Books like To Play with Fire

To Play with Fire by Flora Kidd reads as passionate, dramatic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Madam, Will You Talk?

Mary Stewart · 1954

Both explore danger & secrets

60% genome match

Window on the Square

Phyllis A. Whitney · 1962

Both explore secrets & danger

66% genome match

A Tall Dark Stranger

Joan Smith · 1995

Both explore secrets & danger

66% genome match

The Butterfly and the Baron

Margaret Way · 1979

Both explore independence

68% genome match

Winterwood

Dorothy Eden · 1967

Both explore secrets

61% genome match

Tarnished Gold

V.C. Andrews · 1996

Both explore forbidden-love

59% genome match

The Demon Lover (Chivers Sound Library)

Eleanor Burford · 1982

Both explore secrets & danger

60% genome match

A presence in an empty room

Velda Johnston · 1980

Both explore secrets

63% genome match

The Grey Beginning

Barbara Michaels · 1984

Both explore secrets & danger

60% genome match

Lady Aurelia's Bequest

Sheila F. Walsh · 1987

Same romance feel

58% genome match

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Both explore independence & secrets

53% genome match

House of Scorpio

Pat Wallace · 1975

Both explore secrets & danger

61% genome match