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Be My Brayshaw by Meagan Brandy

Be My Brayshaw by Meagan Brandy

Cross one, cross all. That’s the Brayshaw way. She should have realized this before sliding into our world with secrets too big to bury. She didn’t and now the target is on her back. The day her lies came crashing down, I should have forced her out. Instead, I locked her in, and with the promise, I would never be hers. I resisted, fought against us. I caved. I tasted what became my newfound favourite flavour and fell hard for the little liar. But then the depth of her treachery reveals itself, and with it a reminder. Our town is a twisted place, and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Sexual assault
Alcohol consumption
Drug use & smoking

Reign of Brayshaw by Meagan Brandy

Reign of Brayshaw by Meagan Brandy

“Trust only those who earn it.”

A sentiment I follow without direction but holds more consequence than ever before. One decision, five lives, three futures. This is what’s at stake. One night, one choice, four broken Brayshaws. That is where we’re headed. Unless I stop it. I 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 to stop it. I have to remind him of what he’s chosen to forget. My town. My choice. 𝘔𝘺 ending.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Rape
Sexual assault
Alcohol consumption
Drug use & smoking

The Making of a Highlander by Elisa Braden

The Making of a Highlander by Elisa Braden

Everyone wants handsome adventurer John Huxley to settle down—family, friends, London society. Everyone except John. He’s evaded too many scheming title huntresses to trust in happily-ever-after. Now, a vow made to a dying friend has him locked in a land dispute with a stubborn Scot who offers one way out: Win the Highland Games. John likes a challenge, but this one’s impossible. Still, with training from the Scot’s stepdaughter, victory might be within reach. He only has to teach the fiery, foul-mouthed, breeches-wearing lass how to land a lord. It seems “impossible” is just getting started… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape recounted
Torture, off-page
Bullying

Wild Country by Anne Bishop

Wild Country by Anne Bishop

There are ghost towns in the world—places where the humans were annihilated in retaliation for the slaughter of the shape-shifting Others.

One of those places is Bennett, a town at the northern end of the Elder Hills—a town surrounded by the wild country. Now efforts are being made to resettle Bennett as a community where humans and Others live and work together. A young female police officer has been hired as the deputy to a Wolfgard sheriff. A deadly… Read more.

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Rape

Pretending by Holly Bourne

Pretending by Holly Bourne

April is kind, pretty and relatively normal—yet she can’t seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks she’s found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful, leaving her heartbroken. And angry. Until she realizes that what men are really looking for is Gretel.

Gretel is perfect—beautiful but low maintenance, sweet but never clingy, sexy but not a slut. She’s your regular, everyday Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl-Next-Door with no problems… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Victim blaming
Rape
Sexual assault
Catfishing

Winterblaze by Kristen Callihan

Winterblaze by Kristen Callihan

Poppy Lane is keeping secrets. Her powerful gift has earned her membership in the Society for the Suppression of Supernaturals, but she must keep both her ability and her alliance with the Society from her husband, Winston. Yet when Winston is brutally attacked by a werewolf, Poppy’s secrets are revealed, leaving Winston’s trust in her as broken as his body. Now Poppy will do anything to win back his affections . . .

Winston Lane soon regains his physical strength but his face and heart still bear the scars… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Racism
Antiziganism
Sexism
Rape, off-page
Physical child abuse recounted
Infertility mentioned
Pregnancy
Smoking
Drugging
Scars
Decapitation
Death of a mother by murder recounted
Police brutality

Firelight by Kristen Callihan

Firelight by Kristen Callihan

Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family’s fortune decimated and forced her to wed London’s most nefarious nobleman.

Lord Benjamin Archer is no ordinary man. Doomed to hide his disfigured face behind masks, Archer knows it’s selfish to take Miranda as his bride… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Sexual harassment
Threats of rape
Murder & attempted murder
Kidnapping
Arson & immolation

All Scot and Bothered by Kerrigan Byrne

All Scot and Bothered by Kerrigan Byrne

He is first and foremost—at everything. A man who’s made his own way in the world through ruthless cunning and sheer force of will. A strong and imposing Scot who can turn on the charm but does not suffer fools. His title: Lord Chief Justice of the High Court. His name: Cassius Gerard Ramsay. His mission: To investigate the goings-on at London’s most notorious gaming hell, owned and operated by one of the most intriguing and desirable women he’s ever met.

Cecelia Teague was an orphan facing a rather dire future—until a secret benefactor… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child sex trafficking
Slut shaming
Child abuse & neglect
Rape mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Explosion
Kidnapping
Fire

How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan Byrne

How to Love a Duke in Ten Days by Kerrigan Byrne

Famed and brilliant, Lady Alexandra Lane has always known how to look out for to herself. But nobody would ever expect that she has darkness in her past—one that she pays a blackmailer to keep buried. Now, with her family nearing bankruptcy, Alexandra strikes upon a solution: Get married to one of the empire’s most wealthy eligible bachelors. Even if he does have the reputation of a devil.

Piers Gedrick Atherton, the Duke of Redmayne, is seeking revenge and the first step is securing a bride. Winning a lady’s hand is not so easy… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Graphic rape of a child by a school headmaster recounted
Blood depiction
Murder
Gun violence
Explosion
Blackmail
Animal attack, off-page

Semiosis by Sue Burke

Semiosis by Sue Burke

Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet’s sentient species and prove that mammals are more than tools. Forced to land on a planet they aren’t prepared for, human colonists rely on their limited resources to survive. The planet provides a lush but inexplicable landscape–trees offer edible, addictive fruit one day and poison the next, while the ruins of an alien race are found entwined in the roots of a strange plant. Conflicts between generations arise as they struggle to understand one another and grapple with an unknowable alien intellect.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Graphic rape
Physical injury & illness
Cannibalism
Death of a child
Murder
Torture
Animal death
Animal abuse