Black Creek Books in Order

Black Creek is what happens when you follow that wider world out of the academy and into a town owned by criminals. The series is set in a broken corner of the West Coast where gangs patrol the streets, the Antonelli mafia controls the money and everyone else just tries to survive. It feels more like a war zone than a neighborhood, and the authorities are either bought or terrified.

At the center is Sawyer, a courier who knows every alley and back door in Black Creek. By day she runs messages and packages for whoever pays enough to keep her and her younger brother afloat. By night she slips into a different role, stalking the men who prey on women and carving out her own brand of vigilante justice. The locals whisper about the Reaper, but most of them have no idea the legend is a young woman with blood on her boots.

Reputation is everything here, and Sawyer’s is dangerous enough to catch the wrong kind of attention.

Rebels and Rejects pulls her into the orbit of the Reaper Rejects, a gang led by Cain and Oliver who are tired of the Antonellis bleeding the town dry. What starts as a reluctant alliance turns into something complicated and intimate, with Sawyer caught between her need for revenge and the growing pull of the men who share her hunger to tear the system down. The sequel, Murder and Mayhem, raises the stakes as plans to hit the Antonellis turn riskier and the lines between enemy and ally start to blur.

By Damaged and Deadly, the cost of the war is personal. A brutal ambush forces Sawyer into a marriage alliance inside the very family she is trying to destroy, tying her to a man she has every reason to hate and to his cousins Dante and Enzo, whose loyalties are not as simple as they first appear. Rescuing her kidnapped brother means getting rival crews into the same room, persuading deadly men to share power and heart, and crossing territorial lines that were never meant to soften.

Chaos and Carnage closes the arc with open warfare in the streets, new enemies on the board and Sawyer’s found family running out of safe places to hide. These books are darker, bloodier and more overtly mafia than Smyth’s academy series, built around a single heroine who gathers multiple lovers rather than choosing just one. Expect gang politics, forced proximity, found family and a lot of heat, all threaded through a story about a woman refusing to let her town or her brother become collateral damage.