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Beneath the Magnolia Veil III: Empire of Ashes
Paperback
Series: A Historical Saga of Power, Book 3
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ISBN13: 9798198184367
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 22 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Society of Ash is dead.
But the empire behind it was far larger than anyone imagined.
Five years after destroying the hidden aristocratic network that once controlled the South, Maria De Plesses has transformed New Orleans into a sanctuary for women escaping exploitation, corruption, and violence. Beside her husband Pierre Gautier and surrounded by the powerful network known as The Daughters of the Veil, Maria finally begins building the peaceful life she nearly died to protect.
But the empire behind it was far larger than anyone imagined.
Five years after destroying the hidden aristocratic network that once controlled the South, Maria De Plesses has transformed New Orleans into a sanctuary for women escaping exploitation, corruption, and violence. Beside her husband Pierre Gautier and surrounded by the powerful network known as The Daughters of the Veil, Maria finally begins building the peaceful life she nearly died to protect.
Until a crimson page arrives from Charleston.
A murdered banker's daughters bring terrifying news of a secret organization known only as The Atlantic Circle-an ancient international alliance of shipping dynasties, royal financiers, and political architects operating across America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Unlike the Society of Ash, which ruled from shadows through fear and blackmail, the Atlantic Circle controls nations through economic collapse, manufactured wars, and global trade empires stretching across oceans.
And now...they know Maria De Plesses still lives.
When entire port cities begin suffering mysterious financial crashes, political assassinations spread across the Eastern Seaboard, and former members of the Society of Ash start turning up brutally murdered, Maria realizes the Society itself may have been only a regional branch of something much older and infinitely more dangerous.
The deeper she investigates, the more horrifying the truth becomes:
The Atlantic Circle was responsible for financing slave empires, toppling governments, engineering economic depressions, and secretly influencing the expansion of the United States itself. Entire wars were orchestrated to enrich powerful bloodlines hidden behind international banks and shipping monopolies.
And buried within newly discovered Crimson Pages lies an impossible revelation tied directly to Maria's own family:
The De Plesses bloodline was never meant merely to oversee the Society of Ash.
They were once intended to rule the entire Atlantic Circle itself.
As New Orleans becomes the center of a growing underground resistance led by women once silenced by power, Maria faces enemies far beyond anything she encountered in Louisiana. European assassins arrive in America. Caribbean shipping kings declare war against her network. Secret tribunals convene in Havana, Charleston, London, and Paris deciding whether Maria must be recruited...
or executed.
Meanwhile, Pierre struggles to hold together a city increasingly consumed by political instability while trying desperately not to lose the woman he loves to another endless war. But Maria herself begins changing under the weight of leadership, power, and global influence. The same dangerous instincts that once helped her destroy the Society of Ash now threaten to transform her into something frighteningly similar to the enemies she fights.
Because the Atlantic Circle does not fear violence.
It fears succession.
And somewhere beyond the Atlantic Ocean, hidden beneath ancient cathedrals, royal banking houses, and forgotten slave ports...
a final chamber waits.
One containing secrets powerful enough to rewrite the history of the modern world itself.
In a battle stretching from New Orleans to Havana, Paris, London, and the Caribbean Sea, Maria De Plesses must decide once and for all whether power can ever truly be wielded without corruption...
or whether every empire eventually demands a queen willing to become a monster to destroy it.
A murdered banker's daughters bring terrifying news of a secret organization known only as The Atlantic Circle-an ancient international alliance of shipping dynasties, royal financiers, and political architects operating across America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Unlike the Society of Ash, which ruled from shadows through fear and blackmail, the Atlantic Circle controls nations through economic collapse, manufactured wars, and global trade empires stretching across oceans.
And now...they know Maria De Plesses still lives.
When entire port cities begin suffering mysterious financial crashes, political assassinations spread across the Eastern Seaboard, and former members of the Society of Ash start turning up brutally murdered, Maria realizes the Society itself may have been only a regional branch of something much older and infinitely more dangerous.
The deeper she investigates, the more horrifying the truth becomes:
The Atlantic Circle was responsible for financing slave empires, toppling governments, engineering economic depressions, and secretly influencing the expansion of the United States itself. Entire wars were orchestrated to enrich powerful bloodlines hidden behind international banks and shipping monopolies.
And buried within newly discovered Crimson Pages lies an impossible revelation tied directly to Maria's own family:
The De Plesses bloodline was never meant merely to oversee the Society of Ash.
They were once intended to rule the entire Atlantic Circle itself.
As New Orleans becomes the center of a growing underground resistance led by women once silenced by power, Maria faces enemies far beyond anything she encountered in Louisiana. European assassins arrive in America. Caribbean shipping kings declare war against her network. Secret tribunals convene in Havana, Charleston, London, and Paris deciding whether Maria must be recruited...
or executed.
Meanwhile, Pierre struggles to hold together a city increasingly consumed by political instability while trying desperately not to lose the woman he loves to another endless war. But Maria herself begins changing under the weight of leadership, power, and global influence. The same dangerous instincts that once helped her destroy the Society of Ash now threaten to transform her into something frighteningly similar to the enemies she fights.
Because the Atlantic Circle does not fear violence.
It fears succession.
And somewhere beyond the Atlantic Ocean, hidden beneath ancient cathedrals, royal banking houses, and forgotten slave ports...
a final chamber waits.
One containing secrets powerful enough to rewrite the history of the modern world itself.
In a battle stretching from New Orleans to Havana, Paris, London, and the Caribbean Sea, Maria De Plesses must decide once and for all whether power can ever truly be wielded without corruption...
or whether every empire eventually demands a queen willing to become a monster to destroy it.
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