So, I'm working on a novel right now that starts off quite romance-heavy, and I'm not talking my usual passion and flame romance either. This is a cheesy romance involving a pair of fourteen year olds, and a lot of those cutely awkward moments. Then it descends into blood and betrayal and magic and all forms of wonderful sinisteries.
But first, there are two kids. Both were abandoned by their parents to live with a friendly old guy (girl's mother's best friend and boy's uncle,) and the two fell in love.
Boy wanted to do it properly even though they lived together so they arranged to go on a date. On their way back a stranger randomly appeared in the road, and Boy had to slam on the breaks of his uncle's motorbike (yes he was driving illegally). There was a crash and a flash of light, and the last thing he saw is girl getting dragged away into the darkness.
Her fate lies in some other world full of those aforementioned sinisteries. He doesn't make it over there for a while. He called the police, ambulance turned up, and now he's on trial for her murder and the disappearance of another girl two years ago in the same area.
The problem I have is that my novel starts with this giddy romance and it lasts for at least 10k worth of plot. I don't want to pre-empt the rest so much that I give the plot away, but at the same time I don't want whoever reads it to get the wrong impression of what kind of book it is.
Whadoido?
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