Brea Alepoú Books in Order (Updated: April 14, 2026)

Brea Alepoú’s catalog is easiest to read in clusters. One cluster is contemporary dark MM romance, especially the mafia books around the Vitale orbit. Another is paranormal romance, where the Blood books, the fantasy-heavy king books, and the mate books sit on separate shelves. There are also a few co-written series and standalones that connect loosely by tone more than by strict continuity.

The most useful rule is not “read everything by publication date.” It is this: read each series in its own order, and pay attention when a book sits near the Vitale world, because that is where the cross-series overlap is strongest.

The shelf most readers will want first: Vitale Brothers

This is Brea Alepoú’s best-known series and the easiest entry point into her current readership base.

1. Take Me Apart (2022): The series opener, setting up the Vitale world through obsession, criminal-family pressure, and a strong detective-versus-mafia collision.
2. Paid in Full (2023): The second book widens the family angle and keeps the series anchored in debt, loyalty, and fallout.
3. Say I Do (2023): A social-clash and mob-world romance that pushes the series into a more public, high-heat kind of conflict.
4. Never Say Never (2024): An undercover-centered entry that leans harder into deception, divided loyalties, and the cost of getting too close.
5. End It All (2025): A later-series installment that reads like the line tightening around escape, survival, and impossible choices.
6. Always the Villain (2026): The current endpoint of the series, shifting attention to Cesare Vitale and giving the line a larger-than-life late-series focus.

The shared-world neighbors

These books matter because Brea Alepoú’s official reading-order page places them near the Vitale shelf, even while saying it is not strictly necessary to read the books that way.

The Hitters MC

This is co-written with Skyler Snow and sits close to the Vitale world in the official reading-order flow.

1. Bad Habits (2024): The opener, built around the right-hand man to Benito Vitale and the biker-club edge of the larger criminal world.
2. No Good (2024): The second book continues that linked underworld lane through fame, secrets, and MC-club pressure.

Marino Family

This looks like a newer adjacent shelf rather than a long established backlist series.

Blood & Lace (2025): The first Marino Family book, presented as a hitman-and-marriage-style mafia story that fits naturally beside the darker contemporary shelves.

Standalone near this world

Savage (2022): A complete standalone written for a multi-author daddy-romance world, best read as its own dark romance rather than as a required Vitale book.

The fantasy-and-power shelf: Our King, Our Master

This is one of the clearest Brea Alepoú fantasy series, with a royal and magical structure rather than a mafia one.

1. A King to Be Claimed (2019): The opener, introducing the series’ power struggle through a claiming-focused fantasy-romance frame.
2. A King to Be Protected (2019): The second book keeps the same world moving, shifting from possession toward safety, threat, and what rulership costs.
3. A King to Be Feared (2021): A darker continuation that turns power into something more openly dangerous.
4. A King to Be Crowned (2022): The succession and authority side of the series moves to the front here, making this feel like a major turning-point volume.
5. A King to Be Loved (2022): A later entry that balances rule and intimacy, keeping the emotional side of the fantasy monarchy in play.
6. A King to Be Worshiped (2023): Fantastic Fiction lists this as the sixth book, extending the series beyond the five-book Goodreads core.

The completed paranormal shelf: Blood

This is the most clearly built paranormal sequence on Brea Alepoú’s official books page, and it has both main novels and short extras.

1. More Than Blood (2018): The true starting point, opening the MMMMM paranormal romance series and establishing the blood-bound tone of the world.
2. Holiday Blood: A short seasonal extra best treated as bonus reading after book one, not as a starting point.
3. Spooky Blood (2019): Another short companion piece, this time functioning as a Halloween-side stop in the series.
4. Their Blood: The second main novel, continuing the shared paranormal world beyond the original relationship setup.
5. Addicted to His Blood: The third main book, pushing further into the magical and emotional dependence suggested by the series title.
6. Bloody Wishes (2021): A novella-length bridge placed as book 3.5 on Goodreads, useful between the later main novels.
7. Our Blood: The fourth main novel, carrying the series back into full-length story territory.
8. Trading in Blood: The fifth main book and the current end of the primary Blood run on Goodreads.

