WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ validation with dual-category positioning, four comp titles with differentiation statements, and launch benchmarks
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with Annika Sundstrom (31, avalanche forecaster and patrol director) and Tobin Creel (36, ex-Army heli-ski guide), supporting cast of 9 including Hal Nyquist, Britt Sundstrom, Marisol Ochoa, and Skadi the avalanche dog, eight fully sensed settings from the Anvil Hut to the forecast office, a 51-day chapter-by-chapter timeline with all burial times and date math locked, dual first-person present-tense voice system with four example passages each — Annika compresses under stress, Tobin fragments into counting — relationship arc, moderate-heat intimacy guidance, avalanche and rescue accuracy rules, series seeds for 3 future books, and a full consistency checklist
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 29 chapters + epilogue with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory anchors, ending hooks, word count targets summing to 81,900, and a trope architecture map showing where all six promised tropes live structurally
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 30 copy-paste prompts, one per chapter and the epilogue, each fully self-contained with POV, target words, scene, emotional beat, decision, tone, hook, and the exact continuity facts that chapter needs; the three Dial the Heat™ chapters carry full four-block scaling architecture
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with two categories and seven keywords, back cover copy, 50-word description, Instagram feed and Story sequence, Facebook post, four TikTok scripts, newsletter with three subject lines, paid ad copy, a three-email ARC sequence, launch-week content plan, reader magnet concepts, and a calibrated Ideogram cover prompt with three tested variant directions
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories, why-this-will-sell data points, competitive positioning, seven-keyword strategy with per-keyword rationale, and launch positioning covering pricing, cover direction, and series read-through strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
FALL LINE
Annika Sundstrom signs the avalanche forecast for Tamarack Bend, Montana, which means that every morning before dawn she decides whether a mountain is going to kill somebody, and then she puts her name at the bottom of it. She is the best forecaster in three counties. She has not set foot in Wolverine Basin in six years.
Then the man who dug her out of it comes home to run the heli operation that just bought access to that exact terrain.
Before four days of professional cold war can turn into anything else, there’s the meeting where he backs her forecast on the record in front of his own employer, the wall of nineteen years of fracture-line photographs she walks him through without once saying the dead man’s name, four clients under the snow on a slope she closed in writing at 4:58 that morning, a storm that grounds the aircraft and puts nine people in a backcountry hut with one stove and a broken femur, and a folded field slip he has been carrying in his jacket for eighteen months.
She’s spent six years believing her judgment failed once, catastrophically, and building a life narrow enough that it can never be tested again. He’s spent those same six years knowing something that would change all of it, and deciding — month after month — that she isn’t ready to hear it yet. The paper in his pocket is going to cost them both far more than he planned.
Action and adventure romance with real snow in it: beacon searches, a seventy-two-hour storm, and two people who are only fully themselves when they’re working. The kind of book where the most romantic thing anyone does is hand someone a piece of paper and let her decide what it means.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Action & Adventure sits at 5.6 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with 38 estimated daily sales per top 20 title against only 6,900 competing titles — a third the volume of Second Chance at comparable per-title demand
→ Dual-category play with Romance > Contemporary > Second Chance (3.4, Hot Mainstream) pulls high-volume traffic into the thin category where a title can actually hold rank
→ Avalanche forecasting is an unoccupied profession in a proven setting — mountain romance is crowded with patrollers and pro athletes, nobody has the woman who signs the bulletin
→ Snowed-in with a legitimate reason — nine people, one hut, seventy-two hours, and a broken femur; forced proximity that isn’t a contrived one-bed hotel
→ Winter high-stakes romance is under-supplied against demand — the evergreen inventory skews holiday and cozy, leaving a year-round lane with a hard January spike to launch into
→ Zero misunderstanding-driven conflict — a documented reader preference this market rewards and most competing titles can’t claim
TROPES:
• Second Chance at Love
• Forced Proximity (Snowed In)
• Workplace Rivals to Partners
• He Fell First • Survival Stakes
• Small Mountain Town
• Dual POV
• Slow Burn
• Competence as Foreplay
• He Knows the Exact Date He Fell
• The Town Kept a Six-Year Silence
• The Grand Gesture Is a Phone Call
• No Third-Act Misunderstanding
• The Dog Finds Him
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate / Open Door
Perfect for fans of: K.A. Tucker, Carley Fortune, Mariana Zapata, and Lucy Score