A Dark Romance with a new kind of devil: When Lucifer hunts for a bride, the original bad boy doesn’t quibble over consent. Rose is perfect. She’s an innocent, he’s depraved and bored, but the Demon ceremony she’ll have to undergo concerns him. The more time he spends with his intended preparing her, the more he falls under her spell. The more he comes to care for her, the more danger looms.

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Rose, devastated by the recent loss of her parents and fiancé, has been adrift. Lucifer slips into her life and quickly makes himself the fulcrum around which she wobbles. Broad new vistas open before her, because he is not at all what he is rumored to be. His tenderness and caring capture her heart, even as he teaches her about desire. Surviving his court, however, is going to be tricky.

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Can love exist in the midst of Hell?

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Trigger warnings: It’s Hell and he’s the devil. Read accordingly. Dark matter includes graphic sex, language, violence, multiple-partner, domination

Verdetta Maille is 84 years old when she summons The Devil for sex. At the end of her life, she wants to go out with a bang rather than hooked up to beeping machines and smelling antiseptic spray. And why not take the original bad boy for a spin? After playing it safe most of her life, she's ready for a little adventure.

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Lucifer is bored. It's all just sex and torture as usual, and the weight of his existence has grown heavy. While contemplating a return to incorporeality, he hears Verdetta's summons. Who he wonders, has the gall?

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But when he sees Verdetta and she offers him fried chicken, he decides to stay a while. As the two become friends, he brings her body back sixty years, only to discover she doesn't really want him. But what she gives him is more important than casual sex: she gives him a new path. As she softens him for love, he discovers a reason to continue.

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Making friends with The Devil has its advantages, not least of which is a new life for them both.

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Lucifer takes Rose to Hell, there to undergo the Ceremony of Blood and Seed. But that's only the start. As he realizes he's losing his heart, he's also in danger of losing his new bride. When forces conspire, he'll have to make a damning choice.

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And Rose... falling in love with The Devil will require a whole new level of submission....