Books like Belladonna
Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow, orphaned as a baby and passed between guardians who keep dying, though she herself cannot, is taken in by the Hawthornes of Thorn Grove, where someone is poisoning the family, and hunts the culprit with the help of Death, whom only she can see.
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Gallant
Olivia Prior, a mute orphan at a grim school for girls, receives a letter from an uncle she never knew inviting her home to Gallant, the family estate, but no one there expected her, and the house holds a shadow that only she can see.
The Graveyard Book
Nobody Owens, a boy raised by ghosts in a graveyard after his family is murdered, grows up learning the ways of the dead, while the man who killed his family is still looking for him.
Starling House
Opal, a broke young woman raising her brother in a dying Kentucky town, takes a job cleaning the strange old Starling House for its lone heir, and learns what the house is keeping in.
A Dark and Drowning Tide
Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist who dreams of being a naturalist, joins six eccentric nobles on a royal expedition to find a mythical spring, and when her mentor is murdered aboard their ship she takes charge of the hunt for the killer alongside her longtime rival, Sylvia von Wolff.
The Stranger Diaries
Clare Cassidy, an English teacher writing about a Victorian ghost-story writer, finds a colleague murdered with a line from his story beside her body, and someone writing in Clare's own diary.
Jane Eyre
A plain governess falls in love with her employer, only to discover his mansion hides a secret that makes their marriage impossible.
Kingdom of the Wicked
Emilia, a witch who works in her family's restaurant in Sicily, finds her twin sister murdered and summons Wrath, one of the princes of Hell, to help her hunt the killer.
Clockwork Angel
In 1878 Tessa Gray crosses from New York to London to find her brother, is held by the Dark Sisters, who show her that she can change into other people, and is rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.
Sorcery of Thorns
Elisabeth Scrivener, an orphan raised in one of Austermeer's Great Libraries, where grimoires can turn into monsters, is blamed for a deadly act of sabotage and must trust the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and his demon servant to clear her name.
Cemetery Boys
Yadriel, a trans boy from a family of brujos in East Los Angeles, performs the ritual to summon a ghost to prove he is a real brujo, and ends up with the wrong one: Julian Diaz, his school's resident bad boy, who will not leave until he finds out how he died.
Phantasma
Ophelia Grimm's sister has disappeared into Phantasma, a deadly game played in a haunted mansion with nine levels whose single winner is granted a wish, and to get through it she accepts the help of a mysterious stranger, Blackwell, at the price of ten years of her life.
Once Upon a Broken Heart
When the boy she loves is about to marry her stepsister, Evangeline Fox strikes a bargain with Jacks, the immortal Prince of Hearts, and must pay for his help with three kisses of his choosing, in a kingdom where fairy tales hold dangerous power.