The Teacup Seer Mysteries

• The Leaves Never Lie

• Frost on the Leaves

• Last Cup at Midnight

Rapid Release Trio · Cozy Mystery · Clean / closed door · 3 books · 65K each · 1st person

Complete three-book planning package, 423 pages: three premises, three codices, every chapter of all three books outlined and prompted, a launch kit for each book, plus the series bible, rapid-release launch plan and box-set strategy — already written. One buyer only. When it’s claimed, it’s gone.

The tea leaves don't lie. The people do.

Megan DeLuca spent twelve years in marketing, getting good at a job she didn't love. At thirty-eight, she read a listing for a tearoom in a Hudson Valley town she'd never heard of, drove up on a Thursday, and signed the papers by Friday. The Glenmore Springs Tearoom came with black-and-white tile floors worn to a glow, bergamot in the air every morning, and a gift she hadn't asked for: when she holds a murdered person's cup, she sees their final minutes. Not the killer's face. Never that. But the weight of a hand on glass, a voice she could learn to recognize, the sensation of something going terribly wrong — and then her log, and then her own mind, working it the rest of the way down.

Glenmore Springs is a Hudson Valley town of four thousand people, Victorian storefronts, a historical society in a converted 1903 carriage house, and a hotel that has been closed for twenty years and shouldn't be as interesting as it is. Megan's cat, Tansy — an orange tabby who arrived via the alley door in a sustained rain and never left — does not like the hotel kitchen. He sits in the doorway facing outward and does not move, and Megan has learned to pay attention to that. On the hotel's third floor, in suite 314, there is a woman named Viv Kearney who died in 1926 and has been waiting ever since. Viv is warm, precise, and unhurried. She knew someone once who looked exactly like Megan. She is not ready to say more — not yet.

The books run autumn, winter, New Year's Eve, one season per murder, and across all three the same question tightens: what happened at the Glenmore Springs Hotel in 1926, and what does it have to do with a tea reader named Eleanor DeLuca who left town under threat and never came back? In The Leaves Never Lie, the hotel's reopening gala ends with a developer dead and Megan holding his glass. In Frost on the Leaves, a Winter Festival judge is found frozen into an ice-carving centerpiece, and Viv begins to tell Megan what she knows. In Last Cup at Midnight, on New Year's Eve, a hotel archivist is murdered in the records room, and every thread that has been pulling through the story for two books finally comes taut.

The fair-play contract is written into every document in this package: Megan's gift points, but evidence proves. The killer in each book can be identified before she names them. The readings accelerate; they do not replace. Town historian Paul Ferris has ink on his left hand and a filing-system pause before he answers questions, and Megan has started waiting for it — noticing the pause before she notices she's paying attention to him. By the epilogue of Book 3, when she and Paul stand forty minutes from midnight in the hotel lobby, the arc mystery has resolved completely, Viv has made her choice, and Tansy has gone upstairs to suite 314 one last time.

Three books. Three seasons. Three murders, each solved in the tearoom and in the archive and in the reading log Megan has kept since the gift made itself undeniable. After Book 3, the bergamot is still there every morning — and so is she.

---

WHY THIS WILL SELL

→ Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Cozy > Paranormal carries a sales-to-competition ratio of [ADD], averaging [ADD] daily sales per top-20 title against [ADD] competing titles — and this series qualifies for both the Paranormal Cozy and Culinary/Tea shelves, with a Hudson Valley tearoom setting that hits a distinct niche intersection readers are actively searching for and that no current top-20 title in the category occupies.

→ "Series complete and available now" is the most effective marketing claim in paranormal cozy fiction: complete-trilogy buyers are the category's fastest-growing purchasing segment, and this package ships with every book fully built — premise locked, chapters mapped, prompts ready — so no pre-order date is ever missed and no gap in the release cadence costs momentum.

→ A fair-play differentiator that travels through all three books: Megan's gift points but never proves — the killer in every book can be identified from ordinary evidence before she names them — and the fair-play audit is mapped to the chapter in every Codex, giving readers the specific satisfaction of a puzzle they could have solved and making this series the kind that gets recommended.

→ Three seasons, three built-in promotional windows: autumn for Book 1, winter for Book 2, and New Year's Eve for Book 3 — with Book 3's midnight-countdown gala putting the trilogy's finale squarely in the strongest paranormal cozy acquisition window of the year and giving the box set a natural holiday push.

→ A trilogy-spanning arc mystery that is the reason readers buy all three books the same night: Eleanor DeLuca's 1926 story, Viv's century of waiting, and the fraudulent deed that Celia Rutledge has been protecting her whole life — a thread planted in Chapter 1 of Book 1 and resolved in the epilogue of Book 3, making the series the kind that readers press into other people's hands with the words "you have to read all three."

