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MY DEMONS TO SLAY
20 lightyears from Earth, 17-year-old screw-up Leire Elsauvé would give anything to protect her loved ones. Already, she’s left her home, a Street Martial Arts career, and her girlfriend to join an underground organization called the Enders. Their aim: to kill ‘demons’, people corrupted by inexplicable telepathic and telekinetic powers into becoming mindless killers. Great, except after months of training, Leire is losing hope of advancing through Ender ranks.
But then demon-like activity is detected in a military bunker. The Enders need a way in, and their only lead requires a teenage operative. Leire could be captured by government agents. Or killed. But this is her chance to prove herself.
Underground, 17-year-old demon Samael has spent his life training to control his power and prove himself a loyal soldier. But when his squadmate Tannin starts behaving erratically, he’s faced with a choice: report her and possibly never see her again, or help her in a near-impossible escape, risking his corruption and the release of a true demon upon the worlds. He knows what duty demands. But Tannin is family.
When Leire and Samael meet, she finds his lack of murderous tendencies a miracle—and is immediately drawn into an Ender plan to keep him alive just long enough to target the rest of the bunker’s demons. Still, she doesn't think he’ll stay so, well, non-murder-y if he discovers she’s an Ender.
But together, Leire and Samael could shape their world into a better one for the demons—if they don’t kill each other first.
YA sci-fi - 123,000 words
Standalone
Currently being queried
MY BLOOD TIE TO CLAIM
YA sci-fi - 95,000 words
Standalone with duology potential
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Twelve centuries ago, humanity left Earth. Five centuries later, the first people with inexplicable telepathic and telekinetic powers were born. They were deemed “demons”, worthy of systematic murder by the Enders, a hate group now hunted by the worlds’ governments.
But Leire Custó, metalhead and general screw-up, has more important things to worry about than boring politics stuff. One is her plan to escape her societally-ordained fate as a seventh-generation cleaning and waste management expert: graduate high school, get away from Mamá’s expectations, and do her own thing. It’s a good plan, except Leire doesn’t know what that “thing” might be. And when she fails an assignment, a classmate’s snide remark causes her to snap and swing a fist… only to get thrashed. And suspended.
Determined to never lose a fight again, Leire takes up Street Martial Arts, a sport taught by the Simulationist Church as a defense against demons—weird, since nobody else considers demons dangerous (Enders excepted). Still, this could be Leire’s “thing”: a future as a professional athlete.
But as she trains and connects with the Simulationist community, Leire accesses found footage showing demons as killers—and governments’ disinterest in preparing for their attacks. Suddenly Leire understands she and everyone she loves are under threat: the demons must be stopped somehow.
The question is whether she should join the Enders to do it.
It’s Bronze Age Greece, and priestess Miska is tired of making up oracles for island peasants too gullible to realise the Greek gods don’t listen to their pleas, or the Cretan gods aren’t dead. Sure, one of those gods saved her life during the Greek invasion of her home, when she was an infant Cretan princess, but it’s not like whoever it was has checked in ever since. She figures they won’t notice if she ignores her vows of chastity and runs away with her secret Greek fisherman boyfriend, Perseus, to follow her dream of exploring the world.
But Perseus is more than a peace-loving fisherman: he is a demigod, and Olympus wants him trained for violence. Before he and Miska can escape, he is abducted by Greek warriors and given a choice: learn to kill like them, or never see Miska again.
Miska, for her part, doesn’t care that the gods don’t listen to mortals, or that they could crush her with a glance: she’ll make them tell her where they took Perseus.
She’s going to get him back.
​Adult fantasy with YA crossover potential
142,000 words
Standalone
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Thousands of years into the future, in a star system twenty lightyears from Earth, Apprentice Ahrin Latala dreams only of becoming a knight of the Spathian Order. That is, until her sister dies at the hands of murderers who never should have been able to reach her, and a dark craving for vengeance claws to life in Ahrin’s heart.
She’s sure the murderer is hidden somewhere among the war-ravaged cities of planet Iliad. But if she wants to uncover the secrets that hide them, she can’t play by the Order’s rules.
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I don't have a proper pitch for this one, but expect:
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Queer-normative world
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Girls with swords that don't take no for an answer
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Interplanetary wars - and mysteries to be solved within them
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A hunt for revenge
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Learning how to be after being raised in a cult-like environment
​YA space opera
First draft in progress
And so many more to come...