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Premise labels used: fugitive pursuer, protective return, cyber pursuit, criminal mastermind, forced confrontation, coming of age, hidden identity, targeted by enemy, hunt the villain, recovery from abuse

Setting labels used: Sydney, Australia, university setting, suburban life, city setting, United States, cyberspace, online society, surveillance society

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Genius Squad

Catherine Jinks · 2008 · Genius

A sheltered teen genius in foster care joins a secret hacker squad, but the offer may be another trap.

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Premise labels: foster care · identity uncertainty · protective custody · hacking team · secret organization · teen investigators · conspiracy takedown · forced alliance · recruitment trap · coming-of-age

Setting labels: Australia · Sydney, Australia · contemporary · near-future tech · secret facility · foster home · police surveillance · computer-mediated world

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After Death

Dean Koontz · 2023

A dead security chief returns with uncanny digital powers and must protect a mother and son while killers close in.

Why this is here

Premise labels: resurrection · superhuman ability · digital access · good vs evil · protective mission · escape pursuit · government conspiracy · gang threat · assassin chase · cyberpower

Setting labels: Los Angeles · Beverly Hills · South Central · Rancho Santa Fe · research facility · secret laboratory · contemporary · urban · wealthy enclave · street-level crime · digital world

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The Girl in the Box: Books 1-3

Robert J. Crane · 2014 · The Girl in the Box/Out of the Box Universe

A sheltered teen discovers hidden powers and a secret metahuman world while hunted by dangerous factions.

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Premise labels: secret powers · abused teen · escaped captivity · metahuman world · hunted heroine · captor pursuit · hidden organizations · coming of age

Setting labels: contemporary world · hidden supernatural world · secret metahuman society · upper midwest · shadow organizations

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Distance: 0.2679

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Vanguard

Karina Halle · 2026

A poisoned spy infiltrates a powerful enhanced super-soldier’s circle and falls for the one man she can’t kill.

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Premise labels: assassin spy · super soldier · deadly kiss · spy infiltration · enhanced human · secret identity · corrupt corporation · government corruption · hero or weapon

Setting labels: near future · post-dystopian · 2040 · London · New York City · near-future America · cyberpunk aesthetic · corporate-controlled society · technologically advanced world

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Distance: 0.2701

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson · 1987 · Sprawl

In a cyberpunk future, tangled lives, fake identities, and an AI-driven conspiracy pull several outsiders toward collision.

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Premise labels: cyberpunk thriller · corporate espionage · cyberspace · organized crime · AI plot · identity deception · kidnapping plot

Setting labels: near future · dystopian future · cyberspace · globalized world · urban future · Sprawl · London · Japan · New Jersey

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Terms of Use

Scott Allan Morrison · 2016

After a social network is hacked and a murder follows, an engineer must expose a conspiracy before he’s framed and hunted.

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Premise labels: cyberattack · corporate conspiracy · on the run · wrongly accused · privacy invasion · social media manipulation · election interference · hunted protagonist · cover-up · data exploitation

Setting labels: Silicon Valley · contemporary setting · near-future setting · social media world · digital society · international intrigue · China expansion · internet culture · corporate setting

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Distance: 0.2747

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Harbinger, Vol. 1: Omega Rising

Joshua Dysart · 2013 · Harbinger (2012)

A troubled teen psychic is hunted, recruited into a secret power network, and pushed toward a world-changing conflict.

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Premise labels: superpowered teenager · psychic powers · government pursuit · secret school · secret network · recruitment offer · destiny burden · power with a price · fugitive hero

Setting labels: secret school · secret organization · hidden psychic society · real-world-feeling setting · superhero universe · alternate-reality continuity · urban setting

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Distance: 0.2751

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Scion

James Islington · 2026

A genetically enhanced assassin gets an unexpected protection job in a brutal cyberpunk future full of secrets and danger.

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Premise labels: assassin · bodyguard job · contract killing · protective mission · mysterious client · immortal elite · wealth inequality · corporate power · cyberpunk future

Setting labels: cyberpunk world · dystopian future · near-future · megacity · immortal society · corporate-controlled world

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The Quantum Thief

Hannu Rajaniemi · 2010 · Jean le Flambeur

An amnesiac master thief is dragged into a Mars heist where memory, identity, and time itself are the real prizes.

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Premise labels: master thief · memory recovery · prison break · heist mission · mystery investigation · identity recovery · mind theft · cat-and-mouse chase · post-singularity society

Setting labels: Mars · solar system future · far future · post-singularity · posthuman future · moving city · mobile city · virtual prison · digital world · alternative reality · space society · ubiquitous encryption · memory-mediated society · privacy-focused society

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Distance: 0.2770

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Black Widow, Vol. 1: The Ties That Bind

Kelly Thompson, Adam Hughes · 2021 · Black Widow (2020)

Black Widow wakes into a perfect suburban life with no memory, forcing allies to uncover a dangerous truth.

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Premise labels: amnesia · brainwashing · false identity · secret life · domestic facade · missing heroine · spy thriller · hero rescue · hidden conspiracy · revenge plot

Setting labels: San Francisco · suburbs · contemporary · Marvel Universe · spy world · superhero world · urban action

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Release Me

Tahereh Mafi · 2026 · Shatter Me: The New Republic

A guarded assassin and a reckless believer are forced into alliance in a surveillance-state rebellion, while old enemies watch.

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Premise labels: revenge quest · rescue mission · surveillance state · enemy ally · assassin romance · post-collapse world · trusted enemy

Setting labels: dystopian world · surveillance state · island setting · post-revolution · near-future · shared universe

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ZERO

Marc Elsberg, Marcus Rafelsberger · 2014

A skeptical journalist is pulled into a hunt for a hacker movement while uncovering a data platform that can shape lives.

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Premise labels: data surveillance · privacy invasion · social media manipulation · digital control · whistleblower hunt · activist resistance · big data · self-tracking · predictive analytics · reputation scoring

Setting labels: London · Vienna · New York · contemporary · near future · digital world · urban surveillance · globally networked society

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Distance: 0.2804

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