ESCAPE - T.SHELBY

Small Heath was the kind of place people spent their whole lives trying to escape.

Evelyn Mercer actually did. Evelyn Mercer was always meant to leave Small Heath.

So when the men she loved went off to war, she did exactly what they told her to do. She left. She traded smoke-filled streets for London stages, learned how to turn heartbreak into applause, and built a life grand enough that Birmingham began to feel like somewhere she had once dreamed.

Four years later, the war ends. Her family comes home. And eventually, so does she.

But Small Heath isn't the place Evelyn remembers, and Thomas Shelby is no longer the boy who wrote her one letter.

While Tommy builds an empire from the ruins the war left behind, Evelyn finds herself caught between the life she escaped and the people she never truly left. Between London and Birmingham. Between the woman she became and the girl they still remember.

And somewhere between ambition, violence, loyalty and everything neither of them knows how to say, Evelyn and Tommy discover that some things are much harder to escape than Small Heath.

Especially each other.

WOKBONES 2026
Thomas Shelby x OC
Peaky Blinders, Season One onwards.