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In the isolated mountains of western North Carolina, a woman living alone on remote land finds three stranded men on her property. They are the former creators of the dead fitness channel EverymanHYBRID, and one of them—Evan Myers—is shared with an ancient, sadistic entity called HABIT. HABIT is cruel, obsessive, mocking, and proprietary. He develops a genuine interest in her that eventually becomes love on his own terms: he remains a monster and is willing to be one for her. She is a high-functioning psychopath who has spent years hiding her nature. He recognizes what she is, and that recognition binds them. Under pressure and isolation, the four of them form a real but costly friendship. Later, an attempt to destroy HABIT only kills Evan, leaving the entity in permanent control of the body with only the faintest traces of the man left behind. What remains is a dark attachment between a woman who never needed a monster to pretend, and the monster willing to belong to her.