Read-alikes

Books Like The Inadequate Heir

The Inadequate Heir is enemies to lovers, forbidden love & morally grey — spicy (4/5), dual-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.

Zarrah, a Valcottan general driven by grief over her mother's murder at Veliant hands, commands the contested border city of Nerastis during a generations-long war. When anonymous nightly meetings with a Maridrinian stranger begin to fracture her certainty about justice and vengeance, the revelation of his identity — Keris Veliant, the bookish, reluctant heir to the enemy throne — forces both to choose between loyalty to their nations and the bond they have built in secret.