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⍣ the ultimate romantasy and sci-fi books ⍣
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items stars, scars, and starcrossed: a collection for those who crave emotional stakes as vast as the galaxy and magic that comes with a heavy price.
A girl playing a game of "predator and prey" where the prize is a wish, but the tax is your soul. It turns out the most dangerous thing in a room full of vampires isn't the fangs, it's the person you decided to trust.
The Serpent & the Wings of Night: Book 1 of the Nightborn Duet
What happens when the gods turn your skin into a map for a war you never wanted? It’s a story about a girl who is part sea, part shield, and entirely too much for the man tasked with breaking her.
A Fate Inked in Blood: Book One of the Saga of the Unfated
She was raised to be a knife in the dark, but she forgot that knives can’t choose which hand holds them. It’s the slow, agonizing realization that you’ve spent your whole life sharpening yourself to kill the only person who actually sees you.
The Bridge Kingdom
Imagine fighting a war with a typewriter. It’s a poetic tragedy about two people falling in love through the ink on a page while the world outside burns to ash because the gods are having a tantrum.
Divine Rivals: A Novel
A story about the "Ordinary" in a world of "Extraordinary," proving that the most powerful thing you can be is a lie that someone starts to believe. It’s banter, blood, and the specific kind of heartbreak that comes from loving someone you were born ...
Powerless
This is what happens when you live so long that you become a ghost to your own life. It’s a quiet, centuries-long ache for a god who gave you everything except a way to say goodbye.
Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths
It is a dangerous thing to fall in love with your cage-keeper. This is a story about a girl who tries to burn down a kingdom, only to realize she’s holding the match for a man who loves the fire as much as she does.
Spark of the Everflame: A Novel
They broke her until she was nothing, and then they were surprised when she learned how to use the pieces of her past as a blade. It’s a quiet, bleeding look at how much it hurts to grow a soul back after it’s been stolen.
Daughter of No Worlds
Gold is beautiful until you realize it’s just a heavy way to be invisible. This isn't a fairy tale about a king; it’s a horror story about a woman who has to claw her way out of her own skin to find the human underneath.
Gild
There are monsters in the woods, yes, but the real danger lives inside her head. Elspeth carries a voice in her mind, a nightmare made flesh who saved her life and never let her forget the cost. Magic is traded in cards, in bargains, in secrets, and ...
One Dark Window
Death does not knock, he lingers. He watches a girl who has survived too many funerals and keeps outliving everyone she loves, and when he begins to speak softly, it is not fear that blooms first but recognition. It feels like standing at the edge of...
Belladonna
This is not loud magic but quiet and aching. A girl abandoned by her mother and a boy desperate to prove himself cross paths during a hunt that only happens once a year. Their romance grows in shared silences, where admitting you care feels more frig...
A Far Wilder Magic
In a kingdom where death magic seeps into the soil, a girl who can raise the dead becomes a pawn in royal games. The real tension lives in candlelit glances and in choosing between a prince who sees too much and a rival who feels too close. The most ...
The Foxglove King
He is called the Dragon, but he is only a man, sharp and solitary and feared. Every ten years he chooses a girl from the valley, and this time the girl refuses to be small. Love takes root in the shadow of a forest that would gladly swallow them both...
Uprooted
Two magicians are bound to a competition they never chose, inside a circus that opens only at night. Their love grows quietly beneath silk tents and starlight while the rules demand that one of them must lose. The real question is whether love can su...
The Night Circus
Gold is the color of the elite, but Red is the color of the dirt, the blood, and the vengeance. It’s a story about a man who dies as a slave so he can be reborn as a monster to save the world that crushed him.
Red Rising
When the whole world is hiding in holes in the ground, looking at the stars isn't a dream—it's a death wish. It’s a loud, angry scream against a destiny that told a girl she was born to fail.
Skyward
Two lonely souls meeting in the vast, empty dark of space, speaking a language made of music and math. It’s proof that the universe is terrifyingly big, but a friendship can be bigger.
Project Hail Mary: A Novel
A mission to the stars where the only thing more dangerous than the vacuum of space is the realization that your own mind is a unreliable witness. It’s a love story trapped inside a glitching computer.
The Darkness Outside Us
A correspondence between two enemies across the threads of time. It’s not just a book; it’s a long, lyrical suicide note written in the margins of history by two people who would rather burn time down than live without each other.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
In a world where Death has been fired, humanity had to hire teenagers to do the job. It’s a cold, clinical look at what happens when "killing" becomes a professional chore and "living" becomes a boring eternity.
Scythe
A space disaster told through the digital scraps of a dying fleet. It’s a chaotic symphony of a rogue AI, a biological plague, and two teenagers trying to find each other in a galaxy that has stopped caring if they live.
Illuminae
Science is a very cold companion when you’re the only heartbeat on a planet. It’s a story about a man who refuses to die quietly, proving that the human brain is the only weapon you need when the universe tries to turn the lights out on you.
The Martian: A Novel
A fae prince who cannot create art asks a mortal girl to paint him as he truly is, not beautiful but grieving. In showing his sorrow, she commits a crime that pulls them both into danger. This is a romance about the risk of being seen without glamour...
An Enchantment of Ravens
She buys a slave at an auction and believes it is a simple act of impulse. Instead it begins a quiet unraveling of politics, loyalty, and forbidden affection. Loving him means choosing a person over power and accepting the cost.
The Winner's Curse