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Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

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Premise labels used: rival agents, time war, enemy correspondence, forbidden love, secret letters, cross-time romance, espionage romance, opposing factions, clandestine relationship

Setting labels used: far future, time travel, multiverse, alternate timelines, parallel worlds, warring futures, dystopian future, post-human, speculative world

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Das Mädchen, das die Zeit durchbrach

Anna Benning · 2020 · Vortex

A time-bending YA fantasy sequel sends two allies into the past where war, secrets, and love collide.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate future · war prevention · world-saving quest · elemental magic · enemy factions · love under pressure · hidden secrets

Setting labels: dystopian future · past and future · alternate world · elemental worldbuilding · time-travel setting · war-torn world · futuristic world · multiple locations

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Distance: 0.1622

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The End of Eternity

Isaac Asimov · 1971

A time-traveling fixer falls in love and risks unraveling the system that edits humanity’s past for the greater good.

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Premise labels: time travel · timeline manipulation · controlled history · hidden organization · forbidden love · butterfly effect

Setting labels: future centuries · outside time · alternate reality · humanity-wide · dystopian future · galactic-scale

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Distance: 0.1665

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The First Sister

Linden A. Lewis · 2020 · The First Sister Trilogy

A voiceless priestess and a disgraced soldier get pulled into opposing sides of a solar-system war, with love and betrayal at stake.

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Premise labels: oppressed priestess · spy mission · forbidden love · war loyalties · traitor hunt · body autonomy · queer rebellion · interstellar conflict

Setting labels: space opera · far future · solar system · interplanetary war · Earth and Mars · Mercury and Venus · asteroid belt · colonized planets · military ship · theocratic society · technocratic society · dystopian future · sci-fi future

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Distance: 0.1833

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Dark Edge of Honor

Aleksandr Voinov, Rhi Etzweiler · 2011 · Doctrine Wars

On a war-torn alien world, an undercover spy seduces a loyal officer—and both risk everything when duty collides with desire.

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Premise labels: undercover seduction · enemy soldiers · spy mission · forbidden attraction · war-time deception · occupational invasion · secret relationship · ideological conflict

Setting labels: distant future · space opera · alien planet · desert planet · war zone · mountains · military camp · invasion setting · cold war in space · authoritarian society

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Distance: 0.1851

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Taken to Heimo

Elizabeth Stephens · 2021 · Xiveri Mates

A prejudiced alien bodyguard and his devout human charge are forced to face danger, faith, and desire as mates.

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Premise labels: fated mates · enemy lovers · bodyguard bond · cross-species romance · prejudice conflict · protective guardian · religious conflict · forced cohabitation · pirate pursuit · dangerous secrets

Setting labels: space opera · alien worlds · human colony · off-world colony · futuristic interspecies society · intergalactic travel

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Distance: 0.1852

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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.

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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: 0.1888

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Demon's Captive

Stephanie Snow · 2007 · War Tribe

An alien commander captures a human survivor, and their violent power struggle turns into a dangerous bond.

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Premise labels: alien invasion · captive romance · war captive · dominant captor · forced submission · enemy to lovers · survival romance · captor fascination · master-slave relationship

Setting labels: future Earth · war-torn world · alien occupation · spaceship · dystopian future · interspecies reality

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Distance: 0.1896

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The Queen of All that Lives

Laura Thalassa · 2021 · The Fallen World

An awakened queen and her undying king face revenge, war, and a dangerous love in a war-torn future.

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Premise labels: awakened queen · revenge quest · war ending · captor romance · enemy lovers · power struggle · peace mission · fated lovers

Setting labels: dystopian world · post-apocalyptic world · war-torn world · future setting · time jump · global setting · political factions

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Distance: 0.1918

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Timestorm

Julie Cross · 2014 · Tempest

Trapped in the future, a time-traveling teen must stop a deadly experiment and decide what he’s willing to lose.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate timelines · future trapped · escape plan · final battle · family stakes · romantic conflict · survival

Setting labels: distant future · alternate timeline · multiple timelines · dystopian future · contained setting · science-fiction future

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Distance: 0.1932

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The Alien Bodyguard

Eryn Ivers · 2022 · Interspecies Alliances

A human heir and his alien bodyguard are pulled into dangerous peace talks as desire and politics collide.

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Premise labels: bodyguard romance · forbidden attraction · peace negotiations · family pressure · political intrigue · interspecies romance · war threat · chosen loyalty

Setting labels: futuristic · spacefaring · alien world · planetary politics · postwar setting · civil unrest · peace talks · resource-rich planet · interspecies society

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Distance: 0.1934

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Taunting Krell

Laurann Dohner · 2011 · Cyborg Seduction

A scarred cyborg interrogates a captured human soldier who may be a spy—or the key to his people’s past.

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Premise labels: captured spy suspicion · enemy to lovers · secret identity · damaged hero · strong heroine · cyborg romance · postwar distrust · forced proximity

Setting labels: future · space station · cyborg planet · Earth military · alien world · interplanetary conflict · science fantasy

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Distance: 0.1939

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Slave to Sensation

Nalini Singh · 2006 · Psy-Changeling

A repressed psychic woman and a shape-shifting pack leader join forces to hunt a killer and risk forbidden desire.

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Premise labels: enemies-to-lovers · forbidden attraction · psychic society · shifter romance · serial killer investigation · business alliance · secret identity · emotion suppression · opposites attract

Setting labels: future Earth · urban setting · alternate history · psychic network · coexisting species · pack society · near-future cityscape

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Distance: 0.1951

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