Title: Deceptive Cadence
Genre: YA Contemporary with Time Travel elements
Word Count: 85,000
First Page:
“But how? The last
thing I remember was... was...” I didn’t actually know. The Monday was a haze.
Genre: YA Contemporary with Time Travel elements
Word Count: 85,000
Query:
Cadence awakes in a hospital to find her
husband and daughter dead, killed in a freak earthquake. So when her guardian
angel appears and offers her a chance to go back in time with all the knowledge
she has, she accepts, desperate to prevent their deaths.
She shoots back eleven years to her
fourteen-year-old self, and faces high school all over again. She is determined
to do everything better, including preventing the loss of her best friend, which
broke her heart, and not dating any of her original, drama-inducing boyfriends.
Her main focus is on her future husband, who she won’t meet for several years.
But James Gordon crosses her path. While
she wishes to remain single, the bad boy pursues her. He threatens to disrupt
everything that is to come as she begins to grow unwanted feelings for him, and
distract her from her original goal: to save her future family.
First Page:
A steady beep
brought me out of unconsciousness. My eyes felt heavy and I struggled to open
them. There was a distinct aroma of cleaning products. My brain switched on as
I realized where I was. I forced my eyes open and the beeping sped up. The
walls were white in the hospital room, and directly across from me was a closed
bathroom door. To my left was a brown couch under a window – which was covered
by blinds – and to my right was a tan leather armchair. I was completely alone.
Where was my family? My husband? My eighteen-month-old daughter?
I tried to sit up
but my whole body writhed with pain. I moaned, and a second later a nurse,
dressed in aqua scrubs, burst into the room. “It’s all right, just don’t move,”
she said in a soothing voice.
I wanted to ask a
million questions, but I couldn’t seem to form any words. She gently pressed me
back onto the bed and checked me over. I watched her, as she avoided looking
directly into my eye. I followed her movements which was when I became aware of
the cast on my arm. My right leg was bound and raised in a sling and appeared
to have large bolts sticking out of my thigh. “What happened?” I finally
managed to utter.
The nurse slowed.
“You have a fractured femur, ulna and radius. You also sustained
substantial head trauma which is why you’ve been unconscious for the past few
days.”
“Few days?” I
groaned. “What day is it?”
“Thursday.”
“But how? The last thing I remember was... was...” I didn’t
actually know. The Monday was a haze.
I want to see the first fifty pages of this. I love time-travel! :)
ReplyDeleteBrittany Booker
I'd love to send it through. How would you like me to format it and where to?
DeleteYou can send it to brittany@thebookeralbertagency.com
DeleteSorry I didn't mention it before! Got ahead of myself! :)
I would pass on this merely because it doesn't read like YA. Time travel really has to thrill me - it's been done, and redone. (No joke intended.) By the way, I absolutely lurve your title!
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