Books like Heart of Dread by Melissa De La Cruz

Six of Crows is a fantasy novel in the Grishaverse that follows a crew of thieves in the city of Ketterdam, a Dutch‑inspired port, told through the third‑person viewpoints of seven characters.

Ruby, a girl with mysterious powers, finds herself in a dangerous government camp run by the terrifying government of the Darkest Minds.

Carter and Sadie Kane must destroy the chaos snake Apophis, but their quest is threatened by a powerful magician who might guide them to their deaths instead.

In a world where magic once pulsed through every stone, children of Orïsha fight to reclaim their heritage after a tyrant extinguishes their powers and their people’s hope.

In *The Wishing Spell*, twin siblings are transported to a world where classic fairy‑tale characters live in unexpected roles—a warrior Red Riding Hood, a hidden Frog Prince, and a pregnant Snow White ruler—while they must navigate perilous lands to reach Snow White’s castle.

In a world ravaged by successive alien attacks, Cassie navigates a solitary highway to escape the terrorizing Them. When she meets the enigmatic Evan Walker, hope and danger collide as she must decide whether to trust him and fight for survival.

Isobel, a gifted portrait artist, sells favors to dangerous fair folk whose fascination with human craft threatens their power. When a spring prince commissions her, her art puts both of them in peril, forcing them to ally against the immortal courts.

Laia, a Scholar, infiltrates the Martial Empire’s elite military academy as a slave after her brother is jailed for treason, aided by rebel Scholars who promise to save him.

Harper, a young woman with cerebral palsy living in Washington, DC, is drawn into a magical realm where she must help Prince Rhen—cursed to relive his eighteenth year and turned monstrous—break his spell and save the kingdom.

After a dangerous vampire attack, 17‑year‑old Tana enters Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city, accompanied by her ex‑boyfriend and a mysterious vampire.

When armed killers crash Henry's unathletic survival camp, a stubborn teenager must rely on his growing confidence and survival skills to protect his friends in the wilderness.

Wisty and Whit Allgood, a brother and sister duo, discover a mysterious and magical stranger named Heath, setting them on a new adventure that challenges their relationship and reveals hidden powers.

121 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.590L Lexile

Seventeenth‑summer Brienna of Valenia must choose between passion and blood when a disgraced lord’s patronage entangles her in a plot to overthrow a rival king and restore the rightful queen to the northern throne.

Twin siblings Fiona and Jonah, both cured of a deadly disease, travel with friends Bowen and former neighbor Jacqui to locate their missing mother and distribute the cure, while raiders and a mysterious ally threaten their mission.

Thea, Freddy, Nan and Sigi find themselves caught in a revolution that ravages the city of Urobrun, where bodies line the streets and the looming danger of losing magic threatens to ruin their world.

Alex Sennefer’s mother summons the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead to bring her son back from death, only to unleash five Death Walkers that threaten New York and the world.

Three siblings, a Highland Scottish playboy and their friends battle an evil breakfast cereal empire that has kidnapped the Queen of England and threatens the world with magical milkcakes.

Two sisters seek help from magical mirrors to save Ferryport Landing from an evil plot.

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle, or the warm crackling of a fire, and swapping stories of ghosts and strange happenings. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors - master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring this time-honoured tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales. From a bustling Covent Garden Christmas market to the frosty moors of Yorkshire, from a country estate with a dreadful secret, to a London mansion where a beautiful girl lies frozen in death, these are stories to make your hair stand on end, send shivers down your spine and to serve as your indispensable companion to the long nights of winter. So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of The Haunting Season...

Twelve‑year‑old Rose Bliss and her siblings chase magical ingredients through Paris, preparing to out‑bake their evil aunt and reclaim the family’s enchanted cookbook.

262 pages ; 21 cm850L Lexile

Nicholas struggles to protect his family from dangerous magic and secrets during the rare Blood Moon ceremonies in a supernatural family adventure story suitable for young adults.

In an alternate world ruled by the Franco-British Empire, Princess Marie‑Victoria teams up with her childhood friend, a rogue mage, to thwart a forced political marriage and protect the realm's sole source of magic.

A teenager discovers her magical powers, but using them could lead to her downfall and loss of her long-time crush.

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a terrible surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi's wit and will get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she may be falling in love with a murderer.