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Cruel Saints by Michelle Heard

Cruel Saints by Michelle Heard

Alliances are made. Loyalty is owned. Love is taken. Little did I know my love and freedom would be taken to form a new alliance. Brutal, possessive, and dangerous, Lucian is feared by all. Including myself. When his father is assassinated, Lucian takes his rightful place as head of the Cotroni family. They rule the Mafia with an iron fist, and he’s set his sights on my family. Until now, we’ve been the only threat, but when a new one emerges, my father is forced to arrange a marriage between Lucian and myself… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape, on- & off-pages
Parental abandonment
Murder
Torture

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Carolyn’s not so different from the other human beings around her. She’s sure of it. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. She even remembers what clothes are for. After all, she was a normal American herself, once. That was a long time ago, of course—before the time she calls “adoption day,” when she and a dozen other children found themselves being raised by a man they learned to call Father. That was a long time ago, of course—before the time she calls “adoption day,” when she and a dozen other children found themselves being… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape
Incest
Claustrophobia
Cannibalism
Eye trauma
Murder
Torture
Fire
Animal attack (dog)
Animal death & hunting

The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin

The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin

Everyone thinks seventeen-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string They’re wrong. Mara Dyer is the only one he trusts with his secrets and his future. He shouldn’t And both are scared that uncovering the truth about themselves will force them apart. They’re right.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Graphic suicide & attempted suicide (multiple)
Suicidal ideation
Self-harm
Murder of a mother & father mentioned
Torture mentioned

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumours say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumoured to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Transmisia
Misgendering
Child abuse
Attempted suicide by drowning
Blood depiction & body horror
Death of a parent
Torture
Blackmail

Partials by Dan Wells

Partials by Dan Wells

Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war’s origin that she never knew to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Forced impregnation of teenagers
Medical human experimentation
Death of a baby
Electrocution
Torture, off-page
Riots

Soulless by Gail Carriger

Soulless by Gail Carriger

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners, and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrols Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realises the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Gera… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Drugging
Blood & gore depiction
Torture
Kidnapping

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)

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

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

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