NAME: Rebecca Yarros
MENTOR: Molly Lee
TITLE: Aeolian
GENRE: YA Paranormal
WORD
COUNT: 88 K
PITCH:
To defeat power-siphoning drainers secretly preying on our world, 17 year-old
Dayenara must accept her ability to channel energy, but to save her hidden
society, who will she be willing to sacrifice… or even kill?
FIRST
250:
Guilt
and exhilaration warred for control of my heartbeat. Sneaking out for a kegger was way outside Mom
and Dad’s rules, but I took the chance and broke out of their comfort
zone. I lied; I wasn’t curled up at
Emma’s house watching movies. God, I
hoped they didn’t find out, or I would say goodbye to swim team, and reunite
with perpetual spelling bees.
Music
pulsed, echoing off the tiled aquatic center walls as if it kept rhythm with
the dancing lights under the surface of the pool. The legendary party was expressly forbidden
by our school, but that didn’t stop the combined swim team from sneaking in the
night we won Colorado’s State Championship to make a few new legends of our
own. Besides, given the ease with which
we broke in, something told me the school turned a blind eye. A few dozen of my teammates and their dates
flooded the pool in a mix of water volleyball and badly-disguised make-out
sessions while two girls next to me drove me insane with their senseless,
insipid conversation. Who invited these
cheerleaders, anyway? Their high-pitched
boy drama consumed nearly the entire party, and now they wanted my take on what
I considered to be their total lack of self-respect.
“I
don’t care how hot he is, no guy is worth throwing yourself off a cliff,” I
answered. Apparently my thought-to-mouth
filter wasn’t working.
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