I know some readers like to know certain details about a book or series before they choose to invest their time in it. This page describes what my books contain for the following:
- Heat level / sexual content
- Violence or other traumatic experiences
If you would like more information about a specific topic that isn’t mentioned here, please get in touch and I will add it to the page.
The fairly non-spoilery summary:
| The Lord of Stariel | The Prince of Secrets | The Court of Mortals | The King of Faerie | A Rake of His Own | |
| Max heat level | 🔥 Kissing | 🔥🔥 Nudity | 🔥🔥 On-page sex | 🔥🔥 On-page sex | 🔥🔥🔥 On-page sex |
| On-page gore / violence level | 🩸 | 🩸🩸 | 🩸🩸 | 🩸🩸 | 🩸🩸 |
| Sexual violence | None | None | None | None | Reference to past SA |
Spoilers from here on out!
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The Stariel Quartet
(Note that there is a separate section for the spinoff book A Rake Of His Own).
Heat level / Sexual content
This is a slow-burn romantic series, with the sexual content increasing over the course of the four books. There are sex scenes in later books, though the focus is always more on the emotion than graphic anatomical details. Specifically, the sexual content of the series is:
- The Lord of Stariel – two kisses
- The Prince of Secrets – kissing and nudity / heavy petting
- The Court of Mortals – one on-page sex scene and one on-page fade-to-grey scene
- The King of Faerie – two on-page sex scenes and one fade-to-black scene
Violence and Other Traumatic Experiences
The violence in this series is fairly minimal and not gory in how it is described, but in all the books there is some fantasy violence and some characters are temporarily injured. If it were a movie, the violence would be rated PG. This setting contains period-typical homophobia and misogyny. Other traumatic experiences include:
The Lord of Stariel
- Death of the main character’s father before the book begins.
- Alcoholism (minor references). The deceased father was an alcoholic.
- Blackmail – a closeted queer character is blackmailed.
The Prince of Secrets
- References to abusive parenting
The Court of Mortals
- Imprisonment, references to historic torture.
- Unplanned pregnancy
The King of Faerie
- Fear of miscarriage (but not miscarriage).
- Pregnancy
A Rake of His Own
Heat level / Sexual content
This m/m spinoff has a slightly higher heat rating than the main quartet. There are three reasonably explicit on-page sex scenes in the book including oral and anal sex, though the focus is always more on the emotions than on anatomy.
Violence or Other Traumatic Experiences
- Murder
- Reference to past sexual assault (second half of chapter 26). The details are implied rather than explicitly described.
- Outing – The MC is never publicly outed, but in two separate instances (one supportive; one accusatory), characters in private conversation confront the lead character with the fact that they have guessed his sexuality.
- Period-typical homophobia and misogyny.