WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch and market validation
⭐️ Complete Codex — characters, Murphy’s pub, South Boston setting
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 22 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats and word count targets
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every chapter
⭐️ Marketing Copy — taglines, blurbs, tropes, and keywords
⭐️ Implementation Guide — step-by-step instructions from draft to publication
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE LONGEST SHORT WEEK
A St. Patrick’s Day Rom-Com
Maeve Dillonn left Boston seven years ago. She told herself it was ambition. She knew it was him.
She’s built a career writing about places she doesn’t belong — Lisbon bakeries, Tokyo ramen shops, Oaxacan markets. She’s brilliant at capturing the feeling of home from a safe distance. The problem is the distance. And the man she’s been maintaining it from.
When her editor assigns her a St. Patrick’s Day feature on Boston’s last real Irish-American neighborhood, Maeve has five days, a notebook full of professional excuses, and absolutely no plan for surviving Ryan O’Day. Her best friend. The pub owner who never asked her to stay. The man who has been texting her like nothing changed for seven years — because for him, nothing has.
Ryan’s not bitter. He’s not pining. He’s fine.
He’s been fine for seven years, running the same pub, in the same neighborhood, texting her about absolutely nothing important, and telling himself that’s enough. Then she walks in on a Sunday night with her journalist notebook and her good boots and that expression she gets when she’s bracing herself — and he understands in approximately forty-five minutes that he has been spectacularly lying to himself.
She has a feature to file. He has a pub lease on the line. They have five days, one neighborhood full of people who remember everything, a soda bread competition that gets genuinely out of hand, and seven years of things they’ve been texting around instead of saying.
She didn’t leave Boston. She left him. They’re both about to figure out what to do about that.
The slow-burn rom-com where she built her whole career running from home — and he’s been keeping the lights on.
TROPES:
- Friends to Lovers
- Second Chance Romance
- She Left, He Stayed
- One Who Got Away
- Ticking Clock
- The Almost (x seven years)
- “I’ve Been Fine” (He Has Not Been Fine)
- Holiday Rom-Com
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet Heat — slow burn tension, a very earned first kiss, and a fade to black that follows seven years of almost.
Perfect for fans of: Emily Henry, Erin Sterling, Beth O’Leary, and Talia Hibbert