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If you’re looking for your next fantasy romance obsession, you’ve come to the right place. Fall 2026 is bringing plenty of new romantasy books, with magical worlds, dangerous alliances, forbidden romances, and supernatural creatures ready to take over your reading list. From highly anticipated sequels to exciting new fantasy romance releases, there are plenty of romantasy books coming out in 2026 worth keeping an eye out for. And while romantasy may be one of the hottest trends right now, these new releases aren’t all the same. Expect everything from epic fantasy worlds and enemies-to-lovers romances to paranormal twists, gothic settings, and stories brimming with magic. We’ve rounded up our favourite new romantasy books for fall 2026, including the titles we’re most excited to see hitting shelves over the coming months. So, whether you’re a longtime romantasy reader or you’re looking for your first book in the genre, here are the upcoming releases to add to your TBR pile.
Red (The Myth That Burns #1) – Izzy Barry
Aloka Tutten never asked to live among the pack. To them, she’s just a human girl – too small, too fragile, an unwanted liability. Her unwilling protector, Stark Lamont, makes no effort to hide that he doesn’t want her in his territory.
But the walls between them aren’t as strong as they should be. His quiet strength pulls her closer. His touch lingers too long. And beneath the heat of his gaze, the truth inside her threatens to break free. Aloka isn’t what they believe. And as war looms, her secret will rise – either to save them all or set the world on fire, even if it burns her too.
Release date: 16 September 2026
Entities To Lovers – Mallory Marlowe
Paranormal medium Rory Woods spends her days offering psychic readings at Ye Olde Spirit Shop and nights haunting the streets of Boston as a ghost-tour guide. Enter Ezra, an adjunct history professor, a noted thorn in Rory’s side and distractingly charismatic co-worker. Rory cannot stand Ezra’s know-it-all behaviour. Ezra loves to tease the gorgeous, brilliant medium at the shop. And when the two are forced to host a group together? It’s no wonder they end up hexed after disturbing a matchmaking ghost.
Saddled with perpetual bad luck unless they are physically close to one another, Rory and Ezra will try anything, from séances to kissing, to stop the jinx from wreaking havoc on both their lives. But in their quest to appease the spirit, they realise growing closer may not be the curse they once thought it was.
Release date: 13 October 2026
This Shattered Tempest (The Hurricane Wars #3) – Thea Guanzon
Throughout their political marriage, Alaric and Talasyn struggled to resist the undeniable pull between them, even as rising tensions forced them on opposite sides of a looming war. Hand in hand, they vanquished the cataclysmic threat of the Moonless Dark – and started to hope for a future together. That hope is shattered when a devastating series of attacks tears them apart once more.
Is love enough to rewrite destiny? Can a new beginning rise from the ruins of the past? Or are Alaric and Talasyn doomed to meet as enemies on one last battlefield? This explosive third and final book brings Thea Guanzon’s beloved Hurricane Wars series to a stunning conclusion – where passion and power collide, and the fate of a divided world hangs in the balance.
Release date: 6 October 2026
Bedeviled (Bewitched #3) – Laura Thalassa
It’s been two thousand years since Selene Bowers first fell in love with Memnon Uvagukis, the sorcerer king of the Sarmatians. So when, at present, an unbreakable vow forces Selene to marry this soulmate she once died for, it is in many ways a dream made real. Unfortunately for her, neither she nor Memnon are able to bask in the moment for long.
Not when demons keep ambushing her, and her husband’s magic appears to slowly be consuming him. And not when, despite eliminating the previous threats to Henbane, the coven still teeters on the brink of shutting down. And then, of course, there’s Eislyn, an age-old menace who lurks in the shadows. If Memnon and Selene don’t figure out what she wants and stop her for good, she just might get it – and destroy them in the process.
Release date: 18 August 2026
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Villain Edit – Rosie Danan
Gabriel Hargrave, vampire crown prince, should be sitting on a throne. Instead, he’s on a “diplomatic assignment” – forced to live amongst humans for a decade. Gabriel thought he was doing the right thing, lying low. Harper Calloway makes great television, until one bitter male lead got her fired. Down and out, she takes a house-sitting gig for her grandmother and stumbles upon the answer to all her problems in the vampire next door.
If she can deliver Gabriel to the network, she’ll get the only thing she wants more than her job redemption. The problem? Gabriel doesn’t fit the dark and dangerous fantasy of a vampire prince. Harper has her work cut out for her when the network gives her three weeks to get him ready to woo advertisers as the face of next season. If he flops, she’s going down with him.
Release date: 8 December 2026
I Hope This Email Finds You In Hell – Mackenzie Reed
After her parents’ death, twenty-seven-year-old Brie has mastered the art of compartmentalisation to survive her mind-numbing routine as a receptionist at a life insurance company. But when she accidentally catches her hot, uptight boss, Luke, performing an exorcism on Debra from accounting, her carefully ordered world implodes.
