If the way Charm uses the secrets of Orchard House to navigate the emperor’s dying command and sway a brutal succession fight hooked you, you’ll love how Phèdre nó Delaunay turns pleasure, debt, and information into weapons amid treacherous nobles and shifting alliances in Kushiel’s Dart. The stakes are personal and political, the power games are razor-edged, and the courtesan’s vantage point makes every whisper matter.

If you were drawn to Charm’s bone-grown companions and her grim, step-by-step hunt for the emperor’s killer in sealed halls, Gideon the Ninth delivers that same nerve-prickling mix of necromancy and whodunit. Gideon and Harrow are trapped in a decaying mansion, picking through occult clues and bodies as secrets pile up—much like Charm parsing lies and loyalties under the palace’s shadow.

If the fragmented selves of Charm—embodied as Justice, Pride, Pain, Desire, and Shame—and the pressure that molds her mind captivated you, Vita Nostra dives even deeper. Sasha Samokhina is pushed by an enigmatic mentor into metaphysical exercises that warp thought, identity, and reality, echoing Charm’s psychologically harrowing journey toward self-mastery under forces that demand obedience.

If the dangerous elasticity of Charm’s bonecraft—and the terrible costs when rules are broken—stuck with you, The Death of Jane Lawrence takes that gothic dread and turns the screws. Jane’s marriage leads her into a locked surgery and forbidden ritual work, where precise, clinical magic curdles into something ruinous—much like the way Orchard House’s arts blur healing, control, and harm.

If Charm’s compartmentalized boneghosts and the hints of memories walled off for survival gripped you, The Binding explores identity through the literal removal of memory into handcrafted books. As Emmett uncovers what was taken from him, the revelations reshape his past and present—mirroring the way Charm’s hidden truths redefine her choices in the imperial murder and its aftermath.