Sexual Harassment – Page 2 – Trigger Warning Database

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)

Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield

Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield

After abducting Arthur of Brittany from his own time in 1203, thereby creating the mystery that partly prompted the visit in the first place, Alice and her team discover that they have inadvertently brought the smallpox virus back to 1780 with them. Searching for a future vaccine, Prudence finds that the various factions in the future time war intend to use the crisis to their own advantage. Can the team prevent an international pandemic across time, and put history back on its tracks? At least until the next battle in the time war…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Period-typical misogyny & lesbophobia
Sexual harassment (unwanted touching)
Childbirth mentioned
Plague (smallpox)
Death of a sister
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Kidnapping & imprisonment
War themes & a battle scene

Didn’t See That Coming by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can’t help but be totally herself… except when she’s online. Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend—a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg—doesn’t know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn’t know his real name either, and it’s not like they’re ever going to cross paths IRL. Until she transfers to an elite private school for her senior year and discovers that Sourdawg… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexism
Sexual harassment

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies… especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Sexual harassment
Nonconsensual voyeurism of children mentioned
Rape of a child
Incest (father-daughter)
Child pregnancy from rape
Parent with alcoholism
Attempted suicide & suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Graphic blood & gore depiction, including dead bodies
Emesis
Animal abuse