As we settle into December–the month of winter celebrations, parties, and festivities–let’s take a look at some winter-themed Fantasy Romances to add to your holiday reading. ?
Each of these books have winter, snow, ice, or cold themes as part of the story, setting, or character background. Click on the covers to get your copy!
1. Winter’s Bride (currently free)
TO SAVE HER LIFE, SHE MUST MAKE HIM FALL IN LOVE WITH HER.
The Winter Lord is a man like no other. He rules the world alongside the Summer Lady, the Autumn Lord, and the Lady of Spring. He’s the wrong man to fall in love with, but Dawn loves him anyway.
The last thing Dawn expects is to be thrown in the Winter Lord’s prison because of a minor dispute. When he visits her cell, and asks her to marry him, nothing will ever be the same again. Her entire world spins into chaos, but soon, it’s obvious things aren’t as they should be.
The Winter Lord is hiding something, and when the truth is revealed, she understands only one thing can save her life …
Love.
This is a passionate love story for adult readers that takes place in a magical fantasy world where the Elders rule the seasons.
2. The Girl Who Kept Winter
Set in a fantasy world similar to ancient Asia, The Girl Who Kept Winter is a love story between Luu Dong Tu (lit translation: “the girl who kept winter”) and a mysterious, dangerous yet passionate man, Obsidian – the King of Poison.
Luu Dong Tu is the oldest daughter of a small dojo. Her life has been normal, growing up in a small town, working at her family dojo until the day she is forced into a marriage with the spoiled son of a local official to save her family.
Her life is turned on its head as five days before the wedding, she finds herself abducted by three strangers from a notorious group of martial art experts, the Monstrous Eighteen.
In their company, she encounters the intriguing Obsidian, king of poison, a man whose entire body is laced with a lethal toxin. Obsidian is a cold, distant, and dangerous man with a mysterious past. No one has ever touched him and lived to tell the tale until an innocent kiss from Dong Tu seals their destiny.
The story follows Dong Tu as she becomes tangled in a romance with the dangerous yet handsome man, catching a glimpse into his life in the Whispered World.
Can Dong Tu come home in time to save her family without having to marry the son of the local official? Who is Obsidian and what is the snow that follows his steps? How will Dong Tu fall in love with the man nobody can touch? Will Dong Tu and Obsidian be together?
The Girl Who Kept Winter is a journey of falling in love for the first time, an adventure in the fantasy martial art world of swordplays, air bending, wind walking, superpower, kungfu fighting wuxia…
Join Dong Tu as she discovers Obsidian’s true identity and resolves the mystery of the snow and the poison that laces his skin.
The venture with an ending that keeps you longing for more.
3. Winter King
His court is dying, and she’s his only hope …
Monsters of the Tywyll Forest have poisoned the Winter Court, unleashing a prophecy that demands a human sacrifice to save the withering land. Willing to do whatever it takes to save his people, King Cadewyn of the Winter Court ventures to the human world in search of one insignificant life to claim…
Amber was used to her life being in shambles, but getting kidnapped and whisked off to a magical fae realm was a new low, even for her. While feeling drawn to the fae King by a sizzling attraction, her apprehension builds to a panic over why he brought her there.
When Cade discovers that Amber is his mate, can he still carry out his plan to sacrifice her? Or will the malicious plotting of others within the court leave Amber trapped in the mystical realm with nowhere to run?
Winter King is a standalone steamy paranormal romance with a HEA. Each book in the Wyth Courts series will feature a different couple, with a complete story, and a HEA. Suited for readers 18+ due to language and sex scenes.
4. Walking in a Witchy Wonderland: A Holiday Anthology
Getting hexy for the holidays!
A sexy hex
Angsty werewolf
Randy vampire
Lusty grim reaper
And a babysitting gig gone awry
Mischief and mayhem dominate the holiday season for the Savoie sisters of New Orleans. Five sexy stories in the STAY A SPELL world you don’t want to miss!
5. Stolen Ice Bride
When spring breaks the unforgiving grip of winter, the mages arrive to steal a bride. . .
Solvay is known for her talents with mixing potions but she hides a treacherous power. She’s avoided the watchful eyes of the mages until now. . .
When Solvay is chosen as a bride for the mage king, she’s terrified he’ll discover her secret and use it to bring war to the northern lands.
To protect the people she flees only to fall into the hands of a ruthless ice lord. He intends to use her as a hostage to secure peace between the mages and ice lords.
As Solvay travels into the heart of the mountains with the ice lord, she discovers there’s more to him than his savage ways.
But even love can’t change the course of fate.
