Series Title: The Verdelace: Contracts of Caleus
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Metafiction, Coming-of-Age, Light Comedy with Dark Elements
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Series Premise:
On the isolated yet tech-savvy planet of Caleus, 16-year-old Rowin Gale leads a life of quiet boredom and overactive imagination—until a strange talking bookmark appears in his school locker. The bookmark offers Rowin a contract: travel into the worlds of famous fictional and nonfictional books, "correct inconsistencies," and earn credits toward the mysterious Library of Eternum, a dimension that supposedly holds the key to rewriting destiny.
But there's a catch.
Rowin's interventions—well-meaning as they are—always go wrong.
Instead of saving Romeo and Juliet, he accidentally inspires a violent family feud that drags on for centuries. When trying to help Frankenstein's monster find peace, Rowin accidentally convinces it to run for political office. Historical works? Even worse. Moses ends up founding a sandwich chain. The Bible? He's forbidden from touching that one again.
With each botched book, the literary worlds grow more unstable—and bleed into his own. Now pursued by narrative enforcers, creatures born from broken genres, Rowin must figure out how to fix the damage he's done, discover who really offered him the contract, and why he, a regular kid with no literary background, was chosen to rewrite the fates of fiction.
Armed only with his hoodie, sarcasm, and an unreliable set of narrative tools, Rowin's about to learn the power—and danger—of stories, and what happens when you become the biggest plot hole in the multiverse.
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Tone & Themes:
Themes: Responsibility, the power of narrative, unintended consequences, adolescence vs. agency, gray morality in storytelling
Tone: Witty, chaotic, heartfelt—like Percy Jackson meets Inkheart with Rick and Morty edge
Audience: Teens and young adults who love books, metafiction.