64 ratings published 1985, avg rating 4.07 I am currently reading the {Devils Night Series by Penelope Douglas} and these books fit well with your request. This page may contain sensitive or adult content that's not for everyone. Refresh and try again. Id recommend the hidden legacy series, only the main character doesnt really have a troubled past in it. Puck Me Secretly (A Vancouver Wolves Hockey Romance Book 1) By Stone, Odette. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I dont know what got me to do this rec. Wild Rain will linger in your thoughts for its remarkably likable hero, spirited heroine, beautiful horses, scenery, adventure, and romance. Of course, by the next time it happens her traitorous body responds to him, and then she can't help herself from having sex with him constantly. the girls family & cabin/homestead is attacked by native americans. 571 ratings Unsubscribe at any time. 863 ratings Hope this list helps your reading! published, avg rating 3.95 R. Lee Smith (Goodreads Author) (shelved 4 times as hero-violent-to-heroine) avg rating 3.80 2,392 ratings published 2009. Completely unreadable - errors all over the place, lazy exposition, lazy plotting, lazy characterisation. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. I also enjoy this trope would love some recs. No, I want actual fear, not hatred, just pure fear. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. published 2016, avg rating 3.63 22,634 ratings published 2001, avg rating 3.99 There Are No Saints by Sophie Lark. GIMME DAT. He rapes her, repeatedly. Nothing to excuse, youre a veritable HERO. 7,307 ratings The hero does not realize she is a virgin and so she is hurt and afterwards afraid of sex. 6,733 ratings Oreshura is an anime that follows Eita Kidou, who is blackmailed into a relationship by a popular classmate named Masuzu Natsukawa.. RELATED: 10 Unlikely Anime Couples That Showed Us What True Love Is Despite forming the relationship as a ploy to stay away from romance, Eita and Masuzu end up falling for the other. 1,719 ratings Error rating book. CW: the beginning few chapters are about her abusive relationship with her soon to be ex-husband and were upsetting to read. She sometimes gets these panic/crying attacks when she'd remember something about it. Never Sweeter by Charlotte stein- he bullied her in high school, now he's trying to be nice but she is still terrified of him (for good reason) this book wasn't my cup of tea but i don't really like dark books so its just my personal opinion. published 1986, avg rating 3.10 The Kate Daniels series is better known, but the first few books arent written very well. Rock Hard by Nalini Singh is one of the best examples of this. It can be because of how he look, how he act behind close door, or how he just portrayed to everyone. It's just a reaction to physical intimacy. published 2017, avg rating 3.92 published 2017, avg rating 2.53 Oh man this is a favorite of mine. Everyone is happy. 41,032 ratings 298 ratings Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. published 2019, avg rating 3.92 234 ratings I LOVED this book, highly recommend), A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (also has that plot of the heroine being traumatized and suffering from depression and PTSD, and the hero helping her, but the plot to this only starts in the second book, so you'll have to read the first one first :) ), The Dark Jewels series and The Others series, both by Anne Bishop, The In Death series by J.D. There are lovely side characters, like a dog and the hero's son and father and the heroine's older confidante (who gets together with the father) and a villain you really enjoy hating. Romance. Thank you all. I am pretty open in terms of this rec : It can be M/M, BDSM, dub-con if it must. published, avg rating 4.23 He could have any woman in the world! Its a lot of what I just described! 57 ratings to achieve a common goal. published 2016, avg rating 3.53 Welcome back. Drop your recs here, internet oracles of romance. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. published 2018, avg rating 3.66 582 ratings After the earl breaks it up and she recovers and is starting to get serious Stockholm Syndrome, she runs across a bunch of letters that inform her her trusted companion had been corresponding with the earl for years and helping plan her abduction. A man almost runs her over and she drops her books and herself in the mud. published 1984, avg rating 3.85 Blythe Gifford - Return of the Border Warrior, Jessica Clare - The Billionaire Takes a Bride, Jessica Sorensen - The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden, Jessica Sorensen - The Temptation of Lila and Ethan, Kate Hewitt - The Greek Tycoons Reluctant Bride, Kimberly Van Meter - Return to Emmetts Mill, Laura Lee Guhrke - How To Loose a Duke in Ten Days, Maggie Osborne - The Wives of Bowie Stone, Marie Ferrarella - Found: His Perfect Wife, Michelle Willingham - Taming Her Irish Warrior, Michelle Willingham - Surrender to an Irish Warrior, Susan Elizabeth Phillips - It Had To Be You. published 2013, avg rating 3.54 I just read {Run Posy Run by Cate C Wells}. 177 ratings published, avg rating 3.56 The key is simply one of focus. 3,337 ratings If you have any books where hero believes something bad about heroine but she doesn't get hurt (except emotionally) please post it as well. I even love it more if because of her fear she avoid the hero so that he doesn't notice her. I know she tend to like polyamory in her story. I just finished On Dublin Street, although a bit frusterating at times I really enjoyed it. 1,551 ratings I hope I can find something because this sub never let me down ! 