Captive / Kidnapping Romance
The Bodyguard (Captive Hearts)
Book 3 in the Captive Hearts (Joan Johnston) series · Reading order →
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Why we recommend it
A captive-hearts bodyguard romance where protection turns into a bond neither side expected to want. Slow-burn tension meets fierce devotion.
At a glance
The Bodyguard is book 3 in Joan Johnston’s Captive Hearts (Joan Johnston) series. It rates 2/5 for spice and 2/5 for darkness, on the lighter side for captive romance: almost none of the 419 captive romance books we rate are lighter on either scale. Tropes: dark protector, forced proximity and slow burn. It is lighter than Joan Johnston’s other books on Readark (average darkness 2.5/5). It runs to 400 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.
Book details
- Pages
- 400
- Published
- March 1998
The Bodyguard spice level
The Bodyguard 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 2/5: morally grey, meaning the love interest does real harm and consequences are acknowledged. How we rate
The Bodyguard content warnings
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