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Brutal Birthright

by Sophie Lark

The Brutal Birthright series by Sophie Lark has 6 known books (6 published). It is best read in publication order, starting with Brutal Prince (2020).

Books
6 known books (6 novels)
Published
6
First published
2020
Status
completed
Shelved under
Romance
Start here: Brutal Prince (2020) — then read straight through in publication order.
Book one
Cover of Brutal Prince
Brutal Prince (2020)

Reading order

The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.

  1. Brutal Prince

    Novel
    Brutal Prince is the opening book in the Brutal Birthright series by Sophie Lark, first published in 2020. The book is 304 pages long. Stolen Heir comes next in the series. Brutal Birthright ran to 6 books, concluding in 2021.
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  2. Stolen Heir

    Novel
    Stolen Heir is Brutal Birthright's second entry, written by Sophie Lark and published in 2020. It sits between Brutal Prince and Savage Lover in the series' reading order.
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  3. Savage Lover

    Novel
    Savage Lover is Brutal Birthright's third entry, written by Sophie Lark and published in 2020. The book is 370 pages long. It sits between Stolen Heir and Bloody Heart in the series' reading order.
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  4. Bloody Heart

    Novel
    Bloody Heart is Brutal Birthright's fourth entry, written by Sophie Lark and published in 2020. It sits between Savage Lover and Broken Vow in the series' reading order.
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  5. Broken Vow

    Novel
    Broken Vow is the fifth book in Sophie Lark's Brutal Birthright series, published in 2020. In the reading order it follows Bloody Heart and precedes Heavy Crown.
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  6. Heavy Crown

    Novel
    Heavy Crown is the sixth installment of the Brutal Birthright series by Sophie Lark, published in 2021. Following Broken Vow, it is the newest addition to the series so far.
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Key facts about the Brutal Birthright series

Our list has 6 books in the Brutal Birthright series. Since all 6 are out now, you can read the whole list today.

Start with Brutal Prince, since it opens the publication order in 2020. Stolen Heir is book 2, from 2020. Savage Lover is book 3, from 2020.

Bloody Heart is book 4, from 2020. Broken Vow is book 5, from 2020. Heavy Crown is book 6, from 2021.

The list keeps the books in date order, while each title links to its own page. Each book page shows its dates and editions. Since the catalogue marks the series as complete, we list no next book.

The books came out between 2020 and 2021, while their length runs from 261 to 374 pages. That is a run of 1 year.

Sophie Lark has 21 books on our list. Additionally, they write Underworld, Kingmakers and Sinners Duet, plus 1 more series. We shelve the books under romance.

About the Brutal Birthright series

Brutal Birthright is Sophie Lark's mafia-romance series about the Griffin and Gallo families, Irish and Italian crime dynasties who have fought for control of Chicago's underworld for generations. Each of the six books follows a different sibling from one family into a dangerous, forbidden entanglement with someone from the other side -- or, by the later books, with a third power entering the city's underworld. It opens with Brutal Prince, in which Gallo daughter Aida accidentally starts a fire at a Griffin family party, and the fallout forces her into an arranged marriage with Callum Griffin, the cold, ambitious Griffin heir, to prevent all-out war between the families. Stolen Heir turns to Callum's gentler sister Nessa, and Broken Vow to their iron-willed sister Riona, while Heavy Crown brings in Yelena Yenina, daughter of Chicago's most vicious Bratva boss, expanding the war into a three-family conflict.

Published in 2020 and 2021, the series is dark, high-heat mafia romance built on enemies-to-lovers and arranged-marriage tropes, with a genuinely serialized underworld plot -- the Griffin-Gallo war, and later the Bratva's arrival -- running underneath each couple's individual story and paying off by the final book. Brutal Birthright is also the direct parent generation to Lark's Kingmakers series: several Kingmakers Academy students are the children of Brutal Birthright's leads, though Kingmakers is written to be read on its own. Readers who want Lark's mafia-romance voice at its most classic -- family war, forced proximity, morally gray heirs -- should start here, before or after Kingmakers.

Frequently asked questions

How many books are in the Brutal Birthright series?

Six: Brutal Prince, Stolen Heir, Savage Lover, Bloody Heart, Broken Vow, and Heavy Crown, published 2020-2021.

What order should I read Brutal Birthright in?

Publication order: Brutal Prince, Stolen Heir, Savage Lover, Bloody Heart, Broken Vow, Heavy Crown.

Is Brutal Birthright connected to Kingmakers?

Yes -- it's the parent generation. Several Kingmakers Academy students are the children of Brutal Birthright's couples, but each series is written to stand on its own; you don't need to read one to follow the other.

Should I read Brutal Birthright before Kingmakers?

Either order works. Reading Brutal Birthright first adds background on the parents' generation of the Griffin-Gallo mafia war, but Kingmakers doesn't assume you've read it.

Is Brutal Birthright a completed series?

Yes, all six books were published in 2020-2021 and the main Griffin-Gallo-Bratva conflict is resolved.

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