Nicci Harris Books in Order
Browse all Nicci Harris books in order, with series lists, summaries, reading order tips, and where to start with Kids of the District and her other worlds.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
16 books
Our Thing
by Nicci Harris
2020
Ambitious ballerina Cassidy Slater has her life mapped out until her long-time crush, notorious boxer and mafia heir Max Butcher, finally notices her. As he pulls her into The District's criminal underworld, Cassidy must decide how much of herself she is willing to risk for love.
Cosa Nostra
by Nicci Harris
2021
After the events of Our Thing, Cassidy declares her love for Max Butcher, tying herself to his brutal Cosa Nostra family. When violence shatters the world he tried to shield her from, Max must decide whether to let her go or burn everything to keep her safe.
Facing Us
by Nicci Harris
2021
In a corrupt Australian university town, musician Blesk Bellamy is finally rebuilding her life when she meets Konnor Slater, a charming rugby player drowning his own trauma in booze. Their instant, obsessive connection threatens to expose the violent secrets both are desperate to bury.
Her Way
by Nicci Harris
2021
Years after a devastating breakup, trauma doctor Shoshanna is engaged and settled, until her first love, Bronson Butcher, lands on her operating table with a bullet in his chest. Their reunion drags her back into his bloody, mafia life and forces them to confront the past that ruined them.
His Pretty Little Burden
by Nicci Harris
2022
Fawn is the naive, eighteen-year-old daughter of a mafia boss who betrayed the Butcher family, and desperation drives her to seek protection from cold, controlled Don Clay Butcher. Clay intends to use her for his own legacy, but her innocence, scars, and dangerous secret pull him into a consuming, forbidden obsession.
His Pretty Little Queen
by Nicci Harris
2022
Now fully entwined with Clay Butcher, the ruthless Cosa Nostra don who once took her in, Fawn must reconcile being the daughter of his enemy with being the woman he cannot live without. As Clay hunts for vengeance, their fragile new family is tested by old betrayals and bloody choices.
CurVy 13
by Nicci Harris
2023
Plus-size BookTok creator Vallie adores the darkest romances, convinced they belong safely on the page, until a masked stranger and his unhinged brother break into her home. Trapped with two obsessive men who seem determined to fulfil her fantasies, she must decide where the line lies between nightmare and desire.
CurVy Forever
by Nicci Harris
2023
Vallie is now firmly tangled up with the Vaughn brothers, Donnie, Tyler, and Dexter, whose pet names for her hide razor-sharp possessiveness. As their unconventional relationship deepens, playful videos give way to jealousy, trust tests, and scorching scenes that push every boundary she thought she had.
His Perfect Little Heirs
by Nicci Harris
2023
In this steamy epilogue novella, Max and Cassidy, Bronson and Shoshanna, and Clay and Fawn navigate pregnancy, past grief, and impending fatherhood together. Domestic chaos, insecurities, and fierce protectiveness turn the Butcher brothers' crime-scarred lives into something unexpectedly tender.
Their Broken Legend
by Nicci Harris
2023
Heiress Kaya is known as a spoiled party girl, while Xander Butcher is the city's damaged boxing prodigy trying to live up to his father's name. When disaster shatters both their lives, they cling to each other, fighting addiction, grief, and the weight of expectations in a love story that refuses easy fixes.
Born For Silk
by Nicci Harris
2024
In the wasteland kingdom of the Cradle, commoner Aster is chosen to be the king's Silk Girl, bred to adore and pleasure the half-human ruler Rome. As his obsession with her grows, their forbidden bond threatens a regime that treats love as weakness and obedience as the only virtue.
CurVy Baby
by Nicci Harris
2024
With three alpha brothers sharing one plus-size heroine, Vallie and the Vaughns try to turn their chaotic obsession into a real home. As a long-absent brother returns and the household shifts, they work through denial, resistance, and finally acceptance to build a messy, loving family.
Born For Lace
by Nicci Harris
2025
Dahlia has been trained as a Lace Girl, a state-sanctioned comfort worker meant to soothe battle-scarred soldiers and keep the Cradle's warriors sane. When her best friend dies in childbirth, she flees with the forbidden baby and a ruthless fighter named Lagos, racing across a civil war while trying not to fall for the monster guarding her.
