Tag Archives: Sexual Assault

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of sexual assault. It is also used as an umbrella tag for any form of sexual violence.

See also Rape, Paedophilia & CSA, and Sex work.

Love Times Infinity by Lane Clarke

Love Times Infinity by Lane Clarke

High school junior Michie is struggling to define who she is for her scholarship essays, her big shot at making it into Brown as a first-generation college student. The prompts would be hard for anyone, but Michie’s been estranged from her mother since she was seven and her concept of family has long felt murky. Enter new kid and basketball superstar Derek de la Rosa. He is very cute, very talented, and very much has his eye on Michie, no matter how invisible she believes herself… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape & sexual assault
  • Parental abandonment
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Alcoholism mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Abortion discussed
  • Death of a grandparent recounted, off-page
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Return of the Viscount by Gayle Callen 

Return of the Viscount by Gayle Callen

Her marriage of convenience seems far too convenient. Desperation drove Cecilia Mallory to seek a union with a stranger—one who would wed her sight unseen and grant her full access to her inheritance with no expectations whatsoever. She anticipated, perhaps, an older, undesirable, equally desperate husband—never the young, vibrant, and devastatingly attractive man who answered her call. What could such a man really be after?… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Rape mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of a friend by drowning
  • Attempted murder
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Working Stiff by Rachel Caine

Working Stiff by Rachel Caine

Bryn Davis is new on the job as a funeral director, but even she knows that once you’re dead, you ought to stay that way. But Fairview Mortuary has hidden backroom business: reviving the dead for profit, at extortionate rates. Finding out may cost Bryn more than her life – it may just take away her death too.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Necrophilia mentioned
  • Sexual assault mentioned
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The Dead Girls’ Dance by Rachel Caine

The Dead Girls’ Dance by Rachel Caine

Claire Danvers has her share of challenges—like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm, and above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with vampires. On the up side, she has a great roommate (who tends to disappear at sunup) and a new boyfriend named Shane, whose vampire-hunting dad has called in backup: cycle punks who like the idea of killing just about anything… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder
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How to Be Ace by Rebecca Burgess

How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess

Growing up, Rebecca assumes sex is just a scary new thing they will ‘grow into’ as they get older, but when they leave school, start working and do grow up, they start to wonder why they don’t want to have sex with other people. In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex—from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themself into relationships and experiencing anxiety and OCD—before coming to understand and embrace their asexual identity.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Amisia & internalised amisia
  • Sexual assault mentioned
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Depression
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Endometriosis mentioned
  • Emesis
  • Bullying
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Vial of Tears by Cristin Bishara

Vial of Tears by Cristin Bishara

Sixteen-year-old sisters Samira and Rima aren’t exactly living the dream. Instead, they live with their maddeningly unreliable mother in a rundown trailer in Michigan. Dad’s dead, money’s tight, and Mom disappears for days at a time. So when Sam’s grandfather wills her the family valuables–a cache of Lebanese antiquities–she’s desperate enough to try pawning them before Mom but she shouldn’t. Because one is cursed, forbidden, the burial coin of a forgotten god… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Threats of sexual assault
  • Self-injury
  • Knife violence
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With Visions of Red by Trisha Wolfe 

With Visions of Red by Trisha Wolfe

Criminal profiler Sadie Bonds knows blood. Her affair with the gruesome, dark world of killers began long before she started applying her analytical skills to investigate gory crime scenes. She gets inside the killers’ heads, breaks them down, relates to them on an arcane level. She prefers it this way—because it’s safer to ally herself with the villain than the victim. At least, that’s how she’s coped ever since she was abducted and tortured as a teen… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Blood depiction
  • Murder
  • Torture
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Star Mother by Charlie Holmberg 

Star Mother by Charlie N. Holmberg

The Sun God chooses the village of Endwever to provide a mortal womb. The birthing of a star is always fatal for the mother, and Ceris Wenden, who considers herself an outsider, sacrifices herself to secure her family’s honor and take control of her legacy. But after her star child is born, Ceris does what no other star mother has: she survives. When Ceris returns to Endwever, however, it’s not nine months later—it’s seven hundred years later. Inexplicably displaced in time, Ceris is determined to seek out her des… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted sexual assault
  • Pregnancy
  • Death from childbirth mentioned
  • Miscarriage mentioned
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Some Kind of Perfect by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Some Kind of Perfect by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

With a seven-year age difference, Ryke & Daisy have faced an uphill battle in the eyes of the world and their families. Known as the most adventurous, fast-paced couple — their next step has always been elusive to the rabid media. Behind the scenes, heartbreaking troubles continue to test Ryke & Daisy’s resilience and shape their future together. But preserving their happiness also means adding more risks. Ones that Connor Cobalt wouldn’t even take. As a professional free-solo climber, Ryke is no stranger to risk, but his next step with Daisy wagers more than just his health.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Outing
  • Paedophilia & grooming
  • Sexual assault
  • Child abuse & neglect
  • Abandonment
  • Anxiety & anxiety attacks
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Depression
  • Alcoholism
  • Sex addiction
  • Nightmares
  • Infertility
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Long Way Down by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Thrive by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

With a seven-year age difference, Ryke & Daisy have faced an uphill battle in the eyes of the world and their families. Known as the most adventurous, fast-paced couple — their next step has always been elusive to the rabid media. Behind the scenes, heartbreaking troubles continue to test Ryke & Daisy’s resilience and shape their future together. But preserving their happiness also means adding more risks. Ones that Connor Cobalt wouldn’t even take. As a professional free-solo climber, Ryke is no stranger to risk, but his next step with Daisy wagers more than just his health.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Outing
  • Paedophilia & grooming
  • Sexual assault
  • Child abuse & neglect
  • Abandonment
  • Anxiety & anxiety attacks
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Depression
  • Alcoholism
  • Substance addiction (pill)
  • Sex addiction
  • Nightmares
  • Fertility issues, including a miscarriage scare
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