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Almost Rotten contains content some may find triggering, including:

-PTSD and cPTSD
-Blackmail/Sextortion
-Detailed depictions of imagined violence and gore
-Dubious consent
-Forced orgasms
-Homicidal ideation
-Mentions of anxiety-induced nausea (no pregnancy)
-Suicidal ideation (detailed, on page)
-Grief
-Codependency
-Detailed depictions of self harm (cutting, off page, in the past)
-Consensual non-consent
-Daddy kink

MORE ABOUT THE SUICIDAL IDEATION IN THIS BOOK

Sawyer has errant intrusive thoughts throughout this story that could be categorized as suicidal ideation. More significantly, she experiences a brief but poignant bought of ideation in Chapter 31. If you would like to avoid reading this experience, stop reading after the line “I’m well and truly alone.” then resume reading at the beginning of Chapter 32.

MORE ABOUT THE SELF HARM IN THIS BOOK

In Chapter 50, Mercer recalls his history with self-injury (cutting) to Sawyer. If you would like to avoid the details of his self-harm, stop reading after this line: “How long did it go on?” then resume reading further in the chapter starting with the line: “He pulls me closer and nuzzles his face into my neck again.”

Almost Rotten

Series:
Genre:
  • Why Choose Sports Romance

Tropes: Why Choose, Hockey Romance, Double Age Gap, Fall at Evercrisp Orchard, Brother’s Best Friend, Marriage of Coercion, Furious, Feuding Men, Hurt/Comfort, “I didn’t know where else to go” Tattoo Reveals, Sabotage and Revenge, “I’ll never forgive you for this.”
Release date: October 29, 2025
Delusions spiral toward disaster in Almost Rotten, the second book in the new dark, why choose, college hockey romance series from bestselling author Abby Millsaps.

He called me his wife.

My brother’s best friend and star hockey defenseman Tytus Tremblay stood in front of the Dean, declared we’re married, and bullied the man into bending to his will.

To Ty’s credit, it worked. My job is safe. The Dean has no idea who else was in the video with me.

But as the reality of the situation sinks in, I realize just how instrumental Tytus was in orchestrating this nightmare.

He’s delusional.

Tytus and I aren’t married, even though I used to dream about a future with him. That was before I met Mercer and Noah and allowed myself to fall for two older men.

Embarrassingly, when we’re locked away in my dorm, I give in to Ty’s delusions. I can’t help but push the limits, catapulting us toward his fantasies.

Now I’m torn between three men, so agonizingly confused I feel myself starting to slip away.

When Ty casually calls me his wife in front of his professional hockey team, I break.

I can’t go on like this. I can’t keep playing this game.

Every version of the future I dreamed of is slipping between my fingers. Irrevocable damage has been done, and I’m afraid nothing will ever be the same again.

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