WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with triple-category positioning (Paranormal Romance, Cozy Mystery, Halloween seasonal), competitive analysis against three comp titles, and dual-POV writing specifications for a 75,000–82,000 word novel
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters (Willa Morrow and Rafe Adesanya, full profiles including wound, want vs. need, contradiction, and four distinct voice passages each), supporting cast of five (including Gretchen Solís, Hollow Bend’s archivist and the investigation’s key figure), the full six-stop Ghost Walk route with sensory detail, the county records building, the Hollow Bend Inn, and the Pioneer Valley town setting; dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Willa (precise, dry, “in any case”) and Rafe (sensory-forward, documentary, “what I know is”); complete chapter-by-chapter timeline across October; the Vantassel mystery solution brief and hidden timeline; and series seeds for two future books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene breakdowns, all five archive documents (formatted as period reproductions, interleaved at the correct reveal points), DTH flags at every relevant scene, the hidden timeline of what actually happened in 1893, and the complete fair-play audit mapping every clue to where a careful reader could solve it
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — copy-paste ready prompts for every chapter and the epilogue with complete story context, character voice markers, specific scene events, emotional beat, decision, tone, and hook; every prompt passes the fresh-chat test; DTH flags present at all seven key scenes
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with triple-category strategy and seven keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram and Facebook copy, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, five reader magnet concepts (including Lenore’s complete diary and an extended epilogue), reader targeting, series marketing with tagline and read-through CTA, and Ideogram cover prompt
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories (Paranormal Romance, Cozy Mystery, Halloween seasonal), five data-backed “why this will sell” points, competitive positioning against three comp titles, seven-keyword KDP strategy with per-keyword rationale, and full launch positioning covering categories, pricing, cover direction, and series strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE MIDNIGHT TOUR
Willa Morrow runs the most atmospheric ghost tour in western Massachusetts and hasn’t believed a word of it in five years. She built the Hollow Bend Ghost Walk from scratch — she wrote every line of the script, she knows which boards creak, she knows exactly how much fog to deploy at Stop 4 — and the legend she performs every October night is theater. Good theater. She has a graduate degree in 19th century New England labor history and she wrote a better story than the historical record deserved.
Then a man named Rafe Adesanya books all thirty-one October nights.
The host of the Dead Air Hours paranormal podcast arrives with a legal pad, a recorder, and a theory: that the 1893 “disappearance” of mill worker Lenore Vantassel isn’t a legend at all but a real, solvable mystery. He needs Willa’s access. She needs his audience. They agree on terms on a Tuesday afternoon and things proceed professionally from there.
Except before any of it is professional — there’s the county records room where he finds a coroner’s ledger entry that doesn’t match the date in her script, the first session where he misdates a document and thanks her for the correction with a sincerity she doesn’t know what to do with, a partial diary that arrives from a Rhode Island estate auction that he bought for the investigation and she believes him about without meaning to, three weeks of October afternoons reading a dead woman’s private writing in a room that smells like acid-free archival boxes and Gretchen Solís’s Yorkshire tea, the moment she starts saying Lenore’s name differently on the tour and he writes today in the legal pad and that’s the whole note, and the four days of professional silence that are worse than a fight would have been because he is still there at the back of every tour group and they both know what the silence is made of.
She’s spent five years performing rigorous skepticism and calling it integrity, and somewhere in the gap between who she trained to be and who she decided to perform, she stopped asking the question she was always going to have to ask. He’s spent four years following evidence as an act of professional faith, and one night in October he tilted toward the answer the network wanted instead of the one the archive gave him, and he knew it when he did it.
Sweet Halloween romance where the mystery is genuinely fair-play solvable and the grace note at the end isn’t. The kind of book you read under a blanket in October and then sit with for a while in the dark.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Paranormal > Ghosts sits at 6.1 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with 38–52 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — Sweet/Closed Door paranormal romance is under-stocked relative to reader demand here
→ Literature & Fiction > Holiday > Halloween hits 8.3 sales-to-comp (Hot Cell) in October with 85–140 estimated daily sales and only ~620 competing titles — a September release captures the full window
→ Cozy Mysteries > Amateur Sleuths at 5.4 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) gives legitimate dual-category positioning; the paranormal-lite + solvable mystery reader is underserved across both categories simultaneously
→ Fair-play historical mystery spine is a structural differentiator — no competing title in the paranormal-lite Halloween space commits to a verifiably solvable archive mystery; this is the book Thursday Murder Club readers want in a romance
→ Skeptic/believer is among the most comment-generating tropes on BookTok — inherently quotable and debatable, drives organic share without ad spend
→ Historical injustice resolution drives gifting and reread — titles that restore a real historical figure consistently generate “I cried at the end” reviews; word-of-mouth extends well past the October launch window
TROPES:
• Skeptic vs. Believer
• Small Town
• Historical Mystery
• Forced Proximity (October tour nights)
• Sunshine / Cynic
• Slow Burn
• Enemies-to-Research-Partners
• Archive Investigation as Courtship
• The Expert Is Watching
• One Unexplained Thing
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Closed Door — emotional intimacy throughout; one kiss (and it earns every page before it); the most intimate scenes are about attention, patience, and the specific tenderness of being accurately seen; heat-flexible throughout
COMP AUTHORS: Perfect for fans of Lana Harper, Richard Osman, Molly Harper, and Janice Hallett