I looooove a good romantic fantasy book or series with either witches or mages. Like UGHHH they always hit for some reason. Whether it’s a romantasy standalone or an incomplete fantasy romance trilogy, if you throw some witches in there it’s going to rule. So if you’re looking for romantic fantasy with witches, look no further than this list I’ve put together.
All of the witch and/or mage romantasy books listed below are ones that I personally thoroughly enjoyed. I’ve read more fantasy romance books with witches in in them, but didn’t include ones I didn’t enjoy. So, find your next mage or witch romantasy, fantasy, or beyond read based on length:
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Complete Series
The Crimson Moth Duology
📚 Romantic fantasy duology including “Heartless Hunter” and “Rebel Witch”
🎧 Solo narrated audiobook
🔥 Low spice
Plot: She’s a vapid socialite moonlighting as a witch vigilante rescuing banished witches and he is the lead witch hunter tasked with finding her.
This duology has: witch and witch hunter, cat and mouse, secret identities
Where to Read Book 1:
Bound By Blood Trilogy
📚 Romantic fantasy trilogy that starts with “The Blood That Binds Us”
🎧 Duet narrated audiobook
🔥 Spicy
Plot: She’s a bloodwitch who grew up with shifters and he’s the king trying to get rid of both of those populations. But when they get stuck working together, they find they have a common enemy.
This duology has: witch and witch hunter, PROPER enemies to lovers, mages, witches, shifters, elves, betrayals
Where to Read:
The Eating Woods Trilogy
📚 Complete dark gothic romantasy trilogy; book 1 is “Anathema”
☑️ On Kindle+
🎧 Duet audiobook
🔥 Spicy
Plot: She lives in an extremely religious village that has treated her as an outcast her entire life. The village is situated next to this forest where no one ever returns from. One day something happens and she ends up entering the woods, only to discover something she never could have predicted.
This trilogy has: dark backstories, dragon-ish creatures, magic users, religious weaponization
Where to Read Book 1:
Omnis Trilogy
📚 Complete dark romantic fantasy trilogy; book 1 is “The Knowing Witch”
☑️ On Kindle+
🔥 Spicy
Plot: Ena is a witch who has been living with the coven matriarch and her sister since they were babies and her parents died. She is about to experience her official summoning, which means she’ll be gifted by their goddess with her specific witch gift. But when she gets a gift that doesn’t seem right, things start to go awry. Including the boy who was just passing through 10 years ago she happened to fall for showing back up, but not in the way she wanted at all.
This trilogy has: gothic vibes, witches and demons, smart/thoughtful FMC, ultimate longing and yearning from romantic leads
Where to Read Book 1:
Incomplete Series
Witch Walker Series
📚 Incomplete dark romantasy series; 3 of 5 books out including “The Witch Collector,” “City of Ruin,” and “The Wolf and the Witch”
🎧 Dual audiobook
🔥 Spicy
Plot: Her sister was taken to the king by the Witch Collector years ago, and this year, when he’s back to take another witch from her village, she’s ready to exact her revenge on him.
This series has: witches, gods and nations at war, multi-POV, enemies to lovers
Where to Read Book 1:
Mages of the Wheel Series
📖 Incomplete romantasy series of interconnected standalones with 5 books out so far, starting with Reign & Ruin
☑️ On Kindle+
🎧 Dual audiobook
🔥 Lower spice
Plot: She’s the dying Sultan’s daughter and he wants her to take over when he passes. However, his Council doesn’t think she should and are working behind the scenes to force her to marry one of their sons instead. However, she wants none of this and decides in order to propose an alliance to a neighboring enemy kingdom instead, all while working to fix the broken wheel of magic.
This book has: political strategist FMC (one of my all-time favorites), shadow daddy MMC, politics galore, unique magic system mages
Where to Read Book 1:
Remnants of Rage Series
📖 Incomplete romantic fantasy series with (almost 3) of 4 books out so far, starting with Daughter of the Dead
☑️ On Kindle+
🎧 Multi-cast audiobook
🔥 No spice yet (in the first 2 books)
Plot: This series follows three FMCs:
– A secret blood witch who crawled out of her own grave only to be taken in by the king and queen who make her do their dirty deeds
– A princess who has lost most of her family and thus her dad, the king, to grief. And she is realizing the kingdom is suffering from this.
