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Olivia Rose Darling · 2024 · US · fantasy · romance
★ 3.72 Goodreads · 47,345 ratings

Exiled princess Elowen Atarah, torn from her dragons as a child and imprisoned by her father, King Garrick of Imirath, allies with Cayden Veles, the feared commander of Vareveth, to break into her father's castle, take her dragons back and have her revenge.

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12 books for readers of Fear the Flames

Dragonfall

L. R. Lam · 2023 · US 98% match ★ 3.36 Goodreads · 11,551 ratings
shares: heist, dragon, enemies to lovers, dragons · speculative, easy read

In a city where dragons have been gone for centuries, Arcady, a young thief, crosses paths with Sorin, the last dragon, who has come into the human world in human form to bring his kind back.

When the Moon Hatched

Sarah A. Parker · 2024 · New Zealand 98% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 378,849 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Moonfall
shares: dragon, romantasy, dragons, romance · speculative, romance-driven

In a world where dead dragons rise into the sky and harden into moons, Raeve is an assassin for a rebel order who is rarely caught, until her path crosses that of Kaan Vaegor, a grieving man on a dangerous quest of his own.

The Hurricane Wars

Thea Guanzon · 2023 · Philippines 97% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 54,878 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Hurricane Wars
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, dual perspective, romance · speculative, romance-driven

Talasyn, an orphaned soldier who can weave light, has spent ten years fighting the Night Empire, whose heir Alaric commands shadow. After a defeat on the battlefield, a political marriage binds the two enemies together.

Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros · 2023 · US 97% match ★ 4.56 Goodreads · 4,012,377 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Empyrean
shares: dragon, enemies to lovers, romantasy, dragons · easy read, speculative

A young woman enters a brutal war college for dragon riders, where the dragon chooses you or kills you on the parapet.

A Fate Inked in Blood

Danielle L. Jensen · 2024 · Canada 97% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 209,318 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Saga of the Unfated
shares: romantasy, dual perspective, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Freya, trapped in an unwanted marriage in a Norse-inspired land, is revealed to carry a goddess's blood, and the ambitious jarl who binds her with an oath orders his son Bjorn to train and protect her, the one man she cannot have.

The Ever King

L. J. Andrews · 2023 · US 97% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 114,500 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Ever Seas
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, revenge, romance · easy read, speculative

Livia, a princess of the earth fae, once kept company with a captive boy king during the war; years later Erik Bloodsinger, the scarred King of the Ever, whose crown her father stole, takes her as a pawn in his revenge.

The Bridge Kingdom

Danielle L. Jensen · 2018 · Canada 97% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 256,364 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Bridge Kingdom
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, dual perspective, romance · easy read, romance-driven

Lara, a princess raised in a desert compound and trained as a spy, is sent to marry the king of Ithicana, the island nation that controls the only bridge between two continents, with orders to find its weaknesses and bring it down.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Carissa Broadbent · 2022 · US 96% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 828,575 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Crowns of Nyaxia
shares: father daughter, enemies to lovers, romantasy, romance · easy read, speculative

Oraya, the human adopted daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, enters the Kejari, a deadly tournament held for the goddess of death, and is forced into an alliance with Raihn, a rival vampire she has every reason to fear.

The Book of Azrael

Amber V. Nicole · 2022 · US 96% match ★ 4.12 Goodreads · 242,555 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Gods & Monsters
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, dual perspective, romance · easy read, speculative

Dianna, a shapeshifting monster who does the bidding of the dark lord Kaden, is sent after an ancient relic and is forced into an alliance with Samkiel, the god-king called the World Ender, her oldest enemy, to save their world and every realm beyond it.

From Blood and Ash

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020 · US 96% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 913,197 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Blood and Ash
shares: romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Poppy, the veiled Maiden chosen by the gods, is forbidden to touch or be touched, until Hawke, the guard sworn to protect her, makes her question everything she has been told about the kingdom and its gods.

Rose in Chains

Julie Soto · 2025 · US 96% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 98,447 ratings
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

The war is lost and the hero who was meant to save them is dead, and Briony Rosewood, princess of Evermore, stripped of her magic, is sold at auction to Toven Hearst, heir to a family known for its cruelty.

A Promise of Fire

Amanda Bouchet · 2016 · US 96% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 57,622 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Kingmaker Chronicles
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Cat, the Kingmaker who can hear truth through lies, hides from her murderous mother and her destiny as a soothsayer in a travelling circus, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magicless south, takes her to be the weapon that holds his newly conquered realm.