Content and Trigger Warning for Cassidy (Kingsnakes MC #2)

Before you ride with the Kingsnakes again

Cassidy is Book Two of the Kingsnakes MC series, and it picks up where the Dutch epilogue left you hanging: a school bus full of ten-year-old girls, a cartel, and a teacher who saw a face and lived. It is a romance first, and Cassidy and Delia get their happily ever after. But this one is heavier than Dutch. Children are in danger for most of the book, and I'd rather tell you that here than have you find out at 2 a.m.

This list is spoiler-light. I've kept it to the categories a reader might need to know about, without telling you who does what to whom. If you want the fully spoiled version for a specific concern, email me and I'll tell you straight.

Content warnings

Children in danger (the big one)

• Thirty ten-year-old girls are taken from a school bus by a cartel in the prologue. They are held for roughly a week and rescued alive. The abduction is on page from the heroine's point of view; the girls' captivity is not shown

• Child trafficking is the cartel's motive. It is named and discussed by adults; no child is harmed sexually, on page or off

• A child is orphaned by the events of the book and the heroine seeks custody. Social workers, a home study, and a kinship placement are part of the back half

Violence and danger

• Gun violence, including an on-page shootout in a mine and the hero being shot (non-fatal, leg)

• A teacher is shot and killed on the bus in front of the girls (off page, referenced throughout); the heroine is grazed by a bullet and spends time in the hospital

• An attempted murder of a witness in a hospital room (a man with a syringe; he is stopped)

• Shots fired through a house window with the heroine inside

• The hero kills a man at close range during the rescue; secondary villains die

• A bus driver who took cartel money is beaten on page

Organized crime

• A cartel buying and moving children across the border

• Betrayal by a long-trusted club brother who is revealed as cartel

• A federal agent, a deadline, and the club operating outside the law to beat it

• The club's past gun-running from Dutch is referenced

Family and the past

• An old-money family feud and a father who disapproves of the hero; during one argument the father grips the heroine's wrist hard enough to bruise. It is confronted on page and not repeated

• A fifteen-year separation with a flashback to the couple's first time at eighteen and nineteen. She has had champagne at a wedding; she says plainly, more than once, that she knew exactly what she was doing

• A parent's funeral in backstory, and grief in a close community

• The hero has hidden his real name and family from the club for years; the secret and its fallout are a major thread

Everyday life in Perdition

• Heavy profanity throughout, in both narrators' voices

• Alcohol use in social settings

• A dog (Turbo) is in a frightening situation and is completely fine

• The epilogue sets up Book Three: the cartel is still out there, a club brother leaves for Mexico, and one villain is alive. Nothing violent is shown and the romance is fully resolved

Heat level

This is an open-door romance with explicit, on-page sex between two consenting adults who have fifteen years of history and no patience left. Expect frank language, dirty talk, and a hero who has been waiting a very long time. Every scene is between Cassidy and Delia only, consent is clear every time, and the flashback encounters are all at eighteen or older. No kink, no group scenes, no cheating. If Dutch was your speed, this is the same heat with more ache behind it.

What's not in this book

• No sexual assault, on page or in backstory, of any character, adult or child

• No child death. All thirty girls come home

• No cheating, and no other-woman or other-man drama

• No animal harm

• No pregnancy or miscarriage

• No drug use by main characters

• No cliffhanger on the romance. Cassidy and Delia are settled, ring and all, by the last page; the cliffhanger belongs to the club, and to Book Three

  
  

One more thing

I know the kids-in-danger plot is a hard no for some of you, and I get it. If that's you, skip this one and come back for Book Three; I won't be hurt. For everyone else: the girls are okay, the hero is okay, and the refrigerator scene is going to wreck you in the good way.

If I've missed something you think belongs on this list, tell me and I'll add it. Otherwise: welcome back to Perdition.