TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Nina Parrish built Parrish Communications herself — one client, one crisis at a time, until she was the person corporations called at 2 AM when the narrative was already breaking. She knows how to get ahead of any situation. She knows how to manage the gap between what is true and what is public. She does not know how to manage a bridge loan that comes due in twelve months, a cousin who needs more than she has, and a company that has held this long only because she has not stopped holding it.

Then an attorney calls with an NDA. Then she signs it. Then the name on the other side is Elliot Dunmore.

Twelve months. Legal marriage. Six million dollars, clean exit at month nine, and one non-negotiable condition: his mother has to believe it.

Before Nina can manage this the way she manages everything — there's Day 3, when she finds the coffee already made at 6 AM and doesn't mention it to anyone. There's Month 3 at 1 AM in the kitchen when she asks Elliot what his father actually meant by the trust clause, and he sits down, and they talk until 1:30 AM, and somewhere in that hour the conversation stops being about the clause. There's Lorraine over lunch — no event, no board, just the two of them — saying "He doesn't let things through. When something gets through, it means something." And Nina sitting in the car in the parking garage afterward for eight minutes because she already knows what that means. There's Barcelona and the hotel he built from his own blueprint, not his father's, and the way he watches her see it and doesn't look away. And Month 9: a drawer. A folder. Four seconds of holding it. The decision to put it back without saying why.

She has been managing things for everyone since she was nineteen. He has been keeping people at managed distance for eleven years and calling it a reasonable arrangement. Neither of them is performing what has been accumulating in the kitchen at 6 AM, and the contract does not have language for what that means.

Slow-burning marriage-of-convenience billionaire romance with an ice-king hero who notices what he's doing for her approximately three months after he starts doing it, and a warm heroine who already knows what they are and puts the folder back without an explanation. The kind of book where the exit clause arrives at month nine and the most significant scene in the novel has no dialogue.

WHY THIS WILL SELL

→ Billionaires & Millionaires runs at a 9.8 sales-to-comp ratio with 515 estimated daily sales per top-20 title — demand is outpacing available supply in the category right now; a well-positioned entry lands in a buyer's market

→ Marriage of Convenience is in its first-mover window — identified as a new breakout entry in 2026 Market-Matched™ tracking at $262K monthly, before saturation; books that enter a breakout trope before it tops out capture outsized discoverability advantage

→ Forced Proximity sits at $991K monthly and is the top-performing device trope in the category — the penthouse setup delivers immediate, contractually justified proximity; no contrived setup required; the contract is the justification

→ True dual POV with full hero interiority is rare and specifically requested in this category — Elliot's POV chapters, which let readers see his slow awareness of what he's doing before he has decided to, are the precise emotional experience this readership reports not being able to find

→ The exit clause functions as a built-in structural countdown — slow burn requires urgency; the nine-month folder scene delivers it without manufactured external conflict; tension is embedded in the contract the reader has been watching since Chapter 1

→ The folder scene is social-share optimized — a woman in a room, a drawer, four seconds, no dialogue — is exactly the kind of specific, quiet moment readers screenshot, quote in reviews, and carry into reader group conversations for weeks

TROPES: • Marriage of Convenience • Contract Marriage • Forced Proximity • Ice King / Warm Heroine • Slow Burn • Fake-to-Real • Billionaire / Class Contrast • Family Pressure • He Was Making Her Coffee For Three Months Before He Noticed • She Knew When She Put the Folder Back • The 1 AM Kitchen • The Lorraine Lunch • The Exit Clause • Barcelona • Dual POV • The Coffee That Was Already Made

HEAT LEVEL: Heat-Flexible (Dial the Heat™) — intimacy scenes are structurally flagged in Chapters 10 and 12; at closed-door, both scenes deliver charged emotional restraint and the specific weight of almost; at open door, both are fully on the page and emotionally grounded; the structural arc does not change at any heat setting

Perfect for fans of: Helen Hoang, Kennedy Ryan, Elsie Silver, and Ava Wilder

WHAT'S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with dual-category positioning (Billionaires & Millionaires, Workplace Romance), trope performance data including MOC breakout signal and Forced Proximity $991K monthly, competitive analysis against three direct comp titles including a Kennedy Ryan benchmark, and full character profiles for Elliot Dunmore and Nina Parrish

⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with Elliot and Nina's complete character profiles (wounds, voice signatures, physical detail, arc), supporting cast of four (Lorraine, Marcus, Kendra, Owen), sensory-specific settings including the Manhattan penthouse kitchen, the Barcelona flagship, and the Dunmore board room, chapter-by-chapter timeline across the twelve-month arc, dual POV voice system with distinct patterns for Elliot (spare, economic, assessment-driven) and Nina (warm, sensory, dry real-time processing), Dial the Heat™ guidance with flagged scenes in Chapters 10 and 12, and series seeds for Marcus Webb and Lorraine Dunmore

⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 17 chapters + epilogue with scene-level breakdowns, emotional beats, word-count targets, POV assignments, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details, and heat flags at every flagged scene

⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 18 fully self-contained copy-paste prompts (one per chapter + epilogue) with complete character context, scene beats, verbatim key dialogue, sensory specifics, and Dial the Heat™ instructions at Chapters 10 and 12 so the buyer selects the heat level before writing

⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and seven keywords, back cover copy, 50-word description, three Instagram posts with hashtags, Facebook announcement, newsletter with three subject lines, reader targeting profile, three reader magnet concepts, series launch strategy, and two Ideogram cover prompts (1:1 and 2:3) with full settings

⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — complete market snapshot with dual-category data, trope performance including the MOC first-mover window, seven-keyword strategy with per-keyword rationale, competitive positioning, and full launch playbook with pricing phases, category selection, cover direction, and series infrastructure

One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.