ELC Publishing Author
Vivienne Ashcroft
Vivienne Ashcroft is an author published by ELC Publishing with 26 titles across 5 series. Notable works include The Havana Frame: A Legacy in Shadows, Borrowed Silk: The Ashworth Inheritance, The Last Indictment: Her husband built the case of a lifetime..
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The Havana Frame: A Legacy in Shadows
Twenty years ago, Ernesto Reyes was branded a traitor and died in disgrace. His daughter has spent her whole life restoring other people's masterpieces and avoiding the one truth she was never brave enough to face. When the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes summons art conservator Elena Reyes back to the city that destroyed her father's name, she tells herself it's only a job. Then she finds his handwriting hidden inside the frame of the very painting she's been sent to restore: a confession that could clear him completely, or get her disappeared the same way he was. She isn't alone in the dark workshop for long. Mateo Duarte says he's a cultural-heritage liaison. He is not. He's Cuban intelligence, assigned to watch her and the only man in Havana who might already know exactly what her father died trying to expose. As Elena and Mateo trace a decades-old smuggling operation through looted colonial art, forged diplomatic seals, and a gallery director who has been keeping her father's secrets since before Elena was born, the two of them fall into something neither can afford: a partnership that becomes a romance, inside a conspiracy that has already killed once to stay buried. With one week, one letter, and one chance to expose the truth in front of the very men who built their power on her father's disgrace, Elena has to decide how much of her carefully controlled life she's willing to burn down for a man she was ordered to watch, and a confession that was never supposed to survive.
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Borrowed Silk: The Ashworth Inheritance
Wren Calloway has spent her whole life invisible - a foster kid turned seamstress, mending other people's fortunes one stitch at a time while her own unravel. Then a stranger's will hands her a single bolt of antique silk and seven words that will destroy everything she thinks she knows: everything you need is already in your hands. The silk belonged to Eleanor Ashworth, textile matriarch, dead in a fall the family insists was an accident. Hidden in its lining is a ledger that says otherwise - and a bloodline that says Wren isn't a stranger to the Ashworths at all. As she's pulled from a mending shop on Millbrook Row into a glass tower of old money and older lies, the one man assigned to expose her as a fraud, cold, watchful security chief Julian Voss, becomes the only person she can trust with the truth. Together they unravel a cover-up that reaches from a hidden mill floor to the top of a shareholder vote that could erase every shred of evidence Eleanor died to protect. Every answer Wren finds costs her something. Every truth she keeps binds her closer to a man with his own impossible loyalties. Somewhere between the silk and the lies is the fortune, the family, and the love she never let herself want.
Empire Of Evidence — Vol. 3
The Last Indictment: Her husband built the case of a lifetime.
Every empire is eventually put on trial. Maya Sterling is about to learn whether hers can survive the verdict. Dmitri Volkov has stopped trying to kill Maya Sterling. He has found something better: a secret from the founding of Sterling Holdings that could void every case Maya has ever won, dismantle the twenty-billion-dollar empire her husband died to build, and put Maya herself in the defendant's chair. To destroy her, he doesn't need an assassin. He needs a courtroom. Cornered, hunted, and forced at last to confront the full truth about Daniel Castellano and the murdered father whose death began it all, Maya faces the choice the entire saga has been driving toward. She can fight the way her husband insisted-with clean evidence, inside the law, even as the law is turned into a weapon against her. Or she can use the empire the way Volkov always feared, and win by becoming the very thing she has spent her life prosecuting. With allies falling and the empire's soul on the line, Maya assembles one final case against the untouchable, the last indictment her husband never lived to file. Win, and she redeems twenty-two years of sacrifice. Lose, and everything Daniel built dies with her.
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Sutures Of Silence: The Marburg Betrayal
She stitches the dead back together for a living. He hunts the people who unstitch the truth. Dr. Alexandra 'Lex' Reiner has spent her career reading the last honest sentence a body ever writes. As lead forensic pathologist at the Marburg Institute for Emerging Pathogens, she has learned to trust the incision over the alibi. So when a rising virologist is found dead in a sealed containment lab ruled a tragic exposure to a level-4 pathogen - Lex is the only one who notices the wound underneath the official story: a puncture mark no accident could explain. BKA federal investigator Damian Voss doesn't believe in tragic accidents inside the world's most secure virus vault, and he doesn't believe in coincidences either least of all the one that has put him back in a room with the woman he walked away from three years ago, for reasons he has never let himself say out loud. Lex hasn't forgiven him. She isn't sure she wants to. But she needs a man with a badge and a grudge against liars, and Damian needs a scalpel sharp enough to open what the institute has sealed shut. As they dig past the biosafety protocols, they uncover a black-market pipeline moving engineered pathogen samples out of Marburg's most secure freezers funded by a pharmaceutical patron who has spent a decade buying silence one grant, one NDA, one disappearance at a time. Every colleague Lex trusted is a suspect. Every answer draws them closer to a truth that could end her career, and closer to each other, in a hospital corridor at 2 a.m., a stairwell during a lockdown, a confession neither of them meant to make. With a courier already dead, a whistleblower missing, and a shipment of live samples forty-eight hours from a buyer with no conscience, Lex and Damian have one chance to expose the Institute before the next body on her table is one of their own.
