Nikki St Crowe Books in Order
Explore Nikki St Crowe books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy where-to-start picks for Vicious Lost Boys, Midnight Harbor, and more.
Last updated: July 5, 2026
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Publication Order
20 books
A Dark Vampire Curse
by Nikki St Crowe
2021
Emery can read minds, except for Rhys Roman's. When a curse starts turning his vampires feral, she may be the only one who can save his city, his house, and maybe herself.
Hot Vampire Next Door: Season One
by Nikki St Crowe
2021
A human woman in Midnight Harbor is expected to pledge herself to one vampire house, but her dangerously tempting neighbor, Bran Duval, belongs to another. Attraction, house politics, and buried secrets make that a very bad time to fall for him.
Ruthless Demon King
by Nikki St Crowe
2021
Demon King Wrath has conquered the United States, but Rain is mysteriously immune to his power. That makes her both a threat and a prize in a kingdom built on fear and obedience.
Sinful Demon King
by Nikki St Crowe
2021
Rain learns she carries part of Wrath's lost power, turning their attraction into something even more dangerous. Everyone wants a piece of the demon king, but he wants what is inside her.
Hot Vampire Next Door: Season Three
by Nikki St Crowe
2022
A rival vampire wants more than control, and the heroine's sister is suddenly in danger too. With hidden truths closing in from every side, Bran may be the only ally she can trust.
Hot Vampire Next Door: Season Two
by Nikki St Crowe
2022
As secrets about her past begin to surface, the heroine leans on Bran Duval for answers and finds their bond getting harder to resist. The deeper they dig, the more personal and dangerous Midnight Harbor becomes.
The Dark One
by Nikki St Crowe
2022
Winnie stays in Neverland and finds herself caught in a fight over shadows, crowns, and control of the island. Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and the fae queen all have plans, and none of them are safe.
The Never King
by Nikki St Crowe
2022
For generations, Darling women have vanished on their eighteenth birthdays and returned broken. When it is finally her turn, Winnie is taken into a darker Neverland where Peter Pan and the Lost Boys are not willing to let her go.
Their Vicious Darling
by Nikki St Crowe
2022
The Crocodile arrives in Neverland with Darkland royals and a claim on Vane's Death Shadow. As war closes in, Winnie and the Lost Boys must decide who they are becoming, and who actually needs saving.
Vengeful Demon King
by Nikki St Crowe
2022
After betraying Wrath, Rain is trapped in his castle and paying the price. But with Chaos hunting the demon king's power, their war is about to get even more personal.
Hot Vampire Next Door: Season Four
by Nikki St Crowe
2023
The truth about the heroine's origins and powers finally comes out, and it rattles her bond with Bran. They will have to face the fallout fast, because a new enemy is already closing in.
The Fae Princes
by Nikki St Crowe
2023
Winnie thought the war for Neverland was over, but a new fairy enemy rises with nothing left to lose. To protect their future, Peter Pan and the Lost Boys must face a threat they never saw coming.
Devourer of Men
by Nikki St Crowe
2024
Wendy has no allies left on Everland when Captain Hook and the Crocodile return to her life. Caught between old rage, danger, and desire, she has to choose whether to risk her heart or her survival.
Hot Vampire Next Door: Season Five
by Nikki St Crowe
2024
Now that she knows she is not human, the heroine has to stop acting like one. Fae politics, marriage pressure, and a claim to the Winter Court throne force her to choose power on her own terms.
Dark & Darker Still
by Nikki St Crowe
2025
Before the Devourer books, Vane and Roc lose their titles after their father's failed coup and claw their way up Darkland's underworld. It is a grim origin story about brothers, power, and becoming monsters.
Devour the Dark
by Nikki St Crowe
2025
After Roc devours a myth maker witch, Wendy leads a desperate voyage to Darkland with Hook, Vane, and Winnie. Saving him means facing the monster inside him and the past waiting at home.
Devour the Snake
by Nikki St Crowe
2026
Wendy is finally about to marry the men she loves, until someone kidnaps James Hook on the wedding day. One last brutal fight stands between this trio and the happy ending they have earned.
