Books Like Underkeeper

A trinket merchant bargains with a forgotten god for cursed relics, gaining power to hunt his enemies—if the artifacts don’t destroy him first.

Alex Roth fights the gods’ curse that cripples his magic—by weaponizing the very limitations meant to break him.

Kalen must master his volatile magic and untangle his stolen memories to discover if he’s the prophesied Orellen heir—or just another decoy marked for death.

A half-breed criminal with slow-burning magic claws his way through a cutthroat city, balancing vengeance and survival with a club and a code.

A mute skáld regains his stolen magic through forbidden blood rites, turning the arena that broke him into his forge of vengeance.

A sickly royal bastard becomes a modern gamer trapped in his favorite RPG, armed with wiki knowledge but racing against a looming apocalypse.

Dorian must master his forbidden magic at the deadly Windshriek Academy, where every lesson could make him the Empire’s weapon—or its next corpse.

A man bonded to a sentient shadow that devours darkness must master its hunger before it consumes him in a world of eternal twilight.

Tyron must master the forbidden Book of the Dead before its whispers consume him or the world destroys him for wielding it.

A corporate dropout stumbles into Veresavir, where forgotten magic and lurking horrors demand survival before mastery of the arcane.

Johannes Volkner wields a spirit-binding ability in Heliopolis, where magic and technology merge and time itself is unraveling.

A snarky isekai survivor battles eldritch horrors and moral dilemmas as his dark powers grow stronger than his conscience.