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Evelyn Still Imagines Trust Beyond Betrayal

Meet them in the first five chapters See the ebook edition

This opening note focuses on the first paragraphs of chapter 1. The free reading sample contains five complete chapters.

Relationships in the opening

Evelyn Still Imagines Trust Beyond Betrayal

Although Evelyn describes betrayal as the pattern of her life, she has not abandoned the idea that love and honesty exist. Her faith and her imagined future among humans give that possibility somewhere to go, even as she insists that no one will miss her departure. The emotional tension lies between wanting a different kind of trust and promising never to be vulnerable to injury again, two wishes that pull against each other in these opening paragraphs.

Where does Evelyn's hope for connection conflict with the protective promises she makes to herself?

Read the scene in chapter 1