13 must-read romance books like Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1) by H.M. Long

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Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

By: H.M. Long

3.86

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

A stormsinger and pirate hunter join forces against a deathless pirate lord in this swashbuckling J…

"What I wanted to do was speak—I was dying to, with the wind curling in my lungs. I wanted to sing, to soothe the ache of it."

-H.M. Long, Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

If you liked the romance plot in Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1) by H.M. Long , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

Similar categories in Moniquill Blackgoose's To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) by Ava Reid

2. A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

By: Ava Reid

3.78

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The only enemy is the sea."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"No one owns the right to tell a story."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"I find you very charming underneath all the smugness."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

"The sea is treacherous, but women are even more treacherous."

-Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)

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3. A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

By: Hafsah Faizal

3.57

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Why save the world when you can have tea? On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a c… read more

Similar categories in Hafsah Faizal's A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Every good love story starts with a bullet to the heart."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"We understand what it's like to grieve with fire and not tears."

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

"It was hard not to watch Arthie Casimir. The way she worked and schemed, at times as still as stone, other times as restless as a bee. For the most part, Arthie obscured her femininity. She was, afte…"

-Hafsah Faizal, A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea, #1)

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4. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

By: Heather Fawcett

4.32

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wi… read more

Similar categories in Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"One of the guiding principles of dryadology,"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I may not be a miller's daughter, but you are not so different from the Folk as you think, Your Highness." I lifted her wineglass and dashed the remainder against her face, spilling it across her mou…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"I brushed the hair from his face. It is very soft--- ludicrously so, in fact, more like rabbit down or dandelion seed than human hair--- and I found I could not stop stroking it. He murmured somethin…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

"Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately…"

-Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)

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5. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)

By: M.A. Carrick

4.04

Format: 630 pages, Paperback

Fortune favors the bold. Magic favors the liars. Ren is a con artist who has come to the sparkli… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Carrick's The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Trust is the thread that binds us... and the rope that hangs us."

-M.A. Carrick, The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)

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7. The Jasad Heir (The Scorched Throne, #1)

By: Sara Hashem

3.97

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, the kingdom of Jasad burned. Its magic outlawed; its royal family murdered down to t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Hashem's The Jasad Heir (The Scorched Throne, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. Labyrinth's Heart (Rook & Rose, #3)

By: M.A. Carrick

4.28

Format: 688 pages, ebook

“Lush, engrossing and full of mystery and dark magic" ( BookPage ), Labyrinth's Heart is the thrill… read more

Similar categories in M.A. Carrick's Labyrinth's Heart (Rook & Rose, #3) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. Faebound (Faebound, #1)

By: Saara El-Arifi

3.61

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FINAL STRIFE, comes an enchanting new trilogy. D… read more

Similar categories in Saara El-Arifi's Faebound (Faebound, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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10. Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

By: Nicki Pau Preto

4.21

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a d… read more

Similar categories in Nicki Pau Preto's Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We go in," Wren said with more confidence than she felt. But that, she had learned, was the way confidence worked."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn’t it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn't it?"

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

"He wasn’t disappointed or hurt. He was livid. Let him be. She’d take the rage of the living over the silence of the dead any day."

-Nicki Pau Preto, Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1)

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11. Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A.B. Poranek

4.12

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Raised in a small village near the spirit-wood, Liska Radost knows that Magic is monstrous, and its… read more

Similar categories in A.B. Poranek's Where the Dark Stands Still book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We kissed, you incorrigible antlered tradgedy!"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"His eyebrows tilt up, firelight reflecting in his eyes. "It was always to be my fate." "Fate," she scoffs. "What is fate but an excuse to surrender responsibility? No, Eliasz, we cannot think of that…"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

"Please," she begs. "Surely there must be some spell—there must be something, anything. Please, Eliasz, please. Tell me how to save you." "Liska, Liseczka. Oj, lisku." He raises her hand to his lips, …"

-A.B. Poranek, Where the Dark Stands Still

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12. Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

By: H.M. Long

3.86

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

A stormsinger and pirate hunter join forces against a deathless pirate lord in this swashbuckling J… read more

Similar categories in H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • pirates
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What I wanted to do was speak—I was dying to, with the wind curling in my lungs. I wanted to sing, to soothe the ache of it."

-H.M. Long, Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

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13. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's When Among Crows book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

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15. The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

By: Hannah F. Whitten

3.79

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And in th… read more

Similar categories in Hannah F. Whitten's The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A moment, then Gabe sighed, as if finally resigning himself to what was about to happen. "Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the …"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"The air around him almost seemed to glimmer, gold dust in the dark. Moonlight made him more beautiful, yes, but in the same way that darkness emphasized a flame. He didn't belong in it; Bastian Arcen…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"Aim for the kneecaps." "Ah, yes." Bastian tied off the linen on her hands. "The kneecaps are the eyes of the legs." They both started at him. Then Gabe shrugged. "That's actually pretty good advice."…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

"This is what I saw, in the reflections of the tomb." She whispered it almost to herself, broken-voiced. "It's what the goddess dreamed, but I thought I could prevent it. I thought you would choose th…"

-Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown, #1)

Cover of The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2) by Hannah F. Whitten

16. The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2)

By: Hannah F. Whitten

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the second installment of New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten's lush, romantic epic… read more

Similar categories in Hannah F. Whitten's The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • fantasy romance
  • romantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

By: Genoveva Dimova

3.97

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

The Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore, from an assured… read more

Similar categories in Genoveva Dimova's Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Every self-respecting witch had a few battle scars."

-Genoveva Dimova, Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

"He had the spine of a snake and the moral compass of a vulture."

-Genoveva Dimova, Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters, #1)

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18. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Lady Macbeth

By: Ava Reid

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare… read more

Similar categories in Ava Reid's Lady Macbeth book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Nakedness, even among women in private, is still uncommon, uncouth. Bodies are meant to be guarded like gold. The flash of a bare ankle is like dropping a pendant, so that everyone can see it clatter…"

-Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

Cover of The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) by Andrea Stewart

21. The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1)

By: Andrea Stewart

3.70

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The series is set in a world ravaged by ancient magic, where precious gemstones bestow magical abil… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Stewart's The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) book and H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

  • romance
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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