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The Glittering Edge

by Alyssa Villaire

Her mother is cursed. Alonso can break it. He's the witch Penny was taught to hate.

4.05

3k+

🧙 Witch Coven Politics 🏘️ Small Town Paranormal 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🩸 Blood Magic Bargains 🌾 Gothic Midwest

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The Glittering Edge

Her mother is cursed. Alonso can break it. He's the witch Penny was taught to hate.

by Alyssa Villaire 2025 432 pages

4.05

3k+ ratings

🧙 Witch Coven Politics 🏘️ Small Town Paranormal 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🩸 Blood Magic Bargains 🌾 Gothic Midwest

Glow

by Raven Kennedy

Four kingdoms want her dead. One king will rip the world apart to save her.

4.12

200k+

🧚 Fae Romance 🖤 Dark Romantasy 🗡️ Touch Her And Die 💫 Fated Mates 💔 Trauma Recovery

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Glow

Four kingdoms want her dead. One king will rip the world apart to save her.

by Raven Kennedy 2022 738 pages

4.12

200k+ ratings

🧚 Fae Romance 🖤 Dark Romantasy 🗡️ Touch Her And Die 💫 Fated Mates 💔 Trauma Recovery

Her Vicious Beasts

by E.P. Bali

Three caged shifters are her fated mates. Her father sells her as a bride.

4.04

7k+

🖤 Fated Mates 🐺 Shifter Romance 👥 Why Choose 🦴 Hidden Lineage 💍 Forced Marriage

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Her Vicious Beasts

Three caged shifters are her fated mates. Her father sells her as a bride.

by E.P. Bali 2023 126 pages

4.04

7k+ ratings

🖤 Fated Mates 🐺 Shifter Romance 👥 Why Choose 🦴 Hidden Lineage 💍 Forced Marriage

Summer State of Mind

by Kristy Woodson Harvey

A beach-town NICU nurse falls for the baseball coach who rescued a newborn from a dumpster.

3.80

6k+

😍 Small Town Romance 🫂 Found Family 🔒 Family Secrets 🌊 Coastal Small Town 📖 Book Club Fiction

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Summer State of Mind

A beach-town NICU nurse falls for the baseball coach who rescued a newborn from a dumpster.

by Kristy Woodson Harvey 2026 384 pages

3.80

6k+ ratings

😍 Small Town Romance 🫂 Found Family 🔒 Family Secrets 🌊 Coastal Small Town 📖 Book Club Fiction

Innocent by Scott Turow

by Scott Turow

A judge delays reporting his wife's death, and an old rival prosecutor takes the case.

3.99

18k+

⚖️ Courtroom Drama 💔 Marital Betrayal 👨‍👦 Father-Son Tension 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌫️ Morally Gray

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Innocent by Scott Turow

A judge delays reporting his wife's death, and an old rival prosecutor takes the case.

by Scott Turow 2010

3.99

18k+ ratings

⚖️ Courtroom Drama 💔 Marital Betrayal 👨‍👦 Father-Son Tension 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌫️ Morally Gray

Flawless

by Elsie Silver

A disgraced bull rider must share his ranch with his agent's forbidden daughter.

4.01

600k+

🐴 Cowboy Romance ⚡ Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Wounded Hero 🔥 Body Worship

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Flawless

A disgraced bull rider must share his ranch with his agent's forbidden daughter.

by Elsie Silver 2022 424 pages

4.01

600k+ ratings

🐴 Cowboy Romance ⚡ Enemies To Lovers 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Wounded Hero 🔥 Body Worship

Warrior Fae

by Caroline Peckham

Four rival fae hunt their kidnapped mate beneath the sea and surface as a pack.

4.26

76k+

🔮 Fated Mates ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🩸 Touch Her And Die 🐺 Pack Dynamic 🏰 Fae Academy

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Warrior Fae

Four rival fae hunt their kidnapped mate beneath the sea and surface as a pack.

by Caroline Peckham 2021 680 pages

4.26

76k+ ratings

🔮 Fated Mates ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🩸 Touch Her And Die 🐺 Pack Dynamic 🏰 Fae Academy

These Violent Delights

by Micah Nemerever

For two lonely students in a philosophy seminar, intellectual obsession curdles into a murder pact.

3.92

28k+

🖤 Dark Academia 🔗 Toxic Codependency 💀 Murder Pact 🌈 Queer Obsession 📉 Moral Disintegration

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These Violent Delights

For two lonely students in a philosophy seminar, intellectual obsession curdles into a murder pact.

by Micah Nemerever 2020 460 pages

3.92

28k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Academia 🔗 Toxic Codependency 💀 Murder Pact 🌈 Queer Obsession 📉 Moral Disintegration

After the Shot Drops

by Randy Ribay

To save his cousin from a gambling debt, Nasir must destroy his best friend's basketball career.

