WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with triple-category positioning (Thanksgiving, Romantic Comedy, Seasonal Collections), competitive analysis against three comp titles, and full market differentiation
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters Diana Espinoza and Finn Galloway at complete profile depth (wound, arc, voice, four example passages each), supporting cast of five including Patty, Cody, Doug, Carmen, and Jessie, four fully realized settings (the airport, the road, the Galloway farm in Cedar Mills, and Carmen’s house in Millbrook), dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Diana (logistical, dry, short sentences under pressure) and Finn (warm, storyteller rhythm, gets simpler under real feeling), sweet/closed-door intimacy guidance with heat-flexible escalation points, and series architecture for the three-book Cedar Mills series
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word-count targets, scene breakdowns, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details, and ending hooks throughout; full farm Thanksgiving third act with fake-dating resolution arc
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 27 copy-paste-ready prompts (one per chapter + epilogue) with POV, target word count, scene, emotional beat, key dialogue, tone, and hook; every prompt fully self-contained with complete character and continuity context embedded; Dial the Heat™ escalation notes flagged in relevant chapters
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram and Facebook copy, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, four reader magnet concepts, reader targeting, series marketing with book-order hooks, and two Ideogram cover prompts (market match and market match + twist)
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories, five-point “why this will sell” analysis, competitive positioning against three comp titles, seven-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, and launch positioning covering categories, pricing, cover direction, and series release cadence
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
STRANDED THROUGH THURSDAY
Diana Espinoza rebuilt her Thanksgiving around a color-coded contingency spreadsheet, a laminated itinerary card, and the knowledge that if she could get to her grandmother’s house by Thursday, the house would still be there. Carmen is selling it in January. This is the last one. Diana has known this for two months and has not let herself feel it yet, because feeling it is not a task she can execute on a highway.
Then every flight in the country cancels at once.
Enter Finn Galloway: cheerful, easy, driving toward a family Thanksgiving he’s been quietly dreading because he has been implying the existence of a girlfriend to his family for two years and she doesn’t exist and he has four days to figure out what to say about that.
They tie for the last rental car at the airport counter on Monday morning. Diana has checked — his hometown is on her route. He can drive the manual transmission. She can’t. The terms are negotiated before the rental agent finishes his sentence.
Before the plan falls apart entirely — there’s the breakdown in Kemper County where Finn knows a guy and the guy works out, a diner in Tolliver with no cell signal where they sit for three hours and the coffee keeps coming and she puts the spreadsheet away, a motel with a broken heater where they talk in the dark at two in the morning about the things neither of them has said out loud yet, and a game Finn invents at a state line on Tuesday called one true thing per crossing that gets honest far faster than either of them planned. There’s a phone call Diana takes in Spanish while Finn drives and says nothing and hands her a gas station napkin and doesn’t ask what the dream was about. There’s a piece of hair he moves out of her face on the last stretch of road before Cedar Mills and she doesn’t move away.
She has spent her adult life managing around people because depending on them is how things go wrong. He has spent his adult life being the easy one because wanting something out loud is how you become a burden. A nine-hundred-mile road trip through a series of disasters is about to make both positions untenable.
Contemporary Thanksgiving road-trip romance with a broken heater, a laminated itinerary, and a family farm with the porch light always on. The kind of book you start on a Tuesday and finish at 1 a.m. because you need to know if she lets him drive her the rest of the way.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Holidays > Thanksgiving sits at 6.4 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with 55–75 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — and spikes to Hot Cell performance in the six-week window before Thanksgiving, when competition remains a fraction of Christmas romance
→ Dual-category play with Romance > Romantic Comedy (4.7 sales-to-comp, Hot Mainstream) positions this title in two high-volume categories simultaneously, with a legitimate third stack in Romance > Holidays > Seasonal Collections (8.1 sales-to-comp, lower competition)
→ The Thanksgiving shelf is structurally underbuilt — Christmas romance generates ten times the competition for the same seasonal buyer pool; a strong Thanksgiving title can own its window in a way Christmas titles never can
→ Four legitimate trope search paths — road trip, fake dating, forced proximity, and opposites attract — converge on one title, each with independent year-round reader demand beyond the seasonal window
→ The People We Meet on Vacation dual-POV compressed-timeline structure is one of the most-purchased formats in contemporary romance; this package puts that engine inside an undersupplied seasonal window with a fake-dating third act Henry’s book deliberately avoids
→ Series infrastructure is fully built — the Galloway family farm supports a 3–4 book Cedar Mills series with natural protagonist hooks, a recurring ensemble cast, and the 60–70% read-through rate typical of small-town family romance
TROPES:
• Road trip
• Forced proximity
• One car
• Fake dating
• Opposites attract
• Planner vs. free spirit
• Found family
• Slow burn
• Small town
• Holiday romance
• Grumpy/sunshine (situational)
• Hidden depths
• Grand gesture
• The porch light is always on
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Closed Door — emotional intimacy and physical tension throughout; closed-door romance; heat-flexible with escalation points flagged for easy deepening
Perfect for fans of: Emily Henry, Christina Lauren, Talia Hibbert, and Helen Hoang