Taryn Warner is a latent wolf shifter who cannot shift. Her father, a pack alpha, has arranged for her to mate a sadistic alpha she despises. Trey Coleman, alpha of the Phoenix Pack, needs allies against his uncle, so he offers her a deal: she will publicly claim to be his true mate, and he will protect her from the arranged mating. Their temporary bond soon becomes difficult to fake.
Half-vampire Emmaline travels to Paris to learn how her parents died and is abducted by Lachlain, a werewolf king freed from a century of torture. He is sure she is his mate, but she wants nothing to do with the werewolves' war, even as the bond between them grows.
Ox Matheson grows up lonely in a small Oregon town until the Bennett family moves in down the road and he learns they are werewolves. He becomes part of their pack and falls for Joe, the youngest son. Years later a murder tears them apart, and Ox has to find his own strength when Joe returns.
Oraya is a human adopted by the vampire king and has always been an outsider at his court. To win protection she enters the Kejari, a tournament that kills most of its competitors, and forms an uneasy alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she cannot trust and should not love.
Alexia Tarabotti is a spinster with no soul, which makes her immune to the supernatural. When a rogue vampire attacks her in steampunk London and a werewolf lord is sent to investigate, the two uncover a plot against the city's vampires and werewolves—and a mutual attraction neither of them expected.
Rhage, a Black Dagger Brotherhood warrior cursed with a beast that surfaces when he loses control, meets Mary Luce, a human battling her own illness. Their bond is immediate, and Rhage must decide whether to claim a mate who may not survive his world.
Mikhail Dubrinsky, prince of an ancient Carpathian race, is losing hope of finding the woman whose light will keep him from becoming a vampire. Raven Whitney, a telepathic hunter of serial killers, comes to the Carpathian Mountains to rest, and their meeting awakens a lifemate bond neither expected.
Gabrielle hides in Boston, painting by day and avoiding the vampires who killed her family. When she witnesses a battle between the Breed warrior Lucan and his enemies, she is pulled into the Midnight Breed's hidden war and a dangerous attraction to an assassin sworn to hunt his own kind.
Grace has watched a yellow-eyed wolf in the woods behind her house for years. When a wounded boy named Sam appears at her door, she learns that the wolves of Mercy Falls are people in winter and that Sam will soon lose his human form for good. Their romance grows as the cold closes in.
Wrath, the vampire king of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, never planned to care for a mortal. When he promises a dying comrade to watch over the man's half-human daughter, Beth, their growing bond pulls them both into the Brotherhood's hidden war with the slayers hunting their kind.
In a future Atlanta where magic and technology take turns ruling the streets, mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up supernatural problems for hire. When her guardian is murdered, she is drawn into a war between necromancers and a shapeshifter clan to find the killer.
Half vampire Cat has spent years hunting the creatures her father belonged to. When she meets Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, he offers to train her in exchange for help with his own list of targets, and the partnership draws her into a world she cannot leave.
Idris and Brishen agree to a political marriage neither wants. To her people he is a monstrous creature; to his, she is ugly and fragile. They resolve to be friends and nothing more. Living together in a foreign court, their respect and affection grow into a love that surprises them both.
Poppy was born the Maiden, chosen and set apart, forbidden from friends, love or any life of her own. When a new guard, Hawke, enters her world, duty and desire collide for the first time. As attacks close in on the kingdom, she begins to doubt everything she was taught about the gods and her own fate.
Sixteen-year-old Vivian is a werewolf living with her pack in suburban Maryland. She falls for Aiden, a human who is drawn to the supernatural, while the pack expects her to mate with Gabriel. A murder near town threatens to expose them all, and Vivian must choose between two worlds.
Elena Michaels is the only female werewolf in existence, and she has walked away from the pack to build a quiet life in Toronto with a human boyfriend. When the pack needs her against a rogue uprising, she returns to the estate and to Clay, the man who changed her, and has to decide what she really wants.
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks and is drawn to Edward Cullen, who is beautiful, distant and not human. As she learns he is a mind-reading vampire, the danger of loving him becomes impossible to ignore.
Rae Seddon, a baker called Sunshine, is captured by vampires at her family's lake cabin and learns she carries magic of her own. Bound to a vampire who should be her enemy, she is pulled into a war among the Others, the supernatural beings living beside humans.
Mercy Thompson is a coyote shapeshifter who fixes cars in Washington State and keeps her distance from the local werewolf pack. A runaway teenage werewolf turns up at her shop, and his murder pulls her into pack politics, vampire deals and a hunt for whoever is preying on the supernatural community.
Pia steals an ancient coin and becomes the target of Dragos, the most powerful dragon alive. When he catches her, he recognises her at once as something rare and precious: his mate. Pia carries secrets of her own, and powerful enemies who would gladly see them both dead.
Diana Bishop, a historian and reluctant witch, calls up an enchanted manuscript that every creature in Oxford wants. When the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont offers his help, their alliance defies the laws that keep witches, vampires, and daemons apart.
Lara is raised as a weapon and married to the king of a rival realm so she can open its fabled bridge to invasion. She means to see her husband as nothing but the enemy she must destroy. The more she learns of Aren and his people, the harder the choice between her old home and her new one becomes.
Nesta Archeron has survived war and transformation, but she cannot forgive herself for what she lost or forget what she did. Sent to train with Cassian in the House of Wind, she is forced to face her anger, her grief and the bond between them while a new threat gathers in the mortal lands.
Kitty Norville hosts a late-night radio show about the supernatural in Denver, and she is a werewolf hiding her nature from most of her listeners. When a caller's story draws the attention of her pack and a killer, Kitty has to decide how much of her life she is willing to show.
Start with “Feral Sins”, “A Hunger Like No Other”, “Wolfsong”: they are the closest to “Bride” in tropes and mood. Under each book in the list you will see what exactly it has in common.
How are similar books chosen?
We compare tropes (for “Bride” these are Fated Mates, Vampires, Werewolves), genre, plot, era and tone. It is not “readers also bought”; it is similarity in the content itself.
Are there recent books in this list?
Yes. Among the newer ones are “Feral Sins”, “A Hunger Like No Other”, “Wolfsong”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
