The dark-romance canon — Twilight, Fifty Shades, Fourth Wing. The wish is to be wanted irresistibly by someone powerful and dangerous, chosen specifically out of everyone, and to redeem them through the love. The counterfeit eroticizes the powerful partner's controlling, possessive, or stalking behavior by framing it as proof of how much you matter — and lets the reader rehearse a relationship-dynamic that would be a warning sign if it were real.
Anchor works
Twilight; Fifty Shades; Beauty and the Beast; Fourth Wing; It Ends With Us (refusal-mode); Anna Todd's After (primary-text-pending counterfeit specimen)
Catalog detail — status & engines ↓
Status
Wikipedia-grounded (slot-tested via existing catalog entries)
Engines
being-desired + redemption + apotheosis at the narrative level, not recruitment