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Premise labels used: alien hybrid, hidden identity, lab escape, life in hiding, dangerous secret, fake dating, revenge plan, bully retaliation, forbidden romance, ordinary life disguise
Setting labels used: high school, small town, Wisconsin, present day, laboratory, school setting, hidden-in-plain-sight, near-lab hometown, contemporary setting
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.
A bonded teen alien romance spirals into secrets, jealousy, and government danger as hidden powers emerge.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien connection · secret identity · government threat · hidden powers · new boy · forbidden attraction · trust issues · alien conflict · mystery unraveling
Setting labels: high school · small town · alien-in-human-world · contemporary setting · government intrusion · hidden paranormal world
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.1946
A teen girl discovers she’s a manufactured android and flees those who built her, while fighting for her humanity.
Why this is here
Premise labels: android identity · hidden identity · on the run · manufactured self · humanity question · government pursuit · secret project · artificial intelligence · memory loss · identity crisis
Setting labels: small town · Minnesota · high school · rural town · alternate present · United States · government facility · lab setting · farm town · school setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2051
A teen science nerd and his prankster brother fake an alien invasion, and their small-town lie spirals wildly out of control.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien hoax · science experiment gone wrong · small-town chaos · brother prank · cover-up · social experiment · fake alien invasion · mass belief
Setting labels: small town · Pennsylvania · family farm · high school · contemporary setting · real-world setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2133
A bookish teen in a small West Virginia town falls for her infuriating new neighbor—who turns out to be an alien.
Why this is here
Premise labels: new girl · small-town move · alien next door · hidden identity · human alien attraction · forced proximity · protective secret · dangerous secrets · superpowered enemies · slow-burn tension · alien romance
Setting labels: West Virginia · small town · high school · contemporary Earth · alien-in-human-disguise · secret world · small-town isolation · senior year
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2207
An alien princess hiding as a human boy on Earth must choose between safety and living openly when she falls in love.
Why this is here
Premise labels: secret identity · coming out · trans identity · alien refugee · disguise · first love · self-discovery · hidden princess
Setting labels: Earth · small town · high school · outer space · alien planet · post-war refugee setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2214
A grieving teen is blackmailed into a strange school study, where buried truths, old feelings, and new possibilities collide.
Why this is here
Premise labels: grief after loss · first love after tragedy · social experiment · mystery study · secretive research · forced proximity · blackmail · friendship repair · coming of age · closure
Setting labels: small town · high school · school campus · summer camp · Michigan · teen research study · contemporary setting · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2286
A teen returns after five missing years unchanged, and must uncover what happened while her world moved on without her.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien abduction · missing time · memory loss · returnee · special powers · identity crisis · lost life
Setting labels: small town · contemporary earth · high school aged world · roadside gas station
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2323
A grieving teen reopens her father’s alien hunt and finds the truth is far stranger—and darker—than anyone believed.
Why this is here
Premise labels: missing parent · alien abduction · small-town mystery · teen investigation · secret trap · captured alien · government conspiracy · family grief · revenge
Setting labels: small-town Iowa · rural Iowa · high school setting · woods · contemporary setting · school environment · present day
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2342
A teen secretly linked to a parasite is pulled into escalating danger as other parasites infiltrate society and politics.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien invasion · body sharing · secret identity · parasitic takeover · humanity vs inhumanity · social infiltration · psychic sensitivity
Setting labels: high school · contemporary Earth · urban society · human society · political sphere · school setting · social infiltration setting · scientific/observational reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2367
A nerdy small-town teen’s crush on the new quarterback spirals into alien secrets, royal destiny, and danger.
Why this is here
Premise labels: ordinary girl becomes special · alien heritage · hidden identity · lost royalty · fated connection · new boy at school · small-town outsider · secret powers · school romance · ordinary life disrupted
Setting labels: small town · high school · Jewel, Indiana · midwest · Earth · Mars · alien colony · school drama · small-town America · modern setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2369
Max must confess her true origin and face alternate realities while fighting to get back to the Chloe she lost.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · alternate realities · multiverse · identity reveal · homecoming quest · truth confession · romantic reunion · search for missing love
Setting labels: small-town setting · high school age · alternate timelines · parallel reality · fictionalized world · video game universe
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2370
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
Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · current time · secret program · school and foster home space
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2374
A hidden alien teen on Earth must stay unnoticed, master his powers, and outrun killers hunting his kind in order.
