Below is the complete list of Sadie Kincaid’s A Curse of Blood books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of A Curse of Blood Books
with L.J. Morrow
- Cursebound (2025)
(With L.J. Morrow)
Cursebound was published in 2025 and is listed as book #1 in the A Curse of Blood series. - Unbound (2026)
(With LJ Morrow)
Published in 2026, Unbound is listed as book #2 in the A Curse of Blood series.
About A Curse of Blood
Sadie Kincaid’s A Curse of Blood series, co-written with L.J. Morrow, is a dark paranormal romance built around vampires, hunters, ancient magic, and a bond that complicates everything the heroine believes about monsters. The series begins with Cursebound, introducing Rosa Capelli, a vampire hunter whose life is defined by violence, discipline, and a sharp refusal to romanticize the creatures she hunts. Kincaid is already known for emotionally intense romance with dangerous power structures, while Morrow’s presence helps shape this branch into a supernatural world where desire, blood, loyalty, and destiny are tightly entangled.
Rosa Capelli is the kind of heroine who enters the story with a clear moral code. She protects innocent people from predators, and in her world, vampires are not glittering fantasies or misunderstood strangers by default. They are threats she has trained herself to kill. That certainty gives the opening book its strongest tension because the series quickly places Rosa opposite Luca, a vampire connected to a curse that reaches back through centuries. Their bond is not simple attraction, and it is not easy trust. It is dangerous because it challenges the foundation of Rosa’s identity: if she has spent her life hunting monsters, what happens when the person she is bound to is one of them?
The “curse” element is central to the series’ identity. Rather than using paranormal romance only as a backdrop for forbidden attraction, Cursebound builds its conflict around old blood magic and the possibility that Rosa and Luca’s connection has been shaped by forces neither of them fully controls. That creates a useful emotional uncertainty. If their feelings are real, they are terrifying; if they are manufactured by the curse, they are still powerful enough to change their choices. The romance works because neither answer is comfortable. Rosa has to question instinct, training, and inherited hatred, while Luca is not allowed to exist as a harmless romantic ideal. He belongs to a world with danger, secrets, and a history that cannot be ignored.
The series fits naturally beside Kincaid’s broader dark-romance catalogue, but its paranormal structure gives it a different flavor from her mafia and contemporary power-driven books. In the Ruthless titles, danger often comes through families, criminal empires, revenge, and human violence. In A Curse of Blood, that intensity is filtered through supernatural politics, vampire mythology, hunters, ancient grudges, and the question of whether fate itself can be trusted. The emotional temperature is still recognizably Kincaid: possessive, dramatic, high-stakes, and built around characters who do not love gently. But the fantasy framework gives the series room for a larger mythic conflict.
Unbound, the second planned book, continues the series beyond the first stage of Rosa and Luca’s story. Its place matters because A Curse of Blood is not designed as a light standalone vampire romance where the central problems vanish after one book. The first installment establishes the curse, the bond, and the dangerous world surrounding the characters; the continuation suggests a broader arc involving power, freedom, and the consequences of what has already been awakened.
A Curse of Blood is best understood as a paranormal dark romance for readers who enjoy enemies-to-lovers tension, morally dangerous supernatural worlds, and heroines who are forced to question the rules that once kept them alive. Its appeal is not only in vampires or forbidden desire, but in the conflict between duty and bond, hatred and longing, destiny and choice.