The lighter paranormal sub-shelves

Paranormal Delights

This is co-written with Wren Snow and currently works as a short duo.

1. Mafia Prince (2021): The opener, mixing mafia flavor with paranormal-romance energy in a way that separates it from the pure contemporary crime books.
2. Dragon Boss (2022): The second book keeps the same hybrid paranormal-and-power dynamic going, with a more overt supernatural boss figure.

Unexpected Mates

This is the mpreg/mates shelf, and it is one of the tidiest completed Brea Alepoú series on Goodreads.

1. His Bewildered Mate (2019): The opener, starting the mates line with the series’ central “unlikely pair” premise.
2. His Royal Mate (2020): The second book adds a royal angle while staying inside the same fated-mate framework.
3. His Apprehensive Mate (2020): A continuation that plays on hesitation and uncertainty without changing the overall series model.
4. His Runaway Mate: The fourth entry, keeping the mates theme intact while shifting the conflict toward escape and pursuit.
5. His Stolen Mate: A later-series installment that turns the pairing dynamic toward abduction and recovery.
6. His Reluctant Mate: The sixth book and the current endpoint of the main series listing on Goodreads.

Single-book fantasy shelves

These are easiest to read as one-offs unless future books expand them.

1. Finding Mr. Claus (2019): A one-book Enchanted Legends H.E.A title that uses holiday fantasy-romance rather than linking into the darker core shelves.
2. Beast Caller (2019): The opening and currently only listed Witch Queen book, best treated as a separate fantasy standalone with series potential.

Other current standalone titles on the official books page

These appear on Brea Alepoú’s books page without a clearly confirmed wider series order from the sources I checked, so the safest treatment is to list them separately.

1. Boyfriends Maybe: A standalone MM title on the official books page, best treated as separate unless a later series map places it more firmly.
2. Beg For Death: Another standalone-appearing MM title on the official books page, again safest to treat on its own for now.
3. Deck the Halls with Blood and Desire: A holiday MMM+ title that the official books page tags to the Vitale Brothers and The Hitters MC space, so it works best after you know at least one of those shelves.

The practical reading routes

1. If you want Brea Alepoú at her most visible, start with Vitale Brothers and read straight through all six books.
2. If you want the fantasy side, read Our King, Our Master in order.
3. If you want paranormal first, choose Blood for the deeper series or Unexpected Mates for the more compact and cleaner completed shelf.
4. If you want to follow the shared criminal-world lane most closely, read Savage, then Vitale Brothers, then The Hitters MC, then The Marino Family.

Publication order or series order?

For this author, series order matters more than whole-catalog publication order.

That is especially true because Brea Alepoú’s official reading-order page gives a suggested path across connected books but also explicitly says it is not necessary to read everything that way. In practice, that means you should only use the cross-series order when you want the extra shared-world texture. Most readers will be better served by staying inside one shelf at a time.

Latest release status

The newest clearly confirmed Brea Alepoú title I found is Always the Villain (2026), which currently stands as Vitale Brothers #6.

One caution: the official books page also shows Meet Up as The Hitters MC book 3, but I did not find a stable Goodreads or Amazon release listing strong enough to treat it as released, so I would consider that one pending or at least not yet fully confirmed in public catalog pages.

FAQ

What should I read first by Brea Alepoú?

Start with Take Me Apart if you want the book most likely to orient you quickly to her current dark-romance style.

Is Vitale Brothers the main Brea Alepoú series?

Yes. It is the clearest flagship shelf and the one most strongly reinforced across Goodreads, Amazon, and the official site.

Do I need to read the connected Skyler Snow books first?

No. The official reading-order page frames that path as optional rather than mandatory.

What is the best paranormal starting point?

Start with More Than Blood if you want the larger paranormal shelf, or His Bewildered Mate if you want a simpler completed mates series.

Is Brea Alepoú writing across different subgenres?

Yes. The official site separates contemporary romance, paranormal romance, mpreg romance, and standalones, which is why a shelf-by-shelf order works better than one giant list.