
by ashervane
Everyone in the diner should have died that night. Instead, most of them turned into something worse. Adam didn't turn into anything. He just got stronger — inexplicably, impossibly stronger — while the woman who cursed him walked out the door without a backward glance, and the man three booths down finally looked up. That man is older than the religion that made him famous for the wrong reasons. He was cast out of Heaven for loving humanity too much to watch it get used, and he's spent thousands of years fighting a war nobody believes he's on the right side of. He calls himself tired. He used to be called King of Hell. Now he's found the one person a curse he thought he'd already destroyed couldn't touch — and neither of them knows why. Adam and Lucifer are about to find out together: why the curse is back, what it's actually being built for, and how far a church that answers to no one will go to make sure the world never finds out. The King of Nothing is Book One of a paranormal fantasy series about power, pride, and the price of being the villain in someone else's story.
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