Below is the complete list of Sadie Kincaid’s Chicago Ruthless books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Chicago Ruthless Books
- Dante (2023)
Dante was published in 2023 and is listed as book #1 in the Chicago Ruthless series. - Joey (2023)
Published in 2023, Joey is listed as book #2 in the Chicago Ruthless series. - Lorenzo (2023)
Lorenzo is a 2023 release and appears as book #3 in the Chicago Ruthless series. - Keres (2024)
In the Chicago Ruthless series, Keres is book #4 and was published in 2024.
About Chicago Ruthless
Sadie Kincaid’s Chicago Ruthless series is a dark mafia romance sequence centered on the Moretti family, a powerful crime family whose name carries fear, loyalty, wealth, and danger throughout Chicago. The series begins with Dante, then continues through Joey, Lorenzo, and Keres, with each book focusing on a different Moretti sibling while keeping the family’s criminal world, rivalries, and internal bonds tightly connected. Like Kincaid’s other Ruthless books, the series is intense, dramatic, and built around romance that develops under pressure rather than in safety.
The first book, Dante, establishes the Morettis as a family shaped by power and violence, but also by a fierce code of loyalty. Dante Moretti is the kind of hero Kincaid often writes: dangerous, dominant, emotionally guarded, and accustomed to control. His story introduces the Chicago branch of the Ruthless universe through enemies-to-lovers tension, forced proximity, and the collision between attraction and survival. The romance does not exist outside the mafia world; it is formed inside it, where trust can be as dangerous as betrayal.
Joey shifts attention to another Moretti sibling and deepens the sense that this series is as much about family dynamics as romantic pairings. The Morettis are not simply individual mafia figures with separate love stories. They are bound by shared history, loyalty, and the constant need to protect what belongs to them. Kincaid uses that structure to make each romance feel personal while still part of a larger family machine. The criminal backdrop raises the stakes, but the emotional pull comes from characters who are forced to confront vulnerability in a world that punishes weakness.
Lorenzo continues the same family-centered momentum, giving another Moretti brother his own romantic conflict while keeping the larger atmosphere of danger and control intact. By this point, the series has established its rhythm clearly: each book can be read for its central couple, but the family world grows stronger when the stories are kept together. Kincaid’s Chicago setting is not presented as a quiet romantic backdrop. It is a territory of power, rivalry, surveillance, and reputation, where love often becomes tangled with protection, possession, and revenge.
Keres expands the series in an especially important way by revealing another Moretti figure whose life has been shaped very differently from the siblings raised within the family’s powerful world. Her story adds a darker survival thread to the series, showing that the Moretti legacy is not only about privilege, authority, and command. It also involves hidden pain, captivity, trauma, and the complicated question of what family means when blood ties have been fractured by cruelty and secrecy.
Chicago Ruthless fits naturally beside Kincaid’s New York Ruthless, L.A. Ruthless, London Ruthless, and Manhattan Ruthless books, but it has its own identity through the Moretti siblings and the Chicago power structure around them. The series is not a soft romance or a light mafia fantasy. Its appeal lies in heightened emotion, morally complicated characters, and relationships shaped by danger, obsession, and loyalty. Kincaid writes this world as one where love is rarely gentle at first, but where devotion, once given, becomes absolute.
The series works best as a connected family saga inside a dark-romance framework. Each installment gives a different Moretti sibling room to dominate the stage, but together the books build a portrait of a family that protects its own with ruthless intensity. For readers following Sadie Kincaid’s broader bibliography, Chicago Ruthless is one of the key mafia-romance branches, offering a concentrated mix of sibling loyalty, criminal power, high-stakes romance, and the emotional cost of surviving in a world where weakness is never safe.