Velvet Sin: Blood & Gold

By MaRanda Waldroupe

She ran from one dangerous man. She fell for another.

Rowan Sinclair arrived in Las Vegas with two suitcases and the wreckage of three years under a man who convinced her she was nothing. New city. New business. A dead succulent that somehow came back to life when she touched it.

Then Marco Bellini walked through her door.

He's the heir to the most powerful crime family in the city. She's renting space on his territory. He wasn't supposed to stay. She wasn't supposed to let him.

When the man she fled follows her to Vegas, the legal system can't touch him - but Marco's world can. And so can the impossible power waking up in Rowan's blood. The flowers that bloom at her touch. The gold light in her eyes. The vine that wraps around the wrist of a man who tries to grab her.

She's not just starting over. She's becoming something this city hasn't seen in generations.

Velvet Sin is a dual-POV dark romance with urban fantasy elements. Book one of an interconnected series.

Tropes: morally gray hero, strong heroine, touch her and die, forced proximity, he falls first, mafia romance, hidden supernatural world

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQB7FP86
• ISBN13: 9798249658199
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"