Raven Voss

Raven Voss Books in Order: The Complete Reading Guide

If you found your way here, you probably want one thing: the right order to read my books, without spoilers and without guesswork. Here it is — five series, five very different kinds of trouble.

First, a quick note for the search engines and the confused: there is another author who shares the name Raven Voss and writes in completely different genres. If you’re looking for explicit 18+ monster romance and dark romance — the Hunted Mate, Leverage & Lust, Wardens of the Wild, Blood Ledger and Hati Cycle series below — you’re in the right place.

Hunted Mate (monster reverse harem)

A true-crime livestreamer named Sloane Wilder gets claimed on camera as the prize in a supernatural hunt — and decides she likes it. Read it in this order:

  1. A Hunted Mate: Prequel Novella — start here to meet Sloane and her five monsters.
  2. Hunted on Livestream — Book 1, where the Culling truly begins.
  3. Feral Threshold — a short 1.5 teaser between the main books.
  4. The Wolf’s Claim — Book 2.
  5. The Second Sun — a 2.5 novella between Books 2 and 3. Best read after Book Two.
  6. The Maker’s Heir — Book 3.

All six are also collected in one ebook, Hunted Mate: The Complete Series Box Set, in this same order.

The prequel novella is the softest place to fall in. If you’d rather start with something free, Room Tone is a newsletter-exclusive novelette set three weeks before Book 1 — it isn’t on Amazon, isn’t in Kindle Unlimited, and never will be.

Leverage & Lust (dark finance romance)

A working-class Manchester math prodigy claws her way to the top of London’s crypto and hedge-fund world, trading leverage, revenge, and her own rules for the edge. Read it in this order:

  1. EDGE & EXCESS — the prologue to Lara’s rise.
  2. Confessions of a Crypto Queen — Book 1.
  3. Read & Ruin — a prequel that sets up Book 2.
  4. Confessions of a Hedge Fund Mistress — Book 2, a forbidden sapphic (F/F) romance set against an AI-market mania.
  5. Realized Loss — a 2.5 prequel leading into Book 3.
  6. Confessions of a Counterparty — Book 3.

There are also six free companion short stories for this series, two beside each novel, and you can read every one of them here on the site — no email, no shop, nothing to claim:

  • Conviction & Collateral and Circuit Breaker sit beside Book 1.
  • Fair Value and Short Interest sit beside Book 2.
  • Finder’s Fee and Terminal Value sit beside Book 3.

Each one is told by somebody standing just outside the novel — a desk head, an exchange engineer, a fund administrator, a short seller, a sovereign analyst, an equity strategist. A note on heat: the companion stories close the door. The novels do not. Read them all here.

The Wardens of the Wild (cryptid monster romance)

Ancient, fully sentient wardens — not shifters — have been holding particular stretches of American wilderness together for centuries, under a law that says a warden who is seen cannot hold what he holds. Then each of them meets a woman competent enough to notice. Read it in this order:

  1. The Hundred-Year Watch — a novella doorway into Book 1. Sensual and closed-door: a ten-year slow burn between Ada Sorrel and Karev in a 1922 company store, narrated by the warden Harrakh.
  2. Winterteeth — Book 1. A Colorado search-and-rescue medic, a sealed canyon, and eight feet of white-furred patience.
  3. What the Old Wood Keeps — a novella leading into Book 2. Sensual and closed-door: Amrit Kaur and Cadoc at a 1907 mill town, with Brannoch reading the record of it eighty years later.
  4. The Long Timber — Book 2. A forensic auditor, an eco-thriller, and a two-thousand-year-old warden who becomes her evidence.
  5. The Shape Before the Storm — a novella doorway into Book 3. Sensual and closed-door: Ferrin and Naomi Vessel, courting in a ledger margin at an 1803 salt works.
  6. Lanternwing — Book 3. A disaster-response pilot who has spent four years deciding the winged shape above every catastrophe is the cause.

This series has eight free companion short stories of its own, and each one leads into the novel it belongs to rather than following it — so they slot in just ahead of their book:

  • Thirty-One Degrees Below, What the Glacier Keeps and The Warmest Thing in the Room come before Winterteeth.
  • Thirty-One Names and The Night Survey come before The Long Timber.
  • Every Hollow Has a Name for It, What the Mountain Keeps and Brannoch in the Burning Season come before Lanternwing.

