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Brittney Morris

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Premise labels used: future sight, touch-based visions, foreknowledge curse, brother protection, race against time, grief-driven quest, Black teen protagonist

Setting labels used: Chicago, mostly white neighborhood, urban contemporary, 21st century America, real-world setting with magical element

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Invincible Iron Man: Ironheart, Vol. 1: Riri Williams

Brian Michael Bendis · 2017 · Invincible Iron Man (2016) (Collected Editions)

A teenage engineering prodigy builds a suit, takes on a legacy, and learns heroism with help from Tony Stark’s AI.

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Premise labels: legacy hero · origin story · teen genius · armored hero · mantle succession · hero training · mentor AI · street-level stakes

Setting labels: Chicago · Marvel Universe · contemporary setting · superhero reality · corporate superhero world · street-level urban setting

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Distance: 0.2486

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The Box and the Dragonfly

Ted Sanders · 2015 · The Keepers

A curious boy follows a sign with his name to a hidden warehouse and is drawn into a dangerous conflict over magical objects.

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Premise labels: chosen one · hidden world · magical artifact · secret society · ancient conflict · power bond · kid hero · dual powers · quest

Setting labels: contemporary Chicago · hidden magical world · secret warehouse · underground setting · school-age world · parallel reality · urban fantasy · time travel

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Distance: 0.2498

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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.

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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

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Chosen Ones

Veronica Roth · 2020

Ten years after saving the world, a traumatized hero discovers the battle may not be over after all.

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Premise labels: chosen one aftermath · post-victory life · saving the world aftermath · trauma aftermath · hero identity · parallel worlds · return of evil · government recruitment · prophecy

Setting labels: Chicago · contemporary Earth · alternate Earth · parallel universe · magical reality · post-war world · celebrity culture

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Distance: 0.2534

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Bubblegum

Adam Levin · 2020

In an alternate America without the internet, a misfit memoirist navigates a strange tech culture, family, and an eerie gift.

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Premise labels: alternate present · internet-free world · flesh-and-bone robots · fictional memoir · psychotic narrator · inanimate objects speak · adult dependency · social satire · one-person psyche · belonging · misfit protagonist · speculative allegory

Setting labels: alternate America · present-day alternate reality · internetless world · greater Chicagoland · suburban setting · late 20th century background · contemporary America (alternate)

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Meet Me at the Crossroads

Megan Giddings · 2025

When mysterious doors appear worldwide, twin sisters on opposite spiritual paths are pulled into grief, faith, and change.

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Premise labels: mysterious doors · parallel worlds · sibling bond · grief aftermath · religious movement · missing sibling · coming of age

Setting labels: Midwest · Michigan · rural setting · global phenomenon · contemporary setting · summer · college years · predominantly white community · alternate dimension

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Distance: 0.2586

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A House Like an Accordion

Audrey Burges · 2024

A burned-out woman begins disappearing and must trace her art-wielding father through the houses of her past.

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Premise labels: missing father · disappearing body · family secret · art magic · self-discovery · search quest · identity crisis · creator versus creation · belonging

Setting labels: contemporary · American setting · multiple homes · house-centered · small-scale domestic setting · magical reality

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Distance: 0.2595

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Long Chills and Case Dough

Brandon Sanderson · 2023

A future private eye who talks like a 1920s gumshoe takes a simple case in a neon-soaked sci-fi city.

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Premise labels: future detective · noir detective · private eye · case investigation · mystery solving · futuristic crime · genre mashup · fish out of water

Setting labels: future · 2151 · Chicago · futuristic world · cyberpunk · science fiction world

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The Law of Nines

Terry Goodkind · 2009 · Sword of Truth

A young artist inherits land and a dangerous legacy as a mysterious woman pulls him into a cross-world conflict.

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Premise labels: alternate worlds · hidden inheritance · coming of age · prophecy · cross-world threat · reluctant hero · saving a world · mysterious woman · family legacy

Setting labels: modern day · midwestern United States · Nebraska · Maine · other world · magicless world · magical world · contemporary fantasy · two-world system

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By a Silver Thread

Rachel Aaron · 2023 · DFZ Changeling

A changeling on borrowed humanity hunts her missing master before her pills run out and her hidden nature takes over.

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Premise labels: changeling protagonist · race against time · missing master · illegal magic · blood magic · human disguise · monster identity · urban underground

Setting labels: magical metropolis · near-future city · magical Detroit · living city · urban fantasy world · modern-day and magic · human and fae coexistence · underworld city

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Doughnut

Tom Holt · 2013 · YouSpace

A disgraced physicist is thrust into a bizarre multiverse quest after an inheritance unlocks reality-bending secrets.

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Premise labels: misfiring physicist · down-on-his-luck protagonist · quest after inheritance · multiverse adventure · physics gone wrong · save humanity · quest narrative

Setting labels: contemporary setting · multiverse · parallel realities · urban setting · scientific setting · hotel setting · alternate worlds · near-future science

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Convergence

Craig Alanson · 2022 · Convergence

A fugitive wizard with little magic and a talking dog races to stop magic’s return in modern-day America.

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Premise labels: wizard on the run · talking animal companion · magic returning · world convergence · hidden identity · fugitive protagonist · save the world

Setting labels: modern world · contemporary America · urban fantasy setting · earthbound setting · hidden supernatural world · magic-in-the-modern-world

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Distance: 0.2671

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