Sophie Lark Books in Order
Browse Sophie Lark books in order, with book lists, short summaries, and guidance on where to start with her mafia, dark romance, and fantasy novels.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
31 books
Always
by Sophie Lark
2019
Anika Knight is fighting to save her family’s business when a ruthless billionaire targets it for a takeover and her first love walks back into her life. Torn between loyalty, ambition, and long-buried feelings, she has to decide which future to claim.
Ash / Dom
by Sophie Lark
2019
Ash / Dom collects two stand-alone mafia romances. One delves into the fallout of a brutal underworld feud, while Dom tells the story of a Bratva soldier who kidnaps the police commissioner’s daughter and finds his fiercest weakness in the hostage he can’t release.
Black
by Sophie Lark
2019
Detective Byron Black heads to London for his sister’s wedding and collides with Holly Summers, the former girl-next-door turned sought-after political advisor. Their scorching fling turns deadly serious when a bomber targets Holly’s campaign and echoes from Byron’s past case resurface.
Crimson / Nikolai
by Sophie Lark
2019
This volume pairs two standalone mafia romances from the Colors of Crime and Underworld worlds, following ruthless Bratva heir Nikolai and a heroine caught in a crimson-tinted web of power, revenge, and forbidden attraction in the European underworld.
Emerald / Ivan
by Sophie Lark
2019
Emerald follows an assassin who creeps into a mafia king’s bedroom with a syringe of poison and wakes up his prisoner instead. Ivan adds another full-length Bratva romance from the same brutal world, blending captivity, power plays, and fiercely earned devotion.
Ink / Roman
by Sophie Lark
2019
Two intense enemies-to-lovers stories set in Sophie Lark’s Russian mafia universe. Ink centers on a volatile attraction that sparks between rivals forced onto the same dangerous job, while Roman follows a former high school bully turned Paris mob boss and the woman plotting revenge.
Sapphire / Luca
by Sophie Lark
2019
Collected here are two linked mafia romances. In Sapphire, jewel thief Lex Moore tangles with a relentless detective and a mafia heir over a priceless gem. In Luca, a Bratva prince navigates loyalty, crime, and the one woman he can’t let go.
Snow
by Sophie Lark
2019
In the ring they call him Snow, a stone-cold underground fighter who feels nothing. That changes when he meets Sasha, a sheltered young woman trapped by debt to a Bratva boss, and decides he’ll risk everything to win her freedom and her heart.
Violet / Anton
by Sophie Lark
2019
A double-feature of dangerous love stories: Violet, a nightclub singer marked to be kidnapped and delivered to the Bratva, and Anton, the enforcer who steals her instead, torn between his orders and the fierce woman he’s supposed to betray.
Bloody Heart
by Sophie Lark
2020
As a teenager, diplomat’s daughter Simone falls hard for Dante Gallo, the son of a Chicago mafia boss. A brutal separation shatters them, until a chance reunion years later forces them to confront old secrets and the cost of a second chance.
Broken Vow
by Sophie Lark
2020
Workaholic lawyer Riona Griffin wants no distractions while hunting the assassin who tried to kill her. Instead she’s saddled with bodyguard Raylan Boone, a flirty southern ex-soldier who drags her to his family ranch and refuses to let her face danger alone.
Brutal Prince
by Sophie Lark
2020
Aida Gallo torches the Griffins' library and nearly kills heir Callum, so their feuding mafia families force them into an arranged marriage to keep the peace. Schemes, sabotage, and sizzling attraction turn a hostile alliance into something far more dangerous.
Savage Lover
by Sophie Lark
2020
Mechanic Camille Rivera is drowning in debt, a sick father, and a brother tangled up with a dirty cop. Her only lifeline is Nero Gallo, the reckless neighborhood troublemaker whose wild schemes might save her family or burn everything down.
Stolen Heir
by Sophie Lark
2020
Polish gangster Mikolaj Wilk kidnaps gentle mafia princess and ballerina Nessa Griffin to avenge his murdered father. Trapped in his decaying mansion, Nessa must survive a captor who is torn between destroying her world and falling for her.
