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Be Not Afraid by Alyssa Cole

Be Not Afraid by Alyssa Cole

Elijah Sutton is no fool, despite his love of a country that enslaves people like him. When he’s offered land, livestock, and—most importantly—his freedom if he fights in his Patriot owner’s stead, Elijah believes he’ll soon have everything he ever wanted…and then he meets Kate.

The Crown has promised freedom to slaves who escape their Patriot masters and join the British side, and Kate intends to take them up on it. She’s eager to leave America—and the painful memories it holds for her—far behind…and then she meets Elijah… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Rape recounted

Signal Boost by Alyssa Cole

Signal Boost by Alyssa Cole

In a secluded cabin, John and his loved ones have survived. He should feel grateful. But his family is in his face 24/7, he has to watch his best friend, Arden, and brother, Gabriel, flaunt their love, and as a techie in a Luddite world he’s pretty much useless. The cabin is brimming with people, but he feels utterly alone.

Until he catches Mr Tall, Blond and Gorgeous raiding their garden. Mykhail is an astrophysics student, he makes John’s gaydar ping like crazy and he thinks he knows what caused the devastation… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Depression
Assisted suicide mentioned
Suicidal ideation

Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole

Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole

Arden Highmore was living your average postgrad life in Rochester, New York, when someone flipped the “off” switch on the world. No cell phones, no power, no running water—and no one knows why. All she and her roommate, John, know for sure is that they have to get out, stat. His family’s cabin near the Canadian border seemed like the safest choice.

It turns out isolation doesn’t necessarily equal safety… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Attempted rape, on-page

Heartless Sky by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

Zodiac Academy: Heartless Sky by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

The winds of fate are shifting, and it finally seems like they’ve been twisted in our favour. On the run and cast out from society, we’ve been forced to hide from the mad man who stole our throne. But as more secrets come to light and my sister and I work harder than ever before to reach our potential and claim our birthright, the end is finally drawing closer.

There is no turning from this path now. The curse chases on our heels as time rushes by and the blood-drenched destiny of the man I love looms ever closer just like the monster who stole our throne… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Hate crime
Suicide
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Murder
Torture

The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller

The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller

It’s 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis, a dilapidated Hyde Park mansion, and hopefully her reputation at the same time. However, fresh starts aren’t as easy as they seem, as Alva discovers when stories of a haunting at Liefdehuis begin to reach her. But Alva doesn’t believe in ghosts. So when the eccentric and brilliant professor, Samuel Moore, appears and informs her that he… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Adult-minor relationship
Forced child marriage
Physical & emotional abuse
Rape
Psychiatric hospitalisation of a child mentioned
Blackmail

Rising Like a Storm by Tanaz Bhathena

Rising Like a Storm by Tanaz Bhathena

With King Lohar dead and a usurper queen in power, Gul and Cavas face a new tyrannical government that is bent on killing them both. Their roles in King Lohar’s death have not gone unnoticed, and the new queen is out for blood. What she doesn’t know is that Gul and Cavas have a connection that runs deeper than romance, and together, they just might have the strength and magic to end her for good… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Torture

A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena

A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena

Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk-taker. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school. You don’t want to get involved with a girl like that, they say. So how is it that eighteen-year-old Porus Dumasia has only ever had eyes for her? And how did Zarin and Porus end up dead in a car together, crashed on the side of a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive on the scene, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is questioned.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Slut shaming
Victim blaming
Rape
Sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Physical & psychological child abuse
Domestic violence
Depression
Nonconsensual drugging
Death of a parent
Graphic car accident
Death of a pet

Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Drug use
Child soldiers
Poverty
Refugee experiences

Cake by J Bengtsson

Cake by J. Bengtsson

Jake McKallister might have been a rock star, but he was no ordinary one. Surviving an unspeakable crime as a young teen had shaped him into a guarded workaholic, and he now lived his life trying to forget. If it hadn’t been for music and the redemption he found through it, he might not have survived. Career success came easily for him. Personal connections did not.

When outspoken, vivacious college student Casey Caldwell was paired with the famously reserved rockstar for a friend’s wedding… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape recounted
Sexual assault recounted
PTSD & trauma
Suicidal ideation
Coma
Torture
Kidnapping of a child

Agent 355 by Marie Benedict

Agent 355 by Marie Benedict

The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications.. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted rape
Childbirth
Torture