Dark academy romantasy · Reading guide
♊ Zodiac Academy
Mortal twins Tory and Darcy Vega discover they are heiresses to the Fae throne of Solaria, then get thrown into Zodiac Academy, where the four Celestial Heirs would rather break them than bow to them. It is savage, addictive, and famously hard to put down once the twins start fighting back.
Zodiac Academy is the definitive Kindle Unlimited binge: nine main books, all complete, all in KU, plus a stack of novellas. It is the series KU readers recommend when someone says "I want something long enough to actually use my subscription."
Fair warning that fans consider part of the charm: the early books lean hard into bully-academy cruelty before the long revenge arc pays it all off. The series is finished, so there is no cliffhanger purgatory. You can run the whole thing start to end.
Is Zodiac Academy on Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. All nine main Zodiac Academy books are in Kindle Unlimited as of July 16, 2026. This series is a KU staple and reading all nine on a subscription instead of buying them individually saves roughly $60.
Zodiac Academy reading order
- 1 📖
The Awakening
- 2 📖
Ruthless Fae
- 3 📖
The Reckoning
- 4 📖
Shadow Princess
- 5 📖
Cursed Fates
- 6 📖
Fated Throne
- 7 📖
Heartless Sky
- 8 📖
Sorrow and Starlight
- 9 📖
Restless Stars
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The Zodiac universe keeps growing
Peckham and Valenti launched their own publishing house, Dark Ink, with US distribution through Simon & Schuster, and the same-world spin-off series Sins of the Zodiac is ongoing. Finishing the main saga now means the spin-offs are waiting for you instead of the other way around.
Reading order trips people up because of the novellas. The clean path: read the nine numbered books in order. The novellas (Origins of an Academy Bully, The Awakening As Told By The Boys, The Big A.S.S. Party, Beyond the Veil) are optional side dishes; slot them in after the main book they follow.
The audiobook angle
The full series is on Audible. With nine long books, audio is honestly the sane way to make the page count move.
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