In Every Life But Mine.

A Love Older Than Sin

Some love stories begin with a meeting.

Theirs began with a promise neither Heaven nor Hell could keep.

Once every century, the ancient supernatural Houses gather for the Centennial Court, presenting their most beautiful daughters before the immortal ruler of the Lower Realm.

For centuries, witches, celestials, immortals, and daughters of royal blood have competed for one thing:

To become the woman he finally chooses.

He never does.

Some say the Devil has no heart.

Others whisper that he gave it away long ago.

Then, after generations hidden among humans, the powerful Vale family unexpectedly returns.

Elara Vale wants nothing to do with the world her family abandoned. She only wants answers-to the dreams that haunt her, the voice that calls her by a name that isn't hers, and why her parents suddenly decided the human world was no longer safe.

But when Elara enters the Centennial Court, something is wrong.

She recognizes a palace she's never visited.

Understands a language she's never learned.

And when the ruler of the Lower Realm enters, hundreds bow.

Elara doesn't.

Across a room filled with women who have waited their entire lives for his attention, the Devil looks only at her.

His hands begin to tremble.

Elara thinks she's meeting him for the first time.

He knows better.

Because before Hell had a throne, before mankind gave sin a name-

she had already loved him.

And in another life,

she promised she would come back.