Why this is here
Premise labels: hidden aliens · fugitive teens · numbered targets · power awakening · planetary exile · secret identity · last survivors · alien hunters · hunted in order · small-town concealment
Setting labels: small-town Ohio · Earth disguise · school setting · high school · rural-suburban · secret alien society · destroyed homeworld · interplanetary conflict · modern day
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2389
A grieving teen moves into a segregated town and uncovers a hidden supernatural world, secrets, and forbidden romance.
Why this is here
Premise labels: hidden world · secret society · forbidden boundary · crossing over · missing guardians · school elite · human outsider · supernatural mystery · protective males · fated mates
Setting labels: small town · Oregon · high school · private school · gated community · rich-poor divide · alternate world · hidden supernatural society · contemporary fantasy · urban fantasy setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2428
A teen girl with hidden superpowers must confront grief, secrets, and her alien past to choose where she belongs.
Why this is here
Premise labels: origin story · coming of age · secret identity · hidden powers · alien identity · dual belonging · small-town life · teen life · family secret · mystery past · loss and grief · powers in flux · choose a world
Setting labels: small-town America · Midwestern town · farm setting · high school · present day · Earth · Krypton · alternate continuity · noncanonical story · Elseworlds · modern setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2435
A lonely teen and her outsider friends race to survive a biotech-fueled night of violence in their Oregon town.
Why this is here
Premise labels: science experiment gone wrong · biotech conspiracy · outcast teens · small-town outbreak · survive the night · bioengineering accident · corporate sabotage · teen survival · violent contagion
Setting labels: small town · rural Oregon · Pacific Northwest · tourist town · high school setting · contemporary setting · biotech town · cave setting · one-night setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2475
A traumatized teen investigates a viral party drug that makes her town eerily perfect—and dangerously not themselves.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mysterious drug · small town · high school · peer pressure · body snatching · alien invasion · body horror · drug horror · addiction horror · eco horror · coming of age
Setting labels: small town · high school · company town · Virginia · contemporary setting · biotech town · suburban/teen social setting · claustrophobic setting
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2476
A teen fugitive finds a supposedly safe town is just another layer of the same deadly experiment.
Why this is here
Premise labels: escape attempt · surveillance state · captivity · twisted experiment · hidden control · school conspiracy · robot doubles · impostor town · truth-seeking · survival game
Setting labels: isolated school · small town · woods · confined setting · experimental facility · controlled community · near-future dystopia · fictional reality · camp
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2542
A teen journalist investigates a mass disappearance tied to her missing uncle and a secret research facility.
Why this is here
Premise labels: missing persons · research facility · family mystery · journalist investigation · parallel timelines · psychic powers · secret experiment · prequel backstory
Setting labels: small town · Tennessee · Kansas · college · high school · research facility · secret lab · investigative journalism world · alternate past
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2546
Two teens trapped in a body-swap bond race to avert a comet disaster and find each other across time.
Why this is here
Premise labels: body swap · fated lovers · disaster prevention · time pressure · town evacuation · identity exchange · astral projection · destined meeting
Setting labels: high school · small town · mountain town · Tokyo · contemporary Japan · comet-threatened setting · dream world · parallel realms
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2550
A college student expecting an egg-donation payout instead gets chosen to bond with an alien visitor on Earth.
Why this is here
Premise labels: alien mate selection · hidden agenda · egg donation setup · earth contact · human-alien bonding · study humans
Setting labels: contemporary Earth · small town · Pennsylvania · festival setting · lab setting · rural town · human civilization
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2559
A bullied teen’s buried grief cracks open a hidden power and pulls her toward a secret world she barely understands.
Why this is here
Premise labels: teen powers · emotional awakening · school bullying · hidden abilities · secret world · coming-of-age · disappearing parent · gifted teens · power eruption
Setting labels: high school · school setting · teen setting · contemporary setting · secret facility · hidden world · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2560
After an accident, a teen violinist loses memories and sees an invisible boy, leading her into a buried secret about her past.
Why this is here
Premise labels: memory loss · memory erasure · missing memories · mysterious boy · medical mystery · accident aftermath · first love · identity crisis · family secret
Setting labels: contemporary · small town · high school · clinic setting · medical facility · post-accident · present day · teen life
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2581
A schoolgirl’s sudden invisibility draws her into a secret circle of kids with powers and a dangerous hidden origin.
Why this is here
Premise labels: invisibility · superpowers · hidden abilities · kids with powers · ordinary child becomes extraordinary · secret origin · young heroes · friend-led investigation
Setting labels: school setting · middle school · teen contemporary · small-scale reality · lightly fantastical world · local adventure
Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting
Distance: 0.2585
