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The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

January Cole’s job just got a whole lot harder. Not that running security at the Paradox was ever really easy. Nothing’s simple at a hotel where the ultra-wealthy tourists arrive costumed for a dozen different time periods, all eagerly waiting to catch their “flights” to the past. Or where proximity to the timeport makes the clocks run backward on occasion—and, rumour has it, allows ghosts to stroll the halls. None of that compares to the corpse in room 526. The one that seems to be both there and not there. The one that somehow only January can see. On top of that, some… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Prescription drug abuse
Blood depiction
Gun violence

The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

In 1893, there was no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Sexism
Homomisia & internalised homomisia
Threats of sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Child abandonment
Physical & psychological child abuse
Pregnancy & childbirth
Abortion mentioned
Forced hospitalisation
Death of a parent
Attempted execution
Kidnapping
Torture, off-page
Imprisonment
Loss of autonomy (mind control)
Animal death & abuse

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the intern… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Internment camp
World War Two
Bullying

Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford

Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford

Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle’s Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother’s listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday—or rather, the day the nuns designate as his birthday—William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her features, William is convinced that the movie star is his mother, Liu Song. Determined to find Willow, and prove his… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Rape, on-page
Child abuse
Domestic abuse
Suicide, on-page
Attempted suicide recounted
Forced institutionalisation

Still by Kennedy Ryan

Still by Kennedy Ryan

I’ll be there. Through thick and thin. Ride or die. You can count on me. The promises people make. The vows we take. Assumptions of the heart. Emotion tells us how we feel, but life…life has a way of plunging us in boiling water, burning away our illusions, testing our faith, and trying our convictions. Love floating is a butterfly, but love tested is an anchor. For Grip and Bristol, Love started at the top of the world. On a Ferris wheel under the stars but when that love is tested, will they fly or fall?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Pregnancy
Death of a newborn

Reel by Kennedy Ryan

Reel by Kennedy Ryan

For months I stood by, an understudy waiting in the wings, preparing for my time to shine. I never imagined he would watch in the audience that night. Canon Holt. Famous film director. Fascinating. Talented. Fine. Before I could catch my breath, everything changed. I went from backstage Broadway to centre stage Hollywood. From being unknown to my name, Neevah Saint, on everyone’s lips. Canon casts me in a star-studded Harlem Renaissance biopic, catapulting me into another stratosphere. But stars shine brightest in the dead of night. Forbidden attraction, scandal and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Cheating recounted
Chronic illness
Death of a parent recounted

Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan

Queen Move by Kennedy Ryan

Dig a little and you’ll find photos of me in the bathtub with Ezra Stern. Get your mind out of the gutter. We were six months old. Pry and one of us might confess we saved our first kiss for each other. The most clumsy, wet, sloppy . . . spectacular thirty seconds of my adolescence. Get into our business and you’ll see two families, closer than blood, torn apart in an instant. Twenty years later, my “awkward duckling” best friend from childhood, the boy no one noticed, is a man no one can ignore. Finer. Fiercer. Smarter. Taken… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Cheating
Weight gain discussed
Infertility
Miscarriage
Death of a parent recounted

The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan

The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan

Raised to rule, bred to lead and weaned on a diet of ruthless ambition. In a world of haves and have nots, my family has it all, and I want nothing to do with it. My path takes me far from home and paints me as the black sheep. At odds with my father, I’m determined to build my own empire. I have rules, but Lennix Hunter is the exception to every one of them. From the moment we meet, something sparks between us. But my family stole from hers and my father is the man she hates most. I lied to have her, and would do anything to keep her. Though she tries to hate me, too, the inexorable pull between us will not be denied.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Rape & sexual assault mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Police brutality & violence
Hostage situation

Grip by Kennedy Ryan

Grip by Kennedy Ryan

Resisting an irresistible force wears you down and turns you out. I know. I’ve been doing it for years. I may not have a musical gift of my own, but I’ve got a nose for talent and an eye for the extraordinary. And Marlon ‘Grip’ James is nothing short of extraordinary. Years ago, we strung together a few magical nights, but I keep those memories in a locked drawer and threw away the key. All that’s left is friendship and work. He’s on the verge of unimaginable fame, all his dreams poised to come true. I manage his career, but I can’t seem to manage my heart. It’s wild, reckless, disobedient. And it remembers all the things I want to forget.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Date rape recounted
Blackmail

This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed

This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed

Amar can’t wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he’s found The One, and he’s getting married. But it turns out announcing his engagement on a group chat might not have been the best way to let his strict Muslim Bangladeshi family know that his happy-ever-after partner is a man—and a white man at that. Amar expected a reaction from his four siblings, but his bombshell sends shockwaves throughout the community and begins to fracture their family unit, already fragile from the death of their mother. Suddenly Amar is questioning everything he once… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Racism
Queermisia
Depression
Alcohol consumption
Grief & loss depiction
Death of parent recounted