With Somme Sketcher, the first thing to know is that there are really two reading lanes.
One is the earlier East Coast Devils trilogy. The other is Sinners Anonymous, which is the author’s better-known and currently foregrounded series. If you only want the books most central to Somme Sketcher’s present catalog, start with Sinners Anonymous. If you want the full bibliography in publication order, read East Coast Devils first and then move into Sinners Anonymous.
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That distinction matters because the official site currently spotlights Sinners Anonymous and its later entries, while broader catalog sources still preserve the earlier East Coast Devils trilogy as part of the backlist. The safest reading recommendation is to keep each series in its own order and not try to force a single shared-universe chronology across both.
First choose your lane
If you want the series Somme Sketcher is best known for
Start with Sinners Anonymous.
If you want everything in publication order
Start with The Devil’s Keepsake and read forward.
The complete Somme Sketcher order
East Coast Devils
- The Devil’s Keepsake (2021): An early dark-romance opener that begins the East Coast Devils line with a dangerous, morally bruised setup and a more compact trilogy feel than the later books.
- The Devil’s Deal (2021): The second book continues that darker criminal-romance tone, building on the first book’s power imbalance and escalating emotional damage.
- The Devil’s Obsession (2021): The final East Coast Devils novel closes the trilogy with another possession-driven pairing and works best once the first two books are already behind you.
This is the cleaner place to start if you want Somme Sketcher’s full bibliography from the beginning. It is short, self-contained, and easy to finish before moving to the larger series.
Sinners Anonymous
- Sinners Anonymous (2021): The true gateway book for most readers, introducing Rory Carter, Angelo Visconti, and the confessional hook that gives the series its identity.
- Sinners Condemned (2022): A sharper, more openly chaotic follow-up that widens the family world and shifts the focus to a new central couple without abandoning series continuity.
- Sinners Consumed (2022): The direct continuation of the previous book’s pairing, turning that story into a duet and raising the personal stakes rather than resetting them.
- Sinners Atone (2025): Gabe and Wren’s story begins here as the first half of a duet, moving the series into a later phase with a softer light-against-darkness setup over a still-dangerous foundation.
- Sinners Absolve (listed as Book 5): The second half of Gabe and Wren’s duet, positioned as the continuation and resolution of Sinners Atone rather than a standalone jump-in point.
For most readers, this is the better Somme Sketcher entry path. It is the series most closely tied to the author’s current branding, and it is the one most readers mean when they talk about her books.
The recommended reading order for new readers
Not every author needs a complicated article-wide “best order.” Somme Sketcher really only needs two practical recommendations.
Best order for most readers
- Sinners Anonymous
- Sinners Condemned
- Sinners Consumed
- Sinners Atone
- Sinners Absolve
Choose this route if you want the books the author is most associated with now.
Best order for completionists
- The Devil’s Keepsake
- The Devil’s Deal
- The Devil’s Obsession
- Sinners Anonymous
- Sinners Condemned
- Sinners Consumed
- Sinners Atone
- Sinners Absolve
Choose this route if you want the full published path from the earlier trilogy into the later, more prominent series.
What order matters most
For Somme Sketcher, the key continuity rule is simple.
Read Sinners Condemned and Sinners Consumed together and in order. Read Sinners Atone and Sinners Absolve together and in order. Those are not the books to shuffle around based on trope preference, because both pairings are presented as two-part arcs.
That is why publication order is the safest recommendation even if some individual book descriptions make the series look couple-focused.
Where to begin if you only want one book
If you only want one starting point, make it Sinners Anonymous.
It is the strongest default entry because it opens the better-known series, matches the author’s current public-facing catalog emphasis, and gives you the clearest sense of Somme Sketcher’s slow-burn dark-mafia style before the duets and later books build outward.
What is actually current
This is the one place where the catalog needs a careful footnote.
The official site clearly confirms Sinners Atone as released on October 17, 2025 and says Gabe and Wren’s story continues in Sinners Absolve. The official books page also lists Sinners Absolve as Book 5, but the same page still says the blurb and release date are to be confirmed. Other catalog sources list Sinners Absolve as an existing fifth entry, and publishing metadata also points to a 2026 release window. Because those signals do not line up perfectly in one place, the safest wording is this: Sinners Absolve is the latest confirmed series entry, but its public release details are surfaced inconsistently across sources.
Bottom line
Somme Sketcher does not need a sprawling universe map.
She needs a clean split between the earlier trilogy and the flagship series. Start with Sinners Anonymous if you want the modern, reader-standard entry point. Start with The Devil’s Keepsake only if you want to read the whole bibliography from the beginning. Either way, stay in publication order once you pick a lane.
Frank is the editor of BookSeries.blog, focusing on publication order, chronological timelines, and spoiler-free reading guides for book series and fictional universes.

