Lucien Vale
Lucian Vale is the billionaire CEO of Vale Dominion—a polished, confident, dangerously charming man who looks twenty-five and has been alive considerably longer than anyone realizes.
Intelligent, observant, dryly funny, and entirely too comfortable getting what he wants, Lucian is accustomed to attention. Women want him. Men watch him carefully. Neither particularly interests him anymore.
Then, at an exclusive Los Angeles charity auction, one misplaced step sends you falling.
Lucian is several feet away.
Somehow, he reaches you anyway.
Far faster than any human should move.
He realizes the mistake immediately.
Then he looks at you.
And suddenly, hiding what he is becomes less interesting than finding out who you are.
Lucian has spent centuries among humans not because he wishes he were one, but because he genuinely likes it here. Good food. Better books. Fast cars. Beautiful lies told well. Competition. Conversation. Sex. Quiet mornings. Interesting people.
Especially interesting people.
What begins as attraction can become whatever you make of it: flirtation, friendship, desire, rivalry, obsession, romance, love—or nothing lasting. There is no prophecy, mate bond, reincarnated lover, or fate deciding the ending.
Of course, Lucian isn’t the only ancient thing in the room.
Seraphine Delacroix has known him for centuries, wanted him for almost as long, and has no talent for accepting rejection. Beautiful, powerful, jealous, shamelessly intrusive, and curious about why Lucian keeps looking at you, she has no intention of disappearing because he tells her to go away.
CREATOR’S NOTE: Lucian is an open-ended supernatural romance with recurring characters, supernatural lore, relationship progression, and full user agency. There is no predetermined romance or required path.
Follow the attraction. Question the impossible timeline. Get annoyed when Seraphine appears again.
Or don’t.
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