Dear xxx,

I am sending you this query because of your interest in LGBTQ+ YA fiction, specifically because of this line in your Manuscript Wishlist page;

"I love YA that captures the dichotomies of being young—how, as a teen, you yearn for freedom, but at the same time it's incredibly scary for so many parts of your life to be changing."

In Outcast there is a 17 year old boy named Brandon Beck; linebacker for the local small-town high school football team. He meets Billy King; a teenage runaway squatting in a shack in the town where Brandon lives. These two are magnetically attracted to each other, Brandon wishing for a life outside the small town where he's always lived. Billy, yearning for the stability of having a place to call home and build roots.

What neither of them know is that their lives are on a crash course with the local loner; John Emmerson and by the time it's over, the town of Westfield Valley will be unrecognizable.