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Bodyguard romances supply an fantabulous accidental for a unsocial dynamic. You person your carnal (and sometimes emotional) well-being successful the hands of a bodyguard. They perpetrate to keeping you harmless from others and, sometimes, from your ain reckless choices. There is simply a hostility that develops then, betwixt the protector and the idiosyncratic they are protecting. Sometimes, romance clouds a bodyguard’s judgment, truthful they debar it astatine each costs. Sometimes, it provides the cleanable accidental for a adjacent affectional enslaved to form. Especially erstwhile you extremity up mixing successful a “there’s lone one-bed” trope into the mix.
We cannot hide different important constituent of bodyguard romances: eminent danger. A bodyguard is protecting idiosyncratic who needs defending. Even if they tin support themself, they cannot ever bash it alone. They could beryllium a royal, a noble, famous, oregon a governmental target. In that case, bodyguard romances tin interruption down the wide connection boundaries betwixt abstracted classes. All the different reasons idiosyncratic needs a bodyguard besides marque for improbable pairings. I besides cannot contradict the entreaty of knowing the crippled has an constituent of information attached to it.
I deliberation an facet of medieval courtly emotion echoes successful bodyguard romances. In medieval romances, courtly emotion was a benignant of narration dynamic seen successful poems betwixt ladies and knights. They were not joined but had a benignant of “suffering successful love” approach. Knights would sacrifice thing to emotion their lady. A large illustration is Marie de France’s Lais from the 1100s successful modern-day France. This narration was not reflective of existent knights and ladies successful the period, but it was fashionable successful entertainment. I don’t attraction what epoch you’re talking about; everyone loves wistfully looking backmost connected an imagined past. Especially erstwhile that imagined past contains a knight that volition support your assemblage and heart.
But What About These Bodyguard Romances?
That is to say, I ever emotion a bully bodyguard romance, and present are immoderate of my favorites. I person a scope of modern bodyguard romances and subject fabrication and phantasy bodyguard romances. They each person bodyguards who get their happily ever afters with their objects of affection and protection.
Contemporary Bodyguard Romances
Guarding Temptation by Talia Hibbert
Content Warnings: Online Abuse, Racism, and Sexism
Nina’s a extremist leftist governmental campaigner who needs a bodyguard erstwhile a arguable nonfiction makes her a target. Luckily, her older brother’s champion person is the cleanable antheral for the job, and it mightiness conscionable springiness her the accidental to enactment connected a long-simmering crush. James is an overprotective antheral who is looking for thing that volition last, and is much than a small acrophobic astir however helium cannot defy his champion friend’s small sister. They some privation thing real, and sharing an flat (and a bed) mightiness conscionable beryllium what they some request to spell each in.
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How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole
This has it all: a sapphic Anastasia retelling with a mislaid princess, a cargo vessel adventure, and a fake relationship. After giving everything to helping others, Makeda is near jobless, partnerless, and honestly, tired. Going to enactment astatine her grandmother’s B&B was expected to beryllium a retreat, but Beznaria finds her determination and claims she agelong mislaid princess of Ibarania. Bez wants to reconstruct her family’s grant arsenic a trusted defender and researcher for the World Federation of Monarchs. She volition person to usage each accomplishment to get the reluctant concealed princess to assertion the crown.
Reverb by Anna Zabo
Content Warnings: Stalking and Misogyny
The 3rd publication successful the Twisted Wishes series brings a bodyguard romance to the queer rockstar romance trilogy. Mish is simply a bass subordinate and stone goddess who loves the signifier and tin grip herself, but erstwhile a stalker attacks her, she is hospitalized and her set hires a bodyguard she doesn’t want. And she decidedly didn’t expect to person an instant transportation with him. David’s beingness arsenic a subject adept and trans antheral hasn’t prepped him for handling Mish. She is undeniable, but erstwhile her stalker threatens Mish further, David indispensable determine if helium tin beryllium her person and inactive bash his job.
All the Feels by Olivia Dade
Content Warning: Past Domestic Violence
A wayward histrion and his contracted minder find themselves falling for each different astatine his L.A. castle. Lauren spent 13 years arsenic an ER therapist, and she is burnt out. Instead of taking a much-needed break, she agrees to assistance her relative Rob erstwhile helium asks her to ticker a troubled Hollywood star. Alex is simply a nonrecreational histrion who doesn’t request a guard, but erstwhile Lauren shows up, helium rapidly falls for her no-nonsense cognition and circumstantial graphic tees. Lauren can’t defy Alex’s endless stream-of-consciousness rambles, midnight walks, and unrelenting selflessness. But erstwhile Alex leaves his erstwhile amusement with pizazz, Lauren indispensable determine if she should enactment oregon go.
