WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — ready for marketing with full elevator pitch and high-concept hook
⭐️ Complete Codex — extensive story bible with characters, settings, Tuscan location details, relationship arc, and voice guidelines for dual POV
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 28 chapters + epilogue, fully mapped with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, and romance progression
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every single chapter (this is what makes your AI draft actually sound like a novel)
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing, back cover copy, social media posts, newsletter templates, and reader magnet ideas
⭐️ Full Series Architecture — 4-book The Exception Clause Series with premises, character arcs, seeds to plant in Book 1, and ongoing plotlines mapped across the full series
⭐️ K-Lytics Market Validation — data-backed category analysis with competitive positioning and comp titles
⭐️ Full Implementation Guide — step-by-step instructions from first draft to publication
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE PLUS-ONE PACT
They made the pact at nineteen. They never expected to collect.
Bri is a freelance graphic designer who is brave at everything except the one thing that would actually cost her something. Cole is a structural engineer who has spent his career calculating exactly how much weight a thing can hold — and exactly twelve years not calculating this.
When his sister’s destination wedding lands them both in a Tuscan villa for a week, the pact they made on a dorm rooftop at nineteen is suddenly, unavoidably real. If they’re both still single at 30, they go together and give it a real shot. They’re both still single. They’re both thirty. There is one bed.
They’ve been friends for twelve years. They know how to manage.
What they don’t negotiate: late nights on the terrace after everyone else has gone in. A ceramic bird pin at a village market that Cole buys without thinking and places in her hand without explanation. The drinking game where the whole room goes quiet because he answers her deepest fear without hesitating. The dance at the rehearsal dinner where neither of them speaks for the length of a full song and neither steps back.
Then he overhears half a sentence — just half — and decides it means the wrong thing.
Friends to lovers. Forced proximity. Destination wedding. One bed. Twelve years of pining. Slow burn. Steamy.
The kind of book where he changes his boarding pass at the gate — not with a speech, just with the truth he’s been keeping for four years.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Friends-to-lovers + destination romance are both Hot Niche categories with sales-to-comp ratios above 6.5 — stacking the two tropes creates compound discoverability across multiple Amazon browse paths
→ One bed + slow burn is the highest page-read-completion pairing in contemporary romance — readers finish these books and leave reviews, which drives algorithm performance
→ The Tuscan destination wedding setting is visually iconic on BookTok and BookStagram, providing natural shareable aesthetic content that drives organic discovery
→ The 12-year friendship timeline differentiates from crowded “best friends for five minutes” setups and positions this for the Emily Henry reader who wants fully earned emotional payoff
→ The Exception Clause Series has 3 additional books mapped with named protagonists and planted seeds in Book 1 — built-in read-through revenue from page one
TROPES:
- Friends to lovers
- Forced proximity
- Destination wedding
- One bed
- Slow burn
- Secret pining (dual)
- Pact / bet
- Oblivious to feelings
- Found family
- Will they / won’t they
HEAT LEVEL: Steamy — two full intimate scenes with emotional depth; physical tension and slow-burn buildup throughout
Perfect for fans of: Abby Jimenez, Emily Henry, Tarah DeWitt, and Hannah Grace