A Mother's Birth
Book two of the Elena Volkov trilogy. Out 1 February 2027.
She counted exits. She counted bullets. Now she's counting weeks.
At sixteen, Elena escaped Murmansk the night men came for her mother. The car that saved her had room for one.
Victoria, the woman in the car, taught her to live under false names. Koslov, the man she met in a freight yard, taught her to read every room for its exits. At seventeen, he handed her a knife in a velvet box and showed her what it was for.
By twenty-five, she is the most feared woman in Koslov's world. He calls her his. She never corrects him.
Then comes Barcelona, the night the legend of Elena was born. Everyone has heard a version. Nobody tells it the same way twice.
What nobody knows is what she found out that night: she is pregnant with Koslov's child.
Koslov is overjoyed. He is already choosing names.
Elena is counting the weeks until her baby is born into the life that made her.
To get out, she must slip the guards of the man who loves her, cross Europe under false names and give birth with his men one door behind.
He taught her to find every exit.
He never imagined she would take one.
