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What to read after “Serpent & Dove” by Shelby Mahurin: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Blood & Honey
Shelby Mahurin · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Forbidden Love
With the witch hunts still burning, Lou and Reid flee and try to gather allies against the church. They bargain with people they do not trust and hide a bond more dangerous than any enemy. As the threat grows, Lou senses that the darkness inside her is not as harmless as she believed.
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Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
Witch sisters Emilia and Vittoria live secretly among humans, hiding from those who would kill them. When Vittoria is found murdered, Emilia swears to hunt down the killer, even using forbidden magic. Her search brings her to Wrath, a prince of Hell she cannot trust and cannot look away from.
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Heartless Hunter
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2024
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Enemies to Lovers
Rune is the last of her kind, hiding her magic while playing the flirtatious socialite. By day she courts the witch hunters; by night she works against them. Then she sets her sights on Gideon, a loyal hunter with a secret of his own, and the lies between them grow harder to keep.
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The Bridge Kingdom
Danielle L. Jensen · 2019
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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.
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Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas · 2020
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Forced Proximity
Yadriel, a trans boy, wants his traditional family to accept him as a brujo. When his initiation goes wrong he raises the ghost of a murdered classmate, and together they search for answers while Yadriel hides the truth from everyone he loves.
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From Blood and Ash
Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
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.
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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
- Enemies to Lovers
- Forbidden Love
In a city that has conquered and enslaved a neighbouring people, the general's daughter Kestrel buys a defiant young slave named Arin on a whim. He is far more than he seems, and as rebellion stirs in the streets, Kestrel finds her loyalty to her family pulling against everything she feels for him.
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A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness · 2011
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
- Forbidden Love
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.
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The Hurricane Wars
Thea Guanzon · 2023
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
Talasyn has known nothing but the Hurricane Wars: raised as an orphan in a nation under siege by the Night Empire, she hides her light magic and fights alongside its soldiers. Alaric is the empire's crown prince and her sworn enemy on the battlefield. When a greater threat and a royal marriage alliance force them together, the two must work side by side, and their powers answer to each other in ways no one can explain.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Sangu Mandanna · 2022
From the same world: “Witches”
- Witches
Mika Moon hides her magic and never lets herself grow close to anyone. When a strange house asks her to teach three young witches, she meets a prickly librarian, a house full of secrets and the possibility of a place that finally feels like home.
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The Iron King
Julie Kagawa · 2010
Same genre: “Romantic fantasy”
On her sixteenth birthday Meghan learns that her little brother has been swapped for a changeling and that the fey are real. To get him back she enters the Nevernever, a dangerous world divided between Summer and Winter courts, where she is drawn to a prince she was raised to fear.
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The Co-op
Tarah DeWitt · 2022
Similar plot moves: “Marriage of Convenience” and “Forced Proximity”
LaRynn and Deacon married young, divorced, and hoped never to see each other again. When they inherit a crumbling building that must be renovated before it can be sold, they are stuck working side by side and confronting why they failed the first time.