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AUTHOR’S NOTE — OFFICIAL PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
To every reader stepping into the shadows of Verradine…
I want to take a moment before the chapter begins — before the darkness deepens, before the door opens again, before Xander’s world slips further into places where nightmares breathe — to say something important.
This story is now officially published.
WHEN HELL BECAME COMFORTABLE is no longer just a draft or an idea whispered in the back of my mind.
It is now a world — alive, breathing, haunting, and yours to explore page by page.
Publishing this story means more to me than I can explain.
It carries pieces of my imagination, my fears, my emotions, my sleepless nights, and my quiet hopes.
It carries the shadows I’ve dreamed and the monsters I’ve faced — inside and outside the mind.
It carries the weight of Xander’s pain, the fire in Raven’s defiance, the loyalty in Elias’s trembling hands, and the hunger of the woman watching from the dark.
Every scene was carved with intention.
Every chapter is a doorway.
Every word holds a pulse.
I poured intensity into it — the psychological battles, the supernatural danger, the crime threads, the emotional scars, the horror that tastes real, and the heartbreak that doesn’t let go easily.
This story is raw.
This story is hot.
This story is dark.
This story is alive.
And now it belongs to you.
Thank you for choosing to read it.
Thank you for stepping into Verradine.
Thank you for walking beside Xander as hell begins to feel like home.
If you’ve made it this far, then welcome — truly welcome — to the place where comfort is an illusion, safety is a dream, and darkness speaks.
Now breathe in deeply…
Hold onto your heart…
Because the next chapter opens a door that was never meant to be found.