WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — ready for marketing
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with characters, settings, world details, and relationship dynamics
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — the complete roadmap with emotional direction for every chapter
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every single chapter (this is what makes your AI draft actually sound like a novel)
⭐️ Marketing Copy — taglines, blurbs, tropes, and more
⭐️ Full Implementation Guide — step-by-step instructions to write this book and expand it into a 4-book Willow Creek series
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
BETWEEN THE PAGES
Her mentor left her half a bookshop. The other half went to the boy she left behind without saying goodbye eight years ago.
Emma Reed’s New York career is a beautiful lie. When Mr. Pemberton dies, she returns to Willow Creek, Vermont, for the funeral — and discovers she’s now co-owner of Turning Pages Bookshop with Lucas Grant. Her childhood best friend. The boy she almost kissed at eighteen. The man who’s been quietly in love with her for twenty years.
The will says they must run the shop together for six months. If it’s profitable, they keep it. If not, it sells.
She can’t leave without breaking her promise. He can’t afford to buy her out. Working together means inventory nights, coffee-fueled arguments, and chemistry neither can deny.
She left because loving him scared her more than anything. He let her go because he thought she deserved bigger dreams than he could give her. Neither ever moved on.
Then a snowstorm traps them in the shop overnight. And she finds his manuscript — the one he’s been writing for eight years. Their story. Barely disguised.
Friends-to-lovers. Forced proximity. Co-owned bookshop. Secret manuscript. Small-town Vermont. Sweet/clean heat level.
The kind of book you read curled up in a window seat with a cup of tea and tears running down your face.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Friends-to-lovers has a 23:1 sales-to-competition ratio — high demand, low competition
→ There is no other adult contemporary clean friends-to-lovers with a bookshop setting and inheritance stakes currently in the market
→ Clean romance is showing stable growth with crossover appeal to both adult and YA audiences
→ Positioned as Emily Henry’s emotional depth meets Hallmark’s heat level — a massive underserved audience searching for exactly this combination
TROPES:
• Friends to Lovers (Childhood Best Friends)
• Forced Proximity (Co-Owning Bookshop)
• Second Chance Romance
• Slow Burn
• Mutual Pining
• He Falls First
• Small Town Romance
• Only One Bed (Clean Version)
• Found Family
• Dual POV
• Grand Gesture
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Clean
Perfect for fans of: Emily Henry, Jenny Hale, Courtney Walsh, and Ali Hazelwood