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C. S. Pacat · 2011 · Australia · fantasy · romance
Book 1 of 3 in Captive Prince
★ 3.78 Goodreads · 133,836 ratings

Damen, heir to the throne of Akielos, is betrayed by his half-brother and sent as a slave to Prince Laurent of Vere, the enemy who must never learn who he is.

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Rose in Chains

Julie Soto · 2025 · US 96% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 98,447 ratings
shares: dark fantasy, captivity, enemies to lovers · easy read, cold

The war is lost and the hero who was meant to save them is dead, and Briony Rosewood, princess of Evermore, stripped of her magic, is sold at auction to Toven Hearst, heir to a family known for its cruelty.

Gild

Raven Kennedy · 2020 · US 96% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 431,614 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in The Plated Prisoner
shares: manipulative, slow burn romance, captivity · easy read, cold

Auren is King Midas's favoured, gold-touched by him as his possession and kept in his castle of gold in the frozen mountains of Highbell, and when war comes and a deal is struck, her faith in the man who pulled her from the slums begins to crack.

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 2018 · US 95% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 1,889,283 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air
shares: manipulative, dark fantasy, enemies to lovers, court · easy read, cold

Jude, a mortal girl brought to the High Court of Faerie as a child after her parents were murdered, wants a place among the fair folk who despise her, and to get it she must defy Prince Cardan, the cruellest of them.

The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri · 2021 · UK 95% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 42,571 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Burning Kingdoms
shares: slow burn romance, series starter, queer · cold, speculative

Malini, a princess exiled by her brother the emperor to a ruined temple to repent, is waited on by Priya, a maidservant hiding the powers she was born with, as a rot spreads through the land.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Carissa Broadbent · 2022 · US 94% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 828,575 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Crowns of Nyaxia
shares: slow burn romance, dark fantasy, enemies to lovers · easy read, cold

Oraya, the human adopted daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, enters the Kejari, a deadly tournament held for the goddess of death, and is forced into an alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she has every reason to fear.

The Magpie Lord

KJ Charles · 2013 · UK 94% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 26,258 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in A Charm of Magpies
shares: enemies to lovers, erotic, series starter, queer · cold, intimate

Lord Crane, back in England after twenty years in Shanghai, is being driven towards suicide by a curse, and calls in Stephen Day, a magician whose family was ruined by Crane's own.

Alchemised

SenLinYu · 2025 · US 94% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 380,575 ratings
shares: slow burn romance, dark fantasy, captivity · dark, cold

After a brutal war, a captive healer whose memories have been locked away is handed to the enemy's most feared necromancer, who must pry loose what she has forgotten.

Dragonfall

L. R. Lam · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.36 Goodreads · 11,551 ratings
shares: enemies to lovers, secondary world, series starter · cold, speculative

In a city where dragons have been gone for centuries, Arcady, a young thief, crosses paths with Sorin, the last dragon, who has come into the human world in human form to bring his kind back.

From Blood and Ash

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020 · US 94% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 913,197 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Blood and Ash
shares: slow burn romance, erotic, secondary world · easy read, plain prose

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.

Swordspoint

Ellen Kushner · 1987 · US 94% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 11,201 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Riverside
shares: secondary world, series starter, queer · cold, intimate

In a city where nobles settle their quarrels by hiring swordsmen, Richard St Vier, the best blade in Riverside, takes a job that pulls him and his difficult scholar lover into the intrigues of the Hill.

A Dawn of Onyx

Kate Golden · 2022 · US 94% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 80,164 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Sacred Stones
shares: slow burn romance, captivity, secondary world · easy read, earnest

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.

The Veiled Kingdom

Holly Renee · 2024 · US 94% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 67,467 ratings
shares: captivity, enemies to lovers, secondary world · easy read, cold

The missing daughter of a hated king, fleeing her father's cruelty, is captured by rebels sworn to kill her who do not know who she is, and must join them or die, while Dacre, son of the rebellion's commander, both guards and threatens her.