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A Bad, Bad Place

de Frances Crawford • 2026

A child finds a murdered woman on Glasgow's railway. She saw the killer. He knows.

3.99

1.000+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Glasgow Noir 👧 Child Witness 🕯️ Generational Trauma 🧠 Repressed Memory 🏚️ Gritty Realism

A Bad, Bad Place

A child finds a murdered woman on Glasgow's railway. She saw the killer. He knows.

de Frances Crawford 2026 352 pagini

3.99

1.000+ evaluări

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Glasgow Noir 👧 Child Witness 🕯️ Generational Trauma 🧠 Repressed Memory 🏚️ Gritty Realism

The Golden Specific

de S.E. Grove • 2015

A phantom's call sends a young cartographer across shattered time to find her missing parents.

4.11

2.000+

🗺️ Magical Maps 🫂 Found Family 🧠 Memory As Magic 👻 Phantom Guides 🏛️ Political Conspiracy

The Golden Specific

A phantom's call sends a young cartographer across shattered time to find her missing parents.

de S.E. Grove 2015 505 pagini

4.11

2.000+ evaluări

🗺️ Magical Maps 🫂 Found Family 🧠 Memory As Magic 👻 Phantom Guides 🏛️ Political Conspiracy

Alec Mackenzie's Art of Seduction

de Jennifer Ashley • 2017

A fugitive Highlander hides as a drawing master. His pupil is the daughter of his enemy.

4.06

1.000+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highlander Romance 🎭 Hidden Identity 🏠 Forced Proximity 🎓 Teacher Pupil 🏛️ Georgian London

Alec Mackenzie's Art of Seduction

A fugitive Highlander hides as a drawing master. His pupil is the daughter of his enemy.

de Jennifer Ashley 2017 326 pagini

4.06

1.000+ evaluări

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highlander Romance 🎭 Hidden Identity 🏠 Forced Proximity 🎓 Teacher Pupil 🏛️ Georgian London

Bone China

de Laura Purcell • 2019

A lady's maid hides in a cliffside house where china keeps secrets and fairies are feared.

3.65

7.000+

🌊 Seaside Gothic 🌿 Folk Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Obsessive Love

Bone China

A lady's maid hides in a cliffside house where china keeps secrets and fairies are feared.

de Laura Purcell 2019 433 pagini

3.65

7.000+ evaluări

🌊 Seaside Gothic 🌿 Folk Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⏳ Dual Timelines 💔 Obsessive Love

The Cross of Lead

de Avi • 2002

Falsely accused, a boy follows a giant juggler, his lead cross a secret worth a lordship.

3.65

28.000+

🏰 Medieval Adventure 👑 Secret Noble Birth 🎪 Mentor Apprentice Bond 🏃 Outlaw On The Run ❤️ Found Family

The Cross of Lead

Falsely accused, a boy follows a giant juggler, his lead cross a secret worth a lordship.

de Avi 2002 262 pagini

3.65

28.000+ evaluări

🏰 Medieval Adventure 👑 Secret Noble Birth 🎪 Mentor Apprentice Bond 🏃 Outlaw On The Run ❤️ Found Family

Sofia Petrovna

de Lydia Chukovskaya • 1965

When Stalin's purges take her son, a widowed typist learns loyalty offers no protection.

4.07

2.000+

🏚️ Stalinist Russia ❤️ Mother Son Bond 👁️ Ordinary Witness 📋 Bureaucratic Terror 🎭 Political Purges

Sofia Petrovna

When Stalin's purges take her son, a widowed typist learns loyalty offers no protection.

de Lydia Chukovskaya 1965 120 pagini

4.07

2.000+ evaluări

🏚️ Stalinist Russia ❤️ Mother Son Bond 👁️ Ordinary Witness 📋 Bureaucratic Terror 🎭 Political Purges

The Secrets We Kept

de Lara Prescott • 2019

A banned novel links a Moscow muse facing the Gulag to the CIA typists smuggling it home.

