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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for Waking in Time.
Premise labels used: time travel, opposites in time, college freshman, family mystery, lost baby, forbidden love, fated meeting, cross-time communication
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise embeddings are close.
A time-traveling Chinese-British family is split by loss, forcing two siblings to navigate grief, love, and the pull of the past.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel family · generational secret · grief after disappearance · forbidden love across time · immigrant family saga
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1414
A grieving middle schooler discovers a greenhouse portal to Tudor England and a family mystery tied to Princess Elizabeth.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel mystery · family secret · search for father · grieving child · new school · historical court · portal fantasy · dual timeline · cross-temporal identity
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1488
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1524
A Regency aristocrat and a 21st-century time traveler are pulled into a secret war over control of time.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · secret society · forbidden return · cross-time romance · timeline control · missing person in time · battle for time · family secrets · quest object · future at risk
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1546
Four strangers get one hour in their past, but a time-travel glitch strands them together and exposes a shared tragedy.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel experiment · past revisit · shared tragedy · second chances · closure quest · intertwined strangers · hidden secrets
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1549
A cynical young woman in New York falls for a mysterious subway girl who turns out to be stranded in time.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel romance · subway romance · found family · queer community · missing person mystery · magical realism · love story
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1564
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1564
A stranded 23rd-century pilot and a present-day anthropologist fall into a fast, steamy romance with time running out.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time traveler · fish-out-of-water · stranded traveler · cross-time romance · love against time · future meets present · return home dilemma · reverse time travel
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1576
A teen sent to study with her grandparents slips through a time gate into a dangerous past of druids, tribes, and sacrifice.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time gate · time travel · past world · return home · family visit · cross-temporal contact
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1581
A final time-travel crisis forces Jonah’s new twin to navigate family, identity, and a dangerous future.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · twin sibling · family rescue · future danger · identity confusion · alternate dimensions
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1589
A skeptical teen falls into a wartime time-travel conspiracy and must choose between uncovering the truth and saving her family.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel experiment · government conspiracy · family mystery · missing relative · secret facility · change the past · save family · forbidden truth
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1596
A romance-loving teen falls into 1895 and must choose between a dream love and the life she left behind.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · love triangle · forbidden love · century crossing · fish out of water · romantic longing · murder mystery · past versus present · stuck between eras
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1597
