Empire (Sheridan Anne) Books in Order

Empire takes Sheridan Anne's taste for dark romance and pushes it into secret-society territory. The story begins when a young woman arrives in Faders Bay hoping for a fresh start and instead gets swallowed by a world of blood promises, inherited power, and men who seem to want her heart in every sense of the phrase. Zade, Sawyer, Dalton, and Cross are at the center of that pull, and none of them come with anything close to safety.

This is a trilogy built on atmosphere.

Faders Bay feels gothic from the start, all shadows, old vows, and danger moving just beneath the surface. The series also brings in cult-like elements and prophecy, which gives the romance a more ritualistic, almost doomed quality. The heroine is not just choosing between dangerous men. She is trying to understand why she is tangled up in a long-running power structure that seems to have been waiting for her.

Anne uses that setup to blend reverse harem tension with a broader conspiracy plot. The relationships shift constantly as trust gets broken, alliances move, and the deeper story becomes clearer. Zade especially carries a lot of the menace, but none of the men are straightforward, and that uncertainty is part of what keeps the trilogy moving. The heroine has to decide whether to submit to the rules of the world she has entered or burn the whole thing down.

That choice drives everything.

If you like your romance darker, more theatrical, and tied to a bigger mystery, Empire is likely to land well. It is not a realistic contemporary series, even though the setting is modern. It works more like a feverish secret-society romance with knives hidden under every smile. The trilogy asks readers to enjoy the dread, the seduction, and the constant feeling that someone is always one move away from betrayal.