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Team Zero
The Team Zero series by Rina Kent has 5 known books (5 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Lured (2019). The latest book with a fully recorded publication date is Misted.
- Books
- 5 known books (5 novels)
- Published
- 5
- First published
- 2019
- Status
- completed
- Shelved under
- Romance
- Last checked
Start here: Lured (2019) — 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:
Lured
Lured carries ordinal 1 in the Team Zero series and a 2019 publication date, though its exact date of 20 May 2019 places it later in the year than several of its numbered successors.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Lured - Book 2:
Crowed
Crowed, numbered second, was actually published earliest of the five Team Zero books on 30 January 2019, at 198 pages, pairing off another of the Pit's morally ruinous trained assassins with the woman who refuses to be intimidated by him.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Crowed - Book 3:
Ghosted
Ghosted, ordinal 3, followed on 6 April 2019 at 336 pages -- more than 130 pages longer than Crowed before it -- continuing Rina Kent's dark-romance premise of the Pit's first generation of killers each getting paired off across a self-contained entry.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Ghosted - Book 4:
Shadowed
Shadowed, the fourth-numbered novel, came out 24 June 2019 at 340 pages, the longest book in the series, keeping Team Zero's shared world of morally compromised assassins intact even as each entry ends without a cliffhanger.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Shadowed - Book 5:
Misted
Misted closes out the series' internal numbering at position 5, published 24 July 2019 at 310 pages -- all five Team Zero books appeared within the same calendar year.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Misted
About the Team Zero series
Team Zero was Rina Kent's first published series, following five members of an elite, ethically compromised assassin unit -- the Pit's first generation of trained killers -- as each is paired off across a self-contained dark-romance/romantic-suspense entry. Lured opens the series with Dominic, a manipulative, sociopathic handler, and the analyst who becomes obsessed with him; Crowed, Ghosted, Shadowed, and Misted follow, each centering a different assassin (Crow, Ghost, Shadow, Hawk) and the woman who gets pulled into his orbit. All five run on the same premise: morally ruinous men doing morally ruinous work, softened only by the women who refuse to be intimidated by them, and all five end without a cliffhanger despite sharing a loose connective world.
Lured itself has an unusual publishing history -- it began as a free prequel novella called Charmed before Kent rewrote and expanded it into a full-length novel and renumbered it as Book 1. Team Zero also seeded the wider 'Rinaverse' that Kent's later work (The Rhodes, the Throne Duet) would loosely connect back to, making it a formative, if lower-profile, entry point into her catalogue for readers who want to see where her dark-romance sensibility started. Two further planned entries, Inked and Scarred, were announced but ultimately cancelled and never published, so the five books here represent the complete run.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Team Zero series?
Five: Lured, Crowed, Ghosted, Shadowed, and Misted, all published in 2019. Two further planned entries, Inked and Scarred, were announced but cancelled.
What order should I read Team Zero in?
The author's official series order: Lured, Crowed, Ghosted, Shadowed, Misted. Each book is a standalone romance with different leads, so any entry can work as a starting point.
Is Team Zero connected to Rina Kent's other series?
Loosely -- it's part of the wider 'Rinaverse' that later books like The Rhodes and the Throne Duet reference, though no prior reading is required to follow Team Zero on its own.
Was Team Zero Rina Kent's first series?
Yes -- it was her debut published series, predating the Royal Elite and Legacy of Gods books that made her a bestseller.
Is Team Zero complete?
The five published books form a complete run each with its own ending; two further planned entries (Inked and Scarred) were cancelled and never released.
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