If the way Regeane’s hidden wolf nature prowls beneath the surface of 8th‑century Rome gripped you, you’ll love how The Golem and the Jinni threads folklore creatures into 1890s New York. Like Regeane masking what she is amid churchmen and scheming kin, Chava and Ahmad must conceal their true selves while navigating immigrant communities, old-world taboos, and the dangers of exposure. The magic stays mysterious and grounded, but the human stakes—identity, belonging, and the peril of discovery—burn just as hot.

You were drawn into Regeane’s betrothal being used as a pawn by her ambitious cousin and the snarling factions around Rome and the Franks. In Kushiel’s Dart, Phèdre is likewise maneuvered through courts where every flirtation is a cipher and every vow has teeth. The lethal pageantry of spies, clergy, and nobles mirrors the intrigue you enjoyed—only here the plots sprawl across nations, with betrayals and counterplots as sharp as anything Hugo tried to spring on Regeane.

If you admired how Regeane endures captivity, threats, and an unwanted marriage while holding tight to her own will, Daughter of the Forest offers that same steel. Sorcha faces a brutal enchantment, predatory men, and a love that must be protected in silence—echoing Regeane’s tightrope walk between her humanity and the beast, and the cost of defying those who would control her body and future.

Regeane’s nocturnal hunts through Rome—half ecstasy, half peril—balance hunger with conscience. Interview with the Vampire dives into that same shadowed tension. Louis wrestles with the price of feeding and the ache of remaining human while living as a creature of the night. If the stark, bloody beauty of Regeane’s transformations and the weight of secrecy spoke to you, this gothic confession will feel hauntingly familiar.

Part of the thrill in The Silver Wolf is walking Rome’s alleys, feeling the Church’s reach, and sensing the pressure of Frankish and Lombard power on Regeane’s fate. The Lions of Al-Rassan delivers that same immersive sweep: courts and border cities alive with clashing beliefs, physicians and soldiers weighed down by history, and love entangled with duty. If the texture of place—the way politics and faith hemmed in Regeane—captivated you, Kay’s worldbuilding will pull you under just as deeply.