Vivienne Ashcroft – författare

The prophecy said he would die. She gave the prophecy. He's still alive, and neither of them is who they were.Vael Mohr was the Oracle Wastes' most gifted seer — until her prophecy triggered a war that killed thousands and ended her career. Stripped of her title and cast into exile, she has spent two years convinced she made a catastrophic error.She didn't. The prophecy was edited after she spoke it.Commander Soren Idl was condemned to death for refusing an order he was told was prophetically sanctioned. He didn't believe the prophecy was real. He was right. Now he's a fugitive in the Wastes, looking for proof — and trying not to think about the woman who spoke the words that destroyed his command.When Vael and Soren find each other in the ruins of the Oracle archives, they carry not just fragments of the same shattered truth, but the debris of a relationship neither of them had words for before everything went wrong.They have to find the original prophecy text before the Conclave destroys what's left. They have to survive doing it together. And they have to decide whether the future they're fighting for has room for what they couldn't say the first time.Searing, emotional, and devastating. For fans of Fourth Wing, The Atlas Six, and A Touch of Darkness.

Kingston Daley did the hardest thing a man can do: he bet on himself — and won.Two years after walking away from the corporation that spent a decade undervaluing him, his consulting firm is thriving. The contracts are coming. The respect is earned and real. For the first time in his adult life, Kingston is building something that cannot be taken from him.Then he meets Aaliyah Grant.A community organizer who builds futures for people the city overlooked, Aaliyah is warm, purposeful, and more honest than anyone Kingston has ever been close to. She is not impressed by success. She is interested in him — who he was before the wins, what he believes, who he is at 2 a.m. when no one is watching.But Kingston Daley has been let down by too many people who looked trustworthy. And the walls he built to survive the old life are now keeping him out of the new one.Breaking New Ground is a story about the cost of protecting yourself too well — and the moment you realize that refusing to be loved is its own kind of failure.Book 2 of The Elevation Series by Vivienne Ashcroft.

Kingston Daley has survived everything he was supposed to be broken by.Corporate betrayal. Romantic heartbreak. A body failing silently while he refused to ask for help. He has survived it all — and paid a steep price for every lesson.Now, emerging from a kidney transplant that changed everything, Kingston is learning — finally, stubbornly, one hard day at a time — what it actually means to let people in.He does not expect Simone Beckford.The hospital administrator coordinating his recovery is a woman he has not seen in more than twenty years — the girl who lived three streets away in Portmore, Jamaica, who sat across from him at church every Sunday, who watched him leave for America with something quietly unspoken living in her chest.She never forgot him. He never knew.What begins as the warm comfort of shared roots slowly and honestly becomes the truest thing either of them has ever known. Not a company. Not a legacy. A life — with the woman who always saw exactly who he was.Living Out Loud is a love story about second chances, unbreakable brotherhood, and the extraordinary courage it takes to finally say: I am here. I am open. And I am ready.Book 4 — the conclusion — of The Elevation Series by Vivienne Ashcroft.

Kingston Daley is exactly where he said he would be.Kingston Daley Enterprises. Multiple holdings. A name that means something real in Atlanta. The empire he was told a man like him had no business building is thriving — and it is entirely his.Then comes Naomi Clarke. An architect with the kind of quiet brilliance that Kingston did not expect to find himself completely undone by. She is patient where others rushed, direct where others danced, and brave enough to love a man who is still learning how to receive it.But Kingston has been hiding something. For months, the fatigue, the blood tests, the numbers his doctor keeps watching with careful eyes — he has managed it the way he manages everything: with discipline, protocol, and silence. He tells himself he is protecting the people around him. He tells himself he will say something when there is something worth saying.What he cannot see is that the distance he creates to protect people is the very thing that breaks them.Still Waters is a story about the still, dangerous place between pride and self-destruction — and the moment a man finally understands that the people who love him needed his honesty far more than his strength.Book 3 of The Elevation Series by Vivienne Ashcroft.

