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.

She inherited a countess's title. She didn't inherit her secrets she has to steal them back.When art restorer Elena Voss is summoned to a notary's office in Vienna, she expects a small bequest from a great-aunt she never met. Instead, she walks out the Countess of Berhof heir to a crumbling palazzo on the Ringstrasse, a title erased from every record for seventy years, and a vault no one has opened since 1946.She has one night to decide whether to accept it. That night, at the masked ball held to announce her, the diplomat who orchestrated her inheritance is found dead behind a locked door and the only witness who can clear her name is the one man she was warned never to trust.Damian Wolfe isn't the security consultant his card claims he is. He's been chasing a smuggling network that has moved looted paintings through respectable hands for three generations, and every trail leads back to the Berhof vault. He needs what's inside it. She needs to know why her great-aunt hid it in the first place and why someone is now willing to kill for it.As the body count rises and Vienna's most trusted names start looking like suspects, Elena and Damian are forced into an alliance neither of them wants and both of them need one built on secrets, suspicion, and a pull neither can afford to name. To survive the season, she'll have to become exactly what her great-aunt was: a countess who knows precisely how to keep a secret, and precisely when to break one.A masquerade. A murder. A love that could be the last mistake she ever makes.

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.