Swearing Brie to secrecy, Luke reveals he’s from a line of demon hunters and that demonic activity is spiking. But when her emotional support coworker vanishes, Brie is determined to find her. With nothing left to lose, she convinces Luke to let her join his rescue mission. Their destination is hell. And the entrance is in Times Square. Now Brie and Luke must navigate a corporate underworld of monsters and bureaucratic nightmares while racing to save their colleague and repair a tearing veil between worlds. All before their growing feelings become irrelevant and hell claims them forever.
Release date: 1 September 2026
To Vex & To Hex – Neena Noon
Lucy Ansari’s life revolves around Crawley Books. As a witch, Lucy finds that Charles, the magical old man who owns it, feels more like family than her actual family. And like Lucy, her magic seems to adore books – but she definitely doesn’t adore Charles’ useless grandson, Grayson, who suddenly arrived from Ireland to “help” when Charles breaks his hip.
Suspicious of Grayson’s motives, there’s no way Lucy will let him disappoint Charles yet again – she’ll just need to hex him into leaving. So, nonmagical Grayson decides to use his own version of vexing Lucy until she gives up her self-anointed role as Charles’ sole protector. Neena Noon’s new romantasy book To Vex & To Hex is a funny, emotional romance about finding home in the places and people you love.
Release date: 3 November 2026
The Court Of Venus – Bel Banta
In Alvion, magicians have always ruled alongside kings. Blessed at birth by one of the seven planets, their abilities are miraculous and extremely rare. At the moment of Bianca Mortlake’s birth, the stars and planets aligned just so, making her the first Moonborn magician in over a thousand years. After a childhood of training under the realm’s most powerful magician – and alongside an insufferable Venusborn named Roland – Bianca lives a quiet life far from court. Until a chilling missive arrives in the night, summoning her back.
A mad and deadly court awaits. Two queens have met the executioner’s blade, and one wrong move could see any of them next beneath its steel. As power is pulled between the ruthless royals and courtiers, Bianca must rely on the last person she would ever want – the infuriatingly alluring Roland.
Release date: 29 September 2026
Succubus: A Love Story – Kate Fox
Tempest Dunlap loves romance novels, but she knows she’ll never have her own happily-ever-after. She is a sweatpants-wearing doula who homeschools her seven-year-old niece in suburban New Jersey. Unfortunately, she’s also a succubus: Every man she’s ever kissed has died. But Tempest is a good person who never intended to be a murderer, so she’s sworn off love forever.
Then she meets Joel Tav, a gorgeous, gentle doctor who makes celibacy feel impossible. Meanwhile, a vigilante is hunting people with dark powers, and Tempest is next. Should she keep hiding in her safe, lonely life, or should she embrace the darkness she fears and risk the ultimate forbidden love?
Release date: 20 October 2026
This Wretched Alchemy (Ruinous Fate Saga #1) – Tina Mars
In a fractured realm ruled by warring noble Houses and the tyrannical Prime, the most coveted power lies in god-shards – divine fragments that grant extraordinary abilities. Revel’s brother was murdered in pursuit of one. Forced into a treacherous bargain, she now must compete in the Call – a bloody contest of heirs vying for the throne- and assassinate the realm’s most formidable alchemist, the Warbringer.
But the Warbringer isn’t the monster she was promised. Bound by secrets of his own, he is as dangerous as he is disarming. With betrayals mounting and desire warring with duty, Revel must choose who to trust in a game where even the gods have their favourites. One of the best new romantasy books coming this fall, This Wretched Alchemy is a dark, slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers read where love and loyalty become the very weapons that could end everything.
Release date: 10 November 2026
A Court Of Splintered Harmony (A Court Of Thorns And Roses #6) – Sarah J. Maas
Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he’s been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands. The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day.
To make matters worse, those who rule and protect the Night Court are reeling from recent betrayals and revealed truths. The rifts dividing them are insurmountable. But to defeat Koschei’s creeping shadow, they must find a way back to each other and resurrect their former alliances. To survive, they must find a way to repair the splintered harmony all around them.
Release date: 27 October 2026
The Stolen Crown (The Ever Seas #4) – L.J. Andrews
Tait Heartwalker may be the cousin of the Ever King, but royally good company he is not. He’s ill-tempered and unapproachable, sharpened by the hard responsibilities of life and loyalty. But to the dismay of Mira Sekundar, princess of the glamour fae, he’s also intoxicating to look at.
Despite doing their best to avoid one another, fate has other plans when an otherworldly storm shipwrecks Tait and Mira far beyond the boundaries of the Ever Kingdom. They are forced to break through the thorny barriers between them and work together to find their way home. One wrong step, and they’ll never return alive. Yet, as their feelings deepen, a new threat rises from the waters. And this enemy is so dangerous that even the history books tried to forget their existence.
Release date: 6 October 2026
Part-time reader, part-time rambler, and full-time Horror enthusiast, James has been writing for What We Reading since 2022. His earliest reading memories involved Historical Fiction, Fantasy and Horror tales, which he has continued to take with him to this day. James’ favourite books include The Last (Hanna Jameson), The Troop (Nick Cutter) and Chasing The Boogeyman (Richard Chizmar).
