Adrian V. Vale is the fiction pen name of author Justin Brown, writing dark romance and paranormal fiction where desire, danger, and darkness intertwine.
Drawn to beautiful monsters, forbidden connections, and hidden worlds beneath the surface of ordinary life, Vale creates atmospheric stories steeped in obsession, mystery, seduction, and the supernatural. Inspired by gothic aesthetics, candlelit shadows, occult symbolism, nightlife, and emotionally intense relationships, his work explores the fragile boundary between love and ruin—where passion can become either salvation or destruction.
Through Adrian V. Vale, Brown explores the darker and more seductive side of storytelling, creating worlds where nothing is entirely as it seems and love often comes with a price.
Lost in Velvet Shadows is Adrian V. Vale’s debut novel and is published by Hearthstone Bookworks.