BUT:
#questpit anyway!
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THE HAWK: A Slow River Novel
A sex worker with a troubled past and a lieutenant to the most notorious gang in the region fall for each other in the dying days of the west. Do they choose their found families or forge a new path together?
#questpit Dr Zhivago meets Women Talking in this coming of rage historical lit fic set in the Mennonite colonies in Russia during the revolution. THE LESSER SIN #W #Hfic
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1870s Scotland. British colonial interests brings a violent criminal to Glasgow. The Black Heathers, a female gang, finds an unexpected ally in the detective investigating a fake heir and a sighting of a murderous monster.
✨ Undiscovered history
✨ Unwritten perspective
A CHESTERFIELD CARESS
Jamaica, 1811
Passion ignites between a UK bookkeeper & an enslaved biracial laundress but he lacks the £250 to purchase her freedom.
Devastated, he betrays her in a love quadrangle.
Her resilience helps her raise their son, with or without his help.
#questpit #Q #A #HFic
THE HIGHLAND GARDENER'S SON: FROM SCOTLAND TO JAMAICA 🏴 🇯🇲
1841 - 1918
To win the hand of a Jamaican magistrate's daughter, a Highland gardener’s son must overcome her father's objections by ascending the social hierarchy & rising to prominence.
#questpit #A #W #HFic #HR
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A Crumbling Certainty
Demon Subjugation Institute: Pietro et al
Based in: Khedive Ismail Sq.
Investigators: Pietro & Mokhtar
💥 Political tension
👹 Paranormal Demons
😵 Inner trauma
🐪 1952 Egypt
👨👨👧 Found family
👨👨🏿 Bromance
💬 Witty banter
#Questpit #Q #HFic #F #MY #A #amquerying
flower border on left and right side top: woman reading by candlelight, a mask gala, woman lying in bed middle: man caressing woman's exposed back, man/woman kissing by candlelight, man embracing and kissing woman in public bottom: man putting necklace on woman from behind, gala, woman writing by candlelight
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Caan Valley is a Barbados brothel town.
Victoria is the brothel heir.
Nathaniel is the town's heir.
Until a Baron threatens war if Victoria doesn't choose him.
A stolen kiss and promise of freedom during Nathaniel's marriage announcement gala might save them, but not the town.
#A #HFic #W
The Screaming Staircase X Psycho-Pass, but as a historical urban fantasy.
1952 Egypt reimagined in a world where personal demons inhabit objects that represent your greatest pain, survival might depend on your willingness to conquer your deepest fears.
#Questpit #Q #HFic #F #MY #A #amquerying
A collage of Viking and medieval themed images including a goblet, warriors, and nuns, French lavender, a castle and Nunnery a random chicken and a very cold you woman wrapped in a grey blanket.
VIKINGS + MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS = VIKING, NUN, MURDER, CHICKEN
2 Agent MS Requests! ⚔️
Mystery ⚔️
Romance ⚔️
Accessible history ⚔️
#QuestPit #Q #A #HR #MY #HFic
Catch The Girl, an UltraRunning Romance By J.E. Rizzo
California, 1978: Jo Schwartz is determined to go down in history as Western America’s first female finisher. In order to win, however, she’ll have to get around Mike Pritchard…and stop staring at his broad shoulders and muscular butt.
A neurodivergent female ultramarathon runner myself, Jennifer E. Rizzo has completed many races from 50-kilometers to 100-miles. As a writer, her work can be found in Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Ultrarunning Magazine, and my debut novel Fitzjohn: Uprising, is set to be published in 2026 by traditional publisher Literary Wanderlust. Additionally, she was the winner of History Inquiry's Medieval Writing Challenge and Manuscript Academy's Agent Choice Award.
Opening pages of the novel.
CATCH THE GIRL, an UltraRunning Historical Romance by J.E. Rizzo
CA 1978: Jo is determined to become the Western America 100’s first female finisher. To win, however, she’ll have to get around Mike…and stop staring at his broad shoulders and muscular butt.
