Carissa Broadbent Books in Order
The indie-to-traditional success story who proved dark vampire romantasy could compete with the biggest names in the genre — and then exceed them.
About Carissa Broadbent
Carissa Broadbent is one of the great success stories of the indie-to-traditional pipeline, and The Serpent and the Wings of Night is proof that the romance between author and reader can bypass every conventional gate. She published the novel independently in 2022, and it spread through BookTok with the kind of organic velocity that no marketing budget can manufacture. Tor Books came calling, and the traditionally published edition introduced the Crowns of Nyaxia world to readers who might have otherwise missed it. What Broadbent does exceptionally well is atmosphere: the world of Nyaxia is dark in a way that feels earned rather than decorative, the vampire politics have genuine texture, and the tournament at the heart of the first book creates a pressure-cooker environment that makes every quiet scene between Oraya and Raihn electric with what isn't being said. Her prose is more literary than the average romantasy — she writes from the body, from the wound — and the emotional devastation she delivers is the kind that takes days to shake.
Carissa Broadbent Books in Order
- 1
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Crowns of Nyaxia, Book 1
A human girl competes in a deadly vampire tournament where survival means allying with the most feared contestant alive — dark, propulsive, and devastating in the best possible way.
- 2
The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King
Crowns of Nyaxia, Book 2
The sequel delivers on every promise made in Book 1 — the romance reaches its apex, the stakes become existential, and Broadbent proves she can write an ending that earns its heartbreak.
- 3
The Songbird and the Heart of Stone
Crowns of Nyaxia, Book 3
A new couple, a different corner of the Nyaxia world — an assassin and the god she was sent to kill navigate an impossible attraction through a world on the brink of war.
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Fourth Wing shares Broadbent's tournament-survival setup, enemies-to-lovers core, and willingness to genuinely endanger everyone the reader loves — start here if you haven't.
From Blood and Ash delivers the same forbidden-romance intensity and mythology-soaked world-building as the Crowns of Nyaxia series, with JLA's signature addictive pace.
ACOTAR is the natural step up from Broadbent — same dark fae energy, same enemies-to-lovers slow burn, with Maas's trademark found-family depth layered in.
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