The Grand Tour
Steampunk & Gaslamp Romance Across Europe
Most steampunk romance and gaslamp fantasy romance never leaves London’s gaslit fog, but the genre’s map is bigger than one city. This collection rounds up steampunk and gaslamp fantasy romance novels set across Europe, from the Regency era through the Victorian and Edwardian ages, for readers who want their airships, alchemy, and happily-ever-afters with a passport stamp. Leave the fog of Victorian London behind and discover the rest of the continent: enchanted French vineyards and Venetian canals, Bavarian castles and Romanian mountain fortresses, Icelandic glaciers, and the glittering, monster-ruled courts of Imperial Russia. Whether the draw is a heroine faking her way through a Viennese ballroom, a stowaway crossing the border by dirigible, or a couple chasing conspiracies aboard the Orient Express, these stories prove that adventure—and love—can be found in every corner of Europe.
🇫🇷 Western Europe
The Vine Witch by Luanne G. Smith
After seven long years trapped under a curse, vine witch Elena Boureanu returns to her family’s estate in France’s Chanceaux Valley, only to find her vineyard run by Jean-Paul Martel, a newcomer who trusts chemistry over the local superstitions about witches. Amid the vine rows and wine cellars of the French countryside, Elena must hide her true identity, restore the vineyard’s magic, hunt down a sorcerer, and resist the man standing in her way. Amazon KU
🇮🇹 Southern Europe
Kraken and Canals by Anne Renwick
On the canals of Victorian Venice, an old flame resurfaces at the worst possible moment. To save the woman who raised her, Lady Judith must break the rules and descend into the underwater grotto of a giant lagoon kraken lurking beneath the city’s foundations. Arturo, the man she never stopped loving, refuses to let her face the depths alone. Their reunion becomes a race to visit the sleeping creature beneath a Venetian building. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
🇦🇹 Central Europe
Congress of Secrets by Stephanie Burgis
It’s 1814, and Europe’s crowned heads are carving up the map after Napoleon’s fall. Lady Caroline Wyndham returns to the city to rescue the father the secret police stole from her using dark alchemy. Michael Steinhüller, her father’s former apprentice turned charming con man appears and, together, they’re drawn into a plot threatening to unravel everything hiding behind Vienna’s glittering façade. Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble
🇮🇹 Southern Europe
Blameless by Gail Carriger
Scandalously pregnant, estranged from her werewolf husband, and cast out by Queen Victoria, Alexia Tarabotti flees London for Italy in search of the secretive Knights Templar—the only ones who might explain her condition and the truth about her late Italian father. Between assassins, mechanical ladybugs, and Templars who consider her a demon, Alexia proves that a well-aimed parasol can solve almost anything. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
🇩🇪 Germanic Europe
The Silver Skull by Anne Renwick
Fleeing an arranged marriage, Lady Olivia stows away aboard a dirigible—only to find herself flying straight into Germany. When she and Lord Rathsburn are both taken captive at a crumbling German castle, survival means faking a marriage while they work to save his kidnapped sister from a mad count bent on turning his guardsmen into an army of unbreakable soldiers using Rathsburn’s own research. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
🇩🇪 Germanic Europe
A Vampire in Bavaria by Suzannah Rowntree
After a bomb she threw to save lives lands in Queen Victoria’s royal train, Liz Sharp must answer to the Kabale—the secret tribunal of royal monsters who rule Europe’s shadows. Her best hope lies with the vampiric Grand Duke Vasily, who offers to help bring down the Kabale, in an adventure that carries Miss Sharp deep into the monstrous ballrooms of 1890s Bavaria and Europe’s most dangerous high society. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
🇷🇴 Eastern Europe
Golden Heart by Christine Pope
When Miss Lavinia Greene is invited to her eccentric inventor uncle’s remote castle in Romania, she jumps at the chance to escape her London life. But the visit soon turns dangerous as foreign agents converge on the castle to seize her uncle’s latest invention, and Lavinia—falling hard for his assistant—must navigate treachery and shifting loyalties from the Romanian mountains all the way back to the ballrooms of an London. Amazon | Kobo | Google Play | Barnes & Noble
🇷🇴 Eastern Europe
The Slayer by Theresa Meyers
