Below is the complete list of Caroline Peckham’s and Susanne Valenti‘s Dead Men Walking books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Dead Men Walking Books
with Susanne Valenti
- The Death Club (2021)
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The Death Club was published in 2021 and is listed as book #1 in the Dead Men Walking series. - Society of Psychos (2022)
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Published in 2022, Society of Psychos is listed as book #2 in the Dead Men Walking series.
About Dead Men Walking
Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti’s Dead Men Walking series is a dark reverse-harem romance duet set inside their United States of Anarchy universe. The series consists of The Death Club and Society of Psychos, and it shares a wider world with connected series such as Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep and The Harlequin Crew. While those links add extra texture for readers familiar with the authors’ broader catalogue, Dead Men Walking stands on its own as a chaotic, violent, high-intensity romance about obsession, survival, and people who have been shaped by brutality until ordinary rules no longer apply.
The series begins with The Death Club, which introduces Brooklyn and Niall, also known as the “Butcher of the Bay.” Their world is not polished, safe, or morally balanced. It is built around bloodshed, criminal power, captivity, and the kind of emotional extremity Peckham and Valenti often use in their darkest contemporary romance. Brooklyn is drawn into a dangerous orbit where fear, fascination, and survival instincts collide, while Niall is written as a deeply unstable, death-obsessed figure whose violence and devotion are inseparable from his identity.
What makes Dead Men Walking different from a standard mafia or crime-family romance is its deliberately unhinged tone. The books are not trying to present a respectable underworld or a neat redemption arc. They lean into madness, obsession, gallows humor, and characters who live far outside normal moral boundaries. That gives the duet a sharper, more anarchic flavor than some of the authors’ academy or fantasy series. The romance is dark not only because the setting is dangerous, but because the relationships form between people who have already crossed lines that cannot be uncrossed.
Society of Psychos continues and completes the duet, expanding the relationship dynamics and pushing Brooklyn deeper into the strange, brutal world surrounding Niall. The second book also makes clear that this is a reverse-harem structure, with the heroine’s emotional and romantic future involving more than one love interest. That shape fits the series’ larger atmosphere of possessiveness, danger, rivalry, and unconventional bonds. The men around Brooklyn are not soft romantic archetypes; they are damaged, violent, and obsessive in different ways, which gives the series its extreme emotional charge.
The United States of Anarchy connection matters because Dead Men Walking belongs to a wider landscape of gangs, broken systems, dangerous loyalties, and characters who cross between series. Readers coming from Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep may recognize the broader world’s tone and some crossover energy, while readers moving on to The Harlequin Crew will find another branch of the same rough, lawless universe. Even so, Dead Men Walking is more concentrated and duet-shaped, making it easier to approach as a self-contained dark romance.
The appeal of the series lies in its intensity. Peckham and Valenti write Brooklyn’s story with the kind of heightened drama that suits readers who want dark romance pushed to extremes: violent men, survival under pressure, twisted devotion, black humor, and love that looks nothing like safety at first glance. It is not a gentle romance, nor is it meant to be. Dead Men Walking is a brutal, chaotic side branch of the authors’ catalogue, built for readers who enjoy morally messy characters, dangerous chemistry, and relationships forged in a world where sanity is almost beside the point.