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Willing Captive Kindle Edition

by Belle Aurora (Author), Hot Tree Editing (Editor), Kayla Robichaux (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,366 ratings
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***Author Note: This is NOT a dark romance***

Delilah “Lily” Flynn is used to her drab existence. Lily’s been living it for twenty two years.
Her boring life is suddenly turned on its head when she’s rudely kidnapped from her bedroom.
Or so she thinks.

Nox Taylor is far too high up in his field to be assigned a babysitting job.
There’s nothing more he wants than to complete his mission so he can be rid of the smartass tomboy, Lily.

Day after day, Nox watches Lily and her strange ways. She’s unlike any woman he’s ever met.
Getting close to the girl is purely for her own protection…right?

Lily never imagined she’d make her first real friends in captivity.
What lengths would she go through to keep them?

**This is a stand alone novel and is unrelated to Friend-Zoned**
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Belle Aurora is thirty-something year old and was born in the land down under.
At an early age she fell in love with reading. Boredom one summer had her scouring the bookshelves at home. She stumbled across Sandra Brown’s Breath of Scandal and fell in love with romance.
Having been brought up in a loud and boisterous family of Croatian descent, she developed a natural love for dramatics and laughter. Only some years ago had she discovered a new love.
Humorous romance novels.
So many authors had opened a brand new world where she could lose herself yet feel safe and at home in their stories. Belle has been known to become a screeching banshee while anxiously awaiting their newest titles.
Belle never thought she would write. It had never interested her until recently. Friend-Zoned began to form and in February this year Belle typed the words Chapter One. And she fell in love.
With words.
With writing.
With a creative imagination she never knew she harbored.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FGFYIS4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (January 12, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 12, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 510 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1500749753
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,366 ratings

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Belle Aurora is twenty-something-years-old and was born in the land down under.

At an early age she fell in love with reading. Boredom one summer had her scouring the bookshelves at home. She stumbled across Sandra Brown’s Breath of Scandal and fell in love with romance.

Having been brought up in a loud and boisterous family of Croatian descent, she developed a natural love for dramatics and humor. Only some years ago had she discovered a new love.

Humorous romance novels.

Kristen Ashley and R.L. Mathewson had opened a brand new world where she could lose herself yet feel safe and at home in their stories. Belle has been known to become a screeching banshee while anxiously awaiting their newest titles.

Belle never thought she would write. It had never interested her until recently. Friend-Zoned began to form and in February 2013 Belle typed the words Chapter One. And she fell in love.

With words.

With writing.

With a creative imagination she never knew she harbored.

Friend-Zoned is the first in the Friend-Zoned series. Keep an eye out for this cheeky author.

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Rhea
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! JUST WOW! I LOVED THIS BOOK. No erase that. I.DEVOURED.IT.
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2013
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After seeing the post from one of my favorite book bloggers on my FB wall, saying that this book is simply phenomenal, it piqued my interest and drop the other book I was reading and jumped into this. And I have to admit, I never regret my decision. This book is awesome-sauce. Don't let the book cover dampen your spirits, this is just amazing. A very delectable read. It has basically everything I craved for in a book - gorgeously hawt & bad-a$$ hero, feisty heroine, likeable supporting cast and unique plot. This book really surprised me a lot.

Lily has been living a sheltered life even at the age of 22. Her dad has been so overprotective of her that she's not allowed to go out alone. She doesn't have friends and her sister, Terah, is the only one she got. She has found solace in her books, a sort of an escape from her current turmoil. So when one night, some strangers broke into their home and took her away thinking that she has been kidnapped, she was terrified. Who doesn't anyway? When she was taken into a "safehouse" and saw her captors, she wondered why she was brought there and who were these people. But, she wouldn't give up easily. She tried to break free and quoted some of MacGyver's antics and that made me laugh. Lily is funny and cute, a real smart-@s$. Love this girl. She's really funny without being trying so hard.

Then there's Nox. OHMIGOD! He kinda grew up on me. He's tall, dark, gorgeous but broody. Even if he looks kinda intimidating, like Lily, I was drawn into him. I'd love to break down the cold walls around him and get to know the real him, just like what Lily did. As I turn the pages, I couldn't help but fall in love with Nox and adore the kind of relationship that Nox & Lily developed in the story. The author did an amazing job in building up each characters, not just Nox & Lily, but also Rock, Boo, Terah, Jon, and everyone. At the end, you'd find yourself rooting for each couple and wished that all of them would have their own HEA. The all-out-laughter I've had while reading this book is priceless. It is indeed, phenomenal.

Willing Captive pulled up all my heartstrings and Belle Aurora is undoubtedly, a brilliant storyteller. I was sucked into the story from start to finish. The dual POVs of Nox & Lily was an added bonus as it has given us more insights into what's going on inside their heads. This book took me to my highest highs then 76% of the book, I was a mess. A blubbering mess. I haven't cried to a book lately, so when I reached that part I couldn't help it. The author did an amazing job with that scene. I don't want to spoil the story but please just grab a copy to find out what I'm talking about. It was really a very emotional and painful scene to me. I kept on saying, "Oh no! This can't be happening. You're joking, Belle Aurora right?" Then I cried, as in bawled-my-eyes cried. I'm not kidding. I did. I looked like crazy...lol! But few chapters after, I've had my happy dance. My heart felt like bursting up out of too much happiness I felt inside. Then, had goosebumps and butterflies in my tummy because I got the ending I badly needed. With a knock-out epilogue like that, no wonder I have this goofy smile on my face. This book totally swept me off my feet.

Well, just want to share one of my favorite lines in the book...

