YA Romantasy

In a new genre that has taken the world by storm, the YA stories on this list combine both fantasy and romance themes.


Compiled by:
Tyana P.
Older Teens
Bride

Ali Hazelwood
(Adult Fiction - Hazelwo)

Misery Lark, daughter of the most powerful vampyre councilman of the southwest, must leave her life of anonymity among the humans and uphold a historic alliance with the weres by marrying their alpha, Lowe Moreland.


Faebound

Saara El-Arifi
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Elarifi)

Yeeran, a warrior in the elven army, and her sister, Lettle, a diviner, are forced into the terrifying wilderness beyond their borders. They encounter the impossible: the fae court. Yeeren and Lettle are now thrust into their seductive world—torn between their loyalty to each other, their elven homeland, and their hearts.


A Fate Inked In Blood

Danielle Jensen
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Jensen)

A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while also fighting her growing desire for his son.


The Final Strife

Saara El-Arifi
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Elarifi)

Sylah is a blue blood, a Duster, a worker. Hassa is a clear blood, a Ghoster, a slave. Anoor is a red blood, an Ember, an elite, a magician—born to the mightiest class. Or so the Empire says. As the Empire begins a set of trials of combat and skill designed to find its new leaders, the stage is set for blood to flow, power to shift, and cities to burn.


A Forgery of Roses

Jessica S. Olson
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Olson)

Myra is an artist whose portraits alter people’s real-life bodies, a talent she must hide from those who would kidnap, blackmail, and worse in order to control it. After someone discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra, she must complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor's dead son. She cannot do the painting until she knows what really happened, so she turns to the governor’s older son, a captivating poet. Together, they delve into the family’s most shadowed affairs, racing to uncover the truth before the secret Myra spent her life concealing makes her the killer’s next victim.


Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Yarros)

20-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.


The Hurricane Wars

Thea Guanzon
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Guanzon)

Orphaned Talasyn and Prince Alaric both know the Hurricane Wars can only end with them. But a greater threat is coming, and the strange new magic they can create together could be the only way to overcome it. Thrust into an uneasy alliance, they will confront the secrets at the heart of the war and find, in each other, a searing passion—one that could save their world...or destroy it.


Immortal Longings

Chloe Gong
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Gong)

Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those confident enough in their ability to jump between bodies, competitors across San-Er fight to the death to win unimaginable riches.


Legendborn

Tracy Deonn
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Deonn)

To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights.


Lore of the Wilds

Analeigh Sbrana
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Sbrana)

A library with a deadly enchantment. A Fae lord who wants in. A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste power. When undeniable chemistry ignites, she's not just in danger of losing her life—but her very heart—to the creatures she can never trust.


Serpent & Dove

Shelby Mahurin
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Mahurin)

Louise la Blanc, a witch who fled her coven, and Reid Diggory, a witch hunter, must marry to save his reputation. Lou would rather face the pyre than the enemies chasing her. However, when true feelings grow, what was first a simple arrangement becomes infinitely more complicated.


The Serpent & the Wings of Night

Carissa Broadbent
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Broadbe)

The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself. But winning won’t be easy amongst the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses.


A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Roseanne A. Brown
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Brown)

Inspired by West African folklore, a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a heart-pounding collision course to murder each other. But as attraction flares between them and ancient evils stirs, will they be able to see their tasks to the death? 


The Sun and the Void

Gabriela Romero Lacruz
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Romero)

When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, she's on the verge of death—until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don's employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew, and smitten with the upper-caste daughter of the house, Celeste, Reina will do anything to earn—and keep—the family's favor. To save the woman she loves, Reina will have to defy the gods themselves, and become something she never could have imagined.


Uprooted

Naomi Novik
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Novik)

Agnieszka's people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for 10 years. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her. But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.


