The Best Forced Love Romance Novels
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Kidnapping and forced love are popular themes in romance literature. Like with Beauty and the Beast and Hades and Persephone there is an allure to be desired, and drawn to vulnerability by a powerful captor. The House on Black Lake explores the provocative themes of confinement and forced love.
Following is a list of preeminent romance novels featuring forced love. Thanks to Amazon forum for input:
Regency:
My Dangerous Duke by Gaelen Foley - she is kidnapped for him as a virginal "gift" - very much a Beauty in the Beast type plot
Captured by Love by Amber Kaye - he kidnaps her based on a revenge plot
Beguiled by Heather Graham - very tame kidnap tale, he's a highwayman type that takes her off into the woods briefly
Silver Angel by Johanna Lindsey - she is kidnapped, sold into slavery, and he is her purchaser
The Last Highwayman by Katherine O'Neal - he kidnaps her to get the ransom money but her family doesn't pay - they end up working together, very passionate
The Devil Who Tamed Her by Johanna Lindsey - very tame kidnap tale, basically he absconds with her into the countryside to melt her heart of ice based on a bet
So Speaks the Heart by Johanna Lindsey - he takes her from her home, thinking she's a slave
Western:
Lakota Love Song by Madeline Baker - he is an injured Indian that she rescues from death, only to be kidnapped by him when he's better
The Bounty by Beth Williamson - he's hired by a psycho to find her for a bounty, so he finds her, kidnaps her and then falls for her
Diablo by Georgina Gentry - he kidnaps her based on a revenge plot but they fall for each other, very moving story
The Touch of Fire by Linda Howard - he kidnaps her to help heal a gun shot wound, but loses his heart to her
Contemporary:
Wild Orchids by Karen Robards - he's on the run in Mexico and she's in the wrong place at the wrong time, he kidnaps her to use her as a means of escape
Perfectby Judith McNaught - he breaks out of jail and uses her and her car as a means of escape
Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare - he uses her to break out of jail, then abducts her- very moving passionate story
American Historical:
Star Keeper by Patricia Potter - they're already falling in love but she learns the truth about him - that he is an enemy pirate- to keep her quiet her abducts her
Relentless by Patricia Potter - she is kidnapped for him as part of a revenge plot- very moving and passionate
Sweet Fire by Jo Goodman - he kidnaps her as part of a complex plot- she is unaware because she has amnesia - but very good passionate moving story
HISTORICAL/PARANORMAL
The Pirate Prince(Ascension Trilogy), historical pirate romance, by Gaelen Foley
A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals after Dark, Book1) paranormal vampire intrigue, by Kresley Cole
The Devil Wears Plaid by Teresa Medeiros
Bodacious by Sharon Ervin
Lord of Fire by Gaelen Foley
The Spymaster’s Lady by Johanna Bourne
Ruthless, (The House of Rohan), by Anne Steward
All Through the Nightby Connie Brockway
Honor Bound by Sandra Brown
Some Kind of Magic by Theresa Weir
Hawk O’Toole’s Hostage by Sandra Brown
Thanks to the Amazon romance forum for their input