A Syllabus of Secrets
Now that husband and wife Elsie and Giles are teaching together at the academically innovative boarding school that Giles attended in high school, he can finally share the school he loves with his wife--including the mystery of the murder of the school's founder and the hidden laboratory that he left behind, a puzzle that has intrigued Giles since his time at the school. Elsie, nosy and tantalized by the lost scientific research hidden in this lab, is just as eager to start snooping for clues.
But as they get closer to finding the lab and the lost research it contains, their student's dorm is sacked, Elsie's bio lab is trashed, and they realize that someone else on their small campus is willing to kill to keep these school secrets hidden forever.
Gaudy Night meets The Thursday Murder Club by way of a buddy cup movie in this adult light academia mystery.
Status: Querying
MINA
Mina Murray expects to spend the summer after her senior year of high school scooping ice cream with her best friend Lucy and making some precious summer memories with her boyfriend Jonathan before starting her journalism major in the fall. But when Lucy catches the eye of the young, rich CEO of the tech company where Jonathan interns and Mina discovers he may have been involved in a murder, her summer plans turn into reading crack theories on Reddit and trying to convince her best friend that the age gap is too big.
Mina has learned to approach every potential story with logic, but when Lucy comes down with a mysterious illness, Mina can’t help but suspect that her new CEO boyfriend is somehow responsible. Following her intuition, she tests out a theory on Lucy, leading her to the unbelievable but certain conclusion that Lucy has become the victim of a vampire.
With Lucy’s illness rapidly worsening, and her vampire nemesis about to release an app that could draw hundreds of victims to him, Mina has only a few short weeks to find a way to defeat an ancient evil and save what’s most important to her: her friends.
Stranger Things meets Beth is Dead in this YA contemporary retelling of Dracula.
Status: Drafting
