GASLAMP FANTASY ROMANCE BOOKS 
Gaslamp fantasy romance blends historical settings with magic and the supernatural, rather than technology, as its core “twist.” Delve into the enchanting world of gaslamp fantasy romance for a mesmerizing fusion of historical elegance and fantastical allure. Within the gaslit streets of Victorian cities, you’ll encounter characters navigating both societal norms and magical realms, their romances interwoven with the delicate threads of mystery and forbidden enchantments. Clockwork contraptions sometimes hum with the heartbeat of a bygone era while you’re transported to a realm where love is as ethereal as the flickering gas lamps and passion dances amidst the shadows of hidden secrets and mystical allure.
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
Ghosts * Time Travel * Mystery
In a haunted time-slip manor, different couples across eras are pulled into ghostly mysteries, forgotten tragedies, and romantic entanglements as they uncover the secrets bound to Thorne Manor.
JACQUELINE BENSON
Lost Cities * Ruthless Enemies * Slow Burn
One series is filled with mystery, supernatural elements, and a touch of romance. A newer series begins with a Victorian archaeologist and her charming rogue companion racing against ruthless adversaries to find a legendary lost city.
AJ LANCASTER
Family Drama * Fae * Friends-to-Lovers
When her father’s magical estate chooses her as the new Lord of Stariel, Hetta Valstar must keep her family’s land safe while coping with a fae-infested border and an infuriatingly handsome butler with a hidden identity.
SL PRATER
Clever heroines and reluctant heroes navigate dangerous plots, shifting alliances, and hidden conspiracies, where uncovering the truth means risking their safety, their status, and the possibility of finding love along the way.
COLLEEN COWLEY
In a world where wizards hold significant power and women are believed to have no ability to cast spells, these stories explore themes of resistance, social justice, and the consequences of challenging established norms.
CHARLIE N. HOLMBERG
Sentient Setting * Slow Burn * Inherited magic
Merritt Fernsby inherits a haunted estate in 1846 Rhode Island. Teaming up with house tamer Hulda Larkin, they navigate the challenges of the sentient Whimbrel House, unraveling its secrets and facing external threats.
JEN LYNNING
When political alliances fracture, ordinary people and members of the nobility are drawn into court intrigue, magical conflicts, and difficult decisions that affect both their relationships and the balance between kingdoms.
LUANNE G. SMITH
In turn-of-the-century France, ancient vine witch traditions are threatened by curses, forgotten magic, and vineyard secrets. As powerful magical legacies try to destroy them, women must fight to preserve their heritage.
NICHOLE MCKEON
Amateur Sleuth * Occult * Detective Romance
A magic-wielding noblewoman investigates supernatural crimes in an alternate Victorian London, searching for her missing twin sister. As dangerous secrets emerge, she joins forces with a Scotland Yard inspector.
CLAIRE KOHLER
Selkies * Enemies-to-Lovers * Redemption
Follow the intertwined lives of outcasts, widowers, and hidden magical creatures in a small 18th-century Scottish fishing village, where folklore is real, secrets run deep, and love arrives unexpectedly.
KATE VALENT
An aspiring baker’s daughter chosen by a magical teapot, a woman drawn into dangerous secrets around a vampire-like lord, and rivals forced into cooperation all find their lives changed by magical events.
TILLY WALLACE
In Regency England, monster hunting comes with its own rules, rituals, and dangers. A mismatched group of hunters, misfits, and unlikely allies face supernatural threats, unraveling dark mysteries.
MIRANDA LYN
In a kingdom ruled by a ruthless Dark King, witches marked with living spell tattoos must survive deadly trials, unravel dangerous conspiracies, and risk everything for freedom, love, and the fate of their fractured realm.
SHARON LYNN FISCHER
As forgotten treaties unravel and old enemies rise again, scholars, nobles, and fae must uncover long-buried secrets before centuries of conflict erupt into war between the mortal and faery realms.
SUZANNAH ROWNTREE
Capers in 1890s Europe. Historical fantasy and whimsical capers in 1890s Europe following the adventures of Molly Dark, a woman gifted with the ability to see ghosts in a world ruled by monsters.
EVE SILVER
Set in shadowed Victorian-era worlds where characters with troubled histories uncover hidden crimes and family secrets while relationships develop under pressure from danger, mistrust, and past wrongdoing.
FLORA QUINCY
The Hartwell Sisters Saga is a historical omegaverse romance series set in London, 1795, that follows the four Hartwell sisters navigating societal restrictions and omegaverse dynamics for a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
CASEY BLAIR
Runaway Royal * Found Family * Magic Tea
A runaway princess trades her title for a teapot, going into hiding by running a small tea shop on the edge of a magical disaster zone, only to discover that serving her community might be exactly what her people need.
NICOLETTE ANDREWS
A woman dismissed as mad for seeing fae arrives at a gothic English estate only to be pulled into a fae murder mystery and a dangerous slow-burn romance with a fae guardian with secrets.
CHARLOTTE E. ENGLISH
The cursed Werth family lurches from one magical catastrophe to the next. There are dragons, revenants, murderous books, and scheming neighbors. And Miss Gussie Werth may be the most dangerously “wyrde” of them all.
