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The Collective by Alison Gaylin

Camille Gardner is a grieving—and angry—mother who, five years after her daughter’s death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions attract the attention of a secret group of women—the collective—Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability and perpetrators emerge unscathed. Fueled by mutual rage, these women orchestrate their own brand of justice through precise, anonymous, complexly plotted and perfectly executed revenge killings.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape & sexual assault
Suicidal ideation
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a daughter
Murder

We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Carr

When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she’s pregnant with a child she isn’t sure she wants, her struggle to understand her place in the world as a person who is half-Black, half-white—yet feels neither—is amplified. Her mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada with her husband and their first-born child during the politically charged Jamaican exodus in the 1980s, only to realize they’d come to a place where Black men are viewed with suspicion—a constant and pernicious reality Evelyn watches her husband and son navigate daily. Years later, in the aftermath of her son’s murder by the police, Evelyn’s mother-in-law, Violet, moves…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape
Abortion discussed
Death of a child from gun violence

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies… especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Sexual harassment
Nonconsensual voyeurism of children mentioned
Rape of a child
Incest (father-daughter)
Child pregnancy from rape
Parent with alcoholism
Attempted suicide & suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Graphic blood & gore depiction, including dead bodies
Emesis
Animal abuse

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape (on-page)
Graphic animal death

The Second Home by Christina Clancy

After a disastrous summer spent at her family’s home on Cape Cod when she is seventeen, Ann Gordon is very happy to never visit Wellfleet again. If only she’d stayed in Wisconsin, she might never have met Anthony Shaw, and she would have held onto the future she’d so carefully planned for herself. Instead, Ann ends up harboring a devastating secret that strains her relationship with her parents, sends her sister Poppy to every corner of the world chasing waves (and her next fling), and leaves her adopted brother Michael estranged from the family…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape
Infidelity
Suicide

Ghosted by Rina Kent

Dark. Dangerous. Deadly. Those facts should’ve kept me away from this underground world where people disappear and never return. They didn’t. His mistake: Taking Zoe, someone I consider a sister. I will stop at nothing to get her back. Even if it means infiltrating a notorious organised crime ring in search of the faceless ghost who plucked her away. My mistake: Not expecting him. Julian—the guard surrounded by a shroud of darkness and mystery. I’m helplessly and dangerously drawn to the man within. The more I get lost in him, the riskier my mission becomes. What if Julian is more than a mere guard? What if he’s related to this man called Ghost?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Attempted rape

Cruel King by Rina Kent

Levi Here, little princess. I’m your king. You have three rules. Bow. Break. Bend the knee. Fight me all you want, but soon enough, you’ll be chanting long live the king. Astrid One day I’m Royal Elite School’s small fly, the next I’m hunted and left to die. He doesn’t only shred my life to parts, but he’s also coming after my heart. He thinks he broke me, but the new princess will bring the king to his knees.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Threats of rape
Cheating*
Dubious consent scenes
Drugging
Death of a parent (off-page)
Car accident (hit-and-run)
Bullying

*Context: The heroine catches the hero about to have oral sex with her step-sister; whether or not the characters were already in a relationship is left to the reader’s discretion. In an on-page sex scene, the hero refuses to stop or ‘pull out’ when the heroine asks repeatedly.

Black Thorns by Rina Kent

She broke my heart. Broke me. Broke us. Only one thing could mend the gaping wound she left behind. Her.
Naomi. All mine for the taking. All mine for owning. All mine.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Forced arranged marriage (protagonist)
Consensual non-consent & rape play
Kidnapping & blackmail

Kiss the Villain by Rina Kent

I’m a golden boy. A genius law student, the heir to the Carson empire, and the dutiful son. Or, at least, that’s what it looks like from the outside. Deep inside, I have the urge to set the world on fire. I keep these impulses in check, rarely indulging in mayhem. Until one night of debauchery backfires, and I’m caught by a villain. I bury the entire ordeal with the rest of my skeletons. That is, until that night walks into my classroom in the form of my new professor. Kayden Lockwood. A criminal who’s teaching criminal law. I can’t expose what he’s done without unmasking my secret life. What I can do, however, is force him to taste the poison… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape (protagonist) including dubious consent scenarios, consensual non-consent (cnc), mentions of the protagonist’s wife being gang-raped and murdered, and mentions of the rape of the protagonist’s high school girlfriend by her father
Intimate partner abuse including one partner shooting the other with an arrow (twice)
Teacher-student relationship
Self-harm
Drugging
Murder of a wife recounted
Torture
Gun & knife violence
Kidnapping

The Champions by Kara Thomas

It was the deaths of five cheerleaders that made the town of Sunnybrook infamous. Eleven years later, the girls’ killer has been brought to justice, and the town just wants to move on. By the time Hadley moves to Sunnybrook, though, the locals are more interested in the Tigers, the high school’s championship-winning football team. The Tigers are Sunnybrook’s homegrown heroes–something positive in a town with so much darkness in its past. Hadley could care less about football, but shortly after she gets assigned to cover the team’s latest championship bid for the school newspaper, one of the Tigers is poison… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual assault & gang rape
Domestic violence
Infidelity
Alcohol consumption
Drugging
Hospitalisation
Emesis
Gun violence
Bullying & hazing mentioned