Content Warnings
I believe in safe reading! But I also understand that some people are highly spoiler-sensitive and even the mention of a keyword can set their mind in motion trying to figure out how that fits into the plot and seeing the event coming. And some of us prefer not to know about detailed triggers because the handling of the issue in-text is what’s important, including the lead-up.
My books are aimed at an upper-YA to adult audience and content is generally suitable for those around 15 years or older, depending on maturity and sensitivities.
Generally, my books include infrequent coarse language, fade-to-black sex (YA titles), occasional on-page sex (some adult titles), violence, death and mental health issues including anxiety, panic attacks, PTSD, suicide and self-harm.
While my stories have many bleak moments and aren’t always feel-good, they’re not grimdark either. In the longer works especially, I try to keep some humour. I don’t write a lot of gore and graphic content, and violence isn’t condoned. While some titles contain more explicit sex scenes, they are not extensive. The lists below might look heavy, but unless specified, none of it is extreme. I only mention something in case even the idea is a trigger.
Please keep in mind that all warnings provided are a guide only and may not be an exhaustive list of all possible triggers.
If you would like to be more thoroughly warned about specifics, click on the titles below.
The Lightless Prophecy
(Novella) Self-harm, suicide ideation, burn injuries (non-POV character nearly dies in a fire), human sacrifice (willing, for a cause, with the expectation that they won’t actually die)
(Short story) Strong violence, kidnapping, human captivity, human experimentation, torture, war, guns, killing, death
(Novel) Violence, abduction, self-harm (including a couple of somewhat graphic scenes, but not from the POV of the person doing the self-harming), attempted suicide (possibly accidental), death, killing, gun use, lab animals (one scene; rabbits are used in a magic experiment, where one appears to become unwell)
(Novel) Violence, self-inflicted violence for experimental purposes, physical assault with assumed threat of sexual assault (sexual assault does not occur), depiction of war (one flashback sequence), war-related suicide (character briefly explains a mass-suicide scene), death, killing, gun use, lab animal references, animal death (one scene; animals found deceased), animal misuse (mostly implied or off-page), alcohol consumption including underage drinking (the legal age in Australia is 18, characters are 17), cult-based suicide ideation (a very small and non-descriptive plot element)
(Novel) Fade-to-black consensual sex (not at all explicit), blood, dismemberment (brief, not detailed), dead bodies, dead children, PTSD, torture (graphic scene in Chapter 59), murder, killing, non-consensual human breeding program (not POV characters), violent childbirth, death in childbirth, laboratory-based child abuse (the childbirth/lab abuse are a sort of flashback sequence in Chapter 34), brief mention of sex trafficking and ritualistic killing, people trapped in a building collapse
The Whisperers
(Novella) Kidnapping, panic attacks (magically induced), attempted murder, violence, eye trauma, blood
(Short story) Hints of C-PTSD, another character experiencing a magically induced panic attack, sensory illusion of being buried alive, explicit foreplay
(Novel) Magically induced anxiety, violence, threatening at knifepoint, maiming (smashed legs), broken bones, murder, abduction, imprisonment (brief)