ashlan thomas

Substance and alcohol abuse

Grief of sibling's past death from cancer

Sexual assault

Physical and mental abuse by a parent

Epilepsy

Emesis

Racism

Homophobia

Profanity

Sexually explicit scenes

Attempted rape

Gun violence

Violence

Death

Animal injury (but everything ends up okay, I swear)

Some scenes of assault/abuse are graphic but by no means romanticized and never between the hero and heroine.