Captive / Kidnapping Romance
The Bridegroom (Captive Hearts)
Book 4 in the Captive Hearts (Joan Johnston) series · Reading order →
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Why we recommend it
A captive-hearts historical romance where an unwanted bridegroom turns out to be more honorable than expected. Slow-burn tension meets old-world power plays.
At a glance
The Bridegroom is book 4 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. Its tropes include forced marriage, slow burn and enemies to lovers. It is lighter than Joan Johnston’s other books on Readark (average darkness 2.5/5). It runs to 384 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.
Book details
- Pages
- 384
- Published
- February 1999
The Bridegroom spice level
The Bridegroom 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 Bridegroom content warnings
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