Born For Marble
by Nicci Harris
2025
Ten-year-old Tuscany is crowned Queen of the Cradle and reshaped by brutal treatments until she becomes a living idol, trapped in her own palace and mind. Years later, her loyal Guardian Kong escorts her into the desert on a campaign that awakens forbidden desire, forcing them to choose between duty to a violent empire and a love that could remake it.
Born For Fur
by Nicci Harris
2026
This upcoming installment in the Cradled Common series returns to the harsh world of the Cradle, following new characters whose assigned 'Meaningful Purposes' collide with dangerous, rule-breaking love in ways that test the foundations of the Trade and the Crown.
Her Pretty Little Revenge
by Nicci Harris
2026
Now married to Clay Butcher and mother to his children, Fawn believes the worst of her past is behind her until the people who once hurt her slither back into view. While she trusts in karma, Clay believes in ruthless payback, and together they decide how far they are willing to go to protect their family.
Where should I start?
If you want a dark mafia family saga: Our Thing → Cosa Nostra → Her Way → His Pretty Little Burden → His Pretty Little Queen.
If you prefer to read The District in order of events: Facing Us → Our Thing → Cosa Nostra → Her Way → His Pretty Little Burden → His Pretty Little Queen → Their Broken Legend → His Perfect Little Heirs.
If you love dark dystopian fantasy romance: Born For Silk → Born For Lace → Born For Marble.
If you want an ultra-spicy why choose novella trilogy: CurVy 13 → CurVy Forever → CurVy Baby.
Author bio
Nicci Harris was born in Australia on February 25 and is from Perth in Western Australia, where she now writes full time, dreaming up dark love stories for readers who like things a little messy.
Before publishing romance, she cycled through a stack of jobs: vet nurse, journalist, barista, corporate sales consultant, and of course, mother. Those years gave her a front row seat to grief, loyalty, and the strange ways people protect each other.
All of that shows up on the page.
Her breakout world, the Kids of the District series, follows the Butcher family and their friends through a fictional, mafia-ruled corner of Australia known simply as the District. The books blend coming of age, found family, and Cosa Nostra politics with a very high heat level.
In Facing Us, a musician with a traumatic past and a rugby-playing grad student crash into each other at university, dragging old secrets into the light. Our Thing and Cosa Nostra pick up the thread with Cassidy, a driven young ballerina, and Max Butcher, the tattooed boxer she has loved from afar, pulling her down into his family's criminal empire.
Later books centre on other Butcher brothers: Bronson and his first love Shoshanna in the second-chance romance Her Way, age gap mafia power couple Clay and Fawn in His Pretty Little Burden and His Pretty Little Queen, and boxer Xander in Their Broken Legend. A novella, His Perfect Little Heirs, revisits the couples as they navigate pregnancy, past grief, and domestic chaos with the same intensity they once brought to street wars.
With the Cradled Common books, Harris shifts into dark dystopian fantasy without losing the romantic core. Set in a future wasteland called the Cradle, the series explores a society where every person is assigned a 'Meaningful Purpose' and ruled by the Trade and the Crown. Born For Silk, Born For Lace, and Born For Marble each follow a different couple – a king and his Silk Girl, a war-weary Lace Girl and a scarred rogue, a fragile young queen and her sworn Guardian – as love turns into an act of rebellion against a brutal system.
Then there is the Curvy Thirteen Playlist, a trilogy of novellas that lean hard into dark, kinky fun. The story follows Vallie, a plus-size BookTok creator who is obsessed with taboo romance, and the three Vaughn brothers who crash into her life determined to make those fantasies real. Across CurVy 13, CurVy Forever, and CurVy Baby, the books juggle kidnapping scenarios, messy desire, and the work of building an unconventional, very spicy family.
Across all of these series, Harris is known for morally grey heroes, sharp heroines who give as good as they get, and storylines that do not shy away from trauma, mental health, violence, or grief. She likes slow emotional burns wrapped in fast pacing, and happily ever afters that feel hard won rather than simple.
These days she writes full time in Perth, often talking directly with readers online about triggers, content warnings, and reading order. Her books may be intense, but she treats her audience like friends, making sure they know exactly what kind of ride they are signing up for.
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