Corrupt Gods World Books in Order

Corrupt Gods World is where Cora Kenborn's cartel and mafia threads start talking to each other across generations. If Carrera Cartel is about the people who built power, this series is mostly about the children and heirs who inherit the mess, along with every grudge, alliance, and bad decision that came before them.

The entry point is Born Sinner, a prequel novella that sets the tone fast. At college, Lola Carrera becomes the target of a rival heir who is supposed to use her as part of a much older feud. That small-scale setup, youth, obsession, revenge, and forbidden attraction, becomes a blueprint for the larger books.

Then Bad Blood and Tainted Blood blow the world wide open. Santi Carrera and Thalia Santiago are not just enemies in the usual romance sense. They come from families that have spent years teaching them exactly why the other side should never be trusted. The duet leans hard into arranged marriage pressure, debt, deception, and the question of whether love can survive when it is born inside a war.

This world keeps expanding.

City of Thieves pulls in Renzo Marchesi and Tatiana, blending vengeance, the art world, and mafia politics into a more mobile, cat-and-mouse kind of story. Bullets and Thorns stays in the same universe but shifts focus again, using broken alliances and an arranged marriage setup to show how even the quieter operators in this world are carrying their own dangerous histories.

What ties these books together is inheritance. Not money, though there is plenty of that, but legacy. These characters are born into names that already mean something. They are expected to defend family honor, weaponize marriage, remember old betrayals, and finish battles they did not start. That creates a nice tension between the romance and the worldbuilding, because every relationship also doubles as a political problem.

The tone is dark, sharp, and high stakes, but the books are also big on chemistry and momentum. Expect rival heirs, protective antiheroes, women who refuse to be handled, and plots where one choice can trigger fallout across several families. Some entries work on their own, but if you like connected worlds, this one is especially satisfying when read in order.