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1,113 past books matching Romantasy
Princess Thanh returns from years as a political hostage carrying memories of a forbidden romance and the haunting magic of a palace fire.
Fireheart Tiger
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Princess Thanh returns from years as a political hostage carrying memories of a forbidden romance and the haunting magic of a palace fire. Now a diplomat, she must face Eldris—her charismatic former love whose ambitions threaten Thanh’s homeland. As desire and danger intertwine, Thanh is tempted to seize her own power at last. Fireheart Tiger is a lush, intimate tale of romance and rebellion.
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Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with Fireheart Tiger, a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The Goblin Emperor meets Howl's Moving Castle in a pre-colonial Vietnamese-esque world.
A British Science Fiction Award winner! A finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte Awards!
A Most Anticipated Pick for Buzzfeed | Mary Sue | Nerd Daily | FanFi Addict
Fire burns bright and has a long memory….
Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the powerful faraway country of Ephteria as a child. Now she’s returned to her mother's imperial court, haunted not only by memories of her first romance, but by worrying magical echoes of a fire that devastated Ephteria’s royal palace.
Thanh's new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful and magnetic Eldris of Ephteria, who knows exactly what she wants: romance from Thanh and much more from Thanh’s home. Eldris won't take no for an answer, on either front. But the fire that burned down one palace is tempting Thanh with the possibility of making her own dangerous decisions.
Can Thanh find the freedom to shape her country’s fate—and her own?
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In Rabu, where the Automae rule the humans they once served, Ayla secretly plots to kill Lady Crier to avenge her family.
Crier’s War
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult · Lesbian Romance
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In Rabu, where the Automae rule the humans they once served, Ayla secretly plots to kill Lady Crier to avenge her family. But Crier—Made to be flawless and loyal—discovers unsettling truths about her father, her betrothal, and her own purpose. As rebellion brews and their connection deepens, the two girls face a choice that could ignite a revolution.
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From debut author Nina Varela comes the first book in a richly imagined epic fantasy duology about an impossible love between two girls—one human, one Made—whose romance could be the beginning of a revolution.
Perfect for fans of Marie Rutkoski’s The Winner’s Curse as well as Game of Thrones and Westworld.
After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, designed to be the playthings of royals, usurped their owners’ estates and bent the human race to their will.
Now Ayla, a human servant rising in the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging her family’s death…by killing the sovereign’s daughter, Lady Crier.
Crier was Made to be beautiful, flawless, and to carry on her father’s legacy. But that was before her betrothal to the enigmatic Scyre Kinok, before she discovered her father isn’t the benevolent king she once admired, and most importantly, before she met Ayla.
Now, with growing human unrest across the land, pressures from a foreign queen, and an evil new leader on the rise, Crier and Ayla find there may be only one path to love: war.
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A hidden survivor of a magical disaster, Annika vows never to bond again.
Oath of Betrayal
Romantasy
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A hidden survivor of a magical disaster, Annika vows never to bond again. But when monsters breach the failing Barrier, she draws the eye of a relentless dragon rider and the fae necromancer who shadows him. Both awaken power she can no longer deny. With 4.2 stars on Amazon and high Goodreads praise, this is romantic epic fantasy with dragons.
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A multi-POV slow-burn romantic epic fantasy with a dark Slavic twist, unique magic, dragons, forced proximity, and enchanting world-building. Perfect for fans of The Bridge Kingdom, Blood and Steel and The Witcher
The dragon chose her. The rider would claim her. The fae would use her. To fight for herself, she may have to watch the world burn.
Sole survivor of a magical catastrophe that fractured the Barrier and killed the men she loved, Annika swore never to take another bond. To stay hidden from those who crave her power, she fakes her death and vanishes into obscurity.
But her magic is restless. A dragon haunts her dreams, and monsters are slipping through the cracks in the Barrier her magic created.
When a brutal attack forces her hand, Annika reveals the truth she’s fought to bury—drawing the attention of the ruthless Commander of the Dragon Riders and his dark fae Necromancer.
Both are men of war, forged in blood and duty. Their touch may be gentle, their eyes kind, but to them, she is a weapon—the first woman ever chosen by a dragon, whose magic cannot be contained by one bond alone.
Torn between the Commander, who ignites her power, and the Necromancer, who tempers its inferno, Annika must decide if her heart can bear another bond...
