Tag Archives: Sexual Harassment

Bitter Sweet Heart by H. Hunting

From the outside looking in, I live a charmed life: hockey legend for a father, my own promising future in the league, a great family, awesome friends. It’s not untrue, but it’s not quite that simple either. My dad’s advice has always been to make hockey my number-one priority—at least until I make it to the pros. So, going into my senior year of college, I have a plan. I’ll put in the effort required to pass my classes, play hockey like my life depends on it, and avoid relationships. All I have to do is stay focused on the end game, and I’ll walk away with a degree and into a career in the NHL. It… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual harassment
  • Emotionally abusive relationship & gaslighting
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Kidnapping mentioned

Heiress for Hire by Madeline Hunter

Minerva Hepplewhite has learned the hard way how to take care of herself. When an intruder breaks into her home, she doesn’t swoon or simper. Instead, she wallops the rogue over the head and ties him up—only to realize he is Chase Radnor, the man who nearly got her convicted of her late husband’s murder. Now, he’s insisting that Minerva has inherited a fortune from his uncle, a wealthy Duke. Only one thing could surprise her more: her sudden attraction to this exasperating man. Chase can’t decide whether Minerva is a wronged woman or a femme fatale. Either way… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual harassment
  • Domestic violence recounted

The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam “West” Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she’d signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the heartless corporation his family built from the ground up. He is interested, however, in his one-hundred-million… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • False allegations of sexual harassment (love interest)
  • Psychological & verbal parental abuse
  • Parent in cancer recovery

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the leafy and imposing Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for “Bake Week” but also the childhood home of the show’s famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin. The author of numerous best-selling cookbooks and hailed as “America’s Grandmother,” Betsy Martin isn’t as warm off-screen as on, although no one needs to know that but her. She has always demanded perfection, and gotten it with a smile, but this year something is off. Things go awry… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape & sexual harassment
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder

The Afterlife of the Party by Marlene Perez

Tansy didn’t even want to go to the party. It’s hard enough living in one of your best friend’s shadows and secretly in love with your other best friend. And now she’s leaving it a vampire. Now her best friend Skyler is stuck on the road trip from hell, on tour as a groupie with a literal band of vamps. Tansy sets out with Vaughn, her other BFF turned maybe more, to save Skylar’s life and take down the band. But when they find themselves in the middle of a vampire war, will Tansy be able to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her friends?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Abandonment
  • Sexual harassment
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Emesis
  • Kidnapping
  • Loss of autonomy (mind control)
  • Animal death

Accidental Romeo by Nicole Snow

A perfect stranger just kissed away the worst day of my life. Emphasis on perfect. Hunter Forsythe is so far out of my league I can’t even buy tickets. And now he’s insta-date to my stuck up sister’s wedding?! Brace for everything to go hilariously wrong. But my mysterious new hero is no flipping joke. Rich as sin. Knockout eyes. A snarlypants single dad. Muscle, muscle everywhere .Too good for the quiet baker girl no one ever noticed. Then I find out what—and who—put him up to this insanity. I’m so mad I could spit nails. Imagine my surprise when Romeo keeps coming. Hear my door slamming in his face. Witness my jaw… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Cheating recounted
  • Gambling addiction mentioned
  • Death of a brother recounted
  • House fire recounted
  • Animal death (fish)

Snowfall and Secrets by Kimmy Loth

Tess escapes from Florida with a secret as big as Miami. She needs to find someplace to lay low and hide from her overbearing family. Mackinac Island, Michigan, should be the perfect place to hide out. However, her timing is a little off, it’s the dead of winter and she’s never been in temperatures below fifty degrees. Just her luck, her landlord, Lukas, is as hot as the sun. He’s also moody and hiding secrets as well. Which suits Tess fine. A man is the last complication she needs. A Michigan blizzard leaves them trapped in the same house together and things heat up, fast. Tess finds herself falling for Lukas, in spite of the secrets that could ruin everything before it even begins.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape & sexual harassment
  • Domestic abuse
  • Abortion discussed
  • Emesis
  • Death of a child

Scarred by Emily McIntire

Prince Tristan Faasa was never destined for the throne. That was always his brother, Michael. The same brother responsible for both Tristan’s tormented childhood and the scar that mars his face. When their father dies, Michael is set to assume the throne, and Tristan is set to steal it. The leader of a secret rebellion, Tristan will stop at nothing to end his brother’s reign. But when Michael’s new betrothed, Lady Sara Beatreaux arrives, Tristan finds himself in the middle of a new kind of war. The kind that begs the question of what’s more important, the crown or the woman about… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Attempted sexual assault & threats of rape
  • Suicide (secondary character)
  • Drug use & cigar smoking mentioned
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Murder of a father & death of a father from hanging for treason
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Torture
  • Physical assault

Wild Love by Elsie Silver

Forbes may have labeled Ford Grant the World’s Hottest Billionaire, but all he cares about is escaping the press and opening a recording studio in gorgeous small town Rose Hill. Something that comes to a screeching halt when he ends up face-to-face with a young girl who claims he’s her biological father. Now, he spends his days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old, all while trying desperately to keep his hands the hell off his best friend’s sister, Rosie Belmont. After living in the city, Rosie came blasting back into town like a storm. Beautiful, messy, and chaotic. And one wide-eyed, desperate plea for a job is all it takes… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexual harassment
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a father from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) mentioned

Stroke of Midnight by K. Webster

Money can buy anything. And anyone. As the head of the Constantine family, I’m used to people bowing to my will. Cruel, rigid, unyielding—I’m all those things. When I discover the one woman who doesn’t wither under my gaze, but instead smiles right back at me, I’m intrigued. Ash Elliott needs cash, and I make her trade in crudeness and degradation for it. I crave her tears, her moans, her submission. I pay for each one. And every time, she comes back for more. When she challenges me with an offer of her own, I have to decide if I’m willing to give her far more than cold hard cash. But love can have deadly consequences when… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Dubious consent & sex work*
  • Sexual assault & harassment

*Context : The protagonist is an 18-year-old girl who is paid for sexual services by her employee, a 37-year-old man as old who is ‘turned on’ by her youth.