Heart2Heart, Vol 3 by Various

Heart2Heart, Vol. 3 by Annabeth Albert, May Archer, Mary Calmes, Charlie Cochet, Eden Finely, Susane HAwke, Sloane Kennedy, Lucy Lennox, Lily Morton, K.M. Neuhold, Nora Phoenix, Layla Reyne, Piper Scott, Damon Suede, Hailey Turner & Aimee Nicole Walker

Once upon a time, a group of authors wondered… What if the Heart2Heart app — the dating app with a glitch that matched up the oddest, most perfect couples, and sponsored the charity date raffles that helped dozens of people find love — offered a classifieds section, too?

Need a handyman who knows how to wear a tool belt? Have a closet of drag costumes that needs a new home? How about finally tracking down that guy who made the perfect drink, or who’s just the right height to reach the top shelf?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

The Closet by Eden Finley• Homomisia
• Cancer
The Last Drop by Layla Reyne• Alcohol consumption
The Dog Walker by Lily Morton• Homomisia
• Death of family members in a fire
• Car accident
• Animal injury
The Restoration by Mary Calmes• Cheating mentioned
• Deployment of a spouse mentioned
The Wedding Date by Susane Hawke• Cancer mentioned
The Wrong Guy by Sloane Kennedy • Homomisia
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy is an accessible book for children to learn about systemic racism and racist behavior. For the awkward questions white and non-black parents don’t know how to answer, this book is an essential guide to help support communication on how to dismantle racism in our youngest generation.

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy creates a safe, judgment-free space for curious children to ask questions they’ve long been afraid to verbalize. How can I have white privilege if I’m not wealthy? Why do Black people protest against the police? If Black people can say the N-word, why can’t I? And many, many more

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Slavery
  • Death of a child
  • Death of a parent
  • Police brutality
  • Gun violence
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Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask—yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and “reverse racism.”

In his own words, he provides a space of compassion and understanding in a discussion that can lack both. He asks only for the reader’s curiosity—but along the way, he will galvanize all of us to join the antiracist fight.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Hate crimes
  • Slavery
  • Physical abuse
  • Police brutality
  • Gun violence
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Fortuna Sworn by KJ Sutton

Fortuna Sworn by K.J. Sutton

Fortuna Sworn is the last of her kind.

Her brother disappeared two years ago, leaving her with no family or species to speak of. She hides among humans, spending her days working at a bar and her nights searching for him. The bleak pattern goes on and on… until she catches the eye of a powerful faerie.

He makes no attempt to hide that he desires Fortuna. And in exchange for her, he offers something irresistible. So Fortuna reluctantly leaves her safe existence behind to step back into a world of creatures and power. It soon becomes clear that she may not have bargained with her heart, but her very life.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Misogyny
  • Sexual harassment
  • Slavery & sex slavery
  • Abusive relationship
  • Whipping
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The Warrior’s Path by Catherine M Wilson

The Warrior’s Path by Catherine M. Wilson

Tamras arrives in Merin’s house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior, but her small stature causes many, including Tamras herself, to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. To make matters worse, the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion, little more than a personal servant, to a woman who came to Merin’s house, seemingly out of nowhere, the previous winter, and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Slavery mentioned
  • Rape recounted
  • Physical injury
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The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson

Since leaving his homeland, the earthbound demigod Demane has been labeled a sorcerer. With his ancestors’ artifacts in hand, the Sorcerer follows the Captain, a beautiful man with song for a voice and hair that drinks the sunlight.

The two of them are the descendants of the gods who abandoned the Earth for Heaven, and they will need all the gifts those divine ancestors left to them to keep their caravan brothers alive.

The one safe road between the northern oasis and southern kingdom is stalked by a necromantic terror. Demane may have to master his wild powers and trade humanity for godhood if he is to keep his brothers and his beloved captain alive.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Slavery
  • Homomisia
  • Child abuse
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Body horror
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Happy Endings by Alice Winters

Happy Endings by Alice Winters

Smart men never dabble with demons. I never claimed to be smart, but at least I’m powerful enough to control them. When I bound Havoc to me nearly three hundred years ago, I never realized how difficult he’d make my life, although “accidentally” lighting him on fire every now and then does bring a smile to my face.

Havoc is handsome, mysterious, and somehow my closest companion, even if we don’t always get along. He’s more interested in bedding attractive women than protecting my life, which defeats the main reason a mage like me would have a demon. I even had to fight off swordsmen alone once because he was too busy betting on who’d survive… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Slavery
  • Child abuse
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Suicide
  • Torture
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Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott

Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott

A novel in verse, Paper Hearts is the story of survival, defiance, and friendship. Based on historical events about a group of girls who were slave laborers at the munitions factory in Auschwitz.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Slavery
  • Executions
  • Concentration camps
  • World War Two
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Master of One by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett

Master of One by Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett

Rags is a thief—an excellent one. He’s stolen into noble’s coffers, picked soldier’s pockets, and even liberated a ring or two off the fingers of passersby. Until he’s caught by the Queensguard and forced to find an ancient fae relic for a sadistic royal sorcerer. But Rags could never have guessed this “relic” would actually be a fae himself—a distractingly handsome, annoyingly perfect, ancient fae prince called Shining Talon. Good thing Rags can think on his toes, because things just get stranger from there…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Physical child abuse
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Infertility mentioned
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal death

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl’s virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction – at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful – and completely unforgettable

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Slavery
  • Child abuse
  • Cheating
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Paedophilia
  • Rape
  • Abortion mentioned
  • Emesis
  • Physical injuries, including burns
  • Death of a parent
  • Explosion & bombings mentioned
  • Electrocution
  • World War Two
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