3.65

79.000+

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 📚 Books About Books 🕶️ Secret Female Spies 💔 Forbidden Queer Romance 🎨 Muse And Artist

The Secrets We Kept

A banned novel links a Moscow muse facing the Gulag to the CIA typists smuggling it home.

de Lara Prescott 2019 368 pagini

3.65

79.000+ evaluări

🕵️ Cold War Espionage 📚 Books About Books 🕶️ Secret Female Spies 💔 Forbidden Queer Romance 🎨 Muse And Artist

The Toymaker's Curse

de C.J. Archer • 2021

A stolen spell entangles a Victorian watchmaker in a murder and a conspiracy to control magic.

4.09

6.000+

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🫂 Found Family ⚙️ Magical Artisans 🔍 Married Sleuths 🕰️ Clockwork Magic

The Toymaker's Curse

A stolen spell entangles a Victorian watchmaker in a murder and a conspiracy to control magic.

de C.J. Archer 2021 280 pagini

4.09

6.000+ evaluări

🏮 Gaslamp Fantasy 🫂 Found Family ⚙️ Magical Artisans 🔍 Married Sleuths 🕰️ Clockwork Magic

Colección integral de Jane Austen

de Jane Austen • 1981

Seven women, one Regency world: love, pride, and the winding road to knowing your own heart.

4.57

34.000+

🏛️ Regency Romance 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💌 Second Chance Romance

Colección integral de Jane Austen

Seven women, one Regency world: love, pride, and the winding road to knowing your own heart.

de Jane Austen 1981 2561 pagini

4.57

34.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Regency Romance 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💌 Second Chance Romance

The Book of Goose

de Yiyun Li • 2022

Two girls wrote a book. One became a prodigy. Only the other knew the truth.

3.68

21.000+

🖤 Intense Female Friendship 🖋️ Fake Authorship 📖 Storytelling As Control 🇫🇷 Postwar France 🌧️ Melancholy Literary

The Book of Goose

Two girls wrote a book. One became a prodigy. Only the other knew the truth.

de Yiyun Li 2022 348 pagini

3.68

21.000+ evaluări

🖤 Intense Female Friendship 🖋️ Fake Authorship 📖 Storytelling As Control 🇫🇷 Postwar France 🌧️ Melancholy Literary

The Mountains Sing

de Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai • 2020

A grandmother in Vietnam tells her granddaughter the story of a family that refused to break.

4.31

64.000+

🏮 Vietnamese History 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga ⚔️ Women In Wartime 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Family Storytelling

The Mountains Sing

A grandmother in Vietnam tells her granddaughter the story of a family that refused to break.

de Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai 2020 342 pagini

4.31

64.000+ evaluări

🏮 Vietnamese History 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga ⚔️ Women In Wartime 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Family Storytelling

Like Mother, Like Mother

de Susan Rieger • 2024

A trailblazing editor's death leaves her daughter to find the grandmother who walked away.

3.77

19.000+

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 👻 Absent Mother 🤫 Family Secrets 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔍 Investigating Family Past

Like Mother, Like Mother

A trailblazing editor's death leaves her daughter to find the grandmother who walked away.

de Susan Rieger 2024 336 pagini

3.77

19.000+ evaluări

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 👻 Absent Mother 🤫 Family Secrets 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔍 Investigating Family Past

When the Day Comes

de Gabrielle Meyer • 2022

In 1774 she's a printer; in 1914 a pressured heiress. At twenty-one, one life must end.

4.36

16.000+

⏳ Dual Timeline Historical 💞 Love Across Centuries 💍 Forced Engagement 🪢 Coerced Marriage 🏛️ Colonial Williamsburg

When the Day Comes

In 1774 she's a printer; in 1914 a pressured heiress. At twenty-one, one life must end.

de Gabrielle Meyer 2022 384 pagini

4.36

16.000+ evaluări

⏳ Dual Timeline Historical 💞 Love Across Centuries 💍 Forced Engagement 🪢 Coerced Marriage 🏛️ Colonial Williamsburg

The Hollow Earth

de Rudy Rucker • 1990

On the run for murder, a farm boy follows Edgar Allan Poe into the hollow Earth.

