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.

Addicted to You by Krista Ritchie and Becca Ritchie

Addicted to You by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie

No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway’s biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own.

Loren Hale’s best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming
  • Sexual assault
  • Child abuse
  • Parental abandonment
  • Sex addiction (theme)
  • Alcoholism
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The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori

The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori

Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time. Nobody can crack Gianna’s facade . . . no one anyway, until he comes along. Most see a paragon of morality; a special agent upholding the law. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. Christian Allister has always followed… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slut shaming
  • Rape
  • Sexual assault
  • Sex work
  • Cheating
  • Child neglect recounted
  • Antisocial Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Panic attacks
  • Drug use
  • Overdose
  • Imprisonment
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The Blessed by Tonya Hurley 

The Blessed by Tonya Hurley

What if martyrs and saints lived among us? And what if you were told you were one of them?

Meet Agnes, Cecilia, and Lucy. Three lost girls, each searching for something. But what they find is Beyond Belief.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape
  • Attempted suicide recounted
  • Nonconsensual branding
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Murder
  • Torture, including the use of an Iron Maiden
  • Beheading
  • Strangulation
  • Drowning
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The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor 

The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Fatmisia
  • Ableism
  • Racism
  • Antiziganism
  • Homomisia
  • Graphic rape & statutory rape
  • Graphic sexual assault of a child
  • Adult-minor relationship
  • Trauma
  • Nightmares & night terrors
  • Graphic suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Smoking
  • Pregnancy from rape
  • Abortion (theme)
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries, including mutilation and eye trauma
  • Cancer
  • Emesis
  • Hospital
  • Dismemberment
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother & father
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of a brother
  • Death of a fiancé
  • Murder
  • Physical assault
  • Drowning
  • Rollercoaster accident
  • Car accident recounted
  • Graphic death of a pet dog
  • Bullying
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Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh

Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh

Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux knows she’s the best—but she doesn’t know if she’s good enough for this job. Hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael, a being so lethal that no mortal wants his attention, only one thing is clear—failure is not an option…even if the task is impossible. Because this time, it’s not a wayward vamp she has to track. It’s an archangel gone bad. The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other…and pull her to the razor’s edge of passion. Even if the hunt doesn’t destroy… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape
  • Sexual harassment
  • Dubious consent scenario
  • Blood & gore depiction
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Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell 

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

Owen Pick’s life is falling apart. In his thirties, a virgin, and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct, which he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel—involuntary celibate—forums, where he meets the charismatic, mysterious, and sinister Bryn… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault mentioned
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Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop

After winning the trust of the terra indigene residing in the Lakeside Courtyard, Meg Corbyn has had trouble figuring out what it means to live among them. As a human, Meg should be barely tolerated prey, but her abilities as a cassandra sangue make her something more. The appearance of two addictive drugs has sparked violence between the humans and the Others, resulting in the murder of both species in nearby… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Self-harm (cutting)
  • Drug use
  • Murder
  • Kidnapping & captivity
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The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom

The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom

When Gwendolyn Bloom’s father vanishes, she sets off on a journey she never bargained for. Traveling under a new identity in a world of assassins, spies, and criminal masterminds, she uncovers a disturbing truth. To bring her father back alive, she must become every bit as cruel as the men holding him captive.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Human trafficking
  • Attempted rape
  • Sex work mentioned
  • Murder
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The XY by Virginia Bergin

The XY by Virginia Bergin

Also known as Who Runs the World?.

Sixty years ago, a virus wiped out almost all men on Earth. Now women run the world, and men are kept in repopulation facilties, safe from the deadly virus. At least, that’s what everyone has been led to believe…until River discovers a young man on a country road—injured but alive. Mason has been outside for five days since escaping from his facility, and no one can understand how he has survived. Hiding the boy violates the rules of their world, but as the women of the town band together to try to save him, River begins to suspect that the truth behind Mason’s existence is darker than she could have imagined.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape
  • Murder
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Riggs by Sawyer Bennett

Riggs by Sawyer Bennett

As a professional hockey player, people think I live a charmed life. On the surface, I do. But they don’t know the horrors of my childhood or the real reason that I have custody of my seventeen-year-old sister, Janelle. And that’s exactly the way I like it. They may think I’m a prick because I don’t like to share, but that’s fine. They don’t know me, and they don’t need to. In an effort to help Janelle get settled in Phoenix and stay out of trouble at school, I set her up with a job at Clarke’s Corner, the local bookstore owned by the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted sexual assault of a minor recounted
  • Physical assault, on-page
  • Stabbing recounted
  • Attempted kidnapping
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