My first completed novel, but not the one I'm currently shopping to agents. This chubby baby is chock full of word cellulite; I need to trim about 50,000 words from it to make it marketable. Luckily I have a fantastic editor, and she charges me nothing as long as I edit her work in return. Works for me.
This is a very rough synopsis and is written for readers, not for an agent or editor.
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The Wyckham House is the story of Kimberly Garrett Owens, author of children’s books and daughter of famous horror novelist, Todd Garrett. While at her father’s California cabin, she begins having perplexing dreams in which she runs through the forest with a man she has never met, and her computer begins booting up an internet map all of its own accord--a map of the small Pennsylvania town, Mills, where her father is conducting research for his next novel. Convinced her father is in dire straits, Kimberly assumes her best friend’s identity and makes the fateful decision to travel to Mills.
Known for witchcraft activity, strange disappearances, and wild animal attacks, Mills proves to be more than she anticipates. Todd nowhere in sight, Kimberly instead finds the man of her dreams--literally. The key to her father’s survival may very well lie with Aaron Schaefer--the living proof that her dreams are clairvoyant--a man whose sanity seems to be in question. Battle-scarred and wounded by his own war eleven years ago with the town’s darker elements, Aaron cautions her away from the town’s buried secrets and from himself, even while he is uncontrollably drawn to her. Kimberly instead delves deeper into Aaron’s past, alarming both him and the Circle, a coven of modern witches involved in experimental witchcraft. The Circle, led by Aaron’s disturbingly soulless father Caleb, is hell-bent on perfecting a lycanthropy curse that will allow the cursed to retain his humanity while granting immortality. The added bonus, for Caleb at least, is another chance to strike a crippling blow at his estranged brother Cody, who raised Aaron, and at Aaron himself.
Bound to Kimberly by a strange, soul-melding phenomenon--made stronger each time they kiss--Aaron begins to remember the events of eleven years ago, which he had sealed behind a self-imposed memory block. Attacked in the woods by a strange animal, had he become a werewolf while interred at a psychiatric facility? And do his suppressed memories hold the key to Todd Garrett’s freedom? Bent on saving her father and winning Aaron’s lifelong devotion, Kimberly launches a daring rescue mission, and she only has until the full moon rises.
