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Premise labels used: science prodigy, deadly discovery, medical breakthrough, cure for death, undercover lab job, prestigious competition, international rivalry, secrets and lies, financial desperation, girl in STEM, threatened by discovery

Setting labels used: high school, laboratory, science competition, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe, California, Russia, international setting, contemporary world, real-world science setting, academic research setting, underground lab, secret lab, ballrooms

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Blood Ties

Sophie McKenzie · 2008 · Blood Ties

Two teens uncover hidden truths about their births and identities while fleeing extremists and a secret genetic conspiracy.

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Premise labels: missing father · identity mystery · cloning · genetic engineering · teen on the run · scientific conspiracy · family secrets · birth mystery · fugitives · experimental births

Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · school disco · clinic · genetic lab · city setting · London · Washington DC · Germany · Scotland · international travel · secret facilities · real-world setting

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Morbid Curiosities

S. Hati · 2026

A scholarship teen at an elite science institute uncovers secret experiments, mutations, and a threat to her own mind.

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Premise labels: elite school · science institute · scholarship student · secret experiment · unreliable memory · mutations · murder investigation · academic rivalry · institutional corruption · who to trust

Setting labels: elite academy · research institute · science campus · San Francisco · real world · near-future science · dark academia

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Notes on Infinity

Austin Taylor · 2025

Two Harvard students chase an anti-aging breakthrough, then fame, money, and secrets threaten their startup and bond.

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Premise labels: anti-aging breakthrough · biotech startup · campus ambition · secret research · fame and scrutiny · immortality · scientific rivalry · friends to lovers · love story · academic competition

Setting labels: Harvard · college setting · academia · lab setting · biotech startup world · contemporary setting · Ivy League setting

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The Stars Turned Inside Out

Nova Jacobs · 2024

At CERN, a physicist is found dead in a tunnel, and a private investigator uncovers secrets that blur science, love, and rivalry.

Why this is here

Premise labels: lab death · scientific mystery · locked-room mystery · scientific investigation · academic intrigue · physics lab mystery · corporate secrecy · mole hunt

Setting labels: CERN · Geneva · Swiss laboratory · particle collider · physics lab · science campus · international research institute · Swiss-French border · high-energy physics

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The Rules

Stacey Kade · 2013 · Project Paper Doll

A hidden alien-human hybrid must survive high school, a bully, and a dangerous crush without exposing her secret.

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Premise labels: alien hybrid · hidden identity · lab escape · life in hiding · dangerous secret · fake dating · revenge plan · bully retaliation · forbidden romance · ordinary life disguise

Setting labels: high school · small town · Wisconsin · present day · laboratory · school setting · hidden-in-plain-sight · near-lab hometown · contemporary setting

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Jekel Loves Hyde

Beth Fantaskey · 2010

A grieving teen and a troubled classmate race to recreate a legendary formula, risking love, sanity, and their darker selves.

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Premise labels: Jekyll and Hyde retelling · scientific experiment · college scholarship · family legacy · hidden darkness · cure the monster · dual nature · partnered research · love amid danger · murder mystery

Setting labels: high school · chemistry lab · Pennsylvania · contemporary setting · American high school · school competition

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Ajin: Demi-Human, Vol. 3

Gamon Sakurai · 2015 · 亜人 [Ajin]

A fugitive demi-human faces escalating government pressure as rival factions, hidden powers, and brutal plans collide.

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Premise labels: immortalism · human vs nonhuman · fugitive protagonist · government conspiracy · human experimentation · terror threat · superpowered conflict · manhunt

Setting labels: Japan · high school · research center · laboratory · prison · government facilities · urban setting · contemporary setting · secret experiment program

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Specimen

Shay Savage · 2016

A memory-wiped super soldier wakes in a lab and must decide whether his doctor is his guide, lover, or jailer.

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Premise labels: memory loss · laboratory experiment · super soldier · corporate war · doctor-patient bond · engineered attraction · identity mystery · trust issues · altered human

Setting labels: laboratory · dystopian future · post-apocalyptic Earth · corporate-controlled world · war-torn future · science experiment setting

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Ball Lightning

Liu Cixin · 2018

A scientist haunted by childhood tragedy pursues the mystery of ball lightning, pulling him into military research and radical physics.

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Premise labels: obsession · scientific mystery · weaponization · rare phenomenon · pursuit of knowledge · military research · physics discovery · ethical conflict · natural anomaly · lone investigator

Setting labels: modern day China · stormy mountaintops · military lab · scientific station · Chinese military · Russian military circles · experimental research setting · real-world setting

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Persephone

Lev Grossman · 2022

A bullied teen’s buried grief cracks open a hidden power and pulls her toward a secret world she barely understands.

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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

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Wolfe's Hope

Lora Leigh · 2002 · Breeds

A wolf-breed alpha kidnaps his believed-unfaithful mate, forcing them to confront betrayal, desire, and a mad scientist.

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Premise labels: fated mates · second chance romance · kidnapping · revenge romance · breeding experiment · mad scientist · mating bond · misunderstanding

Setting labels: lab setting · scientific facility · experimental reality · wolf-pack world · human-and-breed world

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Yasutaka Tsutsui · 2017

A schoolgirl discovers time-leaping abilities and, alongside a second story about fears, confronts memory, consequence, and change.