#questpit #Q #A #RF #HR #HFic #litagents
A CRUMBLING CERTAINTY: Historical Urban Fantasy set in an alternate version of Egypt in 1952.
💥 Political tension
👹 Paranormal Demons
😵 Dealing with trauma
📜Historical fantasy
🐪 Egypt in 1952
👨👨👧 Found family
💬 Witty banter
#Questpit #Q #HFic #F #MY #A #amquerying
THE GENTLE ECONOMICS OF DEATH:
A medieval black widow murders a series of husbands to steal their inheritance as her own.
#QuestPit #YA #W #HFic
The Whalebone Theatre x In Memoriam.
A historical coming of age story inspired by real letters, BOTANY BEACH follows a suffragist and Oxford botanist whose fight for recognition is overtaken by WWI—forcing her to redefine survival, ambition, and legacy.
#questpit #Q #Hfic #HF #LF #WF
A movie poster mock-up for aperitif, featuring the shadow of a hand holding a cocktail glass, and the description of first person narrator, young adult to adult crossover, and literary tragicomedy Of
SALTBURN X CATCHER IN THE RYE
After being left without any adult supervision, a closeted teenage boy invites his best friend and her brother to his abandoned family estate for the summer.
#QuestPit #YA #LF #HFic #WIP
A guide to Gin and Fog. 87,000 word historical mystery written by a former police officer who has studied early forensics. For fans of; Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, The Alienist by Caleb Carr, The Strings of Murder Oscar de Muriel. Historcial Background. The Pitch 1877 Scotland, and a mixed-race Detective Sergeant. The wife of a well-known psychic claims a mythical Celtic creature intends to kill her, pitting myth against scientific belief. She turns to the Black Heathers, a gang of female criminals for protection, but they have their hands full dealing with governmental colonial interests more corrupt than their own. New research has uncovered at last three mixed-race police officers in the UK from the 1830s onwards. One reached Superintendent rank in the 1840s. In the period in which this book is set Scotland had a mixed-race MP. The book aims cast light on forgotten history, putting new flesh on old bones. “Enough,”McIntosh’s voice hardened. “My sergeant speaks two languages and has a degree in sciences from the Sorbonne. I’m lucky he’s not white, because he’d never do a job like this if he was. No force in the country has a sergeant with such an education. That’s an end to this nonsense, General. He might be your musty-whatever you called him, but he’s our respected colleague. I won’t have it.”
#Questpit #Q #W #MY #HFic
Counter-narrative historical mystery
✨️ Mixed-race detective in 1870s Scotland
✨️ Female criminal gang
✨️Colonial interests running counter to justice
✨️ Complex mystery set around the world of Victorian theatricals
✨️ Woman fighting extradition as Scots law gave her more rights
THE CAT OF VERSAILLES
12k children’s fantasy chapter book with series potential, about an American girl living in France and her friendship with a special cat.🐈
Author is a children’s media professional, has worked with Nick Jr, TeamTO, Amazon & IE.
#Q #F #HFic #MG #QuestPit
Love #Bridgerton, but looking for a queernormative Regency?
THE SECRET COURT
Enter the candy-coloured world of Mothshire Court and follow the story of Morgan and Liam as they navigate court politics and love.
A Wattpad Original: www.wattpad.com/story/390156...
