Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

Penguin Random House has announced The Feywild Job, a new D&D novel written by World Fantasy Award and Nebula-winning writer CL Polk. The new book is a romantasy novel, a popular and wildly growing book genre. The book features a rogue tasked with stealing a gem called "The Kiss of Enduring Love" and is teamed up with their ex-lover, a bard. The twist to the novel is that the rogue has a magical pact granting them powers in exchange for never falling in love.

The new novel is written by CL Polk, a writer with serious bonafides in the fantasy community. Polk's debut novel Witchmark won the World Fantasy Award in 2019 and their 2022 novella Even Though I Knew The End won the Nebula Award for Best Novella that year. Based on their website, this appears to be Polk's first foray into licensed media.

Below is the full description for The Feywild Job. The book will be released on June 30, 2026.

Sparks fly when bitter exes are forced to team up for an elaborate Feywild heist, in this cozy fantasy romance by the bestselling author of the Kingston Cycle and Even Though I Knew the End.

Saeldian has sworn never to fall in love. That oath isn’t just a personal promise, but rather a magical pact, granting them powerful abilities. The only catch? They must never give their heart away—a deal that Saeldian is perfectly content with. They’ve seen firsthand how messy love can get.

Saeldian prefers their no-strings-attached life as a con artist, pulling off heists and leaving a trail of broken hearts behind them. But when a grift goes horribly wrong, they catch the eye of a mysterious patron with a job offer they can’t refuse.

The mission? Steal a gem called “The Kiss of Enduring Love” and return it to the Feywild. Simple enough, until Saeldian discovers their ex-partner, Kell—a charming bard—is part of the team.
The last time Saeldian saw Kell, things hardly ended on good terms. A kiss became a betrayal, leaving Kell hurt and confused for almost a decade. But Kell can’t just walk away—not when this job might finally be his ticket back to the Feywild.

Forced to work together again, their adventure takes them from high-society parties to Feywild couple’s therapy. But as Saeldian and Kell rekindle their chemistry, they realize the gem is much more than a fey bauble, and their simple heist has summoned powerful enemies. . . .

 

[Charlaquin]

I have no idea how cozy even relates to sex. I never stated that so no idea why that came out of left field.

The thread is about a romance book. Maybe you’re not familiar with the genre, but sex is like… the point of romance books. They have lots of other stuff in them, and they don’t always have actual “on camera” sex, but they’re still fundamentally and primarily about sex.

 

[Charlaquin]

I like the 2024 rules set for the most part, but I definitely laugh at alot of the terrible art and assumptions. I don't allow orcs still, they are half orcs. Not sure why they singled out a cooking feat but it has the same effect of Musicianship so I just eliminated the cooking feat entirely. The funniest thing to me was the Proesthetics in forgotten realms that if you need them the people that make them give them to you for free. It is so Blue Sky Platform it’s hilarious. But I ignore most of the mood of what 2024 is projecting. Lame art aside, and lame suggestions aside, I do quite like the 2024 Book Feel and rules.

Is “Blue Sky Platform” what the edgy kids are saying instead of “Woke” these days?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Is “Blue Sky Platform” what the edgy kids are saying instead of “Woke” these days?

Man, wait until these people hear about Spoutible, which makes the Blue Sky community -- which is a pretty middle of the road community, for the most part -- look far right.

 

[Mecheon]

I like the 2024 rules set for the most part, but I definitely laugh at alot of the terrible art and assumptions. I don't allow orcs still, they are half orcs. Not sure why they singled out a cooking feat but it has the same effect of Musicianship so I just eliminated the cooking feat entirely. The funniest thing to me was the Proesthetics in forgotten realms that if you need them the people that make them give them to you for free. It is so Blue Sky Platform its hilarious. But I ignore most of the mood of what 2024 is projecting. Lame art aside, and lame suggestions aside, I do quite like the 2024 Book Feel and rules.

You spend so much time going after Bluesky, a social media generally known for being calm and kinda boring, and then you have this absolute milquetoast take about orcs. Also like... 'Blue Sky Platform'? Do you say "Avatar: A Flight of Passage" or "Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance" rather than "The Avatar Ride" or "The Star Wars ride" like normal people?

Seriously, bragging about not allowing orcs, a race playable for longer than I've been alive, in this day and age of Warcraft, a setting so D&D inspired they hired a former Dragonlance author specifically due to his work on Dragonlance, is not a good take. You're basically saying "Wow! Rather than using a modern phone, I'm using this old DynaTAC I found in a second hand store!"

Fair enough I guess. The only things I heard cozy applied to was Legends and Lattes books, wild beyond the witchlight and radiant citadel which involved a bunch of cooking contests and such. Video Games like Stardew Valley, and when I played Skyrim just crafting and moving furniture around my wife told me it was the same thing as Stardew Valley. I really only talk on these forums on the internet, so it rarely comes up in my conversations. When I talk to gamers they tell me cozy means farm games , and games without conflict.

You've clearly not played Stardew Valley with anyone who's hit the min-max side of that. Or if you think its got no combat.

Cozy? Hah. There is no cozy. You are getting up at the crack of dawn to fish. You are going to hit every indicator perfectly else the day is ruined, you blind fool, and you may as well shut down the game and re-load your save to do it again. If you haven't planned out your crop purchases perfectly to ensure you get all the money you need once the first Spring is ended and those crops perish. You will be destroyed at the egg hunt, Abigail lording over you

Or, well, you've never been into the mines and had to deal with a few certain enemies' hitboxes

 

[Charlaquin]

Man, wait until these people hear about Spoutible, which makes the Blue Sky community -- which is a pretty middle of the road community, for the most part -- look far right.

