Caroline Peckham Reading Order

Below is the complete list of Caroline Peckham books in reading order, presented in publication order for the series. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series.

Age Of Vampires Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Eternal Reign (2019)
2. Immortal Prince / Eternal Shade (2019)
3. Infernal Creatures / Eternal Curse (2019)
4. Wrathful Mortals / Eternal Vow (2019)
5. Eternal Night / Forsaken Relic (2019)
6. Eternal Storm / Ravaged Souls (2019)
7. Eternal Love / Devious Gods (2019)

Boys Of Sinners Bay Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Beautiful Carnage (2020)
2. Beautiful Savage (2020)

Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Kings of Quarantine (2020)
2. Kings of Lockdown (2020)
3. Kings of Anarchy (2020)
4. Queen of Quarantine (2021)

Cage Of Lies Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Rebel Rising / Chained (2015)
2. Linked (2015)
   (By Susanne Valenti)
3. Cut Glass (2015)
   (By Susanne Valenti)
4. Bound (2016)
   (By Susanne Valenti)
5. Embers (2016)
   (By Susanne Valenti)
6. Broken (2016)
   (By Susanne Valenti)
7. Free (2017)
   (By Susanne Valenti)

Crown of Hearts and Chaos Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Hollow (2025)
2. Lightwing (2026)

Darkmore Penitentiary Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Caged Wolf / Darkmore Penitentiary (2020)
2. Alpha Wolf / Captive Fae (2020)
3. Feral Wolf (2021)
4. Wild Wolf (2024)

Dead Men Walking Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. The Death Club (2021)
2. Society of Psychos (2022)

The Devil Heart Boys Series

1. Demon of Mine (2019)

Forbidden Fairytales Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Kingdom of Thieves (2019)
2. Kingdom of Wishes (2019)
3. Kingdom of Shadows (2019)

A Game of Malice and Greed Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. A Game of Malice and Greed (2023)
2. A Kingdom of Gods and Ruin (2023)

The Harlequin Crew Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Devil’s Pass (2020)
2. Sinners’ Playground (2020)
3. Dead Man’s Isle (2021)
4. Carnival Hill (2021)
5. Paradise Lagoon (2021)
6. Gallows Bridge (2022)

The Rise Of Isaac Series

1. Creeping Shadow (2015)
2. Bleeding Snow (2016)
3. Falling Fire: Part 1 (2016)
4. Falling Fire: Part 2 (2016)
5. Turning Tide (2016)
6. Weeping Sky (2016)
7. Failing Light (2018)

Ruthless Boys Of The Zodiac Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Dark Fae (2020)
2. Savage Fae (2020)
3. Vicious Fae (2020)
4. Broken Fae (2020)
5. Warrior Fae (2021)

Sins of the Zodiac Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. Never Keep (2024)
2. Echo Fort (2025)
3. Cinder Vale (2026)

Zodiac Academy Series
with Susanne Valenti

1. The Awakening (2019)
2. Ruthless Fae (2019)
3. The Reckoning (2020)
4. Shadow Princess (2020)
5. Cursed Fates (2020)
6. Origins of an Academy Bully (2020)
7. The Big A.S.S. Party (2020)
8. Fated Throne (2020)
9. Heartless Sky (2021)
10. The Awakening As Told By the Boys (2021)
11. Sorrow and Starlight (2022)
12. Beyond the Veil (2023)
13. Live and Let Lionel (2024)
14. Restless Stars (2024)

The V Games Series

1. V Games (2017)
2. V Games: Fresh From The Grave (2017)
3. V Games: Dead Before Dawn (2018)
4. Wolf Games (2018)
5. A Game of Vampires (2018)
6. Wolf Games: Island of Shade (2018)
7. Wolf Games: Severed Fates (2018)
8. Hunter Trials (2018)

Short Stories/Novellas Series

1. Vampire’s Delight (2018)
2. Mutant’s Delight (2018)

Short Story Collections Series

1. Foxy Tales (2022)
   (With Susanne Valenti)

Mafia Wars Series

1. Binding Rose (2022)
   (By Ivy Fox)
2. Gunmetal Lily (2022)
   (By Rebecca Royce)
3. Ruining Dahlia (2022)
   (By C.R. Jane)
4. Wilted Orchid (2022)
   (By Loxley Savage)
5. Forget-Me-Not Bombshell (2022)
   (With Susanne Valenti)
6. Blade of Iris (2022)
   (By K.A. Knight)

Susanne Valenti Short Story Collections Series

1. Foxy Tales (2022)
   (With Susanne Valenti)

About Caroline Peckham

Caroline Peckham is best understood not as a solo-brand novelist with one defining standalone breakthrough, but as one half of a highly successful co-writing partnership. Official author and publisher material consistently presents her alongside her sister, Susanne Valenti, and that partnership is central to how her bibliography works. Together they write full time from the UK and have built a large romantasy and dark romance catalog that ranges across paranormal academy fiction, fantasy romance, reverse-harem-leaning series, and darker contemporary work. Publisher material describes Peckham as a #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling romance author and credits the sisters with selling more than 7 million copies, with Zodiac Academy identified as their breakout phenomenon.

The clearest way to understand Peckham’s career is through series clusters rather than individual titles in isolation. Zodiac Academy is the center of gravity: the series that most decisively expanded her readership and helped define her public identity. Recent publisher pages describe it as a BookTok phenomenon, which matches the way the books have circulated among readers drawn to high-drama romantasy with intense emotional stakes, addictive cliffhangers, and a strong ensemble pull. Around that core sits a broader connected universe that includes Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac and Darkmore Penitentiary, both tied to the same wider Solaria setting through crossover elements and timeline relationships.

That shared-world approach is one of the defining features of Peckham’s bibliography. These are not simply separate paranormal romance series released under the same author name. Many of the books are designed to reward readers who enjoy moving across linked settings, recurring institutions, or overlapping character histories. Even where a series can technically stand on its own, the larger body of work often gains force through accumulation. That helps explain why reading order matters so much with Peckham. A list of titles is useful, but it does not fully show how the books are meant to build atmosphere, widen lore, and deepen emotional payoff over time.

In terms of style, Peckham’s fiction sits firmly on the darker, more heightened end of romance-driven fantasy. The official author material leans openly into “dark romance,” and that label is useful because it captures more than surface mood. Her books tend toward strong emotional volatility, dangerous power dynamics, enemies-to-lovers energy, intense romantic bonds, and worlds shaped by hierarchy, cruelty, and survival pressure. Even the fantasy entries often carry the speed and emotional immediacy of commercial romance fiction, while the romance books borrow the scale, spectacle, and serial momentum of genre fantasy. That hybrid energy is a large part of the appeal.

Peckham’s bibliography is also notable for its range within that overall mode. The official site groups together projects such as The Harlequin Crew, Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep, Supernatural Prison, Dark Empire, Age of Vampires, Forbidden Fairytales, V Games, and Dead Men Walking, which shows how broadly the Peckham-Valenti partnership works within romance-centered genre fiction. Some readers arrive for paranormal academy drama, others for darker fantasy romance, others for contemporary menace and gang-style intensity, but the through-line is clear: emotionally extreme storytelling, long-form serial immersion, and characters pushed hard by love, rivalry, and power.

Seen as a whole, Caroline Peckham’s career is best read through that collaborative architecture. She is a major modern romantasy and dark romance author, but her significance lies less in a single isolated title than in the scale and recognizability of the worlds she has helped build with Susanne Valenti. Zodiac Academy may be the most visible entry point, yet the bibliography makes the most sense when read as an interconnected, high-intensity body of series fiction shaped by partnership, momentum, and reader immersion.