WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and K-Lytics market validation with four-trope stacking strategy (enemies to lovers, vacation, forced proximity, second chance) and competitive analysis against the Feb 2026 Romantic Comedy top 100
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with Sloane and Rafael’s complete character profiles, supporting cast of 6 (including Nadia, Valentina, Danny, and Bud Haggerty), Birchwood Lodge and Cedarfall Lake Vermont setting, four-day chapter-by-chapter timeline, dual first-person voice system with distinct internal monologue patterns for Sloane (organized, list-making, perpetually at war with herself) and Rafael (precise, dry, structurally metaphor-prone), comedy mechanics section with three running gag logs and three full banter exchanges, sweet-to-moderate heat guidance, and series seeds for 3 books in the Cedarfall Lake world
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 20 chapters + epilogue with comedy beat, emotional beat, and ending hook for every chapter, plus a full chapter map quick-reference table
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 21 fully self-contained writing prompts (20 chapters + epilogue) with complete story context, voice guidance, scene-by-scene breakdown, comedy note, heat level reminder, word count target, and ending hook instructions for every chapter
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with 7 KDP keywords and dual-category strategy, 50-word short description, 4 Instagram posts, 4 TikTok/BookTok scripts, 3 Facebook posts, newsletter announcement with 5 subject line variants, and mid-August launch window strategy with KU enrollment rationale
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across all four trope categories, five data-backed “Why This Will Sell” points, competitive positioning against three comp titles, full keyword strategy table with rationale, pricing strategy, cover direction brief, and KU enrollment recommendation
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE LAST LONG WEEKEND
Sloane Kowalski is very good at managing situations. She can execute a 400-person corporate retreat without breaking a sweat, build contingency plans for her contingency plans, and — for four Labor Day weekends running — successfully avoid the one person at Birchwood Lodge who requires management she was never going to be good at.
Then someone double-books the cabin.
There is one Cabin 4. One bedroom. One pullout sofa that the lodge owner, Bud Haggerty, has statistics about. And four days before summer is officially, irrevocably over — which, Sloane realizes somewhere around Day 2, is the same number of days she had before she let Rafael go the first time.
Before she can get through the weekend on pure logistics, there’s a formal truce with a preamble she’ll regret writing, a kayak race where the rules explicitly permit incidental contact and the families have been interpreting this very generously, a late-night porch conversation that runs out of adjacent things to talk about and gets dangerously close to the real ones, a group chat called OPERATION SLOANE AND RAFE (Do Not Tell Them About This Chat) with a trophy emoji and 847 messages that they are absolutely going to find out about, two pies made from the same blackberry bushes that neither of them mentioned noticing since Day 1, and the moment on the dock on Labor Day evening when Rafael says the thing he’s been carrying for four years and she realizes she’s been managing her way out of this for so long she forgot what staying actually looks like.
She left because she was falling faster than she knew how to handle. He let her go because he didn’t know how to ask her to stay. They’ve both had four years to get over it. They haven’t.
A warm, funny enemies-to-lovers second chance romance set over four days at the end of the last summer weekend that matters. The kind of book you stay up too late finishing because you need to know if she gets out of her own way.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Enemies to lovers sits at Hot Mainstream in the Feb 2026 K-Lytics Romantic Comedy report with ~$213K/month at the category leader level — the trope has durable chart presence across the full top 100, not just peak performers
→ Vacation/holiday romance hits ~$292K/month (Hot Mainstream) — and Labor Day is a genuine white space; holiday romance clusters heavily around Christmas and Valentine’s Day, leaving end-of-summer nearly uncontested
→ Forced proximity adds a third Hot Mainstream stack at ~$200K/month — all three primary tropes running simultaneously enables triple keyword targeting across overlapping categories
→ Second chance is a rising sub-trope (+1 position gain, Feb 2026) with proven conversion at both ends of the chart — opens a fourth keyword lane without adding story complexity
→ Family comedy ensemble layer differentiates from crowded two-hander forced proximity — the tournament structure, group chat, and interfering families create built-in social-share content
→ Four-day compressed timeline is KU-optimized — event-driven structure keeps pace high; the format rewards the platform’s page-read model
TROPES:
• Enemies to Lovers
• Second Chance
• Forced Proximity
• One Bed
• Holiday / Vacation Romance
• Shared Cabin
• Family Comedy Ensemble
• Slow Burn
• Rival Families
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet to Moderate
Perfect for fans of: Emily Henry, Erin Sterling, Talia Hibbert, and Lauren Blakely