Novel: The Eleventh Book
Genre: Literary Fantasy
Word Count: 5096 (2.5 chapters)
Status: As I mentioned in my last post, my other two current projects have stalled, one because of a major continuity error, which I need to clean up, and the other because I need to get a better idea of where it will end. This one arose from a Fake Dustjacket Blurb that I wrote in another thread. I liked it so much that I decided to write it. It won't be hugely long. At the moment it projects to only about 30,000 words, a novella, but I am looking at ways to expand it. I would like to at least double that length.
(This is a different blurb, more of an elevator pitch.)
Every year, for the past 100, the Chosen of a secret society must undergo a trial, to read the 13 Books of the Arcane, each teaching different facets of mystery, secret knowledge, magic, witchcraft, and self knowledge. It is unclear what happens if someone survives the 13th book, since all have fallen before the 11th until now. The 101st Chosen, Kyra Doornen, has survived The Book of Faith (No. 10), and purged by flame, she must submit herself to The Book of Sin. All who have gone before have either given up and survived (many do), died, or disappeared. Like her mother, who died, failing in the fourth book, Kyra has also vowed to succeed or die.
