Liza-Zevin
"My prayers changed everything, maybe I asked for too much," Evelyn whispered.
Abandoned at an orphanage doorstep with nothing but a name, Evelyn grows up clinging to faith like it's the only thing keeping her from breaking. Alongside her are the only people she's ever called family-Priscilla, Sophia and Donald-four children bound by hope and whispered prayers in the dark.
Then, one by one, they are taken.
Adopted into different worlds, their lives split like shattered glass-some glittering, some bleeding. Evelyn, the quiet and brilliant one, doesn't get the miracle she prayed for. No wealthy saviors. No perfect home. Just a life that feels like punishment for something she doesn't remember doing.
And still, she prays.
But when tragedy begins to follow her... when every answered prayer comes at a cost... Evelyn starts to wonder:
What if she was never meant to be saved?
What if there was a reason she was abandoned... a reason she was chosen... and a reason her life keeps falling apart?
As buried secrets claw their way to the surface, Evelyn is forced to confront a truth darker than anything she ever feared-some prayers are ignored for a reason... and some lives are cursed from the very beginning.
And when she finally discovers why she was left behind...
She might wish she never asked.