While running with scissors, seventh-grader, Lucienne trips and loses her eye. By age sixteen, Lucienne feels like a freak despite having a prosthetic eye and wonders if the sloth Jeremy tripped her on purpose. She wishes she knew the truth.
One morning Lucienne can not only see through her prosthetic eye, but magically sees her mother’s lies. Losing the dad she loved to cook with was bad enough, but being stuck with her workaholic liar mother is intolerable. The eye reveals the secrets she’s always suspected her mother is hiding about her missing dad. Lucienne must decide whom to trust when everyone she loves harbors secrets. And Lucienne must dig for untruths that may upset the house of cards she lives in. The truth will put Lucienne in danger.
Readers of Far from You by Lisa Schroeder will connect with Lucienne’s grief over her father and strained relationship with her mother, while readers of Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder will be swept up in plot twists. This manuscript is written in the first person from Lucienne’s point of view. It alternates chapters between Lucienne’s past and present. These mosaic tiles culminate to reveal several betrayals and one deadly secret.
Thank you for your consideration of my 66k-word YA contemporary fantasy Naked Eye. A synopsis and complete manuscript are available upon request. This is a multiple submission.
I’m a member of SCBWI. My short story “Daisy” was included in the 100 Stories for Queensland anthology and my vampire short story “Allured” will appear in the upcoming YA Fangtales anthology. I’m a substitute teacher in the Cambridge Public Schools, which gives me ample opportunity to observe teenagers in their natural habitat. Thank you for your consideration of this manuscript.
Sincerely,
Theresa Milstein
tmilstein at gmail.com
http://theresamilstein.blogspot.com
