The Weight of Water

Gothic Romance · Moderate heat · 27 chapters + epilogue · 80K novel · Dual 1st person

Complete planning package, 102 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.

Thea Winterbourne restores historic houses for a living — she can read a building's entire structural history in its water stains and settling cracks. It's precise, controlled work, and she's built an entire career, and an entire life, around never letting anything get past her attention to detail.

Then the assessment contract lands on her desk for a crumbling coastal estate called Salt Hollow — the same house her younger sister vanished from eleven years ago.

Before she can finish the job and leave, there's the caretaker who's kept the estate standing for a decade and clearly doesn't want her anywhere near the west wing, late nights reviewing property records where the conversation gets easier than either of them expected, a wall that measures wrong against every blueprint in town records, a ledger in her sister's handwriting dated days after she was declared missing, and a kiss in a boathouse that tastes like relief right up until he tells her he was in the house that night — and no one ever knew.

She's spent eleven years turning her grief into structural precision because feeling it directly was never survivable. He's spent a decade equating silence with loyalty, certain that protecting the only family he's ever had meant never being fully known by anyone, including her. A house that's been standing on borrowed time is about to force them both to choose between the safety of what they've always done and the truth neither of them can keep holding up.

A gothic romantic suspense about the difference between protecting someone and simply going quiet. The kind of book where the truth turns out to be more bearable than the silence that buried it.

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

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

⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast of 5, Salt Hollow coastal manor setting, the boathouse, eight-week assessment timeline, dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Thea (structural metaphors, clipped when guarded) and Caspian (short and declarative, goes still when withholding), relationship progression, moderate-heat intimacy guidance, and series seeds for 2 future books

⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 27 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene breakdowns, and the renovation-driven discovery structure

⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every chapter with tone, pacing, heat-level progression, 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 series launch strategy

⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — standalone keyword strategy, launch positioning, pricing strategy, and cover direction based on live category data

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