The Kiss of Deception: The Remnant Chronicles, Book 1

Shows the difficulty of weighing staying true to oneself against duty and responsibility to others. There's also much about what we learn about ourselves and the world around us in stillness.

Lia is kidnapped, is sexually assaulted (with a forced kiss and some groping), gets fingers broken in a fight, and is held at knife-point by an assassin until the assassin is killed by an arrow. There's one sad death seen from a distance, followed by a mass burial of 30 soldiers killed with arrows and swords, plus another sad death of a lame horse that Lia puts out of its misery. Talk of another sad death -- in an ambush, a pregnant woman gets an arrow through the throat. Talk of more battles with killing, assassinations, raiders, and a hanging Lia watched when she was 12. A man gets stitches in his face after a skirmish. Lia hears a story of her aunt, who committed suicide after her son was executed for treason.

Pretty infrequent: "blazing balls," "whore," "bitch" a few times, "hell," "bastards," "ass," and "damn."