Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Innocence | 2015 | Stasia Black | Buy |
| 2 | Awakening | 2019 | Stasia Black | Buy |
| 3 | Queen of the Underworld | 2019 | Stasia Black | Buy |
Stasia Black’s Dark Mafia Romance series was among her earliest work, starting with Innocence in 2015. The series takes the popular mafia romance premise and gives it Black’s darker treatment, with three books that follow characters navigating the power structures and violence of organized crime.
The gap between the first book and the later installments, Awakening and Queen of the Underworld (both 2019), allowed Black to return to the series with more experience and a clearer sense of her style. The result is a trilogy that charts a character’s transformation from outsider to someone who claims power within the criminal world.