The Adaptive Mind

by Alfred Rangel

In the sterile quiet of a therapy room, psychologist Evelyn believes she is in control, until Jonah, her enigmatic new patient, begins to unravel her certainty. What starts as a battle against his compulsive lies becomes something far more dangerous: a psychological duel where each adapts to the other’s every move. As their sessions spiral into obsession, truth and deception blur, roles invert, and the line between healer and subject dissolves.

Bound together in a chilling dance of co‑evolution, Evelyn and Jonah discover that survival may demand more than honesty, it may demand surrender. But in a game where every adaptation breeds a new threat, who will emerge transformed, and who will be consumed?

A taut, unsettling thriller about power, identity, and the peril of becoming too much like the one you fear.