Immortal Vices and Virtues: Her Monstrous Mates Books in Order

Her Monstrous Mates is a subseries within the Immortal Vices and Virtues universe that leans hard into why-choose romance with truly inhuman love interests. Kel Carpenter's contribution, written with Aurelia Jane, is Covet Me, a mafia meets monster story set in the shared Earth and Emerald world.

The heroine is a mob princess raised in a gilded cage by a supernatural crime lord father. Her entire life has been arranged around one role, marry a politically convenient husband and cement an alliance that will keep her family on top. Freedom is something she has only ever tasted in stolen moments.

When the Houses of Earth and Emerald need a new leader, her father turns her into the ultimate prize. Whoever wins the deadly election wins her, too. Her three main contenders are far more complicated than any storybook prince, a demon mate who once rejected her, a fae criminal who should be her enemy and a hybrid shifter whose tangled past overlaps painfully with her own.

Covet Me weaves together lethal political trials, a brutal mating heat she cannot control and the heroine's determination to take charge of her fate instead of being traded like a trophy. The book plays with possessive, monstrous heroes while giving the heroine her own sharp edge and agenda.

Like all Immortal Vices and Virtues titles, the story is a complete standalone set against a wider backdrop readers may recognize from other books in the universe. Shared rules about Houses, magic and portals connect the stories, but you do not need to have read any other entries to follow this one.

Expect high heat, intense emotional conflict and a heroine who is every bit as dangerous as the men circling her. Her Monstrous Mates is the place to go in this universe if you want your romances crowded with monsters, knives and a heroine who refuses to choose only one.