Title: EMBROL
Genre: YA Sci-fi/romance
Word Count: 80,000
Query:
Seventeen-year-old Olivia Ryan knows her grief
has finally broken her when two boys she’s only met in her dreams show up at
her mom’s funeral.
Jack, the boy she’s been kissing in her dreams,
is a welcome distraction. But when she finds out he’s not only real, but he was
driving the truck that killed her mom, she just wants to forget he ever
existed. His claim that, like him, she’s a member of a powerful alien race, the
antecedents to humans, only seals her desire to push him away.
Kole, the boy from her nightmares, has no
interest in kissing her. In his demented alien mind, Olivia is the reincarnated
daughter of the universe’s creator. He believes if he can control her in the
dream world, he’ll have unlimited access to her power—a massive force hidden
within the earth more than 75,000 years ago. He plans to use that power to
hijack the universe. And of course, when he’s done with that, she can take her
place by his side as queen. Clearly, he’s a total nut job, but even if he’s the
sanest man in the galaxy, Olivia’s sure he has the wrong girl. Jack and Kole
both do.
But when Kole almost succeeds in trapping Olivia
in a dream, she’s forced to choose. She can continue to reject her true self
and risk involuntarily destroying the universe with her own hands. Or she can
accept her alien heritage and find a way to trust Jack, the only one with the
power to protect her and train her to use her abilities. The choice should be
simple, but trusting the boy who killed her mom might be beyond the capabilities
of even her advanced alien heart.
First 250:
My art teacher says the eyes are the window to
the soul. Apparently, I have no soul.
I studied the self-portrait lying on my
worktable. Dull, lifeless eyes stared back. Yup, definitely soulless.Next
thing I knew, I’d be wandering the streets in search of brains. The stiff paper
crumpled beneath my fingers. Why can I draw anyone, anything else, but
I can’t draw myself?
Mr. Unrealistic-Expectations—aka my art
teacher—was two tables away, making his daily rounds to check everyone’s
progress. So what if this was the fourth time I’d started over? This assignment
was impossible to complete, and on Friday, when I’d told him as much, he’d
said, Olivia, you’ll never survive Pratt with that attitude.
Yeah, well, maybe I didn’t care. Maybe I was
tired of living up to my potential.
He reached my table as the bell rang. “You
destroyed another one?”
“I’ll work on a new one tonight,” I lied. I
shoved all my papers into my portfolio and hopped off my stool. Working on this
stupid project was the last thing I intended to do today. Birthdays are
supposed to be fun.
Before he could offer his assistance, I
shouldered the door open and headed out to the crowded outdoor locker area. I
smiled at the heavy clouds overhead, breathing in the damp smell that always
accompanied a rainy day in Mesa, Arizona. At least something good
was happening today.
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