MelissaPuente

STORY STATEMENT: Eva must find her kidnapped twin-sister Sadie, release the imprisoned Thevv (Infected) souls, and defeat the Bockoer (soul-snatcher and master-mind behind the Pandemic). ANTAGONIST: Petr was raised by a single mother in a small, bleak prairie town. As a poor young man he left school to join the army, hoping to improve his prospects. Instead, he was captured and imprisoned in a manner that defied every rule of humane treatment. Unrestrained cruelty was inflicted upon his body and soul. He was beaten and tortured daily without mercy or purpose. When his will to live was shattered, Petr discovered a mystical ability to subsume his tormentors, absorbing them into himself. Petr’s skills grew. Whispers told him of an ancient, mystical Order, the Elmams. They had protected the world from dark forces for centuries. After finding the Elmams, he impressed them with his abilities. They took him in, but secretly he was never one of them. Petr believed that Humankind was broken. Instead of serving it, the time had come to consume and dominate. Before long the spells for soul-stealing they secreted protected were his. It wasn’t difficult to convince many Elmams it was time to evolve and follow him. After becoming the Bockoer, Petr’s followers helped him create a Pandemic, a world free of pain and death, where his slaves, the Thevv, live in captivity and forced labor. BREAK-OUT TITLE: Secrets of the Pandemic, Pandemic Maker, Soulbinder, The Binder of Souls, GENRE AND COMPS: YA Fantasy, Twilight and Harry Potter CORE WOUND AND CENTRAL CONFLICT: Set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a mysterious Pandemic, a reticent sixteen-year old discovers she and her twin-sister can practice the same Magick used by their murdered mother, which may be the only way to stop the Pandemic’s mastermind from annihilating what’s left of humanity. INNER CONFLICT: Eva blames herself for her mother’s death. She didn’t stay hidden the way her mother requested, and Grace died saving her. She’s confronted with her feelings when she works with Ayden, her mother’s closest friend but the one who also betrayed her. INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT: Eva has a complicated relationship with her twin-sister Sadie. Not long after her mother’s death, Eva heard her mute twin sister Sadie speaking inside her head. From that day, Eva became less able to hear her own inner-voice. No one but Walter knows Eva possesses this singular telepathy, or understands how she sacrifices herself for her sister’s empowerment. Eva will eventually find her own voice and forge her own identity connected but separate from her sister to defeat the Bockoer. Eva is loyal and obedient to Walter. She wants nothing more than to stay home with her brilliant, Engineer father. But he’s very domineering, and constantly tells her Magick isn’t real and Science is what keeps them alive, which isn't completely true. She constantly doubts herself, and has gotten used to the idea she’s not meant to trust herself. Eva will discover the truth about her Father's stories, and be able to discern his lies and write her own story about what happened to her mother. Eva will fall in love with Cade, a boy her sister Sadie has yearned for since they were younger. Although the love will feel forbidden at first, it will bring out the bravest part of her and support her during her terrifying journey. SETTING: Set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a Pandemic. When the story begins, Healey, a well-stocked military base, guards the Willmet, a pocket of five tourist-towns. Hidden deep in the Scaiffell Pike mountains near the Oleanor Coast, the Willmet includes Oakridge, Ferndale, Thafton, Marshburn, and Ford. Before the Pandemic, hikers used to make day-trips between the picture-perfect Main Streets of each town. Now the towns are mostly abandoned ruins, except along the Main Streets. These central areas are where survivors have moved in to be closer together. Eva’s father Walter has overseen the building of an impenetrable electric fence along the military base perimeter that protects the five villages. Obsessed with security and safety, he has also built an electric fence that encircles the Main Street area of Oakridge. The Hillcreek Hydrodam powers the villages and the fences. The electric fences protect Oakridge and the Willmet from roaming bands of Slavers, Raiders, who collect survivors for their labor gangs. An ultrasonic barrier protects the Healey perimeter from the Thevv, those Infected and driven mad by the Pandemic’s virus. Oakridge is poor and underfed compared to Healey. the military and political center of the Willmet. Healey is run by the best minds and has the latest technology. Eva’s mother’s family has been in Oakridge since its humble beginnings as a lumber town, when her great-grandfather was a partner and supervisor of the mill. Eva, her sister and her father still live in his iconic, Queen Anne style house. Oakridge is an agricultural village, as are most of the other villages. Warm in the summer and snowy in the winter, the Scaiffel Pike is filled with beautiful forest.