Younger Teens
The Absinthe Underground

Jamie Pacton
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Pacton)

In the Belle Époque city of Severon, Sybil Clarion and Esme Rimbaud, best friends with a secret crush on each other, find themselves drawn into a risky heist proposition from a mysterious Green Faerie named Maeve, which could offer financial security, but may endanger their carefully constructed lives.


The Crown's Game

Evelyn Skye
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Skye)

Raised on tiny Ovchinin Island her whole life, Vika is eager for a chance to show off her talent in the grand capital of Saint Petersburg. But can she kill another enchanter—even when his magic calls to her like nothing else ever has? For Nikolai, an orphan, the Crown's Game is the chance of a lifetime. As long-buried secrets emerge, threatening the future of the empire, it becomes dangerously clear—the Crown’s Game is not one to lose.


Daughter of the Bone Forest

Jasmine Skye
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Skye)

Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer.


An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Tahir)

Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.


An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Rogerso)

Isobel creates stunning portraits for a dangerous set of clients: the fair folk. But when she receives her first royal patron—Rook, the autumn prince—Isobel makes a deadly mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes, a weakness that could cost him his throne, and even his life. What force could Isobel's paintings conjure that is powerful enough to defy the ancient malice of the fairy courts? Isobel and Rook journey along a knife-edge in a lush world where beauty masks corruption and the cost of survival might be more frightening than death itself.


Garden of the Cursed

Katy Rose Pool
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Pool)

17-year-old cursebreaker Marlow Briggs reluctantly pretends to be in love with a powerful noble to gain entry into an illustrious—and deadly—society that holds clues to her mother's disappearance.


Heartless Hunter

Kristen Ciccarelli
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Ciccare)

In a world where witches face persecution, Rune leads a double life, masquerading as a socialite during the day and transforming into the vigilante known as the Crimson Moth by night. She forms a complicated alliance with the witch hunter, Gideon Sharpe, blurring the lines between love and danger.


House of Marionne

J. Elle
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Elle)

17-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.


Powerless

Lauren Roberts
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Roberts)

A forbidden romance between a prince and an ordinary girl in a kingdom where being ordinary is a crime. When Paedyn, an Ordinary, saves a prince, she is forced to participate in the Purging Trials, a brutal competition that showcases the Elites' powers. If she doesn't survive the trials, the prince she has feelings for might kill her if he discovers her true identity.


Secret of the Moon Conch

David Bowles
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Bowles)

In modern Mexico, Sitlali is all alone after the death of her beloved abuela. Targeted by a dangerous gang member, she flees to the United States. As a memento, she takes with her an ancient conch shell. In 1521, Calizto is trapped in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, where he fights valiantly for his people against Spanish invaders, but hope is fading. Desperate, he takes up a sacred conch and sounds a plea to the gods. The conch holds magic that allows them to communicate across centuries. With each conversation, they fall deeper in love. But as danger threatens, will they find a way to be truly together?


Skin of the Sea

Natasha Bowen
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Bowen)

Transformed by the goddess Yemoja into a Mami Wati—an African mermaid charged with collecting the souls of those who die at sea—Simi goes against the gods to save a living boy, Kola, from drowning.


The Star-Touched Queen

Roshani Chokshi
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Chokshi)

Treated with scorn and fear in her father's kingdom because of a formidable horoscope, 16-year-old Maya commits herself to her education only to land in an arranged marriage that culminates in her sudden elevation to the throne, a situation that is threatened by dark secrets and otherworldly magic.


Venom & Vow

Anna-Marie McLemore
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Mclemor)

Teenagers Cade McKenna, a transgender prince doubling for his brother, and lady-in-waiting Valencia Palafox/boy assassin Gael Palma, thanks to their concealed identities, do not realize they are simultaneously falling for and trying to destroy each other.


The Wrath & the Dawn

Renee Ahdieh
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Ahdieh)

In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad plans to avenge the death of her dearest friend by volunteering to marry the murderous boy-king of Khorasan, but discovers not all is as it seems within the palace.