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What to read after “Radiance” by Grace Draven: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Shared in the plot: nothing, people
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
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.
2
The Ugly Duchess
Eloisa James · 2012
Shared in the plot: marriage, friend
Lady Theodora Saxby weds her childhood friend James, Duke of Ashbrook, in a marriage meant to save their families. When his secret betrayal comes to light he flees abroad, and years later returns a changed man, forcing them to decide what their convenient marriage is really worth.
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A Deal with the Elf King
Elise Kova · 2020
Same genre: “Fantasy romance”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Luella was raised to be an ordinary healer, not the human bride the Elf King demands. When he comes to claim her, she is taken to Midscape, where her touch can wake the sleeping land. Trapped with a cold, distant husband, she must find a way home or accept a destiny she never wanted.
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The Duchess Deal
Tessa Dare · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Slow Burn”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Scarred and bitter, the Duke of Ashbury needs an heir, so he offers a plain marriage of convenience to Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress. She accepts on her own conditions. Inside his forbidding house, two wary strangers slowly discover warmth, trust and unexpected love.
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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata · 2016
Shared in the plot: marriage, together
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Vanessa spends years as the assistant to Aiden Graves, a silent, demanding football star, and finally quits. He then turns up at her door to ask her back and follows it with a bigger request: a marriage of convenience that helps his immigration case. The practical bargain and the time it forces them to spend together wear down his reserve.
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The Bride
Julie Garwood · 1989
Shared in the plot: respect, marriage
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
The Scottish king orders laird Alec Kincaid to take an English bride, and spirited Jamie is sent north to marry a warrior she has never met. Wedded for peace between two suspicious peoples, the stubborn pair battle for control of their marriage until respect and tenderness take root.
7
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Talia Hibbert · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Friends to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
- Friends to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Chloe, who lives with chronic pain and a careful routine, draws up a list of things she wants to do to get a life. To tick off the first item she asks Red, the tattooed handyman who looks after her building, for help, and their cautious friendship deepens into more.
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Beach Read
Emily Henry · 2020
Similar plot moves: “Friends to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
- Friends to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Romance writer January and literary novelist Gus become summer neighbours in a lakeside town, both blocked and both skeptical of each other's genre. They make a bet to write in the other's style and slowly trade barbs for late-night talks, discovering the grief and hope behind their different worldviews.
9
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell · 2012
Similar plot moves: “Friends to Lovers” and “Slow Burn”
- Friends to Lovers
- Slow Burn
Eleanor is the new girl on the bus, with mismatched clothes and a chaotic home life; Park is the quiet boy who lets her sit beside him. Their friendship grows through shared comics and mix tapes into a cautious first love, threatened by her abusive stepfather.
10
A Lady's Code of Misconduct
Meredith Duran · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Slow Burn”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Forced by her family, Jane Mason weds the cold politician Crispin Burke to secure her inheritance. After a violent attack he wakes with no memory of who he was, and Jane must guard a stranger who may be gentler than the man she married while his enemies close in.
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When a Scot Ties the Knot
Tessa Dare · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Slow Burn”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
Shy Maddie Gracechurch invents a soldier suitor to escape the London season and writes to him for years. Then the real Captain Logan MacKenzie appears, demanding the bride he never knew he had. To keep her home, they marry as strangers, and the arrangement slowly becomes something more.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Slow Burn”
- Marriage of Convenience
- Slow Burn
A young magazine reporter is chosen to write the life story of a fading film star, Evelyn Hugo. Over days of interviews Evelyn reveals seven marriages, a long-hidden love and the cost of the fame she built.