Sweet Rivalry on Birch Street

Rom-Com · Steamy / open door · 26 chapters + epilogue · 70K novel · Dual 1st person

Complete planning package, 103 pages: the premise, a full codex, every chapter outlined, an AI prompt for every chapter, and the whole launch kit — listing, blurb, keywords, posts, newsletter, reader magnet — already written. One buyer only. When it’s claimed, it’s gone.

She's a perfectionist baker who poured her savings, her grandmother's recipe box, and three years of dreams into a bakery on the prettiest street in Everwell, Vermont. She has a plan for everything. She does not have a plan for the charming café owner who just opened directly across the street and started making annoyingly good scones.

Then their town's most determined matchmaker gets them co-assigned to chair the Winter Market bake-off — and a regional magazine announces it will feature one Birch Street business during the event.

Before she can secure the press that will make her business sustainable, there's a fake-dating proposition that seemed strategic at the time, a man who shovels her sidewalk before dawn and memorizes her grandmother's birthday, a town of busybodies who are rooting for them louder than they're rooting for the bake-off, and the slow, terrible realization that pretending to be in love with someone who brings you coffee at 5 AM and argues about buttercream like it matters stops feeling like pretending embarrassingly fast.

She's spent her whole life being the serious one — the planner who sacrifices spontaneity for outcomes. He's spent his whole life being the easy one — the charmer who makes everything look effortless because nobody sees the effort. Three days of Winter Market and six weeks of fake dating is about to crack open everything they've both been hiding behind.

Holiday rom-com dusted with powdered sugar and Vermont snowfall. The kind of book readers finish grinning like idiots and immediately pre-order the sequel about the town busybody.

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ validation with triple-category analysis and competitive positioning

⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast, Everwell Vermont setting, bakery and café operations detail, Winter Market event architecture, dual-POV voice system, relationship progression timeline, and heat level guidance

⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene-level breakdowns, and chapter hooks

⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every single chapter with tone, pacing, and distinct voice guidance for Margot (precise, guarded) and Owen (warm, disarming) alternating POV

⭐️ Amazon Launch Kit — the listing, written: two KDP categories, seven-keyword strategy with rationale, full Amazon product description, back cover copy, 50-word short description, and two Ideogram cover prompts

⭐️ Reader & Promo Kit — Instagram and Facebook posts, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, reader magnet concepts, reader targeting profile, and comp-title lines

You write the book. The listing, the blurb, the keywords, the posts, the newsletter and the reader magnet are already written.

One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.

WHY THIS WILL SELL

→ Romance–Holidays has the single strongest sales-to-comp ratio in Hot Mainstream Romance (29.2) with outsized seasonal sales spikes that can launch backlist visibility

→ Small Town Romance (6.4 ratio, Hot Mainstream) is a perennial performer — readers return to this category reliably and repeatedly

→ Romantic Comedy adds a third cross-list with 626 estimated daily sales per top title, signaling massive reader appetite for warm, funny, low-angst romance

→ Fake dating remains one of the most-searched romance tropes on Amazon and social media, with demand significantly outpacing the standalone category supply (only 1,760 titles)

→ Bakery rivalry + Winter Market creates a visually rich, highly shareable premise built for BookTok and Bookstagram discovery

→ Town busybody (Dolores Plimpton) as chaos agent and eventual series lead gives readers a character to fall in love with and a Book 3 to demand

TROPES:

• Fake Dating
• Rivals to Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Small Town
• Holiday Romance (Winter Market)
• Bakery Rivalry
• Grumpy / Sunshine
• Town Matchmaker as Chaos Agent
• Dual First-Person POV
• He Falls First
• Grand Gesture (Gazebo)
• Found Community

HEAT LEVEL: Steamy — open door, 3-4 scenes; emotionally explicit, sensually warm

Perfect for fans of: Lucy Score, Tessa Bailey, Laurie Gilmore, and Christina Lauren

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