Four words cost me everything.
These are not mine.
That's all it took to lose my throne, my kingdom, and every soul under my protection. One sentence. One trick. And Baal walked right onto my throne like he'd been measuring it for curtains.
I'm still Lucifer Morningstar. Still an Archangel. Still powerful enough to turn the Las Vegas Strip into a smoking crater. But the crown? The dominion? The hum of Hell that kept me sane for millennia?
Gone.
And the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the men I was bonded to against my will, the ones whose betrayal left me distracted enough to fall, are now the only allies I have left.
Death, who touches me like I'm a theorem he's desperate to solve. War, who'd burn the world down and call it foreplay. Famine, who grew a garden in a concrete wasteland just to prove something could survive. Pestilence, who dropped to his knees and offered to let me use him as a weapon, because it was the only apology I'd accept.
I don't trust them. I can't afford to. But when human souls start vanishing from the afterlife, not dying, not moving on, just erased, I need every Horseman I've got.
Because someone is harvesting souls on an industrial scale. Someone with access to Heaven's highest offices. Someone powerful enough to terrify my own brother into silence.
And the marked humans appearing across the world, thousands of them, branded with the constellation of the Queen, are next on the list.
Heaven wants to strip-mine their souls to replace a dying God. Others want to erase them from existence, and I'm the only thing standing between salvation and annihilation.
No throne. No army. No authority.
Just me, four apocalyptic men who chose me over their own natures, and a war that will crack open the foundations of Creation itself.
They stole my kingdom.
I'm going to take theirs.
Secrets Be Damned is Book 2 in the Ditching Hell series ? a why choose urban fantasy romance featuring a female Lucifer, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a mating bond that refuses to behave, and enough celestial treason to start a war. This is not a standalone.
