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For YA: Scroll down to find individual books are listed with (very) general warnings. They may be expanded later as needed. For one particular warning, you can follow the link provided to get a specific, spoilery answer.

For Adult: All of my adult thrillers involve various types of physical violence, murder, peril, emotional toxicity, bad behavior, substance abuse, and other heavy subjects. They are VERY dark books. Below you can find additional notes for the prevalent themes in each book. These notes cover major/prominent elements but are not exhaustive. Please practice a “may contain peanuts” approach to these dark subjects if your safety and wellbeing could be impacted. If there is a major warning you feel is missing, you can get in touch through my reader mail address.

What Lies in the Woods includes severe mental illness, suicide, violence against a child (Naomi, in the opening), as well as brief depiction and discussion of sexual assault (groping) and non-violent statutory rape in flashback.

No One Can Know includes extensive depiction and discussion of physical and emotional child abuse, as well as infidelity and drug use (including underage drug and alcohol use). No dogs come to harm.

A Killing Cold includes depiction and discussion of religiously influenced child abuse, intimate partner violence, imprisonment, substance abuse, unplanned pregnancy, abortion, suicide, pregnancy loss, and scenes of hunting and butchering deer. Good girl status: The dog (Duchess) is not harmed.

The Girls Before is the story of a young woman who has been abducted and imprisoned, and those before her who did not survive. It does not depict sexual assault on the page, nor discuss specific sexual violence in any detail; however, it is very much present in the narrative. TGB also includes drug abuse and discussions of emotional and physical child abuse. Good boy status: The dog (Barry) is imperiled and suffers mild injuries, but is suitably spoiled afterward.

I Am Still Alive

• Violence
• Death
• Peril
• Animals in peril/harmed (more detail here)
• Disturbing imagery

Rules for Vanishing

• Violence
• Death
• Peril
• Disturbing imagery
• Suicide (discussion of)
• Physical abuse of minor (discussion of)

Our Last Echoes

• Violence
• Death
• Peril
• Disturbing imagery
• Body horror
• Depression (in a main character, with explicit discussion)
• Children in danger (no death)

These Fleeting Shadows

• Child death (in backstory)
• Death
• Violence (against multiple characters including PoV)
• Peril/danger
• Body horror
• Some gore
• Medical abuse (historical, discussed second-hand)
• Allusions to/suspicions of sexual abuse or coersion (historical, discussed second-hand)
• Alcoholic characters (non-PoV)
• Emotional manipulation/abuse, gaslighting

The Narrow

General warnings: The Narrow is a ghost story in which the ghost is a young queer woman who died under suspicious circumstances. It’s part mystery, part romantic story, and part tragedy, and does not have unambiguously happy endings for all of its characters. It’s not a capital-R Romance and a happily ever after is not guaranteed. Characters experience abuse, homophobia, and violence, though not at great length or in great detail.

Additionally, it contains:

• Drowning
• Homophobia
• Physical assault
• Drug use, coerced drug use
• Physical and emotional abuse
• Death, murder
• Allusions to suicidal ideation
• Depression
• Isolation
• Parental neglect

We Won’t All Survive

WWAS follows a cast of young people who have suffered from traumatic experiences, including violence and a mass shooting. The title is accurate, as there are several deaths. WWAS also includes:

• Violent deaths both in backstory and in the present
• Peril/danger
• Strangulation (non-fatal)
• Misogyny
• Stalking and unwanted/coercive romantic attention
• Major accidents (train, ship)
• Drowning
• Poisoning
• Strangulation
• Discussion of racism
• Alcohol use