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ASHES TO EMPIRE [Full Story Available On Amazon]
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Seraphina Voss labors alone for eleven hours, calling a husband who never picks up. When she finally makes it home ,exhausted, bleeding, desperate for an explanation ,she finds divorce papers waiting on the counter instead. No note. No apology. Just a signature line and an arrow pointing to where she's supposed to sign away her life.
Vivian Ashford, her mother-in-law, expects a grieving young wife to disappear quietly. She has no idea what she's just unleashed.
Because the woman who believed three broken promises is gone. In her place is someone colder, sharper, and far more dangerous ,and she's about to discover that the blood in her veins isn't what she thought it was. A dying shipping magnate is searching for a granddaughter he doesn't know survived. A decades-old fraud connects her new enemies to her real family. And the empire that tried to erase her is about to learn her name.
Sera doesn't want Julian back. She wants everything he was standing in front of when he walked away.
This is not a story about forgiveness. This is a story about becoming unstoppable.
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