5,177 ratings | Source, Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi Mcfarlane. Either he dumps her, so she's alone, or he doesn't believe she's in danger, or something, but she gets hurt because he thought bad about her. published 2019, avg rating 3.99 It can be because of how he look, how he act behind close door, or how he just portrayed to everyone. Writing Tips Oasis -- Terms and Conditions -- Privacy Policy. published 2019, avg rating 4.18 published 1995, avg rating 4.06 Without firing a gun or shedding any blood, Odile de Vasselot, Odette Niles and Michele Agniel were among the thousands of women who took part in the resistance against the Nazi . TW for sexual assault, violence, and sexual abuse of children. im sorry my clues arent much. It was so clearly a first draft, nobody even glanced over it. Shaking hand, clamer word, afraid for her life type out of fear. Although the heroine in Fear Me did aggravate me at times - I felt she should/could have stood up for herself more. I think Never Sweeter by Charlotte Stein is a bully romance that fits this, at least in the beginning of the book before their relationship develops. Ill add more if I think of it. The first 20 percent of the book I wanted to DNF because the author makes her blurt out really strange and random shit but it's a tic/compulsion brought on by stress and trauma and I promise it works itself out and doesn't happen NEARLY as often after the first "meet". Choose from over 100 topics and categories, 83 amazing romance books about women-loving women, The 55 best rivals to lovers romance books, Find the best romance books by steam/smut/spice/heat level, 73 glorious romance book couples with a significant height difference. Ordinary World: The H/H (hero and heroine) are in their normal world before story begins. published 2020, avg rating 3.04 590 ratings Bait by Jade West (she wants to be afraid though), With Jade West story, is it monogamy ? Lisa Kleypas Blue-eyed Devil! Saura and William soon found themselves fighting for their lives, even as they surrendered to an all-consuming love. An example where she doesn't get hurt is Lady Gallant by Suzanne Robinson. published 1989, avg rating 3.71 Want to Read. His father Michael Davis is from Kentucky the USA and his mother Marina Davis . published 1995, These Thorn Kisses (St. Mary's Rebels #3), Marriage: To Claim his Twins (Needed: The World's Most Eligible Billionaires, #3), The Tycoon's Revenge (Baby for the Billionaire, #1), Run for Your Love (Mass Market Paperback), The Wild Mustang & The Dancing Fairy (St. Marys Rebels 1.5), Reparation of Sin (The Society Trilogy, #2), Requiem of the Soul (The Society Trilogy, #1), The Devil's Bride (Mass Market Paperback), Lelaki Dalam Ingatan (Mass Market Paperback), A Facade to Shatter (Sicily's Corretti Dynasty #6), Uncertain Destiny (Mass Market Paperback), Resisting the Rancher (Redwood Falls, #3), Imprisoned by the Greek's Ring (Kindle Edition), Reunited by a Shock Pregnancy (Paperback), Somewhere to Lay My Head (Mass Market Paperback), The Fire of Spring (Mass Market Paperback), Twisted Pride (The Camorra Chronicles, #3), The Heat of Passion (Mass Market Paperback), Castelli's Virgin Widow (The Castelli Brothers #2). Happy Endings guaranteed. Bonus: male lead also romance averse due to bad marriage to now dead half sister. Some of them are sparked by getting physical with the hero, and he's very understanding and helps her through them. Very well written, realistic and just a great series overal. One of my faves if a bit vintage. Well yeah, like, shooting the abusive stalker ex is a great start but tell me about the trauma recovery nitty gritty afterward. Robb (the main character has a crazy story, but it takes a few books to get there). Mafia romance with a sociopath/psycopath hero. published 1986, avg rating 3.84 In addition to his British lands, the Earl holds and Italian title and an estate in Genoa. a. Then she feels bad about it. You might also enjoy checking out the writing duo Ilona Andrews. Ahem. jane eyre the dark heroine is a series of vampire-themed fantasy romance novels written by english author abigail gibbs, published by harpercollins in the first novel in the series, dinner. When Cassie gets pregnant, an ex-mistress of the earl's and his jealous half-brother plot to get her out of the way; she is brutally and graphically gang-raped. Sooo. pretty much what the title said. 485 ratings Lady Sophia's Lover (Bow Street Runners, #2), A Hunger Like No Other (Immortals After Dark, #1), Four Nights With the Duke (Desperate Duchesses by the Numbers #2; Desperate Duchesses #8), The Chocolate Temptation (Amour et Chocolat, #6), The Countess Conspiracy (Brothers Sinister, #3), To Have and To Hold (Wyckerley Trilogy, #2), Lady Gallant (European Renaissance Duo, #1; Ladies, #1), Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage (MacKenzies & McBrides, #2), For My Lady's Heart (Medieval Hearts, #1), The Marriage Bed (The Medieval Knight Series #2), Lord of the Abyss (Royal House of Shadows, #4), A Summer to Remember (Bedwyn Prequels, #2), Lessons from a Scandalous Bride (Forgotten Princesses #2), The Marriage Merger (Marriage to a Billionaire, #4), Sins of a Wicked Duke (The Penwich School for Virtuous Girls #1), Loving Evangeline (Patterson-Cannon Family, #2), The Wicked One (de Montforte Brothers, #4), Dangerous in Diamonds (The Rarest Blooms, #4), Never Desire a Duke (One Scandalous Season, #1), No Rest for the Wicked (Immortals After Dark, #2), The Alien's Seduction (Warriors of Luxiria, #7), Highland Scoundrel (Campbell Trilogy, #3), Three