list of popular books enemies of lovers
fantasy books from enemies to lovers
- of blood and ashes by jennifer l. Armentrout
- The Fall of Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
- The Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco
- The Kingdom of the Bridge by Danielle L. jensen
- dance of thieves by mary e. pearson
- we hunt the llama by hafsah faizal
- the cruel prince by holly black
- serpent & dove by shelby mahurin
- the barkers war by nina varela
- six of crows by leigh bardugo
- bone the barkers moon by kathryn purdie
- laini taylor’s daughter of smoke and bones
- stephanie garber’s caraval
- tricia levenseller’s daughter of the pirate king
- defy brigid night kemmerer
- an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir
- shatter me by tahereh mafi
- a deal with the elf king by elise kova
books from enemies to lovers: retellings
- a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. maas
- renée ahdieh’s rage and dawn
- these violent pleasures of chloe gong
- a curse so dark and lonely by brigid kemmerer
- margaret rogerson’s sorcery of thorns
- to kill a kingdom by alexandra christo
historical/contemporary business from fiction to lovers books
- stalking jack the ripper by kerri maniscalco
- i want to be where you are by kristina forest
- punk 57 by penelope douglas
- red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston
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enemies of fantasy book lovers
of blood and ashes by jennifer l. trout
We start our list of books from enemies to lovers of blood and ashes.
A maiden… chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. the life of the maiden is lonely. never to be touched or to be looked at. she is never spoken to or experiences pleasure. Waiting for the day of her ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting the evil she brought to her family, than prepare for the gods to find her worthy. but her choice has never been hers.
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A duty… The future of the entire kingdom rests on Poppy’s shoulders, something she’s not even sure she wants for herself. because a maiden has a heart. and a soul, and longing. And then Hawke, a golden-eyed honor guard destined to ensure her ascension, walks into her life, destiny and duty entangled with desire and need. he incites her wrath, makes her question everything she believes in, and tempts her with the forbidden.
a kingdom… abandoned by the gods and feared by mortals, a fallen kingdom rises once more, determined to take back what it believes is its own through violence and warfare. revenge. and as the shadow of the damned draws near, the line between forbidden and right blurs. Not only is Poppy about to lose her heart and be deemed unworthy by the gods, but her life as well when every blood-soaked thread that holds her world together begins to unravel.
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the fall of the kingdoms of morgan rhodes
the war united them. love will tear them apart. Princess Cleo of Mytica faces violence for the first time in her life when a shocking murder puts her kingdom on the verge of collapse. Once a member of privileged royalty, Ella Cleo must now muster the strength to survive in this new world and fight for her rightful place as queen. The Lime King’s son, Magnus, must plan each step wisely and cunningly if he is to gain the trust of his powerful father, while his sister, Lucia, discovers a terrifying secret about his heritage that it will change everything. Rebel Jonas lashes out at the forces of oppression that have kept his country cruelly impoverished, and finds himself the leader of a popular revolution centuries in the making.
the kingdom of the wicked by kerri maniscolco
two sisters. a brutal murder. a quest for revenge that will unleash hell itself… and a heady romance.
emilia and her twin sister, vittoria, are streghe, witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding being noticed and persecuted. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…defiled beyond belief.
Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and seek revenge at all costs, even if it means using dark magic that has long been forbidden. Later, Emilia meets the Wrath, one of the evil princes of Hell that she has been warned against in tales since she was a child.
wrath claims to be on the side of emilia, who has been tasked by her master with solving the series of murders of women on the island. But when it comes to the wicked, nothing is what it seems…
You’ll be hard-pressed to find enemies of book lovers with higher tension than the realm of the wicked.
the kingdom of the bridge by danielle l. jensen
A warrior princess trained in isolation, Lara is driven by two certainties.
The first is that the Are King of the Bridge Kingdom is your enemy. and the second is that she will be the one to bring him to his knees. the only route through a storm-ravaged world, the bridge kingdom grows rich and deprives its rivals, including lara’s homeland.
