WIP: POSSESSIONS
pitch: Angelique Lovett has a camera, a car, and a dead little sister. These assets lead her to a near-abandoned rural town, said by her ex to hold explanations for things most people can't understand. Magic. Monsters. Ghosts. Angel's explorations start out nothing more than strange, but when she meets two young men who claim to be possessed and a girl who insists upon her ability to see their entangled futures, she falls into a new world entirely.
genre: urban fantasy, supernatural mystery
setting: a lakefront Canadian town in 1996; "the dead world", or, the world under the world
themes: loss/grief, autonomy, abuse of power, misogyny
cast: Angel, an amateur paranormal investigator. Oliver, an entertaining but tightly-wound academic. Corey, a quiet and cunning engineer. Rowan, Angel's elusive ex-girlfriend. Beatrice, the girl who can see the end of the world. Hope, the one living under the rest of them.
status: outlining. Aiming for a duology or trilogy (depending on where pacing and story take me).
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If you recognize any of these characters, yay! Yippee! Wahoo! This is indeed my reboot of WIP GFS/GFW. It will follow the same character dynamics and tone, and stay generally within the fantasy realm, but this time around contain more supernatural and horrific elements to help maintain the dark fantasy grit. It doesn't necessarily sound like it from the summary, but this story will indeed delve into gods and magic in a similar way GFS did, if a bit more esoteric/indirect. My main goal is to maintain the characters that I was so obsessed with and people were so kind about before!
Aspects of this story will be quite different, as I am in fact now 18 years old instead of 14 years old and condensing this from a 5 book epic fantasy to a 2 or 3 book portal/urban fantasy, but I hope if this piques your interest or if you liked GFS all those years ago you'll come along for the ride ^_^