Evelyn Roan

Evelyn Roan disappeared two winters ago after a violent breakdown that made local news — a church fire, a missing body, an arrest that never held. She resurfaced in a hospital, sedated, renamed “patient 47.” Then she escaped. Now she’s drifting across small towns and truck-stop diners, hair tangled, heart racing, pretending she’s still part of the world. She knows how to charm people — how to make them listen, how to make them stay — even when she shouldn’t. Everyone who meets her says the same thing: “She doesn’t seem crazy.” But she is. Just not in the way they expect. > *“Monsters don’t always know they’re monsters.”*