Trigger & content warnings
Bind Her Bones
Dark gothic fantasy with romantic tension and a heroine reclaiming power. These are trigger warnings and content warnings so you can decide with open eyes — before you buy, and before you review. Intensity is intentional; the whole book is not unrelenting darkness.
Most common (also on the product page)
- Graphic violence & torture
- Sexual coercion & assault
- Explicit sexual content
- Parental & institutional abuse
- Medical abuse
- Child endangerment
- Trauma & PTSD
- Necromancy & corpse desecration
Short public version
Content warnings include: graphic violence and torture, sexual coercion and assault, explicit sexual content (including blood), parental and institutional abuse, medical abuse, kidnapping and imprisonment, necromancy and corpse desecration, major character death, child endangerment, trauma and PTSD, forced bonding, genocidal violence against witches, and loss of autonomy.
Full list
Violence & Gore
- Graphic physical violence and injury
- Torture (physical and medical)
- Branding and burning of flesh
- Blood and open wounds
- Blood and injury in the mouth
- Severed body parts / mutilation
- Bone injury and bone-related body horror
- Necromancy and animated corpses
- Dead bodies and human remains
- Grave desecration
- Corpse desecration / abuse of corpses
- Beating and prolonged physical assault
- Murder
- Violent combat with significant blood
- War and battle aftermath imagery
Sexual Content & Consent
- Explicit sexual content
- Sexual coercion and non-consensual touching
- Attempted sexual assault / predation
- Blood during sexual scenes
- Power-imbalanced sexual situations
- Dubious or complicated consent
- Forced or non-consensual metaphysical bonding (soul-binding)
- Objectification and ownership of a woman’s body
- Sexual threat and intimidation
Abuse, Control & Oppression
- Parental abuse (emotional, physical, and psychological)
- Religious and institutional abuse
- Medical abuse and non-consensual experimentation
- Forced marriage / treatment of women as property
- Imprisonment and confinement
- Kidnapping / abduction
- Gaslighting and psychological manipulation
- Slavery and ownership of mortals
- Surveillance and loss of privacy
- Systematic persecution and killing of witches and mixed-blood people (genocidal violence)
- Class and power oppression
- Themes of forced reproduction / breeding
Trauma, Mental Health & Emotional Distress
- Trauma responses, flashbacks, and dissociation
- PTSD symptoms
- Nightmares and night terrors
- Severe grief and parental loss
- Death of loved ones
- Guilt and self-blame
- Emotional breakdowns and panic
- Loss of bodily autonomy
- Identity under extreme control
- Moral injury
- Suicidal ideation and desire for death as release
Body & Medical Horror
- Non-consensual medical examination and experimentation
- Needles / syringes
- Body horror related to magic, fire, and transformation
- Blood magic and extraction imagery
- Forced use of body parts (bone, blood)
- Body fluids
Child Harm
- Child endangerment
- Children restrained / chained
- Harm to minors (on-page and in backstory)
Other
- Fire and burning (including people)
- Alcohol use
- Animal distress (minor)
- Religious trauma and corrupted faith
These notes exist so you can choose the book with open eyes — and so reviews stay kinder when expectations match the story. The book is atmospheric, emotionally charged, and sharp; it is not darkness only for its own sake.