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The White Girl by Tony Birch

The White Girl by Tony Birch

Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. After her daughter disappeared and left her with her granddaughter Sissy to raise on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. When a new policeman arrives in town, determined to enforce the law, Odette must risk everything to save Sissy and protect everything she loves.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism including the Stolen Generations
Antisemitism mentioned
Rape
Graphic suicide
Death of a parent
Death of a spouse
Disappearance of a relative
Explosion
Colonialism
Animal death

When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson

When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson

At night, in Huda’s fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat—the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador’s wife. Huda has no wish to be an informant, but fears for her teenaged son, who may be forced to join a deadly militia. Nor does she know that Ally has dangerous secrets of her own… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Rape mentioned
Death of a parent recounted
Murder
Gun violence
War themes

The Station by Keira Andrews

The Station by Keira Andrews

Ever since Cambridge-bound Colin Lancaster spied on stable master Patrick Callahan mastering another man, he’s longed for Patrick to do the same to him. When Patrick is caught with his pants down and threatened with death for his crime, Colin speaks up in his defense and confesses his own sinful nature. They’re soon banished to the faraway prison colony of Australia. Patrick never asked for Colin’s help, and now he’s stuck with the pampered fool. While it’s true that being transported to Australia is a far cry from the luxury Colin is accustomed to, he’s determined to make the best of it and prove himself. Patrick learn… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Attempted rape
Physical illness (typhoid)
Torture, on-page
Whipping, on-page

The Free by K. Webster

The Free by K. Webster

He took me from the wilderness. I was all alone and death was near. His plan was to heal me and then let me go. A reprieve from my harsh reality. Food. Warmth. Safety. Just us. It’s temporary and one day I’ll be forced to go home. But I don’t want to go back. I want him to keep me. To tame and love me. Freeing the wild comes with grave consequences. He thinks they’ll cage him for being with me. Our love’s not right. They won’t understand it. Forbidden. Immoral. Perverse. Vile. I don’t care what they think. It should only matter to us. We are innocent and beautiful and worthy. Love is wild. And we’re going to set it free…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape recounted
Miscarriage

Desperate Measures by Katee Robert

Desperate Measures by Katee Robert

One night, and my entire life went up in flames. All because of him. Jafar. As my world burned down around me, he offered me a choice. Walk away with nothing but my freedom… Or rise to his challenge and win my fortune back. I bargained. I lost. Now Jafar owns me, and even as my mind rails against his rules, my body loves the punishments he deals out when I break them. But a gilded cage is still a prison, I’ll do anything to obtain my freedom. Even betray the man I’m falling for.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Consensual nonconsensual sex scenes (rape play)
Threats of rape
Child abuse
Death of a parent
Murder, off-page
Kidnapping

Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

There’s something out there that’s killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers; those who refuse to conform, to know their place. Girls who don’t know when to shut up. 2019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has secrets she can’t share with anyone. Not the school psychologist she’s seeing. Not her father, who has a new wife, and a new baby. And not her mother—the infamous Caroline Sawyer, a unique artist whose eerie… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Attempted statutory rape
Hallucinations (auditory & visual)
Body horror
Graphic murder
Kidnapping of a child
Animal death

Sanctuary by Nora Roberts

Sanctuary by Nora Roberts

Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she’d escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She’d spent her loneliest years there, after the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling inn on an island off the Georgia coast continues to haunt her dreams. And now, even more haunting are the pictures someone is sending her: strange close-ups and candids, culminating in the most shocking portrait of all—a photo of her mother—naked, beautiful, and dead. Now Jo must return to the island, and to her bitterly estranged family. With the help of Nathan Delaney—who was on the island… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Rape
Death of a mother
Stalking

The Heart of Devin MacKade by Nora Roberts

The Heart of Devin MacKade by Nora Roberts

Sheriff Devin MacKade has always known his destiny was to serve and protect the small town of Antietam, Maryland—and for a long while he thought that future would include Cassie Connor. She’s the only woman he has ever loved, but he’d never worked up the nerve to tell her. When Cassie married the wrong man, Devin did the honorable thing and kept his feelings to himself. Now that Cassie’s divorced, Devin can finally follow his heart. Question is, can Cassie?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Domestic violence & abuse
Suicidal ideation mentioned

The Return of Rafe MacKade by Nora Roberts

The Return of Rafe MacKade by Nora Roberts

The MacKade brothers – the embodiment of tall, dark, and dangerous – are back by popular demand. The irresistible brothers are once again stirring the hearts of every female that crosses their path. The bad boy of the bunch has returned home after ten years, appealing as ever. Not even lovely Regan Jones, the town’s reserved antiques dealer, is immune to Rafe MacKade.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic abuse mentioned
Threats of rape

How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee

How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee

Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked. Only three survivors remain one of them a tiny child. In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military rape camp. In the year 2000, her mind is still haunted by her experiences there, but she has long been silent about her memories of that time. It takes twelve-year-old Kevin, and the mumbled confession he overhears from his ailing grandmother, to set in motion a journey into the unknown… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Sex slavery
Bullying
World War Two