A Mother's Wrath
Book one of the Elena Volkov trilogy. Out 4 January 2027.
He took her son. He forgot what he made her. She didn't.
At seventeen, Elena was locked in a metal room and handed a knife in a velvet box. The man who gave it to her called it protection. Then he taught her what it was for.
Eight years ago, she escaped him with a baby growing inside her. She crossed Europe under false names, settled in a Cornish fishing town, bought a failing pub, and made an ordinary life for her son, Misha.
Then her home burns.
Misha is gone.
Elena knows exactly who has taken him: Koslov, the man she escaped, the man who made her dangerous, and Misha's father.
The message is simple: come alone. No police. Seventy-two hours.
To get her son back, Elena must return to the routes she fled: freight yards, safe houses and fishing ports where women are moved as cargo and every man has a price. Her only help comes from the people who remember what she was before she became a mother.
Koslov did not take Misha for ransom.
He came to claim his son.
He knows what Elena was willing to do to survive.
He is about to learn what she will do for her son.
