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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

Finlay Donovan is killing it…except, she’s really not. A stressed-out single mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: The new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written; her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer … Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Rape
Sexual assault
Domestic abuse mentioned
Cheating
Nonconsensual drugging (roofies)
Murder
Gun violence
Blackmail

Warmaidens by Kelly Coon

Warmaidens by Kelly Coon

Just a few moons after escaping the tomb in Alu, Kammani and the other runaway maidens have found refuge in the city-state of Manzazu. There, Kammani has become a respected healer, especially among the warriors she’s brought back from the brink of death. Now that the nightmares of Alu are fading, she can finally decide whether or not to take Dagan’s hand in marriage. But when an assassin murders a healer he believes is Kammani and attempts to kill the displaced queen of Alu, the maidens realize they’ve… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted rape
Blood & gore depiction

Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon

Gravemaidens by Kelly Coon

In the walled city-state of Alu, Kammani wants nothing more than to become the accomplished healer her father used to be before her family was cast out of their privileged life in shame. When Alu’s ruler falls deathly ill, Kammani’s beautiful little sister, Nanaea, is chosen as one of three sacred maidens to join him in the afterlife. It’s an honour. A tradition. And Nanaea believes it is her chance to live an even grander life than the one that was stolen from her. But Kammani sees the selection for what it really is-a death sentence… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Suicide
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of an infant
Death of a mother during childbirth
Murder
Poisoning
Cults

Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole

Sabine, Sorceress of Illusions: the evil beauty who surrenders her body, but not her heart. Rydstrom Woede: the ruthless warrior who vows to keep her at all costs. With each smoldering encounter, their shared hunger only increases. If they can defeat the sinister enemy that stands between them, will Sabine make the ultimate sacrifice for her demon? Or will the proud king lay down his crown and arms to save his sorceress?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Threats of sexual assault
Murder
Kidnapping

Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole

Cadeon Woede will stop at nothing to atone for the one wrong that will haunt him forever. But once he secures the key to his redemption, the halfling Holly Ashwin, Cade finds that the woman he thought he could use for his own ends and then forget haunts him as much as his past. Raised as a human, Holly never knew that some frightening legends are real until she encounters a brutal demon who inexplicably guards her like a treasure. Thrust into a sensual new world of myth and power, with him as her protector, she begins to crave the demon’s wicked touch.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Attempted sexual assault

An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole

An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole

Daniel Cumberland’s uneventful life as a freed man in Massachusetts ended the night he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. To then have his freedom restored by the very man who stole his beloved’s heart is almost too much to bear. When he’s offered entry into the Loyal League, the covert organization of spies who helped free him, Daniel seizes the opportunity to help take down the Confederacy and vent the rage that consumes him.

When the Union Army occupies Janeta Sanchez’s small Florida town, her family’s goodwill… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Slavery
Threats of rape & sexual assault
Suicidal ideation
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Death of a parent mentioned

A Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole

A Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole

For three years of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped the cause in peace: with coded letters about anti-Rebel uprisings in her Carolina woods, tisanes and poultices for Union prisoners, and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike. Her formerly enslaved mother’s traditions and the name of a white father she never knew have protected her–until the vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie’s home for their new base of operations in the guerilla war against Southern resistors of the Rebel cause… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Threats of sexual assault & rape
Blood depiction
Death of a parent
Torture
War themes

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

A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair

A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair

Keera is a killer. As the King’s Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the King’s favoured assassin. When a mysterious figure called the Shadow starts making moves against the Crown, Keera is forced to hunt the masked menace down.

She crosses into the magical lands of the Fae, trying to discern if her enemy is Mortal, Elf, or a Halfling like her. But the Faeland is not what it seems, and neither is the Shadow. Keera is shocked by what she discovers and can’t help but wonder who her enemy… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault mentioned
Substance addiction
Suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Murder
Torture
Colonialism

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