East of Envy
by Nikki St Crowe
2026
Betrayed by the Wizard, Dorothy is forced to team up with the dangerous Tin Woodman. His missing brother, stolen heart, and thirst for revenge tie him to the same enemy she wants to destroy.
The Never Queen
by Nikki St Crowe
2026
Winnie returns to the mortal realm to save her missing mother, only to lose magic the moment she arrives. Witch killers, old family secrets, and a new hunt for every Darling woman raise the stakes fast.
West of Wicked
by Nikki St Crowe
2026
Swept from Kansas into a cursed Oz, Dorothy follows the Yellow Brick Road hoping to find a way home. A mysterious stranger, deadly magic, and a land full of lies make every step more dangerous.
Where should I start?
If you want a dark Peter Pan retelling: The Never King → The Dark One → Their Vicious Darling → The Fae Princes → The Never Queen
If you want a short, steamy vampire binge: Hot Vampire Next Door: Season One → Hot Vampire Next Door: Season Two → Hot Vampire Next Door: Season Three → Hot Vampire Next Door: Season Four → Hot Vampire Next Door: Season Five
If you want a demon king romance: Ruthless Demon King → Sinful Demon King → Vengeful Demon King
If you want a standalone first: A Dark Vampire Curse
If you want dark Oz romantasy: West of Wicked → East of Envy
Author bio
Nikki St Crowe writes the kind of romantasy that starts with a familiar fairy tale and then walks straight into the shadows. Her books are full of vampires, demons, fae politics, monsters, and men who are very much not trying to be nice. That pull toward the dangerous side is not a late twist in her work. It has been there from the start.
She has said she was writing back in grade school, when her stories were about adventure, treasure hunting, and a magical mansion stuffed with gold and jewels. Public bios still circle back to that early story because it explains a lot. The setting may have changed, but the appetite for magic, trouble, and big feelings clearly stayed.
Over time, she traded treasure maps for villains.
That shift became the center of her work. On her own site, she talks openly about loving monsters, anti-heroes, and the kind of love interest who makes things messier, not safer. Her novels lean hard into that taste. The men bite. The women push back. And by the end, power usually changes hands.
A lot of readers first meet her through The Never King, the book that launched the Vicious Lost Boys world. It takes Peter Pan, Hook, Neverland, and the Darling line, ages everything up, and turns the whole setup darker, hotter, and much more dangerous. From there, books like The Dark One, Their Vicious Darling, and The Fae Princes build out a world of shadow magic, fae courts, rival loyalties, and a heroine who gets pulled deeper into the fight instead of standing on the sidelines.
She also has a real feel for fast, bingeable series. Hot Vampire Next Door drops readers into Midnight Harbor, a town ruled by supernatural houses, and pairs its heroine with Bran Duval, a vampire neighbor who is trouble from page one. Ruthless Demon King starts the Wrath & Rain trilogy with a demon ruler taking over the United States and one woman who is immune to him, which is a very Nikki St Crowe setup if there ever was one.
Even her standalones and newer worlds follow the same instinct.
A Dark Vampire Curse brings in a mind-reading heroine, a cursed vampire king, and a city hiding deadly secrets. West of Wicked moves into Oz, following Dorothy through a much grimmer version of the Yellow Brick Road. If you like your retellings recognizable but rougher around the edges, that stretch of her catalog makes the pattern pretty clear.
The through line is easy to spot.
She likes villains as love interests, women who grow into their own power, and fantasy worlds where desire is tangled up with danger. The books are usually short, quick to tear through, and built to pull you into the next one fast. Readers who come for the heat tend to stay for the way she folds romance into curses, court politics, family secrets, and old stories with the lights turned down.
When she is not writing or daydreaming about her next morally gray disaster of a man, public bios place her with her husband and daughter on the shores of Lake Michigan, often hunting for a good sunset. Other short bios mention time in the woods, which feels on brand. It is a nice contrast, really. Quiet lake, trees, and then back to the desk to write another monster a happy ending.
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