REVISED - Night in Crimson Clouds - YA Fantasy - Sarah B James

Upon discovering his powers, seventeen-year-old Michael Sullivan must choose whether to hunt humans or protect them. Michael’s family members were all ‘Hunters’ and he has the potential to become an excellent one as well, but falling in love with his ‘Defender’ girlfriend, Anahita, endangers his life and his loved ones. Set in a turbulent future, NIGHT IN CRIMSON CLOUDS (106,000 words) is a dual narrative YA fantasy novel with a strong touch of romantic flair.

Michael, who has lost both his brother and his ex-girlfriend to suicide and grown up through public executions, hopes only for a quiet life without having to kill people like the Hunters do, or blindly sacrifice his life for humans like the Defenders do. But out of his love for Anahita, he starts training with her Defender family. This leads to the Hunters targeting him as a traitor and an illegal Defender recruit.

Even though Anahita fears she might be training her enemy, she relies on her secret history with Michael—the past he has no memory of. But everything falls apart when Michael takes a life to save another, and after he discovers the truth about his identity and the sacrifices Anahita has made for him. If Anahita can’t help Michael defeat his own dark side, they might both lose their lives, or each other.

REVISED x 2 - Ensnared By You - Historical Romance - Lana Klaydon

ENSNARED BY YOU is a historical romance set in early Victorian England, complete at 100,000 words.

Bred to strike hard and fast, Lysander belongs to an elite guild of assassins known as The Shadows. When his latest mission goes awry, Lysander awakens to an angel caressing him in the most intimate of places…and to find he’s crippled and immobile. With the police hunting The Shadows, he’s trapped with no choice but to claim amnesia.

Spirited country miss Lady Olivia Woodward is mortified when she’s caught stroking him down there. In her defense, she was bathing him. With her father’s recent inheritance of an earldom, Olivia is thrust into the haut ton, fending off fortune hunters and scheming matrons. So when the enigmatic hero saves her father from a harrowing assassination attempt, she seizes the chance to nurse him back to health. It’s a good excuse as any to ditch her insufferable deportment lessons. She didn’t count on the man being so arrogant and infuriating. Or so devilishly attractive.  

He’s no hero. Lysander knows every kiss is stolen, every touch forbidden. His past will resurface, and when it does, it will destroy Olivia’s trust...for he was sent to kill her father, not save him. With his deadline looming, Lysander is torn. Torn between duty to his brethren and risking everything for the only woman he’s ever loved.

REVISION - Exile - YA Fantasy - Eric Morgan

Exile is a 69,000 word YA Fantasy, told from two points of view: fifteen year old Jason and thirteen year old Phoenix.

Jason hopes to leave the remote salt mining city of Korenz and travel across the mountains to the great cities, just like his older brother. But unlike his brother, who is serious and practical, Jason's passion is for the guitar music of the Sedani, shifty nomads that ply the wilderness between the villages. When Paul is murdered by Sedani bandits, Jason's best friend's mother, a Sedani peace hostage, is attacked and killed by angry Korenzians. Korenzian priests decree that the body will remain unburied until the Sedani turn over the killers. Helping his best friend, Omar, will mean turning his back on his brother's murderers. When Jason acts, both young men must flee for their lives. Soon they are trapped underground in an ancient shrine to the Sedani goddess of music, surrounded by fanatical Korenzian clerics.

Far away, in the vast port city of Ephyra, the patriarch of a prominent merchant family has been poisoned. Following ancient tradition, his body is launched into the river Acheron in an enchanted boat, where it will enter the river cavern leading to the Underworld. His daughter Phoenix places a book of his favorite poems next to his beloved guitar and watches the boat disappear.

Within days, Phoenix watches with distress as her Uncle Gobbo moves in to take over her father's shipping fleet, bringing along a mysterious young man rumored to be a black sorcerer. Trusted henchmen and long time allies soon turn up dead. But most bewildering is her mother's weakness and passivity regarding Gobbo's disgusting behavior. Then one day her father comes to her in a dream and warns her that she must take her mother and flee. But running away will mean giving up her new position as an apprentice ballerina with the greatest ballet troupe in the world.

The goddess of music has the power to bring Jason, Omar, and Phoenix together, but they will need to trust one another to overcome their problems. And after what they've been through, trust is in short supply.

Ember - YA Science Fantasy - Victoria Davenport

Falcon has a past she can’t remember-- one the rebellion doesn’t want her to forget.

Living in the slums of exile, 17-year-old Falcon and her family—a pack of street-rat kids—rely on cunning, blades, and the grace of corrupt lords to survive in the toxic sludge heaps. They are still paying for the crimes of their forefathers—a century old rebellion that ended in exile. Now the Wall that isolates them is about to come down, giving them a chance at humanity once again.

Amarathines, a race of humans believed to be descended from the gods, are killed and harvested for the ancient magic that runs through their veins—magic that has the power to preserve life. The Sovereign of the empire breeds amaranthines solely to harvest them, using their blood to escape death yet another decade. Once the savior of the empire, he has become more god than man, and is spiraling out of control.

The long-running racial tension between humans and amaranthines erupts into violence, and half-amaranthine herself, Falcon becomes a target. The pack must learn to fight an enemy that can’t bleed: an empire overcome with hatred and greed, blindly descending into the chaos it came from. But as the pack fights their own war, the rebel Order has plans to ignite another—to reawaken the century-old rebellion and start a second Great War among all four empires. They will do anything to shape Falcon into the empress they need—an empress that will unite the races and bring peace back to Aurata.

