Hello! I just finished up my first draft of my manuscript, and looking for beta readers before diving into a heavy final edit. Here is the query letter for anyone interested! I am interested in swaps as well depending on the size.
QL: In the nation of Haran, power determines worth. Those who wield Zorem—an elemental force stored in Stones—rise into the elite class known as Selak, while the powerless Alevim are pushed further into irrelevance.
Levi is Alevim. He has never cared about power, mostly because he’s never had access to it. His concerns are simple: food, work, and staying unnoticed in the quiet mountain town of Karah. But when Levi’s childhood friend Gil becomes entangled with the Ahkva—a radical Alevim movement willing to burn the system down in the name of equality—Levi is pulled into a conflict far larger than himself.
As political unrest erupts between Selak and Alevim, the violence turns personal. Gil becomes consumed by grief and vengeance. At the same time, Levi uncovers a truth about himself so dangerous that, if revealed, it could upend the balance of power in Haran—and get him killed.
Drawn from the pine forests of Karah to the riot-torn capital city of Basran, Levi is forced to confront a past that was deliberately erased and a future he never wanted. To stop Gil from becoming the very monster he hunts, Levi must choose between protecting his secret or standing in his friend’s way—knowing that saving the city may cost him the last family he has left.
The Era of Stones combines a grounded, internally consistent magic system with character-driven stakes, exploring grief, radicalization, and the cost of power. It will appeal to readers of Brandon Sanderson’s structured magic systems and Brian McClellan’s political fantasy, with a personal, relationship-centered conflict at its core.
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