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The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.

In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive.

Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Misogyny
Statutory rape mentioned
Sexual assault mentioned
Suicide
Childbirth
Scalping & skinning, off-page
Dismemberment mentioned
Cannibalism mentioned
Starvation
Death of a friend
Poisoning
Torture
Lynching
Animal death & abuse

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

Wren Southerland’s reckless use of magic has cost her everything: she’s been dismissed from the Queen’s Guard and separated from her best friend—the girl she loves. So when a letter arrives from a reclusive lord, asking Wren to come to his estate, Colwick Hall, to cure his servant from a mysterious illness, she seizes her chance to redeem herself.

The mansion is crumbling, icy winds haunt the caved-in halls, and her eccentric host forbids her from leaving her room after dark. Worse, Wren’s patient isn’t a servant at all but Hal Cavendish, the infamous Reaper of Vesria and her kingdom’s sworn enemy. Hal also came to Colwick Hall for redemption, but the secrets in the estate may lead to both of their deaths… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Emotional & physical abuse
Blood & gore depiction
Medical treatment & surgery
Chronic illness
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Murder
Torture
Poisoning
Kidnapping

A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair

A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair

Persephone’s relationship with Hades has gone public and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring.

Hades, God of the Dead, is burdened by a hellish past that everyone’s eager to expose in an effort to warn Persephone away.

Things only get worse when a horrible tragedy leaves Persephone’s heart in ruin and Hades refusing to help. Desperate, she takes matters into her own hands, striking bargains with severe consequences. Faced with a side of Hades she never knew and crushing loss, Persephone wonders if she can truly become Hades’ queen.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Attempted sexual assault
Emotional abuse
Suicide
Torture
Kidnapping

Happy Endings by Alice Winters

Happy Endings by Alice Winters

Smart men never dabble with demons. I never claimed to be smart, but at least I’m powerful enough to control them. When I bound Havoc to me nearly three hundred years ago, I never realized how difficult he’d make my life, although “accidentally” lighting him on fire every now and then does bring a smile to my face.

Havoc is handsome, mysterious, and somehow my closest companion, even if we don’t always get along. He’s more interested in bedding attractive women than protecting my life, which defeats the main reason a mage like me would have a demon. I even had to fight off swordsmen alone once because he was too busy betting on who’d survive… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Slavery
Child abuse
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Suicide
Torture

The Black Farm by Elias Witherow

The Black Farm by Elias Witherow

After the loss of a child along with a slew of agonizing misfortunes, Nick and Jess decide to end their lives. Unable to cope with the misery that fills their days, they commit one last act together and die in loving relief.

But when Nick wakes up, he soon realizes that death isn’t the gentle darkness he expected. Panicked and horrified, he struggles to understand the twisted abominations and hellish world he’s now trapped in… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Graphic rape
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child
Torture

Under His Heel by Adara Wolf

Under His Heel by Adara Wolf

Alex is trapped. His life has been one bad decision after the other, and now he’s forced to work off his debt with a spaceship captain or risk a fate worse than death.

Captain Tracht is respected and well-connected. Unfortunately, he also has some very questionable private interests, and makes no secret that he intends Alex to participate in them, whether he likes it or not.

It’s an experience of pain, humiliation, and tears, but somehow Alex finds himself growing less and less interested in his eventual release…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Torture
Kidnapping

Master of One by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett

Master of One by Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett

Rags is a thief—an excellent one. He’s stolen into noble’s coffers, picked soldier’s pockets, and even liberated a ring or two off the fingers of passersby. Until he’s caught by the Queensguard and forced to find an ancient fae relic for a sadistic royal sorcerer. But Rags could never have guessed this “relic” would actually be a fae himself—a distractingly handsome, annoyingly perfect, ancient fae prince called Shining Talon. Good thing Rags can think on his toes, because things just get stranger from there…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Physical child abuse
Suicidal ideation
Infertility mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Torture
Kidnapping
Animal death

War of Hearts by Samantha Young

War of Hearts by S. Young

Thea Quinn has no idea what she is. All she knows is that her abilities have been a plague upon her life since she was a child. After years of suffering at the hands of a megalomaniac, Thea escaped and has been on the run ever since.

The leadership and protection of his pack are of the utmost importance to Conall MacLennan, Alpha and Chief of Clan MacLennan, the last werewolf pack in Scotland. Which is why watching his sister slowly die of a lycanthropic disease is emotional torture. When Conall is approached by a businessman who offers a cure for his sister in exchange for the use of Conall’s rare tracking ability… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Attempted rape mentioned
Medical experimentation recounted
Torture recounted

The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter

The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter

A woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she has no reason to be afraid, but she’s wrong. A predator is stalking the women of Grant County. He lingers in the shadows, until the time is just right to snatch his victim. He waits.

A decade later, the case has been closed. The killer is behind bars. But then another young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead, and the MO is identical. Although the original trail has gone cold, Agent Will Trent and forensic pathologist Sara Linton must re-open the cold case. But the clock is ticking, and the killer is determined to find his perfect silent wife.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Paedophilia mentioned
Rape
Cheating mentioned
Suicide
Self harm
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Murder
Torture
Stalking

Fallen by Karin Slaughter

Fallen by Karin Slaughter

Special Agent Faith Mitchell returns home to a nightmare. Her baby daughter Emma has been locked outside, and there’s a trail of blood to the front door. Without waiting for back-up, Faith enters the house. Inside a man lies dead in a pool of blood. Most worrying of all, her own mother is missing.

When the Atlanta police arrive, Faith has some difficult questions to answer. But she has some desperate questions of her own. What were the killers searching for? And where is her mother?… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Child abuse
Abusive relationship
Domestic violence
Self harm recounted
Drug abuse
Blood & gore depiction
Murder
Torture
Gun violence
Physical assault