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The Attache's Vow: A Deception Written In Diplomacy
Cultural attaché Elena Marchand has spent her career keeping her real work invisible. When a catastrophic dead drop in Vienna costs her mentor's life and vanishes a piece of intelligence known only as the Kessler Ledger, Langley's solution is unthinkable: marry her into the Austrian Foreign Ministry through trade attaché Damian Kovarik a man with a hidden service of his own, and a missing sister he's never stopped searching for. What begins as a legend of convenience a wedding staged for cameras, a household built on rules neither of them trusts the other to keep becomes the most dangerous operation either has ever run, as the two discover their marriage was never as unmonitored as they believed. Somewhere between the tradecraft and the truth, the vow they made to protect their covers becomes one neither is willing to break. A romance espionage thriller of diplomatic secrets, institutional betrayal, and a love that has to survive being someone else's operation first.
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Vows And Vanishing Points: A Romance Thriller
She vanished on her wedding night. He's the only one who believes she's still alive. When Isabelle Winslow disappears from her own wedding reception, leaving nothing behind but a veil snagged on the cliff rocks below her family's estate, the case closes almost as fast as it opens - and the evidence points straight at her husband of six hours, Nathaniel Cole. Nathaniel doesn't believe his bride is dead. With one skeptical detective willing to keep digging, he uncovers a family fortune built on a debt no one was meant to find, a wedding planner paid by a company that doesn't exist, and a uncle with more to lose from Isabelle's marriage than anyone admitted. The deeper Nathaniel goes, the clearer it becomes: someone at Windmere Point has been counting on the world believing his wife is gone. A romance thriller about the vows we make, the secrets that outlast them, and how far one husband will go to bring his wife home.
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The Sable Countess: A Reckoning In Vienna
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.
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The Antidote Protocol: A Geneva Deception
Dr. Elena Voss has spent her career chasing the diseases other people run from. As lead toxicologist at Geneva's Meridian Global Health Institute, she trusts data, not instinct - until the "miracle" antiviral she helped bring to trial starts killing the very patients it was meant to save, and the deaths are being erased from the record before she can prove it. The only person willing to listen is Julian Kade, a compliance auditor with a passport full of countries he's never audited and a stare that makes her question everything except how badly she wants to trust him. As Elena digs deeper, she uncovers a truth more dangerous than any pathogen: the Antidote Protocol was never meant to cure anyone. It was built to deliver something else entirely - and the world's health ministers are about to sign off on it in seventy-two hours. Hunted through Geneva's glass towers and the Alps' quarantined valleys, Elena and Julian must decide how much of themselves they're willing to burn to stop a weapon disguised as a cure - before the antidote becomes the outbreak.
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Three Days In Devon: The Beauty Queen, the Missionary, and the Kidnapping the World Called the 'Manacled Mormon' Case
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.
Empire Of Evidence — Vol. 2
The Moscow Account
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.
Empire Of Evidence — Vol. 1
The Castellano Letter: A Maya Sterling Thriller
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.
The Couture Code — Vol. 3
Phantom Seams
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
The Couture Code — Vol. 2
The Ghost Label
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.
The Couture Code — Vol. 1
Stitched in Silence
A master Hermès artisan is found dead in his Paris atelier - hands arranged around a Birkin that exists on no manifest, no waitlist, no record. CIPHER calls it what French authorities won't: a hit. CIPHER is a four-person rapid-response intelligence unit operating beneath the NSA, Interpol, and MI6. They don't officially exist. Neither do the cases they take. Operatives Sloane Voss and Ezra Calloway go in under cover - a luxury goods investigator and her tech consultant - and surface the edge of something vast: a network called LUXE that has turned the world's most coveted handbags into an intelligence operation moving freely across international borders, because no customs agent on Earth looks twice at a woman carrying a $40,000 bag. Nano-surveillance fibers woven into lambskin. Quantum-encrypted dead drops hidden in hardware. AI-generated forgeries that defeat even Hermès' own systems. LUXE has been operating undetected for nineteen years. And someone inside CIPHER has been keeping it that way. As the investigation pulls Sloane and Ezra deeper into LUXE's world - through private auctions, holographic runway dead drops, and boardrooms that move billions through authenticated couture - the professional distance between them stops being distance. And when a classified file surfaces both their names under a column labeled Legacy Assets - Unactivated, the mission stops being just a mission. The bags hold secrets. So does everyone chasing them. Book One of The Couture Code trilogy.
