WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and market validation with dual-category positioning (Friends to Lovers Hot Niche, Fake Dating Hot Niche) and competitive analysis
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast of six (co-op board president, Theo’s ex one floor up, building game-night crew), Greenwich Village walk-up setting, three-week fake-marriage timeline, dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Wren (visual, guarded, sketch-minded) and Theo (steady, quietly devoted, says more in actions than words), relationship progression, moderate-heat intimacy guidance, and series premises for 5 Greenwich Village books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — [X] chapters + epilogue with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, word count targets, and fake-marriage ticking-clock structure
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed copy-paste generation instructions for every chapter, with story context block, voice examples, key dialogue to hit, sensory details, and ending hook for each
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram and Facebook posts, newsletter announcement with three subject line options, reader magnet concepts, and Ideogram cover prompt calibrated to the illustrated rom-com cover category
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — dual-category market snapshot table, five-point why-this-will-sell analysis, competitive positioning against three comp titles, full keyword strategy table with targeting rationale, launch pricing guidance, cover direction, and 5-book Greenwich Village series release cadence
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
ROOMMATE WANTED
(Fake Husband Preferred)
Wren has spent four years making her rent-controlled Greenwich Village walk-up work on a freelance illustrator’s income — the only real security she’s built in a city that chews through both — and she’s never once let herself think too hard about the married-couples-only clause buried in the lease.
Then the co-op board announces an inspection in three weeks, and her best friend since kindergarten loses his Brooklyn lease on the same afternoon. Wren needs a husband. Theo needs a place to sleep that isn’t his van.
Before the paperwork can even feel real, there’s 650 square feet split by one lumpy couch he insists is fine, staged candlelit dinners for the neighbors that end with them both forgetting to perform, mandatory building game night where he introduces her as his wife without missing a beat, his coffee order memorized down to the extra pump of vanilla, her sketchbook filling with his hands more than she’d ever admit, and his guitar drifting through the wall at 1 a.m. like it’s meant for her.
Wren is convinced Theo has always seen her as safe and reliable — the friend, never the romance. Theo has been in love with her since they were sixteen and has spent a decade deciding that loving her quietly was better than risking losing her completely. A three-week fake marriage is about to force both of them to stop performing and start telling the truth.
Fake marriage, forced proximity, and a nosy co-op board president one push away from exposing them. The kind of book that makes you kick your feet and scream into a pillow.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance-Friends to Lovers sits at 22.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with 172 daily sales per top 20 title — one of the most favorable sales-to-competition ratios in the entire Romance genre (K-Lytics, July 2026)
→ Dual-category stack with Romance-Fake Dating (15.7 sales-to-comp, Hot Niche) at 67 daily sales per top 20 title gives legitimate positioning in two high-converting, relatively low-competition categories at once — both sit at under 8,000 titles of competition
→ Stacks fake marriage with friends-to-lovers, forced proximity, and only-one-bed in a single premise — maximum trope-search discoverability across categories readers are actively browsing
→ Greenwich Village / NYC apartment setting taps the broader Contemporary Romance category, the top-selling Romance sub-category at 872 daily sales per top 20 title — an evergreen backdrop readers keep returning to
→ Rom-com tone with high BookTok/Bookstagram shareability — “kick your feet and scream into a pillow” is exactly the kind of line that gets screenshotted
→ Built-in 5-book series potential — each Greenwich Village neighbor (the co-op board president, the ex upstairs, the game-night crowd) is a future book, giving this strong read-through revenue from Book 1
TROPES:
• Fake Marriage
• Friends to Lovers
• Forced Proximity / Roommates
• Only One Bed
• Slow Burn
• Mutual Pining
• He Falls First
• Nosy Neighbors
• Ex Complication
• Dual POV
• Grand Gesture
• Public Confession
• NYC Romance
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate
Perfect for fans of: Lynn Painter, Emily Henry, Ali Hazelwood, and Christina Lauren