Labor Day Weekend

Holiday Romance · Sweet / closed door · 26 chapters + epilogue · 80K novel · Dual 1st person

Complete planning package, 109 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.

Rosa Delgado rebuilt herself one professional kitchen at a time — fifteen years on the Boston line, a James Beard nod she won't mention, a marriage that ended as quietly as it began. She came home to Gloucester for one reason: to give her late grandmother's clam shack one last Labor Day weekend before she sells the building for good.

Then a man stops for chowder on Friday afternoon, tastes it, goes very still, and stays to help her run the weekend. He is the food critic whose review closed the shack fifteen years ago. He knows exactly where he is. She has no idea who he is. You will, from the second chapter.

Before the weekend runs out there's the 5 a.m. prep where she reads her grandmother's handwriting like scripture and he learns the corn-fritter batter the review once called heavy and greasy; the dock bench where the one true thing keeps not getting said; the notebook he closes whenever she comes near, filling with the best sentences he's written in years, all of them about her cooking; and the folded page he's carried in his jacket for fifteen years, riding closer to the surface every hour.

She's spent fifteen years running — from Gloucester, from the shack, from the girl she was at twenty-two — and calling it a career. He's spent the same fifteen years writing carefully as penance, never once setting the guilt down in front of someone it happened to. Three days in a kitchen that smells exactly like her grandmother is going to undo them both.

A sweet, slow-burn coastal food romance about words that cost something — and the courage it takes to say what you owe, and to stay when staying is the hard thing. The kind of book you read with a bowl of chowder going cold beside you because you can't put it down until she finds the page in his pocket.

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and market validation with dual-category positioning and competitive analysis

⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, a supporting cast of five (including the present-in-memory Abuela Elena), the Gloucester clam-shack and working-harbor settings, the three-day Labor Day timeline with a braided 2009 thread, a dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Rosa (precise, kitchen-structured, dry) and Finn (writer's rhythm, the recurring "sentence," guilt setting the tempo), relationship progression, sweet/clean intimacy guidance, and series seeds for three future books

⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word-count targets, scene breakdowns, and the dramatic-irony architecture mapped throughout

⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every chapter with tone, pacing, dramatic-irony control, and distinct voice guidance for alternating POV

⭐️ Amazon Launch Kit — the listing, written: Amazon listing with categories and keywords and back cover copy

⭐️ Reader & Promo Kit — social media posts, newsletter announcement, reader-magnet concepts, and a series launch strategy

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