3.41

261

🕳️ Hollow Earth 🦑 Lovecraftian Weird 🌋 Journey To The Core 🪞 Doppelgangers 🏝️ Lost World

The Hollow Earth

On the run for murder, a farm boy follows Edgar Allan Poe into the hollow Earth.

de Rudy Rucker 1990 400 pagini

3.41

261 evaluări

🕳️ Hollow Earth 🦑 Lovecraftian Weird 🌋 Journey To The Core 🪞 Doppelgangers 🏝️ Lost World

Dodger

de Terry Pratchett • 2012

A London tosher saves a battered girl and becomes the target of foreign agents and assassins.

3.95

28.000+

🎩 Victorian London 🧹 Street Urchin Hero 👑 Hidden Royalty 🫂 Found Family 🎭 Disguise And Identity

Dodger

A London tosher saves a battered girl and becomes the target of foreign agents and assassins.

de Terry Pratchett 2012 360 pagini

3.95

28.000+ evaluări

🎩 Victorian London 🧹 Street Urchin Hero 👑 Hidden Royalty 🫂 Found Family 🎭 Disguise And Identity

Dances with Wolves

de Michael Blake • 1988

Alone at a frontier outpost, a Union officer befriends the Comanche. The army calls it treason.

4.24

29.000+

🏜️ Frontier Western 🌍 Cultural Assimilation 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 🐺 Animal Companions 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Dances with Wolves

Alone at a frontier outpost, a Union officer befriends the Comanche. The army calls it treason.

de Michael Blake 1988 304 pagini

4.24

29.000+ evaluări

🏜️ Frontier Western 🌍 Cultural Assimilation 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 🐺 Animal Companions 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

The Demon Lover

de Victoria Holt • 1982

A Victorian miniaturist secretly paints a baron and becomes the prize he refuses to surrender.

3.61

2.000+

🕯️ Gothic Romance 🖤 Dangerous Older Man 🎭 Hidden Identity 🎨 Artist Protagonist 🌫️ Brooding Atmosphere

The Demon Lover

A Victorian miniaturist secretly paints a baron and becomes the prize he refuses to surrender.

de Victoria Holt 1982 305 pagini

3.61

2.000+ evaluări

🕯️ Gothic Romance 🖤 Dangerous Older Man 🎭 Hidden Identity 🎨 Artist Protagonist 🌫️ Brooding Atmosphere

Wicked and the Wallflower

de Sarah MacLean • 2018

A wallflower invents a duke's engagement, and a scarred crime lord offers to deliver it.

3.97

22.000+

🤎 Regency Romance 🌸 Wallflower Heroine 🖤 Scarred Hero 💍 Fake Engagement 🔥 Devil's Bargain

Wicked and the Wallflower

A wallflower invents a duke's engagement, and a scarred crime lord offers to deliver it.

de Sarah MacLean 2018 396 pagini

3.97

22.000+ evaluări

🤎 Regency Romance 🌸 Wallflower Heroine 🖤 Scarred Hero 💍 Fake Engagement 🔥 Devil's Bargain

Bog Queen

de Anna North • 2025

A forensic anthropologist arrives to identify a missing woman. The bog holds an Iron Age murder.

3.58

8.000+

🔬 Archaeological Mystery ⏳ Dual Timeline 🏛️ Iron Age Britain 🌫️ Atmospheric Gothic 🌿 Environmental Activism

Bog Queen

A forensic anthropologist arrives to identify a missing woman. The bog holds an Iron Age murder.

de Anna North 2025 268 pagini

3.58

8.000+ evaluări

🔬 Archaeological Mystery ⏳ Dual Timeline 🏛️ Iron Age Britain 🌫️ Atmospheric Gothic 🌿 Environmental Activism

Lázár

de Nelio Biedermann • 2025

A boy is born of a secret affair in a Hungarian castle. His mother's lie outlasts the empire.

