for the event, and the last thing Martha wants is to be asked why she still prefers her lattes with a waffle on the side… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Fatmisia & body-shaming
Emesis

Dexter Is Dead by Jeff Lindsay

Dexter Is Dead by Jeff Lindsay

Dexter Morgan has burned the candle at both ends for many years: blood spatter analyst, husband, father, serial killer. And now, for the first time, his world has truly collapsed. Dexter is arrested on charges of murder. He has lost everything – including his wife, his kids, and the loyalty of his sister. Now completely alone, Dexter faces a murder charge (for a crime, ironically, he did not actually commit). His only chance for freedom lies with his brother, Brian, who has a dark plan to prove Dexter’s innocence. But the stakes are deadly, and the epic showdown that lies in Dexter’s path may… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Racism & racial profiling
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Torture
Police brutality