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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LuisCarlos17f said:
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.
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To add to the two above, this is the opening line to Brigands and Bread knives, that sequel to Legends and Lattes which was a founding part of this cozy romantasy subgenre:

"F---!", cried Fern, ducking back inside the carriage a whisker before a clawed and scaled hand sailed past. A noxious ribbon of blood trailed in its wake, the owner no longer properly attached."
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So yeah, that's the opening sentence, with the MC in mortal peril attacked on the road by deadly lizardmen. They get slaughtered by a passing adventurer, rescuing her, but I'd say that definition you posited at the very least doesn't apply to the book and the subgenre we are talking about here.
 
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Anyways back to the subject of Romantasy, while I thought that Jacqueline Carey's books of the Kushiel's Legacy series which were certainly "spicy" from what I remember when reading them, actually predate the genre. Many including Carey herself don't regard those books as being romantasy, despite very much influencing that genre.

I also remember that her books were very much one of the main influences of the Blue Rose RPG too.
 

Cozy is defined by being a ‘comfortable’ read, not really being anything specific. That scene I’m betting was resolved quickly, and with as little threat as it could produce. It was ‘safe’ violence, involving ‘heroic’, surface level descriptions that could have been in a fairytale book.

I’m not saying that all cozy is like that, but it’s more of a mood than a hard series of facts or rules. Don’t make the reader uncomfortable.
 

slobster said:
So yeah, that's the opening sentence, with the MC in mortal peril attacked on the road by deadly lizardmen. They get slaughtered by a passing adventurer, rescuing her, but I'd say that definition you posited at the very least doesn't apply to the book and the subgenre we are talking about here.
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I wouldn’t be reading too much into that quite yet. Legends and Lattes (which I read yesterday) itself started on a very similar note. The scene of ‘adventure-typical’ violence. It serves as a contrast to what comes later, to emphasise why the MC might see the cosy life as desirable.
 

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