Evie Dasher is the main protagonist and narrator of The Darkest Star, The Burning Shadow, and The Brightest Night.
Background and History[]
Evie formerly known as Nadia Holliday lives with her parents near Hagerstown. Both parents were drug addicts. Her mother died of an overdose very early in her life. Additionally, her father treated her very badly and neglected her, said to have been more worried about getting high than his own daughter. Wanting money for drugs he accepted an offer to sell Nadia to Jason Dasher. Jason wanted to buy Nadia from her father because she looked identical to his dead daughter Evelyn Dasher who had just died in a tragic car crash. Nadia refused to be sold and abused, and ended up killing her father. After killing her father, she ran away from Hagerstown to Martinsburg, West Virginia. In Martinsburg, she was instructed by fellow runaways to find the local club run by a teenage boy. Eventually, she runs into Paris who allows Nadia to stay in the club with him and Luc. Even though they tried to keep the truth about what they were from her, she found out pretty quickly that they weren't human. She and Luc didn't get along at first, as Luc didn't think much of her and Nadia would always follow him around like a shadow.
Eventually, Luc and Nadia grew closer and Luc started to see Nadia as a little sister; but as they grew older their relationship turned into something else. The three of them were together for years and were as close as family.
However, after a while, Nadia began to get sick. At first Paris and Luc believed it was just the flu, but after a few weeks realized it was something more. They soon found out that Nadia was suffering from a rare blood cancer and was already in the late stages. We learn in book three of the origin series that this was all planned by Jason Dasher to give Nadia cancer as a ploy to make Luc weak and vulnerable since he is the strongest alien to exist. Luc would repeatedly try and using his healing powers on her, but it didn't seem to work. Luc tried everything and every serum he could get his hands on to heal her, but nothing worked.
Until one day, when Luc went after Jason Dasher for what he did to all of the innocent humans, Luxen, hybrids, and Origin, and was planning to kill him. But Dasher made him a deal. Dasher and the Daedalus had made a new serum called Andromeda that could heal Nadia and save her life. After many failed serums, Luc realized if he was to save Nadia's life he would need to make a compromise with the Daedalus, the Luxen sworn enemy. But if Luc took the deal, he had to stay away from Nadia as long as she was safe. Luc promised that if they saved Nadia's life and cured her cancer he would step out of her life completely. They took the deal (though Nadia hadn't known the serum would take her memories). The serum cured Nadia's cancer, but she didn't remember anything about her life or who she was.
We learn that Nadia was given a special serum from Jason Dasher himself that's called the Andromeda serum. This cures her cancer but also turns her into a warrior. Nadia is now a hybrid who is part Luxen and part Arum. However, the serum wipes her memory of everything before being 16 years old. She chops it up to PTSD from the first Luxen invasion. After being given the serum, instead of placing Nadia with a family like he promised Luc, Dasher gave Nadia the name Evelyn Dasher, after his late daughter, and had planned that he and his Luxen wife, Sylvia, would take care of her. She now goes by Evelyn Dasher, Evie for short, and is being raised by Jason Dasher's wife Sylvia, after Jason was thought to have been killed by Luc, but secretly was alive running Daedalus.
Evie doesn't know that she is a trained fighter or of her Luxen powers. Evie remembers nothing of her past with Luc, Paris, or the Luxen that she loved. That is until she walks into the doors of Foretoken, a new club owned by Luc, with her best friend Heidi. Then her perfect world comes tumbling back down.
Physical Description[]
Evie is described as being 5 feet 5 inches tall with blond hair that looks gold in the sun, and a round freckled face. Also, she has chocolate brown eyes. Luc tells her that she always smells of peaches from the body lotion she uses.
Relationships[]
Luc: Luc is the love of Evie's life. After Evie's losses of memories, they've managed to find their ways back to each other and now their love is stronger than ever.
Zoe: She has been a friend of Evie's since forever, even after a little bumpy relationship when Evie found out about Zoe's true identity (an Origin) they have remained the same and would fight to protect each other
Heidi: Heidi is also in the friendship group with Zoe and Evie. She is in a relationship with a Luxen Emery. She is sweet and brave, generally a really nice friend to hang out with.
Appearances[]
- Origin (as Nadia)
- Opposition (as Nadia)
- Like the First Time
- The Darkest Star
- The Burning Shadow
- The Brightest Night
- The Fevered Winter (set to appear)
Trivia[]
- Evie's favorite cities are New Orleans and Peterburg, which were the inspiration for the name on her false ID: Nola Peters.[1]
- Evie turned 18 years old 6 months after the start of The Darkest Star.