3.79

10.000+

🏰 Family Saga 🤫 Family Secrets 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline 🇭🇺 Hungarian History

Lázár

A boy is born of a secret affair in a Hungarian castle. His mother's lie outlasts the empire.

de Nelio Biedermann 2025 336 pagini

3.79

10.000+ evaluări

🏰 Family Saga 🤫 Family Secrets 🖤 Intergenerational Trauma 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline 🇭🇺 Hungarian History

An American Beauty

de Shana Abe • 2023

A Richmond saloon girl becomes a tycoon's mistress and claws her way through Gilded Age society.

4.12

29.000+

🎭 Gilded Age Society 🌿 Post Civil War South 💍 Mistress To Wife 💪 Self-Made Woman 🪜 Social Climbing

An American Beauty

A Richmond saloon girl becomes a tycoon's mistress and claws her way through Gilded Age society.

de Shana Abe 2023 352 pagini

4.12

29.000+ evaluări

🎭 Gilded Age Society 🌿 Post Civil War South 💍 Mistress To Wife 💪 Self-Made Woman 🪜 Social Climbing

Hirošiman kukat

de Edita Morris • 1959

A Hiroshima housewife hides her husband's radiation sickness from the American lodger she takes in.

4.05

1.000+

🏯 Postwar Japan ☢️ Nuclear Aftermath 🏥 Radiation Sickness 🎭 Survivor Stigma 💍 Arranged Marriage

Hirošiman kukat

A Hiroshima housewife hides her husband's radiation sickness from the American lodger she takes in.

de Edita Morris 1959 169 pagini

4.05

1.000+ evaluări

🏯 Postwar Japan ☢️ Nuclear Aftermath 🏥 Radiation Sickness 🎭 Survivor Stigma 💍 Arranged Marriage

These Blue Mountains

de Sarah Loudin Thomas • 2025

Seeking her lost fiancé’s grave, a German pianist unearths a stranger’s body in North Carolina.

3.93

500+

✝️ Christian Historical ⚰️ Exhumation Mystery 💔 Lost Love Returns 🎨 Artist In Exile ⛰️ Mountain Town Secrets

These Blue Mountains

Seeking her lost fiancé’s grave, a German pianist unearths a stranger’s body in North Carolina.

de Sarah Loudin Thomas 2025 352 pagini

3.93

500+ evaluări

✝️ Christian Historical ⚰️ Exhumation Mystery 💔 Lost Love Returns 🎨 Artist In Exile ⛰️ Mountain Town Secrets

The Book of Lost Friends

de Lisa Wingate • 2020

1875: a Black woman rides west searching for stolen family, collecting lost names in a book.

4.15

100.000+

🏚️ Post-Civil War South ⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 💔 Lost Family Reunions 📜 Rediscovering History 🗝️ Buried Family Secrets

The Book of Lost Friends

1875: a Black woman rides west searching for stolen family, collecting lost names in a book.

de Lisa Wingate 2020 388 pagini

4.15

100.000+ evaluări

🏚️ Post-Civil War South ⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 💔 Lost Family Reunions 📜 Rediscovering History 🗝️ Buried Family Secrets

The Crimson Skew

de S.E. Grove • 2016

A mapmaker who reads memories must stop a crimson fog before it destroys the last sanctuary.

4.04

1.000+

🕰️ Alternate History 🧠 Memory Magic 🫂 Found Family 🔍 Sibling Rescue 🌲 Sentient Landscape

The Crimson Skew

A mapmaker who reads memories must stop a crimson fog before it destroys the last sanctuary.

de S.E. Grove 2016 430 pagini

4.04

1.000+ evaluări

🕰️ Alternate History 🧠 Memory Magic 🫂 Found Family 🔍 Sibling Rescue 🌲 Sentient Landscape

The Lacuna

de Barbara Kingsolver • 2009

He cooked for Kahlo, typed for Trotsky. In McCarthy's America, his past became his crime.

