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Dark Romance

Captive / Captor

One character holds the other against their will, and the romance grows inside that imbalance. Captive-captor stories sit at the dark end of the genre by definition, and every book here carries a captivity content warning. Many also involve dubious consent.

868 books

The Captive / Captor trope, by the numbers

  • 868 books on Readark
  • Average spice 3.9/5 — 84% rate 4 or higher
  • Average darkness 4.2/5 — 84% rate 4 or higher

Subgenres where it appears most

Tropes it most often pairs with

Most common content warnings on this shelf

Figures are calculated live from every book with this tag. All dark romance tropes