Knives and Ribbons

I am seeking an agent for this unpublished, completed manuscript.

Eighteen-year-old Esper has trained her entire life for the knight trials. And it all comes down to a single knife throw before an audience of royals.

She faces her wooden target. Raises her knife. Glimpses the gray-eyed prince.

And misses.

Lifeforce-wielding spiritual leaders preach Esper’s failure is proof women are too weak for knighthood—can’t have them swooning at every handsome enemy on the battlefield. But the village hag refuses to believe Esper failed due to infatuation. She suspects the spiritual leaders rigged Esper’s downfall, and their next plot is to assassinate Rain, the gray-eyed prince.

The hag offers Esper a second chance at knighthood: a potion that will give her the body of a famous knight named Sebastian, who the hag has drugged into a deep slumber. In return, Esper must become Rain’s protector, despite blaming him for her failure. Desperate to escape a life of sewing ribbons, Esper swallows the potion and her pride.

Unknown to Esper, she and Rain each possess a secret that, if shared with the other, would give them the power to destroy the spiritual leaders—before the silver-eyed immortals kill everyone, including Rain, who questions their regressive doctrines.