Bestselling writer Rebecca Yarros is debuting a brand new romance e-book, preserving her alternating development of publishing new installments of her uber-popular “Fourth Wing” books with standalone fresh novels.
Yarros published her subsequent e-book, “Bizarre Stars,” completely on TODAY April 28, describing it as a “castaway romance.”
“What would you do when you had been stranded for 543 days on a abandoned island along with your fiancé’s cousin?” she stated in a video.
“Bizarre Stars” follows Callista, “who crashes right through a cyclone and has to determine who she is and who she in point of fact loves when the whole lot is stripped away,” Yarros added.
The e-book’s professional synopsis finds that the slow-burn romance will see Callista and her fiancé’s cousin, an ex-army medic, develop nearer.
“They face up to their connection in the beginning, however as months put on on, and the hope of rescue fades, one thing actual begins taking form, constructed on who they’re when the whole lot else is stripped away,” the synopsis reads. “Once they’re after all discovered, the arena hasn’t modified. However they have got.”
The unconventional is ready to put up Nov. 17, 2026, by way of Amazon Publishing’s romance imprint Montlake.
“I will’t wait so that you can meet those characters,” Yarros stated on TODAY.

The announcement of “Bizarre Stars” comes greater than a yr after the January 2025 newsletter of “Onyx Typhoon,” the 3rd e-book in her “Empyrean” collection that began with “Fourth Wing.”
Yarros advised Jenna Bush Hager in March 2025 that the e-book she is writing after “Onyx Typhoon” might be a romance.
“I swing backward and forward between the 2,” she stated about rotating the genres of delusion and fresh romance.
Yarros final printed a modern romance in 2024, titled “Variation,” a couple of dancer who returns house and reconnects with a previous love.
In 2023, Yarros hit the bottom operating together with her “Fourth Wing” books, which follows Violet Sorrengail as she trains to turn into a dragon rider at Basgiath Conflict Faculty, unraveling secrets and techniques round her country’s origins and ongoing wars with rival territories within the procedure. “Fourth Wing” printed in Would possibly of that yr, adopted impulsively by way of its sequel, “Iron Flame,” in November 2023.
Yarros has stated that when “Iron Flame,” she had to decelerate her publishing tempo. The writer, like her “Fourth Wing” protagonist, has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which impacts her frame’s connective tissue.
“I pass over my youngsters, and I pass over my circle of relatives, and I think like I wasn’t ready to be provide as a result of I used to be simply pushed by way of those closing dates,” Yarros stated at the “Open E-book with Jenna” podcast in March 2025. “And so now with the ability to take a step again and say, ‘Hello, I’m nonetheless going to paintings and do that, however I want wholesome hours. I wish to paintings 8 hours an afternoon and no longer 12 to fifteen.’”
Learn the Complete Synopsis for Rebecca Yarros’ ‘Bizarre Stars’
Callista Moran has spent a life-time striking her personal plans apart to deal with folks. As soon as she and Darren Knight announce their engagement, she thinks her long term is after all set. But if a regimen crusing shuttle is going tragically flawed, a cyclone blows the ones in moderation made plans away.
Stranded on an island for the following eighteen months along the group and her fiancé’s cousin, Callista discovers a power she by no means knew she had. And starts to query the existence she at all times idea she sought after. With Dominic, an ex–military medic, she unearths true peace—and a model of herself that she doesn’t want to give an explanation for. They face up to their connection in the beginning, however as months put on on, and the hope of rescue fades, one thing actual begins taking form, constructed on who they’re when the whole lot else is stripped away.
Once they’re after all discovered, the arena hasn’t modified. However they have got. Within the top of a contemporary media frenzy, finding out to are living as the folk they’ve turn into will problem no longer most effective their definition of survival, however love.
