Reaper Academy: Dark God Books in Order

Reaper Academy: Dark God is a dark-academia romance duet that borrows the bones of a Hades and Persephone retelling and rebuilds it with curses, deadly lessons, and a lot of forbidden tension. It’s co-written with L Lysandra, and it leans into the feeling that the school itself is watching.

The heroine arrives at Reaper Academy carrying a curse that has already killed her, again and again. She’s lived through so many deaths that they blur together, and she’s running out of chances.

She’s tired of dying.

That exhaustion matters, because it shapes how she moves through the academy. She’s not there to be impressed by gothic corridors or scary professors, she’s there to beat the curse, even if she has to cheat, lie, or bargain with monsters to do it.

Every hallway feels like a test.

The academy setting is classic dark academia with a paranormal twist: secret rules, dangerous authority figures, and students who are both rivals and potential allies. Learning is survival, and the line between punishment and training is intentionally blurry.

Shattered & Returned sets up the core problem: how do you survive an institution designed to shape, break, and claim powerful souls? A dark god figure looms large in the story, and the romance plays with authority, temptation, and the fear that giving in might cost more than it gives. It’s not just a crush, it’s a gravitational pull toward the Underworld.

The second book, Vows and Broken Bond, pushes deeper into what the curse really is and what it will take to break it. Promises become binding, alliances shift, and the stakes tighten as the characters are forced to decide who they are without the academy’s labels. The tension comes from both the romance and the question of whether fate is something you accept, or something you steal.

If you like dark academia with a supernatural edge, a heroine fighting to rewrite her fate, and a romance that feels both inevitable and dangerous, this duet is built for that mood. Because it’s one continuous story, it’s best read in order, starting with Shattered & Returned and continuing to Vows and Broken Bond.