Kingmakers Books in Order

Kingmakers is Sophie Lark’s dark twist on the campus novel, set at a secretive university where the heirs of mafia clans, cartels, and Bratva families learn how to rule. The school sits alone on a fortified island, cut off from the outside world by sea walls, iron gates, and its own merciless code.

Students are sorted into tracks like Heirs, Enforcers, Accountants, and Spies, depending on the role they’ll play in their crime families. Classes cover everything from hand-to-hand combat and weapons to laundering money and blackmail. Tradition is enforced by the Rule of Recompense, which demands that every injury be repaid in kind. Grudges are dangerous here, and alliances can be life or death.

Year One belongs to Leo Gallo and Anna Wilk. Leo follows his best friend to Kingmakers believing he can protect her, only to realize that Anna has ambitions of her own and a complicated pull toward Dean Yenin, a Bratva heir with a long-standing grudge. Their story runs through The Freshman and The Heir, charting the way friendship, jealousy, and loyalty get tested when the stakes include inheritance and survival.

In Year Two, The Rebel focuses on Miles Griffin, a numbers-obsessed prodigy who should be thinking only about business. Instead, he becomes fixated on Zoe Romero, a mafia princess trapped in a marriage contract with sadistic Rocco Prince. Stealing Zoe out from under Rocco’s nose would break every rule of their world, but Miles is the kind of rebel who would rather rewrite the rules entirely.

Year Three, The Bully, shifts the spotlight to Dean Yenin and Zoe’s shy sister Cat. Dean has seen something Cat can never allow to get out, and he uses that secret to drag her into a brutal, kinky arrangement that forces both of them to confront what they truly want. Year Four and the final volume, often called The Spy and The Savage, pull back to show the long game: hidden identities, old vendettas finally coming due, and a spy who enrolls at Kingmakers with revenge in mind but finds his plans tangled up with a girl who was meant to be collateral.

Kingmakers balances brutal competition and high heat with genuine coming-of-age arcs. Characters arrive as sheltered heirs or hardened street kids and leave as something else entirely. If you enjoy school settings but want them sharpened with blood oaths, war games, and mafia dynasties, this series connects directly to the families from Brutal Birthright while still working as its own self-contained saga.