Below is the complete list of Caroline Peckham’s and Susanne Valenti‘s Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep Books
with Susanne Valenti
- Kings of Quarantine (2020)
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Kings of Quarantine was published in 2020 and is listed as book #1 in the Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep series. - Kings of Lockdown (2020)
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Published in 2020, Kings of Lockdown is listed as book #2 in the Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep series. - Kings of Anarchy (2020)
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Kings of Anarchy is a 2020 release and appears as book #3 in the Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep series. - Queen of Quarantine (2021)
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In the Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep series, Queen of Quarantine is book #4 and was published in 2021.
About Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep
Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti’s Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep series is a dark academy reverse-harem romance set during a lockdown at Everlake Preparatory, where a deadly virus outside the school walls turns an elite boarding environment into a pressure cooker of fear, power, cruelty, and control. The series begins with Kings of Quarantine and continues through Kings of Lockdown, Kings of Anarchy, and Queen of Quarantine, forming a complete four-book arc around Tatum Rivers and the four dangerous boys who dominate Everlake.
Tatum arrives at Everlake Prep carrying grief, suspicion, and the weight of being blamed for a tragedy connected to the outbreak. Instead of finding safety behind the school’s expensive gates, she becomes the target of Saint Memphis, Kyan Roscoe, Blake Bowman, and Monroe Night. Each of them holds power in a different way: through money, status, intimidation, violence, intelligence, or authority. Together, they make Everlake feel less like a school and more like a sealed kingdom with its own rules.
The lockdown setting is central to the series’ intensity. Students cannot simply leave, secrets spread quickly, and social power becomes even more dangerous when everyone is trapped in the same place. Peckham and Valenti use the academy environment to heighten the bully-romance structure: public humiliation, private attraction, revenge, obsession, and shifting loyalty all become harder to escape. The result is a series that is deliberately uncomfortable, dramatic, and emotionally extreme.
Tatum is the reason the story holds together. She is not entering a soft romance world where love arrives gently. She is fighting to survive a system designed to break her, while also uncovering the truth about what happened to her father and why she has been placed at the center of so much hatred. Her relationships with the boys are tangled with anger, attraction, fear, defiance, and the gradual recognition that enemies can become something more complicated than either side expected.
The series is also part of Peckham and Valenti’s wider United States of Anarchy world, which includes connected series such as Dead Men Walking and The Harlequin Crew. Brutal Boys can be read as its own complete story, but the shared universe gives it a broader underworld atmosphere. Character crossovers and setting links create the sense that Everlake is one dangerous corner of a larger world filled with gangs, criminal power, broken loyalty, and people shaped by survival.
As the books progress, the focus widens beyond the initial bully dynamic. The mystery surrounding the virus, family secrets, hidden motives, and the true nature of the boys’ power all become more important. The romance does not erase the darker elements; it grows through them, which is why the series is best understood as dark romance rather than a conventional academy love story. Its emotional appeal lies in watching Tatum refuse to be crushed, even when desire and danger become almost impossible to separate.
Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep is intense, chaotic, and built for readers who like their romance wrapped in conflict, obsession, revenge, and high-stakes emotional damage. It is not a gentle school romance. It is a sealed-world survival story where love develops in hostile territory, and where power must be challenged before it can become devotion.