12 of the Best Romantasy Series to Capture Your Imagination

Set in a version of Edwardian England with magic, The Last Binding trilogy follows three queer couples on a mission to protect magic amidst murder, mayhem, and far too many secrets.

Robin in A Marvellous Light is thrust into a magical murder mystery when he lands a job as the human parliamentary liaison to the magic world. His surly magical counterpart, Edwin, will do his best to keep Robin alive, but they are up against powerful forces. Those forces only grow in danger as Robin, Edwin, and their friends continue to thwart their plans.

This steampunk fantasy world filled with merfolk, pirates, and other strange things will have you reexamine what it means to develop trust through open communication in a dangerous world that teaches you to doubt.

In These Treacherous Tides, each romance is equal parts thoughtful and strange, starting with the asexual monster romance Our Bloody Pearl. Perle is a captured siren looking for their freedom, ready to kill whatever humans they have to in order to escape the bathtub at the bottom of a pirate ship. They never expected another pirate to free them, but Dejean is happy to prove Perle wrong, no matter how long it takes. The more Dejean learns to communicate with Perle, the stronger their affinity grows. He is determined to keep them out of the hands of the pirate who captured the siren in the first place, even if it means risking his life to do so.

With titles like That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon and That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf, readers should expect to have fun with Lemming’s sexy, silly, and scrumptious cozy romantasy series. In Mead Mishaps, three capable, practical human women must deal with wild problems as they arise. If they didn’t all have demon mates who were charged with defeating evil witches, waiting out love potions, and dealing with other magical mishaps, they would probably be leading quiet lives as the funniest group of friends you’ve ever met. If you are looking for an opportunity to laugh, this is the trilogy for you.

What’s a romantasy book without a lovable assassin who has to save a kingdom? Keera, the assassin at the heart of The Halfling Saga, has a lot to learn over four books as she goes from the King’s Blade to rebel leader.

In A Broken Blade, her skills as a spy, assassin, and hunter are put to the test when she follows a masked man into the Faeland. Navigating the Fae and their magical land is only the beginning of her problems. Soon, she realizes her enemy might not be the mysterious figure she chases but the king who she owes her allegiance to. Keera must reevaluate everything she knows if she wants to save herself and the kingdom she swore to protect.

The Wildersongs Trilogy is a delightful combination of cozy academia and romantasy in a tender, sincere, funny bundle. Class clown, noble menace, and small magic connoisseur Leovander Loveage refuses to repeat the mistake that ruined his life by writing anything powerful enough to cause harm. The powerfully talented, low-born, notoriously stern Sebastian Grimm cannot help but despise him for it. They have managed to avoid each other at the college up until now, but their luck runs out when they get paired in sorcery class. When a forbidden spell gets mixed into Sebastian’s spell folder, he accidentally curses Leo. Now Leo must follow all of Sebastian’s demands, and Leo cannot physically stand being separated from Sebastian for long. They must secretly determine how to undo the curse or suffer the consequences. Who knows, they might just stop hating each other along the way.

What might be my favorite dragon romantasy series, A Fire in the Sky, gives Tamsyn an arranged marriage, a stern borderland ruler, and a set of dangerous powers to deal with…and that was after a violent childhood as the royal whipping girl. Raised alongside the princesses as their adopted sister, the king sees the perfect opportunity to pass Tamsyn off as a real princess when a notorious borderland lord asks for a royal marriage in exchange for his continued military protection. Fell was looking to secure his people’s safety. Instead, he gets stuck with a fake princess he is incredibly attracted to. Fell and Tamsyn must quickly develop a secure partnership if they want to navigate a set of suspiciously dragon-like abilities that could doom them both.

A Greco-roman-inspired epic romantasy series set in a world where securing the gods’ favor spells the difference between life and death, The Eye of the Goddess certainly doesn’t pull any punches.

In A Tribute of Fire, Princess Lia spent a year training to voluntarily enter the deadly goddess sacrifice, where two young women from her nation are selected to race to the goddess’s temple. In doing so, Lia believes she can save her people from the goddess’s wrath and the drought curse that has plagued her nation. Just one problem: no one has survived the task. After all, every man in the city is encouraged to try to murder the women before they can make it to the temple. With the help of a suspiciously good-looking and kind foreign man, Lia might just be able to accomplish her goal, but getting to the temple is only the beginning of her struggle to save her people and stay alive in the meantime.