MENTOR:
Molly Lee
ALTERNATE:
Jamie Corrigan
TITLE: CROSSING BRIELLE
CATEGORY/GENRE:
YA Urban Fantasy
WORD
COUNT: 64,000
PITCH: A bridge
connects doppelgangers Cross and Brielle. If they don't find the madman who put
them on a hit list for swapping worlds before his assassins find them, that
connection might be what kills them.
EXCERPT:
Cross slinked through the alley as nimble as a cat, tracking her prey, waiting
for the right time to strike. Liquid-gold light lit her way as she slid her
small frame along a bumpy brick wall. Foot placed firmly on a dumpster filled
with what smelled like three-day-old tuna, she propelled herself up to her
selected post. Sweat dripped from her brow, but Cross refused to acknowledge
it. Spring wasn’t always so hot, but right then she felt like she was kneeling
in a freaking desert instead of a tar roof in Nashville.
Any
day now. She
surveyed the landscape. People zigzagged through the rubble-filled streets,
living their lives in ignorance. Daniel was down there among them. In the midst
of that decay he was working his way toward her. She was sure of it. He
wouldn't pass up the chance to say a twisted hello to his victim.
To the
untrained eye he looked like any other guy, six feet tall and two hundred
pounds of pure muscle. But Cross knew the monster lurking beneath his skin. All
of her jobs were dangerous, but Daniel was the most vicious type of moth—a
cinnabar. The viper of the moth race.
Finally the
tell-tale solid black figure strolled into the alley below. Blood-red stripes
ran down his sleeves and pants. Cross peered over the roof's edge, checking for
the matching red spot on his back. Her hand fell to her blade, the spot was
there.
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