These Vicious Ends
Young Adult Psychological Thriller
Seventeen-year-old Marley Devereaux wakes up on a cold beach with blood-stained hands, her twin sister’s severed arm, and no memory of how she got there.
After a long history of being eclipsed by her perfect sister, Marley wants to steal some of her own sunshine after Ivette’s death: a twinless life, a large circle of adoring and sympathetic friends, and the sexiest boy on the baseball team to kiss away the nightmares.
But nightmares don’t always lurk in dreams. Her deceased sister begins calling out to her in the darkness. Detectives are all but second family in her living room. Her boyfriend suddenly can’t stand to look at her. And those sympathetic friends turn mutinous when her memories of the accident don’t return. Marley goes from victim to suspect faster than her sister ruined her life.
THESE VICIOUS ENDS is a young adult psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator and crossover appeal in the vein of E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars and Jennifer McMahon’s Don’t Breathe a Word, at 80,000 words.
Wizard of Kermit
Young Adult Fantasy Retelling
Kermit Devereaux has always had a fascination with death, but he never thought it would take him to the Afterlife. WIZARD OF KERMIT is a Wizard of Oz retelling with ghosts, and is a work in progress.
Heartbeat City
Speculative Fiction Noir
Told in multiple POVs, HEARTBEAT CITY explores a city that not only sucks people in, but chews and spits them out. HBC is a work in progress.
The Little Deaths of Black Betty
Young Adult Urban Fantasy
One ran away. Another left. Someone is calling pieces one at a time. Betty must find herself, literally, before she disappears. THE LITTLE DEATHS OF BLACK BETTY is currently shelved.
Sigh No More
Young Adult Thriller
Clementine breaks her body in the dusty dunes of the south to buy back her brother. When a murder breaks loose in the camp, her whole life flips upside down. Amid the dirt, dust, and unending skies of red, she fights for her life, the life of her parents, and the life of the family she all-too-recently gained. SIGH NO MORE is a work in progress.
Blame it on the Weatherman NaNoWriMo 2009 WINNER
Speculative Fiction
A young man wakes in Hell, Inc, a new slave to Satan and his dastardly crew. During his trek to find an escape, Hell finds itself in the middle of an epic melt down and the End of Days might just be coming sooner than they anticipated. Who’s to blame: the busty blond? The dangerous brunette? The bumbling new guy? Gluttony? The culprit must be found before it is too late. BLAME IT ON THE WEATHERMAN is a completed draft.
Melissa Veres 