A Wolf in the Garden

Content information and warnings

Sexual content:This is a high heat book intended for readers 18 years and over only. Sex scenes are frequent, open door, and detailed. This is a monster romance, and there are sex scenes between the main characters when the MMC is in his werewolf monster form.
Smut includes: light spanking, knotting, biting, mating bites and blood, oral sex, use of magic during sex without prior explicit consent (although consent is implied and can be assumed within the context), consensual nude photography, primal play, breeding kink (no pregnancy), and size difference.Content regarding the historical treatment of Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand:There are references to historical colonial policies by past New Zealand Governments that were harmful to Māori (the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand), particularly in relation to corporal punishment in schools being used to suppress the Māori language and culture during the FMC’s grandfather’s generation. The ongoing impact of these historical assimilation policies on Māori today is shown, specifically in relation to the loss of Māori language and connections to aspects of the culture, and the feelings that accompany this.Content warnings:Off-page death of a child that occurred years ago, drowning, grief, loss of a sibling, loss of a child, symptoms of PTSD, abandonment, brief mention of a side character's previous abusive relationship, mind control, attempted kidnapping, a shifted wolf attacking a shifted being and on-page death of this creature while in shifted animal form, blood, discussion of shifted wolves and werewolves hunting animals for food (not shown, but actions, sounds, and taste briefly described by characters), dysfunctional family dynamics, violence between shifted wolves, abuse of magic powers to exert will over others, struggles with identity, reference to situational depression (in the past), recreational use of alcohol, reference to binge drinking as a coping mechanism (in the past), secondary characters with children or babies, non-humans being othered and experiencing microaggressions, and a character mentions they have witnessed racism towards their ethnic group online.