Lacy was seven years old the first time she brought something dead back to life — and the last time her family ever looked at her the same way.
Branded a monster before she understood what that meant, she was cast out by her own blood and locked away in an asylum built to "fix" what she was. Years of torment stripped her of more than her freedom — the pain stopped mattering. It stopped registering at all.
But an asylum full of broken things breeds more than victims. It breeds killers.
When Lacy crosses paths with Jeff the Killer and the others like him, she finds something she never had on the outside: people who don't flinch at what she is. People who might actually understand her.
But understanding isn't safety. And the ones who locked her away aren't done with her yet — something in a vial with her name on it proves that much.
Never Meant to Be is a story about the monsters we're made into, the families that create them, and what's left of a person once the pain stops being the thing that hurts most.