None of this will matter if the Sovereign has his way, and the rebellion is crushed for good, before it can truly begin. The entirety of the Dregs will be enslaved to fuel his hunger for technology, power, and immortality—costing Falcon both her pack and her life.

EMBER is a YA science fantasy novel of 73,000 words that is the first in a planned duology. Told in four distinct points of view—including Falcon (who has yet to discover her true power), Crow (an ex-drug lord’s assassin seeking redemption), Electra (an undercover rebel agent and empire royalty), and the Sovereign of the empire himself—each perspective gives insight into the raw insides of their world, the dynamics of a patchwork family, and how Falcon plays a role in all of their lives, whether she knows it or not.

REVISED - Ensnared By You - Historical Romance - Lana Klaydon

Bred to strike hard and fast, Lysander belongs to an elite guild of assassins known as The Shadows. When their latest mission goes awry, he’s betrayed by his own and left for dead. From the depths of oblivion, Lysander awakens to an angel caressing him in the most intimate of places…and to find he’s a bedridden cripple. With the police hunting The Shadows, he’s trapped with no choice but to claim he has no recollection of who he is.

Spirited country miss Lady Olivia Woodward is mortified when she’s caught stroking him down there. In her defense, she was bathing him. It’s the least she could do after he took a bullet meant for her father. As death threats against her father escalate, Olivia nurses the enigmatic hero back to health. But he defies all rules of convalescence. He’s arrogant. Exasperating. Infuriating. And gorgeous as sin. Attraction sizzles as tempers fly, clashes of ire caving to torrid, delirious pleasure.

He’s no hero. Lysander knows every kiss is stolen, every touch forbidden. His past will resurface, and when it does, it will destroy Olivia’s trust...for he was sent to kill her father, not save him. As the police close in on unraveling his identity, The Shadows lurk in the darkness, reminding Lysander to finish his task. But they’re not the only ones after Olivia’s father. Another sinister force is at play, for the death threats are not The Shadows’ work. With the clock ticking down, Lysander is torn. Torn between duty to his brethren and risking everything for the only woman he’s ever loved.

Told in alternating POVs between Lysander and Olivia, ENSNARED BY YOU is a historical romance set in Victorian England, complete at 100,000 words.

REVISED x 3 - Evolution: Dauntless Hope - YA Urban Fantasy - Monica Hoffman

Fans of The Darkest Minds by Alexandria Bracken will enjoy EVOLUTION: DAUNTLESS HOPE a completed 95,000-word YA urban fantasy, set in a nation torn apart by hate with two species on the brink of a second war.

Hope’s power to control water, fire, earth, and air is the key to saving the Unies—super-humans—from extinction. It’s a secret kept from her until her forbidden love for a human boy threatens the Unies’ last chance for survival.

Hope thought she had everything she wanted the day she set foot in Brander High after years of homeschool. For the first time she has a BFF and a hot telepathic jock has a crush on her. But her life goes from cheery to downright wrong the night she and her BFF hide their identities to sneak into a Los Angeles night club. There she meets a handsome and mysterious human, Tristan. Before she knows it, he has her heart and she’s lying to everyone to keep their love a secret. She knows her relationship with Tristan could land her in Lockup or worse if they’re caught. What she didn’t anticipate is her reckless behavior jeopardizing the fate of every Uni.  

Born without the birthmark which connects all Unies, and the only Elemental in control of the four elements, Hope’s isolation as a child and the lies told were to keep her safe. A powerful human knows about her and has spent seventeen years looking for her because she’s destined to kill him. Now he has a weapon in arm’s reach and plans to eradicate the Uni problem for good. Hope is terrified of what she’ll have to release to stop him, knowing it might just kill her in the end, which she wants to avoid even if it means altering her destiny. Ultimately, she must decide if she’s willing to condemn an entire species to be with Tristan. Or will she become the Unies’ last beacon of hope, saving them from a fate where death is the only escape.

Revision x2 - Evolution: Dauntless Hope - Monica Hoffman

Fans of The Darkest Minds by Alexandria Bracken will enjoy EVOLUTION: DAUNTLESS HOPE a completed 95,000-word YA urban fantasy, set in a nation torn apart by hate with two species on the brink of a second war.

Hope’s power to control water, fire, earth, and air is the key to saving the Unies—super-humans—from extinction. A secret kept from her until her forbidden love for a human boy threatens the Unies’ last chance for survival.

Hope thought she had everything she wanted the day she set foot in Brander High after years of homeschool. For the first time she has a BFF and a hot telepathic jock has a crush on her. But her life goes from cheery to downright wrong the night she and her BFF hide their identities to sneak into a Los Angeles night club. There she meets a handsome and mysterious human, Tristan. Before she knows it, he has her heart and she’s lying to everyone to keep their love a secret. She knows her relationship with Tristan could land her in Lockup or worse if they’re caught. What she didn’t anticipate is her reckless behavior jeopardizing the fate of every Uni.  

Born without the birthmark which connects all Unies, and set apart due to her rarity, Hope’s isolation wasn’t a sick joke. A powerful human knows about her and has spent seventeen years looking for her. Now he has a weapon in arm’s reach and plans to eradicate the Uni problem for good. Hope is terrified of what she’ll have to release to stop him, knowing it might just kill her in the end. Ultimately, she must decide if she’s willing to condemn an entire species for Tristan. Or will she become the Unies’ last beacon of hope, saving them from a fate where death is the only escape.