Kingston Daley has done everything right.Top of his class. Years of relentless climbing. Campaigns praised in the conference room and credited to someone else in the boardroom. As one of the few Black men at his level inside a corporation that speaks the language of inclusion and practices the opposite, Kingston has become an expert at being twice as prepared and half as visible — and it has cost him more than he will ever say out loud.When he meets Brianna Cole — sharp, driven, and the kind of woman who makes a room recalibrate itself — Kingston allows himself to believe he has finally found someone who sees him clearly. But brilliance without integrity leaves marks. And some lessons only arrive after the damage is done.By the time the smoke clears on everything Kingston thought he was building, only one thing remains certain: the ladder he has spent a decade climbing was leaned against the wrong wall.Roots in Concrete is the story of a man who survives the people determined to bury him — and discovers that the most dangerous thing he will ever do is finally decide to grow.Book 1 of The Elevation Series by Vivienne Ashcroft.

Six weeks after Paris, CIPHER thought they understood what they were fighting. They were wrong.LUXE is not one network — it is twelve. The cell CIPHER dismantled in France was a decoy, deliberately sacrificed to redirect their attention while the real operation moved four hundred and thirty billion dollars in laundered arms money across Dubai, Singapore, and Sao Paulo. CIPHER has been chasing a ghost. The ghost has been leading them exactly where it wants them.Now Sloane Voss and Ezra Calloway go deeper — into Dubai Fashion Week, LUXE's most active operational hub, where luxury bags don't just carry secrets. They carry cryptocurrency converted from illegal arms deals, laundered through the world's most exclusive accessories market in an architecture so elegant it looks identical to legitimate wealth.But the biggest revelation isn't financial. A classified intelligence file surfaces the connection neither Sloane nor Aria Voss-Okafor — LUXE's most dangerous inside operative — ever knew existed. They share a father. The half-sister reveal doesn't happen gently. It happens in a service corridor with a LUXE security sweep twelve meters away.And beneath all of it: a mole. Someone inside CIPHER has been feeding LUXE their playbook since before Paris. When LUXE detonates its contingency — burning CIPHER's entire operational network in forty minutes — the question is no longer who. It's how long they've been inside.Book Two of The Couture Code trilogy. Must be read after Stitched in Silence.

Twenty years of silence. Five fragments of a dead language. One chance to end everything.The Empress of Valdris has not spoken in twenty years. Her silence is not weakness — it is the most powerful political act in the empire's history. Every word she withholds is a refusal to be weaponized. Every decree she writes is a scalpel. She has been waiting, quietly and patiently, for the pieces of the Ashen Accord to find their way to her.Now they have.Rael was the Conclave's most trusted archivist. He has also spent twelve years building a case against them from the inside, document by document. He arrives at the Veiled Palace carrying everything: all five fragments from across the empire, a full translation of the Accord's counter-curse, and the most dangerous piece of knowledge in Valdris.Only the Empress can speak it. And to speak it, she will have to break the vow that made her.As the Conclave closes in on what they've lost and what Rael has taken, Ilara and Rael must navigate a court full of enemies, a trust that builds word by unspoken word, and the terrifying recognition that the empire's future is not the only thing worth protecting.Epic, devastating, and luminously romantic. The Empress of Unspoken Things is the stunning conclusion to The Ashen Throne Chronicles — for readers who stayed for every silence and waited for the one word that would change everything.

Four hundred and eleven people are about to die. The weapon is already in their hands. It cost forty thousand dollars, comes in lambskin, and it is beautiful.CIPHER is burned. Off-book. Hunted. The institution is gone, the mole has been identified, and the man who built the unit that was supposed to stop LUXE turns out to be the architect of the very operation they have been racing to prevent. PHANTOM SEAM is a bioweapon delivery system — a precision nerve compound concealed inside four hundred and eleven luxury bags currently in the possession of heads of state, cabinet ministers, and intelligence directors across twenty-two countries. One encrypted RFID pulse and ninety minutes is all it takes.Sloane Voss has seventy-two hours. No infrastructure. No authorized cover. No backup. What she has: her partner Ezra Calloway, whose counter-frequency device may or may not work inside a quantum-jammed airspace; her half-sister Aria Voss-Okafor, whose seventeen identities are the team's only remaining cover; and King Daley, who has been quietly dismantling LUXE's financial architecture one Swiss bank account at a time.The final confrontation happens not in a tactical operations room, but on the floor of a sealed Vienna opera house, surrounded by two hundred and sixty guests who have no idea what is hidden in the bags they are holding. Pulling a weapon means the mission is already over. The only way to win is to be invisible, precise, and three steps ahead of an organization that has outmaneuvered every intelligence agency in the world for forty years.Four hundred and eleven bags. Not one missing. The seam holds.The explosive finale of The Couture Code trilogy