The Valensi Chronicles

Where Immortality Meets Mortality

For centuries, Valensi have walked among us — hidden in plain sight, wielding power in the shadows. The Valensi navigate the dangerous politics of immortal partisanship while facing threats from both the mortal world and their own kind. This is not a fairy tale. This is survival, betrayal, and the price of eternal life.

About the Chronicles

The Valensi Chronicles strips away the romanticism of vampire fiction to reveal the brutal reality of immortal existence. These are not creatures of romantic legend — they are apex predators who have perfected the art of living among humans while maintaining their own complex society.

Set in modern-day San Diego, Dallas, Orlando, and beyond, the series follows the Valensi as they navigate centuries-old secrets, supernatural politics, and the constant struggle between their human past and monstrous present. Each installment explores different members of the bloodline, their allies, and their enemies in a world where trust is a luxury and betrayal is currency.

A dark, emotionally complex paranormal series that reimagines vampire mythology through the lens of immortality, loyalty, and the cost of choosing between institutional duty and personal conscience. The rules of immortality are about to be rewritten.

Mature Readers 17+ · Graphic Violence · Adult Themes · Complex Moral Situations The Valensi Chronicles trilogy — Books 1–3 by C.L. Stegall

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The World of Valensi

The Masquerade

Valensi maintain strict secrecy about their existence. The Masquerade is the unwritten law governing all Valensi activity — break it, and face swift judgment from the Hierarchy. In the digital age, maintaining this ancient secret has never been more challenging.

The Roles

Ancient bloodlines rule Valensi society: the Magistrate leads the Hierarchy (High Council); Protectors serve as assassins and enforcers; the High Guard are elite bodyguards to the Magistrate; and the Umbral are secret keepers. Each group possesses unique abilities, leading to constant political maneuvering and occasional open warfare.

The Birthing

Creating a new Valensi is a sacred and dangerous act requiring Council approval and a bond between maker and progeny that lasts centuries. Rogue birthings are punishable by final death — for both the maker and the turned.

Hawthorn

Not all humans are ignorant of the Valensi. Hawthorn has tracked, policed, and eliminated them for millennia using ancient knowledge and modern technology. They are relentless, resourceful, and increasingly dangerous as surveillance capabilities evolve.

Paranormal Gifts

Some Valensi develop extraordinary abilities — from enhanced senses to full telepathic control. These gifts are treated as sacred, and those who manifest them are specially trained to develop them further. Not all use them for good.

The Hierarchy

Eight ancient Valensi form the Council, with the Magistrate governing all Valensi law and settling disputes. Their word is absolute, their justice swift, their methods often brutal. Cross the Hierarchy, and you may find yourself wishing for final death.

Books in the Chronicles

WAIF — The Valensi Chronicles Book 1 by C.L. Stegall
Book One

WAIF

Violence · Adult Themes · Torture · Language

Paris, a 135-year-old woman in a young girl's body, has built everything she has through discipline, loyalty, and lethal precision. As a distinguished member of the High Guard, she serves and protects the leader of the Valensi hierarchy in Europe. With one fateful decision, she goes from revered operative to wanted fugitive — fleeing into the human world, hunted by the most dangerous man she has ever known: the only one capable of finding her, and the only one she has ever loved.

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WIDOW — The Valensi Chronicles Book 2 by C.L. Stegall
Book Two

WIDOW

Violence · Adult Themes · Torture · Language

Brianna Van Demir has spent twelve centuries building a perfectly ordinary life. As a Valensi with hard-won sun immunity, she has mastered invisibility — working as a prosecutor in Charlotte while hiding her true nature. But when a mysterious caller reveals that a killer on her case may be the same kind of monster who murdered the love of her life centuries ago, everything she has built begins to unravel.

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WITCH — The Valensi Chronicles Book 3 by C.L. Stegall
Book Three

WITCH

Violence · Adult Themes · Blood

The carefully constructed world of hidden supernatural societies is collapsing. Hawthorn has moved from covert surveillance to open conflict, flooding the market with weapons lethal to the Valensi. The Hierarchy is fractured. The Magistrate scrambles to hold an untenable situation together while rogue hunters escalate. The Garou are on guard. In San Diego's underground supernatural community, a fierce Irish club owner, a young Valensi still learning her powers, and a former High Guard must decide — run or fight.

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The Players

Paris

Former High Guard

Paris's training and lethality rival the best of the Protectors. Revered, disciplined, and unwaveringly loyal — until one fateful decision transforms her from elite operative to the Valensi's most wanted fugitive.

Brianna Van Demir

Valensi — French Origin

A singular anomaly in Valensi society: twelve centuries old, with a hard-won immunity to sunlight that allows her to live entirely among humans. She builds new lives every decade. What she doesn't know is that this one is about to take a very unexpected turn.

Rahne

Irish-born Warrior · Arbitrator

Leader of the Valensi Underground in San Diego and veteran of countless political skirmishes. Rahne believes in truth and justice above all else and is not afraid to spill blood to prove it — even Hierarchy blood. Her neutrality is her mandate. It's getting harder to maintain by the day.

Daphne Jenkins

Newly Birthed Valensi · Former Teacher

A former middle-school teacher turned Valensi who studies the nature of her own transformation with academic rigor. She is new to this world but finds a strong guide in Paris — and an unexpected sense of purpose.

Garrett

Protector

Charming, cunning, and utterly ruthless when the situation demands. Garrett maintains the delicate balance between policing and assassination through a combination of genuine diplomacy and quiet manipulation. He knows everyone's secrets — and is not afraid to use them.

Elijah

Protector

The oldest and most revered Protector in the Hierarchy's service. His record is impeccable. If there is one person in this world you do not want hunting you, it is Elijah.

Opponents

Hawthorn

Covert Security Organization

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