WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and K-Lytics market validation with dual-category positioning and competitive analysis
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters, supporting cast, Isla Coronado resort setting with sensory detail, five-day wedding timeline, dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal tics and internal monologue patterns, love triangle dynamics, relationship progression across all five days, and open-door intimacy guidance
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 23 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene-level breakdowns, and day-by-day timeline integration
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — detailed writing instructions for every single chapter with tone, pacing, heat escalation cues, and distinct voice guidance for Gemma (fast, organized, logistics metaphors) and Owen (slower, sensory, architecture metaphors) alternating POV
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, social media posts, newsletter announcement, reader magnet concepts, and series marketing materials
⭐️ Full Implementation Guide — step-by-step instructions from first draft to publication
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
SAY I DON’T
She’s planned two hundred weddings and never been the one standing at the altar. She runs a business built on other people’s love stories because it’s easier than risking one of her own.
Then her sister’s destination wedding needs a plus-one, and she doesn’t have one.
Before Gemma can invent a graceful excuse, the groom’s best friend — a charming architectural photographer who also needs a fake date because his ex-girlfriend is a bridesmaid — proposes an arrangement. Five days on a private island resort. One fake relationship. Simple.
Except there’s a brooding resort event coordinator who sees through every version of herself she performs, a vendor crisis at 2am that leaves her and Owen working side by side with no pretense left, slow-dancing in the rain with no audience, a love triangle that isn’t about choosing between two men but between two versions of herself, and the terrifying realization that the fake relationship is the most honest thing she’s done in years.
She’s spent her whole life being everyone’s person except her own. He’s spent his whole life being the safe choice nobody actually needs. Five days on a sun-drenched island with no exit is about to break both of them open.
Spicy, smart, and emotionally devastating. The kind of book you start poolside and finish crying in the bathroom at 1am.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Fake dating is a consistent top-five performing trope in contemporary romance — layering it with a love triangle and destination wedding creates a triple-threat hook
→ Romantic Comedy sits at 4.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with 45–65 daily sales per top 20 title
→ Holiday & Travel crossover (3.6, Hot Mainstream) gives dual-category discoverability with proven seasonal performance
→ Destination wedding romance is chronically underserved relative to reader demand — island settings with luxury resort vibes perform exceptionally well in summer promotional windows
→ The love triangle is resolved with emotional intelligence, not melodrama — readers won’t feel bad for Reid, they’ll want his book (which is the series seed)
→ Wedding planner heroine offers built-in insider access and comedic tension that readers love — professional competence colliding with personal chaos → Five-day compressed timeline creates natural urgency without artificial pacing
→ Open door / high spice (4+ scenes) meets the heat level demand driving the current contemporary romance market
TROPES:
- Fake Dating
- Love Triangle (Resolved Cleanly)
- Forced Proximity (Island Resort)
- Destination Wedding
- Wedding Planner Heroine
- Grumpy/Sunshine-Adjacent
- He Falls First
- She Shows Up (Grand Gesture Is Hers)
- Found Family
- Dual POV
- Compressed Timeline (Five Days)
- Professional Rivals to Respect (Gemma/Reid)
- The “Safe Choice” Proves He Isn’t
HEAT LEVEL: Open Door / High Spice
Perfect for fans of: Christina Lauren, Tessa Bailey, Lynn Painter, and Ali Hazelwood