---

TROPES

Book 1 — The Leaves Never Lie

• Psychic Sleuth
• Cat Familiar
• Hotel Murder
• Ghost Ally with Century-Old Secret
• Big-City Woman Starts Over
• Slow Burn with the Town Historian
• Fair-Play Clue Architecture
• Autumn Small-Town Setting
• Amateur Sleuth with Professional-Grade Observational Skills
• Clean

Book 2 — Frost on the Leaves

• Winter Festival Murder
• Ice as Murder Method
• Mentor/Protégé Dynamic
• Corrupt Official
• Cold Case via Ghost
• Slow-Burn Progress
• Fair-Play Clue Architecture
• Clean

Book 3 — Last Cup at Midnight

• New Year's Eve Setting
• Locked-Location Gala
• Family Secret Revelation
• Wrongful Inheritance
• Ghost Justice
• Slow-Burn Resolved
• HFN Epilogue
• The Killer Is the One You Trusted
• Complete Arc Resolution
• Fair-Play Clue Architecture
• Clean

---

HEAT LEVEL

Clean throughout — no graphic violence, no explicit content, kisses on the page and nothing more, with a slow-burn romance that earns its HFN in the final epilogue.

---

Perfect for fans of: Sara Bourgeois, Amanda M. Lee, Diane Moody, Juliet Blackwell

---

WHAT'S INSIDE

Per Book (×3):

⭐ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ validation with dual-category positioning, three-title competitive analysis with differentiation, and full mystery architecture: victim, suspects, red herrings, killer, clue trail, and the arc-mystery thread each book advances — all locked before a single chapter is written

⭐ Complete Codex — full story bible per book: first-person sleuth with core wound, greatest fear, fatal flaw, and full arc; love interest, victim, and every suspect profiled with motive, alibi, and dialogue style; the book's ghost material including Viv's constraints, what she knows and what she withholds; full supporting cast with example dialogue and order details; settings with sensory detail across smell, sound, season, and texture; chapter-by-chapter timeline with exact days and dates; the complete rules of the tea-reading gift and the fair-play audit; voice guidelines with example passages for Megan, Viv, Paul, and every key player; clean-heat guidelines; series seeds labeled for later books; and a full consistency checklist with fair-play clue placement mapped to the chapter

⭐ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — every chapter plus epilogue per book, with a minute-by-minute "night of the murder" reference so every alibi holds, scene breakdowns with emotional beat, key dialogue, sensory texture, ending hooks, connection to the next chapter, and word-count targets

⭐ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — copy-paste generation prompts across the series, one per chapter and epilogue, each fully self-contained for a fresh chat: full story and character context, voice guide, the gift's rules, the exact clues to plant and what must not be revealed yet, emotional-beat direction, the chapter's decision, the arc-mystery thread in play, clean-content rules, and an ending-hook line

⭐ Marketing Copy — back-cover copy, full Amazon listing with categories and 7-keyword strategy, 50-word short description, newsletter announcement with three subject-line options, reader magnet concepts with landing-page copy, full social suite (Instagram feed post with hashtag set and a four-slide story sequence, Facebook post), reader targeting profile, series marketing copy, and a genre-matched Ideogram cover prompt designed so the three covers read as a matched autumn, winter, and New Year's Eve set

⭐ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot across primary, secondary, and tertiary categories, a "why this will sell," competitive positioning with comp titles and differentiation statements, a keyword-strategy table with rationale for all 7 KDP keywords, and launch positioning including pricing, cover direction, KU enrollment guidance, and release cadence

Series-Level:

⭐ Series Bible — complete shared-world continuity document: a side-by-side series-at-a-glance table; the series questions and their strict reveal order book by book (from Viv's first words to the epilogue's final reveal); every recurring character tracked across all three books including Megan, Tansy, Viv, Paul, Agnes, and Frank; the master timeline from Eleanor DeLuca's 1921 co-ownership agreement through the final epilogue; every location with its fixed sensory details; the complete rules of the tea-reading gift including activation conditions, content limits, duration scale, and the fair-play audit; a seed-and-payoff tracker following every planted thread from introduction to payoff chapter; the romance arc beat by beat from first meeting to HFN; a full name registry with spelling rules; series-wide voice and style rules; and the open arc threads available for continuation

⭐ Rapid-Release Launch Plan — publish order and 4–6 week spacing; a seasonal release calendar matched to the books' autumn, winter, and New Year's Eve settings; a write-ahead drafting schedule; pre-order strategy for each book; pricing pulses across the trilogy; back-matter cross-promotion updated at every launch; a repeatable launch-week checklist; a seven-email newsletter sequence; box-set timing; and a plan for rolling straight into a second trio

⭐ Series Page & Box Set Strategy — series positioning and one-line pitch; ready-to-paste Amazon series-page description and reading order; a complete author-website series page; series back-matter pages; box set title, description, pricing, launch timing, keywords, and front- and back-matter assembly notes; an exclusive box-set bonus story concept; Ideogram prompts for a three-book series image and a portrait box-set cover; and social and newsletter copy for the box-set launch

⭐ Step-by-Step How-To Guide — full package overview and recommended reading order; the exact chapter-prompt-to-manuscript method; guidance on using the Series Bible to stay consistent while drafting Books 2 and 3; when to deploy each marketing and brief section; special drafting notes for the arc-mystery reveal structure and the fair-play audit; a quick-reference table mapping every component to its use; and answers to the questions authors ask most — including how to continue the series after Book 3

---

New to Plot & Prompt? Here’s how a package works →