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Love Off-Limits by Jenny Proctor

Love Off-Limits by Jenny Proctor

Tyler is hard enough to resist. Put a baby goat in his arms? Oh, I’m a goner. Romance is the last thing on my mind when I meet Tyler at a wedding. Yes, he’s gorgeous. Yes, we have instant chemistry. But I can’t go there with him. I’m too busy convincing my sceptical parents I’m ready to run our family farm to give Tyler’s smouldering smile a passing glance. Fine. I glanced. And possibly . . . kissed. But then I went home all the way in a different state. See? Crisis averted. Until Tyler shows up in North Carolina looking for a job. Of course, I give him one. We’ve already established… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Stroke

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighbouring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worth… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Child abuse & domestic violence recounted (love interest)
Parental infidelity recounted & discussed
Suicide cults discussed
Miscarriage mentioned (protagonist’s parent)
Alcohol consumption (on-page)
Parent with heart condition mentioned
Parent in remission for breast cancer (protagonist)
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a father from a stroke recounted

With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt

With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt

Stella is a nurse who has long suppressed her own needs and desires to nurture the dreams of her partner, Simon, the bass player for a rock band that has started to lose its edge. But when Stella gets unexpectedly ill and falls into a coma just as Simon is preparing to fly with his band to Los Angeles for a gig that could revive his career, Simon must learn the meaning of sacrifice, while Stella’s best friend, Libby, a doctor who treats Stella, must also make a difficult choice as the coma wears on. When Stella, at last, awakes from her two-month sleep, she emerges into a striking… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Anxiety
Dementia
Alcohol consumption
Drug abuse
Pregnancy
Hospitalisation
Stroke mentioned
Death of parents mentioned
Death of a sibling mentioned

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they’ve so carefully created begins to fall apart. The cottage they love, and the security it offered, is taken back by their landlord, exposing the twins to harsh truths and even harsher realities. Seeing… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a mother from a stroke
Poverty

Life on Pause by Erin McLellan

Life on Pause by Erin McLellan

Niles Longfellow is a nerd, and not the trendy type of nerd, either. He wears a historically accurate homesteader costume to work every day, has a total of one friend, and doesn’t know how to talk to guys. So when he gets a flat tire and the hottest hipster ever stops to help him, all Niles can think is that he’s wearing his stupid cowboy getup. Normally, Niles feels invisible to other men, but he’d take that invisibility any day over Rusty Adams seeing him in suede and fringe. Rusty moved to Bison Hills to help his sister raise her daughter, and nothing is… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Alcohol consumption
Parent in assisted living due to a stroke
Death of a father, off-page
Death of mother from brain cancer recounted
Bullying recounted

Lucky Caller by Emma Mills

Lucky Caller by Emma Mills

When Nina decides to take a radio broadcasting class her senior year, she expects it to be a walk in the park. Instead, it’s a complete disaster. The members of Nina’s haphazardly formed radio team have approximately nothing in common. And to maximize the awkwardness her group includes Jamie, a childhood friend she’d hoped to basically avoid for the rest of her life. The show is a mess, internet rumors threaten to bring the wrath of two fandoms down on their heads, and to top it all off Nina’s family is on the brink of some major upheaval. Everything feels like it’s spiraling out of control―but maybe control is overrated?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Coerced kiss*
Recreational drug use mentioned
Stroke (sc)
Hospitalization of a grandparent & guardian mentioned

*Context : The protagonist’s best friend plays a ‘kiss cam’ game where she tells her friends a person they have to try and kiss. Nina recounts purposefully coercing a kiss out of Jamie, her love interest, while her friends ‘spy’ from an adjourning room.

Until His Last Goodbye by Kiki Clark

Until His Last Goodbye by Kiki Clark

Having been a powerful medium for as long as he can remember, Elias knows his fair share about the afterlife. Spirits are pushy. Spirits are needy. And they don’t respect personal boundaries.

Being a conduit between the living and the dead is exhausting but ignoring his gift isn’t an option. Even though embracing his calling has ruined nearly every relationship he’s ever had, Elias has learned to offer what comfort he can to those left behind, knowing… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Heart condition (protagonist)
Death from a stroke recounted

Warnings sourced from Alex @HEABookNerd.

Back to September by Melissa Brayden

Back to September by Melissa Brayden

Hannah Shephard likes her life, her job, and her perfectly cozy apartment around the corner from her shop. She’s never been one to take big risks and would much rather stay in on a Friday night with a warm cup of decaf and her favourite mystery novel, so why do her friends insist she needs more? Plus, Hannah has bigger problems to focus on. She’s in trouble. Well, her bookstore is, and if she doesn’t find a way to bring in some more cash, she’ll be closing the doors of A Likely Story for good… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Hospitalisation for a stroke

The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

Trinity Jordan leads a quiet, normal life: working from home for the Hive, a multifunctional government research centre, and recovering from the incident that sent her into a tailspin. But the life she’s trying to rebuild is plagued by mishaps when Li Wei, her neighbour’s super sexy and super strange nephew, moves in and turns things upside down. Li Wei’s behaviour is downright odd—and the attraction building between them is even more so… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Memory loss & suppression
Panic attack
Stroke
Chronic pain
Nonconsensual drug use
Explosion

Redirection by Gregory Ashe

Redirection by Gregory Ashe

The Borealis boys are settling into their new normal, or at least into their new digs. But when North’s soon-to-be (please-let-it-be-soon) ex-husband, Tucker, is arrested and charged with murder, everything goes sideways.

Hired by Tucker’s parents, North and Shaw begin looking for proof that Tucker is innocent, in spite of the evidence against him. When they find seemingly incriminating photos hidden in Tucker’s BMW, North is convinced that someone is trying to frame Tucker—and might get away with it… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Ableism
Rape mentioned
Emotional abuse & gaslighting
Alcohol abuse
Drug abuse & overdose
Parent with cancer mentioned
Stroke mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Blackmail
Death of a pet recounted