If you loved how Joy and Felix discover Earth’s pop culture—and how music and shared art become their lifeline while they’re fugitives—The Sound of Stars hits the same notes. Janelle hides a secret library under alien occupation, and alien commander Morris risks everything for the songs and stories that bind them. Like Joy and Felix’s mind-bond that grows into love after the royal assassinations, Janelle and Morris find hope and defiance through art, turning quiet moments into a revolution.

Joy Abara and Duke Felix Hamdi’s flight across planets—and their slow shift from uneasy partners to something deeper—echoes the spark between heiress Lilac LaRoux and soldier Tarver Merendsen when they crash on a mysterious planet. Like Joy challenging Felix’s privilege after the palace massacre, Tarver pushes Lilac beyond her gilded world, and their survival story turns intimate, tender, and swoony.

If the close focus on Joy and Felix—trading secrets, cooking up plans on the run, and choosing each other—was your favorite part, The Darkness Outside Us gives that same pulse-pounding intimacy. Stranded on a damaged ship, Ambrose and Kodiak begin as enemies, then piece together a conspiracy as their bond strengthens. Like Joy and Felix navigating danger after the royal assassinations, every quiet conversation becomes a lifeline—and every revelation raises the stakes.

Loved switching between Joy and Felix’s voices—the duke and the commoner—while their mind-bond complicates everything? Defy the Stars alternates between Noemi, a soldier from a rebel colony, and Abel, a uniquely conscious mech. Their forced partnership echoes Joy and Felix’s flight: banter turns into trust, and across skirmishes and star systems, each chapter peels back prejudice to reveal unexpected tenderness.

If the assassination that frames Felix and throws Joy into imperial crosshairs grabbed you, The Diabolic gives you the full, razor-edged court. Nemesis enters the galactic throne world under a false identity, where backstabbing nobles and shifting alliances rival the plotters who target Joy and Felix. The intrigue is relentless, and like their fight to expose the truth, Nemesis must decide how far she’ll go to protect the person she loves.