My first Joanna Lindsey novel was A Pirate's Love which was chock full of "forced seduction" (aka "rape her again and again until she falls in love with you." Hello, Stockholm Syndrome?!). To be fair this was written in 1978, just after The Flame and The Flower had made that a prominent theme in romances, but to modern eyes this is not the stuff of romance. Spare yourself. There are better pirate romances out there. ( )

Completely un-PC romance novel deserving of the term "bodice ripper". Includes rape, or, possibly more accurate, forced seduction.

Synposis: Heroine is traveling overseas to meet her betrothed. Along the way, her ship is attacked by pirates. The captain takes her captive and rapes her as spoils of war. However, over the course of the journey, he determines he won't turn her over to her betrothed for ransom, as originally planned, and instead takes her to his own home on a tropical island.

Heroine falls in love with the captain but is reluctant to tell him given his treatment of her and her general stubborness. ( )