If she denies it, the Barrier will fall, and the kingdom she swore to protect will burn to ash.
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Fire witch and small-time swindler Dellaria Wells talks her way into guarding a wealthy bride-to-be, joining a motley crew of magically gifted women.
The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Fire witch and small-time swindler Dellaria Wells talks her way into guarding a wealthy bride-to-be, joining a motley crew of magically gifted women. What begins as quick money—and a promising flirtation with the refined Winn Cynallum—turns perilous when undead threats and dark conspiracies emerge. With unlikely allies at her side, Delly must outwit an enemy with powerful connections.
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A Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Book of the Year
Sparks fly in this enchanting fantasy novel from the author of Unnatural Magic when a down-and-out fire witch and a young gentlewoman join forces against a deadly conspiracy.
Dellaria Wells, petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch, is behind on her rent in the city of Leiscourt—again. Then she sees the “wanted” sign, seeking Female Persons, of Martial or Magical ability, to guard a Lady of some Importance, prior to the celebration of her Marriage. Delly fast-talks her way into the job and joins a team of highly peculiar women tasked with protecting their wealthy charge from unknown assassins.
Delly quickly sets her sights on one of her companions, the confident and well-bred Winn Cynallum. The job looks like nothing but romance and easy money until things take a deadly (and undead) turn. With the help of a bird-loving necromancer, a shapeshifting schoolgirl, and an ill-tempered reanimated mouse named Buttons, Delly and Winn are determined to get the best of an adversary who wields a twisted magic and has friends in the highest of places.
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Raised in the wild wood by her secretive mother, a young woman feels called to Artos’s court and sets out armed with a stolen spear and fierce, untested…
Spear
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Raised in the wild wood by her secretive mother, a young woman feels called to Artos’s court and sets out armed with a stolen spear and fierce, untested magic. Along the way, she battles warriors and sorcerers, claims desire and destiny on her own terms, and forges a place in the world. Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a lush, modern, queer reimagining of Arthurian legend.
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Winner of the ADCI Literary Prize
Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize
Finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the HWA Gold Crown Award for Historical Fiction
"[A] queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era."—Los Angeles Times
"A pleasure to follow [and] a lovely flexing of Griffith’s strengths in short form." —The New York Times Book Review
“Spectacular—I've been waiting years for this book to exist.” —Maria Dahvana Headley, author of Beowulf: A New Translation
"If Le Guin wrote a Camelot story, I imagine it would feel like Spear: humane, intelligent, and deeply beautiful. It's a new story with very old bones, a strange place that feels like home." —Alix E. Harrow, author of A Spindle Splintered
A Shelf Awareness Best of the Year pick
A Vulture Best Fantasy of the Year pick
She left all she knew to find who she could be . . .
She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with promise. And when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she decides her future lies at his court. So, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and sets out on her bony gelding for Caer Leon.
With her stolen hunting spear and mended armour, she is an unlikely hero, not a chosen one, but one who forges her own bright path. Aflame with determination, she begins a journey of magic and mystery, love, lust and fights to death. On her adventures, she will steal the hearts of beautiful women, fight warriors and sorcerers, and make a place to call home.
The legendary author of Hild returns with an unforgettable hero and a queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era. Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a spellbinding vision of the Camelot we've longed for, a Camelot that belongs to us all.
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When a royal edict bans men from the stage, director Sabajan Hollant is determined to keep her all-female troupe out of trouble and in their patron’s good graces.
Some by Virtue Fall
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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When a royal edict bans men from the stage, director Sabajan Hollant is determined to keep her all-female troupe out of trouble and in their patron’s good graces. But rival players refuse to let old grudges die, dragging Saba into a spiraling feud of sabotage, schemes, and revenge. Now the Lord Chancellor’s Players must fight back—with style, talent, and grit.
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By the King’s Edict, men have been banned from performing on stage.
Everyone else is still out for blood.
Sabajan Hollant, director and co-founder of the celebrated Lord Chancellor’s Players, has one resolution: This time they’re going to do it right. If they want to keep their noble patron—hell, if they want to stay in the theater business at all—they’re going to have to keep their hands clean. No accidents, no rising to other troupes’ provocations and taunts, and certainly no more duelling in the streets.