The CEO of Cristo
by Sophie Lark
2020
Years after his best friend stole his company, his freedom, and the woman he loved, a once-ruined entrepreneur returns as a powerful CEO bent on revenge. Old betrayals collide with buried passion in this modern, secret-baby twist on The Count of Monte Cristo.
Heavy Crown
by Sophie Lark
2021
A Gallo heir spots Yelena Yenina, the fierce daughter of Chicago’s cruelest Bratva boss, being shoved into a car trunk. Saving her ignites a forbidden obsession that pulls two enemy families into a final, explosive showdown for love and power.
Starlet
by Sophie Lark
2021
When rising Hollywood actress Clara Bloom is murdered on a studio lot, her studious twin sister Alice travels west to claim the body and instead steps into Clara’s last role. Between jealous co-stars, studio secrets, and a distracting detective, Alice races to unmask a killer.
The Bratva's Heir
by Jane Henry
2021
In a brutal Russian prison, a notorious Bratva heir fixates on Clare, the professional tasked with overseeing him. She’s supposed to keep her distance, but his calculated seduction pulls her into a dangerous dynamic of control, protection, and forbidden submission.
The Bully
by Sophie Lark
2021
Cat Romero arrives at Kingmakers carrying a secret that could get her killed. When ruthless heir Dean Yenin discovers the truth, he blackmails her into a month of obedience, dragging them both into a twisted, unexpectedly vulnerable game of domination and desire.
The Freshman
by Sophie Lark
2021
Leo Gallo would follow his best friend Anna Wilk anywhere, even to Kingmakers, the remote academy where mafia heirs train to rule. As they navigate brutal classes and lethal rivalries, Leo clashes with Bratva heir Dean Yenin, who’s determined to take Anna from him.
The Rebel
by Sophie Lark
2021
At Kingmakers, Miles Griffin breaks every unspoken rule when he falls for Zoe Romero, a mafia princess promised in marriage to vicious Rocco Prince. To save her future, Miles schemes his way through secret deals, deadly enemies, and a love he refuses to surrender.
The Spy
by Sophie Lark
2021
Someone at Kingmakers isn’t who he claims to be. After three years of planning, a hidden enemy slips into the student body, intent on seducing Nix, the daughter of the man who destroyed his family, only to find revenge colliding with very real love.
There Are No Saints
by Sophie Lark
2021
San Francisco sculptor Cole Blackwell is rich, famous, and secretly a serial killer who treats the city as his hunting ground. When struggling artist Mara Eldritch survives an attack meant to claim her, Cole becomes obsessed, torn between protecting his new muse and destroying her.
There Is No Devil
by Sophie Lark
2021
In the conclusion to the Sinners Duet, Cole and Mara’s twisted relationship turns into an all-consuming partnership as rival killer Alastor Shaw escalates his attacks. To survive, they have to confront their pasts, outmaneuver a monster, and decide what they’re willing to become.
Anastasia
by Sophie Lark
2022
Set in an alternate, magic-touched Russia, Anastasia is the unwanted fourth daughter of the Romanov emperor, the only child without a visible gift. When she forms a dangerous bond with Cossack rebel Damien, her hidden power awakens, reshaping their fates and the empire’s future.
The Heir
by Sophie Lark
2022
Opening the Kingmakers series, The Heir retells Leo and Anna’s first year at the mafia university, where childhood friendship strains under jealousy, brutal training, and Dean Yenin’s vendetta. It deepens their forbidden love story and the alliances that shape the war to come.
The Savage
by Sophie Lark
2022
In the final Kingmakers novel, the most dangerous heir on campus faces the choice between seizing the power he was raised for and protecting the woman who sees past his savage reputation. Graduating will mean choosing sides in a war that’s finally come due.
Grimstone
by Sophie Lark
2023
After a brutal breakup, Remi Hayes retreats to Grimstone to flip the crumbling Blackleaf Manor she inherited from her uncle. Blackmailed by enigmatic neighbor Dane Covett, a doctor everyone suspects of killing his wife, she’s dragged into a gothic tangle of secrets, hauntings, and hunger.
