WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with dual-category positioning and competitive analysis against three comp titles
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters Tessa and Graham, supporting cast of six, the Calloway Arms building setting, one-week Thanksgiving timeline, dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Tessa (warm, digressive) and Graham (spare, precise), sweet/closed-door intimacy guidance with heat-flexible flagging, and series seeds for three future holiday books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word-count targets, scene breakdowns, and Thanksgiving-week compressed timeline
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every chapter with tone, pacing, heat-level progression, and distinct voice guidance for alternating POV
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, social media posts, newsletter announcement, reader magnet concepts, and Thanksgiving-season launch strategy
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table, competitive positioning, seven-keyword strategy with rationale, and launch positioning covering categories, pricing, cover direction, and series strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE LEFTOVERS
Tessa Rourke has hosted Thanksgiving for every neighbor in her building who has nowhere else to go for three years running. She calls them the Leftovers. Every single tenant has said yes — except the new engineer on the fourth floor, who sent a polite note declining and has been successfully avoiding her ever since.
Then his flight to Seattle is cancelled.
He shows up at her door at 6:47 PM, twenty minutes after dinner has started, holding a grocery-store pumpkin pie in a plastic clamshell. Before Tessa can say anything, there’s the neighbor next door already pulling the door open wider, the building’s super texting the group chat, a table full of people passing him the serving spoon like he’s been sitting there for years, and one long moment in her kitchen at midnight — dishes done, building asleep — when he leaves something on her table before he goes downstairs and she doesn’t find it until she’s on her way to bed.
She has spent three years making sure everyone else in the building has somewhere to belong, and she has never once let herself want what she keeps building for other people. He has spent twelve years in seven cities designing a life that costs nothing to leave — until now.
Sweet found-family holiday romance built around a Thanksgiving table, a man who shows up anyway, and a building full of neighbors who have been planning this since October. The kind of book you finish and immediately want to press into someone’s hands.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Holidays sits at 5.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with 280–390 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — Thanksgiving is the most underserved window in the category, with reader demand significantly outpacing supply
→ Romance > Clean & Wholesome adds a true second category at 6.2 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) — the sweet/closed-door heat level is the direct eligibility requirement, not a compromise
→ Grumpy/sunshine is top-3 in reader preference for four consecutive quarters — stacked with found family and he-falls-first, each trope amplifying the others’ commercial pull
→ Ensemble series architecture drives readthrough at 60–70% — three future protagonists seeded across Christmas, New Year’s, and spring keep readers in the building for every holiday
→ The store-bought pie is a BookTok moment — specific, visual, immediately shareable; the kind of scene that travels organically and drives discovery in the sweet romance space
TROPES:
• Grumpy/Sunshine
• Found Family
• Meddling Neighbors
• Apartment-Building Ensemble
• Holiday Dinner
• He Falls First
• Reluctant Joiner
• Slow Burn
• The Plant He Waters Every Sunday
• Wrong Pie, Right Moment
• She Feeds Everyone Except Herself
• Staying for the Dishes •
The Building Has Opinions
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Closed Door — emotional intimacy and longing throughout; one kiss; the most intimate moments are about attention and intention, not physicality
Perfect for fans of: Beth O’Leary, Christina Lauren, Josie Silver, and Emily Henry