CONTENT NOTES

All titles contain mature themes, explicit sexual content, and strong language intended for adult readers. Many of these books explore dark and intense subject matter. The content notes below may contain spoilers. Trigger warnings include, but are not limited to:

BROTHERS OF INK AND STEEL

  • Graphic violence (including murder, attempted murder, and torture; on and off page)
  • Graphic depiction of suicide (discovery of a deceased character)
  • Grief and loss
  • Kidnapping and child endangerment
  • Stalking
  • Assault and forced drugging
  • Mentioned or implied sexual assault
  • Emotional abuse (including parental neglect and child abuse)
  • Bullying (including homophobic bullying)
  • Family estrangement and disownment
  • References to religious child abuse

  • Graphic violence (including murder, attempted murder, and torture; on and off page)
  • Organized crime and gang violence
  • Stalking
  • Suicidal ideation and an on-page suicide attempt (interrupted)
  • Sex trafficking and forced prostitution
  • Rape (on page; central to the heroine’s trauma)
  • Incestuous childhood sexual abuse (mentioned)
  • Emotional abuse, parental neglect, and child abuse
  • Parental abandonment and family estrangement
  • Death of a parent (Discussion of)
  • Grief

  • Graphic violence (including murder, attempted murder, and torture; on and off page)
  • Kidnapping and captivity
  • Stalking
  • Threatened sexual assault
  • Organized crime activity
  • Child endangerment
  • Death of parents (off page)
  • Grief and loss

  • Violence
  • Child endangerment
  • Parental neglect, abandonment, and child abuse
  • Death of parents (off page)

TRUE NORTH

  • Graphic violence (on and off page)
  • References to war violence and combat-related death
  • Veteran PTSD and combat trauma
  • Domestic violence (including physical and emotional child abuse and neglect
  • Stalking (Light)
  • Bullying
  • Reproductive coercion / birth control tampering
  • Accidental drug overdose (non-fatal)

  • Graphic violence (on and off page)
  • Domestic violence
  • Physical and emotional child and adult child abuse
  • Parental neglect
  • Death of a pet
  • Animal abandonment
  • Grief
  • Consensual light BDSM / bondage play

  • Graphic violence (on and off page)
  • Graphic car accident resulting in death (on page)
  • Graphic death of a family member
  • Grief and loss
  • Accident-related trauma, flashbacks, and survivor’s guilt
  • Anxiety and panic attacks
  • Self-harm (off page; visible scars)
  • Stalking (Light)
  • Consensual light BDSM

STANDALONES

  • Graphic violence (including murder, attempted murder, and torture; on and off page)
  • Graphic combat-related catastrophic bodily injury and amputation
  • War violence and combat-related death and injury
  • Veteran PTSD, combat, and medical trauma
  • Depression
  • Amnesia
  • Grief and loss

  • Explicit sexual content
  • Strip club / erotic dance scenes
  • Public sexual situation (played for humor)

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