Below is the complete list of Carissa Broadbent books in reading order, presented in publication order for the series. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.
The War of Lost Hearts Series
- Daughter of No Worlds (2020)
Book details - Children of Fallen Gods (2021)
Book details - Mother of Death & Dawn (2022)
Book details - Ashen Son (2022)
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Crowns of Nyaxia Series
- The Serpent & the Wings of Night (2022)
Book details - The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King (2023)
Book details - Six Scorched Roses (2023)
Book details - The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (2024)
Book details - The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk (2025)
Book details - The Lion and the Deathless Dark (2026)
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The Valtain Preludes Series
- A Palace Fractured (2017)
Book details - A Crown in Shadows (2017)
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The Valtain Testaments Series
- Shrouds of Silver (2019)
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Mortal Enemies to Monster Lovers Series
- Slaying the Vampire Conqueror (2023)
Book details - Slaying the Shifter Prince (2023)
(By Clare Sager)
Book details - Slaying the Frost King (2023)
(By Candace Robinson, Elle Beaumont)
Book details - Slaying the Naga King (2023)
(By Jessica M. Butler)
Book details - Slaying the Shadow Prince (2023)
(By Helen Scheuerer)
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About Carissa Broadbent
Carissa Broadbent has become one of the standout names in modern romantasy by writing books that lean fully into both sides of that label. Her fiction is recognizably fantasy first, with invented worlds, political conflict, magic systems, ancient powers, and high personal stakes, but romance is never treated as a decorative subplot. It is one of the engines of the story. That balance helps explain why her work has reached readers from both epic fantasy and romance circles, especially through her two best-known bodies of work, The War of Lost Hearts and Crowns of Nyaxia.
A useful way to understand Broadbent’s bibliography is to see it in phases rather than as a flat list of titles. The War of Lost Hearts shows her on a large emotional and structural canvas: a darker fantasy arc with war, trauma, power, and difficult moral choices running through the trilogy. It is a series with a strong emotional core, but it is also interested in the cost of resistance, the burden of magic, and the strain placed on loyalty when private love and public duty collide. That trilogy established many of the qualities readers now associate with her work: intense character bonds, high-stakes intimacy, and a willingness to let the emotional damage of the world matter.
Her broader breakout came with the Crowns of Nyaxia books, beginning with The Serpent and the Wings of Night. Those novels sharpened her appeal to a much wider audience. The world is still dangerous and the tone still dark, but the pacing is often more immediate, the hooks more overt, and the romantic tension placed even more centrally within the plot architecture. Broadbent is particularly good at building stories around trials, shifting alliances, and unequal power, then using those pressures to reveal character. The result is fiction that feels dramatic and emotionally heightened without losing sight of its fantasy framework.
One of her strengths as a writer is that she does not flatten darkness into aesthetic mood alone. Her books often deal with brutality, survival, grief, sacrifice, and systems of domination, yet they remain deeply character-driven. Her protagonists tend to be shaped by harsh experience rather than simply dropped into danger for spectacle. That gives her work a seriousness underneath the momentum. Even when a novel delivers the pleasures readers expect from romantasy—chemistry, longing, banter, devotion, betrayal—it usually does so within a world where violence and power have consequences.
Publication order matters with Broadbent because her books are built around emotional accumulation as much as plot progression. Character trust, political shifts, mythic revelations, and the weight of earlier choices all deepen when read in sequence. That is especially true in connected fantasy settings where companion novels, side stories, or related installments may expand the world from a different angle. Reading in order preserves the intended rhythm: first immersion, then expansion, then reframing. It also helps avoid missing the gradual increase in scale that is one of her recurring structural habits.
Her style is accessible but not slight. She writes in a clean, readable mode that favors momentum, but she also understands when to slow down for emotional impact. The prose is generally direct rather than ornate, which suits stories built on urgency, attraction, danger, and revelation. Readers drawn to morally complicated love stories, formidable heroines, and fantasy worlds with a pronounced emotional charge tend to find plenty to hold onto in her work.
Broadbent’s career so far suggests a writer who understands exactly where her fiction lives: at the meeting point of romantic intensity and dark fantasy sweep. That clarity is one reason her books connect so strongly. They do not hesitate between genres; they use both.