The Elevation Series — Vol. 4
Living Out Loud
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.
The Elevation Series — Vol. 3
Still Waters
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.
The Elevation Series — Vol. 2
Breaking New Ground
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.
The Elevation Series — Vol. 1
Roots In Concrete
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 re-calibrate 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.
The Ashen Throne Chronicles — Vol. 4
What The Oracle Burned
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.
The Ashen Throne Chronicles — Vol. 3
Silver Tongue, Iron Vow
She can feel a lie before it leaves your mouth. He's been lying his whole career. This summit was designed to kill them both. Lyssa Crane has negotiated treaties between warring houses across the Ashen Throne for six years using her rare gift — a physical resonance that vibrates when someone speaks false intent. So when she enters the peace summit at Oakhaven, she expects the usual posturing and political theater. She doesn't expect Commander Soren Idl, whose mind radiates a total, terrifying silence that her gift cannot read at all. Soren is the empire's most decorated tactician, but he carries a secret that would see him executed for treason: he has been quietly subverting the Crown's expansionist orders from the inside. When an assassin strikes the opening banquet, framing Lyssa and Soren simultaneously, the two sworn enemies must flee together into the winter Wastes. Bound by an iron vow of mutual protection, Lyssa and Soren must uncover who arranged the summit setup before the realm plunges into full civil war — while discovering that the hardest truth to speak is the one they've been keeping from each other.
The Ashen Throne Chronicles — Vol. 2
The Architect of Stolen Crowns
She was sent to silence a threat. She found a truth that could burn the empire down. Mira Ashvane has spent eight years as the Crown's most effective covert operative, executing precise strikes against dissident factions across the Ashen Throne. When she is assigned to eliminate a rogue scholar accused of high treason in the capital of Highspire, she expects a routine operation. Instead, she finds a vault of stolen royal genealogies proving that the reigning dynasty usurped the throne through a dark blood-rite three generations ago. Now targeted by the very spymaster who trained her, Mira must form an uneasy alliance with Kaelen Vance, a disgraced noble knight seeking justice for his executed house. Together, they navigate courtly ballrooms, subterranean archives, and deadly ambushes to expose the architect behind the stolen crowns before the ritual is repeated.
The Hollow Crown Series — Vol. 4
Where Empires Fall for You
She was trained to map the conspiracy, not fall for the crown prince at the center of it. Threadwitch operative Seraphina Voss has spent fourteen months infiltrating the highest circles of the Sunlit Court to expose the cabal preparing to ignite an empire-wide war. As the final harvest ball approaches, the conspiracy reaches its climax — but so does her forbidden romance with Prince Nikolai, the man she was sent to spy upon. When the coup detonates inside the grand ballroom, Seraphina is forced to choose between her loyalty to the Threadwitch Order and saving the prince who gave up his throne to protect her. High-stakes royal drama, magical espionage, and romantic tension collide in Book 4 of The Hollow Crown Series.
The Ashen Throne Chronicles — Vol. 1
The Surveillance of Saints
In a realm governed by strict holy decrees and omnipresent magical surveillance, the Order of Saints maintains total control over every soul in the kingdom. Dr. Vael Mohr, an archivist at the High Cathedral, reads the secret confessions of the nobility for a living. When Vael discovers an erased parchment documenting a forbidden magical lineage hidden among the royal guard, she becomes the prime target of the High Inquisitor. Her only hope lies with Commander Soren, a warrior bound by sacred vows who begins to question the very faith he was sworn to enforce. Book 1 in The Ashen Throne Chronicles begins an epic saga of religious intrigue, forbidden power, and dangerous romance.
The Hollow Crown Series — Vol. 3
Crown of Lies and Silver
She came to the palace to gather intelligence. She leaves it holding something far harder to file. Seraphina Voss is a Threadwitch — she reads the emotional resonance woven into fabrics, documents, and royal court garments. Positioned as a court seamstress inside the capital, she gathers intelligence on the silver-tongued nobles plotting to overthrow the reigning monarch. When Crown Prince Nikolai requests her personal services to inspect ancient ceremonial robes before his coronation, Seraphina discovers a lethally dangerous cipher stitched into the silver thread — a curse that will kill the prince the moment he wears the crown. To save him, she must navigate courtly deceit, rival assassins, and a growing passion that threatens both their lives. Book 3 of The Hollow Crown Series.
