Bestselling author Rebecca Yarros is debuting a new romance book, keeping her alternating pattern of publishing new installments of her uber-popular “Fourth Wing” books with standalone contemporary novels.
Yarros revealed her next book, “Peculiar Stars,” exclusively on TODAY April 28, describing it as a “castaway romance.”
“What would you do if you were stranded for 543 days on a deserted island with your fiancé’s cousin?” she said in a video.
“Peculiar Stars” follows Callista, “who crashes during a cyclone and has to figure out who she is and who she really loves when everything is stripped away,” Yarros added.
The book’s official synopsis reveals that the slow-burn romance will see Callista and her fiancé’s cousin, an ex-army medic, grow closer.
“They resist their connection at first, but as months wear on, and the hope of rescue fades, something real starts taking shape, built on who they are when everything else is stripped away,” the synopsis reads. “When they’re finally found, the world hasn’t changed. But they have.”
The novel is set to publish Nov. 17, 2026, by Amazon Publishing’s romance imprint Montlake.
“I can’t wait for you to meet these characters,” Yarros said on TODAY.
The announcement of “Peculiar Stars” comes more than a year after the January 2025 publication of “Onyx Storm,” the third book in her “Empyrean” series that started with “Fourth Wing.”
Yarros told Jenna Bush Hager in March 2025 that the book she is writing after “Onyx Storm” will be a romance.
“I swing back and forth between the two,” she said about rotating the genres of fantasy and contemporary romance.
Yarros last published a contemporary romance in 2024, titled “Variation,” about a dancer who returns home and reconnects with a past love.
In 2023, Yarros hit the ground running with her “Fourth Wing” books, which follows Violet Sorrengail as she trains to become a dragon rider at Basgiath War College, unraveling secrets around her nation’s origins and ongoing wars with rival territories in the process. “Fourth Wing” published in May of that year, followed rapidly by its sequel, “Iron Flame,” in November 2023.
Yarros has said that after “Iron Flame,” she needed to slow down her publishing pace. The author, like her “Fourth Wing” protagonist, has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which affects her body’s connective tissue.
“I miss my kids, and I miss my family, and I feel like I wasn’t able to be present because I was just driven by these deadlines,” Yarros said on the “Open Book with Jenna” podcast in March 2025. “And so now being able to take a step back and say, ‘Hey, I’m still going to work and do this, but I need healthy hours. I need to work eight hours a day and not 12 to 15.’”
Read the Full Synopsis for Rebecca Yarros’ ‘Peculiar Stars’
Callista Moran has spent a lifetime putting her own plans aside to care for other people. Once she and Darren Knight announce their engagement, she thinks her future is finally set. But when a routine sailing trip goes tragically wrong, a cyclone blows those carefully made plans away.
Stranded on an island for the next eighteen months alongside the crew and her fiancé’s cousin, Callista discovers a strength she never knew she had. And begins to question the life she always thought she wanted. With Dominic, an ex–army medic, she finds true peace—and a version of herself that she doesn’t need to explain. They resist their connection at first, but as months wear on, and the hope of rescue fades, something real starts taking shape, built on who they are when everything else is stripped away.
When they’re finally found, the world hasn’t changed. But they have. In the height of a modern media frenzy, learning to live as the people they’ve become will challenge not only their definition of survival, but love.
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