Rebecca Ross Just Announced A Bitter Spell — Here's Everything We Know

If you've been living in the world of Divine Rivals and Ruthless Vows — re-reading Roman Kitt's letters, thinking about that ending, trying to fill the Iris-and-Roman-shaped hole in your reading life — Rebecca Ross has news for you.

She has announced her next book: A Bitter Spell.

What Is A Bitter Spell?

Details are still emerging, but here's what we know so far: A Bitter Spell is a new novel from Rebecca Ross, the author who gave us the Letters of Enchantment duology and proved she is one of the most compelling voices writing clean fantasy today. The announcement has sent her readership into well-deserved excitement — and for good reason.

Ross has a particular gift for writing relationships that build slowly and land hard, for worlds that feel mythic without losing their emotional intimacy, and for heroines who are strong in the specific way that actually matters: they keep going even when they're afraid.

Her books are also, notably, among the best examples of wholesome romance novels in the fantasy genre — stories with real emotional stakes, complex characters, and none of the content that makes so many readers put a book down. If you've been looking for clean fantasy book recommendations that don't sacrifice depth for propriety, Rebecca Ross belongs at the top of your list.

Whatever A Bitter Spell turns out to be, it will almost certainly have all of those things.

Why Divine Rivals Readers Should Be Excited

If you loved the Letters of Enchantment duology, you already know what Ross is capable of. She built an entire war — a divine, mythological war with gods and journalists and magical typewriters — and somehow made it feel intimate. Every large thing in that series was grounded in something small and true: a letter written into the dark, hoping someone on the other side was reading.

A Bitter Spell promises to bring that same precision to a new story. New characters, new world, same Rebecca Ross — which is all any of us need to know.

What to Read While You Wait

If you haven't started the Letters of Enchantment series yet, now is the perfect time. Divine Rivals is one of the best family safe reading list additions for fantasy lovers — an enemies-to-lovers story built on letters, longing, and a war that feels genuinely consequential. Ruthless Vows picks up immediately where it leaves off and does not let you go.

Follow Rebecca Ross for updates as release details are announced. And in the meantime — if you need something to hold onto from the world she's already built — we have you covered.

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