3.83

75.000+

📝 Writers And Writing 🪞 Outsider Protagonist 📜 Archival Fiction 👁️ Witness To History 🎙️ Mccarthy Era

The Lacuna

He cooked for Kahlo, typed for Trotsky. In McCarthy's America, his past became his crime.

de Barbara Kingsolver 2009 508 pagini

3.83

75.000+ evaluări

📝 Writers And Writing 🪞 Outsider Protagonist 📜 Archival Fiction 👁️ Witness To History 🎙️ Mccarthy Era

Look Homeward, Angel

de Thomas Wolfe • 1929

A sensitive boy in a tumultuous Southern boardinghouse hungers for language, beauty, and belonging.

3.91

15.000+

🔰 American Bildungsroman 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🎨 Artistic Awakening 🏘️ Small Town Life ✨ Lyrical Prose

Look Homeward, Angel

A sensitive boy in a tumultuous Southern boardinghouse hungers for language, beauty, and belonging.

de Thomas Wolfe 1929 544 pagini

3.91

15.000+ evaluări

🔰 American Bildungsroman 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🎨 Artistic Awakening 🏘️ Small Town Life ✨ Lyrical Prose

Dandelion Wine

de Ray Bradbury • 1957

One Illinois summer teaches a boy the taste of joy and the weight of goodbye.

4.09

79.000+

🌞 Nostalgic Summer 🏘️ Small Town Vignettes 🍂 Loss Of Innocence 👴 Elder Wisdom 👬 Brother Bond

Dandelion Wine

One Illinois summer teaches a boy the taste of joy and the weight of goodbye.

de Ray Bradbury 1957 239 pagini

4.09

79.000+ evaluări

🌞 Nostalgic Summer 🏘️ Small Town Vignettes 🍂 Loss Of Innocence 👴 Elder Wisdom 👬 Brother Bond

The Wish Collector

de Mia Sheridan • 2018

A ballerina slips a wish through a crumbling wall. A scarred recluse answers from the other side.

4.17

13.000+

🩹 Scarred Hero 🖤 Beastly Hero 🩰 Ballerina Heroine ⏳ Dual Timelines ✨ Wishes And Curses

The Wish Collector

A ballerina slips a wish through a crumbling wall. A scarred recluse answers from the other side.

de Mia Sheridan 2018 468 pagini

4.17

13.000+ evaluări

🩹 Scarred Hero 🖤 Beastly Hero 🩰 Ballerina Heroine ⏳ Dual Timelines ✨ Wishes And Curses

The Game

de Jack London • 1905

A boxer promises his bride one last fight. She disguises herself as a man to watch.

3.73

1.000+

🖤 Tragic Romance 🥊 Boxing Drama 🎭 Naturalist Tragedy 💔 Doomed Athlete 🔀 Divided Loyalties

The Game

A boxer promises his bride one last fight. She disguises herself as a man to watch.

de Jack London 1905 47 pagini

3.73

1.000+ evaluări

🖤 Tragic Romance 🥊 Boxing Drama 🎭 Naturalist Tragedy 💔 Doomed Athlete 🔀 Divided Loyalties

Moment of Truth

de Michael Pryor • 2010

When war breaks out, a young mage spy must destroy a golem factory behind enemy lines.

4.21

377

📜 Alternate World War 🧪 Hard Magic System 🕵️ Magical Spycraft 🎯 Behind Enemy Lines 👥 Found Family

Moment of Truth

When war breaks out, a young mage spy must destroy a golem factory behind enemy lines.

de Michael Pryor 2010 432 pagini

4.21

377 evaluări

📜 Alternate World War 🧪 Hard Magic System 🕵️ Magical Spycraft 🎯 Behind Enemy Lines 👥 Found Family

Against the Loveless World

de Susan Abulhawa • 2019

Locked in the Cube, a Palestinian woman writes her life: dancer, outcast, rebel, lover.

