Alace Sweets Books in Order
Part ofMariaLisa DeMora Books in OrderThis page tracks the Alace Sweets books by MariaLisa DeMora in order, with summaries, series background, and notes on where to begin.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Alace Sweets books in publication order
4 books
Alace Sweets
by MariaLisa DeMora
2018
After a life-changing assault at seventeen, Alace Sweets takes a brutal turn toward vigilante justice. This dark thriller asks what happens when a survivor becomes a hunter in her own right.
An Embarrassment of Monsters
by MariaLisa DeMora
2020
Owen knows he and Alace can both look monstrous from the outside. Surrounded by genuine evil, they have to decide whether redemption is possible for people already deep in the dark.
Seeking Worthy Pursuits
by MariaLisa DeMora
2020
Alace Sweets returns to the work of retribution from a different angle, more hidden and more collaborative. It is still dangerous, still dark, and still tangled up with the question of what justice costs.
All The Broken Rules
by MariaLisa DeMora
2026
Back on home ground, Alace faces a messier new threat, a sibling pair leaving chaos and clues behind them. The result is another dark chase through a world where nobody plays clean.
Alace Sweets books in chronological order
Series background & context
Alace Sweets is DeMora at her darkest. The series is billed as dark romantic thriller, and that label fits. These are not casual comfort reads. They are tense, morally messy books about a vigilante serial killer, the predators she hunts, and the people pulled into her orbit.
Go in expecting sharp edges.
The core figure is Alace Sweets, whose life changes violently when she is seventeen. Instead of building toward clean revenge fantasy, the series asks what it actually means to become the thing that frightens other people. Alace is not presented as neat or easy to defend. That is part of the tension. The books keep asking where justice ends, where obsession begins, and whether redemption is even possible for someone who has crossed so many lines.
That darkness is balanced by strong forward motion. Alace Sweets starts with the wound at the center of everything. Seeking Worthy Pursuits shows Alace working differently, more behind the scenes, more collaborative, but no less dangerous. An Embarrassment of Monsters broadens the emotional frame by bringing Owen's point of view into the moral mess. All The Broken Rules keeps the vigilante thread alive with a fresh, chaotic threat.
The romance element is there, but it does not sand off the series' harder questions. These books are interested in attraction, loyalty, and partnership under extreme pressure. They are also interested in how damaged people justify themselves, and what happens when those justifications stop working.
This is a series for readers who don't mind discomfort, and maybe even prefer it.
If you want thriller energy, heavy trigger territory, and a heroine who is impossible to call simple, Alace Sweets is the one to pick up. Just don't expect it to play nice.
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