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.

An empire is only as strong as the secret at its center—and someone inside Sterling Holdings is selling theirs to the enemy.Maya Sterling has stopped running. She now commands the twenty-billion-dollar intelligence empire her husband died building, and she is using it the only way she knows how: to build a case. Hidden beneath Dmitri Volkov's legitimate fortune is a laundering architecture that connects oligarchs, a sanctioned tech billionaire, and bought officials across three continents. Maya calls it the Moscow account, and it is the thread that can unravel them all.But the deeper Maya digs, the more certain she becomes that Volkov is always one step ahead—because he has a source inside her own house. As an FBI agent presses to seize or shut down the empire, and a traitor feeds her every move to Moscow, Maya must wage two wars at once: one in the courtroom, and one in the shadows where her husband's people are dying.To win, she will have to trust a machine built on secrets, expose a betrayer she may love, and follow the money into the one place Volkov swore she would never look.The Moscow Account is the relentless second book in Empire of Evidence.

Some empires are built on land. Others are built in shadow and those are the ones that kill to stay hidden.Maya Sterling is America's most feared federal prosecutor: fifteen years, an undefeated record, and a courtroom instinct that always seems to find the one piece of evidence that ends a billionaire's reign. Hours after she puts away tech fraudster Marcus Chen, a private plane goes down over the Atlantic and a wax-sealed letter arrives that detonates everything she believed about her life.Her husband Daniel was not a quiet finance executive named Sterling. He was Daniel Castellano, son of a murdered prosecutor, and for twenty-two years he secretly built a twenty-billion-dollar intelligence empire with one purpose: to hand Maya the evidence to convict the people the law could never touch. Now Daniel is dead, Maya has inherited it all, and the oligarch who killed him has given her seventy-two hours before he comes for her too.Run and pray. Surrender to the FBI and guarantee her execution. Or pick up her husband's war and become something far more dangerous than a prosecutor. The clock is already running.The Castellano Letter is the explosive first book in Empire of Evidence.

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.

She said she would have skied down Mount Everest in a bikini for him. Instead, she bought a gun, a set of chains, and a plane ticket — and flew three thousand miles to prove it.In the autumn of 1977, former beauty queen Joyce McKinney tracked a nineteen-year-old Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson to a quiet English town, approached him outside his own church at gunpoint, and drove him to an isolated cottage in Devon — where he was chained to a bed frame for three days. She called it a rescue. The British press called it kidnapping. The world would spend the next four decades unable to decide which of them was right.What followed was one of the strangest true crime sagas of the twentieth century: a courtroom defense built on love rather than denial, a tabloid bidding war between Fleet Street's fiercest rivals, a scandal-ending photo leak, and a fugitive's escape from British justice disguised as a member of a traveling mime troupe. Joyce McKinney vanished for thirty years — only to resurface in 2008 at the center of an entirely different international headline: the world's first celebrity dog-cloning scandal.