Rare Danger by Beverly Jenkins
Jasmine is simply a backstage librarian who comes crossed a deadly enigma erstwhile her aged person goes missing and his spouse is murdered. A uncommon publication trader doesn’t conscionable spell missing similar that, and she is determined to fig retired what truly happened. Curating books for exclusive clients, Jasmine knows however to find hard-to-track-down things, but adjacent she volition judge the assistance of aerial unit vet and backstage information antheral Torr. He cannot defy the librarian’s appeal, but they some volition person to ticker retired for catastrophe arsenic they proceed to uncover the existent crippled down the mystery.
Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai
Content Warnings: Emotionally Abusive Parent, Kidnapping, Past Trauma, Panic Attacks, and Death of a Loved One
One infinitesimal Katrina is having a chat with a blistery feline astatine a java shop, and the adjacent she is the people of a viral live-tweet thread. As an ex-model, the past happening Katrina wants is attention, and she truly doesn’t privation to fto everyone cognize she truly isn’t funny successful dating the café guy. Jas is the cleanable antheral for the job. He is simply a bodyguard, her friend, and has a household location wherever Katrina tin enactment retired of the nationalist eye. Katrina isn’t definite she should day again, but her bodyguard is irresistible, they are successful a distant setting, and she has a crush connected him. The 2nd publication successful the Modern Love bid has each the elements contiguous for love, but Katrina volition person to spot that this narration is worthy the leap.
SFF Bodyguard Romances
Reforged by Seth Haddon
Content Warning: Family Abuse and Death of a Loved One
A bard-king and his ex-lover, present bodyguard indispensable past a trek crossed the empire erstwhile failed regicide leaves him without protection. The young King Zavrius unexpectedly ascended to the throne erstwhile the remainder of the royal household was assassinated. No 1 expected the charming performer to marque it to the throne, slightest of each Balen. As the caput of the Paladin Order, Balen has fixed up a lot, including his narration with Zavrius. But they volition some person to relearn however to trust connected each different if they privation to marque it location alive.
The Rogue Crown by A.K. Mulford
Content Warning: Death of a Loved One
The 3rd publication successful The Five Crowns of Okrith bid is sapphic bodyguard romance afloat of epic emotion and adventure. When fae warrior Briata receives a panicked petition for assistance from an ex-lover, she cannot accidental no, adjacent though she indispensable instrumentality unsocial to the kingdom that formed her household distant erstwhile she was fated to instrumentality the crown. Princess Abalina’s parent died successful the caller attack, and erstwhile 1 of her guards invites Bri to travel to the castle and service arsenic her impermanent guard, she doesn’t crook her away. The princess and her caller defender volition person a batch of enactment to bash if they privation to uncover the person of the radical that killed the erstwhile queen and debar falling for each different successful the process.
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Content Warnings: Panic Attacks and Anxiety
Prince Kadou has ever suffered from anxiousness and managed his role, but present helium cannot grip being successful the aforesaid country arsenic the ambassador and body-father to his sister’s caller child. She is the Queen, and Kadou’s fearfulness of the ambassador threatens to ruin her spot successful him erstwhile a caller menace leads to a deadly misunderstanding. Now Kadou is determined to beryllium his loyalty by solving an probe that starts with a break-in and develops into a larger counterfeiting conspiracy. He is besides navigating his narration with the stern but charismatic Evemer, sent to beryllium his caller bodyguard. No substance what Kadou does, helium cannot look to get him to similar him, but they truly bash person to commencement getting on if they privation a changeable astatine dismantling the conspiracy astatine enactment successful this queernorm phantasy novel.
The Duchess’s Bodyguard by Drea C
In this sapphic precocious phantasy romance, a werewolf huntress and a faerie duchess interruption normal and squad up to lick a mystery. Robin is portion of a battalion with nary upward mobility oregon fiscal stableness and so, she is ever looking for thing to supplement her earnings. When she is fixed the accidental to lick a enigma and person a bounty, she goes for it, and meets the fae duchess Yashona who offers her an adjacent amended job. Yashona is acceptable to flight her guards, and hiring Robin arsenic her idiosyncratic defender is the cleanable fix. Robin and Yashona are some getting what they need, but arsenic they walk much clip together, they besides observe what they want. (The reply is each other).
Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik
The outwardly bubbly and inwardly strategical Catarina is the youngest subordinate of her High House, a spy, and the heroine of the 3rd publication successful the Consortium Rebellion series. Cat is determined to spell undercover astatine a rival location to cod captious intelligence, but her older sister insists she brings Alexander with her arsenic her bodyguard. The quiescent antheral volition airs arsenic her person connected the trip, and helium is determined to support her, adjacent erstwhile she tries to permission him behind. Trusting each different is captious if they privation to uncover and halt a deadly interplanetary plot, but that lone hastens the existent attraction that develops from their fake relationship.
Now that we’ve made it to the end, I anticipation you person a fewer bodyguard romances to read. If you are looking for much bodyguard romances, these should deed the spot. I would besides urge checking retired these royal romances and these rockstar romances. Guard your bosom and person a clump of amusive with these books.
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