Young Adult Fantasy

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Ember O'Neill may have survived death but there are some things worse than the grave and that's the truth. However, just because something is dangerous, doesn't mean it will stop her. If she learned anything from her deceased father, it's that courage conquers.

Emboldened by her supernatural abilities, Ember takes off to New Orleans following a trail of clues in pursuit of her origins, only to uncover that not everything is straightforward in the Big Easy and the truth will take some digging.

COMING 2026

Young Adult Fantasy

Young Adult Paranormal Thriller 

Supernatural meets Originals, Secrets/Lies, Friendship, Monsters, Vampires, Angels, Demons

They want to control her. She will make them bleed for their crimes.

Eighteen-year-old Pemberly Mallory wants only to study the world beyond the walls of Jubilee, where post-apocalyptic anomalies have risen since the Tribulation. Instead, migrating female-blood-craving Leach hoards keep her fenced-in half the year. So, when it’s her duty to enter the Choosing, she accepts The Way, humanity above self, and her future fate of marriage, procreation, and a life of servitude to her husband, family, and home, even if it means cutting ties with her secret, illicit relationship with fellow nature lover, beekeeper, and Outsider, Sparrow (Row) Wright.

As courtship with Eligibles commences, Pemberly, for the first time, has hope that being a wife and mother won’t be the life-sentence she fears when Jubilee’s hottest bachelor, Beau Jackson, declares his interest in her. He likes being outdoors. He treats injured animals. And, instead of being dismissive when she talks, he shows interest—a rarity amongst the men of her town. Then Beau spies her beyond the wall saying her last goodbyes, kissing Row. The promiscuous slight cannot be ignored. He hunts Row, and she is publicly punished for her violations of The Way and sentenced to the rehabilitation labs beneath Jubilee.

Now trapped, she is exposed to the manufactured lies and laws that have kept the women in check and ‘safe’ from the Leaches that allegedly craved their blood. She must find a way to escape and warn Row before he becomes the town’s next victim. But, the patriarchy of Jubilee has other plans for her. Too bad for them Pemberly’s unapologetically feral and not afraid to grow fangs to protect the people she loves and make the men of Jubilee bleed for their crimes.

Coming to Query Trenches in 2026

Young Adult Feminist Dystopian Thriller

In a dystopian world, a young woman grows fangs to overthrow the patriarchy.

THE GRACE YEAR meets GATHER THE DAUGHTERS but with vampires.

Friends to Lovers, Love Triangle, Supernatural, Coming of Age, Science Fiction, Thriller, Forbidden Knowledge, Scandal, Scheming, Secrets, Eff the Patriarchy

It all comes down to blood...what's hidden within it and who's willing to bleed for it.

For the past decade, Arianna’s empire has held the Colossus Games, a deadly competition where the victor is awarded a powerful shadow-wielding crystal by the usurper queen. More concerned with keeping herself and her brother safe, Arianna has no desire to partake in the games. As the rightful heir, anonymity is vital, for the queen who murdered her parents and stole the throne would love nothing more than to eliminate her, the prophesied Light Bringer, who threatens her reign.

Across the empire, nestled among the thralled social climbers of the usurper’s court, is Lord Xander, a calculating victim of the queen’s coup. To evade suspicion, he acts as the carefree spare heir; however, behind closed doors, he incites a rebellion as the secret Guardian while searching for the Light Bringer, the hero foretold to assist him in restoring the empire and, selfishly, gain his revenge.

When Xander conducts a surprise blood census claiming to seek Gifted contenders for his House in the games, Arianna, fearing exposure, strikes a deal to protect her brother and volunteers to fight under his family’s traitorous banners. While training at his estate, the two liars grow closer and cannot deny the mysterious connection drawing them to each other. But a betrayal outs Xander as the rebellion leader, and they are imprisoned as sacrifices for the games. Arianna holds the key to their survival and potentially the redemption of the empire, but can she trust the pretender who claims her heart, or is he after something else entirely? 

In the end, blood will be spilled, love will be tested, and destiny will be strained as these two must unite to survive their darkest days in the usurper’s Colossus Games.

Young Adult/New Adult Crossover Romantasy &

2024 On The Far Side Young Adult Finalist

Bridgerton X Gladiator but with MAGIC

Tropes: Siblings, High-Action, Enemies to Lovers, Found Family, Secret Identities, Betrayal Plot Twist, Duty vs Desire, Medium Spice, Talking Gryphons

17-year-old thief, Charlie Bottoms survives relying on her wits, charm and slight-of-hand.  She runs a crew of forgotten misfits, swindling and swiping. However, as the Curse of the Continent spreads to the Crags, Charlie only wants two things: to buy her crew’s freedom and to move to the Summer Isles. 

With thinning pockets to pick, Charlie is late, once again, in paying their fealty taxes to the self-proclaimed Duke of the Crags. And, The Collector, the Duke’s son, is the one man in Crags Landing she can’t charm. Given the choice of losing fingers or worse, Charlie comes up with an outlandish plan—steal the dragon-protected Oracle Heir Crown. 

Shadowed by The Collector and armed with only her rag-tag crew, Charlie’s skills are tested as her quest to steal the Oracle Heir Crown becomes a mission to save her cursed world. 

Young Adult Fantasy Heist

Pirates of the Caribbean meets Lara Croft Tomb Raider

Enemies to Lovers, Found Family, Dragons

When Evie Carlisle becomes the villain of her own story, her parents send her to Thorn Academy--a place where even she can't get expelled from.

But when she meets her new classmates, one in particular, Jameson Thornhill III, great grandson of the founder, she'd rather spend time in juvie than another day in the dreadful school with him.

Just when she thinks she has devised the perfect plan to escape Thorn Academy, a student goes missing, and everyone thinks she is responsible. 

Okay, maybe she'd rather not go to juvie.

Ironically, the one guy who believes her innocence is Jameson, and he just might have the proof to get her off the hook. She just has to agree to his terms: be his girlfriend till after parents weekend, then he will give her the evidence.  

Evie takes the deal. It's just a few weeks. How bad could it be?

It's bad. She thought she was the villain. Jameson is worse. And she kind of likes it.

Young Adult Fantasy

Young Adult Paranormal Thriller

Sweet Nightmare vibes, Enemies to Lovers, Fake Dating