The Broken Lies

**The Broken Lies** are a series of young adult mystery/fantasy episodic series that is currently being planned for an late 2023-late 2024 release.

## Overview

In a prestigious private academy, a series of murders sends shockwaves through the school community. With no clear suspects or motives in sight, Jess, along with her faithful friends, Ruby, Maddison, and Rory, take it upon themselves to uncover the truth. However, as they dig deeper and become more involved, they soon realize that their lives may be in danger. With each new clue, the danger grows, and it becomes evident that time is running out. Can Jess and her friends solve the mystery before it's too late? Or will they become the next victims on the killer's list?

## Characters

Although the series features an extensive cast of characters of varying significance, the novels focus predominantly on six main characters:

### Jessica "Jess" Redding

A young and nervous teen faerie who has gained energy-related powers. She is someone who you shouldn't mess with. Occasionally, Jess tends to be happy, excited and overall a joy to be around. But on occasion, she will be brutual, angry and overall a negative infleunce towards other's behaviour. She is on the road to self-discovery within herself as she is manifesting her new faerie powers and to control them so they aren't overused or exposed in a extremely horrible nature.

She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was 14 after escaping from her father's abuse & dissociative identity disorder when she was 18. She stats that she has "voices" inside her head that want her to consume danger, destruction and death. She is incredibly happy for the support that her girlfriend, Ruby & grandmother, Katie give her.

### Ruby Beck

A zealous and happy teenage girl who is the current girlfriend of Jess. As an open lesbian, she is subjected to harassment and bullying in her school

Ruby was diagnosed with anxiety by the age of 15, but right now she is just worried for her girlfriend's safety. But after been giving abilities like Jess's, she has to learn to be careful of her abilities around others & not to cause any more trouble for Jess.

### Rory King

A dymanic and zesty person, full of life. Neigbour to Jess & Katie, she acts as a ongoing mother figure towards Jess. She is overall a excited and avid person but under her happiness lies a depth of darkness and regret that she is not willing to expose just yet.

### Katie Weston

The grandmother of Jess who is stern, tough, reasonable and takes no shit from anyone. She likes getting straight to the facts about certain cases and events in time. Katie acts as a mother figure towards Jess and is always there for her during troubling periods.

### Maddison Thomas

A former bully to Jess & Ruby, whose homphobic and sexist have gotten her on trouble with her parents and principal, but she doesn't care. But to what end can Maddison stop her rampage on being the bully.

Once Maddison acquires powers, she starts feel bad about her behaviours, reforms herself to Jess & Ruby. But Maddison needs to team up with Ruby & Jess to stop a mystical entity for invading their town.

### Amy Parker

A vindictive, manipulative & cunning young faerie, she is not afraid to get what she wants by any necessary means. She is not a woman to fuck around with and will kill anyone in her way from her dominating plans of attack.