Sexual Harassment – Trigger Warning Database

Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn

After more than a year of laying low, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their rest, but the lack of excitement is starting to chafe: a professional killer can only take so many watercolor classes and yoga sessions before she gets the itch to get back in the game. When they receive a call from Naomi Ndiaye, the head of the elite assassin organization known as the Museum, they are ready to tackle the greatest challenge of their careers. Someone on the inside has compiled a list of important kills committed by Museum agents, all of… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism mentioned
Sexual harassment
Child abuse mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Drug use mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Physical assault
Animal death mentioned

The Surf House by Lucy Clarke

High on the wave-pounded cliffs, far from the bustling souks of Marrakech, sits The Surf House. A hidden gem on Morocco’s shores, the house is a sanctuary for the surfers, travellers and dreamers who wash in. But the idyll is built on something rotten. And when Bea arrives, relieved to find refuge after a dangerous encounter in a Marrakech alleyway, she soon gets caught in the swell of a deep, dark mystery. Because another young woman went missing one year ago – and the last place she was sighted was The Surf House.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Attempted sexual assault & sexual harassment
Infidelity
Suicide
Knife & gun violence
Drowning
Blackmail

Under Your Spell by Laura Wood

Dumped by her cheating ex, fired from her dream job, about to lose her flat: Clementine Monroe is not having a good day. So when her sisters get her drunk and suggest reviving a childhood ritual called the breakup spell, she doesn’t see the harm in it. But now Clemmie has accidentally ruined a funeral, had her first one-night stand, and she’s stuck with a new job she definitely doesn’t want – spending six weeks alone with the gorgeous and very-off-limits rock star, Theo Eliott. He’s the most famous man on the planet. Her life’s a disaster. When it comes to love, Clemmie is learning you should be careful what you wish for…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Statutory rape & teen pregnancy mentioned*
Image-based sexual abuse (paparazzi publish intimate photos of them)
Harassment & loss of privacy from paparazzi (on-page & recounted)
Parental abandonment & neglect recounted
Infidelity (ex-partner) & mentions of parental infidelity*
Minor physical injury & emesis
Dieting (protagonist)
Death of a grandparent from a heart attack
Alcohol consumption
Drug use recounted
Physical assault
Animal death

*Context : The protagonist’s 40-year-old father cheated on her mother and impregnated three women, including a 17-year-old teenage girl.

Gouda Friends by Cathy Yardley

Tam Doan dumped her boyfriend after he threw away her gourmet cheese. Sure, it’s a little more complicated than that, but the point is, he had it coming. Newly single and unemployed, Tam calls up her best friend from high school and utters the emergency code word—goldfish. Next thing she knows, she’s on a plane back home. Josh O’Malley was a troubled, unconfident teenager. Now he’s the successful owner of a multimillion-dollar ghost kitchen. Tam, his high school BFF and fellow member of the Nerd … Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Fatphobia
Cheating*
Emotionally abusive relationship
False allegations of sexual harassment

* Context : The protagonist witnesses her boyfriend having sex with another woman.

The Demigod Complex by Abigail Owen

When Lyleia Naiad was head-hunted by Brimstone, Inc., for her job as Executive Assistant to a high-powered billionaire demigod, she was given one directive—do NOT fall in love with Castor Dioskouri. Doesn’t matter if he’s the son of Zeus and can electrify a room with a single glance. As an ex-nymph, she possesses a unique ability—a gift from the goddesses to protect nymphs from the randy gods—to resist her boss’s charms. Or so she thought. He insists she accompany him to an alpha wolf shifter mating ceremony, an event where the pheromones fly, and so do clothes… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual assault recounted
Sexual harassment
Boss-employee relationship
Infideity recounted
Alcohol consumption
Murder of a pregnant wife by being burning to death recounted
Death of a mother recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Drowning
Stalking

