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Romantasy

Romantasy is conquering the reading world with its intriguing mix of romance and fantasy. If you're looking for the hottest spice or cozy feelgood reads, epic world building and powerful magic, feisty female protagonists to Dark Fae and everything in between then this is the list for you.

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  • Book three in the hugely popular Empyrean series. Onyx Storm picks up straight from the shocking cliffhanger ending of Iron Flame. Dragon riders Violet and Xaden, the seemingly doomed lovers face their greatest battle yet, as they search…
    BookLondon : Piatkus, 2025. — FANTASY
  • Book one in the Fae & Alchemy series. Forced to fight for survival in her unforgiving homeland, Saeris Fane is sentanced to death by duel for stealing. She opens to door to the fae realm by accident and is taken away by the dark shadow…
    Book[San Diego, California] : [Callie Hart], [2024] — ROMANCE
  • Book one in the Saga of the Unfated duology takes romantasy to the realms of Norse mythology. Freya is trapped in an abusive marriage, in a dead-end fishing village, with dreams of becoming a Shield Maiden when the fates intervene. She is…
    BookNew York : Del Rey, [2024] — FANTASY
  • Allie Hazelwood has serious contemporary romance credibility. She brings with this her in this laid back, funny and engaging story of Misery Lark, daughter of the powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest forced to marry the Alpha…
    BookLondon : Sphere, 2024. — ROMANCE
  • Book One in the Moonfall series by Kiwi author Sarah A Parker is fantastic for anyone just getting into romantasy, it has a feisty female main character, the brooding love interest, magic, and of course dragons! It's quite heavy on the…
    BookLondon : Harper Voyager, 2024. — 823 PAR
  • Book Six in the Dark Olympus series, which takes characters from Greek mythology, in this case Orpheus, Eurydice and Charon as a throuple and places them into the contemporary fantasy setting of Olympus city. Very hot spice, character…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Casablanca, [2024] — ROMANCE
  • A light cosy romantasy about a kitchen Witch Dina Whitlock, who has a slight problem! Anyone that has romantic feelings for her is cursed with bad luck due to a hex, and she's just met Scott Mason who could be the "One". Lightly spiced,…
    BookLondon : Del Rey, 2024. — ROMANCE
  • Marigold Claude was never really into love, so when her grandmother takes her to train as the Honey Witch of Innisfree her life seems complete. That is until Lottie Burke a grumpy skeptic arrives on the Island and Marigold falls for her…
    BookLondon : Orbit, 2024. — FANTASY
  • Book one in the Heavenly Bodies Trilogy. Elara of the Dark Kingdom is prophesied to fall for a Star, one of the cruel gods of her world and both will die. Taken to the Kingdom of Light when one of the Stars hunts her to prevent the…
    Book[London] : Viking, 2024. — FANTASY
  • Fae! Dark Gods! Prisca a mortal woman hiding a forbidden magic, Lorian a mercenary hiding secrets of his own! This is a ripping yarn along the lines of From Blood and Ash the first book in the Kingdom of Lies series will have you hanging…
    Book[Place of publication not identified] : [Bingeable Books LLC], [2023] — FANTASY
  • Set in a fictional island off the coast of Aotearoa-New Zealand, two years after a magical event, The Unraveling, revels monsters and their hidden world. Van a hybrid Werewolf/Wolf shifter reconnects, after years apart with garden designer…
    Book[Place of publication not identified] : [Allegra Hall], [2023]. — FANTASY
  • Orphan Talasyn, holds the power of light magic that can overthrow the dark power of the Night Empire that threatens to consumer her nation. Prince Alaric has been forged into a weapon to crush the enemies of the Night Empire, when they…
    BookNew York : Harper Voyager, [2023] — FANTASY
  • This wickedly humorous and lighthearted romantasy sees the delightful Evie Sage take on a job as an assistant to a notorious villain. Low in spice, high in tension this will have you laughing out loud and hooked until the last page. For…
    BookLondon : Penguin Books, 2023. — FANTASY
  • The first book in the Crown of Nyaxia series introduces us to Oraya, the adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, and Raihn, the ruthless and captivating vampire from a rival vampire house. Spicy, brutal, heart-wrenching…
    Book[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2022] — FANTASY
  • The Queen of Romantasy's first adult fiction work is a continuation of the now legendary YA ACOTAR series. The spice levels are high, as are the stakes for feisty Nesta Archeron, unhappy with being forced to become a High Fae against her…
    BookLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. — FANTASY
  • In book one of the Blood and Ash series we meet Poppy, a sheltered but feisty maiden destined for sacrifice to Vampiric elder gods, discovers passion and power when she meets a mysterious guard who is more than he seems. This gripping…
    Book[Place of publication not identified] : Blue Box Press, [2020] — FANTASY
  • What happens when a witch and a vampire break an ancient taboo and become lovers? Diana has kept the world of the paranormal away, as facing the truth means she has to remember the death of her parents. When she accidently encounters a…
    BookLondon : Headline, 2011. — FANTASY