Susanne Valenti Reading Order

Below is the complete list of Susanne Valenti 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 Caroline Peckham

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 Caroline Peckham

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

Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep Series
with Caroline Peckham

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 Caroline Peckham

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

Crown of Hearts and Chaos Series
with Caroline Peckham

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

Darkmore Penitentiary Series
with Caroline Peckham

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 Caroline Peckham

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

Forbidden Fairytales Series
with Caroline Peckham

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

A Game of Malice and Greed Series
with Caroline Peckham

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

The Harlequin Crew Series
with Caroline Peckham

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)

Ruthless Boys Of The Zodiac Series
with Caroline Peckham

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 Caroline Peckham

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

Tainted Earth Series

1. Afflicted (2017)
2. Altered (2018)
3. Adapted (2018)
4. Advanced (2018)

Zodiac Academy Series
with Caroline Peckham

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)

Short Story Collections Series

1. Foxy Tales (2022)
   (With Caroline Peckham)

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 Caroline Peckham)
6. Blade of Iris (2022)
   (By K.A. Knight)

Caroline Peckham Short Story Collections Series

1. Foxy Tales (2022)
   (With Caroline Peckham)

About Susanne Valenti

Susanne Valenti is best understood as one half of a highly visible co-author partnership rather than as a writer whose bibliography separates neatly into solo phases and independent signature works. Her career is closely bound to Caroline Peckham’s, and that shared authorship is the key to making sense of her reading order. Official author and publisher biographies present the two sisters as full-time co-writers based in the UK, working across romantasy, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, and darker contemporary romance. Those same sources also describe Valenti as a #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling romance author whose books, especially those connected to Zodiac Academy, have sold more than 7 million copies.

The most useful way to understand Valenti’s bibliography is through worlds and linked series rather than through isolated titles. Zodiac Academy is the clearest center of gravity. It is the project most closely associated with her public profile, and it helps explain the shape of the rest of the catalog. The series combines academy drama, paranormal hierarchy, romantic intensity, and long-form serial escalation in a way that became especially visible through online reader communities and the broader rise of romantasy. Around that core are related or adjacent series such as Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac and Darkmore Penitentiary, which expand the same larger fictional universe rather than simply repeating the same formula under different names.

That shared-world architecture is one of the main reasons reading order matters so much with Valenti’s work. These books are often designed to reward familiarity with prior events, recurring institutions, crossover elements, and expanding lore. Even when a series can be read on its own, the larger bibliography gains force through accumulation. Characters, settings, and tensions often feel richer when approached in sequence, because the books are built less as self-contained literary objects than as immersive serial fiction meant to pull readers deeper into a connected experience. That is part of the appeal. Valenti’s fiction is not minimalist or restrained. It is expansive, emotionally heightened, and strongly committed to momentum.

In terms of style, Valenti’s work sits squarely on the darker and more volatile end of romance-driven genre fiction. Official descriptions emphasize romance, fantasy, and dark romance, and those labels fit. Her books tend to favor high emotional stakes, dangerous attraction, antagonistic chemistry, power imbalances, and worlds structured by rivalry, cruelty, or social hierarchy. In fantasy settings, that often means magical institutions, supernatural bloodlines, or political systems that intensify the personal drama. In contemporary or darker romance projects, the same appetite for extremity remains, only translated into a different setting. The through-line is intensity: big feelings, long arcs, and stories that thrive on pressure.

Her bibliography also makes more sense when seen as broad but coherent rather than scattered. Beyond Zodiac Academy, the official sites group together projects such as The Harlequin Crew, Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep, Dark Empire, Age of Vampires, Dead Men Walking, and more recent work such as Crown of Hearts & Chaos. That range shows flexibility in setting and subgenre, but not a change in core creative identity. Across paranormal academy fiction, dark fantasy romance, and contemporary menace-driven romance, Valenti’s work keeps returning to the same basic strengths: addictive serial design, emotionally charged character dynamics, and fictional worlds built to sustain obsession over many books.

Taken as a whole, Susanne Valenti’s career is best read as part of a collaborative publishing engine that has become highly recognizable in modern romantasy and dark romance. She is not simply a contributor to Caroline Peckham’s success, nor a secondary name attached to a larger brand. The partnership is the brand. For readers moving through her books in order, that matters. What emerges is not a loose pile of popular titles, but a sustained body of co-written series fiction built on immersion, escalation, and emotional excess delivered with commercial confidence.