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Monty Jay goes back to school, and school is a battlefield. The Lies We Steal sets a forced engagement inside an elite school, then lets a revenge plot rot the floor beneath it. No light. Explicit heat. Lies stolen, traded and spent. If you want elite-campus cruelty with real stakes behind it, this is one of the sharper choices around.

The read-alikes below share that weather: Dark academy romance, Arranged marriage, Revenge romance, Gothic romance, Morally grey heroes, Enemies to lovers. Spice on The Lies We Steal is 4 of 5. Darkness is 5 of 5. Picks are scored on shared tropes, spice, darkness and trigger warnings, with no more than two from any one author. Each reason is ours, not a copied review.

  1. Also by Monty Jay, if it was the voice that hooked you. Shares the enemies to lovers, gothic and morally grey heroes thread. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, death.

  2. Also by Monty Jay, if it was the voice that hooked you. Same lanes: academy, enemies to lovers and morally grey heroes. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, death.

  3. Overlaps on academy, arranged marriage and morally grey heroes. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, bullying.

  4. Shares the enemies to lovers, morally grey heroes and revenge thread. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, death.

  5. Same lanes: enemies to lovers, morally grey heroes and revenge. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, death.

  6. Overlaps on academy, enemies to lovers and morally grey heroes. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, death.

  7. Shares the enemies to lovers, morally grey heroes and revenge thread. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, death.

  8. Same lanes: enemies to lovers, gothic and morally grey heroes. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, death.

  9. Overlaps on arranged marriage, enemies to lovers and revenge. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, death.

  10. Shares the academy, enemies to lovers and morally grey heroes thread. The same spice (4 of 5) and the same darkness (5 of 5). Similar warnings, including blood, death.

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Readers who liked The Lies We Steal usually stay in Dark academy romance, Arranged marriage, Revenge romance, Gothic romance, Morally grey heroes, Enemies to lovers. Each pick on this page has a short reason written here: the tropes and the spice and darkness scores they actually share.

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