
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity, forbidden love & dark magic.
Read-alikes
Lakesedge is forbidden love, forced proximity & enemies to lovers — 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.
When seventeen-year-old Violeta (Leta) arrives at the cursed Lakesedge estate with her brother Arien, she expects the monstrous young lord Rowan Sylvanan, rumoured to have drowned his own family. Instead she finds a boy bound by a terrible pact to the Lord Under, the death god who lurks beneath the black water, and discovers that her own connection to the darkness may be far deeper than she imagined.
Share the most of what makes Lakesedge work.

Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity, forbidden love & dark magic.

Brigid Kemmerer · Defy the Night #1
Shares enemies to lovers, forced proximity, morally grey & forbidden love.

Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love, dark magic & morally grey.

Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love, forced proximity & morally grey.

Kerri Maniscalco · Kingdom of the Wicked #2
Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love, forced proximity & morally grey.

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

Maggie Stiefvater · The Raven Cycle #2
Shares forbidden love, dark magic & morally grey.

Laini Taylor · Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2
Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love & morally grey.

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

Marie Rutkoski · The Winner's Trilogy #3
Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love & morally grey.

Rin Chupeco · The Bone Witch #2
Shares enemies to lovers, dark magic & morally grey.

Hafsah Faizal · Sands of Arawiya #2
Shares enemies to lovers, morally grey & dark magic.