CROWNED : Empire of Desire — Book 4

They called her the Kavinsky wife. She was already something else entirely.

Six months in Tuscany. Lea is pregnant, building her art authentication consultancy, learning what it feels like when life is genuinely good. Damien is restructuring his empire away from everything his family built in blood.

Then his cousin arrives from Moscow. Charming. Helpful. Useful in every way that makes Lea's instincts go quiet and cold.

Konstantin Kavinsky isn't stealing. He's positioning. Shell companies. Shadow infrastructure. A claim of family right over an empire Damien has spent years bleeding to legitimize. And he's smart enough to go to the people Damien loves before he makes his move.

Damien is too close to see it. Lea isn't.

She's eight months pregnant and running a financial investigation using the same skills she used to track stolen art — following provenance, spotting fakes, finding the moment when something real becomes a forgery. The trail leads somewhere worse than she expected.

To win this, she'll need to go where Damien can't follow: a conversation with his mother.

The empire has a queen now. Not everyone will bow.