So, when she’s sent as a bridge under the guise of peace, Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes to break through their impenetrable defenses. and the defenses of the king of it. However, as she infiltrates her new home and gains a deeper understanding of a war to possess the bridge, Lara begins to question whether she is the hero or the villain.
And as their feelings transform from icy hostility to fierce passion, Lara must choose which kingdom to save…and which kingdom to destroy.
dance of thieves by mary e. pearson
Mary E. pearson really knows how to put together great enemies for lovers books.
When the patriarch of the Ballenger Empire dies, his son, Jase, becomes its new leader. even nearby kingdoms bow to the might of this outlaw family, who have always ruled by their own rules.
But a new era looms on the horizon, ushered in by a young queen, who makes her the target of the dynasty’s resentment and wrath.
At the same time, the queen sends Kazi, a legendary former street thief, to investigate transgressions against the new settlements. When Kazi arrives in the inhospitable land of the whalers, he discovers that there is more to Jase than he thought.
As unexpected events spiral out of their control and bring them closer together, they continue to play cat and mouse with false moves and motives to fulfill their own secret missions.
we hunt the llama for hafsah faizal
people lived because they killed. people died because he lived.
zafira is the huntress, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the arz to feed her people. Nasir is the prince of death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan.
if sapphire were exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; If Nasir showed her compassion, her father would punish him in the most brutal way. both zafira and nasir are legends in the kingdom of arawiya, but neither wants to be.
The war is coming and the arz is getting closer with each passing day, enveloping the land in shadows. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, the Sultan sends Nasir on a similar quest: retrieve the artifact and kill the hunter.
But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds, and the prize they seek may pose a greater threat than anyone can imagine.
holly black’s cruel prince
You can’t find a better candidate for a list of lovers’ enemies books than the cruel prince. even the title carries the weight that our hero is trapped in a relationship with someone he could never love. or can she?
jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered, and she and her two sisters were kidnapped to live in the treacherous high court of the fairies.
Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. but many of the fairies despise humans. especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and most evil son of the High King.
To win a place in court, you must challenge him and face the consequences.
As Jude becomes more involved in palace intrigue and deception, she discovers her own capacity for deception and bloodshed.
But as betrayal threatens to drown the faerie courts in violence, Jude will have to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters and the faerie herself.
snake & pigeon by shelby mahurin
Two years ago, Louise Le Blanc fled her coven and took refuge in the city of Cesarine, abandoning all magic and living off whatever she could steal. witches like lou are hunted there. they are feared. and they burn.
Sworn to the church as a hunter, reid diggory has lived his life by one principle: thou shalt not allow a witch to live. his path was never intended to cross lou’s, but an evil one trick forces them into an impossible union: holy matrimony.
The war between the witches and the church is ancient, and Lou’s most dangerous enemies bring a fate worse than fire.
Unable to ignore his growing feelings, but unable to change who he is, he must make a decision. and love makes fools of us all.
the war of the town criers by nina varela
After the class war devastated the kingdom of Rabu, the automatons, designed to be the playthings of royalty, seized their owners’ estates and bent the human race to their will.
Now, Ayla, a human servant rising through the ranks in the sovereign’s household, dreams of avenging the death of her family… by killing the sovereign’s daughter, the lady crier. crier, who was made to be beautiful, to be perfect. and take over his father’s job from him.
crier had been preparing to do just that: inherit his father’s rule over the land.
but that was before she got engaged to scyre kinok, who seems to have a thousand secrets. that was before she found out that her father is not as benevolent as she thought. that was before i met ayla.
six of crows by leigh bardugo
ketterdam: a bustling center of international trade where you can get anything for the right price, and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy kaz brekker.
Kaz is offered the opportunity for a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. but she can’t do it alone. . . .
a prisoner with a thirst for revenge. a sniper who can’t walk away from a bet. a fugitive with a privileged past. a spy known as the Specter. a heartthrob who uses his magic to survive in the slums. a thief with a knack for unlikely escapes.
