Content Warnings

• Rape from the rapist’s point of view (Chapters 45 and 47)
• Rape from the victim’s point of view, initiated when victim was asleep (Chapter 23)
• Dubiously consensual and consensual explicit sex scenes
• Rape/non-con because of: victim sleeping; ignored verbal requests; ignored body language/context; graphic violence
• Dub-con because of: lack of communication; power imbalances: employer/employee, vampire/human, coloniser/colonised
• Several adult characters are childhood sexual assault (CSA) survivors with unexamined trauma
• CSA survivor has a flashback to a memory where she’s a minor and alone with an adult teacher; the scene implies that sexual activity is about to commence but ends before any such activity is depicted (beginning of Chapter 23)
• References to past emotional, physical and sexual assault of adult characters when they were minors (no explicit depiction of these events)
• Consensual sex with under-negotiated kink
• Period play
• Oral
• Fingering (mostly vaginal, anal in one scene)
• Vaginal fisting
• Rough sex
• Unsafe sex
• Spit Is Not Lube
• Slut-shaming language
• Female character verbally threatens impregnation
• Female character experiences supernaturally-induced anorgasmia
• Top drop

• Abusive F/F romantic relationship
• Character perceives main character’s behaviour as cheating (kissing someone else)
• Jilted man becomes vindictive

• Physical, sexual, and emotional assault
• Death and murder of multiple characters including queer characters; Asian characters; sex workers
• Semi-graphic torture including digital dismemberment, cannibalism, acid-like facial attack
• Forcible removal of a tongue
• Self-inflicted hand injury
• Accidental hand injury
• Really, there’s just a lot of hand trauma/gore
• Non-consensual non-sexual bondage
• Assault with a handgun used as a bludgeoning weapon; broken nose; assault while restrained
• Abandonment of an infant
• Use of firearms
• Attempted suicide using a knife
• Physical assault in a domestic context: grinding a lit cigarette against the skin, choking, forcible handling
• Sexual assault (see full list under ‘sex’)

• Suicide
• Suicidal ideation
• Self-harm
• Setting-consistent racism between various races
• Misogyny
• Ableist language, disability slurs
• Slut-shaming language
• Vampire attempts to control her own eating patterns and fails
• Vampire experiences her need for human blood as an addiction
• Drug use: opium smoking, heroin tablets, tobacco smoking
• Slavery
• Acquired brain injury
• Acquired blindness
• Amenorrhoea; discussion and experience of menstruation
• Character dies while pregnant
• Reference to death in childbirth
• Flashback to a death caused by a deadly pandemic
• Traumatised characters trying to cope without access to mental health care
• One character almost misgenders a trans woman minor character but self-corrects in time
• Swearing (f—, c—).

This novel includes two endings, each with their own epilogue. The rest of the novel is not interactive; the reader only makes one choice about the ending.

1. Save Mrs. Edevane: main character and vampire are alive and together; a horror ending.
2. Save Po Lam: main character and Po Lam are alive and together; a happy ever after/romance ending.
3. Bonus downloadable ending for newsletter subscribers, available May 13, 2022. Save Yourself: Main character kills vampire, then dies; a horror ending.
   • Additional warnings specific to the Save Yourself ebook: Intimate partner violence, dubiously consensual kiss, menstruation, off-screen death of infant, ritualised infant sacrifice, self-harm, suicide (pharmaceutical overdose), supernatural violence, gore, grappling violence, gun violence, gun misfire, acid attack, corpse ravaged by animals.

• Intimate partner violence
• dubiously consensual kiss
• menstruation
• off-screen death of infant
• ritualised infant sacrifice
• self-harm, suicide (pharmaceutical overdose)
• supernatural violence
• gore
• grappling violence
• gun violence
• gun misfire
• acid attack
• corpse ravaged by animals

• Rape
• Non-consensual, dubiously consensual, and consensual graphic sex scenes between the main characters
• Vaginal strap-on sex
• Oral
• Loss of virginity
• Fingering
• Spanking
• Bondage

• Abusive romantic relationship
• Abusive narcissistic mother
• Past emotional and physical child abuse

• Death and dismemberment
• Flogging as punishment
• References to torture in the context of the afterlife
• Enforced captivitiy/kidnapping
• Abusive mother: physical and emotional abuse

• Suicidal ideation
• Misogyny

• HEA ending (main characters end up together)