The Crowns of Nyaxia series is envisioned as a six-book romantasy saga structured into three interconnected duologies. Each duology focuses on a different vampire house, weaving together individual storylines that ultimately build toward a larger narrative. The series’ overarching cosmology features a group of gods collectively known as the White Pantheon, who are worshipped by humans. Nyaxia, originally a lesser goddess, created the vampires after breaking with the White Pantheon over the latter’s execution of her husband, Alarus, the god of death. 

The first duology, the Nightborn Duet, comprises The Serpent and the Wings of Night and The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King. The first installment follows the perspective of Oraya, the half-human daughter of Vincent, the Nightborn King, while the second alternates between her point and view and that of Raihn, a former enslaved mortal who ascends to rule the House of Night. The duet introduces key characters from the overarching series, such as Mische—a secondary character whose history gradually unfolds, laying the groundwork for her Shadowborn Duet (books three and four of the series). She is introduced as the best friend of Raihn and a former human acolyte of the sun god, Atroxus. However, Mische was brutally turned vampire by a House of Shadow prince and left for dead, after which she eventually lost control and killed her sister, Saescha, in a fit of bloodlust. Her character arc is long and complicated by the loss of her divine blessing and her all-consuming guilt surrounding her sister’s death. The duology also introduces Septimus, a vampire from the House of Blood who is suspiciously observant and seen meddling subtly in all manner of political affairs.

At the end of the first duology, Mische kills the Shadowborn prince who turned her and flees the House of Night—actions that set the stage for the second duology, the Shadowborn Duet, beginning with The Songbird and the Heart of Stone. This installment shifts the focus to Mische, who is captured by the House of Shadow and forced to forge an uneasy alliance with Asar, the last surviving Shadowborn prince. Together, they descend into the underworld on a mission to resurrect Alarus. Yet Mische’s path is complicated when Atroxus offers her a chance at redemption: She may regain his favor, but only if she ensures Alarus’s permanent destruction after the resurrection. However, when she discovers that the resurrection requires the death of the man she has come to love, she spares Asar’s life by thwarting the resurrection. She is punished with death by the goddess of justice, Shiket, and Asar, who has retained a fraction of Alarus’s divinity in himself, is imprisoned by the White Pantheon gods. Mische and Asar’s story continues in The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk, where they lean on several allies—Raihn, Oraya, Vincent, and Septimus—to find and wield the relics needed for Asar to ascend to full divinity and stabilize the realms, which are collapsing from the loss of two gods.

The third duology, the Bloodborn Duet, will conclude the saga. The House of Blood, long cursed by the goddess Nyaxia, remains shrouded in mystery, just as Septimus himself is. The duology is the climax for the series, depicting the events of the 10-year war that will ensue following the Shadowborn Duet, revealing the inner workings of Septimus’s strategic meddling, and delving into his romance with Kyrene, a human acolyte-in-training turned bounty hunter whom Mische briefly meets in The Fallen & the Kiss of Dusk.