Carnage Court A Poisonverse Novel Welcome to the amusement park where blood pays the ticket. Beneath the broken Ferris wheels and rusting rides, the Carnage Court opens its gates to the fearless or the desperate. Fighters step into the ring knowing only one here, survival is performance, and pain is entertainment. The crowd doesn’t cheer for mercy. They cheer for carnage. For the Carnival Corpses, this ring isn’t just a stage. It’s a kingdom. A place to prove themselves with fists, blades, and bone-breaking spectacle. But power here is fragile, alliances splinter in the dark, and the cost of one wrong move is always blood. Roselle Porter photographs the world’s forgotten places—drowned churches, dead hotels, ghosted estates. Take the shot, leave no footprints. That’s the rule. Until a rumor drags her an abandoned amusement park where the midway still breathes after dark. She slips into the rust and neon with her camera and captures the one image no one is allowed to keep—him. Rook Carver runs Carnage Court like a fights as theater, blood for applause, a painted grin that hides a feral king. And the moment Roselle’s shutter clicks, he decides the only prize worth keeping is the girl who sees too much. “Careful, my little rose with thorns.” The funhouse turns into a maze of secrets, the carousel into confessions, the Ferris wheel into a cage in the sky. But the Court is eating itself, and someone wants Rook buried with his kingdom. When betrayal puts Roselle in the spotlight, Rook will set the midway on fire to keep her. Survival comes with a expose the story that ends him, or become the ruin he’d burn the city for. A brutal, obsessive, dark romance about a woman who chases decay, a man who worships it, and the love that claws its way out of the wreckage. Step right up and enter at your own risk. Interconnected World & Reading Path Carnage Court is a complete standalone, but it’s also a doorway into the larger Crown-/ a shared world of fighters, kings, criminals, and the people reckless enough to love them. It’s set in the same universe as Mea Marco’s Poison series and Shay Stone’s Mafia Crown books, where characters, events, and Easter eggs echo from one story to the next. For readers who want the full, interconnected saga, the chronological path so far Servants of the Crown (Shay Stone)Mafia Crown Pieces (Shay Stone)Retaliation (Poison series)Vengeance (Poison series)Mafia Crown Reckoning (Shay Stone)Carnage Court (Poisonverse standalone)Carnage Court and Servants of the Crown have a direct crossover link, so you’ll see how the same world bleeds into both stories. You can start with Jester and Roselle here and then hunt down every thread in the Poison and Mafia Crown books, or binge from the beginning and watch the entire Crown-/Poisonverse unfold.