Wondering where to start with the sabreverse?

I get asked A LOT about the reading order for my books...and I always say, "It depends."

I don't have a simple answer for this – instead, I have a variety of answers... a choose your own adventure answer, if you will.

So, what kind of reader are you?

Please note:
The Counterfeit Contessa series is no longer available. It will be reworked and re-released as The Prince & the Thief series – TTG is a prequel novella. A Thief & a Gentlewoman was the first Sabreverse book.

Printable PDFS:

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

IN WORLD

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

of publication

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I’M IN THE MOOD FOR…

  • A cosy comfort read with a complete romance story and steamy scenes

    Stolen Threadwitch Bride (hate to love, "stolen," anxiety rep, and a heroine who finds her power). Follow it up with These Gentle Wolves, the second in the duet, featuring a creepy haunted house with grumpy x sunshine, marriage of convenience.

  • Slaying the Shifter Prince alternate cover

    A dark and spicy standalone about revenge, obsession, and forging your own identity

    Slaying the Shifter Prince (always check the content warnings, but with this one especially – it's the darkest romance in the Sabreverse to date and is a bully romance with a villainous MMC). Think if The Cruel Prince had claws (literally).

  • A steamy trilogy that will help me rage against the patriarchy while I fall in love with a shadow daddy

    Shadows of the Tenebris Court trilogy (starting with A Kiss of Iron). Again, check the content warnings as this series includes characters recovering from trauma, as well as the usual banter and delicious tropes (enemies to lovers romance, forced proximity, "who did this to you?", and fake relationship to name a few!).

  • A light-hearted and fun series but still has action, steam, and character development I can sink my teeth into

    The Beneath Black Sails series (a quartet + short prequel novel. Start with the prequel, Across Dark Seas). A swashbuckling adventure on the high seas with cocky pirate queen Lady Vice and cunning but tortured pirate hunter Captain Knighton Blackwood.

CLARE’S CHAOTIC BUT IT MAKES SENSE IN HER MIND READING ORDER

This will give you an order to read that takes you through series by series in an order that's unorthodox but makes sense to me. This is the order I'd recommend.

We’re starting with choose your own adventure! You can start with King of Ravens or Shadows of the Tenebris Court. If you begin here, KOR is a delicious, sexy slow burn has Labyrinth 1986 meets Hades and Persephone vibes. This is book one in a duology.

I wrote KOR so that it can stand alone within the Sabreverse as it is more contained within the Underworld, but there are easter eggs if you know what you’re looking for.

Or start with Shadows of the Tenebris Court (SotTC). It's my best series to date. The spice is spicing, the tropes are troping, and the shadow daddy knows how to shadow daddy. Start with A Kiss of Iron.

In KOI, you'll meet Vice and Knigh and probably be curious about their story, so go back in time to their series, Beneath Black Sails. Start with the short prequel novel, Across Dark Seas, then venture into the quartet proper, starting with BBS. It's also a slightly more light-hearted read without the patriarchal BS Kat has to deal with in SotTC, so it's a great way to bring yourself down from the female rage while you put yourself in Vice's position, kicking arse and taking names.

After that long series, you'll probably be in the mood for something shorter. Here I'm going to give you the option of either reading a standalone (Slaying the Shifter Prince) or a duet (Bound by a Fae Bargain – BBaFB). Personally, I'd suggest BBaFB first, so you can get to know Ariadne, Lysander, Rose, and Faolán who you met back in TOP, and enjoy the cosy vibes of Stolen Threadwitch Bride, followed by the creepy haunted house of These Gentle Wolves.

After all that, you're ready to go out with a bang and read Slaying the Shifter Prince. I'm going to say it again – CHECK THE CONTENT WARNINGS! This is a dark romance and it isn't for everyone. You absolutely have my permission not to read it if it isn't your cup of tea. I'll even sign you a little permission slip to say you have completed the SabreverseLite read, despite not diving into the obsessive vengeance of SSP.

BONUS CHAOS

  • Read the novella The Thief's Gambit whenever you like, as it isn't directly linked to any of the current Sabreverse books... or is it?

  • Seasonal Chaos – Re-read These Gentle Wolves at Halloween.

  • Alt Suggestion Chaos – Read SSP between KOI and TOP if you can stand to delay reading TOP after the ending of KOI. SSP sets you up nicely for events in TOP as it takes part concurrently with KOI.

CROSSOVER & SPOILER GUIDE

  • Short novel prequel to BBS series. Gives some backstory for the MCs of the BBS series and Kat from Shadows of the Tenebris Court.

  • Novella prequel to T&G/S&C. Hints at some info that doesn't come to light again until S&C.

  • No spoilers. MCs appear in TGW and TOP/POL.

  • Interconnected standalone linked to STB. You could read it before STB, but it does contain spoilers for STB. FMC appears in STB. MCs appear in KOI/TOP/POL.

  • Spoilers for ADS.

  • End overlaps with KOI, hints at events in KOI. MCs appear in KOI.

  • Overlaps with TDS; gives general spoilers for how the BBS series plays out. MCs appear in TDS.

  • MCs appear in TOP/POL.

  • General spoilers for STB and TGW. Slightly more detailed spoilers for events of SSP.

  • Provides some backstory for a character in KOR.

  • Takes place a couple years after Shadows of the Tenebris Court. It can be read as a standalone, but you may have met the MMC in POL and the FMC was briefly mentioned on page in STB.