A bodyguard is the trained protective guy who gives safety and protection. Nowadays, girls can be bodyguards if they perform best. As a bodyguard, you are not to allowed to love your clients, and it is forbidden. But we human-like to break the rules and do the forbidden work. As a result, bodyguard romance is popular and common in our society. But it remains forbidden romance as well.
15 Bodyguard Romance Books (Protective Hero)
Bodyguard romance is stories where one of the main characters ends up being a bodyguard for the other, and then romantic feelings start to occur. But that’s not professional, so they have to keep their feelings under wraps.
As the story progresses, something changes, and the romantic relationship blossoms as the story go on. Now I am going to review 15 bodyguard romance books for you. Let’s go!
1. Twisted Games: A Forbidden Royal Bodyguard Romance
This is the second book in the Twisted series. It is about Bridget, the princess of this European nation, and her new bodyguard, Rhys Larsen. She takes on Rhys as a bodyguard when her current bodyguard goes on paternity leave. Then we see them over the next few years of their relationship, which starts very antagonistic and becomes a partnership.
Rhys is super alpha. It’s great to see this woman in control and empowered, who controls Rhys in the bedroom, throne room, and other special places. There’s some dirty talking, and it was quite fun. It will remind you of the Princess Diaries.
Author: Ana Huang
Average Customer Review: (4.4 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Action & Adventure Romance Fiction
Available: Paperback | Kindle
2. Beyond Eden
It’s about a woman named Eden, a supermodel, and someone is trying to hurt her. So there is an ex-police officer who has become her bodyguard now. There is a lot of back story to this couple because when Eden was 16 years old, she was raped by her brother-in-law, a prince.
Her sister was married to this European prince, and she was severely traumatized, and she was blamed for it. She was treated horribly after the assault happened, and her family didn’t let her press charges, and her brother-in-law stayed her brother-in-law. She ended up going through a transformation, and she became a supermodel, and we got to where we are now. So she still has severe trauma around sex.
But we have Taylor, who becomes Eden’s bodyguard, and he falls for her, and he’s ready to dig in and see if they can make something work. There’s a lot of trauma that’s going to come up. Then there’s also someone who’s trying to kill her because that’s the plot of this.
Author: Catherine Coulter
Average Customer Review: (4.5 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Crime Thrillers
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Hardcover | Kindle | Mass Market Paperback
3. American Royals
After the Revolutionary War, this is the concept of when America separated from the monarchy in the United Kingdom. So the George Washington family has become this royal family in the United States. We have three siblings, the oldest of which will become the next queen. She has two younger siblings. The oldest has been on the straight and narrow path to becoming queen. Also, she doesn’t interact or socialize with many people except for her bodyguard.
So there are some romantic feelings there. It is a twisty historical bodyguard romance book that is told from four different perspectives. Further, It’s certainly a riveting young adult read if you are interested.
Author: Katharine McGee
Average Customer Review: (4.4 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Mate Seeking, Romantic Comedy
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Hardcover | Kindle | Audio CD
4. The Princess Fugitive: A Reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood
We have a princess who has grown up in a very strict, harsh environment. In contrast, she is very much used to being cold and very cut off emotionally from the people around her to survive in her environment. There is a threat to the princess’ life, which leads them on a whole adventure, and the bodyguard is the only one who goes with her.
We get to see how her sense of self and her idea of her future change as the story goes on. There’s a novella after this where we have other bodyguards who end up falling for each other, which is super cute.
Author: Melanie Cellier
Average Customer Review: (4.8 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Wizards & Witches Fantasy, Coming of Age Fiction
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
5. Always (The Lost Princesses)
This is the first book of The Lost Princesses trilogy. At the start of this prequel, we have three princesses left orphaned and have to be removed from the threat at the castle. One bodyguard from the castle and one of the lady’s maids to the queen have to take these children and get them to safety. They are leaving everything else behind to protect the young members of the royal family.
We get to see how these two escape and what happens to them as they try to keep the royal family safe. A great, sweet bodyguard romance story. It’s a short novella, and then after that, in book three of the series, we get to see them as parents. And we get to see how their role in these children’s lives has progressed as they’ve become more mature adults.
Author: Jody Hedlund
Average Customer Review: (4.7 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Medieval Historical Fiction
Available: Paperback | Kindle
6. Brass Carriages and Glass Hearts (Steampunk Proper Romance)
This is the fourth in a Steampunk fairytale retelling series. In the Steampunk world, we have the main girl named Emmeline (Cinderella). Still, she’s a political activist, and she wants to speak up for people who are being discriminated against in their community.
Detective Oliver ends up having to tame everything down when her rallies and things get too worked up. Also, he ends up protecting her on multiple occasions from people who want to silence her voice. So we get to see how these two characters have a few enemies to lovers in this story.
Author: Nancy Campbell Allen
Average Customer Review: (4.6 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Clean & Wholesome Romance
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
7. Broken Vow: A Dark Mafia Romance (Brutal Birthright)
This is the fifth book in the Brutal Birthright series. It follows Raylan and Riona. Riona is a lawyer, and she is part of a mafia family. Something happens where someone is trying to kill her and her brother from the other. There’s an Irish and Italian family. Raylan is a bodyguard who is protecting her, and she needs this.
Something happens, and they have to leave the city. So he takes her to his family ranch to get her out of harm’s way. That’s when their romance develops. It’s forced proximity because she cannot leave. She’s trying to work. So it is interesting the way Raylan takes on being a bodyguard because it’s different than other ones. They are super professional, and Raylan is laid back, but he does his job accurately and the best he can.