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Premise labels: time travel · accidental powers · mystery figure · teen protagonist · school life · psychological fear

Setting labels: high school · school science lab · 1960s · Japan · future society · everyday life · school setting

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The Third Mushroom

Jennifer L. Holm · 2018 · The Fourteenth Goldfish

A science-loving middle schooler and her teen-bodied grandfather chase a breakthrough at the science fair.

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Premise labels: science fair · family science · teenage grandparent · friendship vs romance · pet loss · scientific experiment · search for youth · middle school life

Setting labels: middle school · science fair · family home · Bay Area · contemporary · real world · school labs

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Maximum Ride, Vol. 5

NaRae Lee, James Patterson · 2011 · Maximum Ride: The Manga

A fugitive flock of winged teens heads west, facing betrayal, destiny, and a looming secret plan.

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Premise labels: escaped fugitives · flying kids · genetic experiment · save the world · on the run · secret lab · pursuit thriller · destiny burden

Setting labels: Florida · head west · secret laboratory · school · science lab · cave · contemporary · dystopian · experimental facility

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Scandor

Ursula Poznanski · 2024

Two teens enter a brutal truth-only contest where every lie costs them, and every loss reveals a deeper secret.

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Premise labels: truth contest · lie detector · high-stakes competition · battle royale · moral dilemma · forced honesty · win-or-bust · fear penalty

Setting labels: contemporary · high-tech · experimental setting · competition venue · everyday life · family home · workplace

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Immune

Richard Phillips · 2009 · The Rho Agenda

A hunted teen team races to stop a government-backed alien-tech crisis as conspiracies, violence, and powers escalate.

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Premise labels: alien technology · government conspiracy · teen protagonists · genetic cure · medical breakthrough · pursuit and cover-up · hidden informant · technological escalation

Setting labels: New Mexico · United States government · NSA · Los Alamos · South America · Africa · high school setting · near future · Earth · global scale

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Whisper

Lynette Noni · 2018 · Whisper

A silent test subject in a secret facility discovers her voice may unleash a world-changing power.

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Premise labels: secret facility · imprisoned test subject · dangerous power · silence as survival · mysterious program · hidden identity · world-threatening secret · special abilities

Setting labels: secret government facility · underground facility · Sydney · Australia · clinical setting · research lab · dystopian world · hidden society

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The Signal

Eric Buchman, Gabriel Urbina, Sarah Sachat · 2024

A disgraced scientist chases a mysterious deep-space signal that could mean alien life, a hoax, or a coverup.

Why this is here

Premise labels: deep-space signal · alien contact · government coverup · scientific mystery · truth versus deception · first contact · moral dilemma · redemption arc · investigation trio

Setting labels: contemporary · Earth · space science · government lockdown · research facilities · astronomy · science classroom · labs · bureaucratic state

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The Prisoner of Cell 25

Richard Paul Evans · 2011 · Michael Vey

A bullied teen with secret electric powers uncovers other gifted kids and a conspiracy that targets them all.

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Premise labels: secret powers · electric powers · gifted teens · bullied outcast · hidden identity · quest for answers · kidnapped mother · secret experiment · powerful organization

Setting labels: high school · Meridian High School · Idaho · California · Pasadena · contemporary world · modern day · secret facility · academy setting

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The Similars

Rebecca Hanover · 2019 · The Similars

At an elite boarding school, a grieving teen confronts a clone of her dead best friend and a web of secrets.

Why this is here

Premise labels: clones at school · dead best friend clone · elite academy secrets · identity crisis · clone rights · scientific scandal · hidden conspiracy · grieving heroine · forbidden attraction

Setting labels: boarding school · elite school · prestigious academy · near future · futuristic Earth · very near future · private school · secret island · lab setting · advanced technology

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Cover of Ajin: Demi-Human, Vol. 2 by Gamon Sakurai

Ajin: Demi-Human, Vol. 2

Gamon Sakurai · 2014 · 亜人 [Ajin]

A hunted immortal teen is captured for experiments and pulled deeper into the hidden world of demi-humans.

Why this is here

Premise labels: immortal human · hidden species · government experiment · fugitive protagonist · human versus monster · survival quest · search for others · experimental captivity

Setting labels: modern Japan · high school · government lab · detention center · urban pursuit · secret research · hidden society · science fiction reality

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Spark

Rachael Craw · 2014 · Spark

A grieving teen discovers she’s DNA-bound to protect her best friend from a hidden killer—and from her own changing life.

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Premise labels: genetic experiment · DNA-bound protector · best friend at risk · unknown killer · forbidden romance · secret powers · superpowered teens

Setting labels: present day · contemporary world · near future · high school setting · summer holidays · alternate reality · normal family setting

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Cover of The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu

The Death I Gave Him

Em X. Liu · 2023

In a locked-down future lab, a grieving scientist’s son hunts his father’s killer with help from the lab’s AI.

Why this is here

Premise labels: locked-room mystery · revenge quest · immortality research · lab lockdown · murder investigation · AI companion · futuristic retelling · family betrayal

Setting labels: near future · scientific lab · locked building · isolated location · Danish setting · 2040s · 2050s · dystopian future · one-night setting · experimental facility

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Exposure

Kathy Reichs · 2014 · Virals

A teen pack with dangerous powers investigates a school kidnapping while their own secrets and bonds begin to unravel.

Why this is here

Premise labels: kidnapping mystery · secret powers · pack secrecy · investigation under pressure · experimental virus · shifting bonds · race against time

Setting labels: Bolton Prep · school setting · contemporary setting · teen pack · lab setting

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Distance: 0.3088

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