The Pangaea Prisoner (Active Project)

Wordcount: 118,000

Genre: Science-fiction thriller, LGBTQ+

Dates: 2021-Current

Readers:

• Alpha reader (2023)

• Four beta readers (2024)

• Two sensitivity readers (March & September 2025)

• One paid editor (May 2025)

After querying 40 literary agents in September 2025 and receiving only form rejections, the query was pulled and pages were revised.

Goal is to return to querying on January 1, 2026.

Blurb: Sixty years after a global AI genocide killed billions, data-hoarding Pangaea masks its intentions under humanitarian aid and education reform, when really they aim to infiltrate world governments in a bid for unchecked power. As a high-value prisoner, and the only person alive to successfully resist Pangaea interrogation, Dr. Khansa MacGregor is well-fucking-aware she presents an obstacle to Pangaea’s mission, and that her secrets could make or break them on a global stage.

The only reason she hasn't broken in interrogation is because she can't remember anything from the last five years. Which might seem lucky, except for her medical instincts asserting that this amnesia is far too comprehensive to be accidental. If so, that means whatever illicit activities Khansa took part in, she was likely a willing participant and definitely aware of the risks in getting caught. But finding answers is a bitch of an undertaking when she can't trust anyone, not even herself. 

A prison visit from Antonella Rivera—the incredibly vexing and universally loathed president of West America—doesn’t clear anything up. Though it certainly alerts Khansa to the magnitude of her crimes. Somehow, the most powerful person in the country is indebted to her. That debt remains unsaid and possibly unpaid, even if it forces River to facilitate her escape and deliver her to the begrudging leaders of the growing resistance: Khansa’s sisters. 

Constantly undermined and kept in the dark about her own history, Khansa’s family treat her with more suspicion than embrace, which could be reasonable caution…Or it could be leftover distrust from her mysterious past. As the chokehold Pangaea has in global politics grows tighter, Khansa grows ever-more sure that her memories could lead the resistance down the path to either victory or defeat. In order to play an active role in this insurgency, she must put her freedom at risk while circumnavigating Pangaea and her sisters to piece together what she did and what she knows. If she fails, Pangaea’s chokehold is likely to become fatal.