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All of your guys’ WIPS sound amazing! I’m almost a little intimidated here haha XD

Anyway, I have two main ones that I’m (sort of) working on right now. (By sort of, I mean I’m a little stuck on both of them. Which is not good.)

You’ve probably heard a little bit about the first one, Beautiful Murder. This was inspired by this comment on Chase Holfelder’s Beauty & the Beast sung in a minor key: “where Beast is not another person but the alter ego of Belle when she decides to murder people at night leaving a rose on each corpse.” So because I am not a truly horrible person, I decided to curse her instead of it being her choice. Here is the little blurb thingy I have at the moment.

Eighteen-year-old Isabelle Montlaurier, heiress to the Aurelian throne, has been suffering from a dreadful curse for more than two years. Every night, she must murder one of the subjects she will one day rule, unless she can find someone to love her in spite of her actions. She was given one thousand nights to break the curse before it will settle on her for life, with no hope of ever being broken. When, with less than three months remaining, the curse causes a tragic loss for Isabelle, she acts out of desperation to break it.

Kieran Kelly is the second-in-command of the rebel group that opposes the royal family of Aurelia and everything they stand for. When an invitation to the princess’s ball gives him the chance to take them out, he grabs it eagerly. As he gets to know Isabelle, however, he becomes less sure that the entire family needs to go.

As the deadline to break the curse looms closer, bonds are formed, secrets are revealed, and trust is broken. In the face of rebellion, magic, and murder, does true love really stand a chance?

The second one I have is called The Shadows Never Lie. It started from me deciding to write a short story based on Gail Carson Levine’s prompt “I have one green eye and one brown eye. The green eye sees truth, but the brown eye sees much, much more.” I eventually took that out because it no longer fit, but this entire book was born from that.

Elena Crandall is just an average fifteen-year-old girl, except for one thing. She knows when a person is going to die, based on whether or not they are surrounded by shadows that only she can see. She never asked for this gift, but it’s never told her anything devastating. Until now. On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Elena discovers through her talent that her mother has only a month to live. Desperate to rescue her, Elena, with the help of her friends, attempts to stop fate and save her family.
 

What do you guys think, just based off of those?