Dear Mr. Example,
In a sunless ice-world where cities are built underground, Vastii is a corrupt, dirty metropolis ripe with gangs, mercenaries, rebellion, assassins, cannibalism, and scheming politicians. To suppress an uprising in the west, the king takes his own niece, the Lady Wyrren Jadis, as a political hostage. Officially, her presence will ensure her father’s loyalty to a king that he never cared for. The king never mentioned that he intends to use Wyrren’s unwilling confession to convict her father for his late wife’s murder, whether he is guilty or not.
Forced into a strange city and a hostile court with only a few companions, outnumbered and manipulated, the king’s niece is seen as an opportunity for riches and power, an easy way to the king’s ear or a weapon against the monarchy. When the king’s secret police begins to track down and kill men found in connection to an illegal press that Wyrren is contributing to, her companions are left to scramble across the plague-ridden city to keep the police at bay while the lady seeks someone (anyone) in the courts who can protect her from her increasingly demanding uncle. Amid deal making and breaking, she finds the unassuming, charming (and ambitious) nobleman Remerdii, the lord of blue crystal and favorite of the king. Remerdii provides a much-needed crutch, but only in exchange for a price that increases the more she comes to need him. Remerdii collects what he is owed before he betrays the king and Wyrren both, and reveals that he had been the cause of her problems from the beginning.
Blue Crystal is a completed 95,000 word novel written for an adult audience who enjoy action, intrigue, and low-fantasy. I’ve included the first three pages of my manuscript. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
