Crowned in Ash: The Devil's only Pulse

Power doesn't taste like wine or gold.
It tastes like ash.

For five thousand years, Lucian Vane has been a king in a graveyard-the untouchable Devil Don of Sicily, feared like a curse and worshipped like a god. Cursed by an ancient betrayal, his touch turns everything to dust. Empires have fallen beneath his hands... but so has every chance at warmth, at life, at something as simple as a heartbeat.

He has everything-except the one thing he cannot have.

Human touch.

Elara Valerius is a Null.
A void.

Emotionless and untouched by fear, love, or pain, she accepts being offered to Lucian without hesitation. Not as a sacrifice... but as someone who has nothing left to lose.

She walks into his world not to survive-
but to finally feel something.

Even if it's death.

But death doesn't come.

When Lucian's hand closes around her throat, the world doesn't turn to ash. For the first time in five thousand years, he feels a heartbeat. For the first time in her life, Elara feels fire.

What binds them is not salvation.
It is addiction.

Because Elara is not just the cure to his curse.

She is the blood of the woman who destroyed him.

And in a world where touch means death...
They are the only exception.