The Traitor (Captive Hearts, 2)

Name: The Traitor (Captive Hearts, 2)
Author: Grace Burrowes

Grace Burrowes

Book 2 in the Captive Hearts (Grace Burrowes) series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

A captive-hearts saga's second book, where the traitor discovers loyalty is more complicated than any battlefield. Slow-burn tension meets old-world power plays.

At a glance

The Traitor is book 2 in Grace Burrowes’s Captive Hearts (Grace Burrowes) series; to read in order, start with The Captive Duke. Spice 2/5, darkness 3/5 — on the lighter side for captive romance. Among 419 rated captive romance books, 6% are less dark and almost none less spicy. Tagged tropes include slow burn, enemies to lovers and morally grey MC. It is about as dark as Grace Burrowes’s other books on Readark (average darkness 3.0/5). It runs to 384 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.

Tropes

Enemies to Lovers Morally Grey MC Slow Burn

Book details

Pages: 384
Published: August 2014

The Traitor spice level

The Traitor is rated 2/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: brief and fade-out, meaning scenes begin on the page but stop short of explicit detail. Its darkness rating is 3/5: genuinely dark, meaning violence, coercion or captivity drive the plot, not just the mood. How we rate