WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, Darkness Signature, and Market-Matched™ analysis with dual-category positioning (Dark Romance ID 334 primary / Small Town secondary), Dark Romance Craft Integrity Gate, content disclosure planning table, and competitive analysis against Tier 2 MC romance comps
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with complete profiles for Shiloh Yardley and Knox Hyde (biography, wound, want vs. need, contradiction, agency architecture, morally grey anchor, obsession origin, “only soft for her” specification, violence profile, possessiveness markers, voice guidelines with four example passages each), supporting cast of five including Dex Carver, Greer Pickett, Lace Dooley, Darcy Yardley, and Bette Crane, the clinic and the house on Ruin Road with sensory profiles, five-month chapter timeline with age consistency, dual first-person voice system, Dark Romance relationship arc mapped beat-by-beat, Power Structure Codex for Ruin Road MC, Tier 2 intimacy timeline with four scenes chapter-anchored, trope delivery map, and full consistency checklist
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 32 chapters + epilogue with action beats, emotional beat, key dialogue anchor, chapter-specific sensory details, ending hook, word-count target, power dynamic state, darkness beat, content disclosure triggers, and tier integrity note per chapter
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 33 fully self-contained copy-paste prompts (one per chapter + epilogue) with character context, scene direction, key dialogue, sensory details, “do not” list, and expanded structure for all high-heat scenes
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with 7-keyword strategy, book description, back cover copy, 50-word short description, 4 Instagram/Facebook posts, newsletter announcement with 3 subject lines, 7 BookTok hooks, trope stack graphic copy, content disclosure reel script, trigger warning static post, 4 reader magnet concepts, reader targeting by tier, ARC application copy, ARC delivery language, series reading order with hooks, series tagline, back matter read-through CTA, and 3 Ideogram cover prompts with typography direction
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot tables for primary and secondary categories, MC romance trope traffic analysis, competitive positioning, seven-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, pricing reference data, Amazon category recommendations, cover direction by composition type, and series cadence strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
WHAT SHE OWES
Shiloh Yardley has been the Ruin Road MC’s unofficial medic for eleven years — no questions, no paperwork, the arrangement that comes from keeping a secret that could end her. She patches their members, asks nothing, keeps the silence. It has worked. Until her sister’s medical bills hit a number she couldn’t reach, and the supply cabinet was right there.
Then Knox Hyde, the club’s enforcer, comes to the clinic on a Thursday.
He’s known for four months. He didn’t bring it to the table. He brings it to her instead: two options, one survivable. She will be claimed, marked, standing where the club can see her, because the only thing keeping them from handling a thief is the club not being allowed to touch what’s his. She takes the forty-eight hours.
Before the arrangement resolves, there’s the Tuesday nights he shows up when there’s nobody to patch and stays twenty minutes and says nothing, the kitchen table where she told him what the doctor said and hadn’t told anyone in eleven years, twenty-two steps across a compound lot and four words he doesn’t explain, and a rival MC that has found the buried thing that started all of this and has identified her as the one pressure point Ruin Road cannot lose.
She’s been managing alone so long she stopped registering it as weight. He’s been fourteen years of function inside the club and has not noticed there’s nothing else.
Dark MC romance where she knew exactly what she was buying, he caught her and kept her for reasons he’s not examining, and the HEA doesn’t ask either of them to become someone else. The kind of book that makes you think about the specific exhaustion of carrying something alone for eleven years and what happens when someone finally asks what you actually need.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Dark Romance (ID 334) sits at 27.4 sales-to-comp (Hot Cell) — the highest ratio in all of Romance, with 51 estimated daily sales per top-20 title at an average of $7.76
→ Small Town crossover delivers 309 estimated daily sales per top-20 title (Hot Mainstream) — the MC romance also-bought ecosystem sits naturally inside the small-town category and provides a second discovery path independent of the Dark Romance browse
→ MC romance has a devoted, discovery-oriented reader community with high search volume and strong also-bought momentum — unlike mafia or billionaire lanes, the MC lane is distributed across many authors and actively seeking new entries
→ The morally grey FMC who violated the club’s rules is an unoccupied position in MC dark romance — the standard premise is civilian heroine enters the world; WHAT SHE OWES is built with an FMC already inside it, already in violation, and fully aware of what she’s agreeing to
→ Debt bondage / claiming at Tier 2 is a high-conversion specific search — readers who search “debt bondage dark romance” and “claiming dark romance” are exactly the Tier 2 reader this book delivers for
→ Working-class register differentiates the shelf — MC/small-town sits in a distinct emotional register from mafia and billionaire; different reader mood, different also-bought cluster, different BookTok entry point
TROPES:
• Debt Bondage
• Claiming / Property
• Morally Gray FMC
• Possessive Hero
• MC / Biker
• Small Town Dark
• He Falls First
• Only Soft for Her
• Touch Her and Die
• Forced Proximity
• Protector/Enforcer
HEAT LEVEL: Spicy
Perfect for fans of: Shantel Tessier, Joanna Wylde, Rina Kent, and T.L. Swan (darker register)