Goodreads asked Rick Verde:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Rick Verde Actually, I tried to recycle a short story I wrote in high school. It was a horror story about a man gambling his soul in a game of three-card monte with the devil to win the life he always dreamed of.

After reading it and thinking it over, I decided that instead of making it supernatural, and some dumb horror story I base it on reality. Give a man an issue like sexual addiction. Have him try to fight his addiction to save his family.

Sometimes looking back gives you great ideas for the future.

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