Kaz’s crew is the only thing that could stand between the world and destruction, if they don’t kill each other first.
bardugo really knows how to write books about enemies for lovers. he can also watch her shadows and bones series if he hasn’t read it yet.
the moon of the bone crier by kathryn purdie
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weepers have a sacred duty. they alone can prevent the dead from preying on the living. But his power to transport the spirits of the dead to the night skies of the goddess Elara or to the underworld of Tyrus comes from sacrifice. the gods demand a promise of dedication. And that promise comes at the cost of the bone-crying one true love.
ailesse has been groomed from birth to become the matriarch of the Bone Cryers, a mysterious family of women who use forces drawn from animal bones to transport dead souls. but she must first complete her rite of passage and kill the boy she too is destined to love.
Bastien’s father was killed by a bone weeper and he’s been seeking revenge ever since. however, when he finally captures one, his revenge will have to wait. Ailesse’s ritual has begun and now his destinies are intertwined, in life and in death.
sabine has never had a stomach for crybaby work. But when Ella’s best friend Ella Ailesse is captured, Sabine will do whatever it takes to save her, even if it means defying her traditions, and Ella’s matriarch, to break the bond between Ailesse and Bastien. before they all die.
laini taylor’s daughter of smoke and bone
All over the world, black handprints are appearing on doors, burned there by winged strangers that have slipped through a crack in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled backstreets of Prague, a young art student is about to be drawn into a brutal supernatural war.
meet karou. she fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”, she speaks many languages, not all of them human, and her bright blue hair actually grows from her head of that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her and she is about to find out.
When the beautiful and tormented Akiva sets eyes on her in a Marrakesh alley, the result is blood and starlight, secrets revealed, and an ill-fated love whose roots lie deep in a violent past. But will Karou live to regret knowing the truth about herself?
stephanie garber caravan
a legendary competition. a fascinating romance. an unbreakable bond between two sisters.
scarlett dragna has never left the small island where she and her sister, tella, live with their powerful and cruel father. Now, Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett believes her dreams of seeing Caraval, the once-a-year far-flung performance where the public participates in the show, are over.
But this year, scarlett’s long-awaited invite finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella takes Scarlett to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend.
Turns out this season’s caravan revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first wins. Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during the caravan is just an elaborate performance. she however, is involved in a game of love, heartbreak and magic.
And whether Caraval is real or not, Scarlett must find Tella before the five game nights are up or a dangerous domino effect of consequences will unfold, and her beloved sister will be gone forever.
welcome, welcome to caraval . . . watch out for being swept too far.
daughter of the pirate king by tricia levenseller
This is an absolutely phenomenal book that you must read.
Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map, the key to a legendary treasure, seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows her enemies to capture her, giving her the perfect opportunity to search her ship. .
More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has only one thing standing between her and the map: her captor, the unexpectedly smart and unfairly attractive, mounted First Officer.
But don’t worry, alosa has a few tricks up her sleeve, and no lone pirate can stop the pirate king’s daughter.
levenseller writes a fast-paced, adrenaline-pumping adventure with a swoon-worthy romance perfect for an enemy-to-lovers-book list.
brave the night by brigid kemmerer
The kingdom of Kandala is on the brink of disaster. divisions between sectors have only worsened since a disease began to ravage the land, and within the royal palace, the king maintains a tenuous peace with a merciless hand.
King Harristan assumed power after the shocking murder of his parents, leaving the younger Prince Corrick to take on the brutal role of King’s Justice.
The brothers have learned to react ruthlessly to any sign of rebellion; it’s the only way to keep order when disease can strike anywhere, and the only known cure, an elixir made from delicate moonflower petals, is severely limited.
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Out in the wild, apprentice apothecary Tessa Cade is tired of watching her neighbors die, their suffering ignored by unyielding royalty. Every night, she and her best friend risk their lives to steal moonflower petals and distribute the elixir to those who need it most, but it’s still not enough.
