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Romance · 1981 · PG-13

The Hostage Bride

by Janet Dailey

She was supposed to be a strategic pawn. Nobody expected her to play her own game.

For14+GenreRomanceLength192 pagesRead time~5 hours

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Violence

Barely any

Moderate threat; a woman held as leverage

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

Some

Adult romantic development in a captive situation

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Moderate psychological complexity; a woman's agency in a constrained situation

What this book is about

A woman used as a bargaining chip in a dispute between powerful men refuses to be a passive participant in her own fate. Dailey's The Hostage Bride turns a pressure situation into a romance.

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