– A recently appointed queen whose brother just died and now she has to take up the throne, which she never expected.
The blood witch gets offered one last task in exchange for her freedom, and this task sets off a wave of crazy that affects the continent and beyond.
This series has: complex characters, amazing politics, WELL-DEVELOPED MAGIC, a unique plot, diverse cast, a bisexual love triangle, so much yearning, an absolutely diabolical villain, smart MCs and villains
Where to Read Book 1:
Standalones
The Once and Future Witches
📙 Standalone fantasy
☑️ On Kindle+
🎧 Solo audiobook
🚨 VERY small romantic subplots
Plot: Three sisters join the New Salem Suffragettes and in the process, they learn the world maybe isn’t what they thought. Or is it something they always knew? That maybe witches did exist, and that maybe just maybe any woman could be one if given the proper motivation.
This book has: Beautiful stunning writing, incredible themes, a top tier audiobook, sisterly and female love, witches, Suffragettes x Salem Witch Trials
Where to Read:
The Isle in the Silver Sea
🏳️🌈 Sapphic romantic fantasy standalone
🔥 Has spice (lower)
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook
Plot: Tales are the magic that runs England, & the tale of the knight & the witch is one of the most famous. The knight & the witch meet, fall on love, & must ruin one another in every lifetime. But what if they don’t want to do that this time? What if a mystery assassin is chasing them & they want to figure that out instead?
This book has: beautiful themes of generational storytelling/colonialism/immigration/propaganda, longing, fairytale retellings, so many magical creatures
Where to Read:
Slewfoot
🧙🏼♀️ Historical fantasy standalone
☑️ On Kindle+
🎧 Solo-narrated audiobook
Plot: Abitha was sold as a young bride to a Puritan community in America, very different from her world in England & her mother who used to make charms & spiritual items. Her husband is kind, but her brother-in-law is not & makes a bad business deal that ends up with her home as collateral. She’s already a little on the outs with the community, as an outsider doesn’t fit right in with the rigid religious rules, & now she must figure out how to save their farm.
This book has: themes of patriarchy and religious weaponization, feminine rage and revenge, witches and sprites and gods, Native American lore and witchery, Salem Witch Trials vibes,
Where to Read:
Salt & Broom
📚 Standalone witchy Jane Eyre romantic fantasy retelling
☑️ On Kindle+
🎧 Dual audiobook
🔥 No spice
Plot: She’s a practicing witch who gets sent to care for a wealthy man and help remedy the mysterious presence on his estate.
This book has: witchy Jane Eyre vibes, spooky vibes, grumpy MMC
Where to Read:
The Witch Who Trades With Death
📚 Romantic fantasy standalone
🎧 Solo narrated audiobook
🔥 V low spice
Plot: She was kidnapped and has been a forced concubine to the Emperor for years because of her powers as a witch. She can transfer life from one living item to another, and the Emperor finds this quite valuable. But one day, she decides it’s time to escape and attempts to get as far away as she possibly can.
This book has: found family, themes of imperialism, death god, witches
Where to Read:
As Many Souls As Stars
🏳️🌈 Sapphic romantic fantasy standalone
🎧 Solo narrated audiobook
🔥 Low spice
Plot: The Richter family is suspicious to many because of their presumed witch ties. But the first daughters of the Richter family specifically are both blessed with the strongest magic but also cursed. When a demon notices the first daughter’s soul, she wants to consume it. & is willing to do basically anything tk have it. Over & over again.
This book has: demons, witches, historical England, multiple timelines, and is for the Addie LaRue lovers if you wanted it gayer
Where to Read:
The Entanglement of Rival Wizards
🏳️🌈 Queer MM romantic fantasy standalone – book 1 in a series of interconnected romantic fantasy standalones
☑️ On Kindle+
🎧 Solo narrated audiobook
🔥 High spice
Plot: Sebastian is a wizard gunning for a grant so he can do some very specific research on his final semester. But the one thing potentially stopping him & his ambition is Elethior, his rich, pretentious rival.
This book has: wizards (so male witches, right?!) and all the magical beings, themes of trauma and dealing with it, rivals to lovers, who falls first?, sweetness and spice
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I hope you thoroughly enjoy these romantasy and romantic fantasy books with witches, and your witchy TBR is satisfied!
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