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The Brink of Darkness by Jeff Giles

The Brink of Darkness by Jeff Giles

Things have changed for seventeen-year-old Zoe ever since the otherworldly events that brought her together with the mysterious bounty hunter she calls X. In order to save Zoe and her family, X has done the unthinkable – he’s given up his freedom and returned to captivity in the Lowlands. X is determined to break the lords’ hold on him once and for all, but being stripped of his power pushes him toward a darkness he’s never experienced and a past he’s never known. The secrets that surface could be the key to reuniting X and Zoe… or they could mean the destruction of everything they have been fighting for.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault mentioned
Torture (skinning)
Knife violence
Attempted drowning
Physical assault

A Spindle Splintered by Alix Harrow

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

It’s Zinnia Gray’s twenty-first birthday, which is extra special because it’s the last birthday she’ll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia’s last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Forced marriage
Rape recounted
Sexual assault mentioned
Suicidal ideation recounted
Self-injury, on-page
Pregnancy from rape mentioned
Blood depiction
Terminal illness (theme)
Hospitalisation

The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

In 1893, there was no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Sexism
Homomisia & internalised homomisia
Threats of sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Child abandonment
Physical & psychological child abuse
Pregnancy & childbirth
Abortion mentioned
Forced hospitalisation
Death of a parent
Attempted execution
Kidnapping
Torture, off-page
Imprisonment
Loss of autonomy (mind control)
Animal death & abuse

The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan

The Kingmaker by Kennedy Ryan

Raised to rule, bred to lead and weaned on a diet of ruthless ambition. In a world of haves and have nots, my family has it all, and I want nothing to do with it. My path takes me far from home and paints me as the black sheep. At odds with my father, I’m determined to build my own empire. I have rules, but Lennix Hunter is the exception to every one of them. From the moment we meet, something sparks between us. But my family stole from hers and my father is the man she hates most. I lied to have her, and would do anything to keep her. Though she tries to hate me, too, the inexorable pull between us will not be denied.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Rape & sexual assault mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Police brutality & violence
Hostage situation

Damaged and the Knight by Bijou Hunter

Damaged and the Knight by Bijou Hunter

After he saves her from certain death, Tawny Smith falls for her knight in shining armour. Judd O’Keefe isn’t an easy man to love though. As an enforcer for the Johansson family business, he hides his heart behind cold walls built from a lifetime of pain. Yet, his angel Tawny awakens a desire in Judd more powerful than he ever imagined possible. Can a man with blood on his hands heal the damaged girl of his dreams?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault recounted

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

In Baxter Beach, Barbados, moneyed ex-pats clash with the locals who often end up serving them: braiding their hair, minding their children, and selling them drugs. Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the Baxter Beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. A gunshot no one was meant to witness. A new mother whose baby is found lifeless on the beach. A woman torn between two worlds and incapacitated by grief. And two men driven by desperation and greed who attempt a crime that will risk their freedom — and their lives.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Sexual assault
Incest
Domestic abuse

Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly

Bound by Honor by Cora Reilly

Born into one of the leading mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi is a mafia princess known for her beauty. What many consider a gift means her doom when she’s forced to marry Luca Vitiello to bring peace between two mafia dynasties. Luca is the future Capo of the New York Famiglia, a man known for his brutality—and for crushing his cousin’s throat with his bare hands. Aria is terrified of marrying a monster like him. He may be one of the most sought-after bachelors in New York, thanks to his good looks, wealth and predator-like charisma. But Aria knows the bad boy aura isn’t just… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted date rape
Arranged marriage

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Today is Leonard Peacock’s birthday. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather’s P-38 pistol. But first, he must say goodbye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart-obsessed next-door neighbour, Walt; his classmate, Baback, a violin virtuoso; Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on; and Herr Silverman, who teaches the high school’s class on the Holocaust. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches….. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Sexual assault
Depression
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Gun violence

Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven

Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven

Every year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire’s capital – her fate: to be burned alive for the entertainment of the masses. For the last five years, one small village’s tithe has been the same woman. Gilene’s sacrifice protects all the other young women of her village, and her secret to staying alive lies in the magic only she possesses. But this year is different. Azarion, the Empire’s most famous gladiator, has somehow seen through her illusion and is set on blackmailing Gilene into using her abilities to help him escape his life of slavery. And unknown to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Rape & attempted rape, on-page
Self-harm
Infertility
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Torture
Kidnapping & captivity
Fire & immolation
War themes

The Violent Season by Sara Walters

The Violent Season by Sara Walters

Every November, the people in Wolf Ridge are overwhelmed with a hunger for violence–at least that’s the town rumour. Last fall Wyatt Green’s mother was brutally murdered, convincing Wyatt that this yearning isn’t a morbid urban legend. but rather a palpable force infecting her neighbours. This year, Wyatt fears the call of violence has spread to her best friend Cash–who also happens to be the guy she can’t stop wanting no matter how much he hurts her. At the same time, she’s drawn to Cash’s nemesis Porter, now that they’re partners on an ambitious project for lit class. When Wyatt pulls away… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted rape, on-page
Suicide
Self-harm
Smoking & recreational drug use, on-page
Alcohol consumption
Blood depiction
Dead bodies
Emesis mentioned
Death of a mother from suicide recounted
Death of a mother from murder recounted
Infanticide by drowning mentioned
Murder in an armed robbery mentioned
Car accident mentioned