Happy Endings, yet another wip by yours truly!
Genre: Young Adult, Urban Fantasy
POV: Third Person Limited
Major Themes: Found Family, LGBT+ (Multiple Trans Characters, A Central Polyamorous Relationship), Enemies to Lovers, The Rewards Of Being Loved
Synopsis:
Melissa Adams is just a simple girl with simple needs. All she wants out of life is to graduate high school already so that she can live permanently in the middle of Silverwood Forest. In the meantime, though, she’s content. She has two friends she likes, a tent set up in a forest clearing that’s dry and relatively safe, and a four-month hole in her memory that she’s made her peace with. It make sense, then that a member of the Argyris family - the powerful founding family of Silverwood city who are always taking more kids into their large orphanage - would ruin all of that.
When Virgil Argyris finds out she’s living in a tent and offers her a place in his home with his legal guardian in the forest away from the Argyris Orphanage, cold weather and a particularly unlucky snake drive her to accept. She quickly finds herself in the middle of a puzzle, one in which she has the pieces but doesn’t know the picture it’s meant to make. All she knows is that the Argyris Orphanage and it’s inhabitants are not all that they seem.
Melissa has bigger problems, though, because not only does she find out that the Argyris family and their orphanage is in danger; she is also pretty sure that she knows more about the threat than she realizes. Soon, she will have to make a choice. She either needs to confront her past and let her new friends in, or she will have to turn her back on them and leave them to their fate.
And she knows that the latter will be easier than the former.
Status: First draft! Loosely outlined, is the first book in what was meant to be a duology but will probably be a trilogy because I’m me.
Tags: Early information can be found under #happy endings, but I’m going to start using #h.e. from now on. Information about the wider world that this is set in can be found under #for werewolf reasons.
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