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WIDOW: Book 2 of The Valensi Chronicles
870 years of solitude. Seven years of waiting. One impossible choice.
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Brianna Van Demir has spent 870 years learning to be alone.
She's outlived empires. Watched the world transform from candlelight to neon. Built and abandoned more identities than she can count. And through it all, she's kept one never let anyone close enough to hurt her again.
The last time she broke that rule, she lost everything.
Now she's a prosecutor in Charlotte, hiding in plain sight, dispensing justice in a courtroom while feeding from willing donors in the shadows. It's a careful life. A controlled life. A life that's kept her safe for centuries.
Then Daphne arrived-brilliant, stubborn, impossibly patient-and spent seven years waiting for Brianna to let her in.
Brianna should have sent her away. Should have disappeared into another identity, another city, another century of solitude. Instead, she made a different choice. A dangerous choice.
Because something is hunting the Valensi of Charlotte. Something with weapons that can actually kill them. And when an old enemy resurfaces with obsession in his eyes and blood on his hands, Brianna will have to decide what matters the walls she's built to survive, or the woman who makes survival worth fighting for.
WIDOW is the second book in The Valensi Chronicles-a story about grief that spans centuries, love that defies reason, and the terrifying courage it takes to let someone see you as you really are.
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Brianna Van Demir has spent 870 years learning to be alone.
She's outlived empires. Watched the world transform from candlelight to neon. Built and abandoned more identities than she can count. And through it all, she's kept one never let anyone close enough to hurt her again.
The last time she broke that rule, she lost everything.
Now she's a prosecutor in Charlotte, hiding in plain sight, dispensing justice in a courtroom while feeding from willing donors in the shadows. It's a careful life. A controlled life. A life that's kept her safe for centuries.
Then Daphne arrived-brilliant, stubborn, impossibly patient-and spent seven years waiting for Brianna to let her in.
Brianna should have sent her away. Should have disappeared into another identity, another city, another century of solitude. Instead, she made a different choice. A dangerous choice.
Because something is hunting the Valensi of Charlotte. Something with weapons that can actually kill them. And when an old enemy resurfaces with obsession in his eyes and blood on his hands, Brianna will have to decide what matters the walls she's built to survive, or the woman who makes survival worth fighting for.
WIDOW is the second book in The Valensi Chronicles-a story about grief that spans centuries, love that defies reason, and the terrifying courage it takes to let someone see you as you really are.
298 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 1, 2026
About the author
C.L. Stegall
30 books49 followersI craft stories that move like films through the mind and songs that paint scenes in sound. My fiction reads like cinema—visual, atmospheric, deeply felt—while my music tells stories that words alone couldn't capture. Both emerge from the same creative well: a fascination with how moments can shimmer with meaning, how a single scene or melody can hold entire worlds.
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