Title:               The Smelting of Silver

Genre:             Adult Fantasy, Allegory

Logline:           On a quest to save an abducted girl, a fugitive man exposes the institution who took her, collapses the prejudice of an entire society, and reconciles his self-loathing.

Short Pitch:     When a village girl is captured for being a horned wretch, a man, who has been hiding his own horns, defies the regulators, exposes their lies, and saves her from the savage wilderness where wretches are discarded.

Long Pitch:     For centuries, the Registry protected the people of the baronies from the beastly wretches, anomalies of nature born with horns, smudges, or cranial ridges, but when Argent’s horns emerge as an adult, he questions everything he has been taught.

After the Registry abducts his young horned cousin, Petra, he must inevitably save her, sacrifice his secret in doing so, and forever change the culture of prejudice against wretches like them.

Join Argent as he learns the truth about silver magic, the Registry of Pregnancy and Births, and himself on a journey that explores the self-loathing mind, heart, and soul of a man.

Target:            Adult Readers of Fantasy, Epic/High Fantasy, and Fairy Tales, LGBTQ+