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In the 13th century After Earth, Ahrin Latala was born with an unnatural telepathic and telekinetic power, and with it two possible futures: to be hunted by the Enders, an organization dedicated to eradicating her kind, or to use her power in service of her country as a knight of the Spathian Order. At 13 years old, serving in the Order is not only what she was raised to do alongside the squadmates she considers family, but an honor. And she has her sights set high: despite the interplanetary war raging in her universe, she dreams of knowing the people she was born to serve as an officer in the Order’s police branch, rather than be automatically enlisted to kill their enemies as a soldier.
Only two things stand in Ahrin's way: the Trial of Worth, and rebellious fellow squad member Juno Striangi. Juno seems determined to ruin their squad's Trial scores—and with them, her once-close relationship with Ahrin. But Juno never gets her chance: while completing the Trial, she is killed by Enders targeting the squad. Ahrin not only feels the death through a telekinetic bond, but wakes to find the murderers escaped—and Juno’s case under military, not police, investigation. If Ahrin wants a chance at revenge, she’ll have to prove herself on the battlefield.
But while she’ll risk anything to destroy those who hurt her loved ones, what she doesn’t know is that Juno’s murder is the key to a tangle of secrets spanning star systems and centuries; one that could not only change the worlds, but consume Ahrin’s very self.
This revenge will cost far more than a dream.
​YA sci-fi - 126,000 words
Standalone with series potential
Currently being queried
Odyssey's Wake
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
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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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Pathsinger's Crush
Adult cozy fantasy - 95,000 words
Standalone
Being revised
In another modern world with a touch of magic, 22-year-old recent university graduate and romance bookworm Jimena Vera-Campo hates feeling different: she’s terrible at using her pathsinger ability of weaving light, which combined with her unpronounceable ‘foreign’ name immediately identifies her as a refugee, and—worst of all—she desperately wants to fall in love… but is asexual.
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Tired of waiting for the universe to supply her with a potential romantic partner, she puts together a plan:
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Ditch any signs of being an immigrant or otherwise not ‘normal’, including her pathsinging powers, which will fade without use.
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Date people!!
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Find The One.
The only hitch: she can’t let her family and friends find out that she’s letting her pathsong fade, or else they’ll try to stop her. And just as Jimena embarks on her search for romance, her filmmaker best friend Scarlet makes an announcement: she wants Jimena to star in her documentary about pathsinging styles from around the world.
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Jimena is determined to stay out of the documentary so that potential matches will see her for her, not her ‘exotic’ immigrant or pathsinger status. But as she plunges into the chaotic whirlwind of the dating world, she realizes she might not be able to find a partner without Scarlet’s help—or the old wisdom of her nation, Stormfront, which says you can’t hide from your roots.
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If she wants to keep the old loves in her life as well as the new, Jimena will have to decide what she values more: supporting her friends and family, or finding a happily ever after. And if she chooses wrong, she might lose them both.
Fall of Daedalus
I'm yet to put together a proper pitch for this one, but have a glimpse:
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Delphi, oracle to Empress Adelia Sun-Seen, does not remember his life from before he was given his Apollo implant—nor does he care to, as he knows he escaped a hard, cobbled-together life to reach the Empress's side. But when her flagship is sabotaged, so too is Delphi's implant—and everything Delphi knew.
Adult sci-fi
Being drafted
And so many more to come...