Minx
by Sophie Lark
2023
Escort Blake Abbot keeps strict control over her life and her tiny client list, never letting anyone close enough to hurt her again. Billionaire Ramses Howell insists on becoming her next “appointment,” turning their carefully negotiated game into an intense, boundary-pushing battle of power and trust.
Love Contract
by Sophie Lark
2024
Private chef Theo Mahoney is too exhausted by her billionaire boss’s demands to chase her own culinary dreams. When former high school nemesis Sullivan Rivas uses blackmail to push her into faking a relationship, staged dates and shared secrets spark very real, very risky feelings.
Monarch
by Sophie Lark
2024
Bookstore clerk Elena Zelenska escapes her dead-end life by becoming a mail-order bride for charming novelist Benjamin Wittacker. His fairy-tale proposal curdles when she reaches Grimstone and finds herself isolated in a sinister castle, relying on stern hotelier Atlas Covett to survive the trap.
Where should I start?
If you want a starting point in her mafia world: Brutal Prince → Stolen Heir → Savage Lover.
If you love dark academia and campus drama: The Freshman → The Rebel → The Bully → The Spy.
If you prefer very dark psychological romance: There Are No Saints → There Is No Devil.
If you like magic and gothic twists: Anastasia → Grimstone → Monarch.
If you're craving contemporary romance outside the mafia world: Love Contract → Minx.
Author bio
Sophie Lark writes the kind of romance that moves fast, hits hard, and still makes room for complicated hearts. An American author with a devoted online readership, she built her career in indie publishing before partnering with traditional houses to bring her work to a wider audience.
She’s best known for the sprawling mafia universe that links the Brutal Birthright, Underworld and Kingmakers series. Those books follow Irish, Italian, and Russian crime families from the streets of Chicago to a hidden island academy where their heirs learn to rule. Readers come for the high stakes and stay for the way Sophie lets her characters grow up, mess up, and earn their happy endings the hard way.
Her heroines are rarely damsels. Aida Gallo in Brutal Prince crashes a rival’s party and sets a library on fire. Nessa Griffin in Stolen Heir survives kidnapping with stubborn grace. Mara Eldritch in There Are No Saints claws her way out of poverty and trauma in San Francisco’s art scene. Even in her darkest books, the women fight for their own agency instead of waiting to be rescued.
The men in her stories tend to be sharp-edged and morally gray: Bratva bosses, mafia heirs, serial killers, bodyguards, and billionaires. What softens them isn’t a personality transplant but the slow work of loving someone who sees past their armor. Cole Blackwell in the Sinners Duet, Nero Gallo in Savage Lover, and Dane Covett in Grimstone are dangerous long before the story starts. Part of the tension comes from watching how far they’ll bend without breaking.
Sophie’s catalog ranges well beyond contemporary crime. In Anastasia, she reimagines the Romanov dynasty in a magic-laced version of early twentieth century Russia, blending palace intrigue with slow-burn romance. Starlet drops a bookish heroine into Golden Age Hollywood to solve her sister’s murder. The Grimstone books shift into gothic romantic thriller territory, set in a foggy beach town full of haunted houses, secrets, and morally ambiguous men.
She also writes straight contemporary romance with fewer bullets and more banter. Love Contract plays with fake dating and workplace blackmail in a modern city setting, while Minx explores power exchange between a self-made escort and the billionaire who becomes obsessed with her. Even in these lighter-feeling stories, she keeps the emotional stakes high and the characters sharply drawn.
Outside of writing, Sophie has talked about loving hiking, bodybuilding, and live comedy shows. Her idea of a perfect day involves taking the kids to a theme park, going dancing with her husband, then collapsing with a good book and a very large bag of salt and vinegar chips. She and her family have lived in the Rocky Mountain West and now make their home in Southern California with their three children.
Across all of her work, certain through-lines stay the same: strong, capable heroines, men who have to earn their trust, a lot of heat, and a willingness to let love grow in the middle of genuinely dangerous situations. If you pick up a Sophie Lark novel, you can expect intensity, momentum, and characters who feel like they keep living after you close the book.
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