Author: Sophie Lark
Average Customer Review: (4.6 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Romantic Suspense
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle
8. The Princess and the Rogue (Bow Street Bachelors)
This is the third book in the Bow Street Bachelors series. You do not have to read the first two. They come up because the three guys in the series in each book are all friends. So you get the couples, but it’s not a continuation of their story. You don’t even see the female character until this book. Sebastien, who is our main male character in this book, you very rarely see him in the first book, either. The only thing you have to know is that he doesn’t want to get married. He doesn’t believe in love.
We have our main female character, who is Anna Brown. It is a retelling of Princess Anastasia and the Disney fairy tale, whatever myth you want to call it. Anna leaves Russia because she finds out her brother died and someone is after her who wants to marry her and take the throne. She’s visiting Paris from Russia, so she runs away with her lady from Russia, from Paris to England. Moreover, she’s a very educated woman.
Sebastien goes to the brothel house to put it nicely and looks for someone for the night, and he meets Anna. But Anna is a whore that works there, and he’s trying to shoot his shot. Then it goes down, not in the best way. Sebastien becomes her bodyguard. It’s an unofficial bodyguard, but he’s forced to do it because his aunt asks him to do it and won’t say no to her. So it’s a different bodyguard romance, but he is protecting her.
Author: Kate Bateman
Average Customer Review: (4.5 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Regency Romance
Available: Audiobook | Mass Market Paperback | Kindle
9. Out of the Blue
Cope McDaniels works bodyguard, where he works for a security firm. This company hires him to protect the company’s new face, and Serena is a surfer. She’s a good professional surfer. They hired her to be an ambassador a thing, and they want to make sure she’s protected. So they hire the security firm who is our main hero, Cope. They are forced together now.
There are so many twists and turns that came up. It was so cold with the way the author wrote the story because you don’t see it where it’s a bodyguard and a surfer. It dives into her being a woman in the industry.
Author: Kathryn Nolan
Average Customer Review: (4.5 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Romantic Suspense
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle
10. Dangerous Beauty
We have our main female character, Evalina. She is the wife of a Russian mob boss. She runs away, and she is trying to get away from him. Then you realize while she’s trying to tell her story, she’s opening up to the bodyguard. But she doesn’t know that’s a bodyguard. She thinks it’s this guy that she met in this city where it’s in Mexico. The Russian mob boss has hired Naz’s company to keep tabs on her.
He has some interactions with her, and he starts to fall in love with her and have feelings for her. Also, he’s trying to distance himself because he knows that’s not a good idea. But when Evalina opens up about what happened to her, she is kept as a captor. She was a ballerina, and she caught his attention through her performance. She’s starting to have feelings for him. It’s so interesting that this is a mafia romance where the bodyguard struggles with love.
Author: Aiden Snow
Average Customer Review: (4.4 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Romantic Suspense
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle | MP3 CD
11. A Duchess a Day (Awakened by a Kiss)
We have our heroine, a retelling of Snow White and the Huntsman. She is supposed to marry a guy that her family has found. So they assign her a bodyguard, a man recently been released from prison. If he doesn’t want to go back to prison, he must bodyguard this woman until marriage. But they end up falling in love, and he agrees to help her find another wife for the man she’s supposed to marry so that they can get married.
Author: Charis Michaels
Average Customer Review: (4.2 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Regency Romance
Available: Audiobook | Mass Market Paperback | Kindle | Audio CD
12. Dearest Rogue (Maiden Lane)
This one is an age gap. The heroine is blind, and the hero has an injury from being on the job when he was an inspector. Now he is her private bodyguard, and she wants him real bad. But he feels like he’s too old and too injured, and it won’t work out. But Lady Phoebe is coming for James Trevelyan, and she will make it happen. She’s going to make it happen, and it’s delightful.
Author: Elizabeth Hoyt
Average Customer Review: (4.6 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Gothic Fiction
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Hardcover | Kindle | Mass Market Paperback
13. Royally Endowed (Royally)
It follows the sister of the girl that married the prince’s sister-in-law. She’s now part of this royal family. Therefore, she has to have her bodyguard. The bodyguard is he has a British accent. They have a six-year age gap, which isn’t a big deal, but she is a little younger and does time skip a little bit initially.
One part of this book was where she wanted to live independently, and she found an apartment. She’s moving in, and her bodyguard refuses it. It is a mess of an apartment, and it was a rundown apartment. But that was the only thing that she could afford. She didn’t want to ask her sister and brother-in-law for money, and that part was funny.
Author: Emma Chase
Average Customer Review: (4.6 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Contemporary Romance
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Kindle
14. Her One and Only (Porter Family)
This is about a female bodyguard. She is protecting a gentleman. He is an NFL star, and he has a stalker. His team hires a bodyguard to protect him, and this bodyguard ends up being a woman. She’s very strong, can hold her no matter what, the youngest of a family of boys. So we get to see this great dynamic between these characters. If you want to read a unique bodyguard love story, then try it.
Author: Becky Wade
Average Customer Review: (4.7 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Christian Mystery & Suspense Romance
Available: Audiobook | Paperback | Library Binding | Kindle | Audio CD
15. Guarding Temptation
It’s about their brother’s best friend, and Nina is voicing certain things online, and she’s being targeted for that. So she goes to her brother’s best friend (James Foster), with who she has had a past. He dated someone she knew, and it was interesting because they were forced to be together. Interestingly, they go to the police because she’s being targeted, and they brush it off by thinking. Also, It does talk about some interesting topics as well.
Author: Talia Hibbert
Average Customer Review: (4.1 out of 5, on Amazon)
Category: Black & African American Romance Fiction
Available: Paperback | Kindle
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