WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ validation with dual-category positioning (Urban Fantasy + Paranormal Suspense), competitive analysis against three comp titles, full Suspense Architecture including hidden murder timeline and fair-play audit with clue map and misdirection table
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters (Marisol and Lirien at full profile depth including core wound, arc, contradiction, and four distinct voice example passages each), supporting cast of six (antagonist, victim, ambiguous ally, loyalist, red herring, archivist), five settings with full sensory detail, chapter-by-chapter timeline across 14 days, dual first-person voice system (Marisol: procedural-precise, dry; Lirien: observational, spacious, boredom-performance that degrades across the novel), binding rules and fae law with specific consequences, consent architecture, Dial the Heat™ intimacy guidance, series setup for three future Hidden Docket books, and Consistency Checklist
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 28 chapters + epilogue with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details, word-count targets, Dial the Heat™ flags, and full evidence/clue continuity tracking across all 28 chapters
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 29 self-contained prompts (28 chapters + epilogue), each with full context, character descriptions, continuity facts, voice guidance, emotional beat, decision, tone, and hook; Dial the Heat™ instructions embedded in flagged chapters
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with dual categories and 7 keywords, back cover copy, 50-word description, Instagram post with hashtags, Instagram story slides, Facebook post, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, four reader magnet concepts, sign-up landing page copy, reader targeting, series marketing, and Ideogram cover prompt calibrated to current UF bestseller cover data
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories, five data-backed selling points, competitive positioning against two comp titles, seven-keyword strategy table with targeting rationale, and full launch positioning including pricing, cover direction, KU recommendation, and series strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
SERVED IN THE SEELIE COURT
Marisol Quade is Manhattan’s only human process server for the supernatural civil courts — the woman you call when someone needs to be served and everyone else has already said no. She knows every procedural loophole, every back stair, every favor-holder in the city’s hidden legal architecture. She is very good at her job. She has one rule: never serve the fae.
Then the Hidden Docket assigns her a wrongful-death summons for an exiled Seelie prince, and rent is three weeks late.
The moment the summons changes hands, fae law snaps into place — she is now magically bound to him, one mile, fourteen days, legally responsible for producing him alive at trial. Before she can process what she’s agreed to, there’s a break-in on night four where someone goes through his files looking for evidence she’s not supposed to know exists, the encrypted message he’s been carrying for two weeks that changes everything about the case, the moment at exactly one mile where she stops walking and it has nothing to do with the magic, a Court official who keeps appearing precisely when she gets close to the wrong evidence, and a trial deadline that someone inside the Docket is quietly shrinking.
She’s spent seven years building armor out of procedure, convinced that everyone with magic uses it eventually and the only protection is not caring who they use it on. He’s spent a decade in exile making himself unfindable, building a nightclub that became the most honest thing about him, and is now being watched, for the first time in years, by someone who sees through the glamour and keeps looking anyway.
Urban fantasy with a fourteen-day clock, a murder to solve, and a binding that compels proximity but nothing else. The kind of book where the magic is the least complicated thing between them.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ SF&F > Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban > Urban Fantasy sits at 893 avg. sales rank (Top 20) with 107 estimated daily sales per top-20 title — fae characters are the fastest-rising archetype in the category (+6 positions year-over-year) with demand currently outpacing supply
→ New York City + court/courts stacks two of the highest sales-to-competition location scores in the Urban Fantasy top-100 data — NYC index 76, court/courts index 91; fewer than 3% of current top-100 UF titles deploy both
→ Enemies to lovers + forced proximity + slow burn appears in fewer than 1% of top-100 UF titles despite generating a combined $324K in estimated monthly royalties — the trope stack is commercially proven and undersupplied
→ The 14-day procedural clock is a structural differentiator — no other fae UF title in the current top 100 has a genuine countdown spine; cross-lists cleanly into MTS > Suspense > Paranormal (101 daily sales, top 20)
→ Court intrigue carries a sales-to-competition index of 40 — among the highest efficiency scores in the UF thematic data; deployed here as the structural frame, not a subplot
→ Fair-play whodunit architecture rewards re-reading — social-share optimized for the “I missed all the clues” BookTok moment
TROPES:
• Enemies to Lovers
• Forced Proximity (Magical Binding)
• Slow Burn
• Fae Prince
• Human Heroine Outsmarts Immortals
• Court Intrigue & Political Mystery
• Fair-Play Whodunit
• Compulsion Immunity as Character Superpower
• The Defendant Who Knows the Release Clause
• Banter as Foreplay
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate / Heat-Flexible — physical intimacy is present and emotionally grounded; the binding compels proximity only, never attraction or consent, and the text makes this explicit early; Dial the Heat™ flags in four chapters allow calibration to any level without breaking the outline
Perfect for fans of: Ilona Andrews, Holly Black, Helen Harper, and K.M. Shea