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Books Like Chain of Gold

Chain of Gold is marriage of convenience, love triangle & forbidden love — sweet (1/5), third-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

In 1903 Edwardian London, Shadowhunter warrior Cordelia Carstairs arrives in the city to restore her family's honour after her father is accused of a terrible crime — and to hide her long-held love for childhood friend James Herondale, who is promised to another. When a wave of lethal daylight demon attacks strikes London and an incurable poison begins claiming Shadowhunters, Cordelia and her companions discover that the crisis is tangled up with a dark legacy that touches James's very bloodline. The book ends with Cordelia and James entering a marriage of convenience — intended to last a year — to protect her reputation after she gives him a false alibi.