WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with dual RS/Western category positioning, sales-to-comp data, and competitive differentiation against three comp titles
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with both leads at complete depth (internal landscape, voice, example dialogue, and example internal thought passages), five supporting characters with Book 2–4 series seeds, five named settings with sensory grounding, chapter-by-chapter timeline across the full six-week story span, relationship arc mapped beat by beat, NCIS procedure and Montana ranching world-building, heat level guidelines with scene-specific word count targets, and dual voice guidelines with four example passages per POV character
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — all 30 chapters plus epilogue, each with 2–3 fully built scenes, emotional beats, key dialogue, sensory details, word count targets, and ending hooks
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — all 30 chapters plus epilogue with POV, scene beats, emotional beat, decision, tone direction, and closing hook; a standing character reference included at the top so every prompt carries the essential voice DNA
⭐️ Marketing Materials — Amazon listing with dual-category strategy and 7 KDP keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram post and story slides, Facebook post, newsletter with three subject line options, reader magnet concepts, comp title framework, reader targeting profile, series marketing copy, and Ideogram cover prompt calibrated to the RS/Western crossover aesthetic
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — standalone launch strategy document with full market snapshot, keyword strategy table, cover direction, pricing, and series readthrough positioning
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
BURIED RANGE
Ines Taber has spent eight years building a career on the premise that if you do the work correctly, the case closes correctly. She’s good at this — good enough that her supervisor sends her to a remote Montana ranch with a two-week window and a thin briefing and the instruction to keep it contained. She arrives in a rental sedan completely wrong for the road she just drove. She doesn’t notice. She is already building her question list.
Then she meets Knox Britten.
He found the contractor’s body on his federal lease boundary. Called it in same day. Has been answering every follow-up question with the exact minimum of truth that constitutes not lying. He is polite. He is immovable. And he is watching Ines the way a person watches something they haven’t categorized yet — not as a threat, not as an ally, as something that requires a category he doesn’t have.
Before she can close the case she was sent to close, there’s a week of east fence line evidence that doesn’t support accidental, a porch coffee left on the rail without comment that she picks up and doesn’t mention, three days of forced proximity when a September snowstorm closes the road and the ranch becomes the only available option, a man who says “not tonight” to her hardest question and means it as honesty rather than deflection, a retired BLM officer who tells her something in a bar that changes the shape of everything, and the specific two seconds of his hand on her arm at the fence line that she is still thinking about four chapters later.
She’s spent a career inside a system she trusted more than her own judgment — and the one time she filed clean when she should have filed true, it cost her something she still hasn’t put down. He left the Marines because proper channels failed him, and the commendation they gave him for it sits in a box in his bedroom because he can’t bring himself to throw it away. A federal investigation on an isolated ranch is going to ask both of them to become someone new.
Romantic suspense in September Montana, where the case never stops mattering and the slow burn takes its time. The kind of book where the hero says the truest thing he’s ever said looking at the east pasture because he can’t look at her when he says it.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Western & Frontier (ID 360) sits at 5.5 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with 220 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — and a +33% 12-month growth trend with new entrant designation, meaning demand is ahead of competition right now
→ RS/Western crossover at series level is essentially unclaimed — no established series is holding this position, which is the early-window opportunity the K-Lytics new entrant flag signals
→ Dual-category stacking with Romance > Romantic Suspense (ID 355) captures 342 daily sales per top 20 title and the existing RS readership that is actively looking for the procedural stakes this book delivers
→ Forced proximity + slow burn + competent heroine is the trope combination with the highest BookTok shareability in RS — and the isolated ranch setting gives the forced proximity structural staying power across a six-week timeline
→ Four-book series architecture with seeded leads for Books 2–4 is built for the readthrough rates that Western and RS audiences deliver — series readers in this category complete at high rates
→ The Chapter 30 declaration is a screenshotted line waiting to happen — “I built this ranch to be a place worth protecting. You’re the only person who’s ever made me want to stop protecting it alone.” He says it looking at the pasture. This travels.
TROPES:
• Forced Proximity
• Slow Burn
• He Falls First
• He’s Hiding Something for the Right Reasons
• Competent Heroine Who Stays Competent
• Ex-Military Hero
• Fish Out of Water FMC
• Isolated Setting
• Corrupt Institution
• Opposites Attract
• She Comes Back for Him (Not Because He Asked)
• The Man Who Won’t Explain Himself But Whose Choices Explain Him
HEAT LEVEL: Open Door / Steamy
*includes Dial the Heat™ guide to adjust heat level
Perfect for fans of: Nora Roberts, Robyn Carr, Cate Beauman, and Diana Palmer