Caged Bird (Saint View Strip #4)
Elle Thorpe
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
4.67
· Steam/Spice level: 5 of 5
Explicit and plentiful [?]
· 16 ratings · 338 pages · Published: 27 Feb 2025

My family thinks I’m dead. I would be, if it weren’t for the little boy born into a nightmare. I breathe only for him.
Until Zane walks back into my life.
My brother-in-law. The teenager I once knew, now all grown-up.
He’s a prisoner, just as I am.
I don’t trust him—but I have no one else.
Night by night, hidden away in the darkness, he comes to me, whispering hope in my ear.
Setting my body alight with his touch.
If his brother knew, he’d kill us both.
But neither of us can stop. The forbidden attraction turning into a secret romance we can’t give up.
Until there’s only one way out.
Escape.
A caged bird needs to be set free.
Caged Bird is a dark, forbidden romance with an abused, single mom heroine and the brother-in-law who’s loved her since they were kids.
Please check the trigger warnings. Caged Bird can be read as a standalone romance but is best read as book four in the Saint View Strip series.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 4
- dark romance 3
- single mother 3
- forced proximity 2
- suspense 2
- m-f romance 2
- abduction 2
- tortured heroine 2
- dual pov 2
- first person pov 2
- found family 1
- angst 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- working class hero 1
- Add topics
- geography
- north america 2
- usa 2
romance tags
The 'Saint View Strip' series
85 ratings 4.21 ·
contemporary · suspense · m-f · dark · dual-pov · first-person-pov · anal sex · angst · strong heroine · slut-shaming · death · independent heroine · from hate to love · working class heroine · sassy heroine · single-mother · possessive hero · working class hero · cold hero · tortured heroine
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