The Blue Sky community is literally just the Twitter community who were tired of all the nazis there. Not hard to go further left of “I would prefer not to talk to nazis.”

 

[Mournblade94]

You spend so much time going after Bluesky, a social media generally known for being calm and kinda boring, and then you have this absolute milquetoast take about orcs. Also like... 'Blue Sky Platform'? Do you say "Avatar: A Flight of Passage" or "Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance" rather than "The Avatar Ride" or "The Star Wars ride" like normal people?

Seriously, bragging about not allowing orcs, a race playable for longer than I've been alive, in this day and age of Warcraft, a setting so D&D inspired they hired a former Dragonlance author specifically due to his work on Dragonlance, is not a good take. You're basically saying "Wow! Rather than using a modern phone, I'm using this old DynaTAC I found in a second hand store!"


You've clearly not played Stardew Valley with anyone who's hit the min-max side of that. Or if you think its got no combat.

Cozy? Hah. There is no cozy. You are getting up at the crack of dawn to fish. You are going to hit every indicator perfectly else the day is ruined, you blind fool, and you may as well shut down the game and re-load your save to do it again. If you haven't planned out your crop purchases perfectly to ensure you get all the money you need once the first Spring is ended and those crops perish. You will be destroyed at the egg hunt, Abigail lording over you

Or, well, you've never been into the mines and had to deal with a few certain enemies' hitboxes

No I have never Played Stardew Valley. My wife and daughter have a ton of hours on it. Stardew Valley is not my sort of game. I'd rather farm for resources in ESO.
I was just in Hollywood Studios this summer and I still call Star Wars Rise of Resistance, Rise of Resistance and Avatar: Flight of Passage, Flight of Passage. I go on those rides several times a day when I am there, and I say Rise of Resistance and Flight of Passage. I've never said the Star Wars ride because that could also mean Smuggler's Run. I don't say Avatar Ride because that could be River of Navi. I like to be specific.

I never in my 41 years playing let anyone play an orc except for evil campaigns because in the Forgotten Realms and Grey Hawk they are Evil. So no. I do not let anyone play Monsters like Orcs, Goblins, Kobolds, or Hobgoblins. They are not playable in my campaign and I stated that, I did not brag about that. There are no prickly pear harvesting Orcs in my D&D worlds.

D&D is a ruleset. I use 2024 because its easy to prep with these days even if the AD&D and 3rd edition is better. Allowing orcs or not allowing orcs is not technology its a preference. So not sure where the phone analogy comes from. The fluff changes to D&D after Tasha's are mostly silly so I don't bother with them. Yet I make sure to get the newest Console, and Gaming Computer I can. I don't care about phones so much because Social Media is annoying.

 

[Mournblade94]

Is “Blue Sky Platform” what the edgy kids are saying instead of “Woke” these days?

I don't get mad at media changing. But I don't have to change my D&D because people on Social media have misconceptions about what Alignment is or orcs being evil as a moral position instead of an aesthetic. The 2024 rulesets have changes that aren't improvements and are detriments like eliminating Half Elves and Half orcs or silly art of Muffin Dwarves wearing sandals in a forge.

 

[Mecheon]

No I have never Played Stardew Valley. My wife and daughter have a ton of hours on it. Stardew Valley is not my sort of game. I'd rather farm for resources in ESO.
I was just in Hollywood Studios this summer and I still call Star Wars Rise of Resistance, Rise of Resistance and Avatar: Flight of Passage, Flight of Passage. I go on those rides several times a day when I am there, and I say Rise of Resistance and Flight of Passage. I've never said the Star Wars ride because that could also mean Smuggler's Run. I don't say Avatar Ride because that could be River of Navi. I like to be specific.

Then I'd say you don't really know the game. Saying it doesn't have combat for one is laughable given how important the mine is to progression

Regardless though, you sound like a corporate think-piece saying that. Or that Disney's paid you off. Insincere. Not a trustworthy source. That's not how people talk about these rides. Folks just say "The big Avatar ride". There's an entire bit on this in Jenny Nicholson's video on the failed Star Wars hotel, but, y'know, as a four hour video its a bit hard to just drag up specific points in context.

I never in my 41 years playing let anyone play an orc except for evil campaigns because in the Forgotten Realms and Grey Hawk they are Evil. So no. I do not let anyone play Monsters like Orcs, Goblins, Kobolds, or Hobgoblins. They are not playable in my campaign and I stated that, I did not brag about that. There are no prickly pear harvesting Orcs in my D&D worlds.

No. No they're not evil. Might want to. Re-read that one again. They haven't been all evil for at least 20 years. Probably older

There was a whole FR novel about this. During 3.5e. They have a city and everything

D&D is a ruleset. I use 2024 because its easy to prep with these days even if the AD&D and 3rd edition is better. Allowing orcs or not allowing orcs is not technology its a preference. So not sure where the phone analogy comes from. The fluff changes to D&D after Tasha's are mostly silly so I don't bother with them. Yet I make sure to get the newest Console, and Gaming Computer I can. I don't care about phones so much because Social Media is annoying.

buddy, if you're caring about 'console and gaming computer', then mobile gaming which has utterly demolished other types of gaming is absolutely on the list. Just saying, you don't see new MMOs for a reason, and that's because its far more profitable to slap some characters in a gacha and watch the money come rolling in

 

[Charlaquin]

I don't get mad at media changing. But I don't have to change my D&D because people on Social media have misconceptions about what Alignment is or orcs being evil as a moral position instead of an aesthetic. The 2024 rulesets have changes that aren't improvements and are detriments like eliminating Half Elves and Half orcs or silly art of Muffin Dwarves wearing sandals in a forge.

This is a fascinating way to answer the question “are edgy kids saying Blue Sky Platform instead of woke now?”

 

[Mournblade94]

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