Control State

SHE HUNTS FOR A LIVING.

SHE NEVER EXPECTED TO BECOME ONE.

FBI Special Agent Riann Harlowe has spent her career chasing killers, trusting evidence, and believing every mystery has an answer. Then the murders begin.

Across Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, victims with troubling pasts are being executed with surgical precision. The crimes appear unrelated.

Different methods.

Different locations.

Different killers.

But Riann sees a pattern no one else can.

The deeper she investigates, the more impossible the case becomes. Missing memories.

Unexplained blackouts.

Violent flashes of a childhood she cannot fully remember. And a growing fear that the person she is hunting may somehow be connected to long-buried secrets within herself.

At the center of it all stands David Stone, a brilliant and ruthless scientist who believes identity itself can be engineered, controlled, and rewritten. Decades earlier, he conducted classified neurological experiments on children.

Riann was one of them.

Now she must uncover the truth about what was done to her before the fragments of her

past consume everything she loves. Because someone has been manipulating her life for

years. Someone who knows thoughts she never realized were planted. And someone who

believes she was never meant to be free.CONTROL STATE is a gripping psychological thriller that blends conspiracy, memory

manipulation, government experimentation, and relentless suspense into a story that asks

one terrifying question:

If your mind was rewritten without your knowledge, would you still be you?

Perfect for readers who love Dark Matter, Recursion, Severance, and high-concept thrillers

where every revelation changes everything.

D.K. Evans is a Detroit-born author and storyteller whose debut novel CONTROL STATE was born from a dream scribbled down late one night, a dream that sat buried in his files for over a year before it became something the world needed to read. Raised in Michigan and shaped by a lifelong love of thriller content in every form, Evans brings a sharp cinematic instinct to his writing that reflects both his passion for complex narratives and his deep curiosity about the human mind. When he is not writing, Evans can be found playing guitar, a craft he has devoted twenty-six years of his life to, or working in the information technology sector where precision and problem solving are part of the daily rhythm. A storyteller from childhood who never stopped loving a good story, Evans writes with the kind of urgency that only comes from someone who has something real to say. CONTROL STATE is his debut novel. It will not be his last