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Wicked by Sara Shepard

Wicked by Sara Shepard

In idyllic Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four very pretty girls just can’t help but be bad. Hanna will do anything to be Rosewood’s queen bee. Spencer’s digging up her family’s secrets. Emily can’t stop thinking about her new boyfriend. And Aria approves a little too strongly of her mom’s taste in men. The girls think they’re in the clear now that Ali’s killer is finally behind bars. But someone new is mimicking “A’s” blackmailing ways with wicked and mysterious messages. And it’s only a matter of time before they let some secrets slip.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Classism & homophobia
Fatphobia & body shaming
Sexism, slut-shaming & victim-blaming
Adult-minor relationship
Eating disorder including bingeing and purging and disordered weight & body thoughts
Alcohol consumption
Cancer mentioned
Emesis
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a grandmother
Death of a friend recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Stalking & blackmail
Bullying

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a pair of binoculars and several bottles of liquor, she passes the time watching Tom and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple who live in the house across the lake. They make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is rich; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous. One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship. But the more they get to know each other—and… Read more,

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Domestic violence
Graphic alcohol consumption & abuse (on-age, theme)
Alcoholism & recovery discussed (protagonist & secondary character)
Recreational drug use mentioned (off-page)
Self-sacrifice (on-page)
Minor injury & illness, including emesis & fainting spells
Grief & loss depiction
Murder by drowning & near-drowning incidents (on-page)
Death of a husband by accidental drowning discussed
Death of a wife from suicide by throwing herself down a set of stars discussed (disguised as an accidental death)
Poisoning
Physical assault
Kidnapping & captivity
Home invasion & stalking
Disappearance of a friend & missing person cases discussed (on-page)
Loss of autonomy (ghost possession)

Context: The protagonist is an alcoholic and her love interest is in recovery for alcoholism after losing his wife. The protagonist drugs her husband and dumps him in the lake to drown after she discovers he’s a serial killer. The protagonist’s neighbour is attempting to kill his wife by poisoning (and she almost drowns due to muscle weakness caused by the poison). The protagonist witnesses the wife punch the husband after a fight.

Giving Chase by Lauren Dane

Giving Chase by Lauren Dane

When landscaper Kyle Chase takes notice of Maggie Wright, all of Petal, Georgia, wonders what the quiet schoolteacher is hiding underneath her tight bun and boring blouses. Even Maggie doesn’t quite get it, but after a failed relationship and a disastrous attempt to get back out there, she’s no match against the famous Chase charm, and Kyle has it in spades. Kyle wants Maggie in his life—and in his bed—and he doesn’t mind getting down and dirty to prove it. For years he’s avoided the kind of trouble that comes with “good girls” like her, but Maggie’s the best trouble he’s ever been in. He craves more of it. And more of her…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Abusive relationship recounted
Attempted rape
Physical assault
Stalking

Hard Rain by Irma Venter

Hard Rain by Irma Venter

Journalist Alex Derksen’s new assignment in Tanzania should be easy, but he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the news. It starts when he meets Ranna, a beautiful photographer with something to hide. Alex stopped believing in love a long time ago, yet here in the middle of East Africa, it’s found him again. Alex knows a thing or two about chaos—wherever he goes, it follows. When an IT billionaire washes up onshore after seasonal flooding, he finds himself at the center of an investigation with Ranna as the main suspect. It turns out she may have a good reason for hiding… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Domestic abuse
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Stalking

Find Me by Ashley Rostek

Find Me by Ashley N. Rostek

One year ago. My family is gone. My parents. My twin sister. All of them murdered by the man who has stalked me for years. He nearly killed me, too. But I got away and he’s still out there, searching for me. He won’t find me. At least, I hope not. Thanks to WITSEC, I’ve been given a new life with a new identity. The present. My uncle, my only living relative, has helped me glue myself back together and given me the tools I’ll need to survive. I’m not fixed and my grief is heavy, but I’m at a point where I can put one foot in front of the other to try to move on. I know my future will be hard… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
PTSD & trauma
Nightmares
Smoking
Grief & loss depiction
Murder of both parents & twin sisters recounted
Stalking
Bullying

Five Total Strangers by Natalie Richards

Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards

When Mira flies home to spend Christmas with her mother in Pittsburgh, a record-breaking blizzard results in a cancelled layover. Desperate to get to her grief-ridden mother in the wake of a family death, Mira hitches a ride with a group of friendly college kids who were on her initial flight. As the drive progresses and weather conditions become more treacherous, Mira realizes that the four other passengers she’s stuck in the car with don’t actually know one another. Soon, they’re not just dealing with heavy snowfall and ice-slick roads, but the fact that somebody will stop at nothing to ensure their trip ends in a deadly disaster.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Substance addiction
Recreational drug use & abuse
Cancer
Car accident
Stalking

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

Every Last One by Anna Quindlen

The Lathams seem to have it all. Health, wealth, a vibrant family life – as Mary Beth Latham contemplates a life built around home, friends and community, she has every reason to feel fulfilled and content. That is, until one of her sons begins to unravel. As Mary Beth focuses on him, she discovers that the comfortable life she has spent years constructing has been shattered by a single traumatic moment. Forced to confront her own demons, Mary Beth must face the knowledge that one secret, shameful act has set the course of her fate…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Depression
Suicide by hanging
Murder
Stalking

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together–but they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy’s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewellery designer. In and outside the bedroom, Remy and Alicia’s entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen, whose every Instagram caption, outfit, and New Age mantra they know by heart. Imagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen, in the flesh, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons with her wealthy boyfriend and their group. Once there, Re… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Eating disorder
Body horror
Drowning
Stalking

The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Margot Lee’s mother, Mina, isn’t returning her calls. It’s a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unravelling the tenuous invisible strings that held together her single mother’s life as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother. Interwoven with Margot’s present-day search is Mina’s story of her first year in Los Angeles as she navigates the promises and perils of the American myth of reinvention. While… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Attempted rape & sexual assault
Sexual harassment
Domestic abuse mentioned
Suicidal ideation
Cancer
Death of a mother
Death of a daughter
Death of a husband
Gun violence
Stalking mentioned

The Dead List by Jennifer Armentrout

The Dead List by Jennifer L. Armentrout

When Ella is mysteriously attacked on her way home from a party, her entire life changes as she finds herself at the centre of an attempted murder investigation. Ella tries to move on, but her attacker isn’t done yet. He shows himself in the form of horrifying signs and symbols: a clown mask strewn on her bed, a dead bird in her backpack, a shadow moving past her window in the night. And as the weeks pass, it turns out that Ella isn’t the only one being tormented. With the help of an old flame, Jensen Carver, and her friends and… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicide
Stalking
Animal death & dead bodies