About the Series
The Valensi Chronicles is a dark urban fantasy trilogy that reimagines vampire mythology through the lens of evolved humans called Valensi. The series blends supernatural politics, complex character relationships, and moral ambiguity across three interconnected novels.
This isn't a story about monsters. It's a story about what happens when people—regardless of how long they've lived or what they've become—must choose between survival and conscience.
Dark urban fantasy with elements of paranormal thriller and romance. The series features supernatural creatures navigating a modern world, political intrigue spanning centuries, and relationships that blur the line between love and survival.
If you enjoy Anne Rice's moral complexity, Charlaine Harris's supernatural communities, or the political machinations of vampire courts, you'll find familiar territory here—with some sharp turns into unexpected directions.
Romance is woven throughout the trilogy, but it's not the central engine of the plot. These are stories about identity, power, loyalty, and what it means to build a life when your existence itself is a secret. Love—in all its forms—complicates everything.
The romantic relationships include LGBTQ+ couples and explore the unique challenges of connections that span decades or centuries.
The Valensi Chronicles follows a web of survivors across three novels—fugitives, exiles, and unlikely allies bound together by circumstance and choice. At its heart is a young woman who has lived over a century but still looks barely twenty, running from a death warrant she earned by breaking the most sacred law of her kind. Her flight sets into motion a collision of worlds: the ancient Valensi with their millennia-old power structures, the humans who have learned to fight back, and the shapeshifters caught in the middle. What begins as one woman's desperate escape becomes something larger—a gathering of outcasts who refuse to accept that survival requires surrender.
These are not stories about monsters, though monsters appear in them. They are stories about people who have lived too long, loved too hard, and lost too much—and what they choose to do with what remains. The trilogy moves from the humid streets of Florida to the elegant shadows of Charlotte to the neon-lit neutral ground of San Diego, tracing relationships that span decades and grudges that span centuries. At every turn, characters face impossible choices: duty against conscience, safety against love, the leash of neutrality against the hunger for justice. Some break under the weight. Others discover they were stronger than they knew. A few learn that the most dangerous thing in the world isn't a predator—it's someone who has finally stopped pretending to be prey.
Running through all three books is a question the characters cannot escape: What do you owe the people you love, and what do you owe yourself? The answers are never clean. Alliances form between people who should be enemies. Betrayals come from trusted friends. And in the spaces between action and consequence, the trilogy finds its emotional center—the fierce, complicated bonds of found family, forged in blood and kept alive by choice.
The World
Valensi are evolved humans—not the undead. They breathe. They have heartbeats. They are alive in every meaningful sense, though transformed through a process called the Birthing.
They require blood to survive, possess enhanced strength and speed, heal rapidly, and can live for centuries. Most cannot tolerate sunlight. They despise being called vampires—a term laden with superstition and inaccuracy.
Think of them as humans who evolved along a different path, with all the complexity that implies.
The Garou exist—shapeshifters tied to the natural world who can transform at will (not just under full moons). They're connected to nature in subtle, innate ways, and their community operates alongside the Valensi, sometimes as allies, sometimes with tension.
They're not the slavering beasts of horror films. They're people with extraordinary abilities and their own complex society.
The governing structure of Valensi society—ancient, powerful, and not particularly democratic. The Hierarchy maintains order, enforces laws, and has done so for millennia. At its head sits the Magistrate, whose power and age are the stuff of whispered legend.
Like any system that's existed for thousands of years, it has both protected its people and committed terrible acts in the name of preservation.
Most don't. The Valensi have survived by remaining hidden, their existence dismissed as folklore and fiction. But some humans know. Some hunt. And some have made it their mission to "regulate" what they consider a threat to humanity.
The boundary between worlds is thinner than either side would like to admit.
The Characters
The trilogy follows several interconnected protagonists whose lives weave together across the three books:
They try to be. They fail sometimes. They've done terrible things and beautiful things, often for the same reasons.
This is a series that takes moral complexity seriously. The protagonists are not heroes in the traditional sense—they're survivors making impossible choices. The antagonists often believe they're protecting something worth protecting. The line between the two isn't always clear.
The Books
The trilogy should be read in order. Each book builds on revelations and relationships from the previous installment:
You could, but significant emotional payoffs and plot revelations won't land properly without the foundation laid in earlier books. Relationships, secrets, and character transformations build across all three novels.
Start with WAIF. Trust the journey.
Each novel is approximately 80,000-100,000 words—substantial enough for deep character development and world-building, but paced to keep the tension tight.
Pronunciation Guide
A quick guide to the terminology you'll encounter:
- Valensi vah-LEN-see — The evolved humans at the heart of the series
- Garou gah-ROO — The shapeshifters tied to nature
- Solari so-LAR-ee — Valensi who can walk in daylight
- Rahne RAIN — Irish origin; rhymes with "rain"
- Asaro ah-SAR-oh — The combat trainer
For Readers
The Valensi Chronicles is written for adult readers and includes:
Violence (some graphic), blood and feeding, discussions of past trauma, morally complex situations, intimate scenes, character death, and exploration of what it means to have your human life end while still existing.
The series doesn't shy away from darkness, but it treats difficult subjects with intention rather than gratuitousness.
Readers have found resonance with various works while noting The Valensi Chronicles carves its own path:
If you appreciate the political intrigue of vampire courts, the moral weight of immortal existence, found family dynamics, and protagonists who are neither pure heroes nor irredeemable villains—this series may be for you.
If you're looking for sparkly romance or clear-cut good versus evil, look elsewhere.
The trilogy tells a complete story with a definitive ending. However, the world of the Valensi is vast, ancient, and full of untold stories. Some threads are left deliberately open—not as cliffhangers, but as acknowledgment that these characters' lives don't end just because we stop watching.
Whether those stories get told depends on many things. For now, the trilogy stands complete.
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