The Ashes of Inheritance : A Daughter’s Inheritance. A Father’s Betrayal. A Conspiracy Forged in Blood. (The Art Of Deception Book 3)

She inherited fourteen paintings. A notebook her mother died to protect. And the truth about the father she was never supposed to find. Isobel Mercier built her life on a story. Her father was dead. Her mother was brilliant. The past was finished. All of it was a lie. When a sealed letter arrives after her mother’s death, Isobel learns the truth. Her father is alive. His name is Maximilian Devereaux. And he built one of the most powerful criminal networks in the art world. What Sofia Mercier left behind isn’t just an inheritance. It’s evidence. Hidden in a painting locked inside the Geneva Freeport is a secret buried for seventy-five years—Cold War cartographers, falsified maritime borders, and billions in stolen territory, oil, and uranium. People have already died to protect it. Now Isobel is being hunted. By the network her mother exposed. By the system her father helped build. And by forces that will redraw borders to keep the truth buried. As she follows Sofia’s final investigation from Paris to Geneva to the Black Sea, Isobel is forced into an alliance she never wanted— with the man responsible for everything her mother tried to destroy. Maximilian Devereaux knows how the system works. Isobel intends to break it. Because this time, the truth won’t just expose a lie. It will rewrite history. For fans of Daniel Silva, Kate Quinn, and Pam Jenoff. The Ashes of Inheritance is Book 3 and the explosive conclusion of the Art of Deception trilogy.