As rumors spread that the cure is no longer working and sparks of rebellion begin to flare, a particularly cruel act of the king’s justice makes Tessa desperate enough to attempt the impossible: sneak in. in the palace. But what she finds upon her arrival makes her wonder if it’s possible to fix Kandala without destroying it first.
an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir
laia is a slave. Elijah is a soldier. none is free.
Under martial rule, defiance meets death. those who do not swear their blood and bodies to the emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.
It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. the family barely survives in the impoverished alleys of the empire. they do not challenge the empire. they’ve seen what happens to those who do.
But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a choice. In exchange for the help of the rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy on them from within the largest military academy in the empire.
There, Laia meets Elias, the best soldier in the school and secretly the most reluctant. Elijah just wants to be free from the tyranny he is being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined and that their decisions will change the fate of the empire itself.
tear me apart for tahereh mafi
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. the last time she did it was an accident, but the reset locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one cares.
The world is too busy falling apart to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are wiping out the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
restore said their way was the only way to fix things, so they put juliette in a cell. now there are so many people dead that the survivors whisper war, and the reset has changed its mind.
maybe juliette is more than a tortured soul encased in a poisonous body. maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.
juliette has to make a decision: to be a weapon. or be a warrior.
a deal with the elf king by elise kova
Goblins come for two things: war and wives. in both cases, they come by death.
Three thousand years ago, humans were persecuted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken a young girl from Luella’s village to be their human queen.
being chosen is seen as a mark of death by the townspeople. a nineteen year mark luella is thankful she escaped as a child. She, on the other hand, has dedicated her life to studying herbology and becoming the only healer in town.
That is, until the elven king unexpectedly arrives… for her.
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a court of thorns and roses by sarah j. dough
feyre’s survival is based on her ability to hunt and kill: the forest where she lives is a cold and desolate place during the long winter months.
So when he sees a deer in the woods being chased by a wolf, he can’t resist fighting for his meat. but to do so, he must kill the predator, and killing something so precious comes at a price…
Dragged into a magical realm by the murder of a fairy, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jeweled mask, hides much more than his piercing green eyes suggest.
Feyre’s presence at court is heavily guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion, and the faery lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse or be lost forever.
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the wrath and dawn of renée ahdieh
In a land ruled by a murderous boy king, each sunrise brings heartbreak to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. him every night he takes a new girlfriend only to have a silken cord wrapped around his throat in the morning.
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When Shahrzad’s dearest sixteen-year-old friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad swears revenge and volunteers to be his next wife. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but also to end the Caliph’s reign of terror once and for all.
night after night, shahrzad seduces khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring his survival, even though he knows that each dawn could be his last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she had imagined she was.
This monster is a boy with a troubled heart. Unbelievably, Shahrzad finds himself falling in love. How is this possible? it is an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand that all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone.
She resolves to uncover the secrets that lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid’s life as retribution for the many lives he has stolen. Can her love survive this world of stories and secrets?
these violent pleasures of chloe gong
The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the beat of debauchery.
A blood feud between two gangs turns the streets red, leaving the city defenseless in the grip of chaos. At the center of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir to the Scarlet Gang, a network of criminals high above the law.
Their only rivals in power are the white flowers, who have battled the scarlet ones for generations. And behind her every move is her heiress, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love…and her first betrayal.
but when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing at each other’s throats, people start whispering. of a contagion, a madness.
of a monster in the shadows. As the deaths mount, Juliette and Roma must put their weapons and grudges aside and work together, because if they can’t stop this chaos, then there will be no city left to rule.
a curse so dark and lonely by brigid kemmerer
fall in love, break the curse.
Cursed by a powerful sorceress to repeat the fall of his eighteenth year, Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall, thought he could easily be saved if a girl fell in love with him. but that was before he became a vicious beast from hell. bent on destruction. before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope.
nothing has ever been easy for harper. With her father long dead, her mother dying, and her brother constantly underestimating her due to her cerebral palsy, Harper learned to be strong enough to survive. When she tries to save a stranger on the streets of Washington, DC, she finds herself drawn into a magical world.
