Genre: YA Fantasy
Word Count: 72,000
Status: Release Date, March 7th, 2013
Wind tunnels, torrential rains and earthquakes tear apart Casden. The cause of the world’s imbalance is unknown, but the mounting occurrences suggest there’s little time before life ceases to exist.
Rydan Gale and Akara Nazreth are the only humans with the ability to wield magic. The tattoo on their necks and the discovery of an ancient book explaining the importance of a blue stone, dictate they are the key to the world’s survival.
But the greatest obstacle for saving mankind isn’t the natural disasters, extreme betrayals and magic-fearing men hunting them.
It’s that Akara doesn’t believe the world is worth saving.
Wind tunnels, torrential rains and earthquakes tear apart Casden. The cause of the world’s imbalance is unknown, but the mounting occurrences suggest there’s little time before life ceases to exist.
Rydan Gale and Akara Nazreth are the only humans with the ability to wield magic. The tattoo on their necks and the discovery of an ancient book explaining the importance of a blue stone, dictate they are the key to the world’s survival.
But the greatest obstacle for saving mankind isn’t the natural disasters, extreme betrayals and magic-fearing men hunting them.
It’s that Akara doesn’t believe the world is worth saving.
Genre: YA Contemporary
Word Count: 75,000
Status: On Submission
For Charlotte "Charlie" Grace, a post-high school road trip isn't just a vacation - it's a chance to change her life. While her parents think Charlie is helping a friend move into her college apartment, the real reason to pack the four best friends into one BMW and drive from Chicago to LA is a singing competition. First place wins a recording contract.
No one needs this contract more than Charlie, whose only talent is singing on stage. So she's willing to accept her father's two conditions for going: her sixteen-year-old, super annoying, uber responsible sister, Lucy, must tag along. And the sisters have to visit their grandparent’s ranch in Sherman, Texas.
But when the girl’s singing group loses the competition, Charlie’s world falls flatter than Lucy’s chest. She can’t go home to a life with no future and a father waiting to ground her barely-adult ass. So Charlie convinces her parents to let her and Lucy spend the summer at their grandparent’s. After all, they used stay there often. Years ago. When they had some things remotely in common.
Though the ranch was a last resort, it might be what the two girls need. Amidst the dung filled horse stalls, down-home cookin’, and drool worthy ranch hands, clarity for Charlie and Lucy’s futures, as well as their relationship, bubbles to the surface. It’s not something they find. It’s something they realize is already there.
No Time For Love
Genre: YA Contemporary
Word Count: 60,000
Status: Final Edits
Kate Ryan is an amazing athlete, top student, and couldn’t care less about what her classmates think of her. But she has nothing to worry about in the gossip circles. Everyone is friends with Kate Ryan.
Life flies by in test scores and shots at the buzzer, with small snippets of time to eat, sleep and work. It is at her place of employment, Jamba Juice, she gets to know classmate Seth. In a school their size, with every second of her life planned, it’s easy to miss the quiet, grey-eyed, math genius. It’s an easy friendship. One which, like all her friendships, are for the time and place. At work, Seth and Kate talk about school and the future, along with all those high school things neither has time for, as both their schedules are chalked full.
Kate lands a lead role in the school musical, Oklahoma, and enlists the assistance of Seth to help practice lines at work. When the love interest of Kate’s character needs his tonsils removed, Seth is the no-brainer replacement. But taking Seth out of his Jamba Juice Friend role and plopping him into a romance on stage, has an effect neither thought they had time for.
Kate Ryan is an amazing athlete, top student, and couldn’t care less about what her classmates think of her. But she has nothing to worry about in the gossip circles. Everyone is friends with Kate Ryan.
Life flies by in test scores and shots at the buzzer, with small snippets of time to eat, sleep and work. It is at her place of employment, Jamba Juice, she gets to know classmate Seth. In a school their size, with every second of her life planned, it’s easy to miss the quiet, grey-eyed, math genius. It’s an easy friendship. One which, like all her friendships, are for the time and place. At work, Seth and Kate talk about school and the future, along with all those high school things neither has time for, as both their schedules are chalked full.
