Romantasy Respite: 10 Must-Read Series For Lovers Of The Genre

In Thorn Season, Wielders are gifted with a Spectre, but the very gift that makes them special makes them feared because each Wielder can use their thread to reach beyond the capabilities of their bodies to touch, to interact, AND even to kill.

Alissa Paine should never have been a Wielder, but now it’s her most closely guarded secret. A secret she’s only able to keep thanks to her father and her self-control, and one she must keep at all costs as the heiress of a Hunter family.

Called to the royal court for the newest season, Alissa is determined to garner as little attention as possible when she makes her debut. Unfortunately, throughout the season, Alissa finds herself drawn further and further into the orbit of two dangerous men.

Tangled in intrigue and betrayal, she’s caught between a foreign dignitary with his own ulterior motives and the prince who would execute her the moment he discovered the truth of what she can do. But how long can a secret last when love and duty come into play?

Rune’s life changed forever on the night when the streets ran with blood and witches became outcasts.

With society’s shift to hunting witches, Rune hides behind her role as a standard socialite during the day and rescues her kind at night under the guise of the Crimson Moth until a rescue goes awry.

Her only chance to keep saving others and herself is to gather information from Gideon Sharpe, the very person who wants to see her caught. The more they get to know each other, however, the more Rune discovers she likes about the ruthless witch hunter.

Now Rune is at a crossroads–torn between love and duty, and, no matter her choice, she’ll be losing a piece of her heart.

Gideon, himself, thinks he’s found the perfect solution to gathering intelligence of his own by pretending to court Rune right back. Everything is going according to plan, except that he’s falling for her, too. She feels like she could be everything and more, but what if she’s the very criminal he’s been hunting?

Dangerous secrets abound when the long-lost heir of an ancient Jinn kingdom destined to save her people is forced to hide in plain sight as a servant in the castle of the very people who would execute her. 

Alizeh is content to pretend she’s nothing more than a girl from humble beginnings, until she mistakenly catches the eye of the crown prince.

Kamran is the future ruler of a kingdom destined to fall isn’t a secret. He’s heard the many prophecies detailing the death of his father, the king, after all. 

The true surprise is the girl destined to destroy his kingdom and change the world is the same girl he can’t get out of his head, and what does it mean for their relationship?

In Zalindov, the best you can expect is to survive. Kiva Meridan has been fighting through her time in the death prison as the prison healer, but everything changes the day the Rebel Queen is captured.

Her task is to keep the Queen alive until she completes the Trial by Ordeal, but soon a message comes saying Kiva must go above and beyond.

In order to complete her mission until help arrives, Kiva needs to take the Rebel Queen’s place and discover how to pass the very tests everyone is supposed to fail.

With a mysterious new inmate keen on capturing Kiva’s heart, a plague decimating Zalindov, and a rebellion stirring, this is just the beginning of Kiva’s struggles.

Sometimes the things we lose are the things we never truly needed. As one of six girls taken in by the Ursuline convent, Celine discovers there’s more to love about New Orleans than the life she fled in Paris led her to believe.

The danger of a city ruled by the dead is too delicious to deny, but when one of the girls from the convent is found dead in the criminal underground, La Cours des Lions, more than just Celine’s secret may be at risk.

At the center of suspicion is the very boy who has captured Celine’s heart. If rumors are true, Sebastien Saint Germaine may also capture her life.

Diving into the darkest part of the city, she’s determined to uncover the truth behind the serial killer and save herself. However, as the clues come together and the truth is revealed, Celine finds herself solving more than just the mystery of the murders: she discovers a truth about herself.

For almost a decade, Sybil had dreamed in messages from six godly figures called Omens. People travel far and wide to hear her and her sister Diviners’ dreams, but after nine years, Sybil only wishes she no longer dreamt at all.

The closer the end of her service comes, though, the closer something dangerous seems to be getting as well. Diviners are going missing, and Sybil’s only course of action is to recruit the help of the mysterious knight named Rodrick.

The world outside her cloister is dangerous, but the only way to find the missing women is to seek answers from the gods themselves. The safest way to defeat the gods and find her sisters is to bring the one man who doesn’t respect Sybil’s visions or the gods who send them.

The gods made monsters to remind humans of their place: on their knees in supplication.

Odessa never thought an acclaimed monster hunter showing up in her father’s throne room would lead to her shattering the chains of that obedience and leaving the life she was expected to follow as a princess behind.

Yet, obedience didn’t save her from scandal or the prince that ruined her life, and now she’s traveling the world married to a man she barely knows, determined to decide the narrative for herself.

As her story changes, Odessa must confront everything everyone’s always expected from her and use them to create her own role.

Briar Wyngrave knows he’s not long for this world. The curse that took his mother is coming for him, too, and he’s made his peace with that.

Before he goes, at least he’ll make a name for himself in the fashion industry. Or that’s what he’d thought until a prophecy sends him to a remote island.

Who is he to fight destiny, though? Except he really wishes he had once he and his magpie familiar, Vatii, get to Coill Darragh and discover he lives with a murdered poltergeist, the town hates him, and the dark forest in the area seems to have a lot to do with his curse. Maybe he could have gotten over all of that if Linden Fairchild hadn’t shown up positive that he could cure Briar.

With so many options to fulfill the prophecy, Briar isn’t sure he actually knows what to do or really how he’s supposed to make a splash as a fashion designer in a tiny town. All he really knows is that magic requires the witch to pay a tithe, and the magic of the island might take more than Briar has.

At heart, Alexis Hert is a survivor, but the Fates see that she could be more.

Admitted to Spartan War Academy following a blood test means Alexis is going to have to prove she’s more than she thought she ever could be. It’s time for her to claim immortality.

To achieve her goal, she must earn the privilege by learning from the best, but there’s more to immortality than just learning who to trust, how to fight, or even finding people to love.

Immortality is a gift, and every silver lining has the potential to hide a dark cloud. Where there are heroes, there are monsters, and no one is ever truly safe.

Dark paths lie ahead for those of you who like retellings of Greek myths, but you definitely don’t have to fear the dark with Mas’ twist on Hercules.

The Prince of Envy is everything the ruler of a sin should be, and he’s never claimed otherwise. The arrival of a riddle announcing the start of the newest deadly game, however, means he’s going to need all of that and more to win and restore his dying demon court. Especially when it comes to convincing Camilla to help him.

Camilla is somewhat of a starving artist. After her father’s death, she hasn’t quite managed to build his gallery up to what it had been before his passing, but, for the most part, she’s quite happy where she is.

The dark stain on her happiness is the very dangerous secret that Waverly Green’s most infamous rake is currently lording over her.

To truly stop a scandal in its tracks, Camilla must accept Envy’s bargain and hope she can keep from exposing who she really is.

Starting their perilous journey across the Underworld together, neither expects to fall prey to the most dangerous trap in the realm–love. Or is love exactly what they need to win this twisted game?