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.
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.
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.
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.
Misery Lark, a Vampyre outcast, agrees to marry Alpha werewolf Lowe Moreland to keep a fragile peace between their species. She has her own reason for entering Were territory, but neither expects the mate bond that forms between them or how much it complicates their alliance.
Constanta is saved from death by a vampire lord and becomes the first of his brides. Over centuries he brings two more consorts into their home, and as cruelty and control replace affection, she begins to record the truth of their long and dangerous marriage.
Cursed to carry the demon of Violence, the immortal warrior Maddox has spent lifetimes in torment. Every night he dies at the hands of the gods, and every dawn he wakes. Rescuing a mortal woman named Ashlyn from his enemies throws them both into a conflict that could free or destroy him.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rose Hathaway is a dhampir, trained to guard her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire princess. After two years on the run, they are returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where Rose falls for her instructor and the school's wards hide dangerous secrets.
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.
A young interviewer listens as the vampire Louis tells the story of his long life: turned by the powerful Lestat, endlessly hunting to survive, and raising the child vampire Claudia with him in a small, doomed family.
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.
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.
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.
Lestat de Lioncourt, the vampire who once narrated Interview with the Vampire, tells his own story: a boy of the Auvergne who fled to Paris for the stage, was taken by an ancient vampire, and rose to become a rock star, awakening forces older than any of his kind.
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.
After a party ends in a vampire massacre, seventeen-year-old Tana wakes surrounded by bodies and finds her infected ex-boyfriend and a strange vampire boy still alive. She takes them both to Coldtown, a walled city where vampires and humans live under quarantine, and has to decide where she belongs.
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.
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.
Feyre survived Amarantha's trials, but the cost has left her breaking. On her wedding day Rhysand takes her to the Night Court, where she learns to use her new powers while a war with Hybern gathers. Trust grows between them as old loyalties and a dangerous bargain pull her in different directions.
Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, has given up on dating until a vampire named Bill Compton walks into the bar. As the town's first vampire resident, Bill draws suspicion, and when women close to Sookie are murdered, she must use her gift to find the killer.
Start with “Kiss of Midnight”, “Dark Prince”, “A Hunger Like No Other”: they are the closest to “Lover Eternal” 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 “Lover Eternal” these are Fated Mates, Vampires, Immortal Protagonist), 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 “Kiss of Midnight”, “A Hunger Like No Other”, “Dark Lover”. Switch the “Modern” filter to keep only books from 2000 onward.
