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The Highwayman
Kerrigan Byrne · 2015
Same genre: “Historical romance” and “Victorian romance”
Farah and Dougan share a brief friendship as children before he is torn away and imprisoned. Years later Farah meets the feared highwayman Dorian Blackwell, and recognises in the scarred, guarded man the boy she once knew. He must decide whether he can let her close.
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Flowers from the Storm
Laura Kinsale · 1992
Similar setting: “Asylum”
A stroke leaves the powerful Duke of Jerveaux unable to speak, and his family shuts him away in a grim asylum. Maddy Timms, a young Quaker nurse, is the only one who sees the man inside. Her care revives him, but their growing bond offends both his world and her strict community.
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A Lady's Code of Misconduct
Meredith Duran · 2017
Same genre: “Historical romance” and “Victorian romance”
- Victorian London Atmosphere
- 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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Seduce Me at Sunrise
Lisa Kleypas · 2008
Same genre: “Historical romance” and “Victorian romance”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
Win Hathaway has loved Kev Merripen, the brooding Romany boy taken in by her family, since childhood, and has spent years recovering from illness for his sake. Kev believes he is too dangerous to deserve her, and keeps his distance even as she decides to make him hers.
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Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Forbidden Love” and “Slow Burn”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
A public spat between the US president's son Alex and Britain's Prince Henry forces their handlers to stage a friendship for the cameras. What starts as reluctant damage control turns into late-night texts and a secret romance that neither man can keep hidden for long.
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When a Scot Ties the Knot
Tessa Dare · 2015
Same genre: “Historical romance”
- 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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Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Forbidden Love” and “Slow Burn”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
When nineteen-year-old Jordan and her boyfriend have nowhere else to go, they move in with his father, Pike. Sharing the house, she finds in the guarded older man the steadiness her life has lacked, and they both fight an attraction that is off-limits by every rule that matters.
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The Wolf and the Woodsman
Ava Reid · 2021
Similar plot moves: “Outcast Hero” and “Forbidden Love”
Évike is the only woman in her pagan village with no magic, and her people treat her as an outcast. When the kingdom's holy warriors demand a sacrifice, she is handed to their one-eyed captain, a monster-hunter her village hates. To survive the winter forest, the two must rely on each other despite everything between them.
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Vision in White
Nora Roberts · 2009
Shared in the plot: mackenzie, childhood
- Slow Burn
Wedding photographer Mackensie has built her life and the Vows wedding business with three childhood friends, but her parents' failures have left her wary of commitment. When she meets shy English teacher Carter, a steady romance slowly teaches her to trust and to want a future of her own.
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A Study in Scarlet Women
Sherry Thomas · 2016
Similar setting: “Victorian London Atmosphere”
- Victorian London Atmosphere
Too clever for Victorian society and blamed when three people die, Charlotte Holmes flees to London and takes the name Sherlock Holmes. With a kind widow, a police inspector and a man who loves her, she works the case while hiding who she really is.
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The Sweetest Oblivion
Danielle Lori · 2018
Shared in the plot: familys, danger, drawn
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
Elena is the favoured, docile daughter of a mafia boss, expected to keep the family's reputation spotless. When her sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo, a feared Made Man from a rival family, Elena is drawn into his orbit against her better judgment. He is rude, dangerous and always near, and the attraction between them turns a family alliance into a scandal waiting to happen.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962
Similar setting: “Asylum”
- Asylum
- Outcast Hero
A loud, scheming new patient named McMurphy arrives on a mental hospital ward run by the cold Nurse Ratched. Narrated by Chief Bromden, who pretends to be deaf and dumb, the ward becomes a battleground over who controls the men's days. A struggle between an unruly spirit and a system built on obedience.