Vera Kurian is a writer and scientist. Her short fiction has been published in magazines such as Glimmer Train, Day One, and The Pinch. She has lived in DC for most of her adult life and has a PhD in social psychology. “Never Saw Me Coming,” her debut novel, is a Most Anticipated Novel of Fall 2021 by Newsweek, Goodreads, PopSugar, Crime Reads, SheReads, Crime by the Book, The Nerd Daily, and more. It centers around the conundrum: You should never trust a psychopath. But what if you had no choice? (amazon, 2021)

“Never Saw Me Coming” – It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre. She is a first-year honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her. Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths—students like herself who lack empathy and cannot comprehend emotions like fear or guilt. The study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smart watches that track their moods and movements. When one of the students in the study is found murdered in the psychology building, a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins, and Chloe goes from hunter to prey. As she races to identify the killer and put her own plan for revenge into action, she will be forced to decide if she can trust any of her fellow psychopaths—and everybody knows you should never trust a psychopath.