The Ritual by Shantel Tessier

The Ritual

Author(s)	Shantel Tessier
Published	November 19, 2021
Publisher	Independently Published
Genre(s)	Dark Romance
Age group	New Adult

Trigger Warnings

• Alcohol consumption
• Anal
• Arranged, forced & coerced marriage
• Attempted rape
• Blood & gore depiction
• Bondage
• Branding
• Breath play
• Captivity & confinement
• Consensual non-consent
• Cults
• Dead bodies
• Drowning
• Drug abuse
• Drug use
• Dubious consent scenarios
• Emotional abuse
• Execution
• Gaslighting
• Graphic death
• Graphic violence
• Gun violence
• Hanging & lynching
• Hospitalization
• Imprisonment (intentional)
• Infidelity
• Interrogation
• Kidnapping / Abduction
• Knife violence
• Loss of autonomy
• Masks
• Medical treatment & procedures
• Murder & attempted murder
• Needles
• Organized crime
• Painkillers
• Physical abuse
• Physical assault
• Physical injuries
• Praise kink
• Pregnancy
• Profanity
• Sexism & misogyny
• Sexual abuse
• Sexual assault
• Sexual harassment
• Sexually explicit scenes
• Slurs
• Slut-shaming
• Stalking
• Torture
• Trauma
• Vomiting

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Tropes

• After-Action Healing Drama
• Alliance of Revenge
• Alone with the Psycho
• Anger Born of Worry
• Anti-Hero
• Apathetic Student
• Aroused by Their Voice
• Arranged Marriage
• Attempted Rape
• Authority Sounds Deep
• Big Fancy House
• Blind Obedience
• Bound and Gagged
• Callously Casual Cheating
• Chained to a Bed
• Contraception Deception
• Corporal Punishment
• Covert Group
• Crazy Jealous Guy
• Damsel in Distress
• Damsel Fight-and-Flight Response
• Dark family secret
• Defiant Captive
• Devoted to You
• Disposing of a Body
• Downfall by Sex
• Dysfunctional family
• Eating the Eye Candy
• Elite Agents Above the Law
• Entitled to Have You
• Erotic Asphyxiation
• Erotic Dream
• Everybody Has Lots of Sex
• Fetishized Abuser
• Fiction 500
• Frustrating Lie
• FWB-to-lovers
• Happily ever after
• He-Man Woman Hater
• He worships her
• If I Can't Have You…
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
• I Have You Now, My Pretty
• Initiation Ceremony
• Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
• It's Personal
• I Will Find You
• Jerkass
• Kinky Cuffs
• Kinky Role-Playing
• Lack of Empathy
• Love Is a Drug
• Love Redeems
• Loving Parent, Cruel Parent
• Lust Object
• Manipulative Bastard
• A Man Is Always Eager
• Marriage Before Romance
• Masochism Tango
• A Match Made in Stockholm
• More Experienced Chases the Innocent
• Morally-gray romance
• Multiple POV
• Murder, Inc.
• My Own Private "I Do"
• Name play
• Nemesis Magnet
• Non-Answer
• Not Good with Rejection
• Parent-Preferred Suitor
• Pay Evil unto Evil
• Possessiveness
• Power Dynamics Kink
• Power is Sexy
• Professional Killer
• The Promise
• Property of Love
• Psycho Ex-Boyfriend
• Questionable Consent
• Rejection Ritual
• Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
• The Resenter
• Revenge Romance
• Revenge Is Sweet
• Rich Boredom
• Roaring Rampage of Rescue
• Romanticized Abuse
• Second-Act Breakup
• Sex Is Liberation
• So Happy Together
• Stalking is Love
• Sworn in by Oath
• Taking the Bullet
• Test of Pain
• Touch her & you die
• Toxic Lover Influence
• True Companions
• Turned Off By The Jerkass
• Undying Loyalty
• The Unfettered
• Unknowingly in Love
• Virgin
• What Did I Do Last Night?
• Yandere
• You Are Not Alone