Heir of Ashes: 3

Elena Volkov has survived a marriage contract, a Russian empire in civil war, and a villain who nearly cost them both their lives. None of that prepared her for what frightens her most now: becoming a mother without repeating her own's mistakes.Ares Volkov has buried a father, a brother, and a rival, each claiming a throne he has defended with blood. But the child inside Elena is the first thing in his life he doesn't know how to protect without also destroying, in the process, everything he loves.When the Rostov house resurfaces to claim trade routes lost three decades ago, Ares and Elena return to St. Petersburg ready to close the final pending front of their reign. But Larisa Rostov isn't just looking for territory: she wants to prove to a father who never truly saw her that she is capable of destroying what Ares Volkov loves most in the world.Blackmail. Poison. A siege that will test every wall they have built together.And amid the most violent storm the Volkov empire has seen in generations, a new heartbeat is about to decide, once and for all, whether this family's cycle of blood breaks... or repeats.The throne is about to have an heir. The question is at what cost.