In the Blood by Hailey Turner

Captain Jamie Callahan is running out of time in his efforts to outsmart an enemy metahuman. His father’s presidential campaign is ramping up, and Jamie’s top secret identity as a metahuman himself is at risk of being revealed by the enemy, to say nothing of his secret relationship with Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan. As Alpha Team’s long-running mission gets derailed in the worst way possible, Staff Sergeant Alexei Dvorkin discovers the enemy is playing for keeps, and neither he nor Agent Sean Delaney are in any… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Threats of rape
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & trauma
Graphic torture, including waterboarding, dental torture, skinning, and beating
Erotic asphyxia
Chemical bombing
Terrorism

Breaking Rosalind by Gigi Styx

I wove a deadly web, but it became my trap. Rosalind: I’m a cold-blooded killer, a femme fatale with a long list of victims. My latest target being Cesare Montesano. I must kill him and his brothers to protect my innocent young daughter. He catches me in the middle of the mission, but I’m not scared. I might be his prisoner yet I’m not without weapons. And I will use every trick in the book to disarm him and escape. Cesare: She tried to inject me with a poisonous syringe. Now, she’s my captive with a head full of secrets. Secrets that threaten my brother’s lives and rob our family’s power. She’s a betrayer, just like all the others, but I won’t… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Workplace sexual harassment
Child abuse & grooming recounted
Stockholm Syndrome & dubious consent (‘dubcon’)
Self-harm (cutting)
Drugging
Forced pregnancy & teen pregnancy recounted
Body modification, scars & branding, including tracker insertion
Genital mutilation (castration, stitching)
Dismemberment & evisceration
Murder & mass murder
Murder of a mother & father
Graphic torture, Russian roulette & sensory deprivation
Kidnapping
Blackmail
Animal cruelty recounted

Context : Depiction of BDSM & kink, including bondage, temperature play, pet play, breath play, candle play, gun play, hebephilia, knife play, and medical play

I Will Mend You by Gigi Styx

My worst nightmare finally stepped out of the mirror. And the only man who can save me is a ghost. I’m trapped in a forgotten nightmare with the monster I most fear. The key to my freedom lies behind a wall of memories. Xero’s specter invades my mind, whispering both vengeance and salvation. He insists he’s real, yet I can’t trust my shattered psyche. But as my tormentors draw close, I must rely on the phantom I betrayed for protection—and for revenge. She’s ensnared by darkness, and only I can set her free. To save her, I must become the vengeful spirit she fears. Amethyst’s mind is a maze of terror and confusion. Freeing… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child & organ trafficking
Elder abuse
Victim-blaming
Rape, dubious consent (‘dubcon’), sexual harassment, & attempted sexual assault
Paedophilia, grooming, & child sexual abuse
Underage sex work mentioned (secondary character)
Gang rape (secondary character)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Hallucinations & memory loss
Immolation
Abortion (forced) recounted
Medical misconduct (medication tampering)
Forced feeding
Cannibalism & dismemberment
Genital mutilation (castration)
Murder & murder of a child/infant
Graphic torture (on-page)
Car accident
Poisoning
Arson
Kidnapping & captivity
Imprisonment
Stalking & blackmail
Bullying & online harassment

King of Envy by Ana Huang

He had everything he could’ve wanted…except her. Dangerous. Powerful. Reclusive. Vuk Markovic is notorious for shunning human interactions. The scarred billionaire rarely talks, and he has no interest in relationships outside his small but trusted circle. His only exception? Her . The beauty to his beast, the object of his obsession. He saw her first. He wanted her first. But now, she’s engaged to his oldest friend—and the closer the wedding looms, the more he’s torn between loyalty and desire. She should be his…and he might just risk it all to have her… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual slavery mentioned
Attempted sexual assault & sexual harassment
Alcohol consumption
Blood, gore & injury depiction including the depiction of dead bodies
Murder & attempted murder
Torture
Gun violence
Kidnapping

Dirty Ties by Pam Godwin

Revenge. I race to finance it. I evade to protect it. I kill to attain it. I planned everything. Except her. The alluring, curvaceous blonde at the finish line. With sapphire eyes that cheat and lie. Whose powerful family murdered mine. I hate her. I want her. I know she’s hiding something. But so am I.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Sexual harassment
Forced arranged marriage (secondary character)
Alcohol consumption
Death of a mother recounted
Murder by knife violence
Motorcycle accident (secondary character)