Eight Spicy Dark Fantasy Romance Books To Fall Right Into

If Fourth Wing and Zodiac Academy had a baby, and we sprinkled some Arthurian legend and Dark Academia into it we’d have On Wings of Blood by Briar Boleyn.

Medra Pendragon wakes up in a pile of rubble and corpses with a human? Vampire? I don't believe it was confirmed what was hovering over her when she awakened, only that it wanted a taste of her and not in a good way. Thankfully, whatever it was was dispatched by Blake Drakharrow, Medra’s captor and soon-to-be-betrothed.

Despite saving Medra’s neck (literally), Medra doesn’t want Blake’s help, in any way; or does she? Forced to enroll in a school full of bloodthirsty vampires, the occasional dwarf, and few humans, Medra must fight her way through and emerge triumphant.

Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent is about a former slave who wants to fight for her people's freedom and the man who will help lift her up.

Tisannah thought she could buy her freedom back. Turns out her Master was joking with her since he didn't think she could actually do it until it would be too late, and whoops, Master is looking rather lifeless.

So Tisannah travels across the sea to a guild of magic wielders in hopes that they can help her, only to be dumped at the home of a grumpy and unsuspecting fire wielder, Maxantarius Farlione. Now she must complete an apprenticeship with him, or risk not achieving her dreams and saving her best friend, whom she left behind.

A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. Armentrout is about a daughter who was bargained away to the God of Death, only to discover the meaning of life.

Seraphena Mierel is ready for Death. In order to save her people and world from the Rot, Sera must become the Consort to the Primal of Death and make him fall in love with her, so that she can kill him.

But when the time comes for the Primal of Death to claim her… he doesn’t show up. Three more attempts and three years later, no one seems to care about her anymore. But then things finally change, for better or worse, and the Primal of Death comes to retrieve his Consort. Things happen and maybe life is worth living after all.

Throne of the Fallen by Kerri Maniscalco is a very Sin-filled book. 7 brothers, 7 Princes of Hell, and this is Envy’s tale.

Camilla Antonius never really thought she’d be blackmailed into entering a Devil's Bargain, but that's how she winds up in the arms of Prince Envy. As an avid art collector, Prince Envy knows how to tell a real from a fake, and that's how he blackmailed Miss Antonius into helping him win an anonymous contest.

Once the Devil's Bargain has been set in place, Camilla and Envy find themselves being drawn together, oftentimes quite heatedly and passionately.

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas is about a woman who had her life stolen from her and the angel that helps her find it again.

Bryce Quinlan is living her best life until her best friend is murdered along with their group of close friends. The suspect is caught, but life loses its meaning after that night and haunts her until years later, when the murders start again.

With the accused not being the murderer, Bryce teams up with Hunt Athalar to figure out what is happening and why, after all these years, this nightmare is coming back.

King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair is about a Vampire conqueror and his mortal bride.

No one truly wants to be married to a hot vampire conqueror, right? Isolde certainly thinks she doesn't want to get married to Adrian, but with the threat of Adrian potentially taking over her father's kingdom, she reconsiders his offer to marry. She’s supposed to hate him with all of her heart, but when dark truths about history start surfacing, sometimes it’s easier to give in to attraction than to fight it, even if not everyone gets a happy ever after…

This was my first Scarlett St. Clair book, and I really enjoyed reading it. The vampires in this story were bloodthirsty as they tend to be, and the attraction, tension, and conflict? Muah, chefs kiss.

Phantasma by Kaylie Smith was a scorchingly gruesome standalone dark fantasy romance that left me equally satisfied and craving more of the series.

Ophelia Grimm doesn’t know what to do. Her mother is gone, and she just inherited her family's necromancy powers and estate, which, as it turns out, is in debt. After a little spat sends her younger sister running off to Phantasma, Ophelia decides to enter Phantasma herself to find her sister.

There, she instead finds a very attractive and very aggravating Phantom, Blackwell, who sets her nerves alight in annoyance, among other feelings. As Ophelia progresses through Phantasma, she must remember the most important rule they have: don’t fall in love.

Bride of Brutal Hearts by Kate Stevens is a spicy dark MMF (Male, Male, Female) villain fantasy romance about a mortal and her two vampire immortals.

Nessa Halloran lives in pain. It’s why she never wanted to get married, why she didn’t bother hitting the birth quota required of people under 30, and why she became the owner of a bookshop to live quietly. But then her sister is selected when the vampires come to collect their harvest, and Nessa feels she has no choice but to save her pregnant sister by volunteering in her palace.

Perhaps it was fate that led her to volunteer... The fate that led to her becoming the Mortal Bride for the Butcher and the Conqueror.