4.13

2k+

🏀 Basketball Drama 💔 Estranged Best Friends 🎓 Recruited Athlete 💰 Class Divide 🔫 Gun Violence

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After the Shot Drops

To save his cousin from a gambling debt, Nasir must destroy his best friend's basketball career.

by Randy Ribay 2018 336 pages

4.13

2k+ ratings

🏀 Basketball Drama 💔 Estranged Best Friends 🎓 Recruited Athlete 💰 Class Divide 🔫 Gun Violence

The Kind Worth Killing

by Peter Swanson

An airport confession turns a bitter husband into a co-conspirator with a practiced killer.

3.97

200k+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🤝 Murder Pact 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💋 Femme Fatale 🐱 Cat And Mouse

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The Kind Worth Killing

An airport confession turns a bitter husband into a co-conspirator with a practiced killer.

by Peter Swanson 2015 320 pages

3.97

200k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🤝 Murder Pact 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💋 Femme Fatale 🐱 Cat And Mouse

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

His grandfather's dying words reveal a time loop where extraordinary children relive 1940.

3.92

1.3M+

🕰️ Time Loop Fantasy 🏚️ Gothic Children's Home 👁️ Invisible Monsters ⚔️ Wartime Fantasy 🫂 Found Family

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Summary

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

His grandfather's dying words reveal a time loop where extraordinary children relive 1940.

by Ransom Riggs 2011 352 pages

3.92

1.3M+ ratings

🕰️ Time Loop Fantasy 🏚️ Gothic Children's Home 👁️ Invisible Monsters ⚔️ Wartime Fantasy 🫂 Found Family

The Bridge Kingdom

by Danielle L. Jensen

Sent to marry and destroy a king, a spy princess finds a home worth dying for.

4.04

200k+

🗡️ Marriage Of Convenience 🕵️ Spy Heroine 💔 Betrayal And Redemption 🌊 Seafaring Fantasy 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

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The Bridge Kingdom

Sent to marry and destroy a king, a spy princess finds a home worth dying for.

by Danielle L. Jensen 2018 448 pages

4.04

200k+ ratings

🗡️ Marriage Of Convenience 🕵️ Spy Heroine 💔 Betrayal And Redemption 🌊 Seafaring Fantasy 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

A Death in Cornwall

by Daniel Silva

A retired spy follows a dead professor's trail to a Swiss vault hiding a global conspiracy.

4.31

29k+

🖼️ Art Crime Thriller 🕵️ Retired Spy Returns 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🌍 Globe-Trotting Intrigue 📜 Nazi Looted Art

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A Death in Cornwall

A retired spy follows a dead professor's trail to a Swiss vault hiding a global conspiracy.

by Daniel Silva 2024 480 pages

4.31

29k+ ratings

🖼️ Art Crime Thriller 🕵️ Retired Spy Returns 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🌍 Globe-Trotting Intrigue 📜 Nazi Looted Art

End It All

by Brea Alepoú

His mafia father's yakuza enforcer should be his prison. Instead, he becomes his only home.

4.09

7k+

🔫 Mafia Romance 🖤 Dark Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔒 Forced Proximity 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

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End It All

His mafia father's yakuza enforcer should be his prison. Instead, he becomes his only home.

by Brea Alepoú 2025 426 pages

4.09

7k+ ratings

🔫 Mafia Romance 🖤 Dark Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔒 Forced Proximity 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C.S. Lewis

Through a wardrobe, four children find a witch's winter and the lion who will end it.

4.24

3.1M+

🚪 Portal Fantasy ✝️ Christian Allegory 👫 Sibling Adventure 🦁 Messianic Sacrifice 🦡 Talking Animals

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Summary

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Through a wardrobe, four children find a witch's winter and the lion who will end it.

by C.S. Lewis 1950 206 pages

4.24

3.1M+ ratings

🚪 Portal Fantasy ✝️ Christian Allegory 👫 Sibling Adventure 🦁 Messianic Sacrifice 🦡 Talking Animals

A Drop of Corruption

by Robert Jackson Bennett

A blindfolded imperial detective untangles an impossible murder and an empire's dark secret.

