Crown Of Ruins by Ana Vespera at Inkitt

Story Notes

Author’s Note

(Book Two of the Crown Series)

Crown of Ruins is the second book in the Crown Series — and it exists in the space after love has already broken.

If Crown of Obsession was about control, collision, and the first crack in the armor, this book is about what comes after. The silence. The distance. The years that pass while feelings stay exactly where they were left.

Luca Volkov and Elena Moretti’s story was never meant to be loud. It is built on restraint, unfinished sentences, and a love that chose fear once — and paid for it. Writing Book Two meant slowing everything down and letting the damage speak for itself.

This is not a story about instant forgiveness. It’s about regret, longing, and the quiet devastation of still loving someone you never stopped choosing — even when you walked away.

Behind the scenes, this book demanded patience from me. Healing doesn’t rush. Trust doesn’t reappear on command. Every moment here is earned, not given.

If you’re looking for grand gestures without consequence, this isn’t it.

But if you believe love can survive ruin — and be rebuilt brick by brick —

Welcome back to the Crown Series.

— Ana Vespera 🖤

Summary

Five years ago, Elena told Luca she loved him. He walked away — not because he didn’t love her, but because loving him put her in danger. Now she’s a lawyer hired to protect the Volkov family empire. He has no choice but to work with her. She has no intention of forgiving him. The tension between them is unmanageable — jealousy, denial, old memories, suppressed desire. When an enemy begins targeting Elena, Luca’s restraint collapses. He becomes ruthless — the version of him he swore she would never see. To protect her, he betrays her again. She leaves. He breaks. Truth comes out. The world tries to own them. They choose each other anyway.

Genre: Romance

Author: Ana Vespera

Status: Complete

Chapters: 30

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 18+

DEDICATION

For the soft hearts with steel spines—

the ones who bleed, and still choose to love.

For every Elena who forgave life even when it didn’t deserve it,

and every Luca who learned that gentleness

is not a weakness, but a revolution.

This story is yours—

the story of two broken edges

finding a way to fit without cutting each other.

To the ones who rebuild themselves,

even after the world tries to burn them down—

may you wear your ruins like armor.