Affluence Books in Order

The Affluence books are one of the darkest entries connected to the wider Drazen world. The series follows Fiona Drazen, a wealthy young woman whose beauty, money, and appetite for risk have not protected her from collapse. In Kick, she is trapped in a psychiatric ward, and Dr. Elliot Chapman is supposed to help her remember how she got there, and why she tried to kill the man who controlled her life. That premise gives the whole trilogy a tight, closed-in feel from the start.

This is not a breezy rich-girl redemption story.

Fiona is reckless, damaged, and often difficult in ways that make her interesting rather than easy. Elliot is meant to be the stable one, but the books work by making that stability feel fragile. The line between patient and doctor is there for a reason, and the series keeps pressing on it. Desire is present from the beginning, but so are power imbalance, memory, and the question of whether Fiona can tell the truth before it destroys what is left of her.

As the story continues through Use and Break, the psychological side becomes even more important. Fiona's past is not just backstory. It shapes every choice she makes in the present. Reiss keeps the world small on purpose, hospital rooms, private conversations, damaged trust, so the emotional pressure can build without much release.

That tone makes this series feel different from the bigger, more external dramas in her catalog. The danger is still real, but it is often interior first. The books are interested in obsession, shame, control, addiction to intensity, and the kind of love that can look impossible before it looks saving.

It is a rougher read than some of her other connected romances.

If you like dark romance that leans psychological, with compromised people making bad decisions for reasons that still make emotional sense, Affluence is worth a look. Fiona is not built to be neat or easy, and the trilogy is better for it.