Of Sorrows and Blades Books in Order

Of Sorrows and Blades opens with Riftborn, a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy romance built around memory, violence, and a broken world. The heroine does not know her name. She does not know how she arrived among fractured continents and wounded souls. What she does know is how to survive.

Her body remembers what her mind cannot.

That makes the series immediately tense. She can fight and kill monsters with frightening precision, but the skills come without context. Training, instinct, and violence live inside her muscles while her past stays locked away. The mystery is not just who she was. It is what she was made to do, and why the truth was taken.

Veyyr is the man standing between her and answers. His magic is strange, the pull between them is hard to ignore, and he knows more than he will say. That refusal turns the romance into a problem as much as a temptation. Trust is difficult when one person holds the missing pieces of another person’s life.

The setting matters because it is already broken before the heroine enters it. The land itself feels damaged, and survival is only the first layer. As the journey continues, the larger question becomes whether reclaiming her identity might save the world or shatter what is left of it.

For now, this branch begins with Riftborn. Start there, especially if you want one of Mayer’s newer worlds with a more post-apocalyptic edge, a dangerous heroine, and romance built on secrets that cannot stay buried.