Embrace Anti-Villain Romance

Violet Thistlevet has left her villainous days behind. She has come to Dragon’s Rest for a fresh start after her master, the evil wizard Shadowfed, was finally defeated. He has big plans to open a plant shop and put his evil days behind him. But if someone comes to know about her past then she can say goodbye to all those plans. And his new landlord’s brother? He asks a lot of questions.

Seshashen is the monster that all the villagers fear – except for a woman named Homilee, who nurses the shapeshifter back to health after he is chased off a cliff by monster hunters. Homely is kind and helpful, and Seshashen is rapidly falling in love with her. She will be the perfect home for her future eggs. Unfortunately, Homily is also searching for the shapeshifter she believes cursed her family. Can their love story end in something other than blood?

Was destined to fall in love. We are destined to destroy each other. Veena and Simran are the characters in the story of their lives – reincarnated fragments of an ancient story that they are forced to play out again and again with tragic effect: Veena as the queen’s loyal knight, Simran as the evil witch of the forest. Falling in love with each other means starting the cycle anew, something that can inevitably only end in death. But what if it’s not like that? What if the stories being so carefully guarded by the royal court are more complex than everyone believes?

Iris Wayward is a villain—at least, she wants to be. She’s trying really hard, but no one is taking her seriously. Especially when the new Ork bodyguard she brings back from the dead proves to be more smiling than snoring. Even worse: He likes it. As if that wasn’t bad enough, as she contemplates the moral dilemma of falling in love with her employee, her sisters arrive with an even bigger problem: their magic is draining, and the only way to fix it may be to finally accept their true nature.

Cyrus has been playing the role of a villain for quite some time now and is comfortable in his role of tormenting the local villagers. So finding out that his reputation has gone from sinister to somewhat less is a wake-up call. Sure, he’s hiding the true nature of his plant magic, and he hasn’t been causing mass mayhem and destruction lately, but who is these days? That’s why an extremely outrageous proposal from one of Athaca’s most beloved heroes to organize a series of brawls might be just what she needs. Finding out that the hero is somewhat less sterling than his reputation suggests and falling for him, however, may prove even more devastating to Cyrus’ role as a villain than her diminished status.

Sometimes the villain isn’t who you think. When Cinnamon saves a handsome man who turns out to be a monster, she’s definitely not expecting to be dragged along in her search for him. Even more shocking: apparently, everything she thought she knew about the world is wrong, the goddess she used to worship is actually an evil witch, and demons are not the evil creatures she was always taught to expect. Syn would be more annoyed, but Fallon keeps burning his shirt, and honestly she’s enjoying the scene.

In this beauty and the Beast-inspired novel, a failed scholar named Yen is sold by his people to one of the last dragons on Earth. She expects to be tortured and killed by the fearsome dragon. Instead, he is tasked with teaching the unruly children of the dragon. Vu Kon is a terrible host, harsh and unyielding. But in a castle where every door hides dangerous secrets, Yen begins to realize that the dragon’s strict nature may be kindness. Vu Kon is not what she expected, and soon she finds herself inexplicably attracted to the caged creature.