Dear Lovely readers,
Welcome to Evelyn.
I’ve been carrying this story in my head for a while, and somehow, it became much darker, messier, and more complicated than I initially expected.
Evelyn is a story about beautiful things with ugly foundations. About family, power, secrets, survival, and the versions of ourselves we create when the truth becomes too painful to live with.
At the center of it all is a woman named Evelyn.
Or perhaps I should say… a woman who calls herself Evelyn.
She enters a world of wealth, influence, legacy, and carefully guarded secrets believing she knows exactly what she wants. But the Samuel family has secrets of its own, and the deeper she gets into their world, the harder it becomes to tell who is deceiving whom.
And somewhere beneath the beautiful dresses, grand houses, family dinners, marriages, and polished smiles is a past that refuses to stay buried.
This isn't a story where everyone is innocent.
It isn't a story where everyone is evil either.
Some people are victims. Some are perpetrators. Some are both.
And sometimes, the person you think you understand the least is the person who has been telling you the truth all along.
I hope you fall in love with these characters.
I hope you distrust them too.
I hope you question them, defend them, hate them, forgive them, and then wonder why you ever forgave them in the first place.
Most of all, I hope you remember one thing while reading:
Behind every beautiful thing is a secret worth hiding.
Welcome to the Samuel family.
Welcome to Evelyn.
Happy reading :)
