Deadly Virtues Books in Order
Part ofTillie Cole Books in OrderThis page lists the Deadly Virtues books by Tillie Cole in order, with summaries, series background on the Fallen brotherhood, content notes, and reading guidance.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Publication Order
3 books
Jegudiel
by Tillie Cole
2021
Diel, the most dangerous of the Fallen, lives with an electric collar around his throat to keep his rages in check. On a mission against the Brethren he crosses paths with Noa, a leader of a coven of damaged women hunting the same priests, and their shared darkness becomes impossible to ignore.
The Fallen: Genesis
by Tillie Cole
2019
At Holy Innocents Home for Children, seven orphaned boys are marked as “possessed” and turned into targets for a secret religious sect called the Brethren. Beaten, brainwashed, and pushed toward violence, they form an unbreakable bond that will one day make them the deadly brotherhood known as the Fallen.
Raphael
by Tillie Cole
2019
Now adults, the Fallen use their lethal urges as vigilantes. Raphael moves through Boston’s underground sex clubs as a charming predator, killing the men his leader targets. When he meets Maria, a woman he is meant to manipulate, desire and duty collide, forcing him to question everything he was taught.
Series background & context
Deadly Virtues is one of Tillie Cole’s darkest series, built around a group of men known as the Fallen. As boys they were raised in a Catholic orphanage that doubled as the hunting ground for a secretive sect of priests, the Brethren, who believed they were purging evil from their charges.
The prequel novella The Fallen: Genesis stays almost entirely in that childhood nightmare. At Holy Innocents Home for Children, seven violent, frightened boys are singled out, labelled possessed, and subjected to years of ritualised abuse in the name of driving out the demons inside them. By the time they escape, they have been shaped into something both monstrous and fiercely loyal to one another.
In Raphael, the first full-length novel, the Fallen are adults, using their urges to kill to target traffickers, abusers, and predators. Raphael himself is most at ease where sex and death intersect, moving through Boston’s underground clubs as bait and executioner. When a mission brings him face to face with Maria, a woman he is meant to use but cannot bring himself to destroy, his black-and-white view of sin and punishment starts to fracture.
Jegudiel centres on Diel, the Fallen’s most volatile member, whose violence is held in check by an electric collar and the rigid discipline of his brothers. He crosses paths with Noa, second-in-command of a coven of women who also survived the Brethren and are determined to burn the order to the ground. Their relationship is a collision of two people who have spent their lives believing they are irredeemable and who only feel understood in each other’s darkness.
This series blends romance, horror and vigilante fantasy: there are graphic flashbacks to childhood abuse, present-day torture and murder, and a war against a religious organisation that has hidden behind piety for decades. The emotional payoff comes from watching the Fallen struggle to believe they deserve tenderness at all.
At present the core arc runs through the prequel and two full-length novels, and it rewards being read in that sequence.
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