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Captive / Kidnapping Romance

Broken: Captive Series, Book 5.5

Erica Stevens
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Why we recommend it

A companion entry in a captivity-driven series, this shorter installment deepens the fraught bonds and dangerous intimacy fans know well. It's for readers already drawn into the captives' world who want more of the survival tension and complicated feelings. Expect heavy atmosphere, charged proximity, and emotional stakes that linger. Best enjoyed in sequence, it adds shading to a dark, immersive saga of broken trust and reluctant connection.

At a glance

Broken is a captive romance by Erica Stevens. It rates 3/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness, mid-range for captive romance: of the 419 captive romance books we rate, 30% score lower for darkness and 3% lower for spice. Tropes: captive / captor, forced proximity and slow burn. It is about as dark as Erica Stevens’s other books on Readark (average darkness 3.9/5). 3 content warnings are listed below, hidden until you tap.

Book details

Published
May 2018

Broken spice level

Broken is rated 3/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: open door, meaning explicit scenes written plainly, but not the engine of the book. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate

Broken content warnings

We list 3 content warnings for this book. They stay hidden until you tap, so you can check without spoilers.

Content warnings (tap to reveal)
  • Emotional Abuse / Gaslighting
  • Graphic Violence
  • Kidnapping / Captivity

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