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Valentina

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in Boston, The United States

August 05

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Romance, Contemporary, Fantasy

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Emily Bronte, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mythology, J.R.R. Tolkien, Pablo ...more

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This author is also published under Vale Ravenna.

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Valentina writes contemporary romance.
She also writes fantasy and paranormal romance as Vale Ravenna.

Valentina grew up with the elves and the faeries and still looks for dragons in every land she visits.

She went to college twice, getting degrees in theater and psychology because she's crazy like that.

Now, she sips tea in the mountains, writing love books full of passion, pain, and heroes who will, most often than not, be broken. Her books will take you places where your heart will be ripped out, before being put back together again.

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Hello, my beautiful readers!
I have news for you today. As I shared a few months back, I’ve decided to venture into the world of fantasy and paranormal romance.
So far I have a novella out in the Dangerous as Sin Anthology, which will be on Kindle Unlimited until early June, before it’s gone forever, but don’t worry! I will be expanding the novella into a full length novel. but that’s news for anot Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 02, 2023 08:44 • Tags: dark-fantasy, fantasy-romance, new-fantasy-series, realms-of-anathema, romantasy, title-reveal, vale-ravenna, valentina

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Sommersgate House (Ghosts and Reincarnation, #1)

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“Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.”
― Valentina

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“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

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“My Dearest Breena,

They will remember us. Long after these wars have been mourned and then forgotten long after Summer and Winter fairies lay aside their rancor for one another and forget that they have ever tasted hatred they will remember – Summer fairies and Winter too – of a fairy king who loved his queen.”
― Kailin Gow, The Fairy Letters

tags: fantasy-romance, frost-series, prince-kian, romance

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“One heart, one mind, one soul. What is joined by choice can never be torn apart. You're mine, and I'm yours. Yesterday, today, and forever.”
― Sophie Lark, Anastasia

tags: fantasy-romance, love, vows

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“The air around him almost seemed to glimmer, gold dust in the dark. Moonlight made him more beautiful, yes, but in the same way that darkness emphasized a flame. He didn't belong in it; Bastian Arceneaux was antithetical to night.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, The Foxglove King

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