Mentions, discussions, references, and descriptions of sexual assault, including childhood sexual assault (as past events); mentions, discussions, and depictions of murder; mentions, discussions, and references to slavery and imprisonment (as a past event); religious imagery; trauma; PTSD; blood drinking; violence; gore; (blink and you’ll miss it) dominance/submission; references to a main character being drugged at a bar (as a past event); loss of parents via a plane crash (as a past event);  mention of a hysterectomy in relation to debilitating fibroids; and explicit sex scenes.