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Louisa May Alcott
A woman flees across Europe from the obsessive man she once escaped to — but he always finds her.
"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. A brooding stranger seduces her from the remote island onto his yacht. Trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit, she flees to Italy, France, Germany, from Paris garret to mental asylum, from convent to chateau - stalked by obsessed Phillip Tempest.Two years before Little Women, serialized in a magazine under the alias A.M. Barnard in 1866, this was buried among the author's papers over a century.

V.E. Schwab
Cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets, Addie LaRue finds the one man who remembers her name.
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A shy new bride discovers her husband's first wife may never truly be gone — and Manderley holds dark secrets.
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu
A lonely young woman falls under the intoxicating spell of a beautiful, vampiric stranger in a gothic castle.
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Alix E. Harrow
A desperate girl takes a job at a cursed gothic house — and falls for its brooding, lonely heir.
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RuNyx
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V.E. Schwab
Three women across five centuries are offered freedom by an alluring stranger — and everything comes at a price.
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A med student on a haunted island falls for her darkly brilliant professor — and his dangerous secrets.
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A young heir falls dangerously in love with his cousin's widow — but did she kill her husband?
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Andrew Davidson
A burned and broken man is told by a mysterious sculptress that they were lovers in medieval Germany — and she can prove
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A spirit-haunted medium and a wealthy widow uncover deadly secrets in a crumbling gothic estate.
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A shy girl moves to a rainy small town and falls for a vampire who wants her blood — and her heart.
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A woman arrives at a legend-haunted French château and falls for its dangerous Comte — but will she escape alive?
9 tropes in common

Erin Morgenstern
Two rival magicians are bound to compete in a deadly game — and fall in love inside a dreamlike night circus.
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Ann Radcliffe
An orphaned young woman is imprisoned in a sinister medieval castle, separated from the man she loves.
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A woman who sees the dead bargains her secret with a dangerous merchant — and gets trapped in a hungry, haunted estate.
9 tropes in common

Ann Radcliffe
A nobleman's love for a mysterious veiled woman draws them both into the clutches of a murderous monk.
7 tropes in common

Roshani Chokshi
A scholar married a beautiful mystery — but her childhood home hides secrets that could destroy them both.
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A witch trained to destroy the Coven must survive its academy — and the infuriating headmaster who hates her.
7 tropes in common

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A dashing English spy hides his heroic identity from his own wife — who is spying on him for France.
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