4.50

32.000+

🕊️ Palestinian Resistance 🧳 Exile And Displacement 💋 Sex Worker Protagonist 💔 Love In Wartime 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Against the Loveless World

Locked in the Cube, a Palestinian woman writes her life: dancer, outcast, rebel, lover.

de Susan Abulhawa 2019 384 pagini

4.50

32.000+ evaluări

🕊️ Palestinian Resistance 🧳 Exile And Displacement 💋 Sex Worker Protagonist 💔 Love In Wartime 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Time's Arrow

de Martin Amis • 1991

A soul trapped in a body watches time run backward, from American suburbia toward Auschwitz.

3.76

18.000+

🌀 Experimental Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Fiction ⏪ Reverse Chronology 👁️ Perpetrator Perspective 🔒 Hidden Past

Time's Arrow

A soul trapped in a body watches time run backward, from American suburbia toward Auschwitz.

de Martin Amis 1991 165 pagini

3.76

18.000+ evaluări

🌀 Experimental Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Fiction ⏪ Reverse Chronology 👁️ Perpetrator Perspective 🔒 Hidden Past

Saoirse

de Charleen Hurtubise • 2026

An American mother in Donegal has a stolen name. Her past is painted into every canvas.

3.96

5.000+

📖 Trauma Narrative 🎭 Stolen Identity 🫂 Found Family 💔 Abusive Relationship 🎨 Artist Protagonist

Saoirse

An American mother in Donegal has a stolen name. Her past is painted into every canvas.

de Charleen Hurtubise 2026 256 pagini

3.96

5.000+ evaluări

📖 Trauma Narrative 🎭 Stolen Identity 🫂 Found Family 💔 Abusive Relationship 🎨 Artist Protagonist

Cry to Heaven

de Anne Rice • 1982

Betrayed and castrated, a Venetian noble becomes a castrato singer to seek revenge.

3.89

21.000+

🇮🇹 18th-Century Italy 🎭 Opera World 🩸 Body Horror ⚧ Gender Ambiguity 🎓 Student-Teacher Love

Cry to Heaven

Betrayed and castrated, a Venetian noble becomes a castrato singer to seek revenge.

de Anne Rice 1982 566 pagini

3.89

21.000+ evaluări

🇮🇹 18th-Century Italy 🎭 Opera World 🩸 Body Horror ⚧ Gender Ambiguity 🎓 Student-Teacher Love

Precipice

de Robert Harris • 2024

When the prime minister's love letters fall under state surveillance, a young aristocrat faces ruin.

3.94

19.000+

🏛️ Political Thriller 📜 Epistolary Novel 💘 Secret Love Affair 👁️ State Surveillance 🕵️ WWI Espionage

Precipice

When the prime minister's love letters fall under state surveillance, a young aristocrat faces ruin.

de Robert Harris 2024 445 pagini

3.94

19.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Political Thriller 📜 Epistolary Novel 💘 Secret Love Affair 👁️ State Surveillance 🕵️ WWI Espionage

A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

de Kate Khavari • 2022

A 1920s botanist hunts a dinner-party poisoner among cutthroat London scholars to clear her mentor.

3.52

23.000+

🎓 Academic Mystery 🕰️ Historical Whodunit 🔍 Amateur Female Sleuth 🔬 Woman In Science 💕 Slow Burn Romance

A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

A 1920s botanist hunts a dinner-party poisoner among cutthroat London scholars to clear her mentor.

de Kate Khavari 2022 262 pagini

3.52

23.000+ evaluări

🎓 Academic Mystery 🕰️ Historical Whodunit 🔍 Amateur Female Sleuth 🔬 Woman In Science 💕 Slow Burn Romance

The Teacher of Nomad Land

de Daniel Nayeri • 2025

Two siblings wander wartime Iran with a blackboard, trading lessons for a place to belong.

