Below is the complete list of Sav R. Miller’s King’s Trace Antiheroes books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of King’s Trace Antiheroes Books
About King’s Trace Antiheroes
Sav R. Miller’s King’s Trace Antiheroes series is a completed dark-romance trilogy set in King’s Trace, Maine, a small town where political influence, organized crime, family loyalties, and private grudges shape much of daily life. The books follow different couples, but the characters belong to the same interconnected social circle, giving the trilogy a continuous sense of place while allowing each romance to reach its own conclusion.
The series opens with Sweet Surrender, which introduces the criminal and political machinery operating beneath King’s Trace. Elia Montalto has inherited leadership of the town’s organized-crime operation after his father’s retirement. Practical and controlled, he has learned to maintain relationships with powerful people who can help keep attention away from his business. Caroline Harrison, meanwhile, is the eldest daughter of a corrupt senator whose plans for her future leave little room for independence.
Their marriage-of-convenience arrangement establishes several ideas Miller carries throughout the trilogy: characters trapped by family expectations, morally compromised men who wield significant power, and women whose apparent vulnerability conceals considerably more resolve than those around them expect. The romance unfolds against a setting in which legality and morality rarely align neatly, making protection, manipulation, loyalty, and self-interest difficult to separate.
Sweet Solitude pushes the series into more psychologically unsettling territory. Juliet Harrison is grieving her father while coping through increasingly reckless behavior, and her encounters with Kieran Ivers begin in the local cemetery. Kieran already carries a frightening reputation around King’s Trace, where he is regarded as an isolated and potentially dangerous man. His fixation on Juliet develops from recognizing something similarly damaged in her rather than from any attempt to rescue her from darkness.
That relationship gives the middle book a distinctly macabre atmosphere. Grief, obsession, guilt, loneliness, and emotional instability become central to a romance between two people who are both struggling with their histories. The cemetery setting and Kieran’s reputation deepen the sense that King’s Trace itself is a place where violence and trauma remain close to the surface.
The final novel, Sweet Sacrifice, turns toward Fiona Ivers and Boyd Kelly. Fiona has long been attracted to her brother’s older best friend, while Boyd is a tattooed, withdrawn cybersecurity professional who has spent years resisting the attention she gives him. Their relationship develops around a different kind of forbidden boundary from the earlier books, using the best-friend’s-younger-sister dynamic while retaining the darker emotional and moral tone of the series.
What links the three romances most effectively is the network of families surrounding them. The Harrisons, Iverses, Montalto organization, and their associates do not exist in isolated stories. Relationships established in one novel affect how characters are understood later, and familiar figures continue appearing after their own central romance has been resolved. Miller describes the books as interconnected standalones, which accurately reflects their structure: each couple receives a complete arc, but the shared history of King’s Trace adds weight to the recurring relationships.
King’s Trace Antiheroes also has a larger place within Miller’s bibliography. The trilogy belongs to the same canonical universe as her later Monsters & Muses books, with King’s Trace occurring earlier in the broader timeline. That connection does not transform the trilogy into required background reading for every later novel, but readers continuing through Miller’s interconnected world will encounter names, relationships, and history that originated here.
Across the trilogy, Miller establishes many of the qualities that would become signatures of her later dark romances: antiheroes rather than conventionally admirable leads, intense possessiveness, complicated family structures, criminal influence, damaged characters, and relationships built in morally uncomfortable circumstances. King’s Trace itself is the unifying force—a corrupt small town where nearly everyone carries secrets, and where romance develops amid consequences that rarely stay confined to a single couple.