Some romances you read because they bring you comfort. Others… well they break you apart and stitch you back together. But you will still not be the same after reading them.
1 Still Beating (Jennifer Hartmann)
Still Beating is not for the faint of heart.
Dean is Cora’s sister’s fiancé… and they do not like each other. At all.
But when things take a turn for the worse, it is them against things much worse than how they see each other. This time, they have to stand together.
However, it is these circumstances that that forges a bond between them that no one can understand.
2 Lotus (Jennifer Hartmann)
Oliver’s and Sydney’s childhood didn’t go quite as it should have. The two best friends are separated while they are still quite young when Oliver is abducted.
Now, 22 years later, he is found but at what cost?
After more than two decades of brainwashing, who is left of the boy that Sydney remembers?
3 Only the Small Bones (CP Harris)
William helps trafficking victims. Ryan is a trafficking victim.
But Ryan is non-verbal and refuses to communicate in any other way. This makes William’s job of helping him so much harder. Yet, William’s own broken heart helps him to connect with Ryan in a way no one else can.
Only the Small Bones is the perfect example of how trauma can forge a bond between people so strong that it seems incomprehensible to an outsider.
Keep a box of tissues close by, though. You might need it.
4 Hunting Adeline and Haunting Adeline (H.D. Carlton)
In these books the central trauma for Adeline is having a stalker, but it goes far beyond that, though. It goes into trauma so heart wrenching you won’t know what to do with yourself.
But the thing is, I really can’t say more, because then I’ll ruin it.
Just check your triggers and don’t say I didn’t warn you.
5 Does It Hurt? (H.D. Carlton)
Nothing shouts trauma bond like shared trauma.
Sawyer thought she was going to deceive Enzo, but life wasn’t quite so kind and he caught her. Now she is in the claws of a dangerous man.
Then things take a turn for the worse and they are shipwrecked on an island hating each other. But somehow they have to get over their hatred to be able to survive their circumstances.
6 The Wrong Heart (Jennifer Hartmann)
Her husband died. He got his heart.
After the death of her husband Melody’s heart is broken beyond repair. When she reaches out to the man who got her husband’s heart, she doesn’t expect a response.
But then she gets one.
And so a connection is built, without names, without details. Him just being the last tether she has to her belated husband.
7 The Darkest Temptation
Mila thought she was running away from her life and the secrets surrounding it. But her running away caused her to run right into the arms of someone too good to be true.
And then the too good to be true part comes into fulfilment when he becomes her captor. Classic Stockholm syndrome for the win.
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