Here you go:
REPLAY, a 76,000 word YA ghost story is Mean Girls meets A
Christmas Carole. It can stand alone but also has trilogy potential.
Seventeen year old RJ always gets what she wants. So when
her soul is accidentally collected by a distracted Grim Reaper, somebody in the
afterlife better figure out a way to send her back or heads will roll. But in
her quest for mortality she becomes a pawn in a power struggle between an
over-zealous arch angel, who has grown tired of the white wings and harps and
the Hawaiian-shirt wearing Death Himself, who isn’t about to give up his
control over the newly departed without a fight.
While she waits the decision of the Tribunal, a three-angel
panel charged with determining whether her life is worth rewinding the history
of the world, RJ wanders through the afterlife where she meets the
Cornhole-playing St. Peter, Al, the handler for the 3-headed Hound of Hell, and
her Guardian Angel who doesn’t seem to like her very much. Finally, the Angels
present her with two options: She can remain in the Lobby, where souls wait to
be processed, until her original lifeline expires or she can replay three
moments in her life, aided by three departed souls, in an effort to make
different choices that will produce a future deemed worthy of being saved. It
sounds like a no brainer. She’ll take the walk down memory lane. How hard can
it be?
But with each moment, RJ begins to change her life until the
self-proclaimed Queen Bee is a social pariah and she begins to wonder if
walking among the living is worth it if she has to spend the next sixty years
as an outcast.
