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Dark Olympus
The Dark Olympus series by Katee Robert has 11 known books (11 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Stone Heart (2023). The latest book with a fully recorded publication date is Shattered Gods.
- Books
- 11 known books (10 novels + 1 novella)
- Published
- 11
- First published
- 2021
- Status
- completed
- Shelved under
- Romance
- Last checked
Start here: Stone Heart (2023) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Stone Heart
Stone Heart is the optional prequel novella in Katee Robert's Dark Olympus series, pairing Medusa and Calypso in a self-contained arranged-marriage romance set before Neon Gods. Published in 2023 at 81 pages, it arrived after several main-series books but can be read anytime, including last, without losing anything.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Stone Heart - Book 2:
Neon Gods
Neon Gods opens Katee Robert's Dark Olympus series and kicked off the phenomenon, following Persephone's transformation from naive senator's daughter to Hades' co-ruler in a corrupt modern Olympus run by thirteen godly families. Published in 2021, it's the longest entry here at 384 pages, and set the template of explicit, kink-positive myth retelling every subsequent book follows.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Neon Gods - Book 3:
Electric Idol
Electric Idol is the second book in Katee Robert's Dark Olympus, continuing the series' pattern of self-contained arranged-marriage-meets-political-thriller romances set in the corrupt city-state of Olympus, where thirteen ruling families hide behind godly titles. It arrived in January 2022, following on from Neon Gods' cast of the Thirteen.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Electric Idol - Book 4:
Wicked Beauty
Wicked Beauty is the third installment of Dark Olympus, published in mid-2022. Like every entry in Katee Robert's series, it's a self-contained, explicit romance pairing a couple pulled from Greek myth against the backdrop of Olympus's blackmail-and-violence power games, with familiar faces from earlier books turning up in supporting roles.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Wicked Beauty - Book 5:
Radiant Sin
Radiant Sin is the fourth book in Dark Olympus, published in February 2023 and running 320 pages. As with the rest of Katee Robert's mythology-retelling series, it drops a new couple into the political intrigue of the Thirteen ruling families while widening the world of Olympus with new corners of the city.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Radiant Sin - Book 6:
Cruel Seduction
Cruel Seduction, the fifth Dark Olympus novel, appeared in August 2023 at 288 pages. It keeps to the series' formula of ultra-spicy, self-contained myth retellings, where forced proximity and marriages of convenience test loyalty against a city-state that runs on blackmail.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Cruel Seduction - Book 7:
Midnight Ruin
Midnight Ruin is the sixth installment of Dark Olympus, arriving in January 2024. Katee Robert continues threading cameos from earlier pairs through the widening cast of the Thirteen, deepening the found-family thread that runs beneath each book's self-contained romance.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Midnight Ruin - Book 8:
Dark Restraint
Dark Restraint sits between Midnight Ruin and Sweet Obsession in Dark Olympus's publication order, arriving in August 2024. It's the seventh entry in Katee Robert's ongoing retelling of Greek myth as arranged-marriage political thriller, set among Olympus's thirteen ruling families.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Dark Restraint - Book 9:
Sweet Obsession
Sweet Obsession came out in April 2025 at 384 pages, the eighth book in Dark Olympus. It continues Katee Robert's run of explicit, self-contained couple-driven romances inside Olympus's corrupt, blackmail-fuelled power struggles.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Sweet Obsession - Book 10:
Tender Cruelty
Tender Cruelty sits between Sweet Obsession and Shattered Gods in Dark Olympus's publication order, arriving in December 2025 as the ninth entry. Like its predecessors, it pairs a new couple from Greek myth against the widening backdrop of the Thirteen's politics.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Tender Cruelty - Book 11:
Shattered Gods
Shattered Gods closes out Dark Olympus as its tenth and final novel, published in 2026. Katee Robert brings the saga of Olympus's thirteen ruling families to a close, with the found-family thread built from cameos across nine earlier books coming full circle.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Shattered Gods
About the Dark Olympus series
Dark Olympus drops the Greek pantheon into Olympus, a corrupt modern city-state run by thirteen ruling families who hide behind godly titles — Zeus, Hades, Aphrodite, Ares — while they carve up power, territory and each other. Each book pairs a named couple pulled straight from myth (Hades and Persephone, Eros and Psyche, Achilles and Patroclus, Hera and Zeus) and drops them into a self-contained arranged-marriage-meets-political-thriller plot: fake relationships that turn real, marriages of convenience that become genuine obsession, and loyalty tested against a city that runs on blackmail and violence. Katee Robert writes it ultra-spicy and unapologetically indulgent — explicit, kink-positive, and structured so that the couple's chemistry, not the city's politics, is always the point.
The appeal is the mythology-retelling hook combined with romance readers' favorite tropes: forced proximity, marriage of convenience, morally gray power players, and found family among the Thirteen. Persephone's transformation from naive senator's daughter to Hades' co-ruler in Neon Gods kicked off a phenomenon, and each subsequent book widens the world — new families, new corners of the city, new couples — while keeping cameos from earlier pairs so the found-family thread deepens as the series goes. It's for readers who want their smut with a real plot attached, and who like their gods petty, horny, and dangerous.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Dark Olympus series?
Ten full-length novels plus the prequel novella Stone Heart (eleven books total). The series concluded with Shattered Gods in June 2026.
What order should I read Dark Olympus in?
Publication/number order, starting with Neon Gods. The prequel novella Stone Heart (#0.5) is optional and can be read any time, including after finishing the main series.
Is the Dark Olympus series finished?
Yes. Katee Robert completed the series with book ten, Shattered Gods, released June 2, 2026, wrapping up Hermes, Atalanta and Circe's storyline.
Do I have to read every Dark Olympus book, or do they stand alone?
Each book is a complete romance built around one new couple, so you can pick up almost any entry cold. That said, characters from earlier books recur in supporting roles, so reading in order adds up to a richer found-family arc.
Which myths does each Dark Olympus book retell?
Neon Gods is Hades/Persephone, Electric Idol is Eros/Psyche, Wicked Beauty is a Helen/Achilles/Patroclus throuple, Radiant Sin is Apollo/Cassandra, and later books move through Ares, Poseidon, Hermes, Hera/Zeus and more of the Thirteen.
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