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These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Beyond the Moon. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Premise labels used: time slip, cross-time romance, war hospital, mental institution, forbidden love, lost family, dual hardship, identity crisis, survival, destined love

Setting labels used: 1916, 1917, 2017, World War I, battlefields, trenches, France, Sussex, England, psychiatric hospital, military hospital, field hospital, POW camp, South Downs, war-torn Europe, historic hospital, modern-day England

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Cover of In Another Time by Jillian Cantor

In Another Time

Jillian Cantor · 2019

A forbidden wartime love story follows a Jewish violinist and a bookshop owner across prewar Germany and postwar absence.

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Premise labels: forbidden love · wartime separation · memory loss · hidden secret · survival quest · time travel · star-crossed lovers · music and love · escape from danger · family secret

Setting labels: Germany · Berlin · London · Paris · Vienna · United States · prewar Europe · postwar Europe · World War II era · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2232

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Cover of Cold Summer by Gwen Cole

Cold Summer

Gwen Cole · 2017

A teen time traveler trapped in WWII battles must survive trauma, family strain, and a new chance at love.

Why this is here

Premise labels: uncontrollable time travel · war trauma · PTSD · forbidden or difficult romance · childhood friends reunited · second chance love · identity crisis · coming of age · saving oneself

Setting labels: present day · World War II · 1945 · Europe · Iowa · small town · rural setting · home front · battlefield · front lines · western front · war zone

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2406

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Cover of Overseas by Beatriz Williams

Overseas

Beatriz Williams · 2012

A Wall Street analyst is drawn into a sweeping time-travel romance that links modern New York to WWI France.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel romance · forbidden love · secret identity · cross-era connection · mystery romance · soulmate bond

Setting labels: New York City · Wall Street · Amiens · France · World War I · 1916 · 2008 · modern day · financial industry · war front · country house

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2598

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Cover of Fata Morgana by Steven R. Boyett

Fata Morgana

Steven R. Boyett, Ken Mitchroney · 2017

A WWII B-17 crew is swept into a ruined future world, where survival, duty, and fate collide.

Why this is here

Premise labels: WWII bomber crew · time slip · portal fantasy · alternate world · post-apocalyptic future · stranded crew · return home · love across time · bomber as hero · war between factions

Setting labels: World War II Europe · Germany · England · post-apocalyptic future · alternate reality · dystopian future · war-torn world · air war · European theater

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Distance: 0.2767

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Cover of Beyond Broadhall by Keith A. Pearson

Beyond Broadhall

Keith A. Pearson · 2021 · The '86 Fix

After a time-travel mishap leaves him in a changed present, Craig must face the consequences and find closure.

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Premise labels: time travel aftermath · alternate timeline · fixing mistakes · consequences · second chance · personal crisis · closure · what if

Setting labels: 1980s · 1986 · 2010s · 2016 · present day · England · British setting · psychiatric unit · mental hospital · charity shop · social services · contemporary realism · alternate reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2780

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Cover of The Glamour by Christopher Priest

The Glamour

Christopher Priest · 1984

An amnesiac cameraman retraces a lost period of his life, uncovering love, deception, and a reality no one can quite see.

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Premise labels: amnesia · invisibility · love triangle · missing memory · identity crisis · hidden reality · psychological puzzle

Setting labels: British countryside · hospital setting · London · France · 1980s Britain · contemporary setting · alternate reality · psychological reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2798

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Cover of The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway

The River of No Return

Bee Ridgway · 2014 · River of No Return

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

Setting labels: Regency era · 1815 · 1812 · 19th century England · 21st century London · modern London · Vermont · Spain · Napoleonic Wars · historical present · alternate history · time-shifted world

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2812

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Time Was

Ian McDonald · 2018

A bookseller uncovers a wartime love letter that leads him into a time-spanning mystery of two men searching for each other.

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Premise labels: time travel · lost lovers · bookish mystery · wartime romance · search across time · clandestine correspondence · historical puzzle

Setting labels: World War II · modern day · historical England · London · wartime Britain · bookshops · archives

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2820

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Cover of The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

Andrew Sean Greer · 2013

A grieving woman’s electroshock therapy sends her cycling through three versions of her life across different eras.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alternate lives · time travel · parallel lives · grief recovery · depression treatment · life choices · lost love · bereavement

Setting labels: New York City · Greenwich Village · West Village · 1985 · 1918 · 1941 · 20th century · wartime home front · pandemic era

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2826

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Cover of All We Have Is Time by Amy Tordoff

All We Have Is Time

Amy Tordoff · 2026

An immortal woman and a time traveler keep finding each other across centuries, risking love, grief, and time itself.

Why this is here

Premise labels: immortal woman · time traveler · star-crossed lovers · cross-century romance · love across time · doomed lovers · curse bargain · lonely immortality · second chance love · time-limited reunion

Setting labels: 16th-century London · 17th-century London · historical England · Venice · Woodstock 1969 · European history · future timeline · 2202 · 2203 · historical time travel · historical fantasy world · England · London · St. Paul’s Cathedral · Shakespeare’s Globe · Carnevale di Venezia · world wars · plague era · Great Fire of London

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2835

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Cover of Come Back to Me by Jody Hedlund

Come Back to Me

Jody Hedlund · 2021 · Waters of Time

A skeptical scientist is sent into 1381 England, where a healing mystery and a knight’s protection change everything.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time slip · marriage of convenience · family rescue · healing quest · missing father · sister illness · scientist heroine · knight hero · search for cure

Setting labels: 1381 England · Middle Ages · medieval England · Canterbury · present day · contemporary England · convent · peasant uprising · medieval castle · historical reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2847

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