Lodestone
Seeking Representation
97,000 words - New Adult - Horror/Fantasy
97,000 words - New Adult - Horror/Fantasy
Auden Hollis’s mother has always been a woman with secrets: her ageless face, her fragmented past, and the fairytales of blood and bones that she would never tell twice. But Auden never doubted that she knew her mother—not until she receives an unexpected invitation to attend her mother’s prestigious alma mater, Lodestone College. That same night, Auden’s mother disappears with the parting words, “I’m going to kill him.”
With Lodestone as Auden’s only clue, she enrolls in the isolated school in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains hellbent on finding her. She soon discovers that, behind the college’s façade of pastels and pearls, the tightknit legacy students practice rituals for protection. Offer your blood to the mountain. Use blue glass bottles to catch wandering spirits. And for the love of God, don’t talk to anything you meet among the trees. Because they know what no one else at Lodestone is willing to believe—that something lurks in the woods around campus, and it has a taste for the legacy students.
One by one, Auden’s classmates fall victim to accidents eerily like her mother’s macabre fairytales. As Auden becomes less sure of what’s real, one thing is certain. If she can’t uncover the truth about Lodestone’s history and her mother’s disappearance, Auden will be next.
With Lodestone as Auden’s only clue, she enrolls in the isolated school in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains hellbent on finding her. She soon discovers that, behind the college’s façade of pastels and pearls, the tightknit legacy students practice rituals for protection. Offer your blood to the mountain. Use blue glass bottles to catch wandering spirits. And for the love of God, don’t talk to anything you meet among the trees. Because they know what no one else at Lodestone is willing to believe—that something lurks in the woods around campus, and it has a taste for the legacy students.
One by one, Auden’s classmates fall victim to accidents eerily like her mother’s macabre fairytales. As Auden becomes less sure of what’s real, one thing is certain. If she can’t uncover the truth about Lodestone’s history and her mother’s disappearance, Auden will be next.