To prevent a war, she’ll have to sacrifice herself to save the man she loves. . .
6. Heart of the Winter Prince
The Winter Prince’s heart is freezing solid, and only an ancient dagger and an antiques dealer with a Viking temper will be able to save him…
Perfect for fans of Laura Thalassa, C.N Crawford and Jaymin Eve, this is the second book in a new fated mates series, ‘Wrath of the Fae’ about cursed fae princes and the women destined to save them.
7. The Nature of Witches (Queer Witchy Romance)
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
In a world where witches control the climate and are losing control, only one witch can save earth from destruction. But as her power grows, it hurts those closest to her, and when she falls in love with her training partner she’s forced to choose between her power, her love, and saving the earth.
For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, but now their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic; the storms, more destructive. All hope lies with Clara, a once-in-a-generation Everwitch whose magic is tied to every season.
In Autumn, Clara wants nothing to do with her power. It’s wild and volatile, and the price of her magic―losing the ones she loves―is too high, despite the need to control the increasingly dangerous weather.
In Winter, the world is on the precipice of disaster. Fires burn, storms rage, and Clara accepts that she’s the only one who can make a difference.
In Spring, she falls for Sang, the witch training her. As her magic grows, so do her feelings, until she’s terrified Sang will be the next one she loses.
In Summer, Clara must choose between her power and her happiness, her duty and the people she loves…before she loses Sang, her magic, and thrusts the world into chaos.
“Perfect for fans of Shea Ernshaw and Taylor Swift’s Folklore.”―Rosiee Thor, author of Tarnished Are the Stars
8. Under A Winter Sky: A Midwinter Holiday Anthology
Five powerhouse authors of fantasy and urban fantasy bring you a feast of romantic midwinter holiday adventures. These heartwarming and pulse-pounding tales celebrate Hanukah, Christmas, the solstice, Yule – and holidays from worlds beyond our own. With fancy-dress balls, faery bargains, time travel, blood sacrifice, and festive cocktails, these stories will delight lovers of fantasy and romance, with a dash of seasonal joy.
9. The Winter Court
Icelyn was given to the Horde to pay a tithe owed to them by her court. She had no plan of letting them claim her or enter her court. One arrow should have ended it, only it didn’t stop anything.
Instead, she’s now prisoner to the broody, cocky, self-absorbed prince that makes her want things she’s never thought possible. Will she be able to resist him and save her court from the horrors that the Horde has planned? Sinjinn had a mission: Get Cailean to the Winter Court to claim his bride.
It should have been simple. Instead, he gets taken down by a wisp of a woman who stares at him through the clearest blue eyes he’s ever seen before. The taste of her lips sends his world teetering on devastation. She’s his prisoner, so why shouldn’t he claim her as his?
Because she’s his brother’s bride.
Because it wasn’t complicated enough, right?
One arrow will change the destiny of three lives forever. Will they be able to escape the blood oath, or will he lose her to a brother who doesn’t even want her? New allies are being forged, new enemies emerge, and no one is safe within the realm of Faery anymore.
10. Shifters and Mistletoe: A Wolf Shifter Novella Collection
Heat up your holidays with eight sexy wolf shifter romances!
This novella anthology brings you brand new, never-before-seen stories of strong males brought to the brink by fierce females.
Join New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and award-winning paranormal romance authors Asa Maria Bradley, Carrie Ann Ryan, Cecy Robson, Kait Ballenger, Kate SeRine, L.E. Wilson, Maria Vale, Terry Spear for hunts across moonlit snow with wolf shifters who bare their bodies, their hearts–and their teeth.
11. The Winter King
An epic fantasy romance from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author C. L. Wilson
After three long years of war, starkly handsome Wynter Atrialan will have his vengeance on Summerlea’s king by taking one of the man’s beautiful, beloved daughters as his bride. But though peace is finally at hand, Wynter’s battle with the Ice Heart, the dread power he embraced to avenge his brother’s death, rages on.
Khamsin Coruscate, Princess of Summerlea and summoner of Storms, has spent her life exiled to the shadows of her father’s palace. Reviled by her father, marriage to Wintercraig’s icy king was supposed to be a terrible punishment, but instead offers Kham her first taste of freedom—and her first taste of overwhelming passion.
As fierce, indomitable Wynter weathers even Khamsin’s wildest storms, surprising her with a tenderness she never expected, Kham wants more than Wynter’s passion—she yearns for his love. But the power of the Ice Heart is growing, dangerous forces are gathering, and a devastating betrayal puts Khamsin and Wynter to the ultimate test.
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