4.15

3.000+

👥 Orphan Protagonists 🫂 Sibling Bond 🧳 Child Refugees 🏕️ Found Family 🗣️ Language Barriers

The Teacher of Nomad Land

Two siblings wander wartime Iran with a blackboard, trading lessons for a place to belong.

de Daniel Nayeri 2025 192 pagini

4.15

3.000+ evaluări

👥 Orphan Protagonists 🫂 Sibling Bond 🧳 Child Refugees 🏕️ Found Family 🗣️ Language Barriers

The Indigo Girl

de Natasha Boyd • 2017

At sixteen she runs three plantations, risking everything on indigo no colonist has grown.

4.21

52.000+

🏛️ Colonial America 📜 Biographical Fiction 🌱 Agricultural Innovation 💔 Forbidden Bonds 🏡 Plantation Life

The Indigo Girl

At sixteen she runs three plantations, risking everything on indigo no colonist has grown.

de Natasha Boyd 2017 329 pagini

4.21

52.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Colonial America 📜 Biographical Fiction 🌱 Agricultural Innovation 💔 Forbidden Bonds 🏡 Plantation Life

La belleza de la Bestia

de Phavy Prieto • 2020

Her father's life costs Bella her freedom, and the scarred lord demands her complete submission.

3.94

1.000+

🥀 Beauty And The Beast Trope 🔗 Captive Romance 🩹 Scarred Hero ⚡ Power Exchange 🕯️ Gothic Historical

La belleza de la Bestia

Her father's life costs Bella her freedom, and the scarred lord demands her complete submission.

de Phavy Prieto 2020 499 pagini

3.94

1.000+ evaluări

🥀 Beauty And The Beast Trope 🔗 Captive Romance 🩹 Scarred Hero ⚡ Power Exchange 🕯️ Gothic Historical

Kelderkind

de Kristien Dieltiens • 2012

A boy imprisoned in a cellar carries a secret that could bring down a royal house.

3.81

359

🏰 Gothic Historical 🔍 Historical Mystery 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🗡️ Political Conspiracy 👑 Lost Prince

Kelderkind

A boy imprisoned in a cellar carries a secret that could bring down a royal house.

de Kristien Dieltiens 2012 485 pagini

3.81

359 evaluări

🏰 Gothic Historical 🔍 Historical Mystery 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🗡️ Political Conspiracy 👑 Lost Prince

The Scarlet Alchemist

de Kylie Lee Baker • 2023

In an alternate Tang China, a resurrection alchemist must protect a prince from his ruthless mother.

4.01

9.000+

🧪 Alchemical Fantasy 🏯 Imperial Chinese Fantasy 💀 Resurrection Magic 👑 Crown Prince Romance 🏰 Palace Intrigue

The Scarlet Alchemist

In an alternate Tang China, a resurrection alchemist must protect a prince from his ruthless mother.

de Kylie Lee Baker 2023 432 pagini

4.01

9.000+ evaluări

🧪 Alchemical Fantasy 🏯 Imperial Chinese Fantasy 💀 Resurrection Magic 👑 Crown Prince Romance 🏰 Palace Intrigue

JFK and Mary Meyer

de Jesse Kornbluth • 2020

A divorced artist's affair with the president fills her diary with passion and political crisis.

3.69

144

🏛️ Political Intrigue 📖 Diary Narrative 🕵️ JFK Assassination 💘 Forbidden Romance 🎨 Artist Protagonist

JFK and Mary Meyer

A divorced artist's affair with the president fills her diary with passion and political crisis.

de Jesse Kornbluth 2020 192 pagini

3.69

144 evaluări

🏛️ Political Intrigue 📖 Diary Narrative 🕵️ JFK Assassination 💘 Forbidden Romance 🎨 Artist Protagonist

The Devil

de Ashley Jade • 2018

A ruined parson's daughter enters a viscount's bride scheme, but his dark lessons blur all lines.

4.11

17.000+

🕯️ Regency Gothic 🖤 Wounded Hero 📖 Teacher Student 💍 Arranged Marriage 🏚️ Gothic House

The Devil

A ruined parson's daughter enters a viscount's bride scheme, but his dark lessons blur all lines.

de Ashley Jade 2018 230 pagini

4.11

17.000+ evaluări

🕯️ Regency Gothic 🖤 Wounded Hero 📖 Teacher Student 💍 Arranged Marriage 🏚️ Gothic House

Morgan Is My Name

de Sophie Keetch • 2022

Her father slain, her mother the king's prize, Morgan of Tintagel turns to forbidden knowledge.

