Tag Archives: Torture

Killman Creek by Rachel Caine

Killman Creek by Rachel Caine

Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn’t over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text. Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed neighbour. Now, with the help of Sam Cade, brother of one of Melvin’s victims, Gwen is going hunting. She’s learned how from one of the sickest killers alive… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape mentioned
  • Eye trauma
  • Graphic murder
  • Torture
  • Kidnapping
  • Animal injury (dog)
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Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly—but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden. Jess Brightwell believes in the value of the Library, but the majority of his knowledge comes from illegal books obtained by his family, who are involved in the thriving black market. Jess has been sent to be his family’s spy, but his loyalties… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Emesis
  • Death of a friend
  • Death of a sibling recounted
  • Torture recounted
  • Explosion
  • Imprisonment
  • Fire
  • War themes & military enlistment
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The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold 

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions. but it is more than the traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Rape discussed
  • Domestic violence
  • Child abuse
  • Torture
  • Animal death
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A Kingdom of Ruin by KF Breene 

A Kingdom of Ruin by K.F. Breene

Never sell your soul to the Demon King. Too late. In an effort to save all that I love, I have to finish the job Nyfain started… and ruin myself. I’ve made a trade with the most cunning creature alive. Me for them. The dungeons will be my new home. Dolion’s destruction will be my new goal. I just have to get out of here and back to my golden dragon. Preferably alive.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Imprisonment
  • Torture
  • Whipping
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With Visions of Red by Trisha Wolfe 

With Visions of Red by Trisha Wolfe

Criminal profiler Sadie Bonds knows blood. Her affair with the gruesome, dark world of killers began long before she started applying her analytical skills to investigate gory crime scenes. She gets inside the killers’ heads, breaks them down, relates to them on an arcane level. She prefers it this way—because it’s safer to ally herself with the villain than the victim. At least, that’s how she’s coped ever since she was abducted and tortured as a teen… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexual assault
  • Blood depiction
  • Murder
  • Torture
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Born, Darkly by Trisha Wolfe 

Born, Darkly by Trisha Wolfe

He challenged her sanity. She shattered his reality. They dared each other…to the brink of madness.

A dark and twisted maze awaits criminal psychologist London Noble when she falls for her patient, convicted serial killer, Grayson Pierce Sullivan. As she unravels the traps, her sanity tested with each game, she’s forced to acknowledge the true evil in the world around her.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Paedophilia & rape mentioned
  • Drugging
  • Chronic pain
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Murder
  • Graphic torture
  • Kidnapping & captivity
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A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir 

A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sister’s life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. Yet danger lurks on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable and violent, while Keris Veturia, the ruthless Commandant, capitalizes on the Emperor’s volatility to grow her own power—regardless of the carnage she leaves in her path. Far to the east, Laia of Serra knows that the fate of the world lies not in the machinations of the Martial court, but in stopping the Nightbringer… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Domestic abuse
  • Death of children
  • Murder
  • Torture
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Extasia by Claire Legrand  

Extasia by Claire Legrand

Her name is unimportant. All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain–an evil which has already killed nine of her village’s men. She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexism
  • Sexual harassment
  • Suicide
  • Cannibalism
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Branding
  • Torture
  • Gun violence mentioned
  • Knife violence
  • Fire
  • Cults
  • Animal death (dog)
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The Blessed by Tonya Hurley 

The Blessed by Tonya Hurley

What if martyrs and saints lived among us? And what if you were told you were one of them?

Meet Agnes, Cecilia, and Lucy. Three lost girls, each searching for something. But what they find is Beyond Belief.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Attempted rape
  • Attempted suicide recounted
  • Nonconsensual branding
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Murder
  • Torture, including the use of an Iron Maiden
  • Beheading
  • Strangulation
  • Drowning
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Tatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons

Tatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons

Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately. Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. Yet Alexander is determined… Read more. 

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Domestic abuse
  • Child abuse
  • Alcoholism
  • Pregnancy
  • Torture
  • War themes
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