Content Notes

I’ve tried to keep this as spoiler-free as possible—however if you have any questions or need more details, feel free to email me.

First up. This series is set around the small, fictional north Minnesota town of Havenwood. This small town welcomes diversity and the people within the town recognize the biggest threat to their community comes from allowing bigotry to go unchecked within the community, and they hold each other accountable. This means red-hat wearing assholes get bullied and are made to feel unwelcome. If this would make you feel unwelcome in reading this book…do some reflecting and then do better. Or go read a different small town series—this book with a bisexual hero and a bisexual heroine isn’t for you.

Cruel Summer also contains:

Explicit on-page sex and swearing.

Casual drinking and drinking to excess.

Casual marijuana use.

The story opens with a shooting at a club in Vegas. There are no injuries or fatalities, and in Cruel Summer, the hero doesn’t witness the shooting inside the club, but does see the gunman outside briefly.

Damaging straight line winds from a severe thunderstorm.

Arson (historic and concurrent).

Mild violence (the heroine slaps her ex).

The hero grew up with a manipulative and verbally abusive father who disowned him and cut him off financially (off-page, historic).

Homophobia (off-page, historic).

The hero's mother died of an accidental drug overdose suspected to be suicide by the hero (off-page, historic).

The hero's sister passed away from cancer a couple of years prior and while she was sick, her husband abandoned her for his mistress (off-page, historic).

The hero puts his sister's husband in a situation that leads to his death in a fall from a high-rise balcony (off-page but occurs during the events of the book).

The heroine's aunt died in a car crash (off-page, historic).

The heroine's parents abandoned her to be raised by her aunt (off-page, historic).