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The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft

The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft

Fearing an uprising, the Sphinx sends Senlin to investigate a plot that has taken hold in the ringdom of Pelphia. Alone in the city, Senlin infiltrates a bloody arena where hods battle for the public’s entertainment. But his investigation is quickly derailed by a gruesome crime and an unexpected reunion.

Posing as a noble lady and her handmaid, Voleta and Iren attempt to reach Marya, who is isolated by her fame. While navigating the court, Voleta attracts the unwanted attention of a powerful prince whose pursuit of her threatens their plan… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery & human trafficking
Torture
Kidnapping & captivity
War themes

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of airships and steam engines, of unusual animals and mysterious machines.

Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, the mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Attempted rape

The Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley

The Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley

Circe Quinn goes to sleep at home and wakes up in a corral filled with women wearing sacrificial virgin attire – and she is one of them. She soon finds out that she’s not having a wild dream, she’s living a frightening nightmare where she’s been transported to a barren land populated by a primitive people and in short order, she’s installed very unwillingly on her white throne of horns as their Queen.

Dax Lahn is the king of Suh Tunak, The Horde of the nation of Korwahk and with one look at Circe, he knows she will be his bride and together… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sex slavery & slavery
Rape
Suicide, on-page
Murder, on-page
Kidnapping & captivity

The Bound Witch by Ivy Asher

The Bound Witch by Ivy Asher

I died. I looked into Rogan Kendrick’s eyes, told him I loved him…and then I died. So how the hell am I standing naked in the middle of a morgue, doing my best not to freak the fuck out?

I’m a Bone Witch, or at least I was before Rogan bound us together. Blood magic now flows through my veins too, and I think somehow the man I shouldn’t love, the one who betrayed me, who couldn’t choose me…has saved me… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Indentured servitude
Parental abuse & neglect
Panic attack
Alcoholism
Nightmares
Drugging
Physical injury
Dead bodies
Physical injuries, including eyeball trauma
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Death of friend
Torture
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Explosions
Electrocution
Physical assault
Home invasion
Captivity & confinement
Disappearance of a loved one
Fire
Loss of autonomy (mind control & possession)
War themes & military violence
Displacement

Steel’s Edge by Ilona Andrews

Steel’s Edge by Ilona Andrews

The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale—and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny…

Charlotte de Ney is as noble as they come, a blueblood straight out of the Weird. But even though she possesses rare magical healing abilities, her life has brought her nothing but pain. After her marriage crumbles, she flees to the Edge to build a new home for herself. Until Richard Mar is brought to her for treatment, and Charlotte’s life is turned upside down once again… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Slut-shaming
Rape
Parental abandonment
Spousal abandonment due to infertility
Graphic physical injuries
Death of a friend

Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews

Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews

The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Walmart and magic is a fairytale–and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Indentured servitude
Child abuse recounted
Drugging
Blood & gore depiction
Body horror
Medical experimentation involving body modifications
Death of a parent
Kidnapping
Animal attack
Animal death
Poverty

On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny). Only Edgers like Rose can easily travel from one world to the next, but they never truly belong in either.

Rose thought if she practised her magic, she could build a better life for herself. But things didn’t turn out how she planned, and now she works a minimum wage, off the books job in the Broken just to survive… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery mentioned
Death of a mother recounted
Murder
Gun violence
Animal death

Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

The greatest games in Godsgrave’s history have ended with the most audacious murders in the history of the Itreyan Republic. Mia Corvere, gladiatii, escaped slave and infamous assassin, is on the run. Pursued by Blades of the Red Church and soldiers of the Luminatii legion, she may never escape the City of Bridges and Bones alive. Her mentor Mercurio is now in the clutches of her enemies. Her own family wishes her dead. And her nemesis, Consul Julius Scaeva, stands but a breath from total dominance over the Republic… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery & sex slavery
Sexual assault (groping)
Child sexual abuse mentioned
Suicide
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a friend
Murder
Torture
Poisoning
Fire

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Taken from the poverty of her parents’ home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle’s absence in Antigua, the Crawford’s arrive in the neighborhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen’s first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Incest

Blood to Poison by Mary Watson

Blood to Poison by Mary Watson

Seventeen-year-old Savannah is cursed. It’s a sinister family heirloom; passed down through the bloodline for hundreds of years, with one woman in every generation destined to die young. The family call them Hella’s girls, named for their ancestor Hella; the enslaved woman with whom it all began. Hella’s girls are always angry, especially in the months before they die. The anger is bursting from Savannah – at the men who cat-call her in the street, at her mother’s disingenuous fiancé, even at her own loving family… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Slavery mentioned
Sexual harassment