Query:
At seventeen years old, Addisyn White throws herself in
front of a bullet to save a friend. She expected to find pearly white gates and
an eternity of calorie-free ice cream on the other side of life. Instead, her
act of heroism earns her a pair of flightless wings and a family of
dysfunctional angels.
The afterlife isn't all bad. She's on track to become the youngest guardian in one of the most well respected North American angel links. Trouble is, it's taking forever and a day. Five years of transitioning might not seem like much to angels who've spent decades or even centuries comforting dying souls and ushering them to the other side, but it's an eternity to a recently deceased teenage girl.
When a mysterious dark-winged angel kidnaps her, Addisyn discovers a seedy underbelly of angel culture. Not all angels are harbingers of sugar and spice and everything nice. Some resent their deaths. Some use their powers for selfish, hedonistic purposes. Some just want to watch the world burn.
To the majority of the angelic world, these fallen angels are a lost cause, but Addi sees a chance to redeem other new angels on the cusp of falling. She's tired of being coddled, sick of being useless, and ready to prove her link and the Elder Council wrong by any means necessary. Through stubbornness, a budding romance, and a friendship that ends too soon, Addisyn is going to make her mark on the world or fall trying.
NEOPHYTE is a 95,000 word, high young adult contemporary fantasy novel. This is the first in a planned series, but can also stand alone.
I’m a mother with a passion for writing and an over active imagination; which makes soccer practice and the endless dance mom gossip at preschool ballet a little more tolerable! This is my job. I’m a stay at home mom/author with the dream of staying home writing forever and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Thank you for your time and consideration!
Emmalee Aple
The afterlife isn't all bad. She's on track to become the youngest guardian in one of the most well respected North American angel links. Trouble is, it's taking forever and a day. Five years of transitioning might not seem like much to angels who've spent decades or even centuries comforting dying souls and ushering them to the other side, but it's an eternity to a recently deceased teenage girl.
When a mysterious dark-winged angel kidnaps her, Addisyn discovers a seedy underbelly of angel culture. Not all angels are harbingers of sugar and spice and everything nice. Some resent their deaths. Some use their powers for selfish, hedonistic purposes. Some just want to watch the world burn.
To the majority of the angelic world, these fallen angels are a lost cause, but Addi sees a chance to redeem other new angels on the cusp of falling. She's tired of being coddled, sick of being useless, and ready to prove her link and the Elder Council wrong by any means necessary. Through stubbornness, a budding romance, and a friendship that ends too soon, Addisyn is going to make her mark on the world or fall trying.
NEOPHYTE is a 95,000 word, high young adult contemporary fantasy novel. This is the first in a planned series, but can also stand alone.
I’m a mother with a passion for writing and an over active imagination; which makes soccer practice and the endless dance mom gossip at preschool ballet a little more tolerable! This is my job. I’m a stay at home mom/author with the dream of staying home writing forever and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Thank you for your time and consideration!
Emmalee Aple
My contact information is as follows: email: emmalee,aple@gmail.com
I am also very active on both my facebook page
(Emmalee Aple) and my Twitter account - @EmmaleeAple
First 250 of Neophyte:
Honestly, they must have thought I was
going to throw a celestial-sized rager the minute they left me alone. They’d
promised me some time to myself, and yet, twenty minutes later they were still
skulking around trying to find ways to delay the inevitable. I’d been under
almost constant supervision for two years. An hour or two alone wasn’t going to
kill anyone.
I sank further into the porch swing as
the sun dipped over the ocean, creating a cascade of colors across the evening
sky. Seawater filled the air with a crisp, cleanness while the waves filled the
otherwise silent night with a soft roar. Finally, I could just relax and
pretend I was a normal teenage girl, instead of the recently deceased Addisyn
White and her five angelic misfit guardians: Bossy, Crabby, Hottie, Cocky, and
Rebel.
“Hey,” a voice called from the doorway.
I glanced over to my best friend Cocky—I mean Hunter—standing there with a grim
look on his face, as if leaving me alone was tantamount to signing my death
certificate. Again. He and I had some kind of God-given bond, which sounded far
more epic than it really was. Mostly the bond just gave him an all-access pass
to my thoughts with only a touch of his hand to mine. I had yet to gain that
super power—along with many others on the long list of things I still couldn’t
do. Just another perk of being the newbie.
“Thought I’d tell you Graham and I are
leaving.”
