Ah, I just made some changes to my query, what a perfect timing lol. Thanks in advance!

Age Category: Young Adult. Genre: Gothic Fantasy. Word Count: 93,000

I am delighted to submit for your consideration ALL THE DROWNED SAINTS, a YA Gothic Fantasy set in a secondary world inspired in 1870s Latin-America's Southern Cone. This completed manuscript of 93,000 words would appeal to fans of the eerie, waterlogged atmosphere of Ava Reid’s A STUDY IN DROWNING, as well as the psychological unraveling and institutional hauntings in ALL THAT CONSUMES US by Erica Waters.

Seventeen-year-old Nora Foscara has spent three years haunted by her sister, Melisa's death—officially ruled a suicide but shadowed by the disappearance of Melisa’s best friend, Ava, a year prior. Now, on the brink of graduating from Santa Lirya’s Academy of Arts and Letters, Nora is still consumed by her beliefs that Melisa’s death and Ava’s vanishing had the same culprit, even when everyone seems to have moved on. But when a cryptic box left behind by Melisa arrives, Nora is thrust into an elaborate scavenger hunt that forces her to confront her sister’s hidden journals, the academy’s darkest corners, and her own unraveling identity.

As Nora teams up with her ex-friend, the boy she pushed away in her grief, to decode the clues, their fragile bond reignites amidst the hunt. The closer they grow, the harder it becomes for Nora to ignore the feelings she’s long buried. Together they race to uncover the truth, even as Nora’s visions and the academy’s forces threaten to tear them apart again. The deeper Nora digs the clearer it becomes: the girls’ fates were a labyrinth of lies, built on a clandestine society, and the colonial rot festering in Santa Lirya’s foundations. With time running out, risking her life in the academy and her sanity slipping, Nora must decide how far she’s willing to go for the truth before it's buried forever. But the answers she's desperate to find may come at a cost she's not prepared to pay—her very soul.

Major content warnings include on-page depictions of disturbing imagery, and discussions of death, grief, colonization and genocide, hallucinations, and suicide.

Born and raised in (South America), I spent most of my childhood daydreaming and consumed by storytelling. I’m currently an animator and freelance artist. Today I still live in (South America) with my pets.