4.15

12.000+

🏰 Feminist Arthurian 🖤 Villain Origin Story 💔 Forbidden Courtly Love 👑 Political Marriage 💜 Chosen Family

Morgan Is My Name

Her father slain, her mother the king's prize, Morgan of Tintagel turns to forbidden knowledge.

de Sophie Keetch 2022 347 pagini

4.15

12.000+ evaluări

🏰 Feminist Arthurian 🖤 Villain Origin Story 💔 Forbidden Courtly Love 👑 Political Marriage 💜 Chosen Family

I Am You

de Victoria Redel • 2025

To survive, she passed as a boy. Then a painter saw through it and claimed her.

3.85

1.000+

🖼️ Dutch Golden Age 🎭 Gender Disguise 💔 Forbidden Queer Love 🎨 Mentor And ProtéGé 👩‍🎨 Women Artists

I Am You

To survive, she passed as a boy. Then a painter saw through it and claimed her.

de Victoria Redel 2025 304 pagini

3.85

1.000+ evaluări

🖼️ Dutch Golden Age 🎭 Gender Disguise 💔 Forbidden Queer Love 🎨 Mentor And ProtéGé 👩‍🎨 Women Artists

Ghosts of Belle Isle

de Steven K. Smith • 2014

Chasing ghost stories onto a Civil War prison island, two brothers find the danger is real.

4.21

500+

🏛️ Civil War History 👻 Ghost Stories 👥 Sibling Dynamics 🔍 Neighborhood Mystery 💪 Bullies To Face

Ghosts of Belle Isle

Chasing ghost stories onto a Civil War prison island, two brothers find the danger is real.

de Steven K. Smith 2014 196 pagini

4.21

500+ evaluări

🏛️ Civil War History 👻 Ghost Stories 👥 Sibling Dynamics 🔍 Neighborhood Mystery 💪 Bullies To Face

The Book of God

de Walter Wangerin Jr. • 1996

The Bible as a sweeping novel of human failure and a God who won't let go.

4.16

1.000+

🕊️ Biblical Retelling 🌳 Generational Saga 🏜️ Ancient Israel 🙏 Spiritual Longing 🏠 Exile And Return

The Book of God

The Bible as a sweeping novel of human failure and a God who won't let go.

de Walter Wangerin Jr. 1996 640 pagini

4.16

1.000+ evaluări

🕊️ Biblical Retelling 🌳 Generational Saga 🏜️ Ancient Israel 🙏 Spiritual Longing 🏠 Exile And Return

Young Goodman Brown

de Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1835

A Salem husband enters the night woods and finds his wife and neighbors at a witches' sabbath.

3.64

16.000+

🔥 Puritan Allegory 🖤 Psychological Horror 🌫️ Dream Or Reality 🙏 Crisis Of Faith 😈 Secret Sin

Young Goodman Brown

A Salem husband enters the night woods and finds his wife and neighbors at a witches' sabbath.

de Nathaniel Hawthorne 1835 48 pagini

3.64

16.000+ evaluări

🔥 Puritan Allegory 🖤 Psychological Horror 🌫️ Dream Or Reality 🙏 Crisis Of Faith 😈 Secret Sin

A Duke to Die for

de Amelia Grey • 2009

A duke inherits a cursed heiress. Falling in love may be the accident that kills him.

3.39

1.000+

🏛️ Guardian And Ward 💃 London Season 💬 Witty Banter 😤 Jealous Hero 💪 Capable Heroine

A Duke to Die for

A duke inherits a cursed heiress. Falling in love may be the accident that kills him.

de Amelia Grey 2009 335 pagini

3.39

1.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Guardian And Ward 💃 London Season 💬 Witty Banter 😤 Jealous Hero 💪 Capable Heroine

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