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Premise labels used: doctor patient, monster patient, undead romance, Frankenstein retelling, medical experiment, revenge plot, hostage escape, forbidden attraction, hurt comfort, research facility

Setting labels used: research facility, secret facility, isolated facility, medical setting, undead world, monster containment, laboratory, post-dropout life, contemporary setting

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Infection

Bryan James · 2010 · LZR-1143

A sarcastic ex-action star wakes in an asylum as zombies overrun the world, forcing him to survive and uncover the truth.

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Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · asylum breakout · memory loss · infected outbreak · find a cure · survival quest · wrongly accused protagonist · reanimation mystery

Setting labels: psychiatric hospital · mental institution · post-apocalyptic world · zombie-infested world · urban survival · research lab · government research · collapsed society · contemporary earth · apocalypse onset

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Dreamfall

Amy Plum · 2017 · Dreamfall

Seven insomniac teens enter an experiment to cure sleep disorders, but a malfunction traps them in shared nightmares.

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Premise labels: insomnia cure · medical experiment · shared nightmare · dream world · survival horror · nightmare chase · group ordeal · fear confrontation · comatose patients · lab malfunction

Setting labels: contemporary world · dreamworld · nightmare realm · medical lab · hospital setting · shared dreamscape · void · experimental clinic

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Wolverine: Weapon X

Barry Windsor-Smith · 1994 · Marvel Comics Presents (1988)

A mutant is abducted into a secret experiment that turns him into a weapon through brutal body-horror science.

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Premise labels: origin story · weaponization · human experimentation · secret program · kidnapping · dehumanization · body horror · scientific horror

Setting labels: laboratory · research complex · military facility · underground facility · claustrophobic setting · dark setting · science fiction setting · modern setting

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Hearts Still Beating

Brooke Archer · 2024

A medicated former zombie reunites with her ex-best friend in a fragile island refuge as love, fear, and danger collide.

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Premise labels: infected survivor · cured zombie · second chance romance · post-apocalyptic resettlement · reintegrating former monsters · survival romance · fated reunion · monster identity · humanity test

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic · zombie apocalypse · island community · surviving communities · experimental facility · resettlement site · near-future · collapsed society · post-virus world · semi-rebuilt society

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The Last Conversation

Paul Tremblay · 2019

An amnesiac wakes blind in a sealed room, guided by one voice toward recovered identity—and a troubling truth.

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Premise labels: amnesia · identity crisis · memory loss · consciousness · caregiver mystery · white room mystery · clone identity · replica dilemma · post-apocalyptic recovery · lab recovery

Setting labels: near future · post-apocalyptic world · dystopian setting · laboratory-like room · infirmary setting · dark room · isolated room · pandemic setting

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Calico Descending

Keri Lake · 2019 · Juniper Unraveling

Captured by a brutal facility, a young woman is trained for a weaponized Alpha and survival turns into dangerous intimacy.

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Premise labels: survival under captivity · forced pairing · human experimentation · controlled breeding · weaponized alpha · cure search · prison facility · oppressed heroine · mutated threat

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · dystopian world · research facility · medical facility · prison setting · underground facility · isolated compound · ruined world · deadlands · zombie apocalypse

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Obsidian

Laurann Dohner · 2012 · New Species

A desperate doctor kidnaps a comatose New Species male to save him, and wakes a possessive love that changes everything.

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Premise labels: coma rescue · doctor-patient · forbidden attraction · kidnapped patient · mate claim · rescue romance · forced proximity

Setting labels: homeland base · hidden cabin · NSO society · laboratory aftermath · post-rescue world · free compound · restricted medical wing

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Distance: 0.2350

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Death Sentence

Alexander Gordon Smith · 2011 · Escape from Furnace

A failed escape lands a teen prisoner in a grotesque transformation into the monster he fears most.

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Premise labels: prison escape · body transformation · forced mutation · brainwashing · monster becoming · memory loss · survival struggle · captivity and escape · experimental prison · fight for humanity

Setting labels: underground prison · futuristic prison · secret laboratory · present day · modern time · dystopian facility · underworld setting · prison hospital · military experiment site · unknown location

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Specimen

Shay Savage · 2016

A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.

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Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human

Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting

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Bengal's Quest

Lora Leigh · 2015 · Breeds

A hidden Bengal Breed returns to claim the mate he left behind, while vengeance, secrets, and old wounds collide.

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Premise labels: genetic engineering · mate bond · vengeance quest · secret identity · tortured experiment subject · fated mates · revenge romance

Setting labels: lab setting · experimental facility · sanctuary · desert setting · Native American setting · urban fantasy world · contemporary setting

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True

Laurann Dohner · 2013 · New Species

An undercover lab worker is branded a traitor, forcing a rescued Species male to choose between old hurt and new truth.

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Premise labels: undercover informant · wrongly accused heroine · rescued captive · mates trope · forbidden attraction · protective alpha · secret facility · prison threat · human vs species conflict · mission-driven heroine

Setting labels: secret research facility · testing lab · medical lab · Homeland · Reservation · Fuller Prison · New Species world · near-future speculative reality · captivity setting

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Born to Fight

Tara Brown, A.E. Watson · 2013 · Born

A captive genetic experiment escapes, learns her origins, and turns revenge on the people who made her.

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Premise labels: captivity escape · revenge quest · genetic experiment · forced mutation · survival struggle · family secret · love triangle · zombie outbreak · mad scientist · corrupt government

Setting labels: post apocalypse · futuristic world · city and wilderness · laboratory · secret facility · breeder farms · borderlands · dystopian society · world collapse

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Distance: 0.2455

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