B. B. Hamel Books in Order (Updated April 14, 2026)

B. B. Hamel has a very large backlist, but her current official branding centers on dark romance, mafia romance, and crime-family series rather than one giant connected universe. The most useful way to read her is not by forcing every title into a master timeline. It is by choosing a series lane, then reading that lane straight through.

This guide focuses on the current dark-romance/crime-family catalog and latest standalone mafia titles, because that is the clearest, most verifiable part of Hamel’s bibliography for new readers. Her earlier contemporary, daddy-romance, baby-daddy, college, and small-town backlist is substantial enough to deserve its own separate page.

First, pick your lane

1. If you want the best-known recent mafia entry point, start with Marriage of Sin.
2. If you want a clean four-book family arc, start with Twisted Wedding or Velvet Kingdom.
3. If you want the newest active sequence, start with Arranged Obsession and continue into the Whelan Irish Crime Family books.
4. If you only want the latest single-book release, that is Arranged Scars.

The most practical way to read B. B. Hamel

Hamel’s official reading-order page says her series can be read independently, and that is the key rule here. You do not need to read Crowley before Rossi, or Rossi before Whelan. What matters is staying in order inside each family or organization sequence.

So instead of one rigid master order, use this article like a shelf map:

• pick a family or organization
• read the books in number order
• then move to another series if you want more in the same style

Crowley Mafia Family

A strong modern starting point if you want fake marriage, family pressure, and a compact four-book run.

1. Marriage of Sin (2023): The series opener throws you into Hamel’s modern mafia mode with a forced marriage setup and the kind of dangerous-romantic tension that defines the family books that follow.
2. Malicious Wedding (2023): The second book keeps the marriage-and-obsession framework but shifts the emotional pressure onto a fresh pairing inside the same crime-family world.
3. Damaged Vows (2023): This entry leans into business conflict and possession, giving the series a sharper power-and-control edge.
4. Reckless Bride (2023): The finale closes the Crowley run with a marriage built around revenge and family fallout, making it the cleanest payoff to the four-book arc.

Costa Crime Family

A direct four-book mafia sequence that works especially well if you like wedding, betrayal, and arranged-marriage pressure points.

1. Twisted Wedding (2023): The opening book sets up the Costa family through a wedding-centered conflict that immediately signals this series’ taste for possessive, high-stakes romance.
2. Wedding Disaster (2023): The second book keeps the marriage theme but turns the emotional pressure messier and more explosive.
3. Hateful Promise (2023): This installment sharpens the hostility-to-attachment dynamic and pushes the family’s internal tensions further forward.
4. Dearly Betrayed (2024): The fourth book brings betrayal fully to the front and serves as the hardest-edged finish to the Costa set.

Rossi Crime Family

One of the clearest “read all four in order” crime-family runs in the catalog.

1. Velvet Kingdom (2024): The opener establishes the Rossi family through a polished but dangerous mafia romance setup built on status, control, and attraction.
2. Iron Rings (2024): The second book tightens the family grip and turns commitment into a more threatening kind of trap.
3. Steel Promise (2024): This entry keeps the Rossi sequence moving through another volatile pairing where impulsive choices quickly become permanent.
4. Satin Empire (2024): The final book completes the Rossi line with another marriage-driven mafia romance that feels like a proper culmination rather than a side detour.

The Atlas Organization

This is one of Hamel’s longer modern dark-romance sequences, built around an organization rather than one named family.

1. Beautiful Corruption (2023): The first book opens the Atlas lane by introducing a more networked criminal world and a romance built around damage, temptation, and leverage.
2. Ruined with a Promise (2023): The second book deepens the organization’s influence while turning promises into the main emotional trap.
3. Beast in My Bedroom (2023): This entry pushes the series further into enclosed, intimate danger, with the relationship tension doing as much work as the crime backdrop.
4. Diamond Heart (2023): The fourth book uses rescue, control, and emotional dependence to keep the Atlas momentum building.
5. Crown of Bliss (2023): This installment acts like a late-series consolidation point, drawing on the emotional logic of the earlier books rather than restarting the formula.
6. Lovely Beast (2024): The sixth book continues the same dark-romance lane with another beauty-and-danger pairing at the center.
7. Twisted with a Kiss (2024): The final book closes the Atlas sequence and is best saved for last because the series gains weight by accumulation.

Bianco Crime Family

A compact four-book sequence for readers who want newer mafia romance without committing to one of the longest runs.

1. Cruel Tyrant (2024): The opener establishes the Bianco family through a ruthless-hero setup that makes domination and obligation the series’ first major pressure point.
2. Stolen Sin (2024): The second book shifts the emphasis toward theft, temptation, and consequences that feel both personal and family-wide.
3. Brutal Power (2024): This entry makes raw control the center of the romance and gives the series one of its clearest arranged-marriage style escalations.
4. Caged Bliss (2024): The finale closes the Bianco arc by pairing confinement and emotional payoff in exactly the way the title suggests.

The Alliance

A short three-book lane that is easy to sample if you do not want a long commitment.

