Frequently Asked Questions

Raven Voss is the pen name of an author of explicit 18+ monster romance and dark romance. She writes five series: Hunted Mate, a monster reverse-harem (why-choose) series; Leverage & Lust, a dark finance romance series; The Wardens of the Wild, slow-burn cryptid monster romances; The Blood Ledger, a dark romance built on Filipino aswang folklore; and The Hati Cycle, a dark Norse romantasy trilogy. Another, unrelated author publishes under the same name in different genres — this site and these five series are the work of the romance author Raven Voss.

Read Hunted Mate in this order: 1) A Hunted Mate: Prequel Novella, 2) Hunted on Livestream, 3) Feral Threshold, 4) The Wolf’s Claim, 5) The Second Sun, 6) The Maker’s Heir. All six are available on Amazon, separately or together in one ebook, Hunted Mate: The Complete Series Box Set.There is also a newsletter-exclusive novelette, “Room Tone,” set three weeks before Hunted on Livestream — it sits between the prequel novella and Book 1, and is free to newsletter subscribers.

Read Leverage & Lust in this order: 1) EDGE & EXCESS, 2) Confessions of a Crypto Queen, 3) Read & Ruin (a prequel to Book 2), 4) Confessions of a Hedge Fund Mistress, 5) Realized Loss (a prequel to Book 3), 6) Confessions of a Counterparty. There are also six free companion short stories, two beside each novel — Conviction & Collateral and Circuit Breaker beside Book 1, Fair Value and Short Interest beside Book 2, Finder’s Fee and Terminal Value beside Book 3. Each is told by somebody standing just outside the novel, and all six are free to read in full at ravenvoss.com/shorts with no signup.

Yes — thirteen of them, in full, at ravenvoss.com/shorts. Six are Leverage & Lust companions: Conviction & Collateral, Circuit Breaker, Fair Value, Short Interest, Finder’s Fee and Terminal Value. Seven are Wardens of the Wild companions: What the Glacier Keeps and The Warmest Thing in the Room lead into Winterteeth; Thirty-One Names and The Night Survey lead into The Long Timber; Every Hollow Has a Name for It, What the Mountain Keeps and Brannoch in the Burning Season lead into Lanternwing. No email, no signup and no purchase — they are not sold anywhere. Each runs roughly four to nine thousand words, told by somebody standing just outside the novel it belongs to. All thirteen are closed-door: sexual content is handled off the page, which the novels are not. That is separate from the two newsletter gifts, “Room Tone” and the Wardens story “Thirty-One Degrees Below,” which are free only to newsletter subscribers, and from the Blood Ledger companion collection: nine closed-door stories, including The Forty-Third Floor After Hours, in one free ebook for anyone who signs up from the Blood Ledger page.

Read The Wardens of the Wild in this order: 1) The Hundred-Year Watch (a novella doorway into Book 1), 2) Winterteeth (Book 1), 3) What the Old Wood Keeps (a novella leading into Book 2), 4) The Long Timber (Book 2), 5) The Shape Before the Storm (a novella prequel to Book 3), 6) Lanternwing (Book 3). The three novellas are sensual and closed-door; the three novels are explicit. Every novel is a complete standalone with a guaranteed HEA, so you can also start at any of the three novels — and each novella is written to work as a doorway if you would rather meet a warden before you meet his book. There are also eight free companion short stories, each one leading into the novel it belongs to: 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. Seven are free to read in full at ravenvoss.com/shorts with no signup; Thirty-One Degrees Below is a gift for newsletter subscribers. All eight are closed-door.

Read The Blood Ledger in this order: 1) What the Ilustres Eat, a standalone novella set in Davao in 1987, 2) Blood and Bone City (Book 1), set in a Makati office tower thirty years later, 3) The Taste of What Is Owed (a Book Two novella), 4) Marrow and Manila (Book 2), 5) Yield (a Book Three novella), 6) Salt and Succession (Book 3). The 1987 novella is the doorway — same compound, same hunger — and it shows you exactly what Marisol Reyes is walking into. The Blood Ledger is the one finished series: the trilogy is complete, and the three companion novellas are optional standalones around it. There is also a free companion collection: nine short stories, three beside each novel, in one ebook for newsletter subscribers. The first of them, The Forty-Third Floor After Hours, leads into Blood and Bone City. Sign up from ravenvoss.com/blood-ledger.

The Hati Cycle is one couple’s story told across three books, so read the novels in order. Book 1 is Bride of the Moon-Hunter, in which Sigrún Vetrdóttir, the last seer alive who can sing the wolf down, is bound by law to Leidolf Mánason, heir of the bloodline that carries the wolf Hati chained inside it. Book 2 is The Wolf-Fed Sky, best read after Book 1. Book 3, The Last Night of the World, is the final book and is best read after Book 2. Three novellas are out alongside them: The Vessel’s Watch, a prequel set a century earlier that can be read before or after Book 1; The Vessel and the Dark, set two generations before the trilogy and best read after Book 1; and The Intake Record, best read after Book 1, which the author lists after Book 2. The trilogy is complete. The novels are explicit and 18+; the three novellas are closed-door.

Each series is best read in order, because the romance and the overarching story build book to book. The five series are separate worlds, though, so you can read them independently of each other — start with whichever premise pulls you in.

Yes, and there are two different kinds of free. Fourteen companion short stories — six for Leverage & Lust, seven for The Wardens of the Wild, one for The Blood Ledger — are free to read in full at ravenvoss.com/shorts with no email at all. Separately, “Room Tone,” a Hunted Mate novelette, and “Thirty-One Degrees Below,” a Wardens of the Wild story, are free when you join Raven Voss’s newsletter. It is exclusive to subscribers — it is not sold on Amazon and is not in Kindle Unlimited. Set three weeks before Hunted on Livestream, it is the easiest way to try the series before Book 1.

“Room Tone” is a Hunted Mate novelette by Raven Voss, available only to newsletter subscribers. Told by Sloane Wilder three weeks before the events of Hunted on Livestream, it follows the true-crime podcaster as she records sixty seconds of silence for her show and finds a breath on the tape that is not hers. It focuses on Caspian, the incubus, with the other four monsters at the edges. It is explicit (18+) and is not available for sale anywhere.

Reverse harem — also called why-choose — is a romance in which the heroine ends up with several love interests at once and never has to pick just one. In the Hunted Mate series, Sloane Wilder is claimed by five monsters, and “why choose?” is the whole point.

The novels are very explicit — adult fiction (18+) with dark themes and on-page heat. Not everything is, though, and the exceptions say so on the tin: The Taste of What Is Owed and Yield are romances, but the slow burn is held at the tension and nothing is consummated on the page; The Hundred-Year Watch, What the Old Wood Keeps and The Shape Before the Storm are sensual and closed-door — the wanting and the consequences are on the page, the act is not; the three Hati Cycle novellas, The Vessel’s Watch, The Vessel and the Dark and The Intake Record, keep their sexual content behind a closed door; Downwind handles its sexual content off the page; all six free Leverage & Lust short stories — Conviction & Collateral, Circuit Breaker, Fair Value, Short Interest, Finder’s Fee and Terminal Value — are closed-door too, in her words “the companion stories close the door, the novels do not”; so are all eight free Wardens of the Wild short stories — Thirty-One Degrees Below, What the Glacier Keeps, The Warmest Thing in the Room, Thirty-One Names, The Night Survey, Every Hollow Has a Name for It, What the Mountain Keeps and Brannoch in the Burning Season — which say at the front that “the free companions close the door: the wanting and the consequences are on the page, the act is not”; and so is the free Blood Ledger short story, The Forty-Third Floor After Hours, where “the wanting, the decision and the cost are on the page, and the acts are not”. Heat level is listed on every book at /books, and the content-warnings page has per-series detail. Check before you start.

No — they are two separate worlds by the same author. Hunted Mate is paranormal monster romance; Leverage & Lust is contemporary dark romance set in London’s crypto and hedge-fund scene. “Lara Voss” is the heroine of Leverage & Lust, not a separate pen name.

Yes. Confessions of a Hedge Fund Mistress (Leverage & Lust, Book 2) centers a forbidden sapphic (F/F) mentor romance. The wider Leverage & Lust series includes both F/F and M/F relationships.

All titles are on Amazon — find them through the Amazon Author Central page at amazon.com/author/ravenvoss. If you would rather try before you buy, the newsletter-exclusive novelette “Room Tone” is free when you join the mailing list.