Okay, I've only had about 5 minutes per week to devote to writing, but the time off has been a welcome break. Here's the next draft of the query after QS's rejection:
Investigative reporter Avery Bonelli became Chiquita non grata when CIA agent Logan Nash accused her of stealing national secrets. Two years later, Nash shows up in her apartment covered in blood, and promises a scoop that will get her back in the big leagues--all she has to do is trust him.
Logan Nash was a part of CIA’s top-secret anti-terrorism division until one of Avery’s stories exposed his team and ended his career. After months of digging, Nash finds the identity of Avery’s anonymous source, and he can finally get his revenge--all he has to do is not fall in love.
Following Nash’s scoop, Avery investigates a series of high profile murders with terrorism implications. Instead of finding something she can publish, she discovers that all the victims were involved in leaking a top-secret CIA mission into her mailbox two years ago; the mission file that Nash accused her of stealing. Now she feels the weight of a bulls-eye on her back as one after another someone close to the case gets slaughtered. Avery needs to find the assassin and expose him before her personal obituary makes headlines. Outgunned, she trusts her life to Logan Nash even though all the evidence tells her the man she's falling in love with is the killer she’s trying to find.
VICARIOUS is a 109,000-word thriller.
Enclosed is the first chapter; prologue omitted.
Thanks for your consideration.
Ocean Archer