4.47

50k+

🕵️ Fantasy Whodunit 🤝 Brilliant Detective Duo 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🫀 Body Horror 🏛️ Colonial Empire

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A Drop of Corruption

A blindfolded imperial detective untangles an impossible murder and an empire's dark secret.

by Robert Jackson Bennett 2025 461 pages

4.47

50k+ ratings

🕵️ Fantasy Whodunit 🤝 Brilliant Detective Duo 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🫀 Body Horror 🏛️ Colonial Empire

The Club

by Ellery Lloyd

On a private island, a club owner blackmails his famous guests. By Sunday, he's dead.

3.28

100k+

🏝️ Closed Circle Mystery 📹 Surveillance Thriller 👁️ Multiple Pov Thriller 🔪 Women's Vengeance 💀 Blackmail Gone Wrong

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The Club

On a private island, a club owner blackmails his famous guests. By Sunday, he's dead.

by Ellery Lloyd 2022 320 pages

3.28

100k+ ratings

🏝️ Closed Circle Mystery 📹 Surveillance Thriller 👁️ Multiple Pov Thriller 🔪 Women's Vengeance 💀 Blackmail Gone Wrong

Bonded by Thorns

by Elizabeth Helen

A bookshop clerk trades herself to four fae princes, each cursed to turn beast at sunset.

3.92

72k+

🥀 Beauty And The Beast Retelling 🐺 Cursed Princes ✨ Fated Mates 🏰 Enchanted Castle 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale

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Bonded by Thorns

A bookshop clerk trades herself to four fae princes, each cursed to turn beast at sunset.

by Elizabeth Helen 2023 348 pages

3.92

72k+ ratings

🥀 Beauty And The Beast Retelling 🐺 Cursed Princes ✨ Fated Mates 🏰 Enchanted Castle 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale

Sweet Prison

by Neva Altaj

She wrote her imprisoned stepbrother. He made her his spy. Now free, he's claiming her.

3.81

26k+

🔫 Mafia Romance 💔 Step-Sibling Romance ✉️ Epistolary Romance 🔪 Touch Her And Die 👑 Mafia Queen

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Sweet Prison

She wrote her imprisoned stepbrother. He made her his spy. Now free, he's claiming her.

by Neva Altaj 2024 378 pages

3.81

26k+ ratings

🔫 Mafia Romance 💔 Step-Sibling Romance ✉️ Epistolary Romance 🔪 Touch Her And Die 👑 Mafia Queen

Not in Love

by Ali Hazelwood

Her one-night stand turns out to be the man orchestrating her company's hostile takeover.

3.63

300k+

⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔬 STEM Romance 💼 Workplace Romance 🛡️ Guarded Heroine 🔥 Dominant Hero

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Not in Love

Her one-night stand turns out to be the man orchestrating her company's hostile takeover.

by Ali Hazelwood 2024 394 pages

3.63

300k+ ratings

⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔬 STEM Romance 💼 Workplace Romance 🛡️ Guarded Heroine 🔥 Dominant Hero

Taming Seraphine

by Gigi Styx

A captive assassin is rescued by a hitman. She wants revenge; he wants her.

3.93

32k+

🔫 Mafia Romance 🌑 Morally Gray Leads 🔪 Serial Killer Heroine 🖤 Trauma Bonded Couple ☠️ Touch Her And Die

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Taming Seraphine

A captive assassin is rescued by a hitman. She wants revenge; he wants her.

by Gigi Styx 2023 662 pages

3.93

32k+ ratings

🔫 Mafia Romance 🌑 Morally Gray Leads 🔪 Serial Killer Heroine 🖤 Trauma Bonded Couple ☠️ Touch Her And Die

The Girl I Was

by Jeneva Rose

Fired and dumped in one night, Alexis wakes in 2002, face to face with her eighteen-year-old self.

3.79

32k+

🕰️ Therapeutic Time Travel 📟 Early 2000s Nostalgia 💕 Mother-Daughter Bond 💍 Second Chance Romance 👯 Found Family

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The Girl I Was

Fired and dumped in one night, Alexis wakes in 2002, face to face with her eighteen-year-old self.

by Jeneva Rose 2021 304 pages

3.79

32k+ ratings

🕰️ Therapeutic Time Travel 📟 Early 2000s Nostalgia 💕 Mother-Daughter Bond 💍 Second Chance Romance 👯 Found Family

The Mercy Chair

by M.W. Craven

A body beneath a Cumbrian coffin draws a detective into a conversion program built on murder.

