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Looking for your next romantasy obsession? July 2025 is stacked with new releases that are sure to steal your heart (and maybe your soul). This month's fantasy romance books have it all with dark gods and deadly bargains, pirate witches ruling the high seas, dragon riders caught in vampire politics, and cozy sapphic love stories in magical bookshops. If you're hunting for the best new July romantasy releases to binge, you're in the right place. Here are 13 brand new romantasy books coming out this July that you'll want to add straight to your TBR.
1. The Fallen & The Kiss of Dusk by Carissa Broadbent
Release date: August 5, 2025
In this next installment of the wildly popular Crowns of Nyaxia series, Carissa Broadbent takes us deeper into a world where gods wage war and love defies death itself. After plunging the world into eternal night, Mische finds herself imprisoned by vengeful gods while Asar, consumed by wrath, searches desperately for her. When they're offered a chance at redemption and reunion they must venture into realms mortal and divine to steal the power of the god of death. But with ancient betrayals, old allies, ruthless enemies, and the underworld teetering on collapse, will even their love survive what they must sacrifice?
Why you should read this:
This is lush, high stakes romantasy at its best, brimming with gods, deadly bargains, and a love powerful enough to rewrite destiny. If you crave swoon worthy tension, dark worlds, and epic journeys, you won't want to miss this July romantasy release.
2. Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Release date: August 5, 2025
Ready for more chaos in the kingdom? Evie Sage is back, still totally over her head as the assistant to the realm's most feared villain and still completely smitten with him. When a magical prophecy goes sideways, assassins invade the office breakroom, and frogs in tiny crowns judge her life choices, Evie has to figure out how to save the kingdom (or at least her dignity). Perfect for fans of Once Upon a Time and The Office, this is laugh out loud romantasy with murder plots, magical mayhem, and a very inconvenient crush on her evil, broody boss.
Why you should read this:
Because sometimes you just need a magical office romcom with sharp jawed villains, sarcastic frogs, and the kind of will they won't they that makes you squeal. This series only gets better and funnier with each book.
3. The Deathless One by Emma Hamm
Release date: August 5, 2025
On the day that should have saved her people, Princess Jessamine is murdered at the altar by her new husband. But death is just the beginning. She strikes a dangerous deal with the Deathless One, a god of death desperate to return to the mortal world, offering her loyalty and life in exchange for reclaiming her kingdom. As their partnership grows more intense, Jessamine finds herself torn between vengeance for her people and a perilous desire for the very god she swore to use.
Why you should read this:
If you're hooked by morally grey gods, haunting bargains, and a slow burn romance that dances on the edge of ruin, you'll be obsessed. A must read romantasy to sink your teeth into this summer.
4. House of the Beast by Michelle Wong
Release date: August 5, 2025
Alma, an outcast bastard of the powerful House Avera, trades her arm and her soul to a monstrous god for the medicine that might save her mother. When tragedy still strikes, Alma is trapped inside the eerie halls of the Avera estate, entangled in family schemes and court rivalries. But it's the Dread Beast, her eldritch, dangerously charming god with starlit hair, who might truly change everything. Together they plot revenge on the house that destroyed her, even as their toxic, twisted connection grows impossible to resist.
Why you should read this:
Because it's dark, gothic romantasy with morally grey chaos, codependent monster human romance, court intrigue, and stunning art woven through the story. If you love revenge plots and monstrous love, this is your next obsession.
5. Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer
Release date: August 12, 2025
When kingdoms teeter on ruin, a marriage of convenience seems like the perfect fix, unless it's tangled with secrets, rivalries, and an assassin's blade. Princess Jory hides that her family's magic is failing. King Ky hides that his fire magic might destroy everything. And Asher, Jory's childhood friend turned assassin, is ordered to kill them both. Loyalties will snap, passions ignite, and their twisted fates intertwine in ways that could either save their worlds or burn them to the ground.
Why you should read this:
Because it's an epic triangle of warrior, princess, and assassin with sizzling tension, dark secrets, and betrayals that will keep you tearing through pages. A fresh adult romantasy that promises pure obsession.
6. Alchemy and a Cup of Tea by Rebecca Thorne
Release date: August 12, 2025
Reyna and Kianthe are back in this cozy sapphic romantasy finale where the greatest threat to their peaceful, book-filled life might not be rogue alchemists, but tourists. After Reyna gets kidnapped (then promptly helps in her own escape, thank you very much), the wives return to Tawney to find their little bookshop overrun by fans. To save their town's magic and their sanity, they might have to close New Leaf Tomes and Tea for good. But if there's one thing these two know, it's how to fight for what and who they love.
Why you should read this:
Because it's a tea steeped, dragon sprinkled, sapphic delight with the sweetest married couple you'll ever meet. Perfect for romantasy readers craving cozy magic and found family feels.
