In Magdalena’s Wake
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Status: Querying
Word Count: 101, 000
Seventeen-year-old Jack Harker hates his mother because she's dying.
He hates himself even more for feeling that way.
In Vyreth, where submarines rule the oceans, Jack’s been dealt a losing hand. Instead of charting seas, he’s mapping routes to illegal gambling clubs and drug dealer hideouts to keep a roof over his family’s heads. When the Vinahra Jellyfish surfaces, Jack finally thinks the odds have tilted in his favour. Harvesting its regenerative cells could fix everything. Cure his mother. Clear his debts. Maybe even stop his hidden guilt and resentment from tearing him apart like a ravager tide.
Racing against hundreds of rival submarines, Jack assembles a ragtag crew, including Ava, his sharp-tongued engine mechanic, who once pickpocketed all his savings in a single night. Amid vortexes, abysses, and near-sabotage, she begins tearing down his carefully crafted bluffs, and Jack finds himself fracturing open like the ocean-torn world itself.
But loyalties crumble when Jack discovers capturing the Vinahra isn’t his winning hand; it’s an ocean-altering risk. With the crew divided and the fate of the seas at stake, earning back his team’s trust will require Jack to show the cards he’s kept close to his chest his entire life. Now he must choose: act alone to save his mother, or take his biggest gamble yet.
The Keeping of Chaos
Genre: Adult Fantasy
Status: Outlining
Word Count: NA
Demmie’s body is a cage. One with a broken lock.
He’s tried bleeding the Shaede Magic from his veins, but everyone knows no amount of blood can break a binding spell—everyone except Demmie. Bound since infancy and banished to Congeria along with the Shaede, his pseudo-father isn’t exactly the teaching-type. But if there’s one thing Demmie does know, it’s this: if the Shaede can’t claim something for itself, it will destroy it. And it wouldn’t be the first time someone crossed into Congeria who didn’t belong. He can still remember the blood on his hands.
Prayer is a seer who can’t see.
For the twenty-four years she’s been alive, she’s never once received a vision, and that’s a problem—a big problem when she serves a power-hungry king who usurped the throne and beheaded her aunt for the same deficit. So, when a fellow seer has a vision of the throne’s true heir wandering Congeria, Prayer knows her only option is to find them and bring them home.
She vows not to return without the heir.
But she won’t return at all if Demmie can’t lock his cage for good.
In Harrow’s Abyss
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Status: Brainstorming
Word Count: NA
A sequal to In Magdalena’s Wake. Stay tuned.