Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

The Feywild Job comes out in June 2026.
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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.
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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. . . .
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Charlaquin said:
Oh, I do agree that the internet has never been a worse place than it is now, with the centralization, the automation of moderation, the algorithmically driven direction of traffic, the proliferation of AI-generated content… it has all come together to turn the internet into a giant misinformation factory. I’m just saying, it wasn’t “wonderful before social media ruined it.” It has always been a very mixed bag. It’s just that the negatives are starting to outweigh the positives now.
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"The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil."

- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Blessed Struggle" [from the video game Alpha Centaur]
 

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Charlaquin said:
Oh, I do agree that the internet has never been a worse place than it is now, with the centralization, the automation of moderation, the algorithmically driven direction of traffic, the proliferation of AI-generated content… it has all come together to turn the internet into a giant misinformation factory. I’m just saying, it wasn’t “wonderful before social media ruined it.” It has always been a very mixed bag. It’s just that the negatives are starting to outweigh the positives now.
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Yeah, the promise of the internet was, in part, "isolated LGBT kids can find each other and find community when their hometown is dangerous for them."

We've moved on from there to "those isolated neo-Nazis can also find their communities online and we will absolutely not moderate them or shut down their groups."

And the latter is being done for nakedly commercial reasons, damn the consequences.
 

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
Yeah, the promise of the internet was, in part, "isolated LGBT kids can find each other and find community when their hometown is dangerous for them."

We've moved on from there to "those isolated neo-Nazis can also find their communities online and we will absolutely not moderate them or shut down their groups."

And the latter is being done for nakedly commercial reasons, damn the consequences.
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As with most of the problems facing humanity today, the technology itself is not inherently harmful, but it is extremely dangerous when turned towards reckless pursuit of profit and centralization of power above all other priorities.
 

Charlaquin said:
As with most of the problems facing humanity today, the technology itself is not inherently harmful, but it is extremely dangerous when turned towards reckless pursuit of profit and centralization of power above all other priorities.
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Not that I disagree with that necessarily, but I'd also just add that people can just generally be real jerks overall, especially to other people we don't consider our "in group" or when people are allowed to spew venom in an anonymous way, and that social media does an incredible job of detaching us from the consequences of our words while also throwing a veil of depersonalization over everyone we interact with. It's an incredibly noxious combination.
 

slobster said:
Not that I disagree with that necessarily, but I'd also just add that people can just generally be real jerks overall, especially to other people we don't consider our "in group" or when people are allowed to spew venom in an anonymous way, and that social media does an incredible job of detaching us from the consequences of our words while also throwing a veil of depersonalization over everyone we interact with. It's an incredibly noxious combination.
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Sure! But those are problems at an interpersonal scale. I was referring more to the problems of global scale.
 


We were used to Tokien's orcs and later Games Workshop's orcs arrived but the things started to change with Warcraft. Then the orcs hadn't to be always 100% evil. After 90s the videogames and manga were a great influence in the homemade lore created by the new generations of DMs.

Cozy is when no character may be in danger. For example a story about a doctor in a rural town can be cozy, but when a patient needs help and this could lose the life because the wrong choice or action.

Stryxhaven seemed a right place for a teenage fantasy romance.

When the design of characters is right then fanbase want to write their own fanfiction, for example in the wedding of Ben and Mal when the bride is is about to throw the bouquet Doug interrumpts to talk with Evie, his girlfriend,.... because he chose that moment to propose to her.
I prefer romantic stories where both get used to each other's flaws and learn to be compatible and work as a team
 



I feel like people are getting confused because a lot of romance novel jargon is homonymous with RPG jargon, but actually means different things. In RPGs “cozy” tends to mean low-stakes but that isn’t how it’s used in the romance novel world. Let’s be very plain here: “romance,” in this context, is a euphemism for literary erotica. “Spicy” means the erotica is explicit, whereas “cozy” means it’s mainly left for the reader to infer.
 

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