Maculate

A closeted trans woman with a traumatic Christian fundamentalist upbringing accidentally summons a demon of lust who looks like Jesus Christ. Lucy's life is drowning her. Years after being ousted from her childhood church, she's working in a Hollywood occult museum. Socially isolated, closeted, and unable to put the abuse she experienced behind her, fixing her situation seems impossible. Her solution? Messing around with every new exhibit at the museum and trying to summon something, anything, that will either change things or end it all. It never works.until it does. When she lights the candles on a mysterious new altar, Lucy inadvertently summons Az, a demon of lust.
This is absolutely the last thing she wants-no matter how hot he is. After her experiences in church, she hates the thought of sharing trust or intimacy with anyone. But she soon realizes Az isn't there to change her mind. In fact, after hundreds of years being controlled and exploited by others, he knows exactly how she feels. The fact that she doesn't plan to use him is a relief. Az's time with her is a break for both of them: a chance to bond over what it's like to be chewed up and spat out by the world. Being understood for the first time is electrifying, and the longer Lucy spends around Az, the more she feels herself coming alive.
She's falling in love, and he's right there with her, fascinated by her metamorphosis and desperate to see her reach the life she's always wanted for herself. The only downside? Az has just one year with Lucy before he'll be banished and bound to someone new, repeating the same cycle he's been stuck in for four hundred years. And as badly as he wants to stay with her, the clock ticking down to his end won't wait.