1. Twilight Mask (2024): The first book begins with masked, enemies-to-lovers tension and sets the series in a sleek, stylized mafia-romance mode.
2. Midnight Beast (2024): The second book turns the threat level up and keeps the focus on dangerous attraction inside the same dark world.
3. Sunrise Malice (2024): The trilogy closes by carrying that same seductive-malicious tone into a final emotional showdown.

Zeitsev Bratva

A three-book bratva run from the newer phase of Hamel’s catalog.

1. Under Control (2024): The opener starts with an arranged-marriage style setup and places the Zeitsev world firmly in the scarred, dangerous-bratva lane.
2. Claimed by Desire (2025): The second book intensifies the series by making possession and longing inseparable.
3. Bound to a Monster (2025): The final book leans hard into the monster-romance framing and gives the trilogy its most openly dangerous emotional profile.

The Brotherhood

A three-book 2025 mafia line built as standalone-style entries inside one series frame.

1. Midnight Wedding (2025): The opener launches the Brotherhood books with a marriage-centered mafia romance that works as both entry point and tone statement.
2. Beautiful Scar (2025): The second book adds arranged-marriage pressure and emotional damage to the same dark-romance foundation.
3. Bitter Arrangement (2025): The third book completes the Brotherhood sequence by making compromise, resentment, and attraction collide.

Marino Crime Family

A newer three-book run for readers who want 2025-era Hamel without starting all the way back in 2023.

1. Vicious Heir (2025): The first Marino book introduces the family through its heir, giving the series a strong dynasty-and-obligation opening.
2. Shattered King (2025): The second book raises the emotional and political pressure by linking marriage, alliance, and broken trust.
3. Ruthless Lord (2025): The third book closes the currently listed Marino sequence with another rescue-and-possession style mafia romance.

Whelan Irish Crime Family

This is the newest active named family sequence and the best place to start if you want the latest B. B. Hamel era.

1. Arranged Obsession (2025): The opener begins with a stalker-and-arranged-marriage hook that makes this one of Hamel’s most immediately high-concept recent starts.
2. Arranged Control (2025): The second book keeps the arranged-marriage framework but shifts into a colder, more coercive family dynamic.
3. Arranged Addiction (2025): This installment intensifies attachment, dependence, and compulsion, pushing the Whelan line deeper into obsession.
4. Arranged Scars (2026): The current endpoint of the Whelan series closes the four-book run with another arranged-marriage conflict shaped by damage and power.

Other recent mafia titles

Valentino Crime Family

An earlier five-book mafia sequence that still fits well for readers who want more family-based dark romance after the newer runs.

1. The Killer’s New Wife (2021): The opener establishes the Valentino family through marriage, danger, and immediate criminal-romantic entanglement.
2. Falling for the Killer (2021): The second book deepens the family line by turning fear and attraction into the central conflict.
3. Possessed by the Killer (2021): This entry leans harder into obsession and control while staying inside the same family framework.
4. The Killer’s New Obsession (2021): The fourth book makes the possessive element explicit and keeps the sequence tightly on brand.
5. The Killer’s Fake Bride (2021): The finale combines fake-marriage energy with the series’ established killer-romance tone to close the Valentino set cleanly.

The Oligarchs

A four-book dark-romance lane that sits between the earlier and newer mafia-family phases.

1. Perfect Monster (2021): The opener introduces a darker, wealth-and-power-driven setup where danger is part of the attraction from the start.
2. Beautiful Trouble (2021): The second book keeps that same high-control atmosphere while shifting to a new couple.
3. Pretty Sinner (2021): This entry continues the sequence through another morally compromised romance built on risk and pull.
4. Vicious Proposal (2022): The fourth book finishes the series by tying proposal, coercion, and desire into one last escalation.

Corsetti Mafia

A current one-book branch rather than a full sequence so far.

Satin Hate (2026): This standalone mafia forced-marriage romance is one of Hamel’s latest releases and works as a fresh entry if you want the newest material without starting a series.

Dragons

Also a one-book branch at the moment.

Cruel Surprise (2026): This dark mafia arranged-marriage romance currently stands alone and reads more like a fresh lane-opening title than a continuation readers must prepare for.

Where this leaves the older backlist

B. B. Hamel also has a much larger earlier catalog that includes series such as City/City’s Secrets, Barone Crime Family, Demons MC, Dark Daddies, Hate Love, Rock Hard, Miracle Baby, Pine Grove, My Baby Daddy, Baby Daddy University, Lofthouse Family, Cold Passion, Morozov Bratva, and many more. Those books are real parts of the bibliography, but they belong to a broader earlier phase and are better handled in a separate full-backlist article than folded awkwardly into the current mafia-first reading map.

Best starting points, depending on what you want

1. Start with Marriage of Sin if you want the most recognizable modern B. B. Hamel entry point.
2. Start with Twisted Wedding if you want a neat four-book family arc.
3. Start with Arranged Obsession if you want the newest ongoing-era feel.
4. Start with Satin Hate if you want the latest single-book release without any backlog.

Final recommendation

B. B. Hamel is easiest to read by series cluster, not by total publication order. Pick one family, organization, or bratva line, read those books in order, and then jump to another sequence that matches your mood. For most readers, Crowley Mafia Family, Costa Crime Family, Rossi Crime Family, or Whelan Irish Crime Family are the best places to begin.