Crowns of Nyaxia Reading Order: Every Book, Novella & What’s Next (2026)
Crowns of Nyaxia reading order looks simple until you hit the two books with no number on the spine. Carissa Broadbent’s vampire romantasy is built as three linked duets, Nightborn, Shadowborn and Bloodborn, with a novella and a standalone novel tucked between them, and the fifth main book, The Lion and the Deathless Dark, arrived in August 2026. Below is the publisher’s recommended order, where Six Scorched Roses and Slaying the Vampire Conqueror fit, every book with a spoiler-free hook, the heat level, what we know about book six and hotter picks for after.
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Crowns of Nyaxia Reading Order: Where to Start
Start with The Serpent and the Wings of Night. Oraya is the human adopted daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, which in a world of predators makes her prey with a crown on. Her one chance at becoming more is the Kejari, a deadly tournament held in honor of the goddess of death where the only rule is kill or be killed. She is outmatched, so she makes an uneasy alliance with Raihn, her father’s sworn enemy and her toughest rival, and the line between hunter and prey stops holding. Our books like The Serpent and the Wings of Night list has the readalikes.
Each duet follows a new couple, so you could technically start the Shadowborn books without the Nightborn ones. Don’t. The world, the gods and the politics build across all of them, and the later books assume you know what happened in the Nightborn books.
The Recommended Crowns of Nyaxia Reading Order
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night (2022, Nightborn Duet 1): Oraya, Raihn and the Kejari.
- Six Scorched Roses (2023, novella): a desperate woman bargains with vampires for a cure, in a Beauty and the Beast-inspired story about Lilith and Vale. Set between the two Nightborn books.
- The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King (2023, Nightborn Duet 2): a grieving Oraya has to choose between seizing power and a love that could destroy her.
- Slaying the Vampire Conqueror (April 2023, standalone novel): Sylina, an assassin, infiltrates a vampire conqueror’s army to kill him and finds a connection she did not plan for. The publisher suggests reading it after book two.
- The Songbird and the Heart of Stone (2024, Shadowborn Duet 1): Mische, forcibly turned into a vampire, joins Asar on a quest to resurrect the god of death.
- The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk (August 5, 2025, Shadowborn Duet 2): Asar and Mische go after the power of the death god so Asar can ascend to divinity, through mortal and immortal realms, while the gods prepare for war.
- The Lion and the Deathless Dark (August 4, 2026, Bloodborn Duet 1): Kyrene, a bounty hunter who carries a sword blessed by the goddess of justice, commits a crime that puts mortals and gods on her trail. Her only way out is a deal with Septimus, a silver-tongued vampire prince and her enemy, who has one last job for her: kill the gods.
- Crowns of Nyaxia Book 6 (untitled, TBA, Bloodborn Duet 2): the final book of the main series.
The Duets Explained
Nightborn Duet (Oraya and Raihn): the tournament books. Enemies to allies to lovers, a human surviving among vampires and a father whose protection is its own kind of cage. This is the pair most readers fall for first.
Shadowborn Duet (Mische and Asar): a newly turned heroine and a damaged hero on a quest into the business of gods and the dead, with the mythology turned all the way up.
Bloodborn Duet (Kyrene and Septimus): the current duet. A vengeful human bounty hunter, a vampire prince with dangerous secrets, prophecies, curses and a plan to kill gods in a world where blood is the only currency. The second book will close the main series.
Where the Novella and the Standalone Fit
Neither is required, and both are better than “optional” makes them sound. Six Scorched Roses is short, self-contained and set between the two Nightborn books; read it there for the best context, or any time after book one. Slaying the Vampire Conqueror is a full standalone novel in the same world; the publisher places it after The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King, but it works at almost any point. If you want the tightest possible run, read the six main books and come back to these two afterward.
Publication order and the recommended order differ in only one spot: Slaying the Vampire Conqueror came out in April 2023, before The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King, but it is a separate couple in a separate corner of the world, so nothing is lost by moving it later. If you are reading on Kindle and want to skip the guesswork, the cleanest path is Serpent, Roses, Ashes, Conqueror, Songbird, Fallen, Lion.
One more practical note: the duets end on real cliffhangers at the halfway point, not at the end. The first book of each pair leaves the couple in a bad place on purpose, so if you are buying as you go, pick up both books of a duet together. Readers who finish the Nightborn books and want another long, bloody romantasy series with the same protector-or-predator tension should look at our Blood and Ash reading order next.
How Spicy Is Crowns of Nyaxia?
Moderate, and slow to start. Broadbent writes long slow burns with open-door payoffs, a handful of explicit scenes per book rather than a scene every few chapters, around 🌶️🌶️🌶️. Biting, blood and the push-pull of predator and prey carry a lot of the tension. The violence is heavier than the sex: tournament deaths, war and some brutal set pieces. Our romance spice levels guide explains the scale.
