Author's notes

After moving to Hell's Kitchen, settling down and somehow winning the sympathy of the Devil, Vera is happy. There were sure more than a few bumps on the road, but now they are all overcome and she has an amazing (a little reckless and a little much heroic) boyfriend, couple of good friends, steady job and relative non-bloody calm.

But this is Hell's Kitchen: its guardian angel is called the Devil and he has issues of his own. There is no non-bloody way of doing things there - after all, she learnt that in a hard way before.