Everyone Knew but Her

Holiday Romance · Heat-flexible, high ceiling · 28 chapters + epilogue · 86K novel · Dual 1st person

Complete planning package, 109 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.

Dr. Anaya Berkshire has spent eight years being the calmest person in any room that's falling apart — including, especially, her own. Her emergency contact has been the same since the week she met him: flight paramedic Dash Kettering, the man who's ordered her coffee before she even arrives anywhere for three years running and has never once given her a reason to need an exit.

Then his best man stands up at the rehearsal dinner, three drinks in, and tells the entire wedding party the thing they've apparently all known for years — that Dash has been in love with her since the week they met.

Before she can find a graceful way to pretend the toast never happened, there's the one room and one bed the lodge's innkeeper swears was an honest mistake, the blizzard that turns a three-day wedding weekend into five, the hypothermia scare on the icy back steps that drops them both into the only language they've ever fully trusted — working a crisis side by side — and the kiss afterward that neither of them tries to explain away. There are three a.m. conversations about the marriages that taught them both love doesn't survive the people inside it, and the slow, terrifying discovery that eight years of easy friendship might have been its own quiet lie.

She's spent her whole adult life making sure she's never the reason anyone leaves, and risking Dash means risking the one relationship that's never once run out. He's spent three years calling his silence restraint instead of what it actually is — and the storm has just made the quiet version of loving her impossible to keep.

A Valentine's Day wedding, a blizzard, and two best friends snowed in with the truth already sitting in the room between them. The kind of book where she has to cross the floor first, because some things only count once you choose them with your eyes open.

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ validation with triple-category positioning (Valentine's Day, Friends to Lovers, Medical Romance) and competitive analysis

⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast of 6, Birchcrest Lodge mountain setting plus the Carraway Memorial Hospital / Ridgeline Air Rescue backdrop, five-day blizzard timeline, dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Anaya (clinical-deflection, dry) and Dash (understated, deadpan), relationship progression, open-door intimacy guidance, and series seeds for 3 future books

⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 28 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene breakdowns, and blizzard-compressed timeline structure

⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every chapter with tone, pacing, heat-level progression, and distinct voice guidance for alternating POV

⭐️ Amazon Launch Kit — the listing, written: Amazon listing with categories and keywords and back cover copy

⭐️ Reader & Promo Kit — social media posts, newsletter announcement, reader magnet concepts, and Valentine's Day launch strategy

⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot across three categories, competitive positioning, seven-keyword strategy, and launch positioning covering categories, pricing, cover direction, and series strategy

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

→ Romance › Holiday Romance › Valentine's Day sits at 7.3 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with 180–260 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — a seasonal shelf with a fraction of Christmas's competition and none of its shrinking appetite

→ Dual-category stack with Romance › Friends to Lovers (8.6 sales-to-comp, Hot Mainstream) puts the book in one of the highest-converting trope categories in the genre

→ Triple-category reach into Romance › Medical (4.7 sales-to-comp, Hot Niche) — a consistently high-ratio niche most catalogs underserve

→ Forced proximity and only-one-bed are reader wish-list toppers two years running — stacking both with a wedding and a blizzard gives three "why now" hooks instead of one

→ The reveal lands on page one, not page two hundred — skips the usual slow-burn for the far more satisfying question of what happens after the secret's already out

TROPES: • Friends to Lovers • Forced Proximity • Only One Bed • Snowed In • Secret Pining Revealed ("Everyone Already Knew") • Wedding Date / Plus-One • Medical Professionals in Love • He Fell First • Valentine's Day Wedding • The Toast That Said the Quiet Part Loud • Three Years of Ordering Her Coffee Before She Asks • She Crosses the Room First

HEAT LEVEL: Open Door / Medium Spice — 3 intimacy scenes escalating across the novel, flagged with Dial the Heat™ markers so you can tune the heat up or down without restructuring a single chapter; explicit but emotionally grounded, nothing fades to black

Perfect for fans of: Emily Henry, Christina Lauren, Abby Jimenez, and Sally Thorne

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