New books to look out for… Prince of Fortune by Lisa Tirreno

I love Australian YA novels and the start of a new year always feels exciting because there are so many new releases just waiting to hit the shelves and get into our eyeballs. One of the first #LoveOzYA titles I’ve got my eye on in 2025 is Lisa Tirreno‘s debut novel Prince of Fortune, a romantic fantasy that has been described as Red, White & Royal Blue meets A Darker Shade of Magic. Here’s the synopsis:

Shy Prince Edmund will be a great king one day—it has been Seen again and again. With rare magic giving him dominion over his country’s plants and weather, Edmund feels a great deal of pressure to live up to his nation’s many expectations, including making a perfect diplomatic alliance through marriage. That is, until he meets Lord Aubrey Ainsley.

Charming, romantic, and politically insignificant, Aubrey is a Seer, but not even he could have predicted catching the eye of Edmund, the Prince of Fortune—nor that the anxious prince who talks to plants more than people could feel so right for him. Aubrey’s visions have been full of battle, not love, but to say that Prince Edmund has captured his fancy would be a grand understatement.

As the two become more and more intertwined, the nation of Saben falls under attack. War and dark sorcery loom on the horizon. To save their homeland, Edmund and Aubrey must resist the outside forces seeking to drive them apart and find the power within themselves to create a future for Saben—and each other—they never could have imagined.

Doesn’t that sound great? Prince of Fortune is out at the end of January from Simon & Schuster. I’d love to know if this one has caught your eye too!

xo Bron

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