The Hollow Crown Series — Vol. 2
The Prince of Broken Oaths
She was positioned, not deployed. And now she knows it. For three years, Seraphina Voss believed she was working against the empire's most dangerous faction. But as court alliances shift and Prince Nikolai is forced into a political betrothal he never wanted, Seraphina discovers that her own handler in the Threadwitch Guild has been manipulating her reports from the start. A prince bound by forgotten vows and a woman who can read the lies in every thread must navigate betrayal, poisonings, and an impending war that could ruin the kingdom. Book 2 of The Hollow Crown Series.
The Hollow Crown Series — Vol. 1
Throne of Ash and Wanting
She was hired to betray him. He knew from the start. Neither of them expected this. Seraphina Voss lost everything when her father was executed for treason against the Sunlit Crown. To survive, she uses her rare gift as a Threadwitch — reading the secret intentions woven into cloth and parchment — taking a contract from a shadowy lord to infiltrate the household of Crown Prince Nikolai. Nikolai is cold, calculating, and fully aware that his new seamstress is a spy sent to destroy him. But as court rivals close in and an ancient shadow magic threatens the kingdom, prince and spy form a dangerous pact born of necessity, ambition, and undeniable desire. Book 1 of The Hollow Crown Series.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is author Vivienne Ashcroft?
Vivienne Ashcroft is an author published by ELC Publishing with 26 titles across 5 series. Notable works include The Havana Frame: A Legacy in Shadows, Borrowed Silk: The Ashworth Inheritance, The Last Indictment: Her husband built the case of a lifetime..
What books has Vivienne Ashcroft written?
Vivienne Ashcroft has written: The Havana Frame: A Legacy in Shadows, Borrowed Silk: The Ashworth Inheritance, The Last Indictment: Her husband built the case of a lifetime., Sutures Of Silence: The Marburg Betrayal, The Attache's Vow: A Deception Written In Diplomacy, Vows And Vanishing Points: A Romance Thriller, The Sable Countess: A Reckoning In Vienna, The Antidote Protocol: A Geneva Deception, Three Days In Devon: The Beauty Queen, the Missionary, and the Kidnapping the World Called the 'Manacled Mormon' Case, The Moscow Account, The Castellano Letter: A Maya Sterling Thriller, Phantom Seams, The Ghost Label, Stitched in Silence, Living Out Loud, Still Waters, Breaking New Ground, Roots In Concrete, What The Oracle Burned, Silver Tongue, Iron Vow, The Architect of Stolen Crowns, Where Empires Fall for You, The Surveillance of Saints, Crown of Lies and Silver, The Prince of Broken Oaths, Throne of Ash and Wanting.
Bibliography
| # | Title | Series | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Havana Frame: A Legacy in Shadows | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 2 | Borrowed Silk: The Ashworth Inheritance | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 3 | The Last Indictment: Her husband built the case of a lifetime. | Empire Of Evidence | eBook, Audiobook |
| 4 | Sutures Of Silence: The Marburg Betrayal | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 5 | The Attache's Vow: A Deception Written In Diplomacy | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 6 | Vows And Vanishing Points: A Romance Thriller | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 7 | The Sable Countess: A Reckoning In Vienna | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 8 | The Antidote Protocol: A Geneva Deception | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 9 | Three Days In Devon: The Beauty Queen, the Missionary, and the Kidnapping the World Called the 'Manacled Mormon' Case | Standalone | eBook, Audiobook |
| 10 | The Moscow Account | Empire Of Evidence | eBook, Audiobook |
| 11 | The Castellano Letter: A Maya Sterling Thriller | Empire Of Evidence | eBook, Audiobook |
| 12 | Phantom Seams | The Couture Code | eBook, Audiobook |
| 13 | The Ghost Label | The Couture Code | eBook, Audiobook |
| 14 | Stitched in Silence | The Couture Code | eBook, Audiobook |
| 15 | Living Out Loud | The Elevation Series | eBook, Audiobook |
| 16 | Still Waters | The Elevation Series | eBook, Audiobook |
| 17 | Breaking New Ground | The Elevation Series | eBook, Audiobook |
| 18 | Roots In Concrete | The Elevation Series | eBook, Audiobook |
| 19 | What The Oracle Burned | The Ashen Throne Chronicles | eBook, Audiobook |
| 20 | Silver Tongue, Iron Vow | The Ashen Throne Chronicles | eBook, Audiobook |
| 21 | The Architect of Stolen Crowns | The Ashen Throne Chronicles | eBook, Audiobook |
| 22 | Where Empires Fall for You | The Hollow Crown Series | eBook, Audiobook |
| 23 | The Surveillance of Saints | The Ashen Throne Chronicles | eBook, Audiobook |
| 24 | Crown of Lies and Silver | The Hollow Crown Series | eBook, Audiobook |
| 25 | The Prince of Broken Oaths | The Hollow Crown Series | eBook, Audiobook |
| 26 | Throne of Ash and Wanting | The Hollow Crown Series | eBook, Audiobook |