WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with dual-category positioning (Action & Adventure primary / Contemporary Western secondary), competitive analysis against K.A. Tucker, Devney Perry, and Nora Roberts, and series potential for 3 future Rook’s Landing books
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with complete profiles for Elke Lindqvist and Boone (biography, wound, want vs. need, contradiction, speech patterns, physical specifics, voice guidelines with four example passages each), supporting cast of five (Verna Hask, Tak Ooyuk, Nadia Ooyuk, Hideo Watts, Petra Lindqvist), crash site and boreal corridor settings mapped beat-by-beat, Rook’s Landing lodge room by room with sensory profiles, October 4 crash through third-April epilogue timeline with full chapter-by-chapter breakdown, dual first-person voice system, sweet/closed-door intimacy timeline chapter-anchored, romance arc mapped from first contact through HEA, trope delivery map, and full consistency checklist
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 28 chapters + epilogue with 3–5 action beats per scene, emotional beat, key dialogue anchor, chapter-specific sensory details, ending hook, and word-count target per chapter; full survival walk-out arc across Act 1 at equal depth to Act 3; trope delivery audit included
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 29 fully self-contained copy-paste prompts (one per chapter + epilogue) each with complete story context, character voice notes, scene direction, key dialogue, sensory anchors, emotional beat, decision, tone, and ending hook; fresh-chat tested — no prior context required
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with 7-keyword strategy and book description, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram main feed post with hashtags, Instagram Story slides, Facebook post, newsletter announcement with 3 subject lines, 5 reader magnet concepts with landing page copy, reader targeting profile, comp title framing, series marketing with tagline and read-through CTA, and Ideogram cover prompt with genre cover data and usage instructions
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table for primary and secondary categories, five data-backed “why this will sell” bullets, competitive positioning against three comp titles, seven-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, Amazon category recommendations, pricing strategy with 30-day cadence, cover direction, and Rook’s Landing series cadence strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
NORTH OF NOWHERE
Elke Lindqvist has spent six field seasons in the Yukon backcountry measuring what the ice is losing. She talks to the glacier the way other people talk to dogs — with precision and something close to love — and she has the data to prove the eastern margin is retreating faster than any model predicts. Getting anyone to believe her is the harder problem.
Then the charter floatplane goes down in the spruce canopy with forty minutes to Rook’s Landing, and the only person between Elke and the wilderness is the pilot who crashed them.
Boone speaks in four-word sentences and looks at the sky before he looks at her, which she notes, and files, and does not examine until much later. Before she can get to later — there’s a ranger cache they reach with twelve minutes to spare when the storm returns, a sleeping arrangement necessitated by a Yukon cold snap that is strictly practical and nothing else, the weight of his hand on her arm on the scree descent that he releases after one extra breath, a midnight exchange about temperature that is not about temperature, and the specific way he listens to her glacier data — not with the polite patience she’s learned to dismiss, but the way he reads terrain: processing, using, believing it.
She’s spent six field seasons building an argument she can’t get anyone to hear, protecting her data with the same precision she uses to measure it — because if she stops defending it, no one will. He’s spent three years in the right country for the wrong reason, staying because his co-pilot Owen died in weather just like this and leaving felt like an admission he wasn’t ready to make.
Action-adventure romance for readers who want the wilderness to do the work ordinary life never manages. The kind of book where the grand gesture is a man who flies for a living deciding to walk.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Action & Adventure sits at 23.0 sales-to-comp (Hot Cell) with ~180 estimated daily sales per top-20 title — the single strongest market signal in the data; fewer than 4,200 competing titles in a category readers are actively hungry for
→ Forced proximity + wilderness survival is the highest-search trope combination in romance right now — this package delivers it structurally, across the entire first act, not as a single scene
→ The Yukon floatplane setting is a proven bestseller gap — K.A. Tucker’s The Simple Wild has held recommendation-list dominance for years with no clear successor; this package targets that reader directly with a differentiated heroine (scientific expert, not outsider)
→ Grumpy/sunshine with a competence reversal outperforms the standard configuration — Elke is the navigation and terrain expert; Boone is the one who learns; this positions the book across both the grumpy/sunshine cluster and the rising STEM-heroine romance search
→ Sweet/low heat in wilderness survival romance is genuinely underserved — most survival romance runs steamy; closed-door readers in this category have high engagement and leave the most vocal reviews
→ Rook’s Landing community and 3-book series framework gives the package read-through infrastructure from day one
TROPES:
• Forced Proximity
• Survival/Stranded
• Grumpy/Sunshine
• Outsider Expert Respected
• Slow Burn
• Second Chance
• He Listens Like It Matters
• The Grand Gesture Is Walking
• Competent Hero Who Knows When He’s Wrong
• Found Community
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Closed Door
Perfect for fans of: K.A. Tucker, Devney Perry, Nora Roberts (wilderness settings), and Kristin Hannah