
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent · Crowns of Nyaxia #1
Hand-pickedShares enemies to lovers, slow burn & forced proximity.
Read-alikes
House of Earth and Blood is slow burn, enemies to lovers & forced proximity — steamy (3/5), 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 the supernatural metropolis of Crescent City on the planet Midgard, half-fae party girl Bryce Quinlan's world collapses when a demon slaughters her best friend and her entire wolf-shifter pack. Two years later she is forced to partner with Hunt Athalar — a fallen angel enslaved to the ruling Archangels and known as the Umbra Mortis — to track the killer before the city tears itself apart. As their investigation uncovers a conspiracy reaching the highest tiers of power, an unlikely bond and a slow-burning heat ignites between them.
Share the most of what makes House of Earth and Blood work.

Carissa Broadbent · Crowns of Nyaxia #1
Hand-pickedShares enemies to lovers, slow burn & forced proximity.

Sarah J. Maas · A Court of Thorns and Roses #2
Hand-pickedShares slow burn. Same author, too.

Amber V. Nicole · Gods and Monsters #1
Shares enemies to lovers, morally grey, forced proximity & slow burn.

Kate Golden · The Sacred Stones #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity, morally grey & slow burn.

Shares enemies to lovers, slow burn, forced proximity & morally grey.

Mary E. Pearson · Dance of Thieves #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity, fierce heroine & slow burn.

Renee Ahdieh · Flame in the Mist #1
Shares enemies to lovers, fierce heroine, slow burn & morally grey.

Sarah J. Maas · Throne of Glass #6
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & slow burn. Same author, too.

Callie Hart · Fae & Alchemy #1
Shares enemies to lovers, slow burn & forced proximity.

Raven Kennedy · The Plated Prisoner #3
Shares enemies to lovers, morally grey & slow burn.

Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity & fierce heroine.

Raven Kennedy · The Plated Prisoner #2
Shares enemies to lovers, slow burn & morally grey.