Content Guide
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.
Typically, my books include infrequent coarse language, violence, death and mental health issues including anxiety, panic attacks, PTSD, depression, suicide and self-harm.
While my stories have many bleak or gritty 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 violence generally isn’t condoned.
Note about sex: I made this page for content warnings, and sex isn’t a thing that needs warnings. I will include non/dubious consent situations in the lists below, but general sexual content (“spice”) is indicated by title on each series page.
Please keep in mind that all warnings provided are a guide only and are not an exhaustive list of all possible triggers.
If you would like to be more thoroughly warned about specifics, click on the titles below, and contact me if you’re still unsure.
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)
(Short story) Vomiting, familial estrangement/confrontation
(Short story) Grief, person with long-term injury causing tremors and fatigue, blood, head wound
(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) 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 stories) Hints of C-PTSD, another character experiencing a magically induced panic attack, sensory illusion of being buried alive
(Novel) Magically induced anxiety, violence, threatening at knifepoint, maiming (smashed legs), broken bones, murder, abduction, imprisonment (brief)
The Cursed Princes
(Novella) War (off-page), reference to school bullying and being egged, near-drowning (escaped via magic portal), circus act gone wrong (except it was meant to go wrong), near-death experience, blood, implied and unspecified violence done to an unconscious person
(Novella) Dead body, murder, war, violence, killing, blood, vomiting, parental abandonment, imprisonment
(Novella) Controlling parent, misogyny, homophobia, bullying, severe scarring including facial disfigurement, discussion of war including killing in battle, discussion of maritime battle including blood and death, depiction of death in sculpture, violence, imprisonment, dub-con voyeurism (no sex occurs)
(Novella) Killing, mental compulsion, blood, forced identity & gender swap, self-harm, attempted suicide, animal attack, severe leg wound, permanent injury, implied/presumed homophobia
(Novella) PTSD, war, blood, killing, recounted experience of child abuse, surgery, mass casualty emergency medical situation (war-related), bullying, death of father, death of brother
(Novella) Violence including physical abuse by a sexual partner (not the love interest), mild blood and wounds being sutured, infrequent coarse language