BELINDA KROLL
Meddling Ghosts * He-Falls-First * Cozy Gothic
When ghosts refuse to stay quiet, reluctant mediums uncover the secrets behind their hauntings while facing Victorian expectations, family mysteries, and charming heros who offer unexpected romance.
LEANNA RENEE HIEBER
In a gothic world haunted by restless spirits, a young woman and a guarded investigator are drawn together as they uncover supernatural disturbances and political secrets that threaten both realms of the living and the dead.
RL MEDINA
Blending cozy fantasy with Italian cottage core and fairy core vibes, this series revolves around the Silveri sisters—Alessia, Liliana, and Pamina—each with their own magical abilities and romantic adventures.
STEPHANIE BURGIS
As women magicians fight for acceptance in 19th centruy Angland, they confront enchanted forests, scheming politicians, powerful fae, and complicated romances that could change their society forever.
MONICA FAIRVIEW
With England at war with Napoleon’s mages, Elizabeth Bennet is forced into a marriage with Fitzwilliam Darcy. They must learn to combine their powers while uncovering conspiracies that threaten the kingdom’s survival.
KAT ROSS
Occult investigator Harrison Fearing Pell and her companions investigate serial murders, cursed artifacts, and supernatural creatures from the streets of Gilded Age New York to the castles, monasteries, and villages of Eastern Europe.
J.L. VAMPA
Four witch sisters bound for three centuries to a sinister Grimoire that has forced them to shape the dark side of history begin to question, defy, and ultimately fight to destroy the power that has controlled them.
FREYA MARSKE
A queer historical fantasy series set in Edwardian England, where rival magicians, secret societies, magical conspiracies, and murder mysteries draw unlikely allies together and turn opposites into lovers.
KATHERINE DOTTERER
In the kingdom of Calatini, nobles, spellcasters, and ordinary citizens use magic that always demands a cost, leading to choices where love, power, and survival are tightly bound to the price of every spell.
EB WHEELER
Wwhere Faerie courts bleed into ballroom society, a young woman hiding a disability and a changeling hiding his inhuman past must dismantle an Unseelie conspiracy threatening both worlds all while falling for each other.
KATIE HAYOZ
In 1850s Chicago, monster hunter Melusine Doré is drawn into supernatural threats that expose buried family secrets and entangle her with Levi Cannon, forcing her to confront trust, betrayal, and the truth behind the city’s monsters.
OLIVIA ATWATER
Whimsical * Grumpy/Sunshine * Social Justice
In Regency England, faerie curses, class divides, and slow-burn romance set the stage for magical intrigue, while the Victorian-set The Witchwood Knot follows a governess determined to save her young charge from the deadly Fair Folk.
JENNA COLLETT
Magic gone wrong, unsolved murders, cursed objects, hidden identities, and fairy tale twists drive stories in which unlikely partners must solve deadly mysteries before more innocent lives are lost.
GWYNEIRA BLYTHE
After scandal forces Miss Victoria Grey to flee London for Wildeward Academy, her cursed magic awakens dangerous connections with five Gothic monsters in a world of forbidden romance, steam, and sorcery.
EMILY TESH
Explore the life of Tobias, a Wild Man in Greenhollow, as his world changes with the arrival of new owner Henry Silver at Greenhollow Hall. Old secrets emerge, leading Tobias to confront his past and the magic of the woods.
MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL
Married glamourists Jane and Vincent Ellsworth balance romance, society, and danger as their artistry draws them into political intrigue, mysteries, and threats that test their skills—and their partnership.
SC GRAYSON
Clever heroines and reluctant allies enter London’s hidden magical world, where the Talented are hunted, secrets are buried, and rising gang conflicts and political schemes threaten those with extraordinary abilities.
CHRISTINA BAEHR
Edith Worms has seen everything—until a mythical salamander tumbles out of the fireplace into her lap. The Secrets of Ormdale is a cozy gothic five-book series of mystery, dragons, and the perils of friendship.
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS
A magical Austen retelling where Darcy and Elizabeth face the Napoleonic Wars, dragons, and dangerous faeries, while their intertwined powers become both a weapon against their enemies and a bond that deepens their love.
TJ BELL
During the Gilded Age on an island off the coast of northern Michigan, faeries have snuck through the veil between their world and ours, and they are living peacefully among us. For now.
INDIA HOLTON
Witty, magical rom-coms where magic is mundane and academic rivalries are cutthroat, brilliant scholars are forced to partner with their most infuriating competitor in a high-stakes chase for rare magical creatures and artifacts.
ANNE ROLLINS
Magic hides beneath polite society, wielded by a gifted few through witchcraft, sorcery, or magecraft. At the center of this secret world stands the Cambion Club, an exclusive haven for the magically inclined elite.
ERIN ELLE
Gothic · Dark Magic · Supernatural
Disgraced heroines, demon-haunted estates, and barons with centuries of buried secrets. These stories drop women with nothing to lose into marriages of convenience gone darkly, supernaturally wrong.
