Ariel Rae Trigger Warnings

Intended for mature audiences. Murder, violence, blood, gore, blood play, attempted sexual assault (not graphic), consensual sex that is roleplayed as non-consensual, biting, attempted hanging, past trauma, memories of mutilation of a loved one, memories of murder of family members (brother, mother, father), dismemberment, and PTSD. 

Edited to add: A few readers have felt that the consent borders on dubious. The FMC has a safe word, but please read at your own risk. Your mental health matters.

Blood Trail (Blood Hunted 2)

Intended for mature audiences. The sequel, Blood Trail, contains past trauma presented as a memory in Chapter 12 and might be more graphic than other scenes. It contains dismemberment, trauma, sexual assault (not drawn out or heavily detailed), and torture.

For the rest of the book, Blood Trail contains more of what was in Blood Hunted, as well as compulsion and death.

Mister Nightmare (Blood Hunted 2.5)

Intended for mature audiences. Consensual sex that is roleplayed as non-consensual, dubious consent, death, past trauma, coercion and manipulation, war scenes that contains blood, murder, explosions, fire and burning, literal brain melting, and general violence. One of the characters can create nightmares, which include a plane fire, drowning, chasing, general fear, and more. He also hates clowns, so those are mentioned frequently.

Blood Queen (Blood Hunted 3)

Intended for mature audiences. The final in the series, Blood Queen, contains the same as the previous books, but also has in addition to the above: fire as bondage, light BDSM, anal sex, war scenes (with explosions, guns/gun violence, mass casualties), bones being ripped from bodies, psychological torment, more extensive PTSD, anxiety/panic attacks, held captive/against one's will, spanking, manipulation and coercion, alcohol used as a coping mechanism, and indirect voyeurism. There is also a scene that initially reads like suicide.

We want readers to be aware there are scenes where Scarlet is under magical compulsion. These scenes do not contain SA.

There is an HEA/HFN.

This book is recommended for mature/adult audiences. This is a survive the night book; there is a lot of death, blood, and murder. Here is the list:

• Alcohol / Drinking

• Alcoholic family member (off page, prior to book starting)

• Biting

• Blood / Gore

• Bone severing

• Bondage (light)

• Bullying (from side characters, mostly in the past … mostly)

• Burning - to death (off page, but still “felt”)

• Claustrophobia (brief)

• Corpectomy (by force, not surgical)

• Crush Asphyxia

• Disembowelment

• Dismemberment 

• Drowning (though, did he actually drown? Unknown)

• Drugs (marijuana and others undefined, not used by MCs)

• Edging (light)

• Evisceration

• Exhibitionism

• Fire

• Guns and gun violence

• Misogyny (and feminine rage to counteract this)

• Mutilation

• Murder

• Parent - absent father

• Parent - deceased (off page, prior to book starting)

• Questionable uses of: a pickle jar and towel rack

• Sexual Assault - Mentioned (not on page)

• Sexual Scenes - Explicit

• Transphobia (implied) by certain side characters - specifically discrimination against non-binary folks (see note below)

• Violence

• Voyeurism (more in book 2)

This book has several despicable men in it, and not the fun bully romance kind, but the unfun, please-author-remove-them-from-this-planet-now kind. They say rude and horrible things about women and NB folks. Our FMC hates the horrible men and their comments, the MMC doesn’t like them either, and those men are not shown in a good light, but the publisher wants to include this extra warning.

And here are the trigger warnings for the sequel in addition to the list above:

• Burning - in lava

• Chasing

• Disappearances / Missing Souls

• Patricide (with the MMC)

• Torture (tormenting souls - psychologically and physically)

• Sexual Scenes - Sharing of the FMC (consensual between all parties)