WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, K-Lytics market validation with triple-category positioning (Western & Frontier + Small Town + Workplace at 11.6 sales-to-comp), competitive analysis against Elsie Silver, Maggie Gates, and Zoey Rose, and full 5-book series overview with individual hooks for each Hattie Mae placement
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with Tessa Vance and Caleb Holloway’s complete internal landscapes, supporting cast of 7 including Hattie Mae (Book 5 protagonist), Lily and June Holloway, Dax Renner and Birdie Hollis (Books 2 and 3 heroes and heroines with seeds built in), Holloway Ranch and Mercy Creek Texas Hill Country setting, late August through following spring timeline with Texas seasonal accuracy, dual first-person voice system with distinct patterns for Tessa (warm, organized, dry when relaxed) and Caleb (economical, dry, the gap between what he notices and what he says), relationship progression arc including the toast thread, steamy intimacy guidance, and chapter-assigned series seeds for all five books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 30 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene-by-scene breakdowns, the toast thread as structural signal across the full arc, and all series seeds flagged by chapter for Dax/June Clearwater, Birdie/Jesse, and Hattie Mae’s book
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 31 copy-paste prompts (all 30 chapters + epilogue) with required dialogue flagged verbatim including the grand gesture exchange, character voice examples, Texas Hill Country setting vocabulary, ranch calendar accuracy reminders, and heat-level progression guidance per chapter
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, ultra-short / short / medium descriptions, Facebook and Instagram posts (2 options), TikTok/Reels script, Twitter/X thread, BookTok description, newsletter announcement with subject line options, Ideogram cover art prompt with series visual identity guidance for all five books, and comp author targeting notes
⭐️ Full Series Architecture — complete 5-book Nanny Diaries of Mercy Creek series with chapter-assigned seeds for Books 2 through 5, cross-book plotline map (Hattie Mae’s match count, the children who know first, the evolution of Mercy Creek), character status tracker across all five books, full premises and character profiles for Dax + June Clearwater (The Cowboy’s Backup Plan), Birdie + Jesse (The Cowboy’s Wildcard), Avery + Ford (The Cowboy’s Second Round), and Hattie Mae + Wyatt (Hattie Mae’s Match), and Ideogram cover concepts for Books 2 through 5
⭐️ Series Consistency Guide — Texas Hill Country seasonal calendar, Mercy Creek town map and recurring character facts locked across all five books, the agency’s protocols (Hattie Mae’s Thursday check-in calls, the lavender hand lotion, the kitchen where town business happens), Hattie Mae’s running match count and denial pattern, and character age and status tracker through Book 5
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — one-page K-Lytics summary with index-100 trope stack validation, Workplace crossover rationale, comp title positioning, agency series architecture case, launch pricing strategy, and cover direction
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE COWBOY’S LAST RESORT
Tessa Vance needs to disappear. Not from anything dramatic — just from Austin, and from the story someone powerful is telling about her, and from the professional reputation she built over five years that collapsed in a single week because a donor’s version of events was more convenient than the truth. Hattie Mae Calloway’s nanny agency in Mercy Creek, Texas is the somewhere she landed. It’s small enough to be quiet. It’s temporary. She just needs to hold it together until her lawyer friend gets the case sorted out.
Caleb Holloway needs childcare before the fall semester starts. He’s called every option in the county. Hattie Mae’s agency is the last one.
They agree, at the initial meeting, that this is temporary. His youngest daughter June disagrees.
June decides Tessa is hers inside the first hour — with the frank, unshakeable conviction of a five-year-old who knows what she knows. Lily, nine and cautious and her father’s small lieutenant since her mother died, takes longer. Caleb takes longer still, in the specific way of a man who learned, the Tuesday his wife didn’t come home from town, that wanting things is a liability he can no longer afford. What he didn’t account for is that Tessa doesn’t push — she simply shows up, every morning, and makes the toast the way June likes it, and does the work, and is herself, and somewhere between August and October the life he’d been managing without her starts to feel like the smaller one.
He knows something has to be said. He goes to her rental house, on a Thursday evening, and he knocks. She opens the door. He says: “June won’t eat her toast.” She says his name. He says: “I know that’s not the most important thing I have to say. I’m getting there.”
He gets there.
Texas Hill Country romance with limestone farmhouses, pecan trees, and a man who makes toast correctly and will read to your children every single night. The kind of book where you cry at the chapter about the toast and can’t fully explain it to anyone who hasn’t read it.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Nanny heroine sits at index 100 — the highest sales-vs-competition index of any female character type in the Aug 2025 K-lytics Western Romance report; $55K/month in royalties from just 2% of titles; massively under-saturated relative to demand
→ Single dad hero generates $190K/month — the #4 male character type by royalty volume; 22% of Western Romance books; proven, sustained commercial appetite
→ Small town theme at index 100 — the highest of any theme in the entire genre; $528K/month; Mercy Creek, Texas is a full character in every book of the series
→ Romance > Workplace crossover at 11.6 sales-to-comp — the highest ratio of any category used by Top-100 Western Romance titles; a formal nanny placement is an employment arrangement and qualifies the book for the most efficient crossover category in the genre
→ No current Top-100 title stacks nanny + single dad + small town simultaneously — this is an unoccupied commercial position in a Hot Mainstream market; the series delivers it five times with five distinct character combinations
→ Agency-as-throughline creates the most durable series architecture in the category — Hattie Mae places every heroine; the town is the constant; readers return for more of Mercy Creek, not a new world
TROPES
- Nanny heroine
- Single dad widower
- Grumpy cowboy × sunshine heroine
- Forced proximity (the placement)
- He falls first — for the nanny and for what she does to his daughters
- She’s hiding something (the scandal she didn’t cause)
- He already knows before she tells him
- The child who decides before the adults do
- He fixes things without announcing it
- Toast as love language
- Small-town Texas Hill Country romance
- Agency series / 5-book throughline with Hattie Mae
HEAT LEVEL: Open Door / Steamy
Perfect for fans of: Elsie Silver, Lyla Sage, Maggie Gates, and Devney Perry