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Julie Soto · 2025 · US · fantasy · romance
★ 4.15 Goodreads · 98,447 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of Rose in Chains

A Dawn of Onyx

Kate Golden · 2022 · US 98% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 80,164 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Sacred Stones
shares: captivity, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Arwen, a healer in the Kingdom of Amber, is captured by soldiers of the enemy kingdom of Onyx while fetching medicine for her sick mother and taken to the fortress of Shadowhold, where her gift keeps her alive and draws the notice of a cold, powerful man named Kane.

The Veiled Kingdom

Holly Renee · 2024 · US 98% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 67,467 ratings
shares: captivity, enemies to lovers, romantasy, romance · easy read, speculative

The missing daughter of a hated king, fleeing her father's cruelty, is captured by rebels sworn to kill her who do not know who she is, and must join them or die, while Dacre, son of the rebellion's commander, both guards and threatens her.

Alchemised

SenLinYu · 2025 · US 98% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 380,575 ratings
shares: dark fantasy, captivity, enemies to lovers, romance · speculative, romance-driven

After a brutal war, a captive healer whose memories have been locked away is handed to the enemy's most feared necromancer, who must pry loose what she has forgotten.

The Hurricane Wars

Thea Guanzon · 2023 · Philippines 98% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 54,878 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Hurricane Wars
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, 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.

A Promise of Fire

Amanda Bouchet · 2016 · US 98% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 57,622 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Kingmaker Chronicles
shares: captivity, enemies to lovers, romantasy, 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.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Carissa Broadbent · 2022 · US 97% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 828,575 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Crowns of Nyaxia
shares: dark fantasy, 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.

Gild

Raven Kennedy · 2020 · US 97% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 431,614 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in The Plated Prisoner
shares: captivity, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

Auren is King Midas's favoured, gold-touched by him as his possession and kept in his castle of gold in the frozen mountains of Highbell, and when war comes and a deal is struck, her faith in the man who pulled her from the slums begins to crack.

The Bird and the Sword

Amy Harmon · 2016 · US 97% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 47,714 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Bird and the Sword
shares: captivity, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, romance-driven

Lark has not spoken since her mother, a gifted Teller, was killed for her magic and cursed her daughter's words with her dying breath, and when King Tiras takes Lark from her father's house as a hostage, she begins to find her voice.

From Blood and Ash

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 2020 · US 97% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 913,197 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Blood and Ash
shares: romantasy, secondary world, magic, 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.

A Court This Cruel and Lovely

Stacia Stark · 2022 · US 97% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 111,556 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Kingdom of Lies
shares: enemies to lovers, romantasy, secondary world, romance · easy read, speculative

In a kingdom where the gods strip humans of their power soon after birth and burn anyone who keeps it, Prisca's power surfaces in her tiny village, and to survive she flees and makes a bargain with a ruthless mercenary who is hiding secrets of his own.

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: captivity, enemies to lovers, romantasy, 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 Cruel Prince

Holly Black · 2018 · US 97% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 1,889,283 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Folk of the Air
shares: dark fantasy, enemies to lovers, romantasy, romance · easy read, speculative

Jude, a mortal girl brought to the High Court of Faerie as a child after her parents were murdered, wants a place among the fair folk who despise her, and to get it she must defy Prince Cardan, the cruellest of them.