Standard rape does not strictly occur, but there are two notable moments that could be triggering and one is definitely coercion: Chapter 37: one of the main characters is a woman in an arranged marriage. Her father traded her to her older husband when she was a teenager and she hates both of them for it. When the story begins she is in her 30s and reflects back to her anger and devastation over being sold. She views having sex with her husband as her "duty" that she hates and there is only one scene where sex is described but it can be triggering. She does not fight him, but she very clearly does not want to be there and when he finishes she tells him she hates him. He says and he knows and that he picked her out from amongst her sisters because he knew she would hate him the most and he wanted to punish her father by making her "suffer". He is also physically abusive to her throughout the book. Chapter 75: the second incident involves a character who is stranded amongst a lot of other characters in an isolated environment. He gains power over most of the men, but says very matter of factly that he only has control over them while he can provide what they want - so he calls a meeting with two others to discuss offering all the unmarried "of age " women to the men so they can be raped repeatedly. While the other characters are horrified, they later only refer to this set up as a "brothel" which can feel dismissive to real life victims. The plot also does not advance far enough beyond this point for the rape to take place, but it can be retraumatising to read as this seems almost certain to happen for several pages until the plan is interrupted. There are other mentions of rape, but they are in passing and vague. The story takes place on a boat in the 1600s and it is mentioned every now and then that the sailors are bad men who might do such a thing.