
The Winner's Crime
Marie Rutkoski · The Winner's Trilogy #2
Shares forbidden love, enemies to lovers, court intrigue & morally grey. Same author, too.
Read-alikes
The Winner's Kiss is enemies to lovers, forbidden love & court intrigue — sweet (1/5), 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.
In the final book of the Winner's Trilogy, war has erupted between Valoria and the Herrani people: Arin fights on the front lines believing Kestrel has betrayed him, while Kestrel herself is imprisoned in a brutal northern work camp, stripped of her memory and her identity. When their paths collide again, both must navigate a fractured trust, a stolen past, and the cost of a war neither truly chose.
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Marie Rutkoski · The Winner's Trilogy #2
Shares forbidden love, enemies to lovers, court intrigue & morally grey. Same author, too.

Marie Rutkoski · The Winner's Trilogy #1
Shares forbidden love, enemies to lovers, court intrigue & morally grey. Same author, too.

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

Brigid Kemmerer · Cursebreakers #2
Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love, court intrigue & morally grey.

Danielle L. Jensen · The Bridge Kingdom #3
Shares enemies to lovers, forbidden love, morally grey & court intrigue.

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

S.A. Chakraborty · The Daevabad Trilogy #3
Shares morally grey, forbidden love & court intrigue.

S.A. Chakraborty · The Daevabad Trilogy #2
Shares court intrigue, morally grey & forbidden love.

Holly Black · The Folk of the Air #2
Shares enemies to lovers, court intrigue & morally grey.

Leigh Bardugo · King of Scars Duology #2
Shares forbidden love, court intrigue & morally grey.

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

Lynette Noni · The Prison Healer #2
Shares enemies to lovers, court intrigue & morally grey.