Vale Press Presents
Rowan Vale

Sovereign
Sin

In Chicago, power is inherited. War is engineered. And the Mancinis and Valentis have been enemies long enough to forget who made them that way.

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The Series

Two families.
One collapsing city.

For three decades, Chicago belonged to two names: Mancini and Valenti. Rivals by history, enemies by design — held apart by a war neither family started and neither can afford to finish. The Sovereign Sin series begins at the moment that arrangement cracks.

This is not a story of good versus evil. It is a story of two power structures grinding against each other while a third force — Mikhail Sarkov — works patiently to destroy both. Each book follows a different player in the same unraveling game.

Power, in this world, is never given. It is extracted. And the cost is always paid in something you cannot get back. By the final book, the Mancinis and Valentis will have to choose: keep fighting each other, or face what's coming together.

Two
Rival Families
One
Interconnected World
Chicago
The City at the Center
The Sovereign Sin Series

A Five-Book Saga

One city. Five stories. A reckoning years in the making.

I
Book One
Blood Crown
Available Now
III
Book Three
Iron Veil
In Development
IV
Book Four
Ghost Throne
In Development
V
Book Five
Silent Verdict
In Development
The Author
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Rowan Vale
Author · Vale Press

Rowan Vale writes dark, atmospheric fiction about power, loyalty, and the systems people build to protect themselves from the truth. The work is concerned with inherited violence — with what families pass down, what institutions bury, and what individuals do when the structures around them begin to crack.

The Sovereign Sin series is Vale's debut, and its first book, Blood Crown, is available now through Vale Press and major retailers worldwide. Venom Saint, the second book in the series, is forthcoming. The series concludes with Silent Verdict, in which the Mancini and Valenti families must finally unite — not on the street, but in a courtroom.

If you are drawn to fiction that refuses easy resolution — to stories where ambition has consequences and loyalty is always conditional — this is your world.

Vale Press

Vale Press

Vale Press is an independent imprint dedicated to dark literary fiction. Founded to give ambitious, unconventional storytelling the presentation it deserves, Vale Press is currently home to the Sovereign Sin series by Rowan Vale.

Independent · Dark Literary Fiction · Chicago

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