GenevaAlaire
I'm a creative writing graduate and this is the story I have been working on in class for the last couple semesters. I would love thoughts from people interested in the story.
Synopsis: 25-year-old GRACE-bright-smiled, overworked, and quietly unraveling-has one goal: keep her terminally ill mother alive, no matter the cost. But after losing one of her three jobs to exhaustion, she's out of time and out of options. When the charming but dangerous owner of the nightclub Apex, known only as BOSS, offers her a lifeline, she takes it. The job is not what she expected. Grace is used to serving coffee, not collecting secrets, leverage, and blackmail material for a man who thrives on exploiting the city's underbelly. And when Boss decides she's useful, he gives her an impossible order: get close to a man named Sam... and kill him, or her mother's treatment ends.
SAM, a cynical, fallen guardian angel now trapped in a mortal body, hides his once-divine features behind a brooding exterior and a stiff sense of justice. Cast out of Heaven and stripped of most of his power, he wants only one thing: redemption. By day he helps a priest in the church he calls home; by night he hunts corruption across the city, hoping heroic acts will restore what he's lost. But after a bad day, he wanders into Apex, inadvertently wrecks part of Boss's operation, and earns himself a death sentence.
When Grace and Sam meet, something unexpected sparks:
Sam feels an ancient pull to protect her,
Grace feels seen for the first time in years-
and neither realizes they're standing on opposite sides of a trap.
Grace must choose between saving her mother and betraying the only person who makes her feel safe.
Sam must decide whether Grace is his destruction... or the very thing that might restore his faith.
THE BURDEN OF WINGS is a present-day supernatural, urban fantasy with romantic elements. It explores the lines we cross for the people we love- and how those choices can ruin us or redeem us.