Projects

Genre: Young Adult Urban Fantasy

Status: Querying

Short Summary: When demons kidnap her mother, sixteen-year-old Fire Mage Miranda must confront a seductive ancient evil, while partnered with a young Holy Knight on a cross-country rescue mission.

Less Short Summary: Miranda Dakin is the most powerful Fire Mage alive and could win this year’s annual Tournament – if she were three days older. Mages must be at least sixteen to attend The Tournament, the paramount event for the secretive modern-day Mage society. Waiting another year to compete becomes the least of her worries when a horde of supposedly-extinct demons attack The Tournament, killing or kidnapping every adult Mage – and take her Psychic Mage mother as one of the hostages.

After receiving a message from her mother, Miranda must rescue the surviving Mages from a place she was told doesn’t exist. She sets off on a cross-country rescue mission with three others: a strange young Holy Knight, her Witch of a best friend, and a Water Mage she’s known since birth.

Miranda grapples with the seductive knowledge in a pair of ancient books from her outcast aunt’s attic, while discovering most of what she’s been taught about her magic is a strategic lie. An intimate betrayal and public demon attacks complicate matters when all Miranda wants is her mother and the other Mages safely back at home.

Brigid’s Cross