#p #A #R #HFic #LGBTQ #questpit
~ AN SOLAS ~
💫 YA Time Slip
🌩️ Magical Realism
🏴 16th Century Scotland
👩🎓 Coming-Of-Age
💞 First Love Feels
✅ Anxiety Rep
🗡️ Reluctant Hero
⚓️ Horses; Galleon Ships; Biology Homework
🏆 Shortlisted 2025 Cheshire Novel Prize Kids
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An image of a skull with a black box overtop that says: Ought to Be Thy Adam “I’d studied and lectured on your ligaments, muscles, and arteries. Cells swabbed from your cheek pushed under a microscope. Papers built off your anatomy. But I had never asked you how it felt. For all I studied your body, I was still terrified to study your soul.” In 1897, after studying corpses and toying with electricity, medical student Viktor has created the man from his darkest, shameful desires. Except guilt forces him to make one final adjustment: female parts. As his new creation gains sentience while vivisected during Viktor's university tour and begins to chafe under Viktor's thumb, a violent death and disobedience leads the monster to make himself into the man he was always meant to be. Trans/Gay Frankenstein Retelling
"Ought To Be Thy Adam" is a queer Frankenstein retelling fuelled by internalized gay guilt and trans rage.
🏳️⚧️🖤🏳️🌈
I'll be seeking representation this summer. In the meantime, I hope it finds the gothic horror monsters that will enjoy devouring it someday.
#questpit #LGBT #OW #W #A #DF #H #HFic #S
a moodboard of a meadow in sunlight, a boy drawing under a tree, a vintage car outside a stately home, a class room with one student looking up, a table of half empty cocktails with one knocked over, champagne floating in an swimming pool, a girl on a stairwell in front of a stained glass window, teenagers in school uniform, a young man in the woods in sunny weather
Tragicomic SALTBURN but it’s 1989
Left with a cellar full of experience wine without adult supervision, one 17yo boy invites his best friend - and her beautiful elder brother - to his grandfather’s otherwise empty estate for an unwieldy, decadent summer.
#YA #U #LF #HFic #questpit
THE CAT OF VERSAILLES
12k children’s fantasy chapter book with series potential
🏹 Animal adventures
🇫🇷 Set in French past/present
❤️ Friendship, courage, and kindness
🐈👧 A little girl & talking cat
♾️ Disability/diversity
Wishbone X Stillwater
#Q #F #HFic #MG #QuestPit
A defrocked exorcist investigates a body in a bonfire in Savonarola's Florence. Torn between two women and God, he follows a trail of corpses, a missing painting and a desecrated body in a bid to heal his soul. Will he choose love or salvation?
"Studies of Vanity"
#W #A #MY #HFic
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Perdonami, Signore – I have sinned.
I was sent to learn why there was a body in a bonfire. I buried a suicide in consecrated ground, took a dead man’s wife to bed, spilled blood inside a church. I am a wretched sinner, unworthy of the priesthood.
"Studies of Vanity"
#W #A #MY #HFic
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Take one Numidian Princess, a measure of Caligula, an Egyptian cult, some treasure, a lost manuscript from Julius Caesar, gladiators, a few corrupt officials, one lynx, an ingenious engineer and a dogged investigator. Season with owls. Cook in Ancient Rome.
Ex Umbris, Lux
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What’s a Numidian Princess supposed to do in Ancient Rome while her husband is toiling for the Empire?
Not go robbing senators’ homes?
Not find adventure that spans the Empire?
Not chase treasure in Egypt?
Ridiculous.
Ex Umbris, Lux #Q #A #HFic
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC X THE LIGHTNING BOTTLES
1984: A popstar’s muse finds a diary that forces her to confront her guilt over his disappearance 10 years before. And her conflicted feelings for the ghostwriter coerced into concealing his love for her behind the band’s hits. #QuestPit #W #A #HFic #R #U
The Whalebone Theatre x In Memoriam
A historical coming of age novel inspired by real letters, tracing a woman’s journey from education and ambition into a life reshaped by the losses of the First World War.
#questpit #Q #HF #WF #Hfic #LF
Whalebone Theatre x In Memoriam
Based on real letters, BOTANY BEACH gives voice to the first generation of women allowed to dream beyond marriage—only to have those dreams reshaped by the First World War. It asks what it means to leave something lasting when history moves on. #questpit #Q #WF #Hfic
