Stalking – Trigger Warning Database

One for Sorrow by Helen Sarah Fields

Edinburgh is gripped by the greatest terror it has ever known: a lone bomber is targeting victims across the city, and no one is safe. In their jobs, DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach deal with death every day. But when it becomes clear that every bomb is a trap designed to kill them too, the possibility of facing it themselves starts to feel all too real. Five for silver, six for gold
With the body count rising daily and the bomber’s methods becoming ever more horrifying, Ava and Luc must race to find out who is behind the attacks – or pay the ultimate price…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Abusive relationship
Suicide
Murder
Explosion (bomb)
Stalking

Read Between the Lies by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Fern’s dream of becoming a published author is finally coming true. After years of rejection, her debut novel has sold, and she’s ready to join the supportive online community of fellow debuts. But when she discovers her high school bully, Haven, has landed a major book deal and will be debuting alongside her, old wounds reopen. As the pandemic forces everyone online, tensions escalate in their writing community. While Haven seems to succeed effortlessly, Fern watches her own career crumble. Yet beneath their polished personas lies a darker truth about their… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Panic attacks
Suicide
COVID pandemic
Stalking
Bullying

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard

When Lenna gets a call from her old friend Rhiannon, she is startled; Rhiannon disappeared years ago without a trace. But Lenna is even more startled to learn that Rhiannon has a son and that she lives off the grid with a group of women in a community called Halcyon. Rhiannon invites Lenna, a new mother herself, to join them. Why suffer the sleepless nights by yourself? It takes a village, after all. Lenna decides to go and hopefully repair her relationship with Rhiannon, but as she drives into the desert and her cell service gets weaker, she becomes suspicious. Who are… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Sexual assault mentioned
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) & anxiety (protagonist)
Teen pregnancy & fertility treatments mentioned
Kidnapping & stalking
Cults

Perfect Little Monsters by Cindy R.X. He

SElla Moore was the most popular girl in school…and also the most hated. When she’s murdered at her own party, there are too many suspects to count–and too many people who think she deserved it. The police’s prime suspect is the new girl, Dawn Foster. She was the last to hand Ella a drink on the night Ella died. Plus, all of Ella’s friends with a motive for wanting her dead are more than willing to implicate Dawn. But Dawn refuses to go down without a fight. She’s determined to clear her name. As she delves deeper into th… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Lesbophobia, disfiguremisia, ableism and fatphobia & body-shaming
Adult-minor relationship and statutoray rape
Image-based sexual assault (‘revenge porn’)
Infidelity
Disordered eating & body image issues
Panic attacks
Attempted suicide by overdose and stepping in front of a vehicle & suicidal ideation
Alcohol consumption
Death of a parent
Murder & attempted murder
Car accident recounted & discussed
Poisoning
Strangulation
Kidnapping
Blackmail & stalking
Fire
Bullying & cyberbullying

Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi

Tenderhearted Galilee was raised by the Kincaids, a formidable clan of Black women sequestered deep in the weeping willows and dark rushing creeks of their land. Galilee has always known that she’s different—that there is an old and unknowable secret around her very existence. It has been a hollow ache inside her since her childhood, something she assumes she will always have to live with. Until she meets Lucifer Helel. He’s fronting as the head of security for her wealthy friend Oriaku’s family, protecting a mysterious, ancient artifact, but from the moment she lays eyes on him… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slut-shaming
Improper BDSM practice recounted (not respecting safe words)
Intimate partner violence (on-page, protagonist slaps her love interest)
Parental infertility & miscarriage mentioned
Alochol consumption
Physical injury, including temporary loss of vision and gunshot wounds
Murder of a father by a mother mentioned (protagonist)
Attempted murder & physical assailt
Torture
Kidnapping & stalking
Fire
Loss of autonomy (memory manipulation, angelic possession with the intent to impregnate another)
Battle scene

The Missed Connection by Tia Williams

Sasha Cruz knows types. As a booked-and-busy casting agent, she’s always casting — at happy hour, the post office, the grocery store, everywhere. She’s all about finding the perfect person to slot into the perfect role. What she doesn’t do, however, are relationships. Too much energy, not enough time. Men find her intimidating, and she likes it that way. But when Sasha’s seated next to a mysterious, broodingly handsome Italian man on the way to a work trip in Paris, sparks fly – but they miss the chance to exchange contact information. Now, convinced that she’s… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Stalking

Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts) by Lev A.C. Rosen

Meet Jack Rothman. He’s seventeen and loves partying, makeup and boys – sometimes all at the same time. His sex life makes him the hot topic for the high school gossip machine. But who cares? Like Jack always says, ‘it could be worse’. He doesn’t actually expect that to come true. But after Jack starts writing an online sex advice column, the mysterious love letters he’s been getting take a turn for the creepy. Jack’s secret admirer knows everything: where he’s hanging out, who he’s sleeping with, who his mum is dating. They claim they love Jack, but not his unashamedly queer…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slut-shaming (theme) & victim-blaming
Homophobia & coming out themes
Hate crimes mentioned
Dubious consent scenarios discussed
Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use
Bombings mentioned
Stalking & blackmail
Bullying

The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev A.C. Rosen

Brandon is a hopeless romantic. So when a handsome stranger named Jon checks in at the hotel he works at and invites Brandon to his room, Brandon ignores the advice of his crew—a group of loveable and messy queer twenty—somethings—and accepts. What follows is a tale as old as time: they hook up, Jon promises to text, Brandon falls in love, and Jon ghosts. Case closed—or is it? When Jon checks out early, leaving behind a bag of belongings and his cellphone, Brandon takes the phone and sets out to find him, thinking that this must at last be his Cinderella story. But he gets more… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Murder
Stalking by an ex-partner
Homophobic cyberbullying

Judas Kiss by J.T. Ellison

It was a murder made for TV: a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother’s bludgeoned body. Pretty young Corinne Wolff, seven months pregnant, brutally murdered in her own home. Cameras and questions don’t usually faze Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, but the media frenzy surrounding the Wolff case is particularly nasty…and thorough. When the seemingly model mommy is linked to an amateur porn Web site with underage actresses and unwitting players, the sharks begin to circle. The shocks is magnified… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Infidelity
Pregnancy
Murder
Stalking & blackmail

It’s One of Us by J.T. Ellison

Olivia Bender designs exquisite home interiors that satisfy the most demanding clients. But her own deepest desire can’t be fulfilled by marble counters or the perfect rug. She desperately wants to be a mother. Fertility treatments and IVF keep failing. And just when she feels she’s at her lowest point, the police deliver shocking news to Olivia and her husband, Park. DNA results show that the prime suspect in a murder investigation is Park’s son. Olivia is relieved, knowing this is a mistake. Despite their desire, the Benders don’t have any children. Then comes the confession. Many years ago, Park donated sperm to a clinic… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Infidelity
Infertility & miscarriage (theme, on-page)
Kidnapping
Home invasion & stalking