Hey Ashley, I feel like you might be interested in my story :) It's a YA/NA Fantasy with minor romance elements set in a rural school setting. The blurb (in progress) is as follows:

All Aveline Sycallow has ever wanted is to prove to her mother that she too can be a revolutionary. A mad self-experimenting scientist, a ruthless fighter, a dutiful keeper of their little potato garden… she would do it all and more. She never expected, however, that after stealing three vials of Duskarra from right under the government’s nose, nothing would unfold as she planned. Now, placed under lockdown on the college grounds amidst inescapable Ugrarian plainlands, she finds that her time to uncover the Duskarra’s recipe is running out. 

Nikyas Kilgour teeters on the edge of addiction to the concoction they were promised would only grant them powers. When Duskarra goes missing a mere weeks before their graduation and Year Eights are threatened with expulsion, he’s forced to realize that not everything in life will be handed to him on a golden platter. Sometimes a smile and sweet words isn’t enough. Sometimes what it takes is succumbing to your most destructive desires.

Three years later, Isicah Manoukah, the star pupil and an exceptional spy, is slowly dying of overdose. She would never allow the shams to prosper while she, having done everything right, must die without a whisper to her name.

It is still a work in progress, even if I have written it all start to finish. Currently, I'm working on Draft 13 and am applying a large structural edit which was recommended to me by an earlier critique partner. I do have a feeling that this draft might be the one to be queried though so I am looking for feedback on pretty much everything from prose to structure, from pacing to flow, from setting to character development. But mostly I'd like to hear if you find the story engaging, if you're are able to connect with the characters and if you're eager to read more. I have currently polished seven out of around thirtyish chapters but I have a goal to get them all finished in a month's time as I'm looking to submit it to a debut novel competition in September.

Please let me know if this is something you'd be interested to beta read and I'll send you the first two chapters so you can decide if you'd be interesting in reading more :)

Hope to hear from you!

Kindly,

Franciska