But their arch-rivals have different plans, and soon enough, Saba and her troupe are caught up once again in an escalating drama of revenge, betrayal, and outright sabotage.
The men may have started this war—but Saba and her remaining players are going to end it.
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Marion Shaw escapes the slums by accepting a position as a bloodmaid in the opulent, dangerous House of Hunger, where nobles drink the lifeblood of their servants.
House of Hunger
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Marion Shaw escapes the slums by accepting a position as a bloodmaid in the opulent, dangerous House of Hunger, where nobles drink the lifeblood of their servants. Captivated by the alluring Countess Lisavet, Marion is drawn into a world of decadence and peril. As dark secrets emerge, she must learn the house’s brutal rules before she becomes its next sacrifice.
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WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.
A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.
Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she know. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper seeking a bloodmaid.
Though she knows little about the far north—where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service—Marion applies to the position. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery. At the center of it all is Countess Lisavet.
The countess, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when she discovers that the ancient walls of the House of Hunger hide even older secrets, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home—and fast—or its halls will soon become her grave.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to Egyptian-inspired fantasy, elemental magic, women's rights movements, and political change.
The Daughters of Izdihar
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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Waterweaver Nehal wants to study her magic but is forced into marriage because of her family's debts, while earthweaver Giorgina secretly works with the Daughters of Izdihar, a movement fighting for women's rights. Their lives converge as they push for greater freedom in a society where elemental magic and women's independence are both restricted, with a 3.7-star average from more than 3,700 Goodreads ratings. A sharp fit for readers drawn to Egyptian-inspired fantasy, elemental magic, women's rights movements, and political change.
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From debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, about two young women—Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing—who find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic
As a waterweaver, Nehal can move and shape any water to her will, but she’s limited by her lack of formal education. She desires nothing more than to attend the newly opened Weaving Academy, take complete control of her powers, and pursue a glorious future on the battlefield with the first all-female military regiment. But her family cannot afford to let her go—crushed under her father’s gambling debt, Nehal is forcibly married into a wealthy merchant family. Her new spouse, Nico, is indifferent and distant and in love with another woman, a bookseller named Giorgina.
Giorgina has her own secret, however: she is an earthweaver with dangerously uncontrollable powers. She has no money and no prospects. Her only solace comes from her activities with the Daughters of Izdihar, a radical women’s rights group at the forefront of a movement with a simple goal: to attain recognition for women to have a say in their own lives. They live very different lives and come from very different means, yet Nehal and Giorgina have more in common than they think. The cause—and Nico—brings them into each other’s orbit, drawn in by the group’s enigmatic leader, Malak Mamdouh, and the urge to do what is right.
But their problems may seem small in the broader context of their world, as tensions are rising with a neighboring nation that desires an end to weaving and weavers. As Nehal and Giorgina fight for their rights, the threat of war looms in the background, and the two women find themselves struggling to earn—and keep—a lasting freedom.
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As demons breach the Hokkaran Empire’s borders, two young warriors—Shefali of the Qorin steppes and the imperial heir Shizuka—must unite the strength of their intertwined destinies.
The Tiger’s Daughter
LGBTQIA+ · Romantasy · Lesbian Romance
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As demons breach the Hokkaran Empire’s borders, two young warriors—Shefali of the Qorin steppes and the imperial heir Shizuka—must unite the strength of their intertwined destinies. Raised together yet divided by culture and prophecy, they face an ancient evil threatening their world. The Tiger’s Daughter launches K Arsenault Rivera’s sweeping, romantic epic of devotion, power, and gods on the edge of war.
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K Arsenault Rivera's debut, The Tiger's Daughter, the beginning of a new epic fantasy trilogy
"Rich, expansive, and grounded in human truth...simply exquisite."—V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of the Shades of Magic series
Indie Next List October 2017 Pick
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Even gods can be slain
The Hokkaran empire has conquered every land within their bold reach—but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now, their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests.
Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.
This is the story of an infamous Qorin warrior, Barsalayaa Shefali, a spoiled divine warrior empress, O Shizuka, and a power that can reach through time and space to save a land from a truly insidious evil.
A crack in the wall heralds the end…two goddesses arm themselves…K Arsenault Rivera's The Tiger's Daughter is an adventure for the ages.
