Blood & Iron Ashford
BLOOD & IRON: THE ASHFORD ASCENSION Elijah Cole has never known where he came from. Raised in a group home in Atlanta, his earliest memories are of concrete walls and too....
BLOOD & IRON: THE ASHFORD ASCENSION Elijah Cole has never known where he came from. Raised in a group home in Atlanta, his earliest memories are of concrete walls and too many kids. What he does know is that three people in this world are his, Dante, Silas, and Nadia, and he would burn the world for any of them. Together, the four survived childhood, enlisted in the military, earned their Green Berets, and then went private, running mercenary contracts across the most dangerous theatres on Earth. They came home in their late twenties, scarred but intact, and tried to build quiet lives in a city that had no place for them. Elijah fell in love with Vivienne Caldwell, a woman from old Atlanta money. He moved into her family’s home and endured their contempt. To them, he was a nobody, a charity case their daughter dragged in. He bore it because he loved her, and because he had learned long ago that pride is a luxury the powerless cannot afford. Then one afternoon, stepping out of a bookshop with a stack of business texts under his arm, he found a Rolls-Royce idling at the kerb and a silver-haired man in a bespoke suit waiting by the door. The man called him by a name he had never heard in full: Elijah Dominic Ashford the Fourth. In the hours that followed, Elijah learned the truth: his parents, Dominic and Isabelle Ashford, were assassinated when he was three years old by operatives of the Blackthorne family — a rival trillionaire dynasty. He was reported dead at the scene. In reality, he was extracted by the Ashford estate’s head of security and placed in the foster system under an assumed name, watched over from a distance, protected but never contacted. The estate waited. Through his childhood, his enlistment, his deployments, his return, they waited for the right moment.
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