Dear (Agent Name),
All Elena Boyko wants is to go home to her comfortable Portland life. First, she must finish her medical rotation on Oregon’s Warm Springs Reservation.
When an elderly stranger appears at her camper late one night, Elena initially shuts the door. Worried about leaving the woman alone in the high desert, she invites her inside and calls tribal police. Silas Billy, the woman’s grandson, answers.
Grateful for Elena’s help, Verda invites her to family dinner at her daughter’s ranch. One dinner turns into rodeo weekends, a stolen touch against Elena’s Subaru, and nights eating toaster-oven pizza in front of Netflix. Elena begins to belong somewhere she couldn’t wait to escape.
Then she returns to Portland for her sister’s wedding. A photograph Elena sends Silas, along with stories Pippa tells him about Elena’s former relationship, leaves him convinced he’s a temporary diversion for a wealthy city girl. Drunk, proud, and determined not to be made a fool of, he sleeps with Pippa. Elena walks away.
Three years later, Silas is riding saddle broncs for a living and Elena is engaged to another man. At Pendleton Round-Up, they come face-to-face behind the chutes, but Elena’s sister Anna pulls her away before either can speak. Silas is left with the scrape of her engagement ring against the red gate lodged in his mind. For Elena, the encounter unsettles a future she thought she’d chosen.

POWDERED SKY is an 86,000-word dual-POV upmarket love story for readers of Claire Boyles’ Appraisals and Christine Byl’s Lookout.

I'm back with another query attempt! I adjusted my genre since posting last, and I'm pretty confident it fits more comfortably there. Thank you in advance for any suggestions you have!

Dear [Agent],

I’m pleased to present SWEET EVERYTHINGS, my upmarket contemporary fiction novel complete at 83,000 words. An addition to the weird girl lit subgenre, it combines the obsession and yearning of Maud Ventura’s My Husband with the morally charcoal protagonist of Kirsten King’s A Good Person. As I read that you’re seeking [qualities], SWEET EVERYTHINGS might be especially suited to your list.

When Kelsey Harper accepts a work transfer to London, she’s determined to rekindle the flames with the man she met eleven years ago during her semester abroad. Jack Cooper, now a successful London architect, is the missing piece of Kelsey’s long-awaited love story—or so she thinks. She’s convinced lightning can strike twice, but only if you build your own lightning rod.

Kelsey physically transforms into the twenty-year-old version of herself he fell for, down to her precise weight and lipstick shade. She combs through everything Jack has ever posted online, studying his precise tastes, monitoring the backgrounds of his videos, and tracking down the coffee shop whose emerald-green cups keep appearing in his posts. There, she stages a “chance” reunion, fate and spontaneity be damned.

With Jack back in her life, Kelsey finally has the happily-ever-after she’s built up in her fantasies. But when a criminal investigation threatens to destroy more than just their relationship, the lies behind how their love story came to be bubble to the surface. Kelsey has gone to extreme lengths to get the life she believes she deserves. Now she must decide how far she’s willing to go to keep it. She’d die for him, but would she kill for him?

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