"Can't help who you fall in love with, princess."... Nox

I definitely love this book. It deserves more than 5 brilliant stars from me. It has just given me the best book experience ever and I loved every second of it. Heavenly amazing!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Weak on the overall plot, but great love story
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2013
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Lily is the daughter of a rich businessman who is skirted away (against her will). She is young, a bit naive - but is strong, sassy and fights for what she wants.
Nox is the sexy, brooding guy that is watching Lily on a day to day basis.
They fall for each other (the young girl falling for her hero that opens her eyes to what she's been missing; the lonely gruff hero that falls for the innocent (yet swears like a sailor), trusting girl that tears down any walls he may have built to protect himself).

Okay - so the love story is sweet. There are only two? steam sex scenes in the book. This isn't an erotic nor heavy steam romance.

I love this author. Friend-zoned is high up there on my 'favorites' list of books. The sassy, bull-headed, funny, kind, a bit nutty heroine that falls in love with the gruff, sexy, alpha-male, macho man. The heroine basically pecks away at the hero until he finally gives in (in a good way) to his love for the heroine.
It's a bit better done in Friend-Zoned (love all the baking that she does for the alpha-males), but Lilly is endearing in this book as well.

My favorite part of this book is the last several chapters. The hero becomes completely vulnerable and is now the one needing to be saved - and Lily takes on the hero's role. Great twist. We finally get to see how strong, loving and deep Lily can be. This is a woman who I can completely champion, and who Nox deserves to have in his life.

The parts I didn't like about this book was the overall plot. The reason why Lily is 'skirted away/kidnapped' is a bit thin in the reality scale. Had a hard time believing it.
Then the way things wrapped up with the villain was a bit too quick. The villain never really was a pressing threat. I didn't feel that it was a hugely deep threat. Almost like Lily and Nox were hanging out.

This is a standalone book, with no cliff hangers and a HEA.

There is a nice epilogue. Love it when authors wrap things up really nicely with a bow. This wasn't over the top. It was just sweet.

I can understand the need for the author to create an imminent threat to Lily's life so that the hero can come in and save the day. But I think the plot was a bit weak and it took away from the story.

This author is good at dialogue and being able to show us how the characters feel - multiple layers of emotions. So it brings us closer to the them, and we become more invested in the characters.

Even with an explosion or two, I didn't find this to be a high drama/suspenseful story. More deeply emotional than the recent fluff I've been reading. But not heavy angst-y. There were times when I found Lily a bit irritating (she has a tendency to swear too much, ask too many questions, or just prattle). But it was also funny in comparison to Nox's serious nature and maleness.

The author is great at creating romance, building a strong relationship between two characters and tugging at our heart strings with other characters as well. We become involved and we care.

I look forward to another book from this author.

Enjoy.
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Priyanka
5.0 out of 5 stars loved the book
Reviewed in India on March 22, 2023
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Not a dark romance indeed… it’s very funny …. Loved it…. Ends in HEA ….the female lead is strong and very witty … definitely worth a read
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Thah
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything
Reviewed in Brazil on September 6, 2019
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This book is everything I needed and didn’t even know.
I freaking loved this book, this story. The plot is amazing, the character development is insane and every single moment of it was so so so worth reading.
This is a new to me author, but I’m about to become a big stalker because I need to keep reading her books.
My heart is super overflowing with the fuzzy feelings and before that there were so many other things that I was feeling, I don’t even know what to do with so many emotions.
Yes. It is that good.
Don’t believe me? Read it.
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Lucina
5.0 out of 5 stars The ending was great
Reviewed in Germany on February 1, 2018
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4.5 stars

If not for the perfect(!) and completely satisfying ending I would've given this 4 stars, but the ending was so amazing it deserved 5 stars. Many romances end too abruptly for my liking, we have the showdown and declarations of love and then BOOM the end. Sometimes we get a short epilogue and a HFN and that's it. But 'Willing Captive' ends differently, we have multiple chapters to say goodbye to the characters and I loved it! I wished more authors would choose to end their books like this.

Aside from the ending the story wasn't perfect but not bad either. I loved Nox, he made some mistakes in the beginning but overall he was sweet and adorable.
Sadly I had some issues with Lily. I didn't mind that she was crying so often, I would've too in her situation, but I disliked her habit to act first and think second. Mostly Nox was the poor guy who had to deal with her getting angry over nothing. And she was SO unreasonable, Nox told her phone calls over 5 minutes can be tracked and she gets angry and wants more time? She was testing my patience at times, but she was nice in other scenes. Nevertheless I didn't really see why Nox would fall for someone like her. I loved that is was a slow-burn romance without instalove, but I didn't really feel their connection in the beginning. They were sweet together and I liked them as a couple, but I wished for more.

Another thing that could've been better was the depth of the characters. Many things stayed on the surface, like Nox' past and the fact that he was tortured. I mean it wasn't a big deal, they never speak about it (aside from one short scenes). Why mention it at all if it's not important to the story?

But I was very happy that the story wasn't focused in the sexy times and that 'Willing Captive' only had minimal suspense elements, because that's not something that I like. Everything was resolved pretty easily and the story was primarily focused on the romance between Nox and Lily.
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alison phillips
5.0 out of 5 stars a really good read
Reviewed in Canada on October 27, 2013
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I picked up this book first thinking it was a dark read, but after reading other reviews saying it was not. I really loved Nox right from the beginning, you could tell he wanted to protect Lily and he took his job very seriously. Loved Lily too even though at times though she could of done things differently..she grew up so much throughout the book..highly recommend this book to everybody.
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licia
3.0 out of 5 stars not completely my thing
Reviewed in Italy on December 7, 2014
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It has been nice, sometimes sweet, but it didn't stir any deep emotion as Raw has done instead. I'm afraid I was not so much taken by this book.
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