Captured: BANNED by Lauren Biel (Paperback)

A banned dark horror romance from Lauren Biel — a standalone with extreme content and a hard-won happily-ever-after. MF, dual POV. Love has never been enough within these walls.

For Alexzander, every day feels the same: beaten down, conditioned to hurt others, hollowed out and unable to feel anything resembling love. His existence is a shell of what it might have been — until he finds her. The woman he captures turns his whole world upside down. Unlike any victim he’s ever taken, her sheer will to survive leaves him intrigued, and as he comes to know her, he begins to understand, for the first time, what’s right, and just how much of his own life has been wrong.

But understanding changes nothing about what he’s willing to do. Ophelia has become his obsession, and he knows he’ll do anything to keep her with him. Their bond is twisted and complicated, built on a foundation of captivity and control — unhealthy in every way, and impossible for him to fight. She’s his, and he won’t let anyone take her from him. Brutal, intense and unflinching, it’s a captor-and-captive horror romance that stares straight into its own darkness.

Please read with care. Captured is a banned dark horror romance with extreme content, rated 5/5 on the author’s darkness scale, including themes some readers will find deeply distressing. Please check the author’s content warnings before reading, and take care if these themes affect you.

Perfect for readers who seek out the darkest end of the genre — a captor-and-captive horror romance, a serial-killer anti-hero, a trauma-bonded connection and a redemption arc with teeth.