Come Back to Lantern Cove

Small-Town Romance · Steamy / open door · 27 chapters + epilogue · 72K novel · Dual 1st person

Complete planning package, 140 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.

She's a twenty-six-year-old freelance book editor who hasn't set foot in her coastal Maine hometown in eight years — not since she left for college and disappeared from Jonah Kessler's life without so much as a goodbye. She had her reasons. She has never told anyone what they were.

Then her grandmother dies and leaves her a bookshop, a cottage, a 90-day residency clause — and one devastating detail: Jonah is already on payroll as the contractor.

Before she can survive ninety days and leave, there's a renovation uncovering layers of a building she grew up in, letters her grandmother hid throughout the shop that keep surfacing at exactly the wrong moments, a town of 1,800 people who remember precisely who she used to be, a bar owner who feeds her unsolicited opinions along with the chowder, and a man whose dock is visible from her front window — a man who is furious, grieving, and still the only person who has ever made this town feel like the place she was supposed to stay.

She's spent eight years building a life that proves she didn't need to come back. He's spent eight years building a life that proves he didn't need her to. Ninety days of shared walls and hidden letters is about to wreck every careful thing they've both constructed — and what Gram knew, and wrote down, and hid in the walls, might be the thing that finally makes them stop running.

Small-town second-chance romance with fog, salt air, and a dead grandmother who was right about everything. The kind of book readers finish in one sitting and immediately recommend to everyone they know.

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

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

⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast, coastal Maine setting with sensory anchors, bookshop renovation detail, Gram's letter system, dual-POV voice system with distinct registers, relationship progression timeline, and heat level guidance

⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 27 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene-level breakdowns, and chapter hooks

⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every single chapter with tone, pacing, and distinct voice guidance for Julia (analytical, guarded) and Jonah (physical, interior) alternating POV

⭐️ Amazon Launch Kit — the listing, written: two KDP categories, seven-keyword strategy with rationale, full Amazon product description, back cover copy, 50-word short description, and two Ideogram cover prompts

⭐️ Reader & Promo Kit — Instagram and Facebook posts, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, reader magnet concepts, reader targeting profile, and comp-title lines

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

→ Small Town Romance is a perennial Hot Mainstream category (6.4 sales-to-comp ratio) — one of the strongest-performing categories in the entire romance landscape

→ Second chance + first love is the highest-stakes version of the trope, outperforming generic second-chance because the emotional wound is deeper and more universal

→ The "hidden reasons for leaving" mystery element gives the book thriller-adjacent forward momentum that keeps pages turning past the emotional beats

→ Coastal Maine bookshop setting plays directly to the aesthetic-driven discovery habits of BookTok/Bookstagram — this is a highly visual, highly shareable premise

→ Gram's hidden letters throughout the renovation create a unique story mechanism with no direct comp equivalent — layered emotional reveals across the full 90-day timeline

→ The renovation-as-metaphor device (every layer of building uncovered = every layer of relationship uncovered) gives the story structural elegance that elevates it above standard reunion romance

TROPES:

• Second Chance Romance
• Return to Hometown
• First Love Reunited
• Slow Burn
• Forced Proximity (Contractor / Client)
• Hidden Reasons for Leaving
• Bookshop Renovation
• Grandmother's Letters
• 90-Day Deadline
• Dual First-Person POV
• Coastal Small Town
• Found Family Community

HEAT LEVEL: Steamy — open door, 3-4 scenes; tension earns every one of them

Perfect for fans of: Tessa Bailey, Carley Fortune, B.K. Borison, and Emily Henry

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