Post by loriehope on May 24, 2017 10:18:18 GMT -5
I'm Lorie Hope and I would love to have a beta reader or critique partner. This story has been read by several people, all of whom really like it, but I would like someone who doesn't know me to read it. I would also love to read your work as well. Thanks, Lorie
Name: Reine of Light
Genre: YA Fantasy
Word Count: 105K (can be cut/needs to be cut a little, but it's pretty tight at 105K)
In a time when the world is shrouded in darkness and a person's cremated soul is the only means of usable energy, Aurora Storm is born of a dark skinned demon mother and a bright skinned god father who incarnated as humans to bring her to life. Upon their mortal deaths, Aurora sets out on a journey to resurrect her parent's lost souls and is captured by a monster who sets the course of her destiny.
While riding the rails to the city of light at the top of the mountain, Aurora is captured by a soul-eater who consumes the souls of impoverished children so that he may remain youthful and virile. Being immortal, Lord Abernathy is in search of a woman of pure light who may produce an heir to end his eternal loneliness. Only a child conceived by a mother of absolute goodness would be born without the father's soul-eating affliction. Lord Abernathy is a beloved monarch, who is adored by all because they know nothing of his dark proclivities. Enchanted by Aurora's beauty, bravery and righteousness Saviyon, a male escort and Lord Abernathy’s paramour, tries to save Aurora as he reluctantly falls in love with her. At the same time Lord Abernathy, seeing Aurora's great power over light, empathy for his abomination and ability to inspire the masses, also finds himself enamored with her. Wondering if she would ever be happy with a beast, he makes her his queen. When Saviyon helps Aurora escape, she discovers the darkness within herself and the evil she must face alone as she innocently destroys everything she has come to love.
Reine of Light is a Young Adult Fantasy complete at 105K words and is ready for your consideration.
I am a high school ESL teacher, freelance ghostwriter and former head of the story department at Showtime Networks Inc., as well as a mother of two gorgeous girls, for whom I initially wrote this story.
Reine of Light
by Lorie Hope
GENRE: Young Adult Fantasy
PROPERTY: Fiction Novel
LOGLINE
After the mortal death of her immortal parents, a teenage girl embarks upon a harrowing journey to resurrect their lost souls. While traversing a land forever forbidden to her, she finds herself fighting the darkness and a dangerous Lord who seeks to make her his unwilling Queen.
SYNOPSIS
Aurora Storm is a seventeen - year - old girl with glowing brown skin and wild curly hair that cascades to the floor. Born of two races and two warring worlds, she is the embodiment of pure light and goodness. In a time of darkness when the souls of the dead are used to create light, heat and power, Aurora is an anomaly because she is cast of pure light. After the death of her scientist father and assassin mother who are rumored to have been a god and a demon living an illegal existence, she sets out to restore their souls to peace.
Aurora is given a day pass to Trente, the society at the top of NAO mountain, where the privileged sit high above the underprivileged, who are toiling in squalor below. On the train to Trente, Aurora is caught by Lord Abernathy, monarch of the Abernathy house and avid collector of “light beings.” Suspecting that she has powers beyond her own imagining, the Lord trains her in the light arts as he conceals his real intentions. At the Abernathy house, she meets Saviyon, one of Lord Abernathy’s male escorts who is also his young lover, and a relationship blossoms. But all is not what it seems when Aurora discovers Lord Abernathy is a soul eater with a taste for children. Armed with this awareness, she is named Queen of the Abernathy clan and member of House Abernathy, a handful of the most beautiful and rare people on earth who know nothing of the Lord’s dark proclivities. Reluctantly, Aurora accepts the role of monarch as she desperately tries to save the souls he plans to eat. She is now forced to make a choice, should she turn a blind eye as others have and accept her fate or face the darkness within herself to save those she has come to love.
Name: Reine of Light
Genre: YA Fantasy
Word Count: 105K (can be cut/needs to be cut a little, but it's pretty tight at 105K)
In a time when the world is shrouded in darkness and a person's cremated soul is the only means of usable energy, Aurora Storm is born of a dark skinned demon mother and a bright skinned god father who incarnated as humans to bring her to life. Upon their mortal deaths, Aurora sets out on a journey to resurrect her parent's lost souls and is captured by a monster who sets the course of her destiny.
While riding the rails to the city of light at the top of the mountain, Aurora is captured by a soul-eater who consumes the souls of impoverished children so that he may remain youthful and virile. Being immortal, Lord Abernathy is in search of a woman of pure light who may produce an heir to end his eternal loneliness. Only a child conceived by a mother of absolute goodness would be born without the father's soul-eating affliction. Lord Abernathy is a beloved monarch, who is adored by all because they know nothing of his dark proclivities. Enchanted by Aurora's beauty, bravery and righteousness Saviyon, a male escort and Lord Abernathy’s paramour, tries to save Aurora as he reluctantly falls in love with her. At the same time Lord Abernathy, seeing Aurora's great power over light, empathy for his abomination and ability to inspire the masses, also finds himself enamored with her. Wondering if she would ever be happy with a beast, he makes her his queen. When Saviyon helps Aurora escape, she discovers the darkness within herself and the evil she must face alone as she innocently destroys everything she has come to love.
Reine of Light is a Young Adult Fantasy complete at 105K words and is ready for your consideration.
I am a high school ESL teacher, freelance ghostwriter and former head of the story department at Showtime Networks Inc., as well as a mother of two gorgeous girls, for whom I initially wrote this story.
Reine of Light
by Lorie Hope
GENRE: Young Adult Fantasy
PROPERTY: Fiction Novel
LOGLINE
After the mortal death of her immortal parents, a teenage girl embarks upon a harrowing journey to resurrect their lost souls. While traversing a land forever forbidden to her, she finds herself fighting the darkness and a dangerous Lord who seeks to make her his unwilling Queen.
SYNOPSIS
Aurora Storm is a seventeen - year - old girl with glowing brown skin and wild curly hair that cascades to the floor. Born of two races and two warring worlds, she is the embodiment of pure light and goodness. In a time of darkness when the souls of the dead are used to create light, heat and power, Aurora is an anomaly because she is cast of pure light. After the death of her scientist father and assassin mother who are rumored to have been a god and a demon living an illegal existence, she sets out to restore their souls to peace.
Aurora is given a day pass to Trente, the society at the top of NAO mountain, where the privileged sit high above the underprivileged, who are toiling in squalor below. On the train to Trente, Aurora is caught by Lord Abernathy, monarch of the Abernathy house and avid collector of “light beings.” Suspecting that she has powers beyond her own imagining, the Lord trains her in the light arts as he conceals his real intentions. At the Abernathy house, she meets Saviyon, one of Lord Abernathy’s male escorts who is also his young lover, and a relationship blossoms. But all is not what it seems when Aurora discovers Lord Abernathy is a soul eater with a taste for children. Armed with this awareness, she is named Queen of the Abernathy clan and member of House Abernathy, a handful of the most beautiful and rare people on earth who know nothing of the Lord’s dark proclivities. Reluctantly, Aurora accepts the role of monarch as she desperately tries to save the souls he plans to eat. She is now forced to make a choice, should she turn a blind eye as others have and accept her fate or face the darkness within herself to save those she has come to love.
