Hi Erin,
I'm submitting for your consideration THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU, a 91,000-word work of contemporary upmarket fiction. Similar to Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit, it features two morally grey Asian American women who team up to run a brazen scam, while also including light fabulist horror, a complex queer relationship,and—above all—feminine rage.
Shelley Hu's life is over. Or so she thinks. When a squabble with a fellow passenger spirals into a humiliating nervous breakdown on the 6 Train, the resulting viral video costs Shelley her internship at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, her spot at Columbia Law, and her dreams of building a better life for herself and her mom.
Months later, Shelley is back at her high school job in Florida, working the night shift at a motel near Disney World. When she checks in Sophia Moon, a softspoken suburban mom vacationing with her husband and young son, Shelley thinks little of it. But to her surprise, Sophia divulges that she, too, had once starred in her own episode of public shaming more than a decade ago.
Sophia says that she's since picked up the pieces and built a new life for herself. She says she can help Shelley do the same—and what's more, she can help Shelley dish out some much-needed accountability to the three people responsible for the worst day of her life.
With Sophia's help, Shelley soon returns to NYC with a new name, a bulletproof disguise, and a set of plans. Plans that seem to be coming along nicely—until one by one, the targets of their little scheme start dropping dead.
Sophia says she has nothing to do with the deaths, which are tragic accidents, and of course Shelley believes her. Sophia is Shelley's guardian angel, her confidante, her soulmate; she'd never keep secrets from her. But as the situation spins out of control and the lies unravel, Shelley is forced to confront the unspeakably dark side to Sophia that had been right in front of her all along.
About me: I live in Switzerland, where I work full-time in communications for a nonprofit.
Many thanks,
Lai