4.55

8k+

🚔 Police Procedural 🧠 Psychological Thriller ⛪ Religious Extremism 🪞 Dissociative Identity 💔 Sibling Betrayal

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The Mercy Chair

A body beneath a Cumbrian coffin draws a detective into a conversion program built on murder.

by M.W. Craven 2024 510 pages

4.55

8k+ ratings

🚔 Police Procedural 🧠 Psychological Thriller ⛪ Religious Extremism 🪞 Dissociative Identity 💔 Sibling Betrayal

Mate

by Ali Hazelwood

The Alpha of the Northwest is her fated mate. Pack law forbids him from loving her.

4.02

300k+

🖤 Fated Mates 🐺 Werewolf Romance 💔 Forbidden Love ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🔪 Touch Her And Die

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Mate

The Alpha of the Northwest is her fated mate. Pack law forbids him from loving her.

by Ali Hazelwood 2025 450 pages

4.02

300k+ ratings

🖤 Fated Mates 🐺 Werewolf Romance 💔 Forbidden Love ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🔪 Touch Her And Die

Bright Burns the Flame

by Angelina J. Steffort

A street thief hides forbidden fire inside a brutal academy, and her captain knows it.

4.08

1k+

🏫 Deadly Magic Academy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🔥 Fire Magic 🖤 Morally Grey Hero ⚔️ Deadly Trials

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Bright Burns the Flame

A street thief hides forbidden fire inside a brutal academy, and her captain knows it.

by Angelina J. Steffort 2026 544 pages

4.08

1k+ ratings

🏫 Deadly Magic Academy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🔥 Fire Magic 🖤 Morally Grey Hero ⚔️ Deadly Trials

The Convenience Store by the Sea

by Sonoko Machida

In a seaside Japanese convenience store, lost souls find one another over coffee and cream puffs.

3.69

8k+

🧩 Interconnected Stories 🌊 Japanese Seaside 🫂 Found Family 🍙 Food As Comfort 🩹 Healing Fiction

The Convenience Store by the Sea Summary

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The Convenience Store by the Sea

In a seaside Japanese convenience store, lost souls find one another over coffee and cream puffs.

by Sonoko Machida 2020 282 pages

3.69

8k+ ratings

🧩 Interconnected Stories 🌊 Japanese Seaside 🫂 Found Family 🍙 Food As Comfort 🩹 Healing Fiction

Edge of Honor

by Brad Thor

An attack pulls Scot Harvath into a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of American power.

4.44

11k+

🏛️ Political Thriller 🕵️ Espionage Thriller 🔪 Rogue Operative 🐀 Deep Cover Mole 💣 Domestic Terrorism

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Edge of Honor

An attack pulls Scot Harvath into a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of American power.

by Brad Thor 2025 336 pages

4.44

11k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Thriller 🕵️ Espionage Thriller 🔪 Rogue Operative 🐀 Deep Cover Mole 💣 Domestic Terrorism

The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club

by Gloria Chao

Three women learn they share a boyfriend. Their revenge night ends over his dead body.

3.56

16k+

🕵️ Amateur Sleuths 😈 Revenge Comedy 💕 Found Family 💬 Banter And Bonding 🎙️ True Crime Satire

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The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club

Three women learn they share a boyfriend. Their revenge night ends over his dead body.

by Gloria Chao 2025 309 pages

3.56

16k+ ratings

🕵️ Amateur Sleuths 😈 Revenge Comedy 💕 Found Family 💬 Banter And Bonding 🎙️ True Crime Satire

The Atlas Six

by Olivie Blake

Six magicians earn a place in a secret society, then learn that initiation requires murder.

3.54

200k+

🖤 Dark Academia 🔮 Secret Magical Society 💀 Deadly Initiation 🧠 Psychological Warfare ⚔️ Rivals To Allies

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The Atlas Six

Six magicians earn a place in a secret society, then learn that initiation requires murder.

by Olivie Blake 2020 376 pages

3.54

200k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Academia 🔮 Secret Magical Society 💀 Deadly Initiation 🧠 Psychological Warfare ⚔️ Rivals To Allies

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon

by Kimberly Lemming • 2021

A spice farmer wants peace. Then cinnamon cures a demon, and he demands her help toppling a goddess.

3.84

66k+

🖤 Demon Romance 🐉 Dragon Shifter 💕 Enemies To Lovers 😬 Reluctant Hero 😂 Funny Fantasy

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon

A spice farmer wants peace. Then cinnamon cures a demon, and he demands her help toppling a goddess.

by Kimberly Lemming 2021 260 pages

3.84

66k+ ratings

🖤 Demon Romance 🐉 Dragon Shifter 💕 Enemies To Lovers 😬 Reluctant Hero 😂 Funny Fantasy

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