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Dylan fled Foxwood Hollow to escape years of unrequited longing for Axel, his brother’s best friend—and the alpha he’s never stopped wanting.
A Den Mate for Dylan
LGBTQIA+ · Gay Romance · Paranormal Romance
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Dylan fled Foxwood Hollow to escape years of unrequited longing for Axel, his brother’s best friend—and the alpha he’s never stopped wanting. Returning home reignites everything he tried to leave behind. For Axel, Dylan’s absence carved a void, and his return wakes instincts he’s denied for years. In their small fox-shifter town, longing and fate collide in a tender, slow-burn romance.
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Welcome to Foxwood Hollow. In a world of fox shifters sits a small, quaint town where everyone knows your business. Often stifling, always safe, and forever a place to call home.
Dylan
Axel is the love of my life; he just doesn’t know it yet.
Ten out of ten do not recommend spending your formative years pining after an alpha who’s your brother’s best friend. But alas, here we are.
My only solution is to leave Foxwood Hollow and start afresh. So what do I do when I have no choice but to return home, only to realise all of those years and miles haven’t doused the flame?
Axel
He’s your best friend’s little brother. He’s your best friend’s little brother.
It was a mantra I’d repeated to myself for years, ever since my brain had shifted from omega smells good to omega smells like mine.
I’m happy for Dylan when he leaves Foxwood Hollow to chase his dreams. I always knew he was destined for a life larger than this little town can offer him. But I feel his absence like a gaping chasm, and the silence that follows has my alpha instincts going into overdrive.
When Dylan finally comes home, a lot has changed. But the soul-deep longing is as present as ever.
Can I really let him slip through my fingers again?
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In Reluctant Concubine, a powerless young healer is captured by a ruthless warlord and thrust into a world where survival depends on silence, instinct, and secrets.
Reluctant Concubine
Romantasy · Epic Fantasy
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In Reluctant Concubine, a powerless young healer is captured by a ruthless warlord and thrust into a world where survival depends on silence, instinct, and secrets. As prophecies awaken and rival factions close in, Tera must choose between escape and a destiny tied to the High Lord who could destroy or protect her. A 4.3 star romantic fantasy favorite.
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"I devoured this book... The hero was...tough and strong and treated Tera with respect even when she couldn't find it in herself to accept him, but he was brutal and continued to be brutal. He was a warlord, not a courtier, and he was very consistent in his behavior. I loved that, all the characters were true to themselves." Romance Junky Review
Kidnapped and locked behind walls for being the last in a line of legendary healers, Tera must hide that she hasn't yet come into her healing powers.Then, just as she is about to escape, she catches the eye of the High Lord of the Kadar.
Born into a much gentler world, she has to fight to survive in a land of savage warlords and their cruel concubines. When ancient prophecies begin to come to pass, can she save the realm and awaken the High Lord’s heart?
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Kamai is a soulwalker, able to enter others’ sleeping souls—yet every journey leads her to the same forbidden black door.
Beyond the Black Door
Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Kamai is a soulwalker, able to enter others’ sleeping souls—yet every journey leads her to the same forbidden black door. Warned never to touch it, she breaks the rule after tragedy strikes and unleashes a force that knows her name. As court intrigue and dangerous secrets tighten around her, Kamai must confront a mystery that threatens her soul and her kingdom.
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Beyond the Black Door is a young adult dark fantasy about unlocking the mysteries around and within us—no matter the cost ...
Everyone has a soul. Some are beautiful gardens, others are frightening dungeons. Soulwalkers—like Kamai and her mother—can journey into other people's souls while they sleep.
But no matter where Kamai visits, she sees the black door. It follows her into every soul, and her mother has told her to never, ever open it.
When Kamai touches the door, it is warm and beating, like it has a pulse. When she puts her ear to it, she hears her own name whispered from the other side. And when tragedy strikes, Kamai does the unthinkable: she opens the door.
A.M. Strickland's imaginative dark fantasy features court intrigue and romance, a main character coming to terms with her asexuality, and twists and turns as a seductive mystery unfolds that endangers not just Kamai's own soul, but the entire kingdom ...
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“A beautiful tale of the dark mysteries that lurk in dreams, the heart, and the world. Strickland is a storyteller of both grace and power.” —Richard Kadrey, New York Times–bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series
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