Vale Press · Sovereign Sin Series
Literary Mafia Thriller Romantic Threads Rival Families Morally Complex Chicago
Rowan Vale

Sovereign
Sin

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Power. Betrayal. The cost of loyalty.

A literary mafia thriller series with romantic threads, set in Chicago — where two rival families destroy each other, and everyone else pays the price.

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What to expect

For readers who want something darker.

Rivalry
Two crime dynasties — Mancini and Valenti — locked in a war older than either family understands.
Obsession
Characters who want things they shouldn't, cross lines they can't un-cross, and keep choosing wrong.
Betrayal
Loyalties built over decades, broken in a moment. Everyone has a price. Not everyone knows what it is yet.
Dangerous Alliances
Strategic marriages, hidden agendas, and negotiations where the stakes are always someone's life.
Morally Ambiguous
No heroes. No clean villains. Only people making hard choices inside a world that rewards ruthlessness.
Series Arc
Four books. One city. A reckoning engineered across generations — converging toward something none of them will walk away from unchanged.
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Venom Saint by Rowan Vale — Book 2 of Sovereign Sin
Sovereign Sin — Book Two
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Venom
Saint

The war continues. After the events of Blood Crown, the alliance between the Mancinis and Valentis is fragile, contested, and already being used against them. The next move belongs to someone who has been watching from the edge of the board — patient, precise, and prepared to burn everything down.

Read Blood Crown first. Then come back for this.

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Sovereign Sin — Book Three
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Iron
Veil

Camilla Mancini was never the important daughter. She filed the paperwork. She read the records. She stayed at the edge of the family's formation and did not complain.

Then she found a name that had been crossed out of a municipal archive twenty-three years ago — and the paper started confessing.

Now she's tracing a chain of insurance records, shell entities, and managed silence that leads somewhere neither family wants to look. A stolen child. A buried truth. And a web of institutional lies designed to hold forever.

It won't.

Because someone else is following the same chain from the other direction — someone trained to find things that don't want to be found. And when two investigations converge on the same secret, the families will discover that the war they've been fighting was never about territory.

It was about a girl who was never supposed to exist.

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Iron Veil by Rowan Vale — Book 3 of Sovereign Sin
Reading Order

The Sovereign Sin Series

Four books. One city. Start with Blood Crown.

I
Book One
Blood Crown
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II
Book Two
Venom Saint
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III
Book Three
Iron Veil
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IV
Book Four
Ghost Throne
In Development
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The Author
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Rowan Vale
Author · Vale Press

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

The Sovereign Sin series is Vale's debut — a four-book saga set in Chicago's criminal underworld. Blood Crown, Book One, Venom Saint, Book Two, and Iron Veil, Book Three, are available now.

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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