BookTok’s favorite authors return with must-read new releases! From steamy enemies-to-lovers romances to magical fantasy worlds, these twelve titles deliver the addictive tropes that made you fall in love with these writers. No matter what you crave, these BookTok-approved stories promise to keep you scrolling #BookTok for your next reading obsession.
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A Broken Blade
9781529447996 | Union Square & Co | BPB
Melissa Blair
My body is made of scars,
some were done to me,
but most I did to myself.
Keera is a killer. As the King’s Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the king’s favoured assassin. When a mysterious figure moves against the Crown, Keera is called upon to hunt down the so-called Shadow. She tracks her target into the magical lands of the Fae, but Faeland is not what it seems . . . and neither is the Shadow. Keera is shocked by what she learns, and can’t help but wonder who her enemy truly is: the King that destroyed her people or the Shadow that threatens the peace?
As she searches for answers, Keera is haunted by a promise she made long ago, one that will test her in every way. To keep her word, Keera must not only save herself, but an entire kingdom.
Fans of fast-paced high fantasy such as A Court of Thorns and Roses series and Six of Crows will enjoy the fierce female characters, sapphic representation, and fantasy romance of A Broken Blade.
The Fallen Kingdom
9781035917174 | Aria | BPB
Elizabeth May
Rediscover the magic of the final book of The Falconer Trilogy ― now reimagined for adult romantasy fans with new spicy content!
Set in Victorian-era Scotland, this historical romantasy adventure will sweep you away
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Rise from the ashes. Rewrite fate. End the war.
The dead don’t stay buried. Not when ancient magic is involved.
Aileana Kameron claws free from her grave to find the world unraveling.
Tick tock. The clock’s winding down.
Only one relic can hold back the tide of destruction, a book hidden deep in hostile fae territory. Guarded by the Morrigan, the oldest, deadliest creature in existence.
Aileana has one chance to save humanity and the fae she loves: Kiaran MacKay, once her consort, now a king damned to insatiable hunger. As they fight their way through a dangerous realm, their bond will be pushed to the breaking point.
This is no fairytale quest. It’s life or death, with the fate of their worlds in the balance. If they fail, it’s over.
Their lives. The realms.
Everything.
A Forbidden Alchemy
9781398546912 | Simon & Schuster UK | TPB
Stacey McEwan
Australian BookTok star Stacey McEwan’s stunning new slow-burn romantasy duology traces a fated pair who stumble upon a world-changing secret in youth and are catapulted into a violent class war in adulthood, finding each other amidst love, loss and devasting betrayals.
Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are only twelve years old when they are whisked from their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to test for magical abilities. Nina’s lifelong dream is to become an Artisan, a powerful elemental mage who fulfills the city’s grand ambitions, while Patrick wants only to reunite with his family of Craftsmen in the mines.
But together, they discover a devastating secret: Artisans aren’t born, they’re chosen.
With this information, they part ways. Patrick returns home, while Nina finds her place as one of the rarest, most coveted types of Artisan.
When a Craftsman revolution ignites years later, Nina is captured by Patrick’s rebel group – and he hasn’t forgotten her. In fact, he needs her help for a mission that could shift the tides against Belavere City. She reluctantly agrees to aid him, battling the sparks between them. But when Nina’s first love reappears, asking her to betray Patrick for the Artisans, she faces an impossible choice that will determine the fate of their world.
A concoction of all the best romantasy tropes:
Elemental magic
Found family
Tension & Slow burn
Political Intrigue / Class War
The West Wind
9781398532557 | Simon & Schuster UK | BPB
Alexandria Warwick
From the author of The North Wind comes a darkly reimagined tale of forbidden love, inspired by the Greek myth of Hero and Leander and the Scottish ballad Tam Lin.
Brielle of Thornbrook has dedicated her life to the abbey. She spends her days forging iron and her evenings studying the Text, all in preparation of becoming an acolyte. Twenty-one years on this earth and she has never touched a man. And she never will.
But when she finds an injured stranger in the forest, Brielle can’t resist the urge to help him. The encounter leads her to the realm of Under, where the air breathes rot, and the fair folk dance and whisper. Where she discovers that the man she helped is actually a god: Zephyrus, the West Wind, Bringer of Spring.
There are few Brielle can trust in Under, least of all Zephyrus. He is charming, dangerously so, and never has a man so thoroughly ensnared her. As she embarks on a journey through the eerie banks and caves of Under, Brielle finds herself in a perilous situation. For here is where faith and heart collide – and where she risks not only her future… but her life.
Beloved by readers on TikTok, The West Wind is a standalone fantasy romance sprinkled with Greek lore, the second in the Four Winds series. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Scarlett St. Clair and Raven Kennedy.
The Bewitching
9781529441710 | Arcadia | TPB
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.
‘Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches’: that was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva – stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.
In the course of assembling her thesis, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay’s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story: decades earlier, during the Great Depression, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
As Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay’s manuscript, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch.
Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved.
Lore of the Tides
9780008685409 | HarperVoyager: Magpie | TPB
Analeigh Sbrana
The spellbinding, sultry conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling Lore of the Wilds
There is no escape for Lore Alemeyu, from her captors or her fate. Adrift and imprisoned at sea, with no one to turn to, the only hope for freedom – for herself and the humans – lies with the sun book.
Navigating threats onboard the ship and beneath the ocean’s dark depths, she will embark on a desperate and dangerous quest for the book. Because if she fails, it will make the Alytherian Fae even more powerful.
Yet, all the while, Lore can’t help but feel the intense pull of one fae. But does she dare risk her heart and her peoples’ future for their enemy?
Bonded by Thorns
9780008670573 | HarperVoyager: Magpie | BPB
Elizabeth Helen
Four handsome fae princes.
One awkward bookworm.
An Enchanted Vale.
A beastly curse to break.
Rosalina O’Connell lives her life in Orca Cove as quietly as she can.
When her father turns up missing, Rosie goes after him and finds herself in the Enchanted Vale, the land of the fae. Where her father has been imprisoned and Rosie has no choice but to make a deal with four fae Princes to take his place.
As Rosie begins to learn more about the four Princes, she discovers that they have been cursed. The Princes must take on the form of demonic wolves every night and with every year that passes, more of their magic fades away.
If the Princes can each find their mate, they will break their curse and free their realm. Rosie is determined to help them…
The only problem is, the more time she spends with the Princes, the more she’s convinced that she’s the one they’re all meant to be with.
A spicy Beauty and the Beast retelling filled with enchanted fae, morally grey characters, a stupidly hot villain and a princess who has found her Prince Charming. All four of them.
Spice 🥵:
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Tropes ✨:
Fated Mates 💘
Forced proximity 🙅♀️
Grumpy x sunshine 🌦️
Enemies to lovers ❤️🔥
Why choose ⁉️
Reverse harem 👩👨👨👨👨👨
Enchanted Castle 🏰
Awkward Sunshine FMC ☀️
Touch her and die 🔪
Magical Winter Solstice Ball ❄️
Sword crossing ⚔️
Hot Villain 🖤
