WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with triple-category positioning (Police Procedurals, Romance > Police, Romantic Suspense > Mystery), competitive analysis against three current top-20 comps, full Suspense Architecture (hidden timeline in chronological order, definitive resolution answers for all five case questions, fair-play clue map with five planted evidence pillars, and misdirection map with two red herrings including collapse mechanics), and series framework for 3 future Sable Cove books
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with detailed profiles for Thea Braddock and Elias Bray (internal landscape, fatal flaw, arc proof-of-change, and four distinct voice example passages each), supporting cast profiles for Caudle, Marguerite Okonkwo, Dov Halstead, Renwick Fales, and three named slip-holder witnesses; full sensory profiles for six settings (Anchor Row Marina, Sable Cove Substation, Sable Cove town, Tern Bay open water, Thea’s rental, Elias’s apartment); 21-day chapter-by-chapter timeline with pre-story fire chronology; five-stage romance arc with Dial the Heat™ in/out points at Chapters 19, 22, and Epilogue; five-pillar investigative arc with fair-play audit; heat-level and consent architecture guidelines; series seeds for 3 future Sable Cove books; Consistency Checklist
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with scene-level breakdowns, emotional beats, key dialogue, sensory details, word-count targets, ending hooks, Dial the Heat™ in/out flags at all three intimacy scenes, and all five fair-play clue placements and two red-herring collapse points marked by chapter
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 27 fully self-contained copy-paste prompts (one per chapter + epilogue) with standing context block, scene-by-scene breakdowns, voice samples and continuity facts per chapter, heat-level guidance for alternating Thea/Elias POV, and fair-play clue and red-herring placement notes at every relevant chapter
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with 2 categories and 7 keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram feed post + Story slides, Facebook post, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, four reader magnet concepts, reader targeting with specific communities, series marketing with tagline and 3-book reading order, market-calibrated Ideogram cover prompt grounded in August 2026 top-20 cover data
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across four category paths with sales-to-comp ratios and daily sales figures, five data-backed positioning bullets, three comp-title differentiations (Elliot, Burton, Leigh), seven-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, launch positioning with KDP category recommendations and pricing strategy, cover direction, and Sable Cove series release cadence
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
BURN SEASON AT ANCHOR ROW
Detective Thea Braddock arrived in Sable Cove three days ago with a case file she didn’t ask for and a transfer she didn’t request. She knows the town well enough to find the bakery. She knows the marina well enough to clock the camera blind spots. And she knows the name of the sergeant she’s been paired with — because it’s been in her personnel file for two years, attached to the complaint that quietly ended her last posting.
She has twenty-one days before the marina’s insurer pulls coverage for two hundred slip-holders.
Before she can work out whether to trust the one person who might actually help her close the case, there are three burned slips and a fourth fire still coming, a marine surveyor’s inspection reports being used as a roadmap she doesn’t have the frame for yet, six hours on the water in the dark talking about things that aren’t the investigation, a night on a borrowed boat where she finally asks the question she’s been carrying for two years — and an answer that isn’t what she assumed, and doesn’t let either of them off the hook.
She’s spent two years certain she knew exactly what he did. He’s spent two years knowing she has the wrong version. The case won’t close until one of them says it out loud.
The kind of book where the most important conversation happens on open water at midnight, and neither of them walks off the boat the same.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
Police procedural romantic suspense is trending up — this category has shown a strong positive trajectory over the last 18 months, with top-20 titles averaging 191 daily sales and a 6.8 sales-to-comp ratio (Hot Mainstream).
Romance > Police is a Hot Niche with room to win — fewer than 6,400 competing titles, 4.9 sales-to-comp, and the category is actively pulling in new crossover readers from the procedural side.
Enemies-to-lovers built on a real institutional grievance — not a misunderstanding, not crossed signals; a documented complaint with career consequences that takes the full book to earn through.
Dual-POV with two equally competent leads — alternating Thea and Elias chapters, both with full investigative weight, built for the readers who want both POVs and won’t settle for one strong lead and one reactive one.
Heat-flexible at the page level — moderate default with every intimacy scene flagged for Dial the Heat™, making it immediately usable across your reader base.
TROPES:
• Enemies to Lovers (Real Grievance)
• Forced Proximity
• Forced Partnership
• Only One Boat
• Competence Porn
• Small-Town Outsider
• The Grudge That Turns Out to Be a Protection
• Earned Trust Before Earned Intimacy
• The Partner Who Chooses Her Career Over His Own Standing
• The Question She Finally Asks
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate
Perfect for fans of: Kendra Elliot, Melinda Leigh, Mary Burton, and Karen Rose.