7. Her Soul for a Crown by Alysha Rameera
Release date: August 12, 2025
Anula Ramanayake has one goal to marry the raja, poison him, and seize the throne to free her war torn homeland. But when a coup ruins her carefully laid plans, she strikes a desperate bargain, offering her soul to Reeri, the most dangerous of the cursed Yakka gods. Tethered together by dark magic and even darker desires, Anula and Reeri plot their vengeance against enemies human and divine, but the more Anula's heart stirs for the Blood Yakka, the more she risks losing her own humanity and her kingdom's hope.
Why you should read this:
Because it's lush, Sri Lankan inspired romantasy with slow burn poisoner x dark god romance, divine wars, and a heroine ruthless enough to sell her soul. A breathtaking new addition to your romantasy TBR.
8. Endless Anger by Sav R. Miller
Release date: August 19, 2025
Asher Anderson's got anger issues. Some might say it's inherited from the bloody legend of his monstrous father. Lucy Wolfe, his best friend and long time temptation, is trying (and failing) to ignore how their chemistry threatens to combust in library corners. When a string of violent secrets surfaces at Avernia College unveiling dark societies, human sacrifices, and old blood debts, Asher and Lucy are forced to navigate the sinister underbelly of their ivy-covered world. Their feelings might destroy them if the secrets don't get to them first.
Why you should read this:
Because it's dark academia with Greek Furies inspiration, a tortured bad boy who's way too hot for his own good, and a best friends to lovers slow burn that might literally kill them. Deliciously twisted romantasy vibes.
9. On Wings of Blood by Briar Boleyn
Release date: August 19, 2025
Medra Pendragon, the last of the dragon riders, supposedly, never asked to be thrown into the cutthroat halls of Bloodwing Academy, a vampire run school where half fae like her are treated like expendable pawns. But things spiral even more when she's bonded by ancient magic to Blake Drakharrow, the arrogant, dangerously gorgeous vampire who delights in tormenting her. With deadly competitions, vicious court games, and secrets that might resurrect more than just her lineage, Medra's about to find out that the academy isn't the biggest threat, she is.
Why you should read this:
Because it's a vampire romantasy with fae secrets, dragon lore, magical trials, and a betrothal to a hot jerk who might just be your next book boyfriend. Think Zodiac Academy energy only bloodier.
10. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Release date: August 26, 2025
Dark academia gets a hellish twist in this highly anticipated novel by R.F. Kuang. When Alice Law's revered professor dies in a magical accident, she refuses to let something as trivial as death stop her career. Alongside her bitter academic rival Peter Murdoch, she journeys into Hell itself to drag their professor's soul back. Guided only by Orpheus and Dante's cautionary tales, they'll navigate a twisted underworld filled with monstrous truths, hoping to save a man they don't even like. But past secrets might either bind them together or doom them for good.
Why you should read this:
Because it's Babel meets Dante's Inferno with a side of academic rivalry and eerie magic. If you love enemies to reluctant allies, underworld quests, and dark, cerebral fantasy, this new July release is essential.
11. Love's a Witch by Tricia O'Malley
Release date: August 26, 2025
Sloane MacGregor thought she was done with Briarhaven, the magical Scottish village she grew up in. But with her twenty-fifth birthday, aka witch coming into power day, looming, her grandmother summons her home to break a centuries old family curse. The town's grumpy mayor, Knox Douglas, wants her gone before her haywire magic turns his carefully managed haven upside down. Too bad the universe and a meddlesome bit of fate has other plans. Sparks fly, chaos brews, and in Briarhaven, love might just be the trickiest magic of all.
Why you should read this:
Because this cozy romantasy is basically Charmed meets Gilmore Girls, set in Scotland with curses, nosy neighbors, and a grumpy x sunshine romance that'll have you smiling the whole way through.
12. The Book of Heartbreak by Ova Ceren
Release date: August 26, 2025
Sare Silverbirch lives under a brutal curse, after five heartbreaks, her heart will stop forever. Already shattered four times, she's racing against fate to uncover the truth behind her curse before it's too late. Her journey takes her to Istanbul, where a charming seer named Leon helps untangle her mother's mysterious past. But falling for him could be her final undoing, especially when celestial beings have their own plans for her fragile, beating heart.
Why you should read this:
Because it's got Addie LaRue vibes with a Middle Eastern mythic twist. Achingly romantic, whimsically witty, and sure to break (then mend) your heart. A magical new romantasy perfect for your July TBR.
13. The Sea Witch by Eva Leigh
Release date: August 26, 2025
Falsely condemned as a witch, Alys Tanner steals a ship and flees Puritanical New England to rule the Caribbean seas, only to capture a by the books British naval navigator who might upend everything. As Alys and Ben clash (and smolder) aboard The Sea Witch, they're pulled into a perilous quest across monster infested waters, tangled up in curses, magic, and a reluctant partnership that looks a lot like enemies to lovers.
Why you should read this:
Because it's Pirates of the Caribbean meets witchy romantasy, with sea monsters, forced proximity, and a take no crap pirate captain who completely owns the page. Total swashbuckling fun.
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