Kate lands a lead role in the school musical, Oklahoma, and enlists the assistance of Seth to help practice lines at work. When the love interest of Kate’s character needs his tonsils removed, Seth is the no-brainer replacement. But taking Seth out of his Jamba Juice Friend role and plopping him into a romance on stage, has an effect neither thought they had time for.
The Princess and the Thief
Aly's told by an old woman that a powder sprinkled on the crown of the Prom King - none other than Channing himself - is just what she needs to find true love. When the crown is placed on his head, Channing and Aly are flitted away to Aly's fantasy world.
Okay, so Aly's "fantasy world" is called Kansas and someone is trying to steal diamonds from her castle, claiming they belong to seven brothers. But she is the Princess and is betrothed to Knight Channing. Happily ever after is in the cards after all. Until Aly discovers the mysterious diamond-stealer is Rae herself.
Aly must discover why Rae is in her fantasy world and why Channing is drawn to her, even though he doesn’t remember Rae from their contemporary world. Aly isn’t naive to think love is simple, but if she’s stuck in this strange place with her best friend still attracted to another girl, there’s nothing happy about it.
The Cricket Project
Genre: YA Fairytale Parody
Word Count: 60,000
Status: Edits
Alysandra wants true love. A love she knows she'll find with Channing, her best friend since the age of Disney movies. The problem is, Channing is head over heels for Raelynn. Aly knows if she's given another chance with Channing, without Rae around, Channing will realize a relationship with her is happy ever after.
Alysandra wants true love. A love she knows she'll find with Channing, her best friend since the age of Disney movies. The problem is, Channing is head over heels for Raelynn. Aly knows if she's given another chance with Channing, without Rae around, Channing will realize a relationship with her is happy ever after.
Aly's told by an old woman that a powder sprinkled on the crown of the Prom King - none other than Channing himself - is just what she needs to find true love. When the crown is placed on his head, Channing and Aly are flitted away to Aly's fantasy world.
Okay, so Aly's "fantasy world" is called Kansas and someone is trying to steal diamonds from her castle, claiming they belong to seven brothers. But she is the Princess and is betrothed to Knight Channing. Happily ever after is in the cards after all. Until Aly discovers the mysterious diamond-stealer is Rae herself.
Aly must discover why Rae is in her fantasy world and why Channing is drawn to her, even though he doesn’t remember Rae from their contemporary world. Aly isn’t naive to think love is simple, but if she’s stuck in this strange place with her best friend still attracted to another girl, there’s nothing happy about it.
The Cricket Project
Genre: YA Science Fiction
Word Count: 65,000
Status: Edits
Sixteen year old Lyra Altair, a genius by every measure, is thoroughly perplexed. Stars don’t fall out of the sky and they most certainly don’t just disappear. But Spica, of the constellation Virgo, is gone.
Lyra approaches her father, lead astronomer for Space Exploration and Discovery (SEAD) but her questions go unanswered and that is unacceptable. Sneaking into his work, she discovers SEAD has developed the StarCatcher, a machine which captures stars and uses their energy to grant any wish desired. Those within the perimeter of the SEAD building at the time of the wish are the only people who know the world has been altered.
AIDS ceases to exist and a natural disaster is averted. But when a terrorist group attacks the world’s largest hotels, the United States ’ government has no patience left. They want to use the StarCatcher to force countries housing radicals to become US territories, allowing them to root out the terrorists and bring the planet one step closer to world peace.
Lyra’s experienced having her world changed without her consent and is horrified that countries will lose their sovereignty via a wish upon a star. She pleads with her dad, but he pushes it off as the government’s problem. His interests lie in science. So Lyra turns to the electronic genius of her best friend, Darren, putting both his freedom as well as her own on the line.
They must reveal The Cricket Project and let the world decide what wishes are worth the price of a star.
