Someone is not who they claim to be.
A thief posing as a noble, a prince in disguise, a vampire passing as human. Secret identities create dramatic irony and a guaranteed confrontation when the mask slips.
Kenneth Grahame
Mark Twain
Frank Belknap Long
Mark Twain
Elisabetta Dami
Mark Twain
Carole Mortimer
Barbara Cartland
Lisa Kleypas
Johanna Lindsey
W. C. Tuttle
Johanna Lindsey
Barbara Cartland
Shannon Hale
Alexandra Adornetto
Anthony Hope
Lynsay Sands, Kieron Elliott
Mary Balogh
Julie Anne Long
Kat Martin
Barbara Cartland
P. Djèlí Clark, Rebeca Cardeñoso
Lynsay Sands
Anne Barbour
Christina Dodd
Celeste Bradley
Mary Moore
Colin McNaughton
William H. Hooks
Jayne Ann Krentz
Elizabeth Dawson Baker
Lori Foster
Donald E. Westlake
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Anthony Hope
Katherine Cecil Thurston
Maya Snow
Barbara Cartland
Robert E. Howard
Lisa Jewell
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Don Winslow
Lora Leigh
George Barr McCutcheon
Grace Livingston Hill
Alice Duer Miller
Arthur W. Marchmont
Thomas Hardy
Someone is not who they claim to be. A thief posing as a noble, a prince in disguise, a vampire passing as human. Secret identities create dramatic irony and a guaranteed confrontation when the mask slips.
Popular secret identity books include The Wind in the Willows (1908), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), Space Station 1, Life on the Mississippi (1883) and Giù le zampe, faccia di fontina! (2000).