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SJPL Picks: Romantasy

Looking for fantasy with a heavy dose of spice? Enemies to lovers...Fated mates...Forced proximity...Forbidden love... Whatever you are into, look no further for a list of the hottest, steamiest titles that are sure to make your heart pound and your temperature rise. Selected and curated by SJPL Librarians.

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  • After discovering that she is a shield maiden who can repel any attack, a fanatical jarl binds Freya with a blood oath to protect Skaland.
    BookNew York : Del Rey, 2024. — SF/FAN Jensen
  • Marlow needs to believe she's crazy. The alternative would mean embracing the gift-or curse-shared by her mother and grandmother: she can see angels and demons, including a dark and haunting entity who's been with Marlow her entire life.…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Bloom Books, [2024] — SF/FAN PiperCJ
  • In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare…
    BookToronto, Ontario : Mira, [2024] — SF/FAN Huang
  • Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she's fished out of the waters by…
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — FICTION Robert
  • A fast-paced fantasy romance featuring an immersive, vibrant world with mysterious creatures, a unique magic system, and a love that blazes through the ages.
    BookNew York : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — SF/FAN Parker
  • A Song to Drown Rivers is an epic historical fantasy about womanhood, war, sacrifice, and love against all odds as the fate of two kingdoms hangs in a delicate balance.
    BookNew York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — FICTION Liang
  • To avoid a ruinous scandal after one desperate mistake, Miss Camilla Antonius enters a devil's bargain with the Prince of Envy, who whisks her away to the Underworld where her true nature is awakened-and where they must avoid the most…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — SF/FAN Maniscal
  • With ailing family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn's most infamous Villain results in a job offer--naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even…
    BookShrewsbury, PA : Red Tower Books, 2023. — SF/FAN Maehrer
  • For humans and vampires, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always - always - guard your heart. The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill…
    BookNew York : Bramble, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — SF/FAN Broadben
  • The heart is a battlefield. War has raged for a decade in Lir, and orphaned soldier Talasyn has learned to keep her powers hidden to survive. As the last known Lightweaver on the continent, she can create radiant weapons that cut through…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2023] — SF/FAN Guanzon
  • Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of…
    BookShrewsbury, PA : Red Tower Books 2023. — SF/FAN Yarros
  • Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Bloom Books, [2022] — SF/FAN Thalassa
  • Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion-otherwise known as…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2020] — SF/FAN Maas
  • Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. All of that…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Bloom Books, [2021] — FICTION St.Clair