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Premise labels used: time travel, secret society, boarding school, special abilities, team dynamics, mystery identity, search for mother, forbidden romance, coming of age

Setting labels used: modern day world, Chicago, boarding school, secret society, hidden magical world, real world plus fantasy layer, past and future time travel, special school

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Stealing Infinity

Alyson Noel · 2022 · Stolen Beauty

A troubled teen is sent to a secret island academy where time travel, stolen artifacts, and hidden agendas collide.

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Premise labels: time travel · boarding school · secret academy · artifact theft · mysterious power · elite recruitment · remote island school · hidden agenda

Setting labels: remote island · off-the-grid school · boarding school · secret society · luxury setting · modern setting · historical past · time travel world

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1425

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Golden Blood

Melissa Pearl · 2012 · Time Spirit Trilogy

A secretive teen time traveler falls for a normal boy, risking her family’s rules, safety, and the past itself.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travelers · secret identity · forbidden romance · family secret · changing history · mission to past · hidden powers · reluctant heroine · star-crossed lovers

Setting labels: present day · past eras · high school · Florida · secret family world · alternate history · contemporary fantasy

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Distance: 0.1501

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Saphirblau

Kerstin Gier · 2010 · Edelstein-Trilogie

A teenage time traveler is swept into 18th-century missions, secrets, and a chaotic romance that keeps shifting under her feet.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · secret society · prophecy · bloodline mystery · world-saving mission · forbidden romance · teen protagonist

Setting labels: present day · eighteenth century · historical periods · alternate reality · secret world · school setting · aristocratic society

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Distance: 0.1596

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Ruling Destiny

Alyson Noel · 2023 · Stolen Beauty

At a secretive time-travel academy, Natasha races through history for artifacts while deciding whom to trust—and who may be lying.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · school mystery · artifact quest · secretive academy · trust nobody · love triangle · time heist · puzzle hunt · history mission · hidden ability · magical school · identity mystery

Setting labels: boarding school · academy setting · secret school · historical eras · Renaissance Italy · Regency England · Regency era · Italian Renaissance · urban fantasy world · time travel world · dark academia · off-grid school

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Distance: 0.1723

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The Box and the Dragonfly

Ted Sanders · 2015 · The Keepers

A curious boy follows a sign with his name to a hidden warehouse and is drawn into a dangerous conflict over magical objects.

Why this is here

Premise labels: chosen one · hidden world · magical artifact · secret society · ancient conflict · power bond · kid hero · dual powers · quest

Setting labels: contemporary Chicago · hidden magical world · secret warehouse · underground setting · school-age world · parallel reality · urban fantasy · time travel

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1809

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Glitch

Laura Martin · 2020

Two rival time-travel cadets must team up after a warning from the future threatens their academy and the timeline.

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Premise labels: time travel school · time travel mission · preserve history · change history · future warning · rival pairing · save the world · secret program · special ability · illegal message

Setting labels: academy · futuristic world · alternate history · historical time periods · government training program · secret school

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Distance: 0.1812

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Paths Not Taken

Simon R. Green · 2005 · Nightside

A hidden-city detective journeys into the past to uncover his world’s origin and stop his own mother from destroying it.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · origin mystery · hidden city · creator mystery · family secret · stopping apocalypse · finding things · alternate timelines · paradox loop · past investigation

Setting labels: hidden London · parallel city · alternate reality · urban supernatural · timeless realm · historical Nightside · past and future · mythic world · time travel setting

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Distance: 0.1817

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Bumi

Tere Liye · 2014 · Bumi

A 15-year-old girl who can disappear is pulled into a hidden world where her secret ties to larger clan conflicts.

Why this is here

Premise labels: hidden power · invisible protagonist · parallel world · secret identity · teenage adventure · gifted trio · clan conflict · coming-of-age

Setting labels: contemporary school life · parallel world · fictional clan system · secondary world

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Distance: 0.1862

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The Named

Marianne Curley · 2005 · Guardians of Time

A teen Guardian must train a new apprentice while battling a secret force that tries to rewrite history.

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Premise labels: time travel · history protection · chosen one · secret organization · guardians · training mentor · apprenticeship · prophecy · good vs evil · altered history

Setting labels: modern day · historical travel · past and present · alternate history · hidden world · interdimensional · urban fantasy setting · worlds collide

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Distance: 0.1893

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Marking Time

April White · 2022 · The Immortal Descendants

A graffiti-tagging teen time traveler hunts her missing mother through Victorian London and a hidden world of immortal bloodlines.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · hidden heritage · missing parent · boarding school · secret world · supernatural families · historical encounter · mystery chase · forbidden romance · race against time

Setting labels: London · Victorian London · 19th century England · modern-day London · United States · boarding school · underground tunnels · Tube station · urban fantasy setting · historical-fantasy setting

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Distance: 0.1894

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Vortex

Julie Cross · 2013 · Tempest

A teen time-travel agent trains with a secret CIA division while dangerous alternate timelines and a lost love close in.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · secret agency · CIA division · spy thriller · alternate timeline · erased relationship · forbidden love · world at stake · dangerous secrets · double agency

Setting labels: near-present · alternate timeline · parallel worlds · CIA setting · New York · time travel reality · secret government agency · future timeline · school-age world · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.1900

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Films die nergens draaien

Yorick Goldewijk · 2021

A lonely girl finds a mysterious cinema and is drawn into time travel to uncover family truths and face her loss.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mystery cinema · time travel · missing mother · absent father · search for truth · memory travel · coming of age

Setting labels: contemporary · fantasy reality · old cinema · school life · home setting · past and present · memory-space

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1917

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