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Every wish has an exchange rate, and no one tells you the price until it has already been spent.
Alexander Vorontsov is twenty-nine, freezing in a Moscow apartment, and holding his twenty-third rejection letter. Four years of writing a novel he still believes in have earned him nothing but polite refusals and debt. Then an email arrives about the estate of an unknown man—naming Alexander sole beneficiary of a fortune that changes everything.
The inheritance comes with a man attached: elegant, ageless, and unfailingly honest. He has worn a dozen names across centuries: the Baron in Vienna, Monsieur Levoir in Petersburg, Lucian de Valmor in London. He offers wishes and collects interest later, in currency no bank can measure—a little warmth, a little grief, a little conscience, gone so gradually that its absence feels almost like peace.
Alexander is not alone in the aftermath. Grigory, his roommate, refuses to let success turn him into a stranger. Elena, a researcher, traces the bargain back through six family lines and three centuries of ruined lives. And Camille, a sculptor, gives him a reason to fight for the parts of himself the ledger hasn't claimed.
Lucian has never been forced to break a promise—desire does the work for him. He is patient, generous, and utterly without mercy. For a hundred and forty years, he has watched the Vorontsovs build their own undoing out of wishes they were too hungry to examine closely. Now it is Alexander's turn to decide what he is willing to become, and what he refuses to let his children inherit.
Spanning generations of a single haunted bloodline, Wealth at the Cost of a Soul is the story of what it actually costs to get everything you ever wanted.
If you love Faustian bargains, generational curses, ageless immortal antagonists, and slow-burn redemption arcs—this is your next read.