Fairyloot Romantasy – July 2025

Fateful Bonds

No Sunday Post today as I didn’t read any books on my holiday!

A woman who wields magical tarot cards lands herself in a false engagement with the headmaster of a mysterious academy.

Perfect for readers who love:
❤️‍🔥 Enemies to Lovers
💍 Fake Engagement
🌙 Unique Magic Systems

Arcana Academy by Elise Kova

🖤 An EXCLUSIVE REDESIGNED COVER by @micaelaalcainodesign
🖤 A REVERSIBLE DUST JACKET featuring a colour variation of the trade cover
🖤 FOIL ON THE HARDCOVER by @micaelaalcainodesign (front, back and spine)
🖤 CHARACTER ARTWORK ON THE ENDPAPERS with foil by @rosalynnarts (different front and back)
🖤 DIGITALLY SPRAYED EDGES on all three edges by @micaelaalcainodesign
🖤 HEAD AND TAIL BANDS
🖤 BONUS CONTENT: An annotated chapter and author letter with a digital signature bound into the book.

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Clara Graysword has survived the underworld of Eclipse City through thievery, luck, and a whole lot of illegal magic. After a job gone awry, Clara is sentenced to a lifetime in prison for inking tarot cards-a rare power reserved for practitioners at the elite Arcana Academy.

Just when it seems her luck has run dry, the academy’s enigmatic headmaster, Prince Kaelis, offers her an escape-for a price. Kaelis believes that Clara is the perfect tool to help him steal a tarot card from the king and use it to re-create an all-powerful card long lost to time.

In order to conceal her identity and keep her close, Kaelis brings Clara to Arcana Academy, introducing her as the newest first-year student and his bride-to-be.

Thrust into a world of arcane magic and royal intrigue, where one misstep will send her back to prison or worse, Clara finds that the prince she swore to hate may not be what he seems. But can she risk giving him power over the world-and her heart? Or will she take it for herself?