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Premise labels used: Jekyll and Hyde retelling, scientific experiment, college scholarship, family legacy, hidden darkness, cure the monster, dual nature, partnered research, love amid danger, murder mystery

Themes labels used: identity, morality, inner monster, power, self-control, temptation, good vs evil, sexuality, virginity, independence, family secrets, grief, betrayal, sacrifice, coming of age

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Portal

Imogen Rose · 2010 · Portal Chronicles

A tomboy hockey player wakes in an alternate life as a cheerleader and must untangle what changed—and why.

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Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · identity swap · double life · family mystery · hidden portal · changed life · second chance · parallel world · teen romance

Themes labels: identity · belonging · choice · family relationships · trust · self-discovery · free will · regret · love versus duty · memory · reality · consequences · change · coming of age

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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

Themes labels: identity · family secrets · survival · revenge · trust · betrayal · loyalty · female strength · bodily autonomy · moral ambiguity · love versus safety · coming of age · dehumanization · control

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Distance: 0.1962

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The Last Soul Among Wolves

Melissa Caruso · 2025 · The Echo Archives

A new-mother investigator and her girlfriend race to break a cursed will before her childhood friends die one by one.

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Premise labels: murder mystery · locked room mystery · curse · will reading · childhood friends reunited · sapphic romance · multiverse adventure · race against time · alternate realities · mysterious inheritance · dangerous family-and-friends gathering

Themes labels: identity · motherhood · duty · loyalty · friendship · trust · secrets · grief · choice · responsibility · memory · past selves · family conflict · love versus work · selfhood · moral complexity

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Distance: 0.1964

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The Brightest Night

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020 · Origin

On the run and newly changed, Evie and Luc uncover buried truths while old allies return and danger closes in.

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Premise labels: on the run · protection · hidden identity · memory loss · alien contact · secret past · identity crisis · betrayal · found family · fated couple

Themes labels: identity · memory · self-discovery · love · sacrifice · trust · betrayal · protection · loyalty · power · control · agency · family · fear of loss · coming of age

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Distance: 0.1975

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Black River: Deluxe Edition

Ruby Jean Cottle · 2026 · Black River

A bookish teen in a mountain town wakes changed, craving blood, and must uncover what’s happening before it consumes her.

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Premise labels: teen transformation · vampire mystery · small-town secrets · forbidden attraction · blood hunger · identity crisis · monster origin mystery · shared change · survival mystery · coming of age

Themes labels: identity · transformation · self-discovery · loss of control · grief · trauma · coming of age · hunger · desire · morality · survival · forgiveness · family bonds · friendship · change · humanity · loss of innocence · responsibility · secrecy · belonging

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Distance: 0.1989

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Emerald City

Astrid Cole · 2024 · Diamond City

A pizza-loving hybrid fights betrayal, genetic experiments, and city power struggles to protect her family and future.

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Premise labels: post-betrayal survival · genetic experiments · hybrid identity · wanted heroine · protect the family · city politics · fugitive arc · hidden secrets

Themes labels: betrayal · trust · family · protection · identity · self-discovery · corruption · power · war · forgiveness · acceptance · trauma · resilience · love · loyalty · social control · pregnancy · motherhood · survival · morality

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Distance: 0.1997

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G.O.D.S: Gifted. Obedient. Deadly. Students.

Jaye Pratt · 2021 · G.O.D.S

A foster teen with missing memories is pulled into a secret program of weaponized students and a dangerous why-choose bond.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · foster care · secret organization · genetically engineered humans · child soldiers · protective harem · lost identity · mystery note · revenge

Themes labels: identity · memory · truth and lies · secrets · betrayal · revenge · power · control · free will · loyalty · trust · trauma · fate · nature versus nurture · female empowerment (contested)

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Distance: 0.2017

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Maximum Ride, Vol. 3

NaRae Lee, James Patterson · 2010 · Maximum Ride: The Manga

Mutant winged teens search for their origins while trying to survive a new home, school, and old enemies.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered children · fugitive youth · wings · search for origins · search for parents · forced normalcy · school adjustment · safe-house living · experiment escapees

Themes labels: identity · belonging · family search · trust · normality · freedom · control · survival · coming of age · selfhood · good vs evil · institutional mistrust

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A Cold Legacy

Megan Shepherd · 2024 · The Madman’s Daughter

A fugitive young woman hides in a Scottish manor where gothic secrets, mad science, and family legacy collide.

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Premise labels: mad science · forbidden experiment · play God · life and death · family legacy · inheritance of madness · safe haven with secrets · manor mystery · haunted estate · scientific experimentation · reanimation · moral dilemma

Themes labels: morality · ethics of science · identity · self-determination · family legacy · madness · grief · love versus duty · playing God · life and death · humanity · redemption · fate · choice · sacrifice · good versus evil

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Calculated Risks

Seanan McGuire · 2021 · InCryptid

Stranded in a strange dimension and erased from her family’s memories, Sarah must win back trust and find a way home.

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Premise labels: alternate dimension · memory loss · found family · survival quest · homeward journey · family trust · math problem · telepathic species · ethical telepathy · identity crisis

Themes labels: identity · belonging · family by choice · consent · memory · selfhood · ethics of power · nature vs nurture · trust · loss · otherness · acceptance · responsibility

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The Experiment

Rebecca Stead · 2025

A sixth grader hiding his alien identity must face a strange change, a vanishing friend group, and a hidden truth.

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Premise labels: alien identity · secret life · hidden origins · body change · mystery experiment · human passing · first crush · friendship rescue · truth-seeking · belonging

Themes labels: identity · belonging · truth · change · coming of age · self-discovery · othering · assimilation · agency · trust · deception · empathy · love · community · humanity · puberty allegory · control · freedom · moral choice

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The Mind Readers

Lori Brighton · 2010 · Mind Readers

A teen mind reader is drawn into a hidden community of her kind, where trust and freedom may cost everything.

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Premise labels: mind reading · hidden power · secret identity · supernatural teens · murder mystery · chosen refuge · power struggle · moral dilemma · trust issues · secret society

Themes labels: identity · acceptance · belonging · secrecy · free will · right and wrong · morality · trust · coming of age · power and responsibility · control · isolation

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Distance: 0.2064

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