What are the best Right Person Wrong Time books?

Some of the best right person wrong time books include Oleander by Scarlet Drake, The Cure for Drowning by Loghan Paylor, The Seer and the Sword by Victoria Hanley, Lost and Found by Lori L. Otto, That Green-Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan. You can browse the full list on MoodReads, filtered by spice level, content warnings, and more.

What is Right Person Wrong Time in romance?

Right Person Wrong Time is a recurring plot pattern or character dynamic that readers love to seek out in romantasy books. MoodReads lets you browse books by this category with detailed metadata including spice levels, tropes, and content warnings.

Right Person Wrong Time Books

27 romantasy books with this trope

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Oleander

Scarlet Drake

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️·first person

second chancehidden past revealedright person wrong time

The Cure for Drowning

Loghan Paylor

🌶️🌶️·dual POV

forbidden lovesecond chancereconnecting after tragedy

The Seer and the Sword

Healer and Seer, #1

Victoria Hanley

🌶️🌶️·multi-POV

forbidden lovehidden identitysecret heir/royalty

Lost and Found

Emi Lost & Found, #1

Lori L. Otto

🌶️🌶️·first person·✓

friends to loverscollege romanceright person wrong time

That Green-Eyed Girl

Julie Owen Moylan

🌶️🌶️🌶️·dual POV

forbidden lovesecret relationshiproommates

The Mercy of Thin Air

Ronlyn Domingue

🌶️·first person

right person wrong timeforbidden lovetime-spanning love

Witchlore

Emma Hinds

🌶️🌶️🌶️·first person

dark romancehidden identitymagic bond

The First Lie

The Lying Game, #0.5

Sara Shepard

💕🚪·first person

secret relationshipright person wrong time

Yesterday Is History

Kosoko Jackson

🌶️·first person

love triangleright person wrong timetime travel romance

300 New Year's Eves

K.C. Carmichael

🌶️🌶️🌶️·first person

time travel romancesecond chanceholiday romance

Lucy Undying

Kiersten White

🌶️·epistolary / mixed media

hidden past revealedreincarnation romanceright person wrong time

Another Day

Every Day, #2

David Levithan

💕🚪·first person

hidden identitysecret relationshipforbidden love

Hold Back The Stars

Katie Khan

🌶️·third person

forbidden loveforced proximitysurvival romance

Between the Pines

Amber Palmer

🌶️🌶️🌶️·dual POV·✓

second chanceforced proximityhomecoming / small town return

The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah

🌶️🌶️·third person

survival romanceforbidden lovechildhood sweethearts reunited

Lilac Girls

Woolsey-Ferriday, #1

Martha Hall Kelly

🌶️🌶️·multi-POV

second chanceright person wrong time

The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd

💕🚪·dual POV

forbidden loveright person wrong time

Daisy Jones & The Six

Reidverse, #2

Taylor Jenkins Reid

🌶️🌶️·epistolary / mixed media·✓

right person wrong time

Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1)

The Crimson Moth, #1

Kristen Ciccarelli

🌶️🌶️🌶️·dual POV

forbidden lovehidden identityfake dating

The Unmaking of June Farrow

Adrienne Young

🌶️·first person

hidden past revealedright person wrong timesecret relationship

Under the Whispering Door

T.J. Klune

💕🚪·third person

forced proximityreconnecting after tragedyright person wrong time

November 9

Colleen Hoover

🌶️🌶️🌶️·dual POV

right person wrong timehidden past revealedsecond chance

The Shoemaker's Wife

Adriana Trigiani

💕🚪·third person·✓

childhood sweethearts reunitedsecond chanceright person wrong time

The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon

💕🚪·dual POV

right person wrong timefirst loveopposites attract

Summer Sisters

Judy Blume

🌶️🌶️🌶️·third person

summer flingfirst lovesecond chance

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️·first person

forbidden lovelove trianglesecond chance

Fearful

The Powerless Trilogy, #3.5

Lauren Roberts

💕🚪·dual POV·✓

forbidden loveimmortal/mortal romancecursed love interest

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