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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

Beard Necessities by Penny Reid

Beard Necessities by Penny Reid

No one deserves a happily-ever-after quite as much as the second oldest Winston brother and his lady love, Claire McClure (aka Scarlet St. Claire). Cruelty and circumstance tore them apart almost twenty years ago. Secrecy and bitterness kept them separated. But you know who’s tired of their separation and stubbornness? Everyone. Especially Billy Winston’s family. And now they’re going to do something about it. Well-meaning interference means the star-crossed lovers can’t stop tripping over each other in the hills of Tuscany, the catacombs of Rome, and the waterways of… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Coerced adult-minor marriage
Marital rape
Pregnancy mentioned
Death of a mother from cancer recounted
Death of a spouse during military service
Knife violence & stabbing mentioned
Death of a pet dog mentioned

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon is on trial for murder. A Harlem drugstore owner was shot and killed in his store, and the word is that Steve served as the lookout. Guilty or innocent, Steve becomes a pawn in the hands of “the system,” cluttered with cynical authority figures and unscrupulous inmates, who will turn in anyone to shorten their own sentences. For the first time, Steve is forced to think about who he is as he faces prison, where he may spend all the tomorrows of his life. As a way of coping with the horrific events that entangle him, Steve, an amateur filmmaker, decides… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Rape
Drug use
Dead body mentioned
Murder

Omega Reclaimed by Tanya Chris

Omega Reclaimed by Tanya Chris

Angel, an alpha who’s left the violent, strictly hierarchical rules of his pack to find success in the big city, and Leo, an omega on the run from his abusive alpha, are thrust together to satisfy Leo’s urgent heat-lust. But can a once-hurt omega ever trust an alpha to care for and protect him again? And can an alpha sensitive to social injustice learn to enjoy his naturally dominant nature? Angel and Leo must face the pasts they ran away from before they build a new future together. They may not be able to change the laws of nature, but they can change the language of love.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Statutory rape