Proposals and a Scandal (Sons of Sin, #4.5), V. A Court of Wings and Ruin is NEW ADULT/EROTICA but Goodreads editors won't tell you to include it in the choice awards, BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023), 96 Nonfiction Books to Read this Women's History Month. Heroine Name : Horiya . The Highlander by Kerrigan Byrne is a good one. published 1998, avg rating 3.59 It has everything you want in your request! I like happy ever after, marriage, the whole shebang, Bad Guy by Ruby Dixon - he is a terrifying killer alien. Its part of a larger series and universe but easy to read as a standalone. He's a hockey star, she's the daughter of the team owner, training to take over. Damm, i love afraid but not this kind of afraid, dub con maybe ok, but rape is a nono. And then good Lord, searching heroine afraid of hero?! She's been through hell and she's not afraid to fight for what she deserves. published 2011, avg rating 4.09 The writing style was also not something I personally enjoyed, but you might. Im working on {Impact by Haley Jenner} right now. 668 ratings avg rating 4.03 1,292 ratings that makes so much sense. 3,358 ratings published 2015, avg rating 3.93 I notice this happen sometimes in bully romance but so far I had no luck with this rec. Rina Kent's trilogy is perfect for anyone who loves possessive alphaholes, heroines who give as good as they get and intense romances with loads of steam. I could go for a good heart clencher, possibly bawl my eyes out well written story with a heroine with a traumatized past that is still effecting her and an awesome hero that helps heal her. In the beginning of the book the heroine lives in London and has lent books from a library and is walking home. This is the first book in a trilogy, and the books all have that touch of realistic heartbreak along with just great humor. When he comes back from the wars, much petting ensues, manhoods become engorged, lusts are unsated, and they decide to marry. Call to Adventure: The H/H learn of the problem, receive a challenge or the call to adventure that can lead to their romance. Refresh and try again. published 2021, avg rating 3.66 These are not Harlequin Presents, but the heroine in accidentally raped by the Hero. 122 ratings list created June 3rd, 2016 Love is confessed, a few plotters are killed (because in case you've forgotten that whole gang-rape thing needs to be tied up) , and all's well that ends well. 472 ratings Fantastic author. Among the officers who proved themselves heroes on that day, none deserved higher honor than Captain H. A. Tyler, of the 12th Kentucky Cavalry. Both characters are fantastic and it was a great slow-burn. published 2017, avg rating 4.14 152 ratings Archers Voice by Mia Sheridan has it for both the hero and heroine, How to Love a Duke in 10 Days - Kerrigan Byrne, Beard Science by Penny Reid (in its own weird way). 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. published, avg rating 3.51 Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes. She's just so vibrant. 4,029 ratings 918 ratings If you dont mind books set in like..1800s England or so, cant quite remember, I really recommend the Wallflower series by Lisa Kleypas. She travels from England to a puritan settlement in the new world to live with her older half sister and ends up caring for a whole household of men though she does not want romance (TW: flashback description of assault). Is was dark and twisted, HOT, nasty and kept me thinking the whole way through! These are just off the top of my head. And it can goes to a pretty abusive situation if you ask me. avg rating 3.85 10,616 ratings published 2010. Not because he is handsome, or dark and brooding. published 2011, avg rating 3.76 Both books feature a military hero doing everything he can to rescue the heroine from her messed up past. published 1977, avg rating 3.62 Its a great way to build the relationship and develop a unique rapport. "I used to think you the devil himself, my lord. published 2016, avg rating 3.88 Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. 568 ratings Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. My absolute favorite with this trope is Nalini Singh's Rock Hard. There's a hilarious discussion on romance twitter this afternoon - thought I'd bring the romance hero appreciation here. 60 ratings I read Waking Olivia by Elizabeth O'Roark recently and it fits your request perfectly. Historical romance, set during the Napoleon wars. The Psycho by Nikki J. Summers- for the life of me I cant remember this one. ONCE LOVERS NOW HATED RIVALS That stupid multibillion-dollar contract! 3. 15,161 ratings Elizabeth Hoyt's "Sweetest Scoundrel". 4,858 ratings 133 ratings 1,020 ratings 19,100 ratings Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and of Jewish descent, she suffered a lot from antisemitism, especially as a child, and was riddled with fear as she witness the Nazi Party party rise in Germany . "The Homely Heroine" is followed by "A Bush League Hero, " "What she Wore, " and "The Man Who Came Back." Edna Ferber (1885-1968) was an American author. Never Never: The Complete Series by Colleen Hoover, . No final verdict at the moment but, yup. 2,850 ratings published 2016, avg rating 3.94 I don't mind the dark romances. Some of them are sparked by getting physical with the hero, and he's very understanding and helps her through them. Cassie realizes she can't go through with it, which is fine because then the earl shows up in New York. it was a historical romance, set during settlers time. published 2018, avg rating 3.91
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