Sexual Harassment – Trigger Warning Database

Against a Wall by Cate C. Wells

My high school bully is now my fake boyfriend. Cash Wall has been messing with me since junior high. Nuisance stuff, mostly. Name calling. Pranks. Honestly, he’s nowhere near the worst of my problems. Back in school, I had bigger fish to fry, and now, I’ve got a “scarlet letter” situation going on. The whole town hates me. For some reason, Cash offers himself up as my knight in shining armor. So now my former bully is my fake boyfriend. What could possibly go wrong? Cash: Glenna Dobbs thinks I’m an idiot, and she’s mostly right. I hunt. Fish. Go mudding. I’m not a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Fatphobia & body shaming
Workplace sexual harassment & dubious consent scenario
Cheating mentioned
Emotionally abusive relationships recounted
Anxiety & insomnia
Alcohol consumption and drug use, including vaping & cigar smoking
Physical injury (gunshot wound)
Emesis mentioned
Parent with agina
Death of a mother from a heart attack recounted
Death of a grandparent mentioned
Murder of an uncle
Physical assault
Police corruption
Hunting & death of a pet dog mentioned
Bullying

Afterlight by Rebecca Lim

Since her parents died in a freak motorbike accident, Sophie Teague’s life has fallen apart. But she’s just enrolled at a new high school, hoping for a fresh start. That’s until Eve, a beautiful ghost in black, starts making terrifying nightly appearances, wanting Sophie to be her hands, eyes and go-to girl. There are loose ends that Eve needs Sophie to tie up. But dealing with the dead might just involve the greatest sacrifice of all.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism
Attempted sexual assault & sexual harassment
Domestic violence
Death of parents in a motorcycle accident
Bullying

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

Lydia is hungry. She’s always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside – the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can’t eat any of these things. Her body doesn’t work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs’ blood in London–where she is living away from… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Colonialism
Rape recounted (off-page)
Workplace sexual harassment
Emotional parental abuse
Self-harm
Stillbirth
Murder

Whisky Business by Elliot Fletcher

As a child, April Sinclair dreamt of escaping her quiet island life to become a world-famous actress. Now fully grown and with her once-flourishing career at an all-time low, what better way to figure out where it all went wrong than to go back to the beginning? April has her sights set on a new challenge, and that is saving her family’s distillery on the idyllic Scottish Isle of Skye. What she doesn’t expect to find is Malcolm Macabe, short-tempered and exceedingly attractive, living in the home she has just inherited. He may be a million miles away from the shy teenager she knew growing up, but one thing is for certain: he doesn’t… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Anxiety (on-page)
Parent with Alzheimer’s Disease
Death of a grandparent from cancer complications
Cyberbullying, specifically sexual harassment & body-shaming

Whidbey by T. Kira Madden

Birdie Chang didn’t know anything about Whidbey Island when she chose it, only that it was about as far away as she could get from her own life. She’s a woman on the run, desperate for an escape from the headlines back home and the look of concern in her girlfriend’s eyes—and from Calvin Boyer, the man who abused her as a child and who’s now resurfaced. On her way, she has an unnerving encounter with a stranger on the ferry who offers her a proposition, a sinister solution, a plan for revenge…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & racism
Paedophilia, grooming, sexual assault & sexual harassment
Incest mentioned
Child abuse
Anxiety & trichotillomania
Alcoholism mentioned
Murder
Car accident (hit-and-run)
Stalking mentioned

Mrs. Nash’s Ashes by Sarah Adler

Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she’d reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D.C. to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash’s remains in her backpack. But Millie’s determined to give her friend a symbolic happily-ever-after, before it’s (really) too late—and hopefully reassure herself of love’s lasting power in the process. She just didn’t expect to have a living travel companion. After a computer glitch grounds flights, Millie is… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Lesbophobia discussed
Sexism & sexual harassment
Familial estrangement
Parental infidelity
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend
Death of a parent recounted (off-page)
Animal death in a car accident (deer)

Kirby’s Lessons for Falling [in Love] by Laura Gao

Once dubbed the Queen of Balance as her school’s top rock climber, Kirby Tan suffers an injury that sidelines her for the rest of the season. Now she’s forced to join the newspaper club for some desperately needed extra credit. Worse, she’s recruited by crystal-wearing, tarot-reading Bex Santos for her astrology-based love advice column. As Kirby reluctantly agrees to orchestrate “matches made in heaven” with Bex, she begins to wonder if their own stars could be aligned. But loving who she wants isn’t so easy when her family and church community are on the line. Can Kirby pull off her greatest balancing act yet?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual harassment
Emesis
Death of a parent

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.