Sheriff Winchester Jackson has left vampire-hunting behind for a quiet life in the Old West—until a Transylvanian countess shows up asking for his help. Reluctantly, Winn crosses an ocean and a continent with Alexandra at his side, trading the dusty streets of the American frontier for the mountain castles of Transylvania and the gaslit boulevards of Paris as the two hunt down a piece of ancient, world-saving lore. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Barnes & Noble
🇷🇴 Eastern Europe
A Bad Breed by Kat Ross
When gruesome killings plague a Romanian village, Vivienne Cumberland’s search for the culprit leads her deep into the Carpathians to a remote monastery, where a blizzard traps her with the very creature she’s hunting. Meanwhile, in a decaying castle nearby, Anne is held captive by a mysterious man with a beast inside him, and slowly falls for the monster beneath the curse in this dark spin on Beauty and the Beast. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
🇷🇴 Eastern Europe
Wicked as She Wants by Delilah S. Dawson
After four years drained and imprisoned in a suitcase, Blud princess Ahnastasia Feodor wakes to find her only way home is London musician named Casper Sterling. Together with his ward, Keen, the three travel from the back alleys of London to the snow-rimmed spires of Freesia—a glittering, Russia-inspired kingdom—where Ahna must reclaim her throne and decide what she’s willing to risk for love. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
🇮🇸 Northern Europe
Icy Betrayals by Anne Renwick
Botanical scientist Lady Angela Tagert carries a dangerous secret beneath her skin: a living, photosynthetic tattoo that makes her a target the moment her scheming brother tries to sell her off to the highest bidder. Her escape—a hasty marriage to airship captain Valtýr Árnason—takes her all the way to Iceland, where glaciers, volcanoes, hidden folk, and ancient magic offer both sanctuary and a love she never planned on finding. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
🇮🇸 Northern Europe
Riveted by Meljean Brook
Airship engineer Annika, hiding her origins in a secret village of women, gets entangled with naturalist David Kentewess when he comes looking for answers about his own past. The two end up stranded together on an Icelandic glacier, pursued by a dangerous rival, with the island’s “troll” legends turning out to be leftover mechanical sentinels rather than magic. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books |Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
🚂 Across Europe
Tall and Dark (Miss Dark’s Apparitions) by Suzannah Rowntree
Molly Dark can see ghosts, which is a useless gift when what she really needs is money to support her family. Enter an outrageous scheme: impersonate a missing princess long enough to con a fortune out of a family of royal monsters in Vienna. Backed by an inventor, an acrobat, and a very unconvincing “Grand Duke,” Molly kicks off a series that will carry her and her chosen family across the ballrooms and back streets of Belle Époque Europe. Amazon | Kobo | Apple Books | Google Play | Barnes & Noble
🚂 Across Europe
Anarchist on the Orient Express by Suzannah Rowntree
A routine trip through Europe turns deadly when an anarchist hurls a bomb at Liz Sharp’s royal charge. As Miss Sharp investigates—reluctantly partnered with the distractingly handsome Inspector Short—the trail leads her aboard the Orient Express itself, steaming from Paris toward Hungary, and into a continent-spanning conspiracy tangled up with her own forgotten past. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
🚂 Across Europe
A Conspiracy of Alchemists by Liesel Schwarz
Elle Chance just wants to fly her routes in peace, but accepting one strange delivery in Paris drags her into a centuries-old war between Warlocks and Alchemists being fought in the shadows of Europe’s steam-powered cities. Paired with the enigmatic Mr. Marsh on a cross-continental chase for a stone that could unleash a magical apocalypse, Elle must decide how far she’s willing to go—and who she’s willing to trust. Amazon | Kobo | Google Books | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble
Readers Who Love These Will Enjoy:
Steampunk romance with airships
- The Silver Skull
- Icy Betrayals
- Riveted
- A Conspiracy of Alchemists
Castle settings and European intrigue
- Golden Heart
- A Bad Breed
- A Vampire in Bavaria
Alchemy, inventions, and impossible science
- Congress of Secrets
- Kraken and Canals
- The Silver Skull
Monsters, vampires, and supernatural romance
- Blameless
- The Slayer
- Wicked as She Wants
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