Books like Assistant to the Villain
Evie Sage needs a job to support her family, so when she lands a position as assistant to the Villain, the kingdom of Rennedawn's most feared man, she tries to treat it like any office job, despite the dungeons and her very attractive boss.
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Radiance
Ildiko, a plain noblewoman of the human Gauri court, is married off to seal an alliance with Brishen Khaskem, a prince of the Kai, a people as monstrous to her as she is to them, and the two make the best of it with wit and growing tenderness.
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Hart, a marshal who patrols a wild, magic-haunted borderland, and Mercy, who runs her family's undertaking business, can't stand each other, and neither knows that the anonymous friend each has been writing letters to is the other.
The Princess Bride
A father reads his son the 'good parts' of an imaginary Florinese classic, and the framing and the fencing and the Sicilian and the six-fingered man turn out to be the most quoted comic fantasy in English.
The Light Fantastic
Rincewind the wizard and a sentient luggage chest stumble through a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on a turtle.
From Blood and Ash
Poppy, the veiled Maiden chosen by the gods, is forbidden to touch or be touched, until Hawke, the guard sworn to protect her, makes her question everything she has been told about the kingdom and its gods.
For Whom the Belle Tolls
After dying young of cancer she chose not to treat so her family would not be buried in debt, Lily finds paradise unbearably dull, takes herself to Hell on her own terms, opens a customer-service desk for the damned and catches the eye of Beleth, a seven-foot demon prince.
A Deal with the Elf King
Luella, the only healer in her village, is chosen by the Elf King, Eldas, to be his human queen and taken into the Midscape, a land of wild magic that is slowly dying and that only she, it seems, can keep alive.
The Spellshop
When revolution burns the Great Library of Alyssium, Kiela, a reclusive librarian, escapes by boat with her sentient spider plant, Caz, and a load of forbidden spellbooks to the remote island where she grew up, and starts selling jam while quietly casting spells.
The House Witch
Finlay Ashowan, the new royal cook of Daxaria, wants only to keep to his kitchen and his secrets, but the magic he cooks into his food soon draws the knights and nobles of the castle to his door.
A Shadow in the Ember
Princess Seraphena of Lasania was promised before her birth as consort to the Primal of Death, then refused, and she has trained her whole life to make him fall in love with her so that she can kill him and save her dying kingdom.
A Dawn of Onyx
Arwen, a healer in the Kingdom of Amber, is captured by soldiers of the enemy kingdom of Onyx while fetching medicine for her sick mother and taken to the fortress of Shadowhold, where her gift keeps her alive and draws the notice of a cold, powerful man named Kane.
Throne of the Fallen
Prince Envy of hell, whose court is being wasted by a slow malady, enters a dangerous magical game with a prize that could save his people, and crosses paths with Camilla Antonius, a gifted painter struggling to keep her late father's gallery open while a local lord blackmails her over a secret.