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, magic system rules, botanical witch world-building, relationship arcs, and dual voice guidelines
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 35 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
⭐️ Series Guide — 4-book Blackwell Series with premises, character arcs, seeds to plant in Book 1
⭐️ 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.
SPELLBOUND RIVALS
She’s been raised to defeat him. She did not plan for the rest.
Delilah Marrow is Ravensford’s most gifted diviner — and the woman who has spent three years managing an attraction to the one man she’s supposed to beat. Beckett Ashford is the enemy: disciplined, brilliant, and the first person who has ever made her want something that isn’t the coven’s.
Once a decade, the rival magical families of Ravensford hold the Reckoning — a competition for control of the town’s ley lines. Delilah and Beckett are the opposing champions. The first trial requires them to cast together.
Their magic merges. In front of everyone.
Silver and gold. Lunar and solar. Something neither coven has witnessed in a century — and both families immediately move to suppress.
Secret meetings at the boundary wall that divides the town. An abandoned bell tower that belongs to neither coven. Conversations that start as strategy and stop being strategy somewhere in the second hour. The ward diagrams he draws in the air without noticing — and the fact that she’s memorized every one of them.
Then Beckett tells her something she wasn’t expecting: he fell first. Three years ago. He’s been containing it ever since.
The elders are watching. The ley lines are responding. And Delilah is facing the only question her gift has never been able to answer — what she actually wants.
Rivals to lovers. Forbidden romance. Rival covens. Dual POV. Secret meetings. Magic that can’t lie. Small-town New England. Steamy.
The kind of book where he crosses the boundary wall in broad daylight with no speech and no guarantee — and she’s already on her way.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Paranormal Romance > Witches & Wizards averages 45–80 daily sales per top-20 title with a Hot Niche sales-to-comp ratio of 6.8 — strong demand, room to enter
→ Rivals-to-lovers is BookTok’s highest-velocity trope; combined with rival covens and forbidden magic it hits three trending micro-categories at once
→ The magical compatibility conceit (their power merging as a plot event) differentiates immediately from the crowded “families disapprove” forbidden romance — the stakes are built into the world, not just the family drama
→ Contemporary small-town setting lowers the genre entry barrier — accessible to mainstream romance readers while delivering the world-building that romantasy fans demand
→ 4-book Ravensford Series guide with named protagonists and planted seeds — read-through revenue built into Book 1
TROPES:
- Rivals to Lovers
- Forbidden Romance
- Rival Covens
- Dual POV
- Secret Meetings
- Magic System Romance
- “We Shouldn’t” Tension
- Forced Proximity (Paired Competition)
- He Fell First
- Small Town
- Grand Gesture
- Found Self Arc
HEAT LEVEL: Steamy / Open Door
Perfect for fans of: Lana Harper, Sally Thorne, Shelby Mahurin, and Jennifer Armentrout