✨ Querying Summer 2025 ✨
On the day Sadie’s witching familiar hatches, a tiny pink dragon, she loses her mother. Instead of training with weapons or practicing her spellcraft, Sadie grows into her adulthood scouring the Kingdom for traces of the missing woman. But after years exploring with no leads, she realizes she needs a different approach.
When Sadie discovers the fineprint of the ‘Competition of Kingdoms’, a tournament for the Prince’s hand featuring a representative of each magical race, she enters the running. Not to marry the prince, but to secure an apprenticeship. The top five, after weathering trials of diplomacy, combat, and resourcefulness, are permitted an apprenticeship with a palace official.
The apprentice of an Ambassador would get to travel everywhere, perhaps even using the palace’s resources and guards to search for missing persons.
But Sadie’s spellcraft is disorganized, she can’t fight, and her diplomacy is limited to flirting. Struggling through challenges, Sadie hangs on until she loses in an early trial, and the odds of finding her mother slip away.
Thankfully, Sadie’s also bad at quitting when she wants something. With the help of a booksmart witch, a tipsy vampire, an introverted fury, a handsome orc, and the anxious Prince himself, Sadie uses every ounce of her creative rulebreaking to sneak back into the castle’s Competition….
Thank you so much for reading, and I hope to have updates on this project’s query status over the next year! Keep writing everyone!