Though I include content warnings alongside book descriptions on my website, this page includes more detail, including potential spoilers. If you have any questions about these lists, or suggestions for additional warnings, please email ajshirley@ajshirleyauthor.com. (Note that I will not entertain the idea of including queerness in this list. If you consider people’s identities as triggers, my books are not for you.)
A Saga of Shields and Shadows includes the following: explicit sexual content/open door spice, sex work, misogyny, death, murder, child death, child abuse, allusions to sexual abuse (not depicted), brief description of childbirth, death due to pregnancy complications, kidnapping, violence, swords and other sharp weapons, battles to the death, oppressive societal structures, profanity, wrongful imprisonment, food insecurity, mythological monsters, alcohol consumption, fire, blood, eugenics.
A Saga of Sovereigns and Secrets includes the following: explicit sexual content/open door spice, sex work, death, murder, mention of child death and abuse (not depicted), kidnapping, violence, swords and other sharp weapons, battles to the death, oppressive societal structures, profanity, spiders and other insects, possession, poison, mythological monsters, alcohol consumption, fire, blood, eugenics, coerced marriage.
A Saga of Smoke and Sacrifice includes the following: explicit sexual content/open door spice, sex work, death, murder, mention of child death and abuse (not depicted), violence, swords and other sharp weapons, battles to the death, oppressive societal structures, profanity, spiders and other insects, mentions of pregnancy loss and infant death (brief, flashback), owls in dream settings, poison, torture (simulated through illusions), mythological monsters, alcohol consumption, fire, blood, eugenics, coerced marriage.
Knot Their Style includes: open door spice/explicit sexual content with multiple partners, spanking, mentions of child abuse (not depicted), mentions of domestic violence and sexual assault (not depicted), sex trafficking, car accident (no injuries), elitism, alcohol consumption, anxiety.
Knot Their Cup of Tea includes: open door spice/explicit sexual content with multiple partners, dominant/submissive sex play, graphic language including light degradation during dirty talk, elitism, mentions of parental abandonment and death, alcohol consumption, mentions of breeding and pregnancy, anxiety.
Knot Their First Rodeo includes: open door spice/explicit sexual content with multiple partners, spanking, dominant/submissive sex play, bondage and rope play, graphic language including light degradation during dirty talk, FMC deals with childhood loss of a parent (references to parental abandonment, as well as mention of her pregnant mother and unborn sibling’s death due to medical misdiagnosis and complications of peripartum cardiomyopathy), widowers who lost their spouse to gun violence, grief, mentions of sex trafficking and violence against women (not depicted), alcohol consumption, breeding, pregnancy.
Knot Their Job includes open door spice/explicit sexual content with multiple partners, spanking, dominant/submissive sex play, bondage, graphic language including light degradation during dirty talk, consensual non-consent, talk of breeding and pregnancy, discussion of sex trafficking, attempted kidnapping, guns, physical violence (mostly against someone who dared touch our omegas), depression, familial abandonment, orgasm denial, degradation, biting, marking, and alcohol consumption.