My Novel: Title & Synopsis
If I post about it, it's *really* real... right?
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This post has been edited to remove the paywall, but also to remove the first two chapters as previously released. This is for two reasons:
My novel has gone through some serious revision in the last year; and
I turned my paywall off (and will probably remove it altogether)!
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Okay, vibers. It’s finally time.
I finished my latest draft a year ago. In the last year, I’ve played a lot of Animal Crossing, worked on my query letter, and researched agents. I have a solid list of “first round” submissions now and will start sending my letters later this week. Ahhh!
So, as a treat for hanging in there with me while I keep going on and on and on about how I wrote a novel and I want to get it published… let’s make things real.
Today, I’m revealing to you my title and working synopsis, because you’re amazing and supportive and gorgeous and awesome.
If I think about this anymore, I won’t do it. I’ll chicken out. I’ll get nervous and won’t post it. So…
TITLE: The Secrets We Carry
SYNOPSIS:
After landing a new job and walking away from a less-than-great relationship in Florida, Kate Riley relocates to the Midwest to a sleepy city an hour southeast of Chicago, not far from her rural hometown. News in the small city is slow, so Kate takes on a volunteer position with the local library to help digitize a variety of city records as she gets acclimated to her new surroundings. While sifting through the archives, she discovers the house she bought was the setting of a robbery-turned-murder in the late nineties. A few weeks into renovating the home, she finds a small box hidden beneath the floorboards that contains several items belonging to the murder victim, including a sonogram with a name that does not match the wife of the victim.
What starts as curiosity about the victim’s life and murder, Kate’s research uncovers surprising connections that went unnoticed all those years ago, as well as some relevant to her own life — like the sonogram belonging to her new boyfriend’s deceased college girlfriend. Kate begins to unravel the complicated threads of the past but the frayed strands pull her directly into the center of the murder-gone-cold two decades ago. As she searches for the truth, she has to decide which secrets she cannot live with — and the ones she can — and reveal who was really responsible for the deadly crime.
the suspense is killing me already: I can't wait to read this!