Captive Liberty (Dark Holiday 3) by Elizabeth Knox -review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 25, 2026

She survived war. She won’t survive him.

Liberty came home looking for peace. What she found was a trap eight years in the making.

Elias Ashford was her best friend’s brother—the one who watched too closely, wanted too much. She joined the military to escape him.

But some men don’t let go. They just learn patience.

Now Elias owns everything—the town, the businesses, the 4th of July celebration where the whole county will gather to watch fireworks explode over his land.

And Liberty? She’s about to learn that the only freedom she’ll ever have is the freedom to surrender.

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REVIEW:CAPTIVE LIBERTY by Elizabeth Knox is the third instalment in the multi-authored contemporary, adult A DARK HOLIDAY, erotic, dark, romance series. This is twenty-six year old, former US soldier Liberty Cole and businessman Elias Ashford’s story line. CAPTIVE LIBERTY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there WILL BE triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Liberty and Elias)CAPTIVE LIBERTY follows in the wake of Liberty Cole’s return home after eight years serving in the US military overseas. Bruised, battered and broken Liberty struggles to find a place to live, a job, and any recognition from the people in her home town of Ashford Falls, a town now controlled by the man who broke her heart. Elias Ashford is a change man. The boy he once was died years before, and in the fall-out, a hardened and obsessive businessman stood in his wake but Liberty’s return home find Elias manipulating every aspect of her life, a life that has never once been her own. As Liberty begins to unravel the truth, our heroine discovers that the life she thought she once led, is a life controlled by someone else.

The world building follows the revelation of the truth; the betrayal by, and of one man’s obsession for a woman who only wanted to be loved, but love has manifested into something else.

The relationship between Liberty and Elias is a best friend’s brother; an obsessive,manipulative and questionable hero whose need for our heroine has embodied in the form of captor and controller. Liberty’s life is no longer under her control, and the man she once loved, is not longer the man whom she left behind. The $ex scenes are provocative and intense, and not without some issues of questionable consent.

The secondary and supporting characters include Liberty’s long suffering parents, and Elias’s sister Gracie, and an assortment of townies under Elias’ control.

CAPTIVE LIBERTY is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, obsession and manipulation, forgiveness and love. The character driven premise is dark, dramatic and gritty; the characters are broken, disturbed and struggling.

Heed the trigger warnings….

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Reviewed by Sandy