Break the curse, save the kingdom.
harper doesn’t know where she is or what to believe. A prince? a curse? a monster? As she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand the stakes. And when Rhen realizes that Harper isn’t just another girl to charm, her hope returns. But powerful forces oppose the falling embers… and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and their people from total ruin.
thorn wizardry by margaret rogerson
all wizards are evil. Elizabeth has known that for as long as she has known anything. Raised as a waif in one of Austermeer’s great libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of wizardry: magical grimoires that rustle on shelves and rattle under iron chains.
If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. she hopes to become a guardian, tasked with protecting the kingdom from her power.
then an act of sabotage unleashes the most dangerous grimoire in the library. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital.
With no one to turn to except her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demon servant, she finds herself embroiled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only might the great libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.
As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth begins to question everything she’s been taught: about wizards, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. because she elisabeth has a power that she never imagined and a future that she could never have imagined.
kill a kingdom by alexandra christo
The Lyre Princess is mermaid royalty and the deadliest of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. until a twist of fate for her forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the queen of the sea transforms Lira into what they hate most: a human being.
Stripped of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain human forever.
The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. hunting mermaids is more than an unpleasant hobby: it is his calling. when he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she is more than she seems.
She promises to help him find the key to destroy the entire mermaid race forever, but can he trust her? and how many deals will she have to make elian to eliminate humanity’s greatest enemy?
from enemies to lovers: historical/contemporary fiction
stalking jack the ripper by kerri maniscalco
Seventeen-year-old audrey rose wadsworth was born the daughter of a lord, with a life of wealth and privilege ahead of her.
But between social teas and silk fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.
against her father’s harsh wishes and society’s expectations, audrey often sneaks away to her uncle’s laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine.
When her work on a series of savagely murdered corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial killer, her search for answers brings her closer to her own sheltered world.
I want to be where you are by kristina forest
When Chloe Pierce’s mother forbids her from applying to the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition.
But Chloe hits her first pothole when her annoying neighbor Eli insists on hitchhiking, threatening to tell Chloe’s mom if she leaves him and his stinky dog behind.
So now Chloe is chasing her ballet dreams down the East Coast: two unwanted (but kinda cute) passengers in her car, butterflies in her stomach, and a really cool playlist on repeat.
Enemies of the forest books for lovers are fantastic for a romance that keeps you turning the pages.
penelope douglas punk 57
misha
I can’t help but smile at the handwriting of your letter. She extranges me.
In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. thinking she was a girl, with a name like misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student ryen de ella. My teacher, believing that Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. It didn’t take us long to realize the mistake. and before long, we were arguing about everything. the best pizza to go. android vs iphone whether or not eminem is the greatest rapper of all time… and that was the start. for the next seven years, it was us. his letters are always on black paper with silver letters. sometimes there is one a week or three in a day, but I need them. she is the only one that keeps me on the right path, she convinces me and accepts everything that I am.
We only had three rules. no social networks, no phone numbers, no photos. we had a good thing. why screw it up? until I come across a picture of a girl online. her name is ryen, she loves rooster pizza and loves her iphone. what are the possibilities?
fuck it. I need to meet her.
I just don’t expect to hate what I find.
ryen
He hasn’t written in three months. something is wrong. Did she die? get arrested? knowing misha, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration either. Without him around, I’m going crazy. I need to know that someone is listening. It’s my fault. he should have gotten his phone number or a picture or something.
He could be gone forever. or right under my nose, and I wouldn’t even notice.
red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston
the first son, alex claremont-diaz, is the closest thing to a prince on this side of the atlantic. Featuring his fearless sister and the Vice President’s cool granddaughter, they’re the White House trio, a beautiful millennial marketing ploy for his mom, President Ellen Claremont.
International high society duties hit a snag, namely when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis, Prince Henry, at a royal wedding are leaked to the tabloids and threaten US-American relations. and great britain. the plan for damage control: staging of a feigned friendship between the first son and the prince.
As President Claremont begins her re-election bid, Alex is thrust into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and turn two nations upside down.
what is worth the sacrifice? how do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?
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