If you loved Dell Wells’s snarky asides, petty-fire-magic mishaps, and the way her bodyguard gig keeps turning into comedic disaster control—awkward courtship with Winn included—then Paladin’s Grace will feel like a warm, wicked wink. Stephen (a paladin of the White Rat) and Grace (a perfumer) scramble through assassins, political snares, and very inconvenient feelings with the same kind of quick-witted, soft-around-the-edges humor that made Dell’s protection detail and ballroom catastrophes so delightful.

You liked how Dell takes the bodyguard job mostly for coin, runs low-level cons, and still throws herself between killers and her crew—and how that mix of scruples and scheme drives the mystery of who’s targeting her client. In The Magpie Lord, Lucien Vaudrey (an exiled, scandal-soaked noble) and magician Stephen Day team up to unravel lethal curses in crumbling manor houses, making sticky choices that echo Dell’s do-the-right-thing-by-crooked-means energy while ratcheting up the peril and the passion.

If the all-lady bodyguard crew, Dell’s grit, and Winn’s steel-backed poise were your catnip, A Master of Djinn delivers that same thrill of competent women owning the room. Agent Fatma el-Sha’arawi navigates glamorously deadly parties, ritual killings, and mechanical marvels in a magically transformed Cairo, with allies who’ve got her back the way Dell’s team rallies during assassination attempts and ballroom ambushes.

If Dell and Winn’s slow-bloom courtship—trading dry quips between dress fittings, stakeouts, and near-misses—won you over, Half a Soul offers that same charm. Dora and the prickly magician Elias investigate faerie curses and social ills with sparkling banter and genuine warmth, blending swoon and sleuthing much like Dell’s protection detail turns into dances, duels, and feelings she didn’t budget for.

If Dell’s I-voiced narration—equal parts streetwise confession and cutting aside—hooked you while she chased arsonists and dodged killers in ballrooms, Isabella’s memoir in A Natural History of Dragons will scratch the same itch. Her candid, wry account of blundering fieldwork, social scandal, and scientific sleuthing mirrors the intimate, voice-driven pull that made Dell’s misadventures so addictive.