Below is the complete list of Rina Kent’s Monster Trilogy books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Monster Trilogy Books
About Monster Trilogy
Rina Kent’s Monster Trilogy is a continuous dark mafia romance centered on Kirill Morozov and Aleksandra “Sasha” Ivanova, two fiercely ambitious survivors whose relationship develops through military violence, concealed identity, organized crime, revenge, and family betrayal. Unlike Kent’s interconnected standalones, the trilogy remains with the same couple from beginning to end. Each book advances one unresolved story, making the sequence closer to a single extended novel divided into three increasingly dangerous stages.
Sasha enters Blood of My Monster disguised as a man. She has joined the military with a private objective connected to what happened to her family, and exposure would threaten far more than her position among the soldiers. Passing as male requires constant discipline: she must control how she speaks, behaves, dresses, and responds to danger while proving herself in an environment where weakness can become fatal. The premise has a deliberate Mulan-like quality, but Kent places it within a brutal contemporary world rather than a heroic historical adventure.
Kirill is Sasha’s military superior and immediately represents both opportunity and danger. Controlled, calculating, and relentlessly ambitious, he intends to rise far beyond the rank or authority he currently holds. He notices details other people miss and treats loyalty as something to test rather than assume, making Sasha’s secret increasingly difficult to preserve. Their attraction grows through suspicion, competition, forced proximity, and the recognition that each possesses a ruthlessness the other understands.
The trilogy’s early military structure distinguishes it from mafia romances that begin with an established criminal ruler. Kirill’s power is still being constructed, allowing the books to show the alliances, sacrifices, and calculated betrayals behind his ascent. Sasha is not merely carried into that empire as his romantic interest. Her combat experience, intelligence, and personal mission make her an active participant whose choices repeatedly affect the direction of his plans.
Lies of My Monster moves the relationship into a more unstable phase as Sasha searches for the truth about her family. Trust has already been damaged by deception on both sides, yet separation proves no easier than remaining together. The middle novel is driven by shifting loyalties and competing versions of the past, forcing Sasha to decide which revelations are genuine and which have been designed to influence her. Kirill’s need for control clashes with her determination to recover an identity and purpose that do not exist only through him.
The title’s “monster” is not confined to one character. Kirill openly embraces emotional coldness as a tool of survival and rule, but Sasha also carries anger, violence, and a willingness to cross moral boundaries. Their bond works because neither can maintain the illusion that the other is innocent. The central question is whether two people shaped by brutality can become genuine partners, or whether love simply gives them more effective ways to destroy one another.
Heart of My Monster completes the struggle over marriage, power, family, and possession. Kirill’s public ambitions remain important, but his determination to reclaim Sasha becomes inseparable from the empire he intends to control. The final volume resolves the trilogy’s continuous romantic and criminal arc rather than beginning a separate stage that can be read independently.
The Monster Trilogy belongs to Kent’s larger Rinaverse and appears after the Deception Trilogy in her suggested chronology, before the next-generation Legacy of Gods books. Familiarity with those connected series can add context to the criminal families and later relationships, but Kirill and Sasha’s story remains accessible on its own. The essential requirement is reading the three Monster novels internally in order, since identities, betrayals, and family revelations depend heavily on their original timing.