Content Warnings

(Listed in no particular order. Content warnings are not “spoilers”, but story details beyond a book’s cover description can be revealed in the process of reading them. Please continue at your own discretion.)

The Redwood Bargain (YA gothic fantasy romance)

References to: death and murder (human, horse); miscarriage; domestic abuse; childhood trauma and abandonment.

Happens on the page: people and dogs in peril; ecological body horror; blood and injury; moderate physical and emotional violence; corpses (human, horse); alcohol misuse; parental abuse (emotional); ethnic and class prejudice; conversations about ethnic, class, and racial inequality; emesis.

Does the dog die? No dogs die in The Redwood Bargain. One dog faces harm, but this happens off the page and he makes a full recovery. Both dogs have certified happily ever afters with their humans.

Call Forth a Fox (YA romantic fantasy)

References to: loss of a parent; stillbirth; biphobia; grief; transracial adoption.

Happens on the page: people and animals in peril; characters experiencing financial struggle and food insecurity; mild violence; blood and injury; self-harm (for the purposes of magic); biphobia; emesis.

On the subject of Romance

The romances in The Redwood Bargain and Call Forth a Fox are classified as Happy For Now (HFN), because the characters are teenagers.