Kingsley.
Kingsley Lockhart writes stories about how people navigate power and scarcity without losing themselves or each other, and whether hope can survive the bargains required to rebuild what’s been lost.
She is seeking representation for her debut novel, Seeds of Tomorrow.
Seeds of Tomorrow.
In a world of grey slush and ruins, scavenger Kari finds a miracle: a packet of viable seeds. Alongside her best friend, Florian, a botanist obsessed with extinct flora, she grows the first tomatoes their starving village has seen in sixty years. But hope is a currency the powerful want to tax.
After a local militia seizes the tomato vines, Kari and Florian’s attempt to steal more seed samples lands them in the clutches of the last remaining architect of old-world capitalism. He offers a choice: rot in prison or retrieve emergency seed caches from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a disaster fail-safe all but erased from collective memory.
Joined by a militiaman with his own agenda, a healer fleeing her past, and a tech expert whose true specialty is petty revenge, Kari and Florian head to the frozen north. But the wasteland proves less dangerous than secrets. When one of their own betrays them to a violent warlord, Kari must strike a deal that threatens the very future she’s trying to sow.
To reach the vault, she will have to decide what’s more important: the survival of the village she left behind, or the souls of the people standing next to her.