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

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

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Wander Dust

Michelle Warren · 2011 · The Seraphina Parrish Trilogy

A teen discovers she can time travel and is drawn into a secret society, a strange school, and a risky love choice.

Why this is here

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

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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1654

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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.

Why this is here

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

Setting labels: California · New Jersey · alternate dimension · alternate universe · past and present · high school · teen world · suburban

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1773

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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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1844

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Life Is Strange Vol. 3: Strings

Emma Vieceli · 2020 · Life is Strange Comics

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: 0.1853

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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.

Why this is here

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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1861

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15 Minutes

Jill Cooper · 2013 · The Rewind Agency/Conspiracy

A teen time-traveler breaks the rules to save her mother, then wakes in a radically altered life full of secrets.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel agency · altering the past · save a parent · alternate timeline · family reset · forbidden change · butterfly effect

Setting labels: future time travel · alternate timeline · high school · family drama setting · wealthy household

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1914

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Carnelian

B. Kristin McMichael · 2014 · Chalcedony Chronicles

A college freshman resists a persistent player, only to uncover a time-traveling secret linking them across centuries.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel romance · college freshman · destined pair · soulmates · star-crossed lovers · hidden past · ancient past in present · search for a chosen one · family secrets

Setting labels: college campus · dorms · present day · ancient Egypt · past and present · fantasy reality · war-torn past

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1924

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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: 0.1926

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After Eden

Helen Douglas · 2013 · After Eden

A puzzle-loving teen falls for a mysterious new boy whose secret could change the future and cost her best friend everything.

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Premise labels: mysterious newcomer · time traveler · future mission · save the world · secret identity · forbidden romance · love triangle · hidden knowledge · small choice, big consequences

Setting labels: modern day · England · Cornwall · secondary school · high school · small town · contemporary setting · future timeline · time travel · astronomy

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Distance: 0.1946

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Timekeeper

Alexandra Monir · 2013 · Timeless

A time-crossed teen must unravel family secrets and a memory loss mystery to save her love and herself.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time-crossed lovers · lost memory · secret society · family secrets · time travel mystery · identity quest · imminent threat · ancestral conflict · fated reunion · second chance romance

Setting labels: high school · 2010 · 1910 · New York · Upper East Side · historical New York · contemporary setting · past timelines · alternate timeline · time travel world

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Distance: 0.1962

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Rubinrot

Kerstin Gier · 2009 · Edelstein-Trilogie

A teen girl discovers she's the real time-travel heir in a secret family line and is swept into a hidden London intrigue.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time-travel gene · secret family · secret society · chosen girl · reluctant heir · forced mission · past-and-present entanglement · romantic complication

Setting labels: London · England · Victorian era · historical London · contemporary London · dual timeframe · past and present · British setting · urban fantasy

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2024

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