KC CHARLES
Back from twenty years in China after his father and brother’s mysterious deaths, Lucien Vaudrey inherits an earldom, a curse, and at the mercy of an enemy, Stephen Day, the magician tasked with saving him.
BRIGID FINN
Monster Romance * Instalove * Stalker-to-Lover
A Victorian-era monster romance series where women employed by an upscale brothel are sent on three-month live-in assignments with wealthy, physically “Afflicted” non-human men — and nobody walks away unchanged.
KEL E FOX
Six princes form an alliance to prevent a war, facing tyrannical rulers, unpredictable magic, and dangerous secrets as they fight to save their kingdoms—and discover that loyalty, sacrifice, and love may be their greatest weapons.
CELIA LAKE
Cozy Fantasy * Magic * Historical Romance
Set in Albion, a magical version of Britain, these cozy historical romances blend mystery, friendship, and gentle magic as characters solve problems, uncover secrets, and find love within a hidden magical community.
MARIA GRACE
Dragons * Austen * Magic
A Regency reimagining of Pride and Prejudice where dragons remain hidden from most of society, and Darcy and Elizabeth become entangled in dragon lore, dangerous secrets, and a fragile peace between humans and dragons.
ROSALIE OAKS
An exiled jewel diviner is pulled into a coastal investigation of smuggled gems and murder, where her ability to sense jewels drags her deeper into conspiracies, scandal, and uneasy alliances with the local aristocracy.
SHOSHANA RAIN
As a young heiress battles to control her family’s smuggling empire, she must outmaneuver rival factions, survive political intrigue, and decide whom she can trust before war engulfs the Seven Star Empire.
M VERANT
Austen * Dragons * Slow Burn
Elizabeth Bennet has a forbidden power—she can speak to dragons. Her secret leads her to Pemberley, home of the man whose proposal she scorned. There, Elizabeth must test herself against a distant war.
RC BALLARD
A Song for Octaven is set in a magical, musical university where spells are sung. Peregrine Seas is a swashbuckling pirate adventure in the Age of Sail—Master and Commander with mermen and monsters.
TANSY RAYNER ROBERTS
A Regency comedy-of-manners that begins at a house party where our heroine foils kidnappings, unmasks murderers, and falls for the most infuriatingly capable spellcracker in the Teacup Isles.
CL POLK
An Edwardian world of magical inequality and institutional injustice, where a doctor who has spent years hiding his illegal gift must risk everything when a dying man’s last act drags him into a conspiracy that reaches to the throne.
GRACE DRAVEN
Supernatural guardians who walk between the worlds of the living and the dead battle monstrous forces, unravel old secrets, and confront lost loves in a dark, steampunk-inspired world of fog, airships, and graveyards.
ANNA ASLIN
The city of Aldermere is a secret hub of demonic activity—where the Veil between worlds runs dangerously thin. Some demons are simply part of the local color, perfectly happy to serve you tea. Others want your head.
AD RIDER
A towering female bodyguard and a pint-sized charming thief are thrown together when she’s framed for his heist, forced to trust each other—and fight their feelings—while chasing the truth through a fog-drenched Victorian fantasy city.
STELLA DORTHWANY
Arranged Marriage * Quests * Deadly Cults
As a magical storm threatens the world, an ambitious mage and her newly married cousin race through enchanted deserts and forgotten temples in search of a legendary weapon that could save—or destroy—their world.
ALEXIS L. MENARD
A rival-heirress and a powerful crime lord forced into a marriage of convenience navigate warring mafia families, forbidden magic, serial killers, and deadly secrets.
MEGAN VAN DYKE
Fae Courts * Fairy Tales * Magic
Fairy-tale worlds come alive with fae kings, curses, monsters, and magical bargains as heroines face dangerous adventures, unexpected alliances, and impossible choices on the path to their happily ever after.
ALLI EARNEST
Enemies-to-Lovers * Ragtag Crew * Lost Civilization
A civilization’s descendants navigate war, ancient magic, and impossible alliances. Two strangers—a disgraced pilot and a sharp-tongued scholar—are thrown together on a mission that could save their nation or destroy them both.
ANNE RENWICK
Tales of mayhem and murder are set upon a backdrop of the foggy and lamplit streets of a Victorian London full of secrets and spies, romance and mad science. The unexpected awaits at every turn.
JESSICA MARTING
Private investigators, inventors, and unlikely partners uncover missing souls, summoned demons, cursed objects, and deadly conspiracies while confronting the magical forces hidden beneath Victorian society.
MELANIE KARSAK
Reimagined fairy tales as romantic adventures where heroines move through dangerous enchanted forests, shifting loyalties, and folklore-driven conflicts while forming relationships with morally complex figures.
GAIL CARRIGER
In the whimsical witty world of the Parasol Protectorate, Alexia Tarabotti, a preternatural young lady who lacks a soul, possesses the uncanny ability to neutralize supernatural powers with a touch.
CJ ARCHER
A sharp-tongued watchmaker’s daughter and a secretive American stranger team up to solve magical crimes in Victorian London, investigating enchanted artisan guilds while slowly, reluctantly falling for each other.