An incident statement with a hole in it, an ice core eleven thousand years out of order, a 1921 archive journal, a road closure at two in the morning. Seven are free to read in full here, no email and nothing to claim; Thirty-One Degrees Below is a gift when you join the newsletter. All eight are closed-door — in her words, the free companions close the door: the wanting and the consequences are on the page, the act is not. Read them all here.

Every novel is a complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA, so you can also just start at Winterteeth, The Long Timber or Lanternwing and read outward. The novellas are doorways, not homework — and note that three of them are far cooler in temperature than the novels.

The Blood Ledger (Filipino aswang dark romance)

The Ilustres are aswang: a Visayan bloodline that feeds on people and keeps its accounts in a ledger older than the country’s laws. Read it in this order:

  1. What the Ilustres Eat — a standalone novella set in a Davao compound in 1987. A schoolteacher marries a gentle man and takes three months to learn what his family eats.
  2. Blood and Bone City — Book 1, thirty years later in a Makati office tower. A twenty-two-year-old executive assistant takes the job to pay for her mother’s dialysis.
  3. The Taste of What Is Owed — a Book Two novella covering the six weeks before Book 1, from inside her head. Written to be read after Book 1. Nothing is consummated: no sexual content on the page.
  4. Marrow and Manila — Book 2. She starts auditing the family that owns her.
  5. Yield — a Book Three novella. The same six weeks as The Taste of What Is Owed, from the other side of the desk; either can be read first. Again nothing is consummated.
  6. Salt and Succession — Book 3, and the end of it. A ledger that starts in 1887 and thirty-six hours.

The 1987 novella is the doorway — same compound, same hunger — and it shows you exactly what Marisol Reyes is walking into. This is also the only series of mine that is finished: the trilogy is complete, and the three novellas sit around it as optional standalones.

There is also a free companion collection: nine short stories, three beside each novel, in one ebook for newsletter subscribers. The first, The Forty-Third Floor After Hours, leads into Blood and Bone City. A night guard, a chair that is still warm two hours after the floor emptied, and the word his grandmother used for it. All nine are closed-door: the wanting, the decision and the cost are on the page, and the acts are not. Get the collection here.

The Hati Cycle (dark Norse romantasy)

A jarls’ council keeps the wolf Hati chained inside a human bloodline, and keeps a seer alive to sing him down. One couple, three books, and three novellas set before them. Read it in this order:

  1. The Vessel’s Watch — a prequel novella, set a century before Book 1. A vessel and a seer who is not yet fully trained, and the barred door behind which the law that binds the trilogy begins. It can also be read after Book 1. Closed-door, 18+.
  2. Bride of the Moon-Hunter — Book 1. Sigrún Vetrdóttir survived the night her order burned, and is the last seer who can sing the wolf down. The council’s solution is a law that binds her to the heir of the bloodline that carries Hati. Explicit, 18+.
  3. The Vessel and the Dark — a novella set two generations before the trilogy. A seer with one crossing of the moon-road left, and the evidence that could cost her it. Complete in itself. Closed-door, 18+.
  4. The Wolf-Fed Sky — Book 2. Married now, Sigrún and Leidolf come to the capital for an inquiry and stay because a courier turns up dead inside a ward nothing should have crossed. Explicit, 18+.
  5. The Intake Record — a novella. A marked vessel petitioning a chapter-house, the junior seer assigned to record seven days of his deposition, and a margin note that belongs in no ledger. Complete in itself and best after Book 1; I list it after Book 2. Closed-door, 18+.
  6. The Last Night of the World — Book 3, the final book. One last road, and a bargain with something that does not negotiate. Best read after Book 2. Explicit, 18+.

The trilogy is complete. The novels are the story of one couple rather than a set of standalones, so read those in order from Book One.

Do the series connect?

No. All five are separate worlds — you don’t need one to read another. Start with whichever premise grabs you: monsters in the dark, a woman who learned the market was rigged and decided to own the house, something ancient watching from the tree line, a dynasty that keeps its accounts in blood, or a wolf chained inside a man who is not allowed to want anything.

For the always-current version of this list, see the full reading-order page, or the FAQ if you’ve got other questions — spice level, standalones, all of it.

Welcome to the dark. Mind the teeth.