All Crowns of Nyaxia Books in Publication Order
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night (2022)
- Six Scorched Roses (2023)
- Slaying the Vampire Conqueror (2023)
- The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King (2023)
- The Songbird and the Heart of Stone (2024)
- The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk (2025)
- The Lion and the Deathless Dark (2026)
- Book 6 (TBA)
Broadbent’s earlier series, The War of Lost Hearts (Daughter of No Worlds, Children of Fallen Gods, Mother of Death and Dawn, plus the novella Ashen Son), is a separate world and finished. Read it if you want more of her once Nyaxia is done.
What’s Next: Book Six and Adaptation News
The Lion and the Deathless Dark came out in hardcover on August 4, 2026, with the trade paperback listed for February 23, 2027. The second Bloodborn book, and the sixth and final main Crowns of Nyaxia novel, had no title or release date as of late September 2026; the author lists it as TBA and the publisher says it has yet to be announced. Some databases pencil it in for 2027, which fits the series’ roughly yearly rhythm but is not confirmed. We could find no announced film or TV adaptation as of October 2026.
See The Lion and the Deathless Dark on Amazon →
Read Next: Hotter Picks From Fractal Enigma
Nyaxia readers come for the vampires who negotiate, the gothic houses with old rules and the pairing of a predator with the one person who is not afraid of them. These Fractal Enigma reads keep the atmosphere and remove the slow-burn ceiling.
A Taste for the Widow — Maeve Hollow
Estate attorney Mara Ellison drives up the coast to inventory a dead woman’s house and sell it before the cliff takes it. One afternoon. Then she reads the 1849 codicil and finds she has inherited thirteen nights with an immortal widow, in a house that wants a bride. Vampire romance with written terms and a predator who waits to be asked, for readers who loved the bargains of Six Scorched Roses.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Vampire Romance, Gothic, Haunted House, Forced Proximity, Immortal x Mortal Age Gap, Ice Queen, Power Exchange, Written Terms
Start reading A Taste for the Widow →
The Assassin’s Alibi — Rafe Calder
Mob lawyer Ezra Shaw picks up a silent stranger in a hotel bar under strict rules, starting with no names. The stranger is a hitman, and by morning someone has framed them both. Slaying the Vampire Conqueror’s assassin-falls-for-the-target engine as a dark MM romance: enemies to lovers, only one bed and two morally grey men who have to trust each other to survive.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Hitman x Mob Lawyer, One-Night Stand to Lovers, Framed Together, Forced Proximity, Only One Bed, Enemies to Lovers, Morally Grey Heroes
Start reading The Assassin’s Alibi →
The Witch in the West Wing — Maeve Hollow
Conservator Elspeth Ward believes old books are only dangerous when they are moldy or misfiled. Then the west wing of Ravenscroft Library opens and she finds a witch imprisoned there. Seven wards hold her. Seven surrenders will set her free. Magic with a price and an immortal who has been waiting a very long time, for readers who want the gods-and-bargains side of Nyaxia with the door open.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Immortal Witch x Mortal Skeptic, Gothic, Haunted Library, Dark Academia, Touch Starved, Power Exchange, Magic with a Price
Start reading The Witch in the West Wing →
The Moonlit Bride — Maeve Hollow
Wedding planner Rowan Ellis has handled runaway grooms and a bride who set her own veil on fire. She has never been hired to finish a ceremony abandoned in 1815, with a cursed bride, a fake engagement, one bed and a contract written on her skin. A gothic paranormal romance where the house can tell when a kiss stops being pretend.
Heat: Inferno 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: Cursed Bride, Fake Engagement, Only One Bed, Touch-Starved Immortal, Immortal x Mortal, Haunted Manor, Gothic
Start reading The Moonlit Bride →
FAQ: Crowns of Nyaxia Reading Order
Do you need to read Crowns of Nyaxia in order?
Yes for the main books. Each duet has its own couple, but the world, the gods and the stakes build across all six, and later duets spoil earlier ones. Six Scorched Roses and Slaying the Vampire Conqueror are flexible.
Which Crowns of Nyaxia book should I read first?
The Serpent and the Wings of Night, then Six Scorched Roses if you want the novella in its intended spot.
How spicy is Crowns of Nyaxia?
Open door but measured, around 🌶️🌶️🌶️, with long slow burns and a few explicit scenes per book. Every Fractal Enigma pick above is Inferno.
When does book six come out, and is there a TV adaptation?
Book six, the end of the Bloodborn Duet, has no title or date yet. No adaptation has been announced as of October 2026.
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