If you loved
Books like Credence
You want isolation, a line you're not supposed to cross and a book that crosses it anyway, very explicitly. These eight get closest, from forbidden and older to properly captive. Several are much darker than Credence, so read the warnings on each before you pick.
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1. Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas · 2018
ExplicitAdultJordan is nineteen and out of options, so she moves in with her boyfriend and his dad, Pike, who turns out to be the stranger she shared a midnight movie with on her birthday. He's thirty-eight, kind, and completely off limits. Age gap and taboo with a slow build, high spice, happy ending.
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2. Priest
Sierra Simone · 2015
ScorchingAdultFather Tyler Bell is twenty-nine, devoted to his parish and very good at keeping his vows, until a woman starts confessing her sins to him in vivid detail. This book is his confession of how he broke them. Taboo, religious, very high spice, happy ending.
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Twist MeAnna Zaires
3. Twist Me
Anna Zaires · 2014
ScorchingAdultNora is taken from her life by Julian, a man who has wanted her since he first saw her, and kept on his private island. A classic captive romance, very explicit, ending on a cliffhanger. Read the content warnings before you start.
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4. Tryst Six Venom
Penelope Douglas · 2021
ExplicitNew adultClay Collins is the rich girl at Marymount who makes Liv Jaeger's days miserable, and Liv, who crosses the tracks to get to school, is done taking it. Then she gets Clay alone and finds out what she's been hiding. A sapphic bully romance where both girls bite, high spice, happy ending.
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5. Gothikana
RuNyx · 2021
ExplicitAdultCorvina has always been the odd girl out, so an admission letter from the University of Verenmore, a castle on a mountain where someone disappears every five years, feels like fate. So does Vad Deverell, the professor she is absolutely not allowed to touch. Gothic dark academia with a ghost-story mystery, high spice, happy ending.
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Captive in the DarkC. J. Roberts
6. Captive in the Dark
C. J. Roberts · 2012
ScorchingAdultOlivia is abducted by Caleb, who means to train her and sell her. This is one of the oldest and hardest books in the genre, a true captive romance with no softening, very explicit and ending on a cliffhanger. Read every content warning before you start; this one isn't for everyone.
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Stolen TrophyK. A. Knight & Kendra Moreno
7. Stolen Trophy
K. A. Knight & Kendra Moreno · 2022
ScorchingAdultHer life was perfect: the fiancé, the business, the parties. Then four men in masks take her and tell her all of it was a lie. Captive why choose with a lot of heat and a heroine who fights back. Very explicit, happy ending; check the warnings first.
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8. The Professional
Kresley Cole · 2014
ScorchingAdultNatalie is a grad student who finds out her father is a Russian billionaire, and the enforcer he sends to protect her decides she belongs to him. He whisks her off to Russia and makes all the rules. Filthy, possessive, very explicit, happy ending.