Scarred Souls Books in Order

Scarred Souls takes Cole’s appetite for violent settings into the world of the Russian Bratva and its Georgian rivals. The central idea is simple and brutal: boys and young men are stolen, stripped of their names, given numbers instead, and turned into cage fighters for organised crime.

Raze introduces prisoner 818, an almost feral killer forged in an underground prison where fights to the death are entertainment and a way to settle debts. His only clear memory is a promise of revenge. In New York, Kisa Volkova, the sheltered daughter of a Bratva boss who runs an illegal fight club called the Dungeon, is engaged to the organisation’s reigning champion but feels more trapped than cherished.

When Kisa crosses paths with a scarred, silent stranger on the streets—a fighter the crowd soon dubs Raze—she is pulled toward him with a sense of recognition she can’t explain. Their connection gradually uncovers the truth about who he was before the prison and how deeply their histories are intertwined.

Each later book follows a different man shaped by the same system. Reap focuses on 221, a Georgian enforcer dosed with obedience drugs and pointed at enemies until he ends up imprisoned in the Dungeon, where he meets Talia Tolstoi, the Bratva princess who wants out of the life as badly as he does. Ravage pairs 194, another programmed assassin desperate to save his sister, with Zoya Kostava, a mafia princess in hiding. Riot closes the arc inside a sadistic Georgian death camp, where champion fighter 901 and prized “high Mona” 152 risk everything to rebel against the man who owns them.

Across the series, the romances are threaded through plots about revenge, family feuds, and the long-term fallout of captivity. The books are unflinching about violence, addiction, and psychological damage, but they are also about identity—whether someone who has been dehumanised for years can ever fully reclaim a name, a past, and a future.

Scarred Souls is tightly connected, and readers will get the most out of it by starting with Raze and following the publication order as side characters and long-planned reckonings move into the spotlight.