Below is the complete list of Caroline Peckham’s and Susanne Valenti‘s The Harlequin Crew books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of The Harlequin Crew Books
with Susanne Valenti
- Devil’s Pass (2020)
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Devil’s Pass was published in 2020 and is listed as book #1 in the The Harlequin Crew series. - Sinners’ Playground (2020)
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Published in 2020, Sinners’ Playground is listed as book #2 in the The Harlequin Crew series. - Dead Man’s Isle (2021)
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Dead Man’s Isle is a 2021 release and appears as book #3 in the The Harlequin Crew series. - Carnival Hill (2021)
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In the The Harlequin Crew series, Carnival Hill is book #4 and was published in 2021. - Paradise Lagoon (2021)
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Paradise Lagoon was first published in 2021; within the The Harlequin Crew series, it is listed as book #5. - Gallows Bridge (2022)
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Gallows Bridge was published in 2022 and is listed as book #6 in the The Harlequin Crew series.
About The Harlequin Crew
Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti’s The Harlequin Crew series is a dark reverse-harem romance set in the dangerous, gang-ruled world of Sunset Cove. It belongs to the authors’ United States of Anarchy universe, alongside connected series such as Brutal Boys Of Everlake Prep and Dead Men Walking, but it has its own emotional center through Rogue Easton and the four men who once meant everything to her. The series begins with Sinners’ Playground and develops into a five-book arc of betrayal, revenge, obsession, loyalty, and second chances twisted through years of pain.
Rogue Easton is the heart of the series. She returns to Sunset Cove after years away, carrying the weight of a past that never truly released her. Her connection to the Harlequin boys is not casual or newly formed. Maverick, Fox, Chase, and JJ were once her closest people, the found family who shaped her youth before everything broke apart. That history gives the series its emotional force. These are not strangers discovering attraction for the first time; they are people who loved, hurt, abandoned, and misunderstood one another before the story begins.
The Harlequin Crew itself gives the series its identity. The gang is not just a backdrop for danger. It is the world that raised these characters, hardened them, and taught them that loyalty can be both protection and prison. Sunset Cove is a place of crime, secrets, violence, and shifting power, where the past is never buried deeply enough. Rogue’s return threatens more than old feelings. It reopens questions about what really happened years earlier, who betrayed whom, and whether the bonds between them were destroyed or only buried under anger.
Sinners’ Playground establishes the reunion and the bitterness surrounding it. Rogue comes back to a place where she is wanted, hated, remembered, and blamed, often all at once. The men she left behind have changed into dangerous adults with their own scars and loyalties. Maverick brings pain and intensity, Fox carries power and control, Chase adds another edge of damage and desire, while JJ’s presence gives the group a different emotional texture. Each relationship with Rogue has its own history, which keeps the romance from feeling like one repeated dynamic split between four men.
As the series continues through Dead Man’s Isle, Carnival Hill, Paradise Lagoon, and Gallows Bridge, the story widens beyond reunion tension into deeper gang conflict, old secrets, rival threats, and the truth behind the choices that shattered their childhood bond. Peckham and Valenti use the long arc to make the emotional fallout matter. Forgiveness does not arrive easily, and attraction does not erase betrayal. The characters have to fight through resentment, grief, possessiveness, and mistrust before any kind of future can feel earned.
The Harlequin Crew is not a gentle second-chance romance. It is dark, dramatic, violent, and emotionally heightened, written for readers who enjoy morally complicated characters and love stories formed in hostile territory. Its strongest appeal lies in the combination of found family and damage: five people who once belonged to one another, then became enemies, then had to decide whether loyalty could survive the truth. In the wider Peckham and Valenti catalogue, the series stands out as one of their most intense contemporary dark-romance sagas, built around the idea that home can be both the place that broke you and the only place where the missing pieces still remain.