Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Night of the Witch | 2023 | Sara Raasch | Buy |
| 2 | The Fate of Magic | 2024 | Sara Raasch | Buy |
Night of the Witch (2023) became an instant New York Times bestseller, confirming that the romantasy genre Sara Raasch and Beth Revis had targeted for their collaboration had a large and eager audience. The premise is deliberately charged: a witch and the hunter trained to kill her, during the actual historical period of the German witch trials, forced into an alliance by a threat neither of them can face alone.
Raasch and Revis divide the dual POV between Fritzi and Otto, with the historical setting lending the stakes a weight that pure secondary-world fantasy sometimes lacks. The violence of the witch-hunting period is present in the world without overwhelming the romance arc, and the two authors balance action, history, and relationship development across both books.
The Fate of Magic (2024) completed the duology, resolving both the magical conflict and the romantic arc that Night of the Witch had set in motion. The series was published by Wednesday Books.