
The Empire of Gold
S.A. Chakraborty · The Daevabad Trilogy #3
Shares enemies to allies, morally grey, found family & forbidden love.
Read-alikes
Fable is found family, morally grey & enemies to allies — sweet (1/5), first-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.
Seventeen-year-old Fable has survived four years alone on a dangerous island after her father, the most powerful trader in the Narrows, abandoned her following her mother's death at sea. Desperate to escape and confront her father, she strikes a bargain with a secretive young captain named West — only to discover that his loyalties are more complicated than they appear, and her father's world far more treacherous than she remembered.
Share the most of what makes Fable work.

S.A. Chakraborty · The Daevabad Trilogy #3
Shares enemies to allies, morally grey, found family & forbidden love.

Margaret Owen · The Merciful Crow #1
Shares enemies to allies, forbidden love, found family & morally grey.

Roshani Chokshi · The Gilded Wolves #3
Shares found family, morally grey, enemies to allies & forbidden love.

Carissa Broadbent · The War of Lost Hearts #3
Shares enemies to allies, forbidden love, found family & morally grey.

Adrienne Young · Fable #2
Shares found family, morally grey & enemies to allies. Same author, too.

Leigh Bardugo · Six of Crows #1
Shares found family, morally grey & enemies to allies.

Laini Taylor · Strange the Dreamer #2
Shares forbidden love, morally grey & found family.

Leigh Bardugo · King of Scars Duology #2
Shares forbidden love, morally grey & enemies to allies.

Laini Taylor · Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2
Shares forbidden love, morally grey & found family.

Chloe Gong · These Violent Delights #2
Shares forbidden love, morally grey & enemies to allies.

Mary E. Pearson · Dance of Thieves #2
Shares enemies to allies, found